2007 Commencement Ceremony
Presenter(s): Thomas Friedman, President Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
Air Date: 5/19/2007
Air Time: 9:00 AM EST
Length: 3 Hours 49 Minutes 17 Seconds
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 201st Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. on the Harkness Field.

Thomas L. Friedman, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the 2007 Commencement address.

2008 Commencement Ceremony
Presenter(s): David Gergen, President Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
Air Date: 5/17/2008
Air Time: 9:30 AM EST
Length: 3 Hours 28 Minutes 32 Seconds
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 202nd Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 9:30 a.m.

David Gergen, political analyst, editor, best-selling author, and Harvard professor, will deliver the 2008 Commencement address.

Gergen also will receive an honorary degree at the ceremony, together with distinguished molecular biologist and president of Princeton University Shirley M. Tilghman and veteran Marine Corps astronaut and space shuttle pilot Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr., USMC (Ret.).

2009 Commencement Ceremony
Presenter(s): Peter Schwartz ’68, Acclaimed Futurist, Entrepreneur, and Founder and Chairman of Global Business Network, President Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
Air Date: 5/16/2009
Air Time: 9:30 AM EST
Length: 3 Hours 48 Minutes 26 Seconds
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 203rd Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.

Peter Schwartz '68, acclaimed futurist, entrepreneur, co founder and chairman of Global Business Network, will deliver the 2009 Commencement address.

Schwartz also will receive an honorary doctoral degree at the ceremony, along with honorands Samuel Josefowitz '42, Kenneth I. Chenault, and Robert C. Richardson.