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CLASS OF I 2019 HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS

JON BON JOVI transitional housing for teens, families, gather to meet you and hear your pragmatic encouragement Ever the consummate "front man" permanent supportive housing (including for veterans and special and counsel. You aim to respond to for your eponymous band Bon needs populations), and home every quest ion, every letter that you Jovi, over four decades you have commanded the world's largest owners hip opportunities. receive. You offer inspiration - and a roadmap. Instead of a spectrum musical venues, performing in over In 2011, recognizing the impossib ility of autism, you urge us to th ink 50 countr ies before 37 m illion of separating twin issues of poverty of everyone abiding on a human fans. In your highly-participatory - housing and hunger - you and spectrum, free to be ourselves , concerts, you lead the choruses of your wife, Dorothea, debuted complete with strengths and Bon Jovi's much- loved anthems - the JBJ Soul Kitchen community challenges. accompan ied by 60,000 exuberant restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey. backup singers. It all appears nearly The pay-it-forward model serves Diagnosed whi le a young child effort less, yet you have said that in-need and paying customers in Boston, you credit early you still practice your craft every with dign ity and encourages intervention and your parents' day. Your lifelong determination for their active participat ion through and teachers' support as factors growth and improvement drives vo lunteer serv ice. In the aftermath in your success. On your way to your music, as well as your efforts to of Hurricane Sandy the next year, a unique career as a scientist , serve your commun it y. a second location in Toms River inventor, teacher, and author, you drew on your extraordinary tenacity A native of Sayreville, New Jersey, opened. The restaurants have and concentration , ability to so lve you embarked on your career as since served over 90,000 meals, problems as a visual, photographic a musician, singer-songwriter, and during this year's federal government shutdown, furloughed thinker, and your deep connection producer, and actor as a young with animals. Your dedication and recording stud io "go-fer." Persistent, workers were invited to dine free of perseverance in meeting obstacles optimistic, and always willing to charge as well. head-on led to degrees from take a chance, you formed Bon Among many in recognition College and Arizona Jovi in 1983, going on to earn a of your hands-on engagement for State and cu lmin ated place as one of the world 's best ­ the benefit of your community, with a in Anima l Science selling musical groups, with over in 2010, President at the Univers ity of Illinois-Urba na. 130 million alb ums sold. Your most appointed you to the White House recent album-your 13th!-This Council for Community Solutions. Today, you are of House Is Not for Sale, debuted at In 2014, you received Philadelphia's Animal Science at Colorado State the top of the Billboard chart, and Marian Anderson University and the founder of your a huge world tour is now underway. acknowledging your extraord inary own firm consulting on humane A member of the Songwriters Hall service. animal treatment and livestock of Fame and recipient of Grammy, faci lities design. You are renowned For your boundless energy and American Music, and Golden for methods to reduce st ress for passion bringing the joy of music Globe awards, your election to animals, and your expertise has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in to mi llions and offering service been sought worldwide by farms, on beha lf of the wellbeing of all in 2018 affirmed t he admirat ion of anima l parks, and even sheep your peers and your tremendo us your community, the Trustees of shearers in New Zea land. Over half the University of Pennsylvania are influence on popular music. of the cattle of North America are honored and pleased to confer upon Though your career has often kept handled in stress-reduc ing facil it ies you, Jon Bo n Jovi, the degree of of your design. You freely offer that you far from home, you have always of Music, honoris causa. remained close to your roots. In your contributions wo uld have been 2006 , moved to action when seeing impossible without the qualities TEMPLE GRANDIN firsthand a homeless Philadelphian's imparted by your aut ism. desperate circumstances, you Over four decades ago, you first Many learned about your founded the Jon Bon Jovi spoke publicly about your life with remarkab le career through the Soul Foundat ion , ded icated to autism. Your profound insights award-winn ing HBO fi lm, Temple suppor t ing innovative efforts to and self -observations, and then Grandin. You are also the author of break the cycle of poverty and advocacy , set science on a better over 400 articles and 15 best-selling homelessness. The Soul Foundation path of understand ing. Cont inu ing books, including your memoi r works to meet the needs of the now , at over 100 events each yea r, Thinking in Pictures, autobiography community in partnersh ips to thousands of fans, many on th eir Emergence: Label ed Au tistic, and support temporary shelters , own journey with autism , and their 11 HONORARY DEGRE E CITATIONS (con t inued) ======~~======~--======-

