(audience chattering) (gentle jazz music) (gentle jazz music continues) - [Musician] One, two.

(humming) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) (gentle orchestral music continues) - [Announcer] Introducing the Interim President of Michigan State University, Teresa K. Woodruff.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Good afternoon everyone, please be seated.

On behalf of Michigan State University and all of us here with me, welcome to the Fall 2023 Advanced Degree Commencement Ceremony.

And welcome to Breslin Center, home to so many Spartan athletic triumphs and celebrations of academic achievement.

To those joining us by livestream, greetings.

Today, we recognize the excellence, focus, and dedication demonstrated by our advanced degree earners to arrive at this milestone in their academic journeys.

Let us first salute the families and friends who have been so vital to your success.

Will attending family and friends, please stand as you're able and graduates.

Can we have a big cheer for them?

(all cheering and clapping) Well, there's another group that I want to acknowledge that has been so pivotal to these scholars, those who guided and mentored them, those who have been with them every step of the day.

They are Michigan State's world class faculty and academic staff, and we're also honoring those newly retired faculty.

So would our faculty and academic staff and the newly retired faculty, please rise and allow us to give you our applause.

(all clapping and cheering) Graduates, your advanced degrees have demanded many special qualities including intelligence, originality, and lots of hard work.

You have moved from students to leaders in your disciplines.

As I reflect back on the unique circumstances of your time here, it brings to mind the familiar quote from Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness."

Spartans, some might say your experience here was bracketed by the worst of times, COVID-19 to February 13.

And while those times may have challenged you and set you back momentarily, you did not let them define you.

Because you also saw some of the best of times, bonding with fellow scholars and mentors, realizing your impact on those who need your help, expanding the boundaries of knowledge and addressing society's pressing problems.

Spartans, your degrees prepare you for a future we try to foresee, your shared experiences during these times of unforeseen challenges help equip you for what we cannot.

So let us celebrate this joyful occasion with our colleagues, families and friends, and so will you please stand up.

And we ask our guests to join, students and faculty and academic staff in singing one stand of "The Star-Spangled Banner" performed by MSU Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Professor Stanco.

The singing will be led by Sarah Whitaker, a senior in music performance.

Upon conclusion of the singing, please remain standing for a moment of silence.

Please rise.

(gentle orchestral music) ♪ O, say, can you see ♪ ♪ By the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ Through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ O'er the ramparts we watched ♪ ♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ And the rockets' red glare ♪ ♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ Gave proof through the night ♪ ♪ That our flag was still there ♪ ♪ O, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ (audience clapping and cheering) - Thank you.

And as you remain standing, I ask Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Thomas Jeitschko, to join me at the lectern.

On this joyful occasion, let us also briefly acknowledge the fellow students you have lost along the journey to reach this moment.

Those scholars are forever part of our Spartan family.

So let us pause here for a moment of silence and remembrance.

Thank you.

I now invite Interim Provost Thomas Jeitschko to present this afternoon's candidate for the awarding of his honorary degree.

- Dr. Hildebrand, please come forward.

Interim President Woodruff.

- And actually you may be seated.

(Thomas chuckles) (audience murmuring) - Interim President Woodruff, I have the honor to present Dr. John Hildebrand for awarding of the honorary degree, Doctor of Science.

- Thank you.

- Step over here, please.

- Congratulations.

(audience clapping) You can just stand right there.

You are a highly accomplished leader in the field of neurobiology and chemical ecology and have devoted much effort throughout your career to service, to academic and research institutions, professional societies and academies.

Your accomplishments and contributions to science communities and organizations have spanned nearly 60 years and include numerous research publications and honorific lectureships.

Your most notable work includes your vital research on the chemosensory basis of insect behavior and your leadership in the International Society for Chemical Ecology and neuroethology, and the Association for Chemo Reception Sciences and the Society for Neuroscience and the National Academy of Sciences.

In recognition of your accomplishments, you're the recipient of esteemed awards, including the Humboldt Research Award, the Max Planck Research Award, the Wigglesworth Memorial Award, and the silver medal from the International Society for Chemical Ecology.

Your election to the membership in the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, as well as The World Academy of Sciences and Academies of Brazil, Germany, and Norway is a testament to the impact and international scope of your work in science.

For your noteworthy career in science application of your scientific knowledge to the betterment of society and expertise, advice and dedication to building defensive strategies against crop press and vectors of human disease, I am pleased to have awarded you an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Michigan State University.

Dr. Hildebrand, please take our podium.

(all clapping) Congratulations.

- Thank you so much.

- It's right here.

- Thank you.

- Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, members of the board of trustees, faculty, colleagues, graduates, importantly, and guests, thank you ever so much for this honor for which I am deeply honored and grateful.

It's a great pleasure to visit Michigan State University again and to join with you in celebrating the accomplishments of today's advanced degree recipients.

I applaud all of the people who have worked so hard to reach this proud day.

Of course, I'm referring especially to the parents, spouses, partners of the graduates and the faculty who've guided them to success.

Now, in these brief remarks, truly brief, I promise, I wish to speak especially to you graduates.

Now, I don't know where the graduates are sitting.

Could you all wave to me please?

Oh, there you are, okay.

'Cause I'm speaking to you today and I'm glad to know where you are.

So you've reached this milestone because you've been motivated and persistent and you're smart.

You've learned a lot and you're on your way to fulfillment of even bigger aspirations and goals.

You have likely got a plan for your life work and how to achieve it, and that's good.

But as you may already understand, your work has just begun and surprises may happen.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, spoke well to the main point of my remarks in a speech he gave at Stanford University.

He said, "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, don't settle.

As it all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it."

Now, how to find it, that passion, it's the focus of my brief message today and my remarks are based on my lived experience.

Sometimes I'm asked particularly by students how I knew what I wanted to do in my career and how I planned to get to that goal.

The truth is I didn't know and I didn't plan.

But when I was very young, I thought I knew, I was sure I was gonna be a musician.

