Speaker Name(s): David Gergen, President Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
Description: 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.).