Commencement 2018 HIGHLIGHTS LATEST PHOTOS SPEAKERS HONORARY DEGREES ARRIVAL INFO Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises and the 2018 graduates Highlights 2018 Commencement in photos University photographers documented all the splendor and excitement from Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises on Friday… Read more Aimée Mullins’ life…
Commencement 2018
HIGHLIGHTS
LATEST
PHOTOS
SPEAKERS
HONORARY DEGREES
ARRIVAL INFO
Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises and the 2018 graduates
Highlights
2018 Commencement in photos
University photographers documented all the splendor and excitement from Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises on Friday…
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Aimée Mullins’ life began with uncertainty. She urged Northeastern’s Class of 2018 to embrace ‘the power of the unknown’
To this year’s graduates of the “world’s leading university for experiential…
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4,058 Northeastern seniors just earned their degrees. Here’s what they studied.
4,058 students graduated Friday at Northeastern’s 116th Commencement. See what the graduating class studied with this interactive visualization.Each college is represented as a colored circle.…
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Video: President Aoun conducts his Commencement 2018 exit interviews
Graduating is easy for seniors after exams are over, right? Well, some unsuspecting students were surprised they had one more thing they had to do…
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Video: Northeastern University 2018 Commencement
2018 Commencement in photos
Degrees in hand, Northeastern graduates are off to ‘WERK’
4,058 Northeastern seniors just earned their degrees. Here’s what they studied.
Aimée Mullins’ life began with uncertainty. She urged Northeastern’s Class of 2018 to embrace ‘the power of the unknown’
Learning is a lifelong task in the age of artificial intelligence, President Aoun tells graduates
Video: Northeastern graduates, get pumped for Commencement 2018
Video: President Aoun conducts his Commencement 2018 exit interviews
President Aoun singled out three students in his Commencement address. Here's why.
As the first college graduates in their families, Torch Scholars share their stories
Your dean sends you on your way with a Commencement playlist. The rest is still unwritten.
Leading scientist calls on PhD grads to use power of evidence to 'address a very serious problem'
Here are the 150 flags you’ll see at Commencement – and the stories that they tell
Like the Gilmore girls, this mother and daughter are best friends. Now they’re graduating from Northeastern together
Meet the faculty cadre of marshals
Graduating students thank faculty for their impact, advice, guidance, knowledge of musicals
Where to go for Northeastern's 2018 Commencement
Senior’s to-do list: Give student Commencement speech, work at SpaceX, travel to Mars
Northeastern announces 2018 honorary degree recipients
Live jazz, BBQ, a sunset cruise, and CommencementFest: How seniors can end the year in style
Leading science advocate to deliver graduation address at doctoral ceremony
Design Northeastern's 2018 Undergraduate Commencement Snapchat Geofilter
Aimée Mullins, actor, Paralympian, trailblazing athlete, to deliver 2018 Commencement address
Aimée Mullins encourages Northeastern graduates to foster childlike spirit
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Learning is a lifelong task in the age of artificial intelligence, President Aoun tells graduates
In his Commencement speech on Friday, Aoun urged graduates to use their inherently human traits to fill societal needs that even the most sophisticated robot…
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President Aoun singled out three students in his Commencement address. Here’s why
From Honduras to Kenya to Dubai, Northeastern has a global footprint-thanks to the students who travel far and wide to solve real-world problems. In his…
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Here are the 150 flags you’ll see at Commencement – and the stories that they tell
Students will raise flags from more than 150 different nations and places during Commencement.…
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Speakers
Aimée Mullins
ACTOR, PARALYMPIAN ATHLETE
An actor in the Emmy-nominated TV show Stranger Things will deliver Northeastern University’s 2018 Commencement address on May 4 at TD Garden in Boston. A world record-setting sprinter will also deliver the address. So will
a double below-the-knee amputee who pioneered the woven carbon-fiber prostheses that are now the international standard.
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Student Speaker: Carly Parlato
Mechanical Engineering
Carly Parlato’s time at Northeastern has taken her to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and to Taiwan during a Google co-op. Parlato, who will tell her peers to “embrace change” when she gives the
student Commencement address, has plans to travel much, much farther.
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Honorary Degree Recipients
John Sexton
Doctor of Humane Letters
Paula Kerger
Doctor of Media
Anthony Foxx
Doctor of Public Service
NORTHEASTERN ANNOUNCES 2018 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS
Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS, John Sexton, president emeritus and professor at New York University, and Anthony Foxx, former U.S. Transportation Secretary and former mayor of Charlotte, will receive honorary degrees at
Northeastern’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Friday.
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Arrival Information
Undergraduate
MAY 4 – 10:30 AM (GRADUATES 7:30 AM) – TD GARDEN
Undergraduate degree candidates must report to TD Garden by 7:30 a.m. on Friday. Graduating students should use the Legends Way entrance, and should not enter TD Garden through the arena’s main entrance. Legends Way is located on the
east side of TD Garden (the side closest to the Zakim Bridge). Signs and staff will direct students to their entrance.
Graduate
College of Engineering
MAY 2 – 11:00 AM – MATTHEWS ARENA
PhD Hooding
MAY 2 – 4:00 PM – CABOT CAGE
College of Science
MAY 3 – 3:30 PM – CABOT CAGE
College of Computer & Information Science
MAY 3 – 5:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
College of Arts, Media and Design
MAY 4 – 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
MAY 4 – 3:30 PM – BLACKMAN AUDITORIUM
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
MAY 4 – 4:00 PM – CABOT CAGE
College of Professional Studies
MAY 11 – 10:00 AM – MATTHEWS ARENA
Law School Commencement
MAY 24 – 2:00 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
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