Commencement Archive
Retired US Navy four-star admiral and former chancellor of the University of Texas system
“To save the world, you will have to be men and women of great integrity.”
Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
"Commit to changing the world."
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Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Climate crisis "is unlike any other ever faced by humankind"
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT
"Pick your issue [to address], and go for it with all your heart, all your mind, and all your knowledge."
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
"The world needs your smarts, your skills, your adaptability, and the great training you have received here at MIT."
PhD ’94, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology at Penn State University.
Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering and co-founder and Board Chairman of Moderna
The inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist encourages the Class of 2024 to “accept impossible missions” and “lead with imagination” in uncertain times.
SM ’02 PhD ’10, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia Vancouver
Poet Laureate of Hawai‘i
“We are nobody/ and yet at the same time/ we are everything”
Engineer, Educator, and Founder of CrunchLabs
Rober encouraged graduates to positively impact the world while practicing “optimism combined with dedication” and fostering their relationships with others.
Science communicator, video creator, and entrepreneur
Hank Green urges the Class of 2025 to work on “everyday solvable problems of normal people”