Cornell will celebrate its 140th Commencement Weekend, May 23-25, with about 6,000 graduates receiving their degrees. Poet Maya Angelou will be the Convocation speaker, Saturday, May 24, at noon, and Cornell President David Skorton will give the Commencement address, Sunday, May 25, at 11 a.m. Both events will be at Schoellkopf Stadium.

Angelou, a poet, educator, best-selling author and civil-rights activist, continues to travel the world as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. The ceremony also will feature an address by Cornell Senior Class President Vincent Hartman and the presentation of a gift to the university from the senior class.

Other Commencement Weekend events include:

May 23:

May 24:

Sunday, May 25:

How to see and hear the ceremonies:

Both Saturday's Convocation and Sunday's Commencement will be broadcast live on Ithaca's Time Warner Cable Channel 16 and streamed live on the Cornell Web site at http://www.cornell.edu/.

Commencement also will be broadcast on Cornell television Channel 100 and its ceremony heard on WHCU radio (870 AM) starting at 11 a.m.

The Commencement procession and ceremony can be accessed afterward on CornellCast at http://www.cornell.edu/video.

For general information about the Cornell Commencement:

See http://www.commencement.cornell.edu/.