Brown UniversityCommencement/Reunion Weekend will begin Friday, May 24. Beverly Wade Hogan, president of Tougaloo College, will deliver the 2013 Baccalaureate address on Saturday, May 25. The weekend will conclude Sunday afternoon, with Commencement exercises and the awarding of six honorary doctorates.
Chosen by fellow seniors, history concentrator Elizabeth Mills, of Washington, D.C., and applied math/biology concentrator Tanayott Thaweethai, of Union City, Calif., will address their classmates at graduation. Choosing members of the graduating class to deliver Commencement orations is a Brown tradition.
Genger's painted, repurposed, hand-knotted nautical rope in red, yellow and blue currently transforms the lush green lawns of Manhattan's Madison Square Park into colorfully lined chambers.
