Astronaut Stephen Robinson, federal civil-rights attorney Bill Lann Lee and State Treasurer Philip Angelides will be among the distinguished speakers at commencement ceremonies Saturday through June 18.

The campus will award an estimated 6,180 degrees, including 4,834 undergraduate and 1,346 graduate and professional degrees, in 11 ceremonies. A second ceremony for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences was added this year.

School of Law

Lee, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights for the U.S. Department of Justice, will speak at the School of Law ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Recreation Hall. The school will award 10 Master of Laws degrees and 179 Juris Doctor degrees.

School of Medicine

Ernest Lewis, professor of clinical urology and associate dean for the Office of Medical Education at the School of Medicine, will speak at the school's commencement at 6 p.m. Friday, June 9, on the Health Sciences Quadrangle. Degree candidate Christopher Searles also will speak at the ceremony in which 90 Doctor of Medicine degrees will be awarded.

Graduate Studies

The Graduate Studies commencement on Thursday, June 15, will be the first of three ceremonies at which astronaut Robinson will speak. He is a veteran of two space shuttle missions and a 1978 engineering graduate of UC Davis. Graduate Studies will confer about 349 doctor's and 433 master's degrees at the 6:30 p.m. ceremony in Recreation Hall.

School of Veterinary Medicine

The School of Veterinary Medicine will hold its graduation ceremony at noon Friday, June 16, in Recreation Hall. It will award 111 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees, 14 Master of Preventative Veterinary Medicine degrees, nine Bachelor of Science degrees and 26 certificates of residency. Speaking at the event will be Stanley Marks, professor of small animal internal medicine at the school, and Jennifer Fitchhorn and Patricia Pesavento, candidates for D.V.M. degrees.

College of Engineering

The College of Engineering will confer about 467 B.S. degrees in a 6:30 p.m. ceremony Friday, June 16, in Recreation Hall. Degree candidate Kristina Chislett will address the graduating class.

Graduate School of Management

Maurice Gallagher, a 1971 graduate of UC Davis and chair of the board of Mpower Communications, Intelispan Inc. and Bank-Serv, will speak at the commencement of the Graduate School of Management at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 17, in Freeborn Hall. The school will award Master of Business Administration degrees to 69 candidates from its full-time program and 91 from its Working Professionals program. Candidate Jennifer Pockell-Wilson from the full-time program and Paula Allison, who earned her degree in December through the Working Professional program, also will speak.

College of Letters and Science

The College of Letters and Science will award about 2,566 undergraduate degrees in two programs at 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 17, in Recreation Hall.

Darleen Yaplee, vice president of worldwide field marketing for Sun Microsystems and a 1982 graduate of UC Davis, will speak at the morning ceremony. The student speaker will be Jonathan Bowman, a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication. State Treasurer Angelides and Rita Bosworth, a candidate for a B.A. in communication, will speak at the afternoon ceremony.

College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

The College of Agricultural and Environ-mental Sciences will award an estimated 1,792 B.S. degrees in two ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 18, in Recreation Hall. Astronaut Robinson and H. Frank Kobayashi, a candidate for a B.S. in human development, will speak at both ceremonies.

Division of Biological Sciences

The Division of Biological Sciences will recognize recipients of some 830 B.S. and 26 B.A. degrees at its 9 a.m. ceremony Sunday, June 18, in Recreation Hall. These numbers are included among those awarded by the College of Letters and Science and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. William Zagotta, an associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Vanessa Cobb, a candidate for a B.S. in biological sciences, will speak at the ceremony.

The Planning and Budget Office estimates the number of degrees to be awarded by undergraduate colleges; Graduate Studies and the four professional schools estimate the number of degrees they will award. An audit of the actual number of degrees awarded is prepared later.

In 1998-99, the university awarded 5,619 degrees including 4,348 bachelor's, 607 master's, 310 doctor's and 354 professional degrees.