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(audience applauds) - Good afternoon.

You may be seated.

On behalf of Michigan State University, welcome to the spring 2022 doctoral degree commencement ceremony, and welcome to Breslin Center, home to Spartan athletic triumphs, and to celebrations of academic achievements like this one.

To those joining us by livestream, greetings.

Before we go further, let us salute the families and friends who have been so vital to the success of our graduates.

Will they please stand as they're able, and graduates, can we have a big cheer for them?

(audience cheers) (audience member whistles) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) (audience cheers) (audience member whistles) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Thank you.

There's another group I want to acknowledge that has been so pivotal to this group of scholars, those who have guided and mentored them, Michigan State's world-class faculty and academic staff.

Please join and accept our thanks and gratitude.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Shortly, we will hear from our honorary degree recipient and keynote speaker, an accomplished leader in public health, and I'm looking forward to introducing him in just a few moments.

And we have been privileged to hear many dignitaries through the years inspire Spartan graduates with their words and examples.

In 1907, president Theodore Roosevelt spoke on the 50th anniversary of MSU's opening.

Roosevelt was a firm believer in civic virtues, and I think of your class as I read one of the things he said in that graduation ceremony.

He said, "I believe in the happiness that comes from the performance of duty, but I believe also in trying, each of us, as strength has given us, to bear one another's burdens."

"I believe in the happiness that comes from the performance of duty, but I believe also in trying, each of us, as strength has given us, to bear one another's burdens."

Graduates, you have navigated your studies and dissertations over a particularly challenging several years.

You have carried these burdens from COVID-19 to February 13.

You rose to these challenges by taking measures to keep yourself safe as well as others, and you adapted to fulfill your academic and research obligations.

Your degrees prepare you for a future we try to foresee, and these shared experiences equip you for a future that no one can quite foresee.

These challenges required of you more than the usual amount of resilience.

And I salute you for carrying out our mission of discovering knowledge and transforming lives.

Your doctoral degrees have demanded many special qualities, intelligence, originality, and lots of hard work.

As scholars, you have moved from horizontal learning, building broad foundations of knowledge one step at a time to vertical learning, which involves deeper and more contextual understanding directed toward the discovery of new knowledge.

You have moved, in short, from students to leaders in your disciplines, a transition we acknowledge in today's hooding ceremony, welcoming you into this elite community of scholars.

Having walked your path and worked alongside graduate students over the years, I appreciate the incredible effort it has taken to arrive at this day.

You are a remarkable graduating class, and I want you to hold onto that thought until I return at the end of today's ceremony to deliver my charge to you, the doctoral class of 2023.

Let us celebrate this joyful occasion with our colleagues, families, and friends, and let us ask all of us to stand and join in the singing of one stanza of the "Star Spangled Banner" performed by the MSU Wind Symphony under the direction of Professor Kevin Sedatole, professor and director of bands in the College of Music.

And the singing will be led by Amira Coleman, a graduate student in music performance.

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

♪ 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 rocket's 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 applauds) - Thank you, Amira.

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 our pain.

Those we lost in the violence of February 13 will be recognized with posthumous degrees at their undergraduate college ceremonies, and are forever part of our Spartan family.

So let us pause here for a moment of silence to remember them, and those working to recover from their injuries, their families, and to acknowledge all those who have been impacted.

Thank you.

Please be seated.

Interim Provost Thomas Jeitschko will now present this morning's candidates for the awarding of their honorary degree.

- Dr. Tony Fauci, please come forward.

- You are a highly accomplished leader in the medical field and have devoted your life to public service.

You have utilized your medical background to help various research groups, presidents, and their administrations on global health issues.

Your educational achievements include graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Holy Cross, and graduating as a Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University's Medical College.

Your prodigious accomplishment of contributing to more than 1400 scientific publications is an inspiration to all Spartans.

Under your 38 year leadership as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, you dedicated yourself to preventing, diagnosing, and treating infectious diseases.

During your time at the institute, you served as a key advisor to seven presidents, and provided robust knowledge and action against infectious diseases.

Your most notable work includes your vital research involving HIV/AIDS, your development of the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief, and your counsel for pandemics, such as influenza and COVID-19.

You made countless contributions to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases, including the development of treatments and therapies for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola, and Zika.

You have shared your expertise as a member of a variety of groups, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.

You are a recipient of numerous esteemed awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Lasker Award for Public Service, and the Georgian Colbert Medal of the Association of American Physicians.

In addition to these awards, you have been recognized with 58 honorary degrees, and today, you will be a degreed Spartan.

(Dr. Fauci giggles) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) For your notable career in the public health sector, application of your scientific knowledge to the betterment of society, and your time, expertise, advice, and dedication in preventing and treating infectious disease,.

I am pleased to award you an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from Michigan State University.

(audience applauds) - Interim President Woodruff.

I present to you, Dr. Fauci, for the award of an honorary degree, Doctor of Humanities.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) Thank you.

Thank you.

- Dr. Fauci, it is now my honor to invite you to address the graduates.

- Thank you so much, President Woodruff, Provost Jeitschko, for that very kind introduction, and for this wonderful honorary degree.

Faculty members, administrators, distinguished guests, relatives, and friends of the graduates, and of course, you, the 2023 doctoral degree graduates of Michigan State University, I am truly delighted and honored to be your commencement speaker.

Now, I have been privileged over the years to deliver a fair number of commencement addresses, yet your class is truly exceptional because you persevered despite the profound upheaval, constraints, and loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Each of you will carry a unique imprint of this extraordinary experience that confronted you during a very pivotable period of your lives.

I feel profound empathy for you, as well as sincerely enormous respect for your adaptability and your dedication to accomplishing your educational goals.

One silver lining, I hope, has been the realization of your own personal attributes, particularly the resilience that enabled you to hang in there, and emerge successfully through this disruptive experience.

Now, although we have not yet completely be beyond this COVID experience, as you know, the U.S. public health emergency will soon end.

An analyses already have begun of lessons learned.

"What's past is prologue," Shakespeare famously wrote, and studying the past can be an informative window into the future.

