{"id":24465,"date":"2025-05-22T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/?post_type=story&#038;p=24465"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:02:53","slug":"sounds-from-clarks-121st-commencement","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/22\/sounds-from-clarks-121st-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds from Clark&#8217;s 121st Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"border:0;width:100%;max-width:800px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/highlights-from-clark-universitys-121st-commencement\/id1608025510?i=1000709445494\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark&#8217;s 121st Commencement Ceremonies on May 19, 2025, conferred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/19\/clark-confers-468-undergraduate-degrees-to-the-class-of-2025\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">468 undergraduate degrees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/19\/i-cant-wait-to-see-the-impact-you-have-on-the-world\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1,014 advanced degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NPR journalist Ari Shapiro and Esther Duflo, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered speeches to graduate students and undergraduate students, respectively. 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