Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The CEO of a foundation devoted to medical issues will be the speaker at the University of Illinois' spring commencement.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey has been CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since 2003.
The ceremony will be at 9:30 a.m. May 16 at Memorial Stadium on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Many individual departments will have their own ceremonies later.
The university also plans to honor several alumni. They include Nick Holonyak Jr., a graduate who became an electrical engineering professor at the university and developed the first light-emitting diode, or LED.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