I am speaking not only of lessons from COVID that can help us prepare for the next public health challenge, but also lessons from this pandemic that apply to future life experiences that you will encounter that may be far removed from pandemic outbreaks.

I speak, naturally, of your future, daily lives.

Today, I would like to very briefly discuss just a few of these lessons.

First, expect the unexpected.

After SARS-CoV-2 was brought to public attention in January of 2020, the virus spread rapidly from person to person, and traversed the entire globe, an all-hands-on-deck scientific response was mounted that resulted in the development of two safe and protective vaccines in less than a year.

Yet as the pandemic unfolded, the virus gradually revealed a series of unanticipated secrets that caught us by surprise as well-prepared as we thought we were.

Importantly, we learned that SARS-CoV-2, unlike any other respiratory viruses, most often is transmitted from people who are infected, but who have no symptoms at all.

Moreover, this wily virus acquired genetic mutations that resulted in the repeated emergence of new variants, causing successive waves of infections, hospitalizations, and tragically, deaths.

Now, each surprise not only humbled us, but reminded us that when facing novel challenges in life, any predictions we might make about what will happen next, or how a situation will evolve must always be provisional.

And with that realization, emergence, the importance of flexibility.

So planning your life path is commendable, and in many situations, advisable, yet in my own experience, some of the most significant events that I have experienced, or directions that I have taken, turned out to be wholly unanticipated or unplanned.

And so as you leave the comfortable and familiar environment of Michigan State University and venture out into the wider world to begin the next phase of your lives, keep in mind that career paths are not always linear.

Mine certainly was not.

Plans will be waylaid by challenges and intermittently rocked by disappointments, but unexpected, and sometimes exciting opportunities will present themselves to you.

I urge you to be open to pursuing and capitalizing on these unanticipated opportunities.

It may require stepping out of your comfort zone, but doing so with your eyes wide open to the potential risks and rewards can be exciting, fulfilling, and potentially career and life-altering.

And so remember, expect the unexpected.

Next lesson, the importance of science, and unfortunately, the destructive consequences of anti-science.

All of you are graduating today with the common denominator of a direct or indirect connection to science, and the importance of scientific evidence to the pursuit of knowledge and truth, whatever discipline you choose.

In that context, for the 38 years that I served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, my critical mission was to sustain a robust investment in basic and clinical research to better understand how microbes emerge, persist, and potentially cause widespread human illness and death.

A cogent lesson we learned from the COVID pandemic was the enormous payoff of that investment.

Most notably, the drive to make mRNA COVID-19 vaccines was actually breathtaking.

In January, 2020, we had the sequence of the virus, and by December of that year, 2020, 11 months later, the first COVID-19 vaccines went into the arms of individuals.

The timeline was truly unprecedented, and only possible because for decades prior to 2020, we had invested steadily in fundamental research on coronaviruses, and the mRNA vaccine platform technology and image and design used to develop the COVID vaccines.

The result was millions of lives saved in the United States and throughout the world.

That is the beauty of science at its best.

But unfortunately, during the COVID pandemic, a significant anti-science element arose in our society that is now quite vocal.

The sentiment worries me greatly because it promotes the denigration of scientific evidence and data, and with that comes the undermining of the foundation of our social order.

Unfairly attacking, mischaracterizing, and undermining evidence-based scientific findings intertwined within a fusion of conspiracy theories, sews public confusion, and erodes trust in evidence-based public health principles.

This becomes crystal clear as we fought to overcome false rumors about the virus, about the vaccine itself, during the rollout of that life-saving product.

And now, not only in our country, but worldwide, the disparagement of scientific evidence is threatening the routine aspects of public health as well, including the vital importance of childhood immunizations.

But let us extend this concept well beyond the situation with COVID, and I'm talking about the lessons in your own lives.

The rise of an anti-science sentiment is part of a pervasive and larger, even more troublesome problem in our society.

What I refer to as the normalization and the acceptance of untruths, sadly some in our society, have grown increasingly enured to a cacophony of falsehoods and lies often driven by individuals with profit motive, or ideological agendas that often stand largely unchallenged.

We see this happen daily propagated through a range of information platforms, especially social media, with COVID misinformation and disinformation proved to be the enemies of public health as people avoided proven vaccines and treatments and suffered illnesses and deaths that could have been prevented with these evidence-based interventions.

But beyond COVID, the normalization and acceptance of untruths and outright egregious lying threatens many aspects of our lives that you will be involved with.

Education, business, the law in a way that should deeply concern all of us.

I do not believe that I am being hyperbolic when I say that the normalization and casual acceptance of untruths without our fiercely pushing back on this phenomenon can gradually lead to the erosion of the foundation of our democracy.

We need only to look at January 6th, 2021, and so I plead with you, as you leave this outstanding institution, you are our best hope to counter this threat to our society.

Do not hesitate to push back these destructive forces with all the strength that you can muster, and do your best to explain what is known, what is not known, and to help people understand and follow the best available evidence.

Final lesson, at least for today, healing our divided nation.

I wanna leave you with a plea to help heal our fractured nation.

Returning to the metaphor of COVID, the profound divisiveness in our country that I am sure was, and is apparent to you in our response to COVID impeded the effectiveness of our response.

Now, it is obvious that we live in a remarkably diverse country geographically, culturally, economically, religiously, and regarding our political ideologies.

However, our diversity has contributed substantially to why we are such a great nation.

The diversity in our political ideologies has historically contributed to our having a balanced and healthy society as long as we can acknowledge our differences and engage in respectful civil discourse.

However, events over the past few years have been greatly disturbing.

We cannot let diversity and healthy differences in ideology, which should be our strengths, deteriorate into divisiveness at harming and attacks, and actual hatred, which as we witnessed during the pandemic, actually became our weakness.

Today is a time to begin building the bridges that will enable us to pull together with a singular purpose.

You are the generation that can make this happen.

You have been trained at an outstanding institution, and you have the right stuff to make it happen for the love of each other, and our wonderful country.

As graduates of Michigan State University, you are very familiar with its tenant, advancing the common good with uncommon will.