And when I entered college, that was still my aspiration.

I entered college to be a music major.

But right away in my first semester in college, I had a life-changing experience.

I enrolled in a general education science course that was intended to satisfy a degree requirement for non-science majors.

I chose it because it was a new gen ed course being offered that year for the first time.

It was called The Nature of Living Things, and it was taught by an extraordinary professor.

His name was George Wald.

And seven years after he taught that freshman gen ed course, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

Like many other students in that course, I was enthralled by what he taught us.

So much so that to my amazement, I decided to sign up as a biology major.

Fortunately, Professor Wald had made that gen ed course so rigorous and up to date that it was accepted by the biology department as an alternative to the established introductory course that was ordinarily required for the major.

That gen ed course had changed my life.

The great New York Yankees catcher, Yogi Berra, the fellow who tossed off lots of countless inimitable observations once said, "The future ain't what it used to be."

Well, I knew what he was talking about because my own future wasn't what it used to be.

Note how that happened.

I took that gen ed course by chance.

It changed my life.

That's serendipity.

An unexpected fortunate discovery.

It wasn't the first time chance and serendipity had guided my trajectory and it certainly wasn't the last.

I wanna share one more little example with you.

When I was a PhD student in biochemistry, working on the mechanism of an enzyme catalyzed reaction in bacteria, I often went to the library.

Oh, a library.

That's a building that used to have reading material printed on paper.

I typically went there in the evening to look at the latest journals and also at books on the new bookshelf.

On one of those visits, I spotted a little book that had a picture of a praying mantis on the cover.

That's an insect that can turn its head like this.

It's quite a remarkable insect.

And that little book caught my attention.

It was called "Nerve Cells and Insect Behavior."

Its author was the pioneering neuro ethologist, Kenneth D. Roeder.

And especially, since childhood, I had been curious about insects in their behavior that I saw in our yard, I was attracted to that book, and particularly because it had a praying mantis on the cover.

I thought they were the most curious insects that I saw as a kid.

So I picked up the little book.

I sat down in a comfortable chair in the library and I read that book cover to cover without getting up.

That's how enthralling it was.

What I learned in reading that book was amazing for me.

I read the whole book without pause.

As I said, when I put it back on the shelf, I felt a sort of epiphany.

I just knew that I had just stumbled on what would be my life work.

And now 60 years later, I can attest that I was right.

I now understand that just about every twist and turn in my path through life has been based on chance and serendipity, life altering encounters with people, experiences and ideas that sometimes reinforced my expectations and efforts, but often redirected them.

Everything, discovering my scientific passions, getting my jobs, meeting my wonderful wife, ending up in the beautiful Sonoran Desert of Arizona, and yes, being here with you today.

Chance and serendipity have always been at work and I didn't plan and I couldn't have predicted much that has happened to me.

But I think I know why it did, and if you wanna be open to serendipity, here are some tips from my playbook.

Try always to be doing things you love or at least that you want to do, and that motivate you to get up in the morning and go and work hard.

Be curious, observe, listen.

Live in a way that lets you stumble upon things and people and ideas that are new to you.

Pay attention to those novelties.

Exercise your curiosity and don't be distracted from the joy of discoveries.

Let "Aha, what's that?"

moments happen.

Be courageous, make mistakes and learn from them.

And finally, dream big.

Be kind, friendly and generous.

Be grateful and have dinner with friends.

As you go forward, I urge you to remember an important piece of advice about life from the late physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, who wrote, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself."

The way I think about that point is that at any time in our lives, we know what we know, but we don't know what we don't know and what might happen next.

So be prepared for chance and serendipity.

Thank you.

(audience clapping) - Thank you.

Thank you very much for that address and that charge to all of us.

We will now have the pleasure of hearing the MSU Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Professor Anthony Stanco.

The selection is entitled "The Joy Grind," composed by Horace Silver and arranged by John Clayton.

Instrumental soloist is Hannah Davis.

- [Anthony] One, two.

(vocalizing) (gentle jazz music) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (gentle jazz music continues) (audience clapping and cheering) Awesome.

Thank you very much, Professor Stanco and members of the Jazz Orchestra.

The chairperson of the MSU Board of Trustees, the Honorable Rema Vassar will address the graduates and guests.

After Trustee Vassar, Interim Provost Thomas Jeitschko will continue with our introductions.

- Thank you, Interim President Woodruff.

On behalf of the MSU Board of Trustees, I extend our welcome to graduates and your family and your friends.

Under the Michigan Constitution, the board of trustees is the governing body of the university by whose authority degrees are awarded.

We see each commencement ceremony, (mumbling) memorable, mm-hmm, occasion and we appreciate the opportunity to share this special time with you.

The advanced degree affirms your academic and professional achievements.

You have engaged in important research to investigate vital issues and generate new knowledge.

With the granting of your degrees, you are joining a group of select people, tomorrow's leaders.

We welcome you to the Spartan family, with its tradition of excellence and commitment to making this world a better place.

Please accept our deepest congratulations.

Provost Jeitschko.

(audience clapping and cheering) - Thank you, Trustee Vassar.

I join you and Interim President Woodruff in congratulating our newest advanced degree recipients.

Graduates, (clears throat) each of you embodies a unique confluence of new knowledge and skills, discoveries you have made and the capabilities you now possess are respected in your curiosity and in your drive to innovate, express, discover and perform.

These scholarly achievements culminate today in the conferral of a degree, along with the conferral of our great faith, our hope and our pride in what you will now do as a result of your achievements.

Indeed, as we send you forth, we are counting on you to become the thought leaders and the innovators of the 21st century.

I would now like to take a moment to acknowledge the outstanding MSU faculty and academic staff members who are here with us today.

They are guides and mentors and they celebrate your accomplishments today.

We are also honored to welcome a number of the university's leaders who are seated on the platform, but who will not be speaking today.

Each plays an important role at the university and joins us to celebrate your achievements.

