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Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 9:00 a.m.
Commencement Speaker: Jonathan Lee Walton, President of Princeton Theological Seminary
Doors to the University Chapel open for guests at 8:00 a.m. Graduates, report at 8:15 a.m. robed and ready for instructions. Additional information for graduates and their families about all of the activities around commencement is available on Inside PTS (login required).
Parking: Parking in downtown Princeton is always at a premium. Our suggestion is to park on our campus in the Wright Library parking lot (25 Library Place, Princeton, NJ 08540) and walk to the University Chapel (about 0.7 mile). If you do wish to park at the University, Lots 10 and 13 on William’s Street are available. Princeton University Map
*Please contact Marybeth Chapman at the Office of Student Life (marybeth.chapman@ptsem.edu, 609.497.7880) for information regarding parking and transportation for persons with disabilities and mobility issues.
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Commencement Address Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night declares knowledge: The Joys of Theology
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Her nonfiction works include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. In 2012, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama for “her grace and intelligence in writing,” and in 2025 she received the inaugural Lewis H. Lapham Award for Literary Excellence from Harper’s Magazine.
