Shirley Ann Jackson

5 to receive honorary degrees

The University will award five honorary degrees at the 150th Commencement on May 20. Elie Wiesel Commencement speaker and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel is the Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. He is best known for his book titled “Night,” which is a personal account of his own Holocaust experience.

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