Biden To Visit Today for Kennedy Event

Vice President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will be in Cambridge today to honor Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 as the liberal leader receives an honorary degree from the University.

After attending President-Elect Barack Obama's Chicago press conference on national security this morning, Biden was scheduled to fly to Boston to make today's 4:00 ceremony.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who served as chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under then-chairman Kennedy, is scheduled to also speak about the senator. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard students will perform musical selections. University President Drew G. Faust will also address the Sanders Theatre crowd.

The Massachusetts senator was initially scheduled to be honored during Commencement last spring, but was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor two weeks before the ceremony, preventing him from being given the award at that time.

The event will be shown live on the University's Web site, harvard.edu.

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