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Dominican Celebrates Commencement on May 6

Over 200 undergraduate students will receive bachelor’s degrees from Dominican University during commencement exercises on Saturday, May 6. The ceremony will be held at 11:00 a.m. in Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Dr. Norman E. Carroll, retiring provost for the university, will serve as speaker for the commencement ceremony. A four-decades resident of River Forest, Carroll has been affiliated with Dominican University for 43 years, as professor, dean of the School of Business, vice president of academic affairs, and provost. During his tenure at Dominican, he founded the Graduate School of Business and spearheaded an emphasis on internationalization that led to current executive MBA programs in Poland, the Czech Republic, India and China. In addition, his entrepreneurial spirit engaged the university to launch the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work and the Institute for Adult Learning. Carroll is stepping down from his position as provost to return to teaching as a professor in the recently renamed Brennan School of Business.

Internationally renowned physicist Dr. Leon Lederman and music director of the Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest Jay Friedman will receive honorary degrees during the ceremony.

Lederman, the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, has served this year as Dominican University’s first Lund-Gill Chair and taught a junior honors seminar on science, technology and education in the 21st century.

During a remarkable career spanning more than four decades, Dr. Lederman’s research has ranged from subatomic-particle physics through pioneering experiments with neutrino beams to the discovery of the third generation of quarks. In addition to the Nobel Prize, his many honors include the National Medal of Science, which he received in 1965 from President Lyndon Johnson; the Wolf Prize in Physics, which he received in 1982; and the Enrico Fermi Prize, presented in 1993 by President Bill Clinton.

A fervent proponent of math and science education, Dr. Lederman founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, the first state-wide residential public school for gifted children, and the Teachers’ Academy of Mathematics and Science, an organization designed to train Chicago Public Schools teachers the art of teaching science and mathematics.

Jay Friedman is celebrating his tenth anniversary as music director of The Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest, a tenure during which the Illinois Council of Orchestras named him the 2002 Conductor of the Year and selected the symphony as the 2004 Orchestra of the Year. In addition to his duties with the symphony, Freidman has served as principal trombonist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1964 and is professor of trombone, principal guest conductor and head of winds and brass at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Friedman’s impressive career has included stints with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Florida Symphony as well as an artist-in-residency at Indiana University. A well-respected teacher, Friedman has given master classes at trombone camps and associations in Italy, Finland and Spain and has former students now holding positions in major orchestras around the world. In 2000, he released a CD, The Singing Trombone, which was created to assist fledgling trombonists.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the School of Business, the School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Work. In the 2006 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the eighth consecutive year.