Commencement 2019 by News@Northeastern - Contributor May 1, 2019 Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 117th Commencement exercises and the 2019 graduates Highlights Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University ‘Now the world belongs to you’ At Northeastern’s 117th Commencement, President Joseph E. Aoun urged graduates to use their most human qualities in order to succeed in a world that is… Read more The best photos from Commenement The graduates, the speakers, the joy, the beach ball, and the flags. Northeastern photographers documented all the pomp and circumstance of the big day at…Read more Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University Tara Westover urges graduates to embrace their ‘un-Instagrammable’ selves The Commencement address by the author of the bestselling memoir, Educated, cautioned Northeastern graduates against defining themselves by the happy, perfect images they post online. Read more It took Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun a superhuman effort to get to Commencement Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun showed off some mad acrobatic skills in getting to TD Garden just in time to give his 2019 Commencement Speech. Watch #NUEXPERIENCE Latest Author tells Northeastern grads to celebrate their ‘un-Instagramable selves’ Best-selling author Tara Westover on Friday urged Northeastern University’s Class of 2019 to celebrate the sides of themselves they don’t share on social media — the parts of them that are imperfect. Go ‘We can never stop reinventing ourselves’ The Class of 2019 graduates into a world continuously being reshaped by rapidly advancing technology. And with the skills, knowledge, and agility they have acquired through their experiences at Northeastern, they are well prepared to evolve along with it, President Joseph E. Aoun told students, families, and friends assembled at TD Garden on Friday. Read more So happy you could just dance With another academic year finally in the books and Commencement upon us, we’re taking a look at the most popular songs on Spotify over the last two semesters! Read more Commencement 2019 in photos Speakers 05/03/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern University celebrated its 117th Commencement on May 3, 2019. President Joseph E. Aoun led the undergraduate ceremony, which was held at TD Garden in Boston. Tara Westover, the New York Times best-selling author of Educated, delivered the Commencement address. Northeastern conferred honorary degrees upon a distinguished group of influential figures: Amin J. Khoury, Eduardo J. Padrn, Beth Stevens, and Major General Cedric T. Wins. Photo by Billie Weiss for Northeastern University Tara Westover Author / Honorary degree recipient Tara Westover, inspiring author of the best-selling memoir, Educated, will deliver Northeastern’s 2019 Commencement address. Westover’s best-selling memoir, Educated, explains her resilient response to the isolated and dysfunctional world in which she was raised, at the foot of a mountain in rural Idaho, working in a junkyard for a father who kept his seven children… Read more Rebecca Leeper, who is graduating in computer engineering, looks forward to giving the student speech at Northeastern’s 2019 Commencement. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University Student Speaker: Rebecca Leeper Computer Engineering Rebecca Leeper will be the student speaker at Northeastern’s 2019 Commencement at TD Garden on Friday. It will be a poignant, turning-of-the-page moment for her and her fellow graduates. Read more Additional Honorary Degree Recipients President Joseph E. Aoun will confer honorary doctorates upon a group of influential leaders and figures at Northeastern’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony. Amin J. Khoury, Tara Westover, Major General Cedric T. Wins, Eduardo J. Padrón, and Beth Stevens will receive the honorary degrees. Beth Stevens, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins Commanding General Amin Khoury Chairman, CEO & President, KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. Eduardo J. Padrón President of Miami Dade College NORTHEASTERN ANNOUNCES 2019 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS President Joseph E. Aoun will confer honorary doctorates upon a group of influential leaders and figures at Northeastern’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony. Amin J. Khoury, Tara Westover, Major General Cedric T. Wins, Eduardo J. Padrón, and Beth Stevens will receive the honorary degrees. Read more Arrival Information Undergraduate MAY 3 – 10:30 AM (GRADUATES 7:30 AM) – TD GARDEN Undergraduate degree candidates must report to TD Garden by 7:30 a.m. on Friday. Graduating students should use the Legends Way entrance, and should not enter TD Garden through the arena’s main entrance. Legends Way is located on the east side of TD Garden (the side closest to the Zakim Bridge). Signs and staff will direct students to their entrance. Graduate College of Social Sciences and Humanities APRIL 29 – 10:00 AM – CABOT CAGE Khoury College of Computer and Information Science APRIL 29 – 2:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA College of Engineering APRIL 30 – 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA PhD Hooding MAY 1 – 11:00 AM – CABOT CAGE College of Science MAY 1 – 4:30 PM – CABOT CAGE College of Arts, Media and Design MAY 2 – 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA Bouvé College of Health Sciences MAY 3 – 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA