Commencement Slideshow

Brandeis celebrates the accomplishments of the Class of 2009

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Brandeis University awarded 784 bachelor’s degrees, 679 master’s degrees and 84 PhDs at the university's 58th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17, 2009.

Honorary degrees were presented to Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory A. Booker; maestro James Conlon, music director of the Los Angeles Opera; mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne; Indian environmentalist Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute; Israel Gutman, the world’s foremost scholar of and authority on the Holocaust; and Israeli industrialist and former Knesset member Stef Wertheimer.

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