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As awards season comes to an end, commencement season kicks in.
This year, a handful of Hollywood notables will be there to impart wisdom on new college graduates embarking on the next chapter of their lives.
From Steven Spielberg to Hamilton‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda, below is a list of commencement speakers who will be taking the stage at various universities in the upcoming months (the below list will be updated as more names are announced):
University of Michigan (April 30) — Michael Bloomberg
University of Connecticut (May 7-8) — Oliver Stone (speaking for the graduate school), Charles Osgood (speaking for the Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine)
Rutgers University (May 12-18) — Kevin Goetz (speaking for the Mason Gross School of the Arts on the 12th)
University of Southern California (May 13) — Oracle Corporation founder Larry Ellison, Paul Feig (speaking for USC’s School of Cinematic Arts)
University of Georgia (May 13) — Ryan Seacrest
University of California, Berkeley (May 14) — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
University of Wisconsin-Madison (May 14) — Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson
Tulane University (May 14) – Hoda Kotb
University of Pennsylvania (May 16) — Lin-Manuel Miranda
John Hopkins University (May 18) — Spike Lee
University of Virginia (May 20-22) — Grey’s Anatomy‘s Sarah Drew (speaking at festivities on the 20th)
Tufts University (May 22) — Hank Azaria
Harvard University (May 26) — Steven Spielberg
Cornell University (May 28-29) — James Franco (speaking at Senior Convocation on the 28th)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (June 3) — Matt Damon
University of California, Los Angeles (June 10) — Lionsgate Television Group chairman Kevin Beggs (speaking for the School of Theater, Film and Television)
Stanford University (June 12) – Ken Burns
Northwestern University (June 17) – Seth Meyers
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