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Date: May 16, 2011
Contact: Jennifer Forbes
Communication & Public Affairs
Phone: 732-235-6356
Email: jenn.forbes@umdnj.edu
Plans are Underway for 2011 Convocation Ceremony
This year's Convocation ceremony will be held at the State Theater in New Brunswick on Monday, May 23 at 7:00 PM.
Please see the invitation for additional details: 2011 Convocation
Featuring Keynote Speaker:
Peter M. Howley, M.D. '70
Peter Howley is the Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He graduated from Princeton University in 1968, received an M.M.S. from Rutgers Medical School (now UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) in 1970 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1972.
After a year of internship training at Massachusetts General Hospital, he moved to the NIH for postdoctoral training in molecular virology and where he completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology. He became a Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1977 and in 1984 was made Chief of the Laboratory of Tumor Virus Biology of the NCI, where he remained until 1993, when he moved to HMS to become chair of the Department of Pathology.
His research interests include the molecular biology of HPV in human cancer and the role of ubiquitin protein ligases in different human diseases including cancer.
Among the awards that Dr. Howley has received are the Wallace P. Rowe Award from NIAID, the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis and Rous-Whipple Awards from the American Society of Investigative Pathology, and the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Award (shared with Harald zur Hausen) from Germany. He received a MERIT award from the NCI in 2000.
In 1993, Dr. Howley was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1994 and to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1996. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
He is a co-editor of two textbooks (Fields Virology and The Molecular Basis of Cancer) and serves as a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.
Directions & Parking information can be found on the State Theatre web site: http://www.statetheatrenj.org/aboutus/directions.asp
UMDNJ University Commencement exercises are scheduled for Wednesday, May 25th at 10:00 AM at the IZOD CENTER in the Meadowlands Complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Information about Commencement can be found on UMDNJ's web site at: http://www.umdnj.edu/acadweb/commencement.html