works such as Animals Make Us Rhodes Scho lar, you managed yo ur of Global and Internat ional Studies Human. In 2018's Calling All Minds, family's food production equipment at Ind iana University, Bloom ington you combined personal history, business. Your po litical career and at the Univers ity of Indianapolis . inventors ' stories, and intrigu ing began at the grassroots level as an projects to show young people that Indianapolis School Commissioner , You have received the American there is no one way to approach any then two terms as the mayor of Foreig n Service Association's problem - but that keeping an open, Indianapolis, where your plan to Lifet ime Contributions to Amer ican Diplomacy Award , t he Will iam inquisit ive mind is the key. unify city-county government led to J. unprecedented economic growth . Fulbrig ht for Inte rnational For your great achievements, Understanding , Germany's Grand you have rece ived many honors, First elected to the Senate in 1977 Cross of the of Merit, and including awards from the Autism and always a proud Repub lican, for been named an honorary Society of America, the Ame rican decades you wou ld reac h across of the Most Excellent Society of Anima l Scien ce, the the aisle to get things done. You led Order of the British Empire . President Amer ican Veterinary Medical 1986 legislation impos ing sanctions Barack Obama bestowed on you the Associat ion, and the American on South Africa, which marked Presidential of Freedom. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty a turning point in our country's to Animals. You are also a member apartheid response. As cha ir of the In recog nition of your steadfast of the Nationa l Women's Hall of Senate 's Agricultu re Committee , leade rship ove r a lifet ime of publ ic Fame and the American Academy you built bipartisan backing for far m service and our apprec iation for of Arts and Sciences, and a fe llow of program refo rms , biofuels research, your tireless work in support of the American Society of Agr icu ltural and initiatives support ing food the secu rity , health , and prosperity of our country and the world, and Bio logical Eng ineers. stamps and schoo l lunch prog rams . the Trustees of the University of For your inspiring example and Long regarded as the "Statesman of Pennsylvania are honored and groundbreaking advocacy urging the Senate ," as a member and twice pleased to confer upon you, Richard better understand ing and support Chair of the Committee on Foreign Green Lugar , the degree of Doctor for unique, inquisitive minds of every Relations , you played a decisive of Laws, honoris causa. kind and for advancing methods for role in approval of critical arm s­ the humane t reatment of animals, control t reaties. Perhaps yo ur most DENIS MUKW EGE the Trustees of t he University of significant leg islat ion, co-sponsored Pennsylvania are hono red and with Democratic Senator Sam The eastern Democrat ic Repub lic pleased to confe r upon you, Temp le Nunn, is t he Soviet Nuclear Threat of the Congo is one of the most Grandin , the deg ree of Docto r of Red uct ion Act of 1991, known as the violent regions on Earth. In 2014, Sciences , honoris causa. Nunn-Lugar Act. W ith a dangerously the United Nations named DRC weake ning Soviet Union, a the world's worst place to be a cooperative program to secure woman. Over 100 armed groups RICHARD GREEN LUGAR* and militias terro rize civilians; te ns (Ap ril 4, 1932- Apri l 28, 2019) and dismantle weapons of mass destruction led to the removal of all of thousands of rapes occur the re In 36 years as a Un ited States warheads from Ukraine , Kazakhstan, each year. You have made it your Senator, you never sought the and Bela rus. More than 7,600 life's work to hea l both you r country lime light. Your col leagues and nuclear war heads o nce aimed at the and those harmed by its brutal constituents, however, unde rstood United States were deactivated. warfare . By actions and advocacy, and respected the streng t h of you have brought global attention your convictions, dedication, In 2013, you left the Senate as its to your fight fo r one of the most and leade rship. Throughout yo ur most senior Repub lican member. basic of , freedom from remarkable career, you have Today, as President of the highly ­ vio lence. promoted American and world respected Lugar Center , you stability and prosperity on critical conti nue your work, leadi ng a As a ch ild in Bukavu, yo u vis ited the issues of global food security, nonpa rtisan forum fostering sick with your pastor father . Inspired nuclear non -pro liferation, fo reign productive research-d riven d ialogue to become a doctor , you studied pol icy, and trade . on crit ica l globa l issues and abroad, comp let ing gyneco logy bipart isan governance. You also training and earning yo ur medica l A fifth gene ration Hoosier and U.S. engage new generations of leaders scie nces doctorate from the Navy veteran, you graduated from as a Professor of Practice and Universite Libre de Bruxel les. Denison University. After study as a Distinguished Scholar at the Schoo l Returning home , you practiced

