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Oprah Winfrey to Visit Stanford for “Meaning of Life” Lecture

Oprah Winfrey has been named as a visiting fellow at Stanford University, where she will spend  time meeting with students and give a lecture on the meaning of life.

Stanford spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said Wednesday that the university's Office of Religious life invited the television host, actress and producer to be this year's Rathbun fellow, an honor previously bestowed on former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the Dalai Lama and Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau.

The fellowship is named for a late Stanford law professor, Harry Rathbun, who during the 1930s, 40s and 50s closed out the academic year with a lecture called ``Harry's Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life.''

Winfrey is scheduled to give her own version of the lecture April 20. She was the commencement speaker at Stanford in 2008.

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