{"id":433169,"date":"2011-05-31T07:26:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/31\/harvard-university-confers-honorary-doctorate-degree-on-the-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T07:26:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:26:50","slug":"harvard-university-confers-honorary-doctorate-degree-on-the-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/harvard-university-confers-honorary-doctorate-degree-on-the-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University Confers Honorary Doctorate Degree on  the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"27.687664042\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emansion.gov.lr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liberia Government<\/a> (Monrovia)<\/p>\n<p>28 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Harvard University on Thursday, May 26, conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. During a ceremony marking its 360th Commencement, Harvard lavished praises and esteems on the Liberian President as her Alma Mater welcomed her back, describing the President as a woman with uncommon valor.<\/p>\n<p>The President, an Executive Mansion dispatch from Cambridge reports, was also described as a woman with an indomitable spirit whose story is inspirational.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,200 degrees and certificates were awarded to Harvard College seniors and graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>Honorary degrees were awarded to luminaries in various fields. Also receiving honorary Doctor of Laws degrees were: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; James R. Houghton, Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; and historian John Pocock. Honorands receiving Doctor of Science degrees were: Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium; American Chemist and Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach; and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher. Legendary Spanish tenor, Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, received an honorary Doctor of Music degree; and historian, art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss, a Doctor of Arts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105310070.html\" title=\"Harvard University Confers Honorary Doctorate Degree on  the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvard University Confers Honorary Doctorate Degree on  the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Liberia Government (Monrovia) 28 May 2011 Harvard University on Thursday, May 26, conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. During a ceremony marking its 360th Commencement, Harvard lavished praises and esteems on the Liberian President as her Alma Mater welcomed her back, describing the President as a woman with uncommon valor. The President, an Executive Mansion dispatch from Cambridge reports, was also described as a woman with an indomitable spirit whose story is inspirational<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":433170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-433169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvard University Confers Honorary Doctorate Degree on the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/harvard-university-confers-honorary-doctorate-degree-on-the-president-ellen-johnson-sirleaf\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Harvard University Confers Honorary Doctorate Degree on the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Liberia Government (Monrovia) 28 May 2011 Harvard University on Thursday, May 26, conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. 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