May 10, 2021 by Aimee Minbiole
Honorary degrees will also go to scholars in the arts, education, and sciences.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81 will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo)
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Annette Gordon-Reed 81, a law scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement in Memorial Stadium, which starts at 11 a.m. on June 13. We are honored to have Annette Gordon-Reed as our commencement speaker this year, says President Philip J. Hanlon 77. With her groundbreaking scholarship, she joins a cohort of prominent honorary degree recipients whose work in the arts, economics, education, and science is transforming our world for the better.
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One of the good reasons the year 2020 will go down in history is that for the first time an American poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. While Louise Glück’s work is well known in poetry circles, it is as yet little known by the American public. “Louise Glück is not only engaged by the errancies and shifting conditions of life,” according to the Nobel’s statement, “she is also a poet of radical change and rebirth, where the leap forward is made from a deep sense of loss.” This course will provide an introduction to Glück’s poetry through close study of her most recent book, Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014), winner of the National Book Award. Linda Leavell, the instructor, is a scholar of American poetry and professor emerita from Oklahoma State university. She has been teaching OLLI classes for over a decade. Participants should purchase or borrow Faithfu
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