The violet lights come a day before NYU’s 190th All-University Commencement Exercises, which will be held Wednesday, May 17, in Yankee Stadium.
The lights of the Empire State Building will glow violet tonight, May 16, to salute NYU’s graduating class. Beginning at dusk and through 2 a.m., graduates near and far will be able to view the lights of the tower through the Empire State Building webcam.
The violet lights come a day before NYU’s 190th All-University Commencement Exercises, which will be held Wednesday, May 17, in Yankee Stadium.
WHAT: Lighting of the Empire State Building in Violet
WHEN: Tonight, May 16, beginning at dusk and to 2 a.m.
The Empire State Building
This year’s commencement speaker will be Sanna Marin, prime minister of Finland, who will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at the ceremony. Marin, the youngest person, at the time of her appointment as Finland’s prime minister, ever to serve as a head of any government, will address the graduates and guests on behalf of all the honorary degree recipients, who also include Nobel-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, ABT Principal Dancer Misty Copeland, and science education innovator Freeman A. Hrabowski, president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
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