Connecticut actress and human rights activist Mia Farrow joins Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Hartford Mayor Pedro E. Segarra on the May list of speakers who will address more than 7,000 University of Connecticut graduates.
Most graduates will take part in commencement ceremonies during the weekend of May 7-8 in Storrs. Students at the schools of medicine and dental medicine will graduate on May 15 at 2 p.m. at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford; and law graduates will celebrate on the grounds of the UConn School of Law on May 22 at 11 a.m.
Malloy, the former Stamford mayor elected Connecticut’s 88th governor last November will be the keynote speaker at UConn’s May 7 graduate ceremonies, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. in the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion.
Farrow, award-winning actress who has traveled and written extensively about genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, will speak at the School of Fine Arts commencement at 5 p.m. on May 7 in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Farrow resides in Bridgewater and New York City
On May 8, during twin ceremonies starting at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m., nearly 3,000 students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will receive their degrees after a keynote speech by UConn alum William E. Trueheart, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count.
Segarra will speak during the School of Social Work’s recognition ceremony at 9 a.m. on May 7, in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Segarra earned a master’s degree in social work from UConn.
Also, Dr. Henry C. Lee, a renowned forensic scientist and endowed professor at the University of New Haven, where he founded its forensic science program, will speak during ceremonies at the UConn Health Center on May 15; Connecticut Attorney General George Jepson will deliver the keynote speech at the School of Law commencement on May 22; and Kelci Stringer, founder and CEO of the Korey Stringer Institute, a research center based in UConn’s kinesiology program in the Neag School of Education, will speak at that school’s commencement, at 9 a.m. on May 8 in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. The institute is named after Stringer’s late husband, who died of complications from heat stroke in 2001 while playing for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.
