Commencement

James Lovell

James Lovell, a captain in the U.S. Navy (ret.) and navigator on Apollo 8, delivered the commencement address at the 2014 Commencement Exercises on May 9, 2014.

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A Conversation With Doris Kearns Goodwin

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin delivered the Undergraduate Commencement Address on May 11. Her “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” was the basis of the 2012 feature film “Lincoln.” She told the members of the graduating Class of 2013 that there is a direct connection between storytelling and the work of a historian. Goodwin has written several books about U.S. presidents, and her “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt” won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for history. She was interviewed her before her arrival on campus by Peter M. Warren.

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