In their many and varied roles, they provide support across our academic mission and are deeply invested in ensuring academic excellence and student success at Michigan State University.

Their presence and participation marks the solemnity and the significance of this moment.

Platform members, please remain standing as your name is read.

Audience members, I ask you to please hold your applause until all are introduced.

Ann Austin, interim vice provost and associate vice president for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs.

Lisa Frace, senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer.

Douglas Gage, vice president for Research and Innovation.

Emily Gerkin Guerrant, vice president for Media and Public Information and University Spokesperson.

Thomas Glasmacher, interim executive vice president for Administration.

Vennie Gore, senior vice president for Student Life and Engagement.

Steve Hanson, vice provost and dean for International Studies and Programs.

Mark Largent, vice provost and deans of Undergraduate Education.

Dave Weatherspoon, vice provost for Enrollment and Academic Strategic Planning.

And Jack Lipton, professor and chairperson of the Faculty Senate, MSU Academic Governance and the university mace bearer.

(all clapping and cheering) I now invite all past and present members of the Council of Graduate Students to stand.

We honor executive board members, department representatives, and all COGS members.

Please accept our appreciation for your many contributions to the university and to your fellow graduate students.

(all clapping) I invite Pero Dagbovie, vice provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and dean of the Graduate School to join me for the announcement of the degree candidates and to direct doctoral hooding.

- Interim President Woodruff and Interim Provost Jeitschko, on behalf of the faculty and their respective colleges, I present these candidates to you for the conferral of their degrees.

Will the candidates please rise?

- Okay.

By authority of the State of Michigan vested in the board of trustees and delegated to me, I confer upon you the degrees for which you have been recommended with all the rights and distinctions to which they entitle you.

Congratulations, graduates.

(all clapping) Please be seated.

- Graduates will now be individually hooded by their faculty member.

This solemn ceremony and the moment of hooding represents a transition to the company of the learned society of one's discipline and field of study.

The moment of the hooding by one's academic mentor is the culmination of years of study and the welcome by your mentor into a new role that of the intellectual colleague.

As such, this tradition and our academic rituals are imbued with great reverence and solemnity.

I invite everyone who witnesses these hoodings to think about each of the candidates as they approach the dais or hooded and turn to walk forward.

Think of the individual scholar and think of the ways in which great universities like MSU foster the circumstances and culture for academic advancement and excellence.

To each doctoral student, thank you for your contributions to MSU's community of scholars and congratulations on the conferral of your doctoral hood.

All members of this graduating class are part of the Spartan family.

We ask the audience to respect and desire all family and friends to be able to hear their graduate's name.

Graduates, please return to your seat after your name is read.

Your token diploma is presented and your photo is taken.

Jodi Noel and Scott Poll will read the names of our graduates as they receive their diplomas.

I now ask the associate deans of the colleges to lead their graduates to the platform.

- The academic attire worn by students and faculty was first used in 12th and 13th century Europe.

The current system in the United States was designed in 1895 and is used today in advanced degree ceremonies across the country.

The hoods being placed on the doctoral candidates are derived from the design of medieval monks' cloaks.

The three chevrons on the sleeve represent doctor of philosophy.

The light blue velvet on the front signifies doctor of education.

The pink velvet on the front signifies the doctor of musical arts, and the apricot velvet on the front signifies the doctor of nursing practice.

The green and white chevrons, of course, on each hood represent our beloved Michigan State University.

The gown, the cap, and especially the hood, represent both the responsibility and the freedom that accompany the achievements in research and scholarship that these candidates have earned through years of hard and rigorous work.

This ceremony of hooding doctoral candidates symbolizes the faculty welcoming these students as our full fledged colleagues.

- From the College of Music, Mark Stover.

Hooded by Dr. Sandra Snow.

(audience clapping) Chang Li, hooded by Dr. Derek Polischuk.

(audience clapping) Yiwen Zhang.

(audience clapping) Imjeong Choi.

(audience clapping) Dinah Bianchi, hooded by Dr. David Biedenbender.

(audience clapping) Yuan Chen.

(audience clapping) From the College of Natural Science, Robin Kruger, hooded by Dr. Amy Ralston.

(audience clapping) Tayler Murphy, hooded by Dr. Amy Ralston.

(audience clapping) Thomas Turkette, also hooded by Dr. Amy Ralston.

(audience clapping) Andriana Manousidaki, hooded by Dr. Yuying Xie.

(audience clapping) Felix Ndayisabye, hooded by Professor Paul Gooey.

(audience clapping) Pierre Nzabahimana, hooded by Professor Pawel Daniel Danielewicz.

(audience clapping) (audience clapping) Sara Hugentobler, hooded by Dr. Mariah Meek.

(audience clapping) Miranda Wade, hooded by Dr. Mariah Meek.

(audience clapping) Julie Butler, hooded by Dr. Heiko Hergert.

(audience clapping) Chi En Teh, hooded by Dr. Betty Tsang.

(audience clapping) Azam Abdulaziz Al-Farhaj.

(audience clapping and cheering) Matthew Bauerle.

(audience clapping) Elliot Ensink, hooded by Dr. Sophia Lunt.

(audience clapping) MD Iqbal Hossain, hooded by Dr. Gary Blanchard.

(audience clapping) Corey Cooling.

(audience clapping) Kathryne Caldwell Ford, hooded by Dr. Michaela TerAvest.

(audience clapping) Fabio Gomez Cano, also hooded by Dr. Michaela TerAvest.

(audience clapping) Macy Pell, hooded by Dr. Shannon Manning.

(audience cheering and clapping) Sarah Manski, hooded by Dr. Jennifer Green.

(audience clapping) Wang Chengjia, hooded by Professor Tuo Wang.

(audience clapping) Prakash Kumar Shee, hooded by Professor Kevin Walker.

(audience clapping) Gayanthi Attanayake, hooded by Professor Kevin Walker.

(audience clapping) Scott David Essen-Mocker, hooded by Dr. Gregory Severin.

(audience clapping and cheering) Clare Carlson, hooded by Dr. Melanie Cooper.

(audience cheering and clapping) Taylor Martinez-Fiolek, hooded by Dr. Jetze Tepe.

(audience cheering and clapping) Allison Stephanie Vanecek, hooded by Dr. Jetze Tepe.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sophia Staerz, hooded by Dr. Jetze Tepe.

(audience clapping) (indistinct) Hooded by Kin Sing Lee (audience cheering and clapping) Ajay Somaraju, hooded by Dr. Dorothy Carter.

(audience clapping and cheering) Pauline Mansour.

(audience clapping and cheering) Lauren Skrajewski-Schuler.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Nursing.

Mohammed Owayrif Alanazi, hooded by Dr. Gwen Wyatt.

(audience clapping) Jennifer Marie McConnell, hooded by Dr.

Dawn Goldstein.

(audience cheering and clapping) Ryan Gennette, hooded by Dr. Katherine Dontje.

(audience clapping) From the College of Social Science, Ronald Asiimwe, hooded by Dr. Adrian Blow.

(audience clapping and cheering) Abdoulie Jabang, hooded by Dr. Walter Hawthorne.

(audience cheering and clapping) Mircea Lazar, hooded by Dr. Jeff Conroy-Krutz.

(audience cheering and clapping) Gianna Casaburo, hooded by Dr. Kendal Holtrop.

(audience clapping) Jody Cook.

(audience cheering and clapping) Haiden Aiyana Perkins.

(audience cheering and clapping) Mikiko Sato, hooded by Dr. Francisco Villarruel.

(audience cheering and clapping) Herve Kashongwe, hooded by Dr. David Roy.

(audience cheering and clapping) Ana Lucrecia Rivera-Rivera, hooded by Dr. Leo Zulu.

(audience cheering and clapping) Marcela Katherine Omans McKeeby, hooded by Dr. Laurie Medina.

(audience clapping) Marie Carmen Shingne, hooded by Dr. Jennifer Carrera.

(audience cheering and clapping) Corbin Standley, hooded by Dr. NiCole Buchanan.

(audience cheering and clapping) Jessica Lee, hooded by Dr. Joseph Lonstein.

(audience cheering and clapping) Leonardo Kattari, hooded by Dr. Deirdre Shires.

(audience cheering and clapping) Mahl Geum Choi, hooded by Dr. Jason Wong.

(audience cheering and clapping) - From the College of Veterinary Medicine, Sierra Lynn Boyd, hooded by Dr. Nicholas Canan.

(audience cheering and clapping) Miguel Chirivi, hooded by Andres Contreras.

(audience cheering and clapping) DM Isha Olive Khan, hooded by Dr. Norbert E. Kaminski.

(audience cheering and clapping) From the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Wanwarang Limsukon, hooded by Dr. Rafael Auras.

(audience clapping) Saleh Yousef Alkarr, also hooded by Dr. Rafael Auras.

(audience clapping and cheering) Natasha Sloniker, hooded by Dr. Teresa Bergholz.

(audience clapping and cheering) Deanne Kelleher, hooded by Dr. Lorraine J. Weatherspoon.

(audience clapping) Nathaniel Wehr, the hooder is Dr. Gary Roloff.

(audience clapping) Noel Thompson, also being hooded by Dr. Gary Roloff.

(audience clapping) Carly Gomez, being hooded by Dr. Bradley Marks and Dr. Jade Mitchell.

(audience clapping) Zhixuan Wang.

(audience clapping) Douglas Minier.

(audience clapping and cheering) Tammy Wilkinson.

The hooder is Dr. Courtney Hollender.

(audience clapping) Andrea Kohler, also being hooded by Dr. Courtney Hollender.

(audience clapping) Hanna Ostrovski, hooded by Dr. Cedric Condro.

(audience clapping and cheering) Tram Hoang, hooded by Dr. Yuan Wang.

(audience clapping) Kirby Craig Krogstad, hooded by Dr. Barry Bradford.

(audience clapping) From the College of Arts and Letters, Isaac Veysey-White, hooded by Dr. Scott Boehm.

(audience clapping) Kenlea Pebbles, the hood is Dr. Trixie Smith.

(audience clapping) From the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Amanda Allard, hooded by Dr. William Donohue.

(audience cheering and clapping) From the College of Education, Kathleen Lopez, the hooder is Dr. Kristen Renn.

(audience cheering and clapping) Brenda Lee Nelson, the hooder is Dr. Kris Renn.

(audience cheering and clapping) Regina Gong, the hooder is Dr. Leslie Gonzalez.

(audience cheering and clapping) Dana Kanhai, also being hooded by Dr. Leslie Gonzalez.

(audience clapping) William Nicholas Bork Rodriguez.

(audience clapping and cheering) JoAnne West, the hooder is Dr. Tanya Wright.

(audience clapping and cheering) Park Sunyoung, the hooder is Dr. Kristen Bieda.

(audience clapping) From the College of Engineering, Hasanur Chowdhury, the hooder is Dr. Ming Han.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ethan Tu, hooded by Dr. Adam Alessio.

(audience clapping) Cort Thompson, the hooder is Dr. Erin Purcell.

(audience clapping and cheering) Alesa Netzley, the hooder is Dr. Galit Pelled.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shivam Bajaj, hooded by Dr. Shaunak Bopardikar.

(audience clapping and cheering) Gaurab Panda, hooded by Professor Virginia Ayres.

(audience clapping) Tamina Kabir, hooded by Professor Mantha.

(audience clapping) (indistinct) Also being hooded by Professor Mantha.

(audience clapping) Tyler Bauder, the hooder is Dr. Patrick Kwon.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sarah Wright, hooded by Dr. Michele Grim.

(audience clapping and cheering) Nicole Arnold, hooded by Dr. Tamara Reid Bush.

