April 6 :
Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian American physician, researcher, and best-selling book, will give the graduation address at the University of Pennsylvania on May 20 at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. An honorary doctorate in science will also be bestowed upon him.
This year's NYU Law Convocation will be hosted in the Theatre at Madison Square Garden on May 16, and keynote speeches will be given by Vijaya Gadde, a former executive at Twitter. Graduating JD students will hear a keynote speech from Gadde, who was Twitter's chief legal officer and head of policy, trust, compliance, and safety, as stated by the institution.
The graduate commencement ceremony of Northeastern University will take place at Fenway Park in Boston on May 5, and the keynote speaker will be Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). In June 2020, the Indian American won the position of director of the National Science Foundation.
"The Emperor of All Maladies" (2011) was written by Mukherjee, who is most famous for being an oncologist at Columbia University's medical centre and an associate professor of medicine at the university. "The Song of the Cell" (2022) and "The Gene: An Intimate History" (2016) are among his other works. Time magazine named "The Emperor of All Maladies" one of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of the last century, and director Ken Burns turned the book and another of his works, "The Gene," into PBS movies.
He was an innovative medical researcher whose work pushed the field to new heights by elucidating the structure and function of cancer cells. New biological and cellular therapies, which go beyond existing pharmaceutical models, have been made possible by his groundbreaking work, which heralds a paradigm change in cancer pathology.
He contributes to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker. Publications including Nature, Cell, and The New England Journal of Medicine have featured his unique research and perspectives. His scientific effort has garnered him a plethora of honours. Starting in 2013 as legal director and continuing on to 2022 as general counsel and chief legal officer, Gadde oversaw Twitter's legal department until its acquisition.
She worked for Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley tech business that makes networking gear and software, as its senior director of legal before she joined Twitter. For ten years, she was an associate at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
She is a member of the boards of both NYU Law School and Mercy Corps, an international nonprofit that works in partnership with governments, businesses, and communities to provide help and development.
Additionally, she helped form the investing community #Angels, which supports ambitious, diverse innovators with big ideas. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial and labour relations from Cornell University and a Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law.
