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May Ceremony Will Mark Largest Number of Grads
1,150 students receive Gannon degrees this academic year
Gannon’s Spring Commencement ceremony, to be held Saturday, May 9, will give the University its largest number of graduates ever for a single academic year.
Gannon President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., will confer 816 degrees during May Commencement, bringing the University’s total number of graduates for the 2008-09 academic year to 1,150, a record for Gannon.
May Commencement will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 9 at Tullio Arena, 809 French St. The graduates include 45 doctor of physical therapy degree recipients and three doctoral degree recipients. In addition, 330 students will be awarded master’s degrees, 411 bachelor’s degrees, and 27 associate’s degrees.
Of the class, 49 will graduate summa cum laude, 79 magna cum laude, 81 cum laude, and seven with academic honors.
The ceremony’s keynote speaker will be Suzanne Malveaux, a White House correspondent for CNN and primary substitute anchor for “The Situation Room,” hosted by Wolf Blitzer. Malveaux will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony.
More about Suzanne Malveaux
Malveaux earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1989 and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1991.
Based in the Washington, D.C., bureau, Malveaux joined the CNN network in May, 2002. As White House correspondent, she extensively covered the 2008 Presidential election and served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. Malveaux also contributed to CNN’s coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage. She has interviewed former presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as former first lady Laura Bush. She has served as a member of the press corps on presidential trips to Europe, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Before joining CNN, Malveaux was a correspondent for NBC News based in both Chicago and Washington, D.C., and covered major stories such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon, and the Kosovo and Afghanistan wars from the Pentagon. Prior to working at the network level, she was a general assignment reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and for FXT-TV and New England Cable News in Boston. She produced documentaries in Egypt and Kenya and contributed to the production of a one-hour documentary on the Great Depression with Boston-based Blackside Inc. before she became a member of the news media.
In 1996, Malveaux earned an Emmy Award and contributed to New England Cable News’ Associated Press award for “Best Newscast in Boston.” She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia.
Malveaux also was named one of “America’s Most Powerful Players Under 40” by Black Enterprise magazine, Ebony’s “Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications” and the National Black MBA’s “2004 Communicator of the Year.”
She also was selected to participate in Fortune/Aspen Institute’s 2006 Brainstorming Summit.
Gannon President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., will confer 816 degrees during May Commencement, bringing the University’s total number of graduates for the 2008-09 academic year to 1,150, a record for Gannon.
May Commencement will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 9 at Tullio Arena, 809 French St. The graduates include 45 doctor of physical therapy degree recipients and three doctoral degree recipients. In addition, 330 students will be awarded master’s degrees, 411 bachelor’s degrees, and 27 associate’s degrees.
Of the class, 49 will graduate summa cum laude, 79 magna cum laude, 81 cum laude, and seven with academic honors.
The ceremony’s keynote speaker will be Suzanne Malveaux, a White House correspondent for CNN and primary substitute anchor for “The Situation Room,” hosted by Wolf Blitzer. Malveaux will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony.
More about Suzanne Malveaux
Malveaux earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1989 and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1991.
Based in the Washington, D.C., bureau, Malveaux joined the CNN network in May, 2002. As White House correspondent, she extensively covered the 2008 Presidential election and served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. Malveaux also contributed to CNN’s coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage. She has interviewed former presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as former first lady Laura Bush. She has served as a member of the press corps on presidential trips to Europe, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Before joining CNN, Malveaux was a correspondent for NBC News based in both Chicago and Washington, D.C., and covered major stories such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon, and the Kosovo and Afghanistan wars from the Pentagon. Prior to working at the network level, she was a general assignment reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and for FXT-TV and New England Cable News in Boston. She produced documentaries in Egypt and Kenya and contributed to the production of a one-hour documentary on the Great Depression with Boston-based Blackside Inc. before she became a member of the news media.
In 1996, Malveaux earned an Emmy Award and contributed to New England Cable News’ Associated Press award for “Best Newscast in Boston.” She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia.
Malveaux also was named one of “America’s Most Powerful Players Under 40” by Black Enterprise magazine, Ebony’s “Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications” and the National Black MBA’s “2004 Communicator of the Year.”
She also was selected to participate in Fortune/Aspen Institute’s 2006 Brainstorming Summit.
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