(audience clapping and cheering) Li Liu, hooded by Dr. Jiliang Tang.

(audience clapping and cheering) Wentao Wang, also hooded by Dr. Jiliang Tang.

(audience clapping and cheering) Christopher Herrera, the hooder is Dr. Richard Lunt.

(audience clapping and cheering) Pengyu Chu, also being hooded by Dr. Richard Lunt.

(audience clapping) And from the College of Human Medicine, Zichun Cao.

(audience clapping) - Will all doctoral degree recipients please rise.

We welcome you to the community of scholars, MSU alums, please join me in congratulating these doctoral degree recipients.

(all clapping and cheering) You may be seated, and I welcome Interim Provost Jeitschko to the podium.

- Deans will now present candidates for the master's degree.

(audience shouting and clapping) Dean Kelly Millenbah from the College of Agricultural and Natural Resources.

(audience clapping) - Will the master's degree candidates from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the founding college of this great university, please rise and remain standing if you are able.

(audience clapping and cheering) Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, I am pleased to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements for conferral of their degrees.

- Thank you.

Dean Christopher Long from the College of Arts and Letters.

- Will the amazing candidates for the Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the College of Arts and Letters, please rise and remain standing.

(audience clapping) All right, yeah, let's keep him around.

(audience clapping and cheering) Interim Provost Jeitschko, Interim President Woodruff, Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the world class faculty of the College of Arts and Letters, it is my privilege to present these candidates for the conferral of their degrees.

- Thank you.

(audience clapping) Interim Dean Judith Whipple from the Eli Broad College of Business.

(audience clapping and cheering) - Will the amazing degree candidates from the Eli Broad College of Business, please rise and remain standing if you are able.

(audience cheering and clapping) Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, members of the board of trustees and platform party, on behalf of the faculty and staff of the Broad College of Business, I'm delighted to present to you for the conferral of their degrees.

These candidates who having fulfilled all degree requirements, are now ready to go forward, to lead and inspire the future of business.

Broad Spartans, go green.

- [Audience] Go white.

(audience clapping and cheering) - Interim Dean Teresa Mastin from the College of Communications, Arts and Sciences.

(audience cheering and clapping) - With the amazing ComArtSci research and/or strategic and communication focused candidates who are eager take on the opportunities and challenges of reflecting and shaping society, please rise and remain standing if you are able.

(audience cheering and clapping) Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko and Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the college, I am pleased to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements for the conferral of their degrees.

(audience clapping and cheering) - Dean Jerlando Jackson from the College of Education.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Will the master degree candidates for the sensation for Michigan State University, the College of Education, please rise and remain standing if possible.

(audience cheering and clapping) Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, MSU Board of Trustee Chair Vassar, on behalf of the College of Education, I am pleased to present these candidates with unprecedented prowess.

They are exquisitely accomplished and sumptuously gifted future educators and future professionals as candidates who have fulfilled the requirements for the conferral of their degree.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Thank you, Dean Leo Kempel from the College of Engineering.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Engineers, stand up if you're able.

(audience cheering and clapping) President Woodruff, Provost Jeitschko, Honorable Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the College of Engineering family, I'm pleased to present these innovators of today and tomorrow who will transform our economy and our society for the conferral of their degrees.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Associate Dean Derrick Fox from the College of Music.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Will the candidates from the College of Music, please rise and remain standing if you're able.

Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko and Trustee Vassar, on behalf of our faculty and staff, I'm delighted to present these candidates from the College of Music who have completed all the requirements of their various degrees and who will now go out and help make the world a better place through the power of music.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Dean Phillip Duxbury from the College of Natural Science.

- Will the candidates for masters from the College of Natural Science, please rise if you are able.

(audience cheering and clapping) Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko and Honorable Trustee Vassar, it's my great pleasure to present these candidates for the conferral of their degrees.

They are inspiring and innovative and will make great change in the grand challenge problems of the future.

(audience clapping) - Dean Brent Donnellan from the College of Social Science.

(audience clapping) - Will the fantastic degree candidates from the College of Social Science, please rise and remain standing if you're able.

Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the College of Social Science where our science transforms the human experience and inspires leaders, I'm so very pleased to present these outstanding candidates who have fulfilled their requirements for the conferral of their degrees.

- Thank you.

(audience cheering and clapping) Associate Dean Srinand Sreevatsan from the College of Veterinary Medicine.

- Will the MS in food safety degree candidates from the College of Veterinary Medicine, please stand and remain standing if you're able.

Thank you.

Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, Honorable Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the College of Veterinary Medicine, I'm pleased to present these awesome candidates who have fulfilled all the degrees requirements for the confer of their degrees.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Next, I ask the health science deans to present the candidates for conferral of their degrees.

Dean Aron Sousa, College of Human Medicine.

(audience clapping) - Will the masters of science and masters of public health degrees from the College of Human Medicine, please rise and remain standing if you're able.

(audience cheering and clapping) President Woodruff, Provost Jeitschko, Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the College of Human Medicine, these candidates are ready to go out into the world and save lives through the power of science.

(audience clapping and cheering) - Dean Leigh Small from the College of Nursing.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Will the master degree candidates from the College of Nursing, please rise and remain standing if you are able.

(audience cheering and clapping) Interim President Woodruff, Interim Provost Jeitschko, Board of Trustee Vassar, on behalf of the College of Nursing, I am pleased to present these masters of science nursing candidates who have fulfilled the requirements for the conferral of their degrees and they will go out and address health inequities in one of the trusted professions in the United States.

(audience cheering and clapping) - Dean Andrea Amalfitano from the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

- Will the candidates from the College of Osteopathic Medicine, please rise if you can.

Thank you.

(audience clapping) Interim Provost Jeitschko, Interim President Woodruff, Chairperson Vassar, I'm so proud to present these candidates for the conferral of their degrees, master's in global health, master's in medical sciences, and also master's in pharmacology and toxicology.

They will be doing great things.

Thank you.

(audience clapping) - [Thomas] Thank you.

