Yunus draws record numbers at MIT commencement

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BOSTON, June 8 (bdnews24.com): Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus urged MIT graduates to end global poverty and save the environment, in an address that drew record crowds to the world-renowned institute's 142nd commencement.

'I hope you'll ... make an effort to be remembered not simply as a creative generation but as a socially conscious generation,' he said in his commencement address.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston saw one of its largest crowds Saturday, as more than 10,000 students, teachers and guardians gathered at the graduation ceremony to hear the Bangladeshi Nobel laureate who won the Peace Prize in 2006.