We are counting on you.

And finally, I have been speaking to you over the past few minutes about issues that have a somewhat serious heir about them.

I wanna close with a reminder that amid these serious issues, there is much joy in life.

Allow yourselves to cultivate this joy as much as you do your professional accomplishments.

Different pursuits and activities provide joy in different ways for different people, as you might expect.

Find your source of joy, and embrace it.

Let your hair down.

Have some fun.

Many of you will be in serious and important positions starting relatively soon.

This is not incompatible with the fact that you have so many other things to live for and to be happy about.

Reach for them, and relish the joy.

Congratulations to you, to your families, and your loved ones.

Good luck, and God bless you.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Dr. Fauci.

We now have the privilege of hearing special music by the MSU Wind Symphony under the direction of Dr. Kevin Sedatole.

The selection is "America the Beautiful," composed by S.A. Ward.

(energetic music) (audience applauds) Thank you very much to our MSU Wind Symphony.

I would now like to introduce the honorable Dr. Rema Vassar, chairperson of the MSU Board of Trustees.

In addition to her role on the board of trustees, Trustee Vassar also serves as professor in the College of Education at Wayne State University.

She earned her doctorate from UCLA, and focuses her research on issues of equity, justice, access, and inclusion and education for minoritized communities.

We thank her for her service on the board.

Trustee Vassar will greet the graduates and guests, and after Trustee Vassar, interim provost and executive vice president Thomas Jeitschko will present members of the platform party.

- Thank you.

I appreciate it.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Interim President Woodruff.

On behalf of the MSU Board of Trustees, I welcome graduates, and your family and friends who join us today.

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

At this time, I'd like to recognize my colleagues on the MSU board who are here with us this afternoon.

I think we have the honorable Dianne Byrum, yes, (audience applauds) the honorable Kelly Tebay.

(audience applauds) Thank you for your service.

Today's ceremony represents the culmination of your academic achievement.

This terminal degree that you have earned acknowledges your success, and it honors those who have encouraged and supported you in so many ways.

And I just have to pause and recognize that there are so many folks here, but this one ceremony has the most children.

So I know that there's gotta be some mothers here in this audience, in this stadium.

Happy Mother's Day to you all.

Happy Mother's Day, particularly to those who were dissertating while mothering.

Great job.

Congratulations to you, and Happy Mother's Day to you.

(audience applauds) You know, we were warned about hecklers today.

Like, I thought we might have someone controversial, they said, was coming to speak to us.

I'm not sure who that was.

I haven't seen Sparty around, or anybody, but what I noticed were the hecklers were all under age five.

(Dr. Rema Vassar laughs) So good job, mothers.

Congratulations to you.

Happy Mother's Day.

Our wish is for you to use your knowledge, your deep understanding, and your expertise to improve our communities, to advance the common good, and to better our collective lives.

Our faculty, staff, administrators, and trustees are so very proud of you.

Thank you for allowing us to share in this special celebration today.

Congratulations, and go green.

- [Audience] Go green.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Trustee Vasser.

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

Graduates, each of you embodies a unique confluence of new knowledge.

The discoveries you have made and delivered to the world, and the new capabilities you possess are represented in your curiosity and 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 the result of your achievements.

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

I would now like to take a moment to acknowledge our outstanding faculty and academic staff who are here to celebrate with our graduates.

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

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 marks the solemnity and significance of this moment.

Colleagues, please remain standing as you are introduced.

Members of the audience, please hold your applause until all are introduced.

Dean Kelly Millenbah from the College of Agricultural and Natural Resources.

Dean Christopher Long from the College of Arts and Letters and the Honors College.

Interim Dean Judith Whipple from the Eli Broad College of Business.

Dean Prabu David from the College of Communications Arts and Sciences.

Dean Jerlando Jackson from the College of Education.

Dean Leo Kempel from the College of Engineering.

Dean Aaron Susa from the College of Human Medicine.

Dean James Forger from the College of Music.

Dean Phillip Duxbury from the College of Natural Science.

Dean Lee Small from the College of Nursing.

(audience member cheers) Dean Andrea Amalfitano from the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dean Mary Finn from the College of Social Science.

Associate Dean Srinand Sreevatsan from the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Norman Beauchamp, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences.

Ann Austin, Interim Associate Provost, and Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs.

Rebecca Barber, Vice President for Financial Planning and Analysis.

Stefan Fletcher, Secretary to the Board of Trustees.

Douglas Gage, Vice President for Research and Innovation.

Steven Hansen, Vice Provost and Dean of International Studies and Programs.

Mark Largent, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

Kim Tobin, Vice President for University Advancement.

Dave Weatherspoon, Vice Provost of Enrollment and Academic Strategic Planning.

Melissa Wu, Executive Vice President for Administration, and Chief Information Officer.

Mike Zike, President's Office Chief of Staff.

And Karen Kelly-Blake, Associate Professor Chairperson of the Faculty Senate, MSU Academic Governance, and the University Mace Bearer.

(audience applauds) I would also like to thank our live captioner, Susan Haya, as well as... Ah, we do not have the signing thing.

Okay.

Thank you very much, Susan.

(audience applauds) 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.

Thank you for your contributions to the university and your fellow graduate students, and please accept our appreciation for your contributions.

(audience applauds) I invite Pero Dagbovie, Vice Provost for Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies and Dean of the Graduate School to join me for the announcement of the degree candidates, and to direct doctoral hooding.

(audience member cheers) (audience member applauds) - Will the candidates for the doctoral degrees please rise?

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Interim President Woodruff and Interim Provost Jeitschko, on behalf of the faculty in their respective colleges, I present these candidates to you for the conferral of their degrees.

- I invite the trustees to stand as we confer the degrees.

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 been recommended with all the rights and distinctions to which they entitle you.

Congratulations, graduates.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Please be seated.

(audience member cheers) (audience member laughs) - 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 intellectual colleague.

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

I invite everyone who witnesses the hooding to think deeply about the candidates as they approach the dais, are 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.

I thank our doctoral students for their contributions, and congratulate them on the conferral of their doctoral hood.