(audience clapping and cheering) - Students by the authority of the State of Michigan, vested in the board of trustees and delegated to me, I confer upon you the degrees for which you have qualified with all the rights and distinctions to which they entitle you.

As a symbol of your achievement, it is traditional to move the tassel from the right side of the cap to the left.

You may do so at this time and congratulations.

(audience cheering and clapping) All degree candidates, you may take a seat now.

- Now, we will mark this auspicious occasion with the presentation of diplomas.

Jodi Noel and Scott Poll will announce the names of our graduates as the interim president presents them with their diplomas.

The associate deans will now escort graduates to the platform to be recognized individually.

We ask all master's degrees recipients to please return to your seats following the presentation of your diploma.

And again, we ask that the audience please be considerate in applauding so that each graduate's name may be heard.

- From the College of Social Science, Ashlyn Downey.

(audience cheering and clapping) Grace Severance.

Kaylee Marie Dumond.

(audience cheering) Kylie Martens.

(audience cheering and clapping) Stacey Gosnell-Day.

(audience cheering and clapping) Celia Thalo Hines.

(audience cheering and clapping) Quiara Laniece Wheeler.

(audience cheering and clapping) Kelly Marie Poelstra-Olson.

(audience clapping) Hailey Nadine Wood.

(audience clapping) Tracy Halloran.

(audience clapping and cheering) Hunter Christian Keating.

(audience clapping and cheering) Joanna Myatt.

Colin Joseph Prendergast.

Naila Saric.

(audience clapping and cheering) Hunter Cashion.

(audience clapping and cheering) Raul Antonio Mora.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shelby Cook.

(audience clapping and cheering) Michael Koski.

(audience clapping) Connor Charamella.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sam (indistinct).

Rebecca Yang.

(audience clapping and cheering) Nanci Pineda Avila.

(audience clapping and cheering) Megan Lares.

(audience clapping) Jodee Forster.

(audience clapping) (indistinct) Fanny Lucy Bondje.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ashley La' Shae McClarty.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Engineering, Bryan Reppenhagen.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sarah Premo.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sarah Wright.

(audience clapping and cheering) Manoj Ghosh.

Thomas Hojnicki.

(audience clapping and cheering) Alec Beauchamp.

(audience clapping) Adarius Cannon.

(audience clapping and cheering) James McGowan.

Leah Droste.

(audience clapping) Martina Borges.

(audience clapping) Parisa Farmanifard.

(audience clapping) Saipranav Ramesh.

(audience clapping and cheering) Faizan Lali.

(audience clapping) Qasim Zulfqar.

(audience clapping) Raheel Tariq.

Eliazar Gutierrez.

(audience cheering and clapping) Kevin Li.

(audience cheering and clapping) Jeremy Balzer.

(audience cheering and clapping) Tyler Payton Ellsworth.

Andrea Vera.

(audience cheering and clapping) Nathaniel Jenkins.

(audience clapping) Medly Metayer.

(audience clapping and cheering) Michael Umanskiy.

Abdullah Al Ali.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Education, Shahira Radwan.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kara Cochran.

Alyssa Werner.

(audience cheering and clapping) Natalie Scalabrino.

Priscilla Kathleen Winter.

Mary Verberg.

(audience cheering and clapping) Maura Ehrlich.

Jessica Fleece.

(audience cheering and clapping) Rachel Siekkinen.

(audience cheering and clapping) Courtney Marcola.

(audience cheering and clapping) Mary Curran.

(audience clapping) Megan Cullen.

(audience clapping) Madison Marino.

(audience cheering) Lori Haley.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ellen Elizabeth Culley.

(audience clapping) Kelly Kaczmarek.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jonathan Yarbrough.

(audience clapping and cheering) Benjamin Klein.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kelsey Wiley.

Ashley Seville Snow.

(audience clapping) Mia Nicole Trabucchi.

(audience clapping and cheering) Cassidy Joint.

Kayla Dean Wynn.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kristin Marie Gunkelman.

(audience clapping and cheering) Anne Marie Heinicke.

(audience clapping and cheering) Bethany Kinnan.

(audience clapping) Caitlyn Louise Tustin.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kyle Youngblood.

(audience clapping and cheering) Skye Taylor.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ippei Togo.

(audience clapping) Emma Myers.

(audience clapping) Jenna Renae' Jodts.

(audience clapping) Jordan Lorraine Bernard.

(audience clapping) Grace Ellen Gadwood.

(audience clapping) Sami Zaman.

(audience clapping) Chad Riffle.

(audience clapping and cheering) Morgan Abb.

Ashley Antone.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ann Race.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kennedy Offman.

(audience clapping) Elizabeth Redmond.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kirsten VanEvery.

(audience clapping and cheering) Grace Gimesky.

(audience clapping and cheering) Reman Jackson.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kendall Kates.

(audience clapping and cheering) Tyler Hunt.

(audience clapping and cheering) Evan Morris (audience clapping and cheering) - From the Eli Broad College of Business.

Janice Caceres.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ashley Smith.

(audience clapping) Heather Amorini.

(audience clapping and cheering) Colin Whitmire.

(audience clapping and cheering) Chelsea McSwain.

(audience clapping and cheering) Christina Oluwatosin.

(audience clapping and cheering) Abigail White.

(audience clapping) Marissa Burk.

(audience clapping) Josh Jablonski.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ramel Trotman.

(audience clapping and cheering) Aaron Irwin.

(audience clapping and cheering) Bridget VandenBussche.

(audience clapping and cheering) Megan Sorenson.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jessica Smith.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kriska Imbroglio.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jacqueline Joss.

(audience clapping and cheering) Hannah Kim.

(audience clapping) Emily Chute.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kate Huffman.

(audience clapping) Geran Wu.

(audience clapping) Gretchen Hambrick.

(audience clapping) (indistinct) (audience clapping and cheering) Tyler Carlton.