'In recognition of his extraordinary life of service, the University of Pennsylvania is honored to recognize Richard Green Lugar post humously, 12 f. in a hospita l first begun in a tent. Palme Prize. In 2014, the European fraction of your cr itica lly accla imed, It was attacked and destroyed in Parliament grante d you its highest award-winning spaces of purpose: 1996, resulting in the tragic loss of honor of Sakharov Prize Laureate. New York City's Co lumbus Circle fr iends and col leagues. Undaunted, In 2016, Penn Nursing was thrilled and Bryant Park; the Washington by 1999 you had founded Panzi to present you with its Renfield Monument grounds and National I Hosp ital. Intended for materna l care, Foundation Award for Global Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; it instead quickly became a ce nter Women's Health. the Getty Center in Los Angeles; f for treating overw helming numbers Apple Park in Cupertino, California; of sexua l violence victims. For you r courageo us and tire less London 's Canary Wharf; and your examp le of hea ling and helping home city's Barnes Foundatio n, Despite the dangers, Panzi has the most vulnerable, and for your Indepe ndence Mall, the Philade lph ia remained open for over two advocacy for human rights and an Museum of Art, Fairmo unt Water decades, trea t ing more than 50,000 end to sexual vio lence, the Trustees Works, and t he Rodin Museum . women and ch ildren. Known as of the University of Pennsylvania are "Doctor Miracle," you are regarded honored and pleased to confer upon Raised in Alaska, you studied civil as a wo rld-leading expe rt on you, Denis Mukwege , the degree of engineering at the University of repair ing the hor rific injuries of , honoris causa. A laska and completed architecture wartime rape, performi ng lifesaving studies at the University of operat ions each day. Panzi also Wash ingto n. You are the fou nder LAUR IE OLIN devised a p ioneering model to treat and p rincipal of the highly- surv ivors, integ rating psychologica l In 1976, relat ive ly new to the respected firm OLIN in Philade lphia, and medical care, lega l assista nce, Un iversity of Pennsy lvania's beg un in 1995. Partneri ng for literacy and ski lls training, and School of Design, you co llaborated decades w ith the best-known soc ioeconomic support. on a ground -breaking project: arch itects, engineers, artists, design of a 25-year landscape and designers of your time, you Throug h the years , you became an architecture campus master plan. are revered for your generous outspoken advocate for change, As it happened, you were tapped collaboration, mentorship, focus, human rights, and gender equality, to lead t his galvan izing endeavor and optimism. In your always result ing in consta nt t hreats to that would set Penn apart for its popula r Penn classes , you urged your safety. Speaking arou nd the beautiful camp us, showcase its students to take up your ow n world about t he devastating effects faculty's incred ibl e talents, including instrument of choice - a penc il - of war crimes and the hope of your own, and energize what is and go outside to draw and better peace , you have been cri t ical of now the University of Pennsylvania understand the most essentia l your government and others for Stua rt Weitzma n School of Design. eleme nts of their work . not doing enough . You also stress that "justice is everyone's business," Generatio ns of stude nts and Through the years, many schools calling on the international everyone here today have benef ited have enjoyed your expertise, community to hold perpetrators to from that early master plan and including as Department Chair accou nt and "draw a clear red line" yo ur conti nui ng efforts to create of Landscape Architecture at on sexua l viole nce as a weapon of one of t he country's most beaut iful , and in visiting wa r and armed co nflict. urban campuses. Whether strol ling professorships and lectures across with friends on Locust Walk, taking the cou ntry . A Guggenheim To expand the hosp ital's efforts, you in the 125 Years of Women at Penn and Fellow of The At henae um of established the Panzi Foundation in Walkway at Hill Field, or reflecting on Ph ilade lphia and the Amer ican 2008 and crea ted a nurse training life from a benc h on College Green, Academy of Rome, your program to ensu re quality of care. everyone finds calm and connection innumerab le awards incl ude the You are also the founder of the to t he natural world and to others. 2012 Nationa l Medal of Arts, the Mukwege Foundation, which seeks Penn and Philade lphia always National Building Museum's Vincent to raise global awareness for these Scu lly Prize, and the highe st lifetime issues. remained home for you. After over 40 years ' teach ing, you reti red recogn ition of the American Society It is fitt ing that when word arrived in 2017 as Practice Professor of Landscape Arch itecture , the you had been awarded the 2018 Emeritus of Landscape Architecture. Desig n Meda l. Nobel Peace Prize, you were The world over tr easures your The author or co-author of many performing su rgery . Recognized transformational work as one of lyrically-titled books, your works g lobally for you r work, you have the most exceptional landscape encompa ss essay, memoir, theory, received the United Nations Human arch itects ever, and as an artist, and history , and blend text Right s Prize and Sweden's Olof ed ucato r, and author. To nam e just a 13 HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS (con t inued )