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

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

Graduates, please return to your seats after you are introduced, and the token diploma is presented, and photos are taken.

Jamie Paisley and Scott Paul will announce the names of graduates as they receive their diplomas.

I now ask 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 on each hood represent 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 work.

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

- From the College of Veterinary Medicine, Amanda Dergolovich, hooded by Dr. John LaPres.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Lauren Hyna, hooded by Dr. Jack Harkema.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) (baby cries) Jasiel Strube.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Omar Kana.

The hooder is Dr. Sudin Bhattacharya.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) (audience member laughs) Vishvapali Kobbekaduwa.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Kaianne Phelen, hooded by Dr. Adam Moeser.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) Abdullah Matebe, hooded by Dr. Kurt Zinn.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) From the College of Social Science, Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt-Holloway.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member 1 cheers) (audience member 2 cheers) Sarah Quan.

The hooder is Ann Marie Ryan.

(audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Sarah!

- [Announcer 1] Caitlin Elizabeth Lehe.

The hooder is Dr. Deborah A. Kashy.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Jenna Van Fossen, hooded by Kevin Ford.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Daniel Griffin, also being hooded by Dr. Kevin Ford.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jalia DeVere Rutledge, hooded by Dr. Robin Lin Miller.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Taylor Reed.

The hooder is Dr. Heather McCauley.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) El Wernette.

The hooder is Dr. Kimberly Fenn.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Lilly Ann-Marie Glow, hooded by Dr. Jason Moser.

(audience applauds) Kara Cochran.

The hooder is Dr. Anne Bogat.

(audience applauds) Amanda Isabel Ozuna, hooded by Dr. Joseph Hamm.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] We love you!

- [Announcer 1] Kayla Hoskins, hooded by Dr. Merry Morash.

(audience applauds) Young Jay Nam, hooded by Dr. Scott Wolfe.

(audience applauds) Stephen Nicholas Oliphant, hooded by Dr. Chris Melde.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Vanessa Aguilar, hooded by Dr. Sheila Contreras.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Esther Ayers.

The hooder is Dr. Eric Juenke.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Angelica Yasmine Ruvalcaba, hooded by Dr. Isabel Ayala.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Anna Ruth Wilcoxon, also hooded by Dr. Isabel Ayala.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Vanessa Rickenbrode, hooded by Dr. Isabel Ayala.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Wenhua Li, hooded by Dr. Ning Hsieh.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Ina Mirzoyan, hooded by Dr. Steve Gold.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Lilly Anderson Chaveria, hooded by Dr. Heather Howard.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Lucas Reyes Prieto, hooded by Dr. Deirdre Shires.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Kevin Mckeean.

The hooder is Dr. Alan Arbogast.

(audience applauds) Kiana Latrice Lynn Shay Henderson, hooded by Dr. Ashton Shortridge.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Way to go, Kiana!

- [Announcer 1] Gabriela Shirkey.

The hooder is Dr. Jiquan Chen.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Donald Akunga, hooded by Dr. Nathan Moore.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience member whistles) Kyla Carey.

The hooder is Dr. Megan Moss.

(audience applauds) Ariana Pikus, hooded by Dr. Hope Gerde.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Melissa Isaguierre, hooded by Dr. Kendal Holtrop.

(audience applauds) Meng Fong.

The hooder is Dr. Andrea K. Whittenborn.

(audience applauds) Tien Tien Suen, hooded by Dr. Ryan Bowles.

(audience applauds) Yatma Diop, hooded by Dr. Lori Skibbe.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Su Huan Chong.

The hooder is Dr. Steven J. Haider.

(audience applauds) David Hong.

The hooder is Steven Haider.

(audience applauds) Mehmed Koraka, hooded by Dr. Steven Haider.

(audience applauds) Caitlin Heddinger.

The hooder is Dr. Todd Elder.

(audience applauds) Alex Yohan, hooded by Dr. Todd Elder.

(audience applauds) Benjamin Miller.

The hooder is Dr. Todd Elder.

(audience applauds) Joshua Brownstein, hooded by Dr. Todd Elder.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Elise Bruchiers, hooded by Dr. Soren Anderson.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Andrew Earl, hooded by Dr. Soren Anderson.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Kaidee Wu.

The hooder is Dr. Stacy Dickert-Conlin.

(audience applauds) Graham Gardner, hooded by Dr. Stacy Dickert-Conlin.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Cassia Ariella Dickinson, hooded by Dr. Eric Juenke.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Cassia!

- [Announcer 1] Jonathan King.

The hooder is Dr. Ryan Black.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Aaliyah Janelle McElwain.

The hooder is Dr. Sarah Reckhow.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Nicolaus Fransen Caucus, hooded by Dr. Michael Wahman.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) From the College of Nursing, Devin Paxton.

The hooder is Dr. Gayle Lourens.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Matthew Shaner.

The hooder is Dr. Gayle Lourens.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience member whistles) Maria Medina, hooded by Dr. Gayle Lourens.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Yeah, Maria!

- [Announcer 1] Melinda Wander, hooded by Dr. Gayle Lourens.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jacob Rowley.

The hooder is Dr. Gayle Lourens.

(audience applauds) Stephan Titianu, hooded by Dr. Gayle Lourens.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Kristin Henry.

The hooder is Dr. Angella Ruley.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Benjamin Brower, hooded by Dr. Angella Ruley.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Kaylee Dodds, hooded by Dr. Angella Ruley.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Ashley Kentu.

The hooder is Dr. Angella Ruley.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Ranin George, hooded by Dr. Angella Ruley.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Eric Korone, also hooded by Dr. Angella Ruley.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Brennan Kulhánek, hooded by Dr. Lindsey Mason.

(audience applauds) Hu Di Chwin, hooded by Dr. Lindsey Mason.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Caitlin Hoekstra, also hooded by Dr. Lindsey Mason.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Michelle Lajonas, hooded by Dr. Lindsey Mason.

