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University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst and Connecticut's State Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz will be among 14 speakers to address UConn graduates on Sunday, May 6. Herbst, will speak at 12:30 p.m., and Katz at 5 p.m. in UConn's Harry A. Gampel Pavilion.

Carolyn Lynch, CEO of the Lynch Foundation established by she and her husband Peter in 1987, and Amy Lind Corbett, the New England Regional Administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration, will deliver Regis College's commencement addresses on Saturday, May 12, at 10 a.m., in the Tower Gardens.

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Eileen M. Collins, the first female commander of a NASA space shuttle mission, will speak at Bunker Hill Community College’s 38th commencement exercises on Saturday, June 2, when the college expects to graduate its largest class to date.

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More than 6,500 leaders in academic pediatrics from around the world will converge on Boston for the 2012 annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies to be held Saturday, April 28 through Tuesday, May 1, at the Hynes Convention Center.

Speakers will address topics such as: how a child’s genes, early environment, nutrition and other factors affect future disease risk; signs of mental illnesses in young children; the quality of the food supply; stopping obesity; and weighing recommendations on vitamin D.

Astronaut Gregory E. Chamitoff will keynote the meeting with a talk about his time on the space station and NASA’s goal of inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers.

More than 3,000 scientific papers will be presented on topics from prematurity and infancy through adolescence and diseases that carry into adulthood.