Oliver Stone, Charles Osgood Selected to be UConn Commencement Speakers

Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and radio and television journalist Charles Osgood are among the commencement speakers who have been selected for the University of Connecticut’s 2016 commencement weekend in May.

Stone, whose credits include Platoon, JFK, Nixon, W and Natural Born Killers, will receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts and speak at the graduate school commencement on May 7.

Osgood, the CBS correspondent whose folksy reporting on the everyday man has earned him two Emmy Awards, will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters and speak at the graduation of the schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine on May 9.

Other recipients of honorary doctorates approved by the UConn Board of Trustees last week include:

• France A. Córdova, the director of the National Science Foundation, the School of Engineering;
• Christopher F. Droney, who serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the School of Law;
• John Kim, a business executive who is president and chief investment officer of New York Life; the School of Business.
• Peter Constantine, fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, is an award-winning literary translator and editor; College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Photo credit: Oliver Stone with actor Michael Douglas. Credit: oliverstone.com