Carolyn Lynch, CEO of the Lynch Foundation ...]]> 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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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter will speak at the Regis College Fine Arts Center in Weston, Mass., on Monday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m.

Carter will be promoting her new book, Within Our Reach, which addresses a mental health system that, Carter says, "continues to fail those in need" despite recent scientific breakthroughs in diagnosing and ...]]>

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter will speak at the Regis College Fine Arts Center in Weston, Mass., on Monday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m.

Carter will be promoting her new book, Within Our Reach, which addresses a mental health system that, Carter says, "continues to fail those in need" despite recent scientific breakthroughs in diagnosing and treating mental illnesses.

Carter will sign copies of the book after her remarks.  The event is free and open to the public.