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Commencement Speaker:
Jim Lehrer
and the Honorary Degree Recipients

Award-winning television journalist Jim Lehrer, will deliver the Commencement address at Penn's 246th Commencement on Monday, May 13 at Franklin Field.

Mr. Lehrer will receive an honorary degree as will four others.

Mrs. Joan Ganz
Cooney,

co-founder of the
Children's Television Workshop
(now Sesame Workshop),
a television producer
and media executive
who pioneered
educational uses of
the medium for
children.
Dr. Eric
Hobsbawm,
an
influential historian
whose works have
been translated into
dozens of languages
and who has lectured
in more than 30
countries.
Dr. Irwin Jacobs,
an innovative
engineer and co-
founder, chairman
and CEO of
Qualcomm, whose
pioneering work
led to the commercialization
of digital wireless
communication
technology.
Dr. Richard
Smalley
, whose
research has led to the
discovery of a third
elemental form of
carbon and who
pioneered supersonic
beam laser spectroscopy
which has become one
of the most powerful
techniques in chemical
physics.

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CLICK HERE for more on the honorary degree recipients. For commencement information see the website, www.upenn.edu/commencement or call the hotline, (215) 573-GRAD.


Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 27, March 26, 2002

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:

Tuesday,
March 26, 2002
Volume 48 Number 27
www.upenn.edu/almanac/

Five innovators and luminaries will receive honorary degrees at Commencement.
Total undergraduate charges for tuition, fees, room and board will increase 4.6 percent for the coming year.
The Senate Committee on the Faculty reports on the Gender Equity Report published December 4, 2001.

INS Restrictions on automatic visa revalidation could affect international scholars at Penn.

This year's Antiques Show will benefit Penn's Institute for Environmental Medicine.