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History of Graduate Commencement

Commencement Speakers in the 1990s

Year/School(s)
Speaker
Info
 
1990 Graduate School Franklin Chang-Diaz
Chang-Diaz is an astronaut and UConn alumnus, '73 (CLAS).
 
1990 School of Law Christopher J. Dodd
U.S. Senator (D-Conn.)
 
1990 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Robert U. Massey
Former Dean, UConn School of Medicine and Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care
 
1991 Graduate School
Árpád Göncz
President, The Republic of Hungary
 
1991 School of Law Jon O. Newman
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 
1991 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Robert L. Volle
President, National Board of Medical Examiners
 
1992 Graduate School Ellen A. Peters
Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
 
1992 School of Law Floyd Abrams
Communications Law attorney, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel
 
1992 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Bernadine P. Healy
Director of the National Institutes of Health
 
1993 Graduate School Torsten N. Wiesel
Nobel Laureate and President, The Rockefeller University
 
1993 School of Law Thomas J. Meskill
Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Governor of Conn. (1971-1975) UConn School of Law, Class of 1956
 
1993 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Geraldine T. Morrow
Immediate Past President, American Dental Association
 
1994 Graduate School Chang-Lin Tien
Chancellor, University of California at Berkeley
 
1994 School of Law Morton J. Horwitz
Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School
 
1994 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Anthony S. Fauci
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
 
1995 Graduate School
Thomas M. Sutherland
Former Dean of Agriculture and Food Sciences, American University in Beirut, Lebanon
 
1995 School of Law A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Chief Judge Emeritus of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
 
1995 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine
Perri E. Klass
Pediatrician, Dorchester House Health Center
 
1996 Graduate School Carol A. Fowler
President and Director of Research, Haskins Laboratories
 
1996 School of Law
Martha L. Minow
Professor, Harvard Law School
 
1996 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Margaret C. Heagarty
Director of Pediatrics, Columbia University-Harlem Hospital Center
 
1997 Graduate School
David M. Lee
Nobel Laureate in Physics, UConn Class of 1955
 
1997 School of Law Joette Katz
Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, UConn Law Class of '77
 
1997 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine
Sherwin B. Nuland
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine
 
1998 Graduate School Varro E. Tyler
Dean and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pharamacognosy, Purdue University
 
1998 School of Law
José Cabranes
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 
1998 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine David A. Kessler
Dean, Yale School of Medicine
 
1999 Graduate School
Noam Chomsky
Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
1999 School of Law Harry T. Edwards
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia
 
1999
Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine
Abraham Verghese
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Texas University Health Science Center, El Paso
 
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