Washington University Graduation Is Today

will honor its 2012 graduates today during the university’s 151st Commencement ceremony. 

During the ceremony, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus, WUSTL also will bestow academic degrees on approximately 2,800 members of the Class of 2012.

Tickets are not needed for the event, unless the violent weather plan must be implemented.

For those that can't join the crowd of 15,000 expected at the ceremony, Washington University will live stream the event. To watch the streaming video of the graduation ceremony, click here.

Alumnus Mike Peters, the 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning and creator of the award-winning cartoon strip Mother Goose & Grimm,  and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from WUSTL.

The other honorary degree recipients and their degrees are:

• David M. Becker, JD, the Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor Emeritus of the Law of Property and associate dean for external relations at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, doctor of humane letters;
• C. Ronald Kahn, MD, an internationally recognized expert in diabetes and obesity research and chief academic officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center, the world’s largest diabetes clinical and research organization, doctor of science;
• Richard J. Mahoney, retired chair and CEO of , currently serves as distinguished executive in residence at WUSTL’s Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy and executive in residence at Olin Business School, doctor of science;
• Gloria M. Steinem, a pioneering feminist, award-winning journalist and best-selling author, doctor of humane letters; and
• Donald M. Suggs, DDS, oral surgeon, publisher and executive director of The St. Louis American, patron of the arts and distinguished community leader, doctor of humane letters. 

To read more in-depth biographies of the honorary degree recipients, read our .