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Kate Harkness tries on her mortarboard in Teagle Hall May 25.

Cornell will celebrate its 143rd Graduation Weekend, May 28-29, with about 6,000 graduates receiving their degrees. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will give the Senior Convocation Address, Saturday, May 28, at noon, and Cornell President David J. Skorton will deliver the Commencement Address Sunday, May 29, at 11 a.m. Both events will be at Schoellkopf Stadium.

Giuliani served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, when his leadership won praise for calming the city in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since bowing out of the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, he has worked at a law firm at which he is partner and at a security consulting business he founded. He also appears as a television political commentator.

The convocation ceremony also will feature an address by Senior Class President Michael Katz. In the event of severe or inclement weather, the event will be moved into Barton Hall, and admission is by ticket only.

Convocation and Commencement will be broadcast live on Ithaca's Time Warner Cable Channel 16, and the events will be streamed live on the Cornell website http://www.cornell.edu. The Commencement ceremony can be heard on WHCU radio (870 AM) starting at 11 a.m. The Commencement procession and ceremony can be viewed afterward on CornellCast at http://www.cornell.edu/video.

For severe weather plans and parking information, visit the Commencement website at http://www.commencement.cornell.edu/May/.

Other Graduation Weekend events include:

Saturday, May 28:

• Commissioning ceremonies for the Air Force, Army, Navy/Marine Corps. Reception, 7:45 to 8:50 a.m. at Beck Center, Statler Hall; Commissioning at 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall.
• Johnson School Executive MBA Recognition Ceremony, 9:30 a.m. at Bailey Hall.
• Family Gathering and Ice Cream Social: Skorton and the Cornell Board of Trustees will host an ice cream social for students, their families and guests from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the university's Arts Quad.
• DVM Hooding Ceremony: New doctors of veterinary medicine will take the Veterinarian's Oath and receive their hoods at a 2 p.m. ceremony in Bailey Hall.
• Johnson School Residential MBA Ceremony: New graduates will be honored at Newman Arena in Bartels Hall, 2:30 to 4 p.m.
• Cornell University Wind Ensemble Concert: The university's premiere instrumental student ensemble performs international and American music, as well as Cornell songs, during its Commencement concert on the Arts Quad, 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
• Ph.D. Recognition Ceremony: For Ph.D. candidates, 5 p.m. in Barton Hall. A reception will follow. Families, friends and faculty members are invited.
• Senior Week Concert: The Cornell University Glee Club and the Cornell University Women's Chorus will present their annual concert at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Admission is $10, with tickets available at http://www.baileytickets.com; at Ticket Center Ithaca, located in Center Ithaca downtown, (607) 273-4497, and at the door.

Sunday, May 29:

• Procession: The academic procession assembles on the Arts Quad at 9 a.m. and will arrive at Schoellkopf Stadium at 10 a.m.
• Commencement ceremony: 11 a.m. to noon.
• College and school ceremonies and receptions: These will be held at various locations across campus, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. A listing will be in the Commencement program handed out at the ceremony and also is at http://www.commencement.cornell.edu/May/colrecep.html.