(audience applauds) Maureen Malice, hooded by Dr. Lindsey Mason.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jennifer Mader, hooded by Dr. Lindsay Mason.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Caitlin Bodner, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Amy Slaughten, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Rebecca Steckroth, also hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience applauds) Jennifer Gunther, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Lila Maklid, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Brooke Lashon Sandifer, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Rachel Sager, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Dimitria McDuffy, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member laughs) Sierra Harns, hooded by Dr. Kara Schrader.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Irena Kulik.

The hooder is Dr. Cindy McNerlin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Veronica Osborne, hooded by Dr. Cynthia McNerlin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Odile Nana Finjap, hooded by Dr. Rhonda Conner-Warren.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member cheers) (audience member laughs) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) Ogechi Aririguzo, hooded by Dr. Janine Hinkle.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Haley Gore Hathaway, hooded by Dr. Kristin Castine.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Carly Olander, hooded by Dr. Kristin Castine.

(audience cheers) (audience member whistles) (audience applauds) Chelsea Richard, hooded by Dr. Kristin Castine.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member coughs) Melissa Rossiter, hooded by Dr. Mary Smania.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Taylor Blank.

The hooder is Dr. Susan Buchholz.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Bailey Hanover, hooded by Dr. Kim Krummrey.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Tobias Bepler, hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Trevor Gable Baird, hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Yay, Trevor!

(audience member cheers) (audience member whistles) - [Announcer 1] Lauren Bobby Nicole Adams San Antonio, hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Henry Birchmeier, hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Carlene Gaither Vira Panover, (bell jingles) hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Patience Ampulu Bussie Naombi, hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jessica Ann Bates, hooded by Dr. Patrick Crane.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Irene Chibo Watt Miyo, hooded by Dr. Denise Hershey.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Cameron Farrier, hooded by Dr. Denise Hershey.

(Cameron laughs) (audience applauds) Matthew Gaston, hooded by Dr. Don Goldstein.

(audience applauds) Hannah Elizabeth Shang, hooded by Dr. Don Goldstein.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) Katie Anderson.

The hooder is Dr. Don Goldstein.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Dean Gainey, hooded by Dr.

Dawn Goldstein.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Franklin Quiter, hooded by Dr. Don Goldstein.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member laughs) Marissa Herrera, hooded by Dr. Jacqueline Eisler.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Let's go, Marissa!

Let's go!

- [Announcer 1] Kimberly Jones, also hooded by Dr. Jacqueline Eisler.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Leslie Nido, hooded by Dr. Jackie Eisler.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Elizabeth Corker, hooded by Dr. Jackie Eisler.

(audience applauds) Heather Harris, hooded by Dr. Jackie Eisler.

(audience applauds) Susan Pell, hooded by Dr. Jackie Eisler.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Muna Alali.

The hooder is Dr. Lorraine Robbins.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Lauren Marie Pajo, hooded by Dr. Jiying Ling.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Announcer 2] From the College of Natural Science, Ja Sing Ja, hooded by Dr. Allen K. McNamara.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Lou Wann Wan, hooded by Dr. Anthony Kendall.

(audience applauds) Jacob Glow, hooded by Dr. Jeffrey Schenker.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Andres Galindo Golarte, hooded by Dr. Jeffrey Schenker.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Craig Gross, hooded by Mark Iwen.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Chloe Lewis, hooded by Tina Gerhardt.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Joseph Melby, hooded by Effie Kalfagianni.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Samila Mercadólogo Gamage, hooded by Jun Kitagawa.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Sarah Castle, hooded by Dr. Shiv Karunakaran.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) Gi He Kwan, hooded by Dr. Shiv Karunakaran (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Quinn Minnich, hooded by Kirsten Tollefson.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Leanna Gay Fernando, hooded by Dr. Tuo Wang.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Daniel Jesus Puentes, hooded by Remco Zegers.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jason Tyler Serba, hooded by Chris Reed.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Theresa Panurach, hooded by Jay Straddler.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Eric Firestone, hooded by Thomas Hamman.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Katie Lynn Kukoski, hooded by Karen Draths.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Okay, Michael Blachowicz, hooded by Dr. Ua Hao.

(audience applauds) - [Audience Member 1] Yay, Michael!

- [Audience Member 2] Yay, Michael!

(audience applauds) - [Announcer 2] Grace Hubble, hooded by Dr. Yetsi Tepe.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) Emmanuel Meloba, hooded by Dr. Robert E. Maleczka Jr. (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) (audience applauds) Shivanji Kuj, hooded by Shufe Huang.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Iko Turmo, hooded by Dr. Robert Halzinger.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Okay.

Okay.

Hunter Dule, hooded by Dr. Gemma Reguera.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Alice Chu, hooded by Dr. Eric Martinez-Hackert.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Anna Maria Raikou, hooded by Dr. David Arnosti.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Mesma Mazruf Clump, hooded by Dr. Brian Schutte.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Paul Fezil, hooded by Dr. Robert Last.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Larissa Ankley, hooded by Dr. Andrew Olive.

(audience cheers) - [Audience Member 1] Way to go, Lari!

- [Audience Member 2] Whoa.

- [Announcer 2] Sean Thomas, hooded by Dr. Andrew Olive.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Adam Anthony, hooded by Dr. Bill Lynch.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Rajab Ahmed Curtis, hooded by Dr. Neil Hammer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Muhammad Yasir Noaz, hooded by Dr. Cedric Gondro.

(audience applauds) From the College of Music, Colleen Chester, hooded by Dr. David Rayl.

(audience cheers) (audience member whistles) (audience applauds) Dalen McKay Guthrie, hooded by Dr. David Rayl.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Unsul Lee, hooded by Dr. David Rayl.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Dr. Jen Lee Tao, hooded by Dr. David Rayl.

(audience applauds) (audience member laughs) (audience applauds) (audience member coughs) Cody McKay Edgerton, hooded by Dr. Kevin L Sedatole.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Brian Taylor, hooded by Dr. Kevin Sedatol.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Austin Opran, hooded by Dr. Ava Ordman.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jared Jarvis, hooded by Dr. Ava Ordman.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) (audience applauds) Fan Yu, hooded by Dr. Melanie Helton.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Gahyun Kim, hooded by Dr. Ricardo Lawrence.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Wi Jung Shoy, hooded by Dr. Derek Polischuk.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Kumi Rah, hooded by Professor Deborah Moriarty.