and visual arts, from your first, and 2009, EJI wo n landma rk U.S. life of hope, cease less dedicatio n 1973's Breath on the Mirro r, and Supreme Court rulings agai nst the and service seeking justice and including Across the Open Field , death pe nalty for juven ile offenders eq uality for those in need, t he Placemaking , and 2018 's Be Seated. and life sentences fo r juven iles in Trustees of the Univers ity of non -homicides . Spar ing over 125 Pennsy lvania are hono red and In recog nitio n of yo ur visionary priso ners from exec ut ion, EJI has p leased to co nfer upo n you , Bryan life 's work to create uncommon ly succeeded in legal challenges on Stevenson , the deg ree of Doctor of welcoming spaces that uni t e us in excess ive sentenc ing, exone rat ing Laws, honoris causa. comm unity and offer resp ite fo r innocent deat h row prisoners, and the eye s and t he soul , the Trustees abuse of the inca rcerated. of the University of Pennsy lvania NEV ILLE EARL STRUMPF are ho nored and pleased to co nfer Seeing the darkest threads of To know you is to know perseve rance. upon you, Lau rie Olin , the deg ree o f our country's past withi n today 's After seeing firstha nd the frig hten ing, , honoris causa . cr im inal justice pract ices, you humiliating, and then -common bel ieve tha t we must open even prac t ice of restra ining older patients BRYAN STEVENSON our most pa infu l chapters to the in care, you set out to see what you light, pushing back aga inst t hose cou ld do . Then came two decades In your critically-acclaimed who would leave these unexamined . of work with research partner and bestselle r, Just MercY, you first You urge us to engage in an ope n, Penn nursing peer Dr. Lois Evans desc ribe yourself as a somewhat hones t narrat ive about slavery, to estab lish a scientif ic bas is for ambivalent Harva rd Law student, lynch ing, and racial segrega t ion rest raint -free ca re. You p ublished struggling to find releva nce in your and disc riminatio n, so t hat we can research , testified before Co ngres s, studies. But during an internsh ip move forward from, as you say, "the and tirelessly advocated w ith at At lanta 's the n Southern shadows that fo llow us." p rofessional organ izations and Prisoners Defense Committee, reg ulatory agencies. By 2000, you experienced the real ities of Your reasoned message, given fr eely rest raint-free care was wide ly a pr isoner condemned to death t hrough yo ur wr it ing and pub lic recognized as t he standard of row . Your fut ure of compassionate speaki ng, and as a Professor of practice , a revolution in the ca re of serv ice became immediately clear Law at New York Univers ity , clearly o lder adults . to you . For over two decades, as resonates . Your 2012 TED ta lk, We a renowned lawyer and foremost Need to Talk About Injustice , has You joi ned Penn Nursing in 1982, advocate for social justice, you over 5,000,000 online views, and after receiv ing yo ur doctora l degree have addressed and chal lenged your out reach grows. at New York University, and soon bias in the United States criminal bega n to make yo ur mark. Through In 2018, EJI opened The Legacy justice system aga inst the poor, your leadership , Penn Nur sing Museum: From Enslavement to mino rit ies, and ch ildren . For you r was among the f irst to integra te Mass Incarceration. On the site of a work's immeasu rable impact for gerontology into t he undergradua te Montgomery ware house once used both ind iv idua ls and society, you curricu lum. For 15 years , you in slave com m erce, vis ito rs examine are cons idered one of the most d irected t he School 's top - ranked America's history of racial injust ice transformat iona l leaders of your Geronto logy Nurse Practitio ner and its legacy in today's crimina l generation. Program, a mode l fo r other schools. justice system . Nearby, the National You founded and di rected t he Growing up in rura l, most ly Memorial for Peace and Justice School 's Center of Geronto logic segregated southern Delaware, you offers testament for victims of Nursing Research and its John A took to heart your mo t her's deeply A merican rac ial terror lynchings . Hartford Foundat ion Cen ter of held belief in the va lue of educa t ion. Your we ll-dese rved awards are Geriat ric Nursing Excellence. Your With Philade lph ia fam ily roo t s, you many , including the MacArthur interd isciplinary resea rch also made your way to nearby Eastern Foundation Fellowsh ip, the ACLU addresses clinical and socia l issues University for underg raduate Nat ional Meda l of Liberty , and t he of end -of -life ca re, fall prevent ion , stud ies. Then at Harvard, you American Bar Association Meda l, and access to serv ices. pursued degrees from Harvard Law its highest honor , as well as its and t he Harvard Kennedy School of A consummate Univers ity citizen , Thurgood Marshall Award. In 2018, Government. you lent g uidance t hroug h act ive you received the Marti n Luther King , part icipation in and leade rship of In 1994, at 29, you founded the non­ Jr., Nonvio lent Peace Prize from The doze ns of comm itt ees and panels. profit Equal Justice Initiative (EJ I) King Center