UCSD commencement ceremonies to be held June 16
June 6, 1991
Contact: Alixandra Williams, University Communications (619) 534-3120
UCSD TO GRADUATE MORE THAN 2,500 IN COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES JUNE 16
The University of California, San Diego, will hold six separate commencement ceremonies for over 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students on Sunday, June 16. Approximately 20,000 relatives and friends are expected to attend the day's events.
Four undergraduate colleges -- Muir, Warren, Third, and Revelle -- will confer a total of 2,324 degrees. The Division of 410 Graduate Studies will grant 140 degrees, and another 58 students will receive graduate degrees from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Fifth College, which opened its doors three years ago, does not yet have a graduating class.
"As an international center for science, medicine, and the arts, UCSD has distinguished itself as world-class institution," says Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson. "We're proud that our graduates are prepared to compete in the new global marketplace."
Commencement ceremonies are scheduled from 9 a.m. through 2:30 p.m. at locations throughout the campus.
Muir College will hold the first ceremony of the day at 9 a.m. on the Third College playing field at the north end of campus. Herbert F. York, UCSD professor of physics emeritus and director emeritus of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UCSD, will deliver the commencement address to 582 graduates and nearly 5,000 guests. Muir College traditionally opens its ceremonies to the sound of the Cameron Highlander bagpipers.
Warren College will begin ceremonies at 10 a.m. on the south lawn of Galbraith Hall. Six hundred graduates and about 4,500 guests will hear Ira Michael Heyman, professor of law and former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, deliver the commencement address.
At 11 a.m. the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) will graduate its third class. IR/PS professor Alex Kane will deliver the commencement address to 58 diplomates and 200 guests in the school's open-air courtyard in the Robinson Building Complex. UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson and IR/PS Dean Peter Gourevitch will also speak.
At noon, the Division of Graduate Studies will grant advanced degrees to 140 graduates in the Price Center Ballroom. Russell F. Doolittle, UCSD professor of chemistry and biology, will address the diplomates and 1,200 guests.
At 2 p.m., Third College will begin ceremonies for its 542 graduates and some 4,500 guests on the Third College playing field. The commencement speaker will be Peter H. Irons, UCSD professor of political science, who is nationally known for his legal advocacy in several landmark petitions demanding restitution for Japanese- Americans interned during World War II. Revelle College will hold the last commencement of the day at 2:30 p.m. on the south lawn of Galbraith Hall. John Slaughter, president of Occidental College and former director of the National Science Foundation, will deliver the commencement address to 600 graduates and approximately 3,400 guests.
In separate ceremonies on June 9, the School of Medicine will confer diplomas on the 122 members of its twentieth graduating class. The event will be held at 11 a.m. on the south lawn of the School of Medicine's Biomedical Library, and the commencement speaker will be Dr. Samuel Thier, president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
UCSD will provide two shuttles on June 16 from parking lots located at Gilman Drive and Osler Drive (near the Gilman Drive Information Pavilion) to a lot located near the Revelle College Provost's Office and the graduation site (south lawn of Galbraith Hall) for Revelle and Warren colleges.
Parking lots are available for the Third College and Muir College graduations, located at Muir College Drive, Muir Campus, off North Torrey Pines Road.
Visitors can reach the commencement site for IR/PS by entering campus at Northview Drive and proceeding south to the Robinson Building Complex on the east side of Scholars Drive.
On campus, visitors may park in any red, green, yellow, or metered parking spot. Parking attendants will be on hand to direct traffic. Because of campus construction projects and the large number of expected attendees, visitors should allow extra time for parking and travel to the commencement sites. Parking fees have been waived for the day.
UCSD COMMENCEMENT FACT SHEET JUNE 16, 1991
WARREN COLLEGE
SITE: South lawn of Galbraith Hall TIME: 10 a.m.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 600
NUMBER OF GUESTS: 4,500
ROBING: Graduates: Galbraith Auditorium Faculty: 1148 Galbraith Hall
RECEPTION: Noon, on the lawn of the Molecular Genetics Building
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Ira Michael Heyman, Professor of Law and Chancellor, UC Berkeley
As a young lawyer, Ira Michael Heyman was a law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, after whom UCSD's Warren College is named.
A native of New York City, Heyman received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1951 and served two years as an officer in the Marine Corps before enrolling in Yale Law School, from which he graduated with honors in 1956. After a year with a New York law firm, he clerked for a federal appellate court judge and then for Chief Justice Warren.
In 1959, Heyman became a professor of law at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall, marking the beginning of a long and distinguished career at that university. In 1966, Heyman accepted a joint appointment as a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning. In 1974, he was named vice chancellor of the campus, and, since 1980, he has served as Berkeley's chancellor. Heyman has published numerous scholarly tracts on civil rights, constitutional law, land planning, city government, housing, and environmental law and management. He is also one of the nation's leading designers of regional environmental conservation and zoning plans, including ones for Lake Tahoe, Kauai, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands.
Heyman's many professional affiliations and honors include serving as secretary of the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1962-67, as a member of the board of trustees of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law since 1977, and as a member of the board of directors of the American Council on Education since 1984.
