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More than 3,500 University of California, San Diego students will receive their degrees during commencement ceremonies scheduled June 6, June 12 and June 13 on the La Jolla campus. For the third year in a row, an all-campus commencement will precede individual graduation rites held by the various UCSD colleges.

Irwin Jacobs, founder and CEO of Qualcomm Inc., will deliver the graduation address at 10 a.m. June 12 on the RIMAC Field. President Clinton spoke to the class of ’97 in the first all-campus graduation, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke last year.

Jacobs became one of the first members of the UCSD engineering faculty when he was recruited from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966 as professor of information and computer science. In 1968 he left to found Linkabit, which became M/A-Com Linkabit, and then in 1985 he co-founded Qualcomm Inc., a global supplier of digital wireless communication products and technologies. The Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD is named in recognition of the couple’s $15 million endowment support of the school.

The public, UCSD staff and non-graduating students may obtain free tickets for the all-campus commencement at the Price Center box office beginning May 18 and continuing until June 4, on a first come basis.

The individual college graduations will begin at 11 a.m. June 6 when 109 students at the UCSD School of Medicine receive their M.D. degrees during rites on the lawn west of the Biomedical Library. Guest speaker will be June E. Osborn, M.D., president of the Josiah Macy Jr., Foundation of New York and former dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She has served in an advisory capacity on a number of federal boards concerned with virology, infectious diseases and vaccines, health care, public health and public policy.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will be commencement speaker during ceremonies at 1 p.m. June 12 in Robinson Plaza when 85 graduates will receive diplomas from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Richardson formerly served as U.S. representative to the United Nations and was elected eight times to represent New Mexico in Congress.

Student speakers will be featured when Muir College holds its graduation at 1:30 p.m. June 12 on the RIMAC Field. Nearly 700 Muir students will receive their diplomas before an estimated 7,000 family members and friends.

Eleanor Roosevelt College will hold its ceremony for 425 graduates at 1:30 p.m. June 12 in the RIMAC Area. Mark D. Gearan, Peace Corps director and former White House deputy chief of staff, will give the commencement address.

University of California Regent Peter Preuss will be the commencement speaker at 2 p.m. ceremonies June 12 for 600 graduates of Thurgood Marshall College. A student speaker also will address the graduates and their guests during the ceremony on the Thurgood Marshall Field.

The largest group of individual college graduates, 800 at Earl Warren College, will receive their diplomas at 9 a.m. June 13 on the Thurgood Marshall Field. Student speakers will address the expected 7,000 guests.

The Graduate Division will award diplomas to 150 scholars at noon June 13 in the Price Center Ballroom.

The final commencement ceremony will be held for 650 graduates of Revelle College at 2 p.m. June 13 on the Thurgood Marshall Field. Philip S. Kitcher, UCSD professor of philosophy, will give the guest address.