in At lanta. You chai red the Facu lty Senates in Montgomery, Alabama, w here In recog nit ion of your ext raord inary of both Penn Nursing and the you are Execu ti ve Director . In 2005 14 University, led the Penn Assoc iation Pennsylvania are honored and few moments of breath-catching of Senior and Emeritus Faculty, pleased to confer upon you, Neville excitement when a captured signal and served on the Trustees Counci l Earl Strumpf, the degree of Doctor was not immediate ly diagnosed as of Penn Women Advisory Boa rd. of Sciences, honoris causa. "earth noise." Efforts have not paid As Interim Dean of the School, off - yet - and you are determined you advanced strateg ic init iatives JILL CORNELL TARTER that the search cont inues . and Penn Nursing's reputation for For time beyond measure, humans Your work was int roduced to the scholarship. Though you retired as pub lic when actor Jod ie Foste r Professor of Nursing in 2008, your have looked up to the sky and portrayed a character insp ired Penn engagement has not dimmed. asked: "Are we alone? What would it mean if we knew the answer?" For by you in the 1997 film Contact, The impact of your outreach is all but a sliver of human existence, from the book by your friend immeasurable . You are famed we cou ld do no more than wonder. Carl Sagan . Throughout your for your generous mentorship of However, seizing the opportunities career, you have proudly served students and peers, continuing to of technological advances as an inspirationa l role model for coordinate the school's Faculty unimaginable to earlier generations, generations of women pursuing Ment orship Program and participate you have made it your life 's work careers in the sciences. Retirin g in in strategic planning. You have been to seek our answer - in a message 20 12, you are now Emeritus Chair a prolific author, award-winning from the stars. for SETI Research at the SETI educator, peer reviewer for leading Institute, lecturing worldwide on journals, and for decades consulted You were adamantly drawn to the behalf of expansion of resear ch internationally with hospitals and sciences early in your educat ion, and continued fund ing for SETI, health systems, agencies, nursing supported by your fami ly even and fo r strong fundamental science homes , and family caregivers to as you were active ly discouraged education for all. improve care for older adults. by teachers. As an engineering undergraduate at Cornell Unive rsity , In recognition of your achievements, You remain passionately connected you were often the only woman you were named one of Time's 25 with quality of life concerns of in the classroom. Undaunted, you Most Influential People in Space, a older adults, including board were drawn to male-dominated Fellow of the American Association membership on the Mercy Life West fields of astronomy and then radio for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia PACE Program and as astronomy, earni ng your master's and were awarded a Lifetime Board President of Ralston Center, and Ph.D. at the University of Achievement Award by Wome n a provider of services to older California, Berkeley . Your inte rests in Aerospace. Upon winning the adults in West Philadelphia. You soo n connected you with like­ Ted Prize in 2009, your wish was also offer your service as a national minded colleagues curious to search to draw others into SETI through Senior Evaluator for the Hartford what has been cal led a "cos mic innovat ive ideas like open sourc ing Foundation Geriatric Nursing Center haystack " for signals from an so that "citizen scientists" could of Excellence Program . advanced civi lization seek ing us. partic ipate in the search. Moreover , the Astero id 74824 Tarter was Nam ed an Honorary Alumna of A pathbreaker, you served as named in your honor. Penn Nursing, you are a fellow of a Project Scientist for NASA's the American Academy of Nursing SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial For your steadfast dedication and and th e Gerontological Socie ty Intelligence) program. When enthusiasm in the quest to listen of America. Other recognitions governme ntal funding was sca rce or in on the stars and to magn ify our include Penn's Lindback Award for even terminated , you learned how understanding of what it means to Distinguished Teaching and its Claire to stitch together funding sources be human beings, the Trustee s of M. Fag in Distinguished Researcher and helped co mpose the for the University of Pennsy lvania are Award, and election to the Nurse the SETI Institute in Mountain View, honored and p leased to con fer upon Researc her Hall of Fame by Sigma California. In your career spa nning you, Jill Cornell Tart er, th e degr ee of Theta Tau Interna t ional. over fou r decades, you have Doctor of Sciences, honoris causa. conducted numerous observational For your pioneering scholarship programs at radio observatories and dedication as an educator worldwide and worked to design transforming both stan dard s of ca re and build California's Allen and quality of lif e for older adults, Telescope Array. Scouring mil lio ns and for your deca de s of enthusia stic of radio fre q uencie s and analyzing servi ce to the Univer sity com munity , resulting data, there have been a th e Trustees of the Univ ersi ty of 15