Every college and school within Syracuse University, including SUNY-ESF, will host separate commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2014 on Friday and Saturday. A commencement ceremony for all SU schools and colleges and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry will be held in the Carrier Dome on Sunday at 9:30 a.m.

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, will be the keynote speaker for the overall convocation ceremony on Sunday.

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs will host its commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. in Hendricks Chapel on Friday, May 9 for master’s and doctoral degree candidates. Karen DeYoung, associate editor of The Washington Post, will deliver the address. A reception will be held at 11:30 a.m. in the Maxwell Hall Foyer located on the first floor, according to the SU commencement website.

On Saturday, the School of Architecture will hold its commencement at 10 a.m. in the Setnor Auditorium of Crouse College. A reception will be held afterwards in the Slocum Hall Atrium at 11:30 a.m., according to the website. Martha Thorne, the executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and associate dean for external relations at the IE School of Architecture & Design in Madrid, Spain will be the speaker for the convocation, according to a SU press release.

The College of Arts and Sciences’ undergraduate convocation will take place in the Dome on Saturday at 9 a.m. Gates A, B and E will open at 8 a.m. Sandra Hewett, the Beverly Petterson Bishop Professor of Neuroscience and a professor in the biology department, will deliver the address. Various receptions will be held on the Quad and in the Maxwell Hall Foyer and Eggers Hall, according to the website.

The convocation for Arts and Sciences master’s degree candidates will take place in Setnor Auditorium at 2 p.m. on Saturday. A reception will follow at Strasser Commons, which is on the second floor of Eggers Hall.

At noon on Saturday at Manley Field House, the School of Education will host its convocation ceremony. Craig Forth, ’05 graduate and a center on the 2003 men’s basketball NCAA National Championship Team, will speak. Convocation will be followed by a reception outside the field house at 1:45 p.m.

The School of Information Studies will host its convocation at 9 a.m. on Saturday in Goldstein Auditorium, located in the Schine Student Center. Philip Kaplan, an iSchool alumnus and founder of AdBrite, the largest privately-held Internet ad network, will deliver the address. A reception in Hinds Hall will take place beginning at 10:30 a.m.

The undergraduate convocation for the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science will take place at Manley at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Mary Ann Hopkins, class of ’87 and G’89 and president of Parsons Government Services, will speak to the undergraduates. A reception will follow at the Drumlins Country Club, which is located at 800 Nottingham Rd.

The L.C. Smith convocation for master’s and doctoral candidates will be held in Hendricks Chapel a 1 p.m. on Saturday. Mark Viggiano, class of ‘80 and recently retired as head of Saab’s Traffic Management business, will speak to the graduate students. The reception will be in the Milton Atrium in the Life Sciences Complex at 2 p.m.

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday in the SRC Arena and Events Center at 1 p.m. Specific curriculum receptions will take place on Saturday at 10 a.m. at various campus locations.

The convocation for undergraduates in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management will be held in the Dome beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, and guests should use gates A, B or E. The undergraduate reception will take place in the Whitman School, located at 721 University Ave., at 5:15 p.m.

The speakers for Whitman’s undergraduate commencement ceremony will be Donald Cardarelli, the Faculty Member of the Year, and Zhi Quan Yang, president of the honor society for undergraduate and graduate students in business programs, Beta Gamma Sigma. The school’s two marshals, Alexandra Briskin and Hillary Tucker will speak, as well.

For graduate students in Whitman, convocation will be in Goldstein Auditorium at 12:30 p.m., and the reception will be in the Flaum Grand Hall of the Whitman building at 2 p.m.

The David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics will hold its convocation at Manley at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The reception will be held at 5:45 p.m. in a tent on the lawn of the field house. The convocation ceremony will feature three student speakers: Elissa Roberts, a master’s degree student who will give the graduate student reflection, and Rachel Ahart and Janine Savage, who will both give undergraduate student reflections.

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host its convocation ceremony in the Dome at noon on Saturday. Guests will use Gates A, B, or E for entrances. At 2 p.m. a reception in a tent on the Quad will follow. Deborah Henretta, a Newhouse alumna and group president of global beauty for Procter & Gamble Co., will deliver the convocation address to Newhouse undergraduates.

The convocation of the College of Visual and Performing Arts will take place in the Dome at 7 p.m. on Saturday. A reception will follow the ceremony in a tent on the Quad. CBS News correspondent Danielle Nottingham, a VPA alumna, will give the convocation speech.

— Compiled by The Daily Orange News Staff

Published on May 8, 2014 at 2:30 am