(audience applauds) Christina Gorder, hooded by Dr. Jiwa Tang.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Shule Jao, hooded by Professor Jane Bunnell.

(audience applauds) Jiang Chi Jiang, hooded by Dr. Richard Fracker.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jiang Jiang, hooded by Dr. Richard Fracker.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Elliot Matthew Mahulak, hooded by Dr. Corbin Wagner.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Henry Dorn, hooded by Dr. David Biedenbender.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Tyler Young, hooded by Dr. Joseph Lulloff.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jen Fong Shai, hooded by Dr.

Guy Yehuda.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) Guang Shao Huang, hooded by Dr. Mingzhe Wang.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jai Yuko, hooded by Dr. Nermis Mieses.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Eugene Rowe, hooded by Dr. Nermis Mieses.

(audience cheers) But that's... (Announcer 2 faintly speaking) She stood there.

Whoops.

(audience applauds) Yipe Lynn, hooded by Dr. Mark Sullivan.

(audience cheers) Kakia Gutina, hooded by Dr. Mark Sullivan.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) From the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Morna Hallsaxton, hooded by Dr. Trish Machemer.

(audience applauds) Gulrez Sofian, hooded by Dr. Laura Reese.

(audience applauds) Osnor Kolischan Ido Gan, hooded by Dr. Evangelyn Alocilja.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Chelsea Budu, hooded by Dr. Evangelyn Alocilja.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Saad Sharif, hooded by Professor Evangelyn Alocilja.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Amanda Howland, hooded by Dr. Marisol Quintanilla.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Nicole Wonderlin, hooded by Dr. Hannah Burrack.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Daniel Turner, hooded by Dr. Rufus Isaacs.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Quinn Kathleen Kolar, hooded by Dr. Pamela Ruic.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Emily Morgan Liljestrand, hooded by Dr. James Bentz.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Susanna Albarenque hooded by Dr. Bruno Basso.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Melissa Starking, hooded by Dr. Gary Roloff.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Tracy Melvin, hooded by Dr. Gary Roloff.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Skye Phiset, hooded by Dr. Gary Roloff.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Christopher Kenop, hooded by Dr. Thomas Locke.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Love you!

- [Announcer 2] Irandoct Parvizi Omaran, hooded by Dr. Monireh Mahmoudi.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Charity Goeckeritz, hooded by Dr. Courtney A. Hollender PhD.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Stephanie Rhett Cadman, hooded by Dr. Rebecca Grumet.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) I Cheng Lee, hooded by Dr. Rebecca Grumet.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Phillip Angelo, hooded by Dr. Randy Beaudry.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) We Ja Wong, hooded by Dr. Miranda House.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Yururi Jang, hooded by Dr. Wei Liao.

(audience applauds) Kathleen Rhodes, hooded by Dr. Patrick Edger.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (Announcer 2 chuckles) Isaac Larkey, hooded by Haddish Melakeberhan.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Hyun-Jun Kim, hooded by Dr. Nicole Mason-Warden.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Yishuan Gao, hooded by Dr. Nicki Mason-Wardell.

(audience applauds) Ming Fong, hooded by Dr. Songqing Jin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Ziying Huang, hooded by Dr. Mark Skidmore.

(audience applauds) Alexander Hopkins, hooded by Dr. Satish Joshi.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Kelsey Hopkins, hooded by Dr. Melissa McKendry.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Ramiatdi Maku Pidiai, hooded by Dr. Adesoji O. Adelaja.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Onasi Gadegbe, hooded by Dr. Adesoji Adelaja.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Maria Alejandra Garcia Otero, hooded by Dr. Maria Claudia Lopez.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Audience Member] We love you!

- [Announcer 2] Suda Kanan, hooded by Dr. Douglas Bassett.

(audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Love you!

- [Announcer 2] Nick Drizzle, hooded by Dr. Katherine Alaimo.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Diana Pasiga, hooded by Dr. Rita Strakovsky.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Farida Adam, hooded by Dr. Zeynep Ustunol.

(audience applauds) (audience member laughs) Lucas Krasinski, hooded by Dr. Jennifer Fenton.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Sihan Bu, hooded by Dr. Sarah Comstock.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Both?

Both, okay, good.

Luis D. Rivera Cubero, hooded by Dr. David Rothstein and Dr. Asia Dowtin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member laughs) - [Announcer 1] From the College of Arts and Letters, Nick Sanders.

The hooder is Dr. Bill Hart Davidson.

(audience applauds) Sharieka Botex, hooded by Dr. Trixie Smith.

(audience cheers) - [Audience Member] Let's go!

(audience cheers) Krsna Santos, hooded by Dr. Liz Mittman.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Marisa Mercurio.

The hooder is Dr. Kristin Mahoney.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) - [Staff Member] Congratulations.

Oh.

Hold on, hold on.

- [Announcer 1] Sue Yun Cho.

The hooders are Dr. Gary Hoppenstand and Dr. Natalie Phillips.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member cheers) John Dillon Burton, hooded by Dr. Paula Winky.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Haima Rawau, hooded by Dr. Peter DeCosta.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Curtis Green, hooded by Dr. Peter De Costa.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Lee Her, also hooded by Dr. Peter De Costa.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Eishan Touse Ju, hooded by Dr. Shawn Loewen.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Yingzhao Chen, hooded by Dr. Shawn Loewen.

(audience applauds) Ye Ma, hooded by Dr. Shawn Loewen.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Giovanni Salazar Calvo, hooded by Dr. Kispe Anyole.

(audience applauds) (audience member whistles) (audience member cheers) From the Eli Broad College of Business, Sue Young.

The hooder is Dr. Ranjani Krishnan.

(audience applauds) - [Audience Member] Yeah, Sue!

(audience cheers) - [Announcer 1] Susan Tang, hooded by Dr. Michelle Nessa.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Junghyun Mah, hooded by Dr. Gerry McNamara.

