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...You’ve got the Secretary of Energy Steven Chu as your speaker tomorrow, sexy,” he said. “Unless he gives each and every one of you those nitrogen fuel cell cars, you are in for a long afternoon...
...degrees to the Class of 2009 and students of all of Harvard’s graduate schools in today’s 358th Commencement exercises. U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will deliver the keynote address. University officials announced in April that Chu would be speaker, highlighting his commitment to pursuing alternative energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and in his career as an academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post in January. He has served...
...fellow graduate” upon her return to Harvard Law School yesterday, where she served as dean from 2003 until her Senate confirmation in March, As dean, Kagan built a legacy of student-oriented reform initiatives, As the Law School’s class day speaker, she placed the final seal on her deanship and urged the graduating class to seize the opportunities that have arisen from the economic recession. In her speech, Kagan offered career advice to a Law School class whose job searches were hit hard by the troubles on Wall Street—where many prestigious...
...Faust also gave the moniker to the seven newly-commissioned officers and one graduate student to be commissioned in the fall, telling them that as such, their role is to “never let the military or society forget the big picture.” Class of 1959 speaker Darnell M. Whitt ’59 also described Petraeus as a “soldier scholar,” adding that Faust is similar to Petraeus in that she is “a scholar who has written a lot about soldiers.” Faust prefaced her comments...
...like it when a speaker thinks about her audience during a speech,” said Christina N. Peterson, whose daughter will earn a Masters in Public Policy this year...