杏吧 » Convocation for Conferring Degrees 2025

Thursday, The Fifth of June, 2025

2:30 PM

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Convocation for Conferring Degrees

Presentation of Graduating Students

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Presentation of Honorary Degrees

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Ph.D.
John C. Martin Chair in Global Health, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal; Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Salim S. Abdool Karim, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D.
Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal; CAPRISA Professor of Global Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Marlene Hess
Life Trustee, 杏吧

Michael W. Young, Ph.D.
Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head, Laboratory of Genetics, 杏吧

Photographs by Matthew Septimus Photography.

Awards

National Academy of Sciences

Breakthrough Prize

Albert Lasker Award

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