(audience applauds) Shuzi Lee, hooded by Dr. Brent Scott.

(audience applauds) Ryan Hemsley, hooded by Dr. Brent Scott.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Micah Jane Marzolf, hooded by Dr. Simone Peinkofer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Victor Chernetsky.

The hooder is Dr. Ahmet Kirca.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) From the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Ju Young Lee, hooded by Dr. Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) Ahmed Yousef, hooded by Dr. Maryam Naghibolhosseini.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Kelsey Earl.

The hooder is Dr. Brandon Van Der Heide.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Shelby Wilcox, hooded by Dr. Brandon Van Der Heide and Dr. Allison Eden.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Sarah Grady, hooded by Dr. Allison Eden.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Youjin Jang.

The hooder is Dr. Maria Lapinski.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Linda White.

The hooder is Dr. Esther Thorson.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Tiago Sousa Prado, hooded by Dr. Johannes Bauer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Megan Knittel, hooded by Dr. Stephanie Jordan.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) From the College of Education, Paul E. Bielsma, hooded by Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Staff Member] Congratulations.

- [Announcer 1] Nicole Shari Springer, hooded by Dr. Marilyn Amy.

(audience member whistles) (audience member cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) - Stephanie Brewer, hooded by Dr. Ann Austin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Staff Member] Congratulations.

- [Announcer 1] Guanglong Pang, hooded by Dr. John Dirks.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) William Trevor Langford IV, hooded by Dr. Janine Certo.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member laughs) (audience member cheers) - [Audience Member] There we go.

Very good.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Announcer 1] Ming Xu Dang, hooded by Dr. Peter De Costa and Dr. Lucia Cardenas Curiel.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Lindsay McComb, hooded by Dr. Lucia Cardenas Curiel.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Brittany Jones.

The hooder is Dr. Anne-Lise Halvorsen.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) (audience cheers) Julie Brammer, hooded by Dr. Gary Troya.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Trisha Lee Easley, hooded by Dr. Gloria Lee.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience laughs) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Danielle Tabitha Odarkai Aiya, hooded by Dr. Gloria Lee.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Alicia Strain, hooded by Dr. Gloria Lee.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) Kapule David Mabuta, hooded by Dr. Leapetswe Malete.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member laughs) Michael Mingnano, also hooded by Dr. Leapetswe Malete.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Eric Luzinski.

The hooder is Dr. David Ferguson.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Ashley McPeek, also hooded by Dr. David Ferguson.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Greg Field Jr.

The hooder is Dr. Kevin Pfeiffer.

(audience cheers) Dr. Karin Pfeiffer.

(audience applauds) DJ McDowell, hooded by Dr. Karin Allor Pfeiffer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jonathan Hamel, hooded by Dr. Karin Pfeiffer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Kyle Ault Baker, hooded by Dr. Karin Pfeiffer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Alicia Matthews, hooded by Dr. Karin Pfeiffer.

- [Staff Member] You did this.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Announcer 1] Meredith Wekesser, hooded by Dr. Karin Pfeiffer.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Aaron James Zinda.

The hooder is Dr. Tracey Covassin.

(audience member whistles) (audience applauds) Robert Phelps, hooded by Dr. Melissa Usiak.

(audience member whistles) (audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Jordan Dennis, hooded by Dr. Melissa Usiak.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Meredith Beard, hooded by Dr. Melissa Usiak.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Michelle Smith Ware.

The hooder is Dr. David Wong.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Sarah Dysart, hooded by Dr. David Wong.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Sydney Resa Donelson, hooded by Dr. Kristin Rispoli.

(audience applauds) Megan Michelle Stole.

The hooder is Dr. Martin Volker.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Holly Long.

The hooder is Dr. Emily Bouck.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Allison Cascarilla, hooded by Dr. Matthew Brodhead.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Vicky Foon, hooded by Dr. Jennifer Schmidt.

(audience applauds) Brooke Harris Thomas, also hooded by Dr. Jennifer Schmidt.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Daman Chhikara.

The hooder is Dr. Kristy Cooper Stein.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member laughs) - [Announcer 2] Good to go?

(Announcer 2 laughs) Good to go?

Okay.

From the College of Engineering, Farzaneh Tatari, hooded by Dr. Katy Colbry.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Sarab Praiga, hooded by Dr. Katy Colbry.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Nisha Gupta, hooded by Dr. Peter Sulvilanan.

(audience applauds) Hamid Bulandi, hooded by Dr. Nizar Lajnef.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Puneet Kumar, hooded by Dr. Nizar Lajnef.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Wei Jin, hooded by Dr. Jiahang Taun.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jamell Dacon, hooded by Dr. Chi Young Taun.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jaun Taun, hooded by Dr. Guoming Zhu.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Renu Sharma, hooded by Dr. Arun Ross.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Sudipta Banerjee, hooded by Dr. Arun Ross.

(audience applauds) Tia Shay, hooded by Dr. Guan-Hua Tu.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Rahul Dey, hooded by Dr. Vishnu Boddeti.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Mamun Chaffee, hooded by Dr. Roozbeh Dargazany.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Yang Chen, hooded by Dr. Roozbeh Dargazany.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Sharif Alazhary, hooded by Dr. Roozbeh Dargazany.

(audience applauds) Cedar Chuklya, hooded by Dr. Annick Anctil.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Shardula Gawankar, hooded by Dr. Susan J. Masten.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Shao Yao Lee, hooded by Dr. Rebecca Lahr.

