Posted on 04/15/2004 9:11:58 AM PDT by DTA
Albright to get Duke degree
The Herald-Sun Apr 8, 2004 : 7:01 pm ET
DURHAM -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is among four people who will receive honorary degrees from Duke at the university's May 9 commencement exercise, Duke President Nan Keohane announced.
Albright, who became the nation's first female secretary of state in 1997 during President Bill Clinton's administration, also will deliver Duke's commencement address. The event will begin at 10 a.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium and is open to the public.
Other honorary degree recipients include South African court justice Richard J. Goldstone, mathematician Phillip A. Griffiths and genetics researcher Oliver Smithies.
Before becoming secretary of state, Albright was Clinton's national security adviser. She now is a principal in The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm that she founded in Washington, D.C. And she also is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the first Distinguished Scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School.
In addition, Albright is chairwoman of The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and The PEW Global Attitudes Project and president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. She also is a member of the New York Stock Exchange board of directors.
The other honorees are:
-- Goldstone, who was a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2003. He now is the chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a law school board member; a governor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; and president of World ORT, an international technical and technology training organization. He has received many honors and awards, including the International Human Rights Award of the American Bar Association in 1994, and has had a longtime relationship with Duke's law school as a visiting lecturer.
Previously, he was the chief prosecutor for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He also chaired the Goldstone Commission, which was established in 1991 to examine how to prevent public violence and intimidation in South Africa. And, from 1999 to 2001, he was the chairman of the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. In December 2001, he was appointed chairman of the International Task Force on Terrorism.
-- Griffiths, a Raleigh native and a leader in the field of algebraic geometry, was provost and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke from 1983 to 1991. He also was the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton until 2003.
Currently, Griffiths is a faculty member in the Institute's School of Mathematics and continues to lead the Millennium Science Initiative, charged with nurturing world-class science and scientific talent in the developing world. He also belongs to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the International Mathematics Union. Previously, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University and Harvard University.
-- Smithies, a UNC Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is credited with pioneering many fields of science, including technologies involving protein separation, genetic analysis and the targeting of specific genes in mammalian cells by homologous recombination. He has received numerous awards, including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Association of American Medical Colleges' Award for Distinguished Research and the N.C. Award in Science.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Smithies also has had a longtime relationship with Duke, mentoring and working with faculty and participating in seminars.
Freeping Cleaning Lady is a necessity, not a choice.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium and is open to the public.
I predict no on the signs and any hecklers would be promptly hauled out by security. Not sure it would be worth giving up precious weekend time with your family.
That also happens to be Mothers Day. Not sure why most if not all of the Universities here have Graduation on Mother's Day. It becomes a traffic and restaurant nightmare in Raleigh.
MKM
Kofi Annan was the scheduled speaker in 2003 but he was a "no show". We were looking into FReeping it and IIRC were told by a conservative group on campus that it would be difficult if not impossible to get in if we didn't know someone graduating. Apparently it's harder on the campus of a private institution vs. public.
Laryngitis kept U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan from addressing Duke graduates, but it didn't prevent the students from hearing Annan's message. President Nannerl O. Keohane read portions of Annan's speech at the May 11 ceremony, after the scheduled commencement speaker was forced to cancel his appearance.
MKM
I'm down with this as they say. This also is coming at a time when UNC and Duke have been dissing "those stupid conservatives". I suspect security may be pretty tight and correspondingly rules and regulations on campus these days.
I think it would be great if we could make this a memorable and media moment. They have both been asking for it.
There seems to be a pattern a Duke ie,.... They just love their Internationalists.
I wonder what think tank or bureaucratic pasture position she has been shuffled to. Broadhead (formerly a Yale President) is now Duke's President. Other than Berkeley, I can't think of a US university which so epitomizes the Academic Left.
Female? That's arguable...
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