Convocation today
While Shopping Day can be said to kick off the semester, Fletcher Convocation is the formal start to the academic year. It’s a bookend event to Commencement, with professors in their academic finery. The Convocation Address will be delivered this afternoon by Ambassador Liu Xiaoming, F83, who has served from Zambia to North Korea to the UK and is considered one of China’s foremost experts on the U.S. But before Ambassador Liu received the special award that preceded his address, there were also presentations from second-year student Pauline Yang and from Prof. Jenny Aker,