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Finals Speaker Katherine A. Couric Katherine A. “Katie” Couric is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, tireless advocate for cancer research and awareness, and New York Times best-selling author. She is well-known for her unprecedented 15-year tenure as co-anchor of NBC News’ Today from 1991 until 2006 and for becoming the first solo female anchor of a national nightly news broadcast, as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric from 2006 to 2011. At CBS News, Ms. Couric also contributed to 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, and primetime specials. She now serves as a special correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week, and primetime specials. Her new daily syndicated daytime talk show, Katie, will premiere on September 10th. Ms. Couric grew up in Arlington and was graduated from the University of Virginia with honors in 1979. While at the University, she was associate editor of the Cavalier Daily and a Lawn resident. She earned a B.A. degree in English Language and Literature and began her broadcast journalism career as a desk assistant at ABC News in Washington, D.C., soon after her graduation. Over the next 10 years, she worked as an assignment editor, associate producer, producer, and political correspondent for CNN, and a reporter for television stations in Miami and Washington, D.C., before joining NBC News in 1989 as deputy Pentagon reporter. In June 1990, she was named NBC’s first national correspondent. Over the past two decades, Ms. Couric has covered the most important news stories around the world. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her interviewing and reporting skills, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric twice, the Walter Cronkite Award for Special Achievement for “National Impact on the 2008 Campaign”, the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media, the George Foster Peabody Award, and Alfred I. duPont Awards for her work individually and for a series she conceived for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. She also has received six Emmy awards. After losing her husband to cancer in 1998, Ms. Couric became an advocate for cancer research and awareness. She is a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, an organization that has raised nearly $200 million to accelerate research that can get new therapies to patients quickly. She launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance with the Entertainment Industry Foundation and cancer activist Lilly Tartikoff to fund cutting-edge research and generate awareness about the life-saving value of screening for colorectal cancer. Ms. Couric also has supported the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center here at the University, named for her late sister, who was a journalist and writer before becoming a Virginia state senator. Ms. Couric lives in New York City and has two daughters. 2
Academic Procession Gweneth L. West, Grand Marshal Degree Candidates Faculty President’s Party The Pledge of Allegiance Finals Program Sunday, May 20, 2012 The National Anthem, performed by the 392nd Army Band from Fort Lee Welcome Teresa A. Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia Introduction of Finals Speaker Finals Address Helen E. Dragas, Rector of the University of Virginia Katherine A. Couric Greetings from the Alumni Association Victoria Dux Harker, Chair of the University of Virginia Alumni Association Board of Managers Conferring of Degrees, Ms. Sullivan School of Medicine, Vice President and Dean Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., FAAN, FACP School of Law, Dean Paul G. Mahoney School of Engineering & Applied Science, Dean James H. Aylor Curry School of Education, Dean Robert C. Pianta Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean Robert F. Bruner School of Architecture, Dean Kim Tanzer School of Nursing, Associate Dean Janie Heath McIntire School of Commerce, Dean Carl P. Zeithaml School of Continuing & Professional Studies, Dean Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Dean Harry Harding College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Dean Meredith Jung-En Woo Final Words to the Class, Ms. Sullivan Academic Recession, The Good Old Song We request that the audience remain in place until the academic recession has passed. The presentation of diplomas will follow at the locations noted in this program. Degree candidates who do not receive their diplomas at school or departmental ceremonies may receive them at the Office of the University Registrar in Carruthers Hall after 2 p.m., Monday, May 21. 3
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