(audience clapping and cheering) Denise Helen Lyons.

(audience clapping and cheering) Holly Davis.

(audience clapping and cheering) Evan Burke.

(audience clapping and cheering) Anton Cawley.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kyung Heon Oh.

(audience clapping and cheering) Noh Sangyoon.

(audience clapping) Clinton Scott Cooper.

(audience clapping) Riley Damore.

(audience clapping) Lilly Formanek.

(audience clapping and cheering) Emma Ruedisueli.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kelly Joe.

(audience clapping and cheering) Abby Grace Seguin.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sarah Weber.

(audience clapping) Elijah Hao.

(audience clapping) Glenn Davis III.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shane Nelson.

(audience clapping) Jacob Loveall.

(audience clapping and cheering) Grace Balow.

(audience clapping) Elizabeth Thomas.

(audience clapping) Abigail Wachowski.

(audience clapping) Samantha Capone.

(audience clapping and cheering) Vanessa Hernandez.

(audience clapping and cheering) Leah Scarlatta Hietala.

(audience clapping and cheering) Raid Faddah.

(audience clapping and cheering) Alfaf Shaq.

(audience clapping) Renita Powell.

(audience clapping and cheering) Elisa Slank.

(audience clapping) Jamie Berry.

(audience clapping and cheering) Emily Baswell.

(audience clapping and cheering) Megan Tomczak.

(audience clapping and cheering) Barbara Clark.

(audience clapping and cheering) Emma Smith.

(audience clapping) Carynne Lloyd.

(audience clapping and cheering) Olayemi Adesina.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sandeep Kumar.

(audience clapping) Darshan Nandasana.

(audience clapping) Barath Alapatt.

(audience clapping) Syed Mubashir Imam.

(audience clapping) Ibek Gubashof.

(audience clapping) Brandon Smith.

(audience clapping) Brittany Navarro.

(audience clapping and cheering) Amanda Nicole Papo.

(audience clapping) Mounika Yallamandhala.

(audience clapping) Monica Sureshkumar.

(audience clapping) Priyanka Demla.

(audience clapping) Aishwarya Tiwari.

(audience clapping) Rohan Reddy Galipur.

(audience clapping) Sriya Kondabathula.

(audience clapping) Vamsi Gopala Krishna Kethepalli.

(audience clapping) (indistinct) (audience clapping) Devishna Jing.

(audience clapping) Naveen Parthasarathy.

(audience clapping) Laasya Priya Lavisetty.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shri Abhiraami Thangavel.

(audience clapping and cheering) Abdullah Kadhim.

(audience clapping) Jacob DeRosier.

(audience clapping and cheering) John Healy.

(audience clapping) Hannah Mcgoldrick.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jina Eriksosy.

(audience clapping) Jiron Li.

(audience clapping) Mahesh Cherukuri.

(audience clapping and cheering) Pranav Thampi.

(audience clapping) Sreeram Warrier.

(audience clapping) (indistinct) (audience clapping) Hao-Hung Yang.

(audience clapping) Lakshmi Neelima Krishnagiri.

(audience clapping) Hailey Melnick.

(audience clapping) Erika Brittingham.

(audience clapping and cheering) Addison Golo.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shelby Delaine Wilson.

(audience clapping and cheering) Alexandria Nicole Krutkiewicz.

(audience clapping and cheering) Rachel (indistinct).

(audience clapping and cheering) Anushya Singh.

(audience clapping) Trevor Hayes.

(audience clapping) Moyurakshi Saha.

(audience clapping and cheering) Tasnuva Tasfa Puspita.

(audience clapping and cheering) Richa Singh.

(audience clapping and cheering) Arya Satapathy.

(audience clapping and cheering) Vraj Tripathi.

(audience clapping) James Cuozzo.

(audience clapping) Kaitlyn Arnold.

(audience clapping) Suhas Sundar.

(audience clapping) Ariyan Kailainathan.

(audience clapping and cheering) Greg Gibson.

(audience clapping and cheering) Christian Joseph Matye.

(audience clapping and cheering) Suyash Singhal.

(audience clapping and cheering) Majd Soueid.

(audience clapping and cheering) Zayd Elbaissari.

(audience clapping and cheering) Patricia Caudillo.

(audience clapping and cheering) Mary Panelo Schwedler.

(audience clapping and cheering) Tanner Austin Vigo.

(audience clapping and cheering) Amy Arevalo.

(audience clapping and cheering) Madeline Jerge.

(audience clapping and cheering) Bradley Reichelt.

(audience clapping and cheering) Yvette Simon.

Manuel L. Buelvas.

- [Audience] Whoo, let's go, Manuel.

- Kevin Klebbe.

(audience cheering) Jessie Weathersby.

(audience cheering and clapping) Kristen Driscoll.

(audience cheering and clapping) (indistinct) (audience cheering and clapping) - From the College of Veterinary Medicine, Lauren Benson.

(audience clapping) Wreny George Blick.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shelby Maynard.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Nursing, Lindsey Gerring.

(audience clapping and cheering) Anne Carol Vermeulen.

(audience clapping and cheering) Angela Stoddard Bearinger.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jill Lampen.

(audience clapping and cheering) Steven Malinoski.

(audience clapping and cheering) Morgan Hnilicka.

(audience clapping and cheering) Emily Derhammer.

(audience clapping and cheering) Presleigh Yovich.

(audience clapping and cheering) Callan Schoonveld.

(audience clapping and cheering) Lauren Timmer.

(audience clapping and cheering) Lauren Korson.

(audience clapping and cheering) Annelise Bowman.

(audience clapping and cheering) Lauren Langton.

(audience clapping and cheering) Whitney Lanee Smith.

(audience clapping and cheering) Tanesha Carbon.

(audience clapping and cheering) TaShara Stevens.

(audience clapping and cheering) Monique Morris.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Human Medicine, Alexandra Hunter.

(audience clapping and cheering) Cassandra Ann Roe.

