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For Immediate Release Contact:David Irwin
Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Journalist to Address SUNY Geneseo’s 143rd
Commencement May 16 College
Will Confer Honorary Doctorate on University of Rochester Scientist GENESEO,
N.Y. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse, U.S. Supreme Court
correspondent at The New York Times
for 30 years, will address “Tomorrow’s Heroes” at the State University of New
York at Geneseo’s 143rd commencement May 16. The ceremony’s keynote speaker received a
Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1998 for her coverage of the nation’s highest
court. “Linda
Greenhouse is an exceptionally learned and astute observer of the American
judicial system as well as an outstanding journalist, and it is a great
privilege to have her address our graduates this year,” said SUNY Geneseo President
Christopher C. Dahl. Greenhouse
is the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein
Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School. Her biography of Justice Harry A.
Blackmun, "Becoming Justice Blackmun," was published in 2005. The
college will confer an estimated 1,164 undergraduate degrees and 45 graduate
degrees this year during two separate ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the
Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena. Major
reductions in state funding for higher education led to the indoor double
ceremony as an expense reduction to building a temporary outdoor stadium. The college started building the larger
outdoor stadium ten years ago to accommodate all of the graduates’ family and
friends at a single event. SUNY
Geneseo will confer an honorary doctor of science degree this year on Esther
Conwell, a professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Rochester.
She is renowned for her research that shaped the understanding of semiconductor
physics and for transistor design. Both were vital steps in the birth of the
computer revolution. “Geneseo
is proud to award an honorary doctorate to Professor Conwell because of her
extraordinary professional accomplishments and her longtime commitment to
reducing barriers for women in science,” said Dahl. “She is an exemplar of
intellectual curiosity in and of itself and as a spur to invention.” Carl T.
Hayden, chairman of the State University of New York’s Board of Trustees, will
assist President Dahl with this year’s commencement ceremonies, which will be
streamed live on the Web at http://commencement.geneseo.edu.
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