Mar 26, 2012 - Claremont, Calif. - Commencement will be live streamed here. Please note Bill Nye's address will not be shown. Bill Nye will deliver the keynote address for Harvey Mudd College’s 54th Commencement ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 13 at the Harvey S. Mudd Quadrangle. Best known as “Bill Nye the Science Guy” from the award-winning
television program of the same name, Nye is a scientist, engineer,
comedian, author and inventor. He has made it his life mission to make
science both entertaining and accessible for all. While working on the Science Guy show, Nye won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing and producing. He has also written five children’s books, including his latest title, “Bill Nye’s Great Big Book of Tiny Germs.” He remains a licensed mechanical engineer in the state of Washington and has two patents on educational products: a magnifier made of water and an abacus that does arithmetic like a computer. An occasional athlete, Nye has a patent pending on a device to help people learn to throw a baseball better and his next patent is an improved toe shoe for ballerinas.
Nye is currently host of three television series: “The 100 Greatest Discoveries,” which airs on the Science Channel, “The Eyes of Nye,” featured on PBS stations nationwide, and “Stuff Happens,” a show about making responsible environmental choices that airs on Planet Green.
For his newest project, “Solving for X,” Nye will show viewers how to do algebra while sharing the passion, beauty and joy—which he terms the P, B and J—of math.
Nye serves as vice president of The Planetary Society, the world’s largest space-interest group. He recently spoke on behalf of the Society at the International Astronautical Federation Congress in Glasgow, Scotland. He has also spoken in Hyderabad, India and Beijing, China.
Nye earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University. He also holds three honorary doctorate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Goucher College and Johns Hopkins.
After graduation, Nye worked as an engineer at Boeing in Seattle, Wash. In Seattle, he began to combine his love of science with his flair for comedy when he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night.
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