UCSD COMMENCEMENT FACT SHEET JUNE 16, 1991
REVELLE COLLEGE
SITE: South lawn of Galbraith Hall TIME: 2:30 p.m.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 600
NUMBER OF GUESTS: 3,400
ROBING: Graduates: Revelle Plaza Faculty: 1148 Galbraith Hall
RECEPTION: 4:30 p.m. at Revelle Plaza
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Dr. John Slaughter, president of Occidental College and former director of the National Science Foundation
Dr. John Brooks Slaughter earned his M.S. in engineering at UCLA and his Ph.D. in engineering science at UCSD in the 1960s.
As an appointee of President Carter, Dr. Slaughter served as assistant director of astronomical, atmospheric, earth and ocean sciences at the National Science Foundation (1977) and served as its director, again at the request of President Carter, from 1980 to 1982, when he was appointed chancellor of the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1988 he became the eleventh president of Occidental College.
Throughout his career, Dr. Slaughter has been active in national efforts to involve ethnic minorities in science and engineering. He has served as a member of the National Science Board Commission on Pre- college Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology; he chaired the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Minority Committee; and he served as a member of the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Minorities in Engineering.
Dr. Slaughter was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1982. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Slaughter's community involvement includes serving as president of the board of directors of the San Diego Urban League and as a member of the board of directors of the San Diego Transit Corporation, and chairing the Governor's Task Force on Teen Pregnancy for the State of Maryland.
UCSD COMMENCEMENT FACT SHEET JUNE 16, 1991
MUIR COLLEGE SITE: Third College playing field
TIME: 9 a.m.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 582
NUMBER OF GUESTS: 4,850
ROBING: Graduates: Muir, near McGill Hall; Faculty: Third College Provost's Conference Room, No. 127
RECEPTION: 11 a.m. at Third College Plaza
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Dr. Herbert F. York, professor of physics emeritus and director emeritus of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSD
Dr. Herbert Frank York, one of the nation's most distinguished physicists, served as chancellor of UCSD from February of 1961 until November of 1964.
Early in his career, Dr. York worked on the famous Manhattan project; later, he initiated and directed the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory of the University of California. His many honors include an appointment by President Eisenhower and reappointment by President Kennedy as the first Director of Research and Engineering for the federal government.
Dr. York, who received his masters in physics from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D.in physics from UC Berkeley in 1949, has served on numerous advisory committees on science and technology and is the author of four books on the subjects of nuclear arms and defense. A Guggenheim fellow in 1972, Dr. York is currently a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Physical Society.
UCSD COMMENCEMENT FACT SHEET JUNE 16, 1991
THIRD COLLEGE
SITE: Third College playing field
TIME: 2 p.m.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 542
NUMBER OF GUESTS: 4,270
ROBING: Graduates: Walkway, Third College Administration Building Faculty: Third College Provost's Conference Room, No. 127
RECEPTION: 4 p.m. at Third College Plaza
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Dr. Peter H. Irons, professor of political science, UCSD
Lawyer and political scientist Dr. Peter H. Irons has forged a distinguished career as an outspoken -- and sometimes controversial -- champion of civil liberties and human rights. As an undergraduate at Antioch College in the 1960s, Irons was convicted of violating the Selective Service Act and served time in various federal prisons. While earning his Ph.D. in political science at Boston University in the early '70s, he conducted research on the "Pentagon Papers" case for the law firm representing Daniel Ellsberg. At Harvard Law School, where he earned his J.D. in 1978, Irons was senior editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. And in the 1980s, Dr. Irons served as lead counsel in bringing successful coram nobis petitions on behalf of defendants in Japanese-American internment cases in federal district courts in San Francisco and Seattle.
Dr. Irons has taught political science at UCSD since 1982. During his tenure, he has also served as chair of the faculty and acting provost of Earl Warren College. In 1988, he was the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professdr of Human Rights at Rutgers University.
Dr. Irons is the author of numerous scholarly articles and four books, most notably The Courage of Their Convictions (1988) and Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases (1983), which won awards from the American Bar Association.
Dr. Irons is also an active member of the National Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the executive committee of San Diego's ACLU affiliate.
UCSD COMMENCEMENT FACT SHEET JUNE 16, 1991
DIVISION OF GRADUATE STUDIES SITE: Price Center Ballroom
TIME: Noon
NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 140 NUMBER OF GUESTS: 1200
ROBING: Conference Room 111A
RECEPTION: Price Center Plaza
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Russell F. Doolittle, professor, departments of chemistry and biology, UCSD
Dr. Russell F. Doolittle received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1952 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard in 1961. As a specialist in molecular genetics, he has been associated with UCSD's departments of biology and chemistry since 1964, serving as professor of chemistry since 1972 and a professor of biology since 1986.
Dr. Doolittle's major research interests include protein structure and evolution, synthetic peptides, and computer approaches to protein chemistry and biology. His work has earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and prestigious grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the American Heart Association. He has also served as editor of numerous scientific journals.
Dr. Doolittle is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
UCSD COMMENCEMENT FACT SHEET JUNE 16, 1991
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND PACIFIC STUDIES (IR/PS)
SITE: IR/PS open-air courtyard, Robinson Building Complex TIME: 11 a.m. NUMBER OF GRADUATES: 58
NUMBER OF GUESTS: 200
ROBING: Dean's Conference Room, Robinson Building Complex
RECEPTION: IR/PS open-air courtyard, Robinson Building Complex, immediately following ceremony
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Alex Kane, professor, IR/PS
Additional remarks will be made by UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson and IR/PS Dean Peter Gourevitch.
(June 6, 1991)