Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises and the 2018 graduates by News@Northeastern - Contributor May 3, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Photo by Billie Weiss for Northeastern University Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises and the 2018 graduates Highlights Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University 2018 Commencement in photos University photographers documented all the splendor and excitement from Northeastern University’s 116th Commencement exercises on Friday… Read more Photo by Billie Weiss for Northeastern University 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… Read more 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.… Read more 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… Watch NU2018 #NUEXPERIENCE Latest Aimée Mullins encourages Northeastern graduates to foster childlike spirit Go 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… Read more 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… Read more 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.… Read more Commencement 2018 in photos Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University 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. Read more 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. Read more 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. Read more 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 theeast 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