Khaled Hosseini will speak the day before commencement in May, 2010.
The author of bestsellers, and now classroom staples, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" will receive the Nichols-Chancellor's Medal.
“Certainly, learning does not stop with Commencement and Khaled Hosseini’s personal story and humanitarian work provide an excellent lesson for our students to take with them as they embark on a new journey as college graduates,” Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said, in a press release this afternoon. “Khaled Hosseini is a worthy recipient of the Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal.”
Previous Senior Day speakers have been Condoleezza Rice, Shirin Ebadi, Laura Bush, Muhammad Yunus, Bob Geldof and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The Senior Day address by Hosseini will be held at 10 a.m. in Memorial Gymnasium.
