MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

ADVANCED DEGREE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS

From Spring 1970 through Winter 1992, the deans of colleges addressed graduates. 1970-S Boger 1970-S Boger 1978-S None 1985-F Blosser 1970-F Von Tersch 1978-F Andrew 1986-W Tolbert 1971-W Lee 1979-W Weston 1986-S Winder 1971-S Armistead 1979-S None 1986-F Andrew 1971-F Louhi 1979-F Goldhammer 1987-W Von Tersch 1972-W Hawley 1980-W Anderson 1987-S Cantlon 1972-S Oyer 1980-S None 1987-F Hoppensteadt 1972-F Sullivan 1980-F Vlasin 1988-W Miller 1972(3)-W Harrison 1981-W Lewis 1988-S Eadie 1972(3)-S Carlin 1981-S None 1988-F Chapin 1973 1981-F Lund 1989-W Steidle 1974-F Rohman 1982-W Smuckler 1989-S Stemple 1975-W Banks 1982-S None 1989-F Darden 1975-S Green 1982-F Sullivan 1990-W Davis 1975-F Muelder 1983-W Gullahorn 1990-S Smuckler 1976-W Lund 1983-S Chapin 1990-F Pierre 1976-S Magen 1983-F Hollingsworth 1991-W Abbett 1976-F Lewis 1984-W Von Tersch 1991-S Lim 1977-W Byerrum 1984-S Nickerson 1991-F Corey 1977-S None 1984-F Steidle 1992-W Imig 1977-F Welser 1985-W Smuckler 1978-W Bettinghaus 1985-S Lanier

1992-S Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

SEMESTERS 1992-F John Brademas, President Emeritus, New York University, New York City, New York 1993-S William H. Cunningham, Chancellor, The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas 1993-F A. Alfred Taubman, Chairman, The Taubman Co., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1994-S David A. Bromley, Sterling Professor of Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1994-F KunMo Chung, President, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Seoul, Korea 1995-S Neal F. Lane, Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Virginia 1995-F Andree Roaf, State Supreme Court Associate Justice, Little Rock, Arkansas 1996-S Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 1996-F Homer Alfred Neal, Interim President, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1997-S Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1997-F Mary Lowe Good, Former Under Secretary for Technology, US Dept of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 1998-S Vernon J. Ehlers, US Congress, Third District Representative, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1998-F C. Peter Magrath, President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), Washington, D.C. 1999-S Jean Chretien, Prime Minister, Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 1999-F George F. Vande Woude, Director, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2000-S Rita R. Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), College Park, Maryland 2000-F Raymond Kurzweil, Chairman & CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts 2001-S Wendy Baldwin, Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), New York City, New York 2001-F Roger N. Beachy, President & Director, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 2002-S Peter C. Doherty, Nobel Prize, Chairman, Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 2002-F Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, UN Development Programme (UNDP), New York City, New York 2003-S Jane Lubchenco, Wayne & Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, and OSU Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 2003-F Lewis W. Coleman, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, California 2004-S Hernando de Soto, President, Institute of Liberty and Democracy, Lima, Peru 2004-F Barbara Masekela, South African Ambassador to the United States, South African Embassy, Washington, D.C. 2005-S Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 2005-F Jonathan K. S. Choi, President, Sun Wah Group, Hong Kong, SAR 2006-S Paul Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, California 2006-F Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness, Washington, D.C. 2007-S Julie L. Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia 2007-F Ian Wilmut, Director, Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 2008-S Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri 2008-F Steven W. Squyres, Scientific Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rovers; and Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 2009-S Dan Rather, Award-winning Journalist and News Anchor, New York City, New York 2009-F Robert Tjian, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Professor, University of California, Berkley, California 2010-S Daniel G. Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2010-F Elinor Ostrom, Co-recipient 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 2011-S Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and CEO, TIAA-CREF, New York, New York 2011-F Emilio F. Moran, Professor of Environmental Sciences, and Director, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 2012-S Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation 2012-F The Honorable Thomas James Vilsack, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture 2013-S Richard Ford, PEN/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Independence Day, and Mellon Professor, Columbia University, New York, New York, and English, B.A. 1966, Michigan State University 2013-F Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2014-S Norman R. Augustine, Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland 2014-F Teresa A. Sullivan, President, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 2015-S Andrew N. Liveris, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan 2015-F Patricia Mucci LoRusso, D.O., Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Innovative Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. MSU alumna. 2016-S Ellen D. Williams, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E), US Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 2016-F Michael T. Longaker, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor, School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. MSU alumnus. Member of the 1979 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball National Championship Team. 2017-S Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation, New York, New York 2017-F Michael VanRooyen, Chairman, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, MSU alumnus 2018-S Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 2018-F Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. 2019-S Gretchen Whitmer, Governor, State of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, MSU alumna