WHAT: The University of Pennsylvania Baccalaureate Ceremony will be a 50-minute interfaith program of music, readings, prayers and an address by K. Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University.

Two consecutive ceremonies will be held in order to accommodate all those who wish to attend.  Tickets and academic regalia are not required.   

WHO: Appiah received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Cambridge University in England and taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard universities before joining the Princeton faculty in 2002.  

WHERE: Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce streets, Philadelphia

WHEN: 1:30 and 3 p.m., Sunday, May 13

Students whose last names begin with A through K are invited to attend the 1:30 p.m. ceremony.  Students whose last names begin with L through Z are invited to attend the 3 p.m. ceremony.