During the ceremony, Obama heard from Emma McAllister, a first-year Law with Politics student from north Belfast.<\/p>\n
McAllister first engaged with Queen’s through a cross-community programme that helped young people from the Ardoyne and Shankill areas to access leadership and educational opportunities.<\/p>\n
After listening to McAllister, Obama said: “That’s what peace makes possible. And it’s what Queen’s and the supporters in this room are helping to make real.”<\/p>\n
In his closing remarks, Obama set out a challenge for students.<\/p>\n
“And that is to keep showing the way,” he said.<\/p>\n
Queen’s President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Ian Greer congratulated Obama. <\/p>\n
“We are privileged to welcome President Obama to Queen’s. <\/p>\n
“His commitment to peace, dialogue and public service has left a lasting impact around the world, and particularly here in Northern Ireland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the ceremony, Obama heard from Emma McAllister, a first-year Law with Politics student from north Belfast. McAllister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-372442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}