Over 3,300 Graduate from Tufts Sunday

Over 3,300 students, 1,536 undergraduates and 1,841 graduate students, were awarded by Tufts University on Sunday.

Commencement speaker and MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest addressed the Class of 2011, and he had a specific message for them about how they can use technology to help solve the world’s problems:

“I am convinced that your way of communicating and working: Facebook … Wikis …YouTube … social networking … massive multiplayer web games … crowd sourcing … and open innovation … actually do reflect a fundamental transformation.

You can guide this transformation.

You can use these tools to make money.

Or you can use these tools to proliferate images of politicians and movie stars doing stupid things.

But that’s too easy.

Instead, you should apply them to bring what James Surowiecki called ‘the wisdom of crowds’ by working together to solve important problems and to build a more inclusive, engaged, and more egalitarian society.”

To see Vest’s entire address see Tufts’ commencement coverage online.

Commencement speaker Charles Vest addresses Tufts graduates. Photo by Kelvin Ma/Tufts University.

Graduating seniors make their way to their seats. Photo by Alonso Nichols/Tufts University.

Tufts president Larry Bacow, leaving in June after ten years, walks up to the stage to deliver his last commencement address. Photo by Alonso Nichols/Tufts University.

A graduating senior hugs family members. Photo by Alonso Nichols/Tufts University.

President Bacow congratulates honorary degree recipient Charles Vest. Photo by Kelly Benvenuto/Tufts University.

– Information and photos from Tufts University