Wendy Baldwin, deputy director of extramural research at the National Institutes of Health, will be delivering an address to advanced degree candidates at advanced degree ceremonies May 4.

In addition to speaking, Baldwin will be receiving an honorary doctorate of science at the ceremonies, which will take place at 7 p.m. in the Breslin Student Events Center.

Baldwin has been deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health since 1994, and also serves as chairperson of the organization’s Bioengineering Consortium.

American artist Chuck Close and Yasuyuki Yamada, president of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan will also receive honorary advanced degrees at the undergraduate convocation earlier that afternoon.

Close holds degrees from the University of Washington and Yale and has works on display in the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Staatlich Kunsthalle in Baden, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Yasuyuki Yamada was an MSU Fulbright Research Fellow from 1962 until 1965. He has served in the Japanese Ministry of Education, and helped to establish the Nara Institute of Science and Technology.