Kaitlyn Rich.

(audience clapping and cheering) Brianna Rose Prince.

(audience clapping and cheering) Hilda Amoah.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sally Al-Ismaeel.

(audience clapping and cheering) Brandi Bartell.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tiger Montross.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sarah Abudayeh.

(audience clapping and cheering) Hazel Tiglao Salunga.

(audience clapping and cheering) Candace Rush.

(audience clapping and cheering) Rodrigo Delgado.

(audience clapping and cheering) Michael Stone.

Caitlin Shana Wilson.

(audience clapping and cheering) JaBre' Wallace.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Music, Elia Meekhoff.

(audience clapping and cheering) Zhiqian Wu.

Giancarlo Levano.

(audience clapping and cheering) Mariana Romero Serra.

Lindsay Campbell.

Andrew Wesley Moore.

Morgan Carley Page.

(audience clapping) Kimberly Stewart.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Arts and Letters, Cheyenne Gilkey.

(audience clapping and cheering) Eunmi Kim.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Natural Science, Nitish Satya Sai Gedela.

(audience clapping and cheering) Sean Dubinsky.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kelly St. George.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Fritz Klug.

(audience clapping) Madison Clinkscales.

(audience clapping and cheering) Allison Lynne Milke.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jhovonne Fernandez.

(audience clapping and cheering) Patrick Tanner.

(audience clapping and cheering) Stella Mia Tortolini.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jennifer Lynn Laferty.

(audience clapping and cheering) Omar Ezzat.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ean Montague.

(audience clapping and cheering) Jordan Lampley.

(audience clapping and cheering) Shakira Amina Dancy.

Sierra Moore.

(audience clapping and cheering) Julie Ann DeCook.

(audience clapping) Carrie Horstman.

(audience clapping) Alice Austin.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ranjeet Ghorpade.

(audience clapping) Eman Alqurashi.

(audience clapping and cheering) Isabelle Jenkins.

(audience clapping and cheering) Nickolas Krupansky.

(audience clapping and cheering) Andrew Roth.

(audience clapping and cheering) From the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Erin Dickinson.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kiersten Ann Korber.

(audience clapping and cheering) Xiaoran Yu.

(audience clapping and cheering) Geofrey Russell.

Sarah Mishigan.

(audience clapping and cheering) Cindy Wu.

(audience clapping and cheering) Makenna Jane Lee Diller.

Amy Kumar.

Tala Mughrabi.

(audience clapping and cheering) Noel Tom.

(audience clapping and cheering) (indistinct) Steven Gurney.

(audience clapping and cheering) Nik Nurulhidayah Nik Zainal Alam.

Arlo Robles.

David Perla.

(audience clapping and cheering) Ben Terrell.

(audience clapping and cheering) Bora Lee.

(audience clapping and cheering) Anna Breithaupt.

(audience clapping and cheering) Dalton Miner.

(audience clapping) Nafisa Nowshin Ahmed.

(audience clapping and cheering) Raymond Leonardo Evans II.

(audience clapping and cheering) Kieron Moller.

(audience clapping and cheering) Carley Allison.

Madison Kaminski.

(audience clapping and cheering) Makenna Schwass.

(audience clapping) Haley Talaski.

(audience clapping and cheering) Caitlin Luck.

(audience clapping and cheering) Achsah Butchart.

(audience clapping and cheering) Corey Fennell.

(audience clapping and cheering) Aidan Mcardle.

(audience clapping and cheering) And Abigale Sue Lewis.

(audience clapping and cheering) (all clapping and cheering) - Will the master's graduates, please rise.

(audience clapping and cheering) I welcome each of you to this community of scholars, MSU alums, please join me in congratulating every master's degree recipient.

(audience clapping and cheering) Will all the advanced degree recipients now, please rise.

(audience clapping and cheering) To each of you, may your MSU degree lead to a future filled with outstanding personal and professional achievement.

Know that you each join a distinguished line of Spartans who have contributed so much to their families, communities, and the world since the first class graduated 162 years ago.

Graduates, I will always remember the special comfort of joining as a community to hold one another up in the worst of times, and I will miss all the best of times we shared.

And now as we arrive at such a moment, one that brings to mind Emily Dickinson's poem.

"I Dwell In Possibility."

, as scholars, as scientists, doctors, nurses, lawyers, creators, and artists and leaders and doers, my charge to you, this class of 2023, is to dwell in possibility.

On behalf of this entire university, I wish you all lives that are joyful, loving, and rewarding, and I hope you stay connected to this special place, On the Banks of the Red Cedar River.

Graduates, go green.

- [Audience] Go white.

(audience cheering and clapping) - I now invite everyone to stand in joining and singing the first stanza of the alma mater "MSU Shadows."

Ms. Whitaker will lead us in the singing and following the singing.

We ask guests to remain seated until the rest sessional of the platform party, faculty and student.

Ms. Whitaker.

- [Musician] One, two.

(gentle orchestral music) ♪ MSU we love our shadows ♪ ♪ When twilight silence falls ♪ ♪ Flashing deep and softly paling ♪ ♪ O'er ivy covered halls ♪ ♪ Beneath the pines we'll gather ♪ ♪ To give our faith so true ♪ ♪ Sing our love for alma mater ♪ ♪ And my praises, MSU ♪ (upbeat orchestral music) (upbeat orchestral music continues) ♪ Go right through for MSU ♪ ♪ Watch the points keep growing ♪ ♪ Spartan teams are bound to win ♪ ♪ They're fighting with a vim ♪ ♪ Rah, rah, rah ♪ ♪ See their team is weakening ♪ ♪ We're going to win this game ♪ ♪ Fight, fight, fight, team, fight ♪ ♪ Victory for MSU ♪ (upbeat orchestral music) (upbeat orchestral music continues) (audience cheering) (audience chattering) - [Announcer] Parents and families, meet your graduates outside in the parking lot near the Gilbert Pavilion gate.

(audience chattering)