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Commencement

Commencement 2025

Dalhart Dobbs named student speaker

Published April 30, 2025

Dobbs, a leading member of the Blue Key Society and former Student Government Association Senate president, will address his fellow graduates on May 22

Commencement 2024

Kristen Corlay Sanmiguel selected as student speaker

Published April 29, 2024

Civil engineering major elected by senior class to speak at this year's universitywide Commencement ceremony on May 23

Alumna Toni Draper named School of Education graduation speaker

Published March 23, 2023

Draper, a publisher, pastor, business and community leader, returns to her alma mater to bring inspiration to the graduating class of the School of Education

Members of the class of 2021 on Homewood Field

Commencement

New date, location for 2022 Commencement ceremony

Published Oct 18, 2021

Renovations at Royal Farms Arena prompted a date switch and the move to a sunset ceremony at Homewood Field

President George H.W. Bush speaks at Johns Hopkins commencement

From the archives

'Be bold,' President Bush told Hopkins graduates

Published Dec 5, 2018

On May 22, 1996, former President George H.W. Bush—then just two and a half years out of office—spoke at JHU's undergraduate diploma ceremony

Women's History Month

'Instruments of change'

Published March 30, 2018

How Hopkins' first female undergraduates found their way

Graduate climate control

Published Fall 2015

Johns Hopkins University leaders are moving the annual commencement celebration from Homewood Field to a climate-controlled venue / Johns Hopkins Magazine