The University of Massachusetts Boston today accustomed Edwin Moses with the amount of doctor of science, honoris causa at its 41st admission ceremonies.
Boston (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 30, 2009 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston today accustomed Edwin Moses with the amount of doctor of science, honoris causa at its 41st admission ceremonies. Moses is accustomed for his outstanding contributions as an Olympian, best of drug-free athletics, motivational speaker, and administrator of the Laureus World Sports Academy, an alignment that promotes antic activities for adolescence common for the purpose of amusing change.
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses raises his honorary doctor of science amount presented to him by University of Massachusetts Chancellor J. Keith Motley (left) and UMass President Jack Wilson during admission ceremonies
Edwin Moses is added than an Olympic amateur -- he is a abstracted who leverages his abilities, education, and compassionate to affect others UMass Boston is a university with a continued history of developing individuals and a association through athletics. We admire the plan and spirit of Edwin Moses. to advance and access accord in action at every level, and aswell to advance the use of action as a apparatus for amusing change about the world. "Edwin Moses is added than an Olympic athlete -- he is a abstracted who leverages his abilities, education, and compassionate to affect others," said Chancellor Keith Motley. "UMass Boston is a university with a continued history of developing individuals and a association through athletics. We admire the plan and spirit of Edwin Moses."
Moses won gold medals in the 400 beat hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics, and a brownish in 1988. Winning 122 after contest amid 1977 and 1987, he set track and field annal that stood incomparable for abounding years. In 1994 he was inducted into the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame. Today he is appropriately accepted for his arduous action adjoin the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.
Moses developed and advocated for the Athletes' Trust Fund, which allows abecedarian athletes to abjure funds for training and added costs after jeopardizing their Olympic eligibility. His altruistic captivation includes the Hughes Spaulding Children's Medical Center, the College Fund, the Special Olympics, UNICEF, 100 Black Men of America, and the Inner-City Games.
Since 2000 Mr. Moses has been administrator of the Laureus World Sports Academy, whose mission is "to advance and access accord in action at every level, and aswell to advance the use of action as a apparatus for amusing change about the world."
A banking adviser with the Salomon Smith Barney Group, Moses is aswell a able motivational speaker. He shares the belief of his bookish and able-bodied triumphs as allegories to accomplishing excellence. His activity and action action perspective-changing acumen into how to accomplish success. His bulletin to anyone with a dream is this: There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome.
Others accustomed at UMass Boston's 41st Commencement cover capital apostle Senator John Kerry, and honorary amount recipients Joe Kennedy, architect of Citizen's Energy Corporation, and Sister Margaret Leonard, architect of Project Hope.
About UMass Boston
With a growing acceptability for avant-garde analysis acclamation circuitous burghal issues, the University of Massachusetts Boston, city Boston's alone accessible university, offers its assorted apprentice citizenry both an affectionate acquirements ambiance and the affluent acquaintance of a abundant American city. UMass Boston's seven colleges and alum schools serve added than 14,000 acceptance while agreeable local, national, and all-embracing capacity through bookish programs, analysis centers, and accessible account activities. To apprentice added about UMass Boston, appointment www.umb.edu.
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