WHAT: More than 3,500 students will participate in five commencement ceremonies this week at Wayne State University. Receiving honorary doctoral degrees will be civil rights activist and author Grace Lee Boggs, executive director of the Michigan Opera Theatre David DiChiera, and A. Paul Schaap, founder and president of Lumigen, Inc., the world's largest supplier of chemiluminescent reagents to the clinical immunodiagnostics market.

Schaap and DiChiera will receive their degrees at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on May 6, respectively. Boggs will receive her honorary degree at 2 p.m. on May 7.

WHEN: Thursday, May 6, and Friday, May 7, 2010. (See below for a full schedule of which schools/colleges will be represented at each of the events.)

WHERE: Wayne State's Matthaei Athletics Complex located at 5101 John C. Lodge, Detroit, MI 48202.

Thursday, May 6

Ceremony I:
10 a.m. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ceremony II:
2 p.m. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ceremony III:
6 p.m. College of Education
College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts

Friday, May 7
Ceremony IV:
10 a.m. School of Business Administration
College of Engineering

Ceremony V:
2 p.m. School of Library and Information Science
College of Nursing
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
School of Medicine (Ph.D./Master's Degrees)
School of Social Work

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Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 32,000 students.