(audience applauds) (Announcer 2 laughs) (audience applauds) Debruta Mitro, hooded by Dr. Kristen Cetin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Mati Gazave, hooded by Dr. Muhammad Emin Kutay.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Archana Lamsal, hooded by Dr. Tamara Bush.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Hoi Ho Hawke Suen, hooded by Dr. Patrick Kwon.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Guan Chao Saun, hooded by Dr. Patrick Kwon.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Beitula Idegen, hooded by Dr. Patrick Kwon.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Itagen Ujai Soy, hooded by Dr. Patrick Kwon.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Tejas Patel, hooded by Lik Chuan Lee.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Syed Fahad Hassan, hooded by Dr. Makmur Heif.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Xenophon Constantino, hooded by Dr. John Papapolymerou and Dr. John Albrecht.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Athamandia Clesius, hooded by Dr. John Papapolymerou.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Nikolai Ivanov, hooded by Dr. Kiban Yang.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Ritam Ganguly, hooded by Dr. Borzoo Bonakdarpour.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Anik Montaz, hooded by Dr. Borzoo Bonakdarpour.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Muhammad Hussein Khalife, hooded by Dr. Abdol Esfahanian.

(audience applauds) Ragusa?

Ragusa.

Vincent Ragusa, hooded by Dr. Christoff Adami.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Victoria Toomajian, hooded by Dr. Christopher Contag.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Connor Grady, hooded by Dr. Assaf Gilad.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Alexander Bricco, hooded by Dr. Assaf Gilad.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Harvey Lee, hooded by Dr. Assaf Gilad.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Taha Pozos, hooded by Dr. Sergey Baryshev.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member whistles) (audience applauds) Matthew Andres Moreno, hooded by Dr. Charles Althra.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) (audience member whistles) Jose Guadalupe Hernandez, hooded by Dr. Charles Afria and Dr. Alexander Lalejini.

- [Audience Member 1] Jose!

- [Audience Member 2] Jose!

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Announcer 2] Manoj Madhavan, hooded by Dr. Ripla Arora.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Kylie Smith, hooded by Dr. Kurt Gin.

(audience cheers) - [Staff Member] Zin.

- [Announcer 2] Zin.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) David Phillip Povich, hooded by Dr. Sudan Machare.

(audience applauds) Juen Jitsi, hooded by Dr. John Wong Wong.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Subrata Mukherje, hooded by Professor Lalita Udpa.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) (audience applauds) Zi Li, hooded by Dr. Yiming Dang.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Kiran Hamilton, hooded by Dr. Yiming Dang.

(Announcer 2 laughs) (audience applauds) - [Kiran] Love you, mom!

- [Announcer 2] Abdullah Karaaslanli, hooded by Dr. Sulin Ariente.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Ibraheem Alafi, hooded by Dr. Shanelle Foster.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Henry Minaj Dsouza, hooded by Dr. Nelson Sepúlveda.

(audience cheers) - [Audience Member] Let's go, Dsouza!

Let's go, Dsouza!

(audience member laughs) - [Announcer 2] Hadi Seyedi, hooded by Dr. Mohsen Zayernouri.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Royal Ihuaenyi, hooded by Dr. Shin-Han Shiu.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Okay.

Jin Dai, hooded by Dr. Wei Lai.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Yep.

Chi Chang, hooded by Dr. Yiying Tong.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Hayam Abdelrahman, hooded by Dr. Yiying Tong.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Sevan Chanakian, hooded by Dr. Alexandra Zevalkink.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jane Hong, hooded by Dr. Jiao Yu Jo.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Javad Hosseinpour, hooded by Dr. Abraham Engeda.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Jian Shi, hooded by Dr. Scott Calabrese Barton.

(audience applauds) Galarei Kumbar, hooded by Dr. Robert C. Ferrier.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Shaylynn Crum-Dacon, hooded by Dr. Robert Ferrier.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Aditya Arana Narendra Patil, hooded by Dr. Robert Maleczka Jr. (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience laughs) (audience member cheers) Apoorva Kulkarni, hooded by Professor Ramani Narayan.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Geeta Kumari, hooded by Dr. Martin Crimp.

(audience cheers) (audience member whistles) (audience applauds) Genzhi Hu, hooded by Dr. Jason D. Nicholas.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Sneha Banerjee, hooded by Dr. Pang Jong.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience cheers) Yang Jiao, hooded by Dr. Pang Jong.

(audience member cheers) (audience applauds) Chao Jong, hooded by Dr. Gi Huang.

(audience applauds) (audience member cheers) Pio Schupta, hooded by Dr. Vibou Srivastava.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Mazen Newa, hooded by Professor Hater Rouached.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience member cheers) From the College of Human Medicine, Megan Eagle, hooded by Dr. Claudia Holzman.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) Final one.

- [Staff Member] Najav Ochak.

- [Announcer 2] Najav?

- [Staff Member] Najav.

- [Announcer 2] And Asam Najav Ochak, hooded by Dr. David Todem and Dr. Dorothy Pathak.

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) - [Staff Member 1] Hooray!

Go team, go team!

- [Staff Member 2] Good job!

- [Staff Member 3] Good job, good job.

(Staff Member 3 laughs) (audience member claps) (audience member shouts) (audience member 1 laughs) (audience member 2 laughs) - [Audience Member] Wow, the lights.

All right, we're good.

(audience member applauds) (audience member 3 laughs) (baby cries) - Will all the doctoral degree recipients please rise?

(audience cheers) (audience applauds) (audience members whistle) I welcome you to our community of scholars, MSU alums.

Graduates, may your MSU degree lead to a future filled with outstanding personal and professional achievements.

You join a long line of Spartans who have contributed much to our society.

President Roosevelt, whose speech I quoted earlier, also wrote this, "Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right," and so my charge to you is to not only know, but to do what is right, and I also want to remind you that a different world cannot be made by indifferent people.

An MSU doctoral degree, class of 2023, you have demonstrated you are not indifferent.

My charge to you is to go out and to continue to make a difference.

I wish you a purposeful, fulfilling life that builds on your experiences at MSU, and I charge you now to stay connected to this special place on the banks of the red cedar.

Go green!

- [Audience] Go green!

(audience applauds) - I now invite everyone to join in singing the first stanza of the alma mater, "MSU Shadows," which is in your program.

Ms. Coleman will lead us in the singing.

Following the singing, we ask guests to remain seated until the recessional of the platform party, faculty, and students is completed.

♪ MSU, we love thy shadows ♪ ♪ When twilight silence falls ♪ ♪ Flushing 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 thy praises, MSU ♪ (audience cheers) (audience applauds) (energetic music)