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Graduation Ceremonies July 2009 - Picture and Video Galleries, Orations and Responses

Press releases, orations, responses, picture and video galleries from the University of Leicester Graduation Ceremonies of July 2009

Press Releases

General Press Release

100,000th graduate at University of Leicester –to meet Leicester’s very first graduate

Success for older graduates

Redeemed after six years - the academic hopes of a Leicester student

Academic success against the odds

Head of local cancer charity to be honoured by University

Web Links to Media Coverage (June)

Web Links to Media Coverage (July)

General Information

Information for those attending any of the Graduation Ceremonies of July 2009

Timetable of Ceremonies

Degree congregations brochure

Honorand Biographies

Biographies for all of the Honorands receiving Honorary Degrees in the Graduation Ceremonies of 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th July 2009 at De Montfort Hall in Leicester

Distinguished Honorary Fellows

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys - 7th July, 3pm

Mr Michael Chamberlain - 10th July, 3pm

Mr John Foster - 10th July, 3pm

Honorands

Mrs Wendi Stevens - Doctor of Laws, 7th July, 3pm

Mr Guy Canivet – Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 11am

Mr Adrian Weston – Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 11am

Mr Richard Everard – Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 3pm

Sir Jim Rose – Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 3pm

Mr Michael Attenborough – Doctor of Letters, 9th July, 11am

Mr David Weston – Doctor of Letters, 9th July, 11am

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Doctor of Science, 9th July, 3pm

Professor Paul Workman – Doctor of Science, 9th July, 3pm

Mr Bill (GW) Bolsover – Doctor of Laws, 10th July, 11am

Orations

Read orations for the nationally and internationally acclaimed people honoured at degree ceremonies of July 2009.

Distinguished Honorary Fellows

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys - 7th July, 3pm

Mr Michael Chamberlain and Mr John Foster - 10th July, 3pm

Honorands

Mrs Wendi Stevens - Doctor of Laws - 7th July, 3pm

Mr Adrian Weston - Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 11am

Mr Guy Canivet - Doctor of Laws - 8th July, 11am

Mr Richard Everard – Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 3pm

Sir Jim Rose, CBE, FRSA - Doctor of Laws, 8th July, 3pm

Mr Michael Attenborough - Doctor of Letters, 9th July, 11am

Mr David Weston - Doctor of Letters, 9th July, 11am

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Doctor of Science, 9th July, 3pm

Professor Paul Workman, FMedSci, FIBiol - Doctor of Science, 9th July, 3pm

Mr Bill (GW) Bolsover – Doctor of Laws, 10th July, 11am

Picture Galleries

Images of the Distinguished Honorary Fellows

Images of the Honorands

Images taken during the ceremonies

Images taken during the Medical School graduation ceremonies (by Paul Smith)

Degree Day celebrations in the Department of Chemistry

Responses

Read responses from the Honorands awarded Honorary Degrees by the University of Leicester in the Graduation Ceremonies of 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th July 2009 at Demontfort Hall in Leicester.

Distinguished Honorary Fellows

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys

Honorands

Mr Richard Everard

Mr Michael Attenborough

Professor Paul Workman

Video Galleries

Links to galleries containing streaming video files of the ceremonies.

Ceremony of 7th July, 3pm

Ceremony of 8th July, 11am

Ceremony of 8th July, 3pm

Ceremony of 9th July, 11am

Ceremony of 9th July, 3pm

Ceremony of 10th July, 11am

Ceremony of 10th July, 3pm