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Akiko Iwasaki
Citation Mr. President, I have the great honor of presenting Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Institute, and one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Dr. Iwasaki, as a scientist who focuses on the mechanisms of immune…
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Sean Carroll
Citation Mr. President, I have the great honor of presenting an award-winning author, Emmy-winning film producer, and educational leader who has been called “the greatest science storyteller of our time”: Dr. Sean B. Carroll. Dr Carroll is the Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair at the University of Maryland. Dr.…
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Naomi Oreskes
Citation President Fithian, I have the honor of presenting Naomi Oreskes, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, and an internationally renowned geologist, science historian, and author. Dr. Oreskes, you have devoted your career to elevating our understanding of the actions needed…
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James P. McGovern
Citation Mr. President, I have the honor of presenting Congressman James McGovern, United States Representative for the Massachusetts 2nd Congressional District. Representative McGovern, you were born and raised in Worcester, not far from the Clark campus. Early in your career as a congressional aide, you led the Moakley Commission investigation into the murders of six…
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Christine Ortiz
To mark the 75th anniversary of the first class of undergraduate women admitted to Clark in 1942, all three recipients in 2018 — Commencement speaker Hauwa Ibrahim, Susan Hanson, and Christine Ortiz — were women. Citation Mr. President, I have the honor of presenting Christine Ortiz — scientist, engineer, social entrepreneur, educator, and professor. Dr.…