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Commencement 2018 Full coverage of Northeastern's 116th commencement and the 2018 graduates

Commencement 2018

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Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises and the 2018 graduates

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2018 Commencement in photos

University photographers documented all the splendor and excitement from Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises on Friday…

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…

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.…

Video: President Aoun conducts his Commencement 2018 exit interviews

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LATEST 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

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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.

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.

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.

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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