Michigan Tech to Award 900 Degrees at Spring Commencement
AOL Exec to Receive Honorary PhD
HOUGHTON--At Spring Commencement
on May 11, Michigan Tech will honor the achievements of more than 900
students completing their degrees.
A total of 788 students will
receive bachelor's degrees, with 26 earning associate in applied science
degrees. Twenty-four doctorates will be awarded, along with 85 master
of science degrees and five master of engineering degrees.
Receiving an honorary Doctorate
in Business will be Copper Country native William Raduchel, of Palo Alto,
Calif., who is now a member of the executive team at AOL Time Warner.
Raduchel attended Michigan
Tech before earning a bachelor's degree in economics from Michigan State
and both a master's and a doctoral degree in economics from Harvard University.
He has served as senior vice
president of market development and chief scientist for McGraw Hill, Inc.
and vice president for document systems at Xerox. In 1988, he joined Sun
Microsystems, where, over the course of 11 years, he was chief information
officer, chief financial officer, acting vice president of human resources,
and vice president of corporate planning and development.
In 1999, Raduchel joined AOL
Time Warner, where he is a senior member of the team that determines the
technology strategy of the combined company.
He is a director of Myriad
International Holdings and a member of the National Advisory Board for
the Salvation Army; the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science,
Technology and Economic Policy; and the National Academy Committee on
Internet Navigation and Domain Name Services. In 2001, Raduchel was named
chief technology officer of the year by Info World Media Group.
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