- Published: Dec. 06, 2022, 3:38 p.m.
FILE - Katie Couric appears astatine the Vanity Fair Oscar Party connected March 27, 2022, successful Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
Award-winning writer Katie Couric volition supply the commencement code astatine UMass Chan Medical School’s 50th commencement exercises this June, the assemblage announced Tuesday.
Couric formerly anchored NBC’s “Today Show” and was the archetypal pistillate to solo anchor the “CBS Evening News.” Couric owns her ain media company, Katie Couric Media, and released a memoir, “Going There,” past year.
In summation to her enactment arsenic a journalist, Couric co-founded Stand Up To Cancer successful 2008 and has been a beardown advocator for crab probe arsenic good arsenic screening and care. In September, Couric announced that she was successful attraction for bosom cancer.
Couric volition person an honorary grade from UMass Chan, on with Tania Semaan, co-founder and manager of the Semaan Foundation, an enactment which provides philanthropic enactment successful the fields of education, healthcare and societal welfare; and Luke O’Neill, seat and prof of biochemistry and immunology astatine Trinity College successful Dublin, Ireland.
The commencement volition beryllium held astatine 12 p.m. Sunday, June 4. More than 300 students are expected to postgraduate from the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
The ceremonial volition beryllium livestreamed and tin beryllium viewed here.
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