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Indiana University to celebrate commencement at eight campuses

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2010

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Michael A. McRobbie, president of Indiana University, will preside over eight days of May commencement ceremonies at eight campuses where 17,952 students will be eligible to receive IU degrees. Additionally, 1,895 Purdue University degrees will be awarded on those IU campuses with Purdue programs, mostly in separate ceremonies.

IU Bloomington will celebrate its 181st commencement ceremonies where 8,346 degrees will be conferred. For the first time, there will be a separate graduate ceremony for those students receiving master's and doctoral degrees (https://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12514.html). It is scheduled for May 7 (Friday), 3 p.m., in Assembly Hall, with the procession of graduates beginning at 2:45 p.m. Undergraduate ceremonies will take place May 8 (Saturday), also in Assembly Hall, with the morning session starting at 10 a.m. and the afternoon session at 3 p.m. The processions of graduates begin 45 minutes prior to those times.

Elinor Ostrom is commencement speaker at the graduate ceremony. The Distinguished Professor and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, Ostrom became the first woman to receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, in December 2009. (https://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14074.html)

Quincy Jones Jr. will address both sessions of undergraduate students. Jones, a legendary musical composer and arranger, record and television producer, magazine publisher and trumpeter, has earned nearly 80 Grammy Award nominations and has received the gramophone statuette 27 times, a number which includes the Grammy Legend Award in 1991. Jones also will receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree from IU. (https://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14000.html)

This year, undergraduate commencement ceremonies will include graduating student speakers as a new feature. John (Jack) McCarthy will speak at the morning ceremony, and Natsuki Atagi will speak at the afternoon ceremony. McCarthy, from Indianapolis, will receive a B.S. in business with concentrations in economic consulting and public policy analysis from the Business Honors Program with minors in economics and French. Atagi is from Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., and she will receive a B.A. in psychology with departmental honors and a B.A. in gender studies with a minor in Spanish.

IU commencement information and the number of graduates eligible for degrees at each, including Purdue University degrees, are:

For Bloomington, the number of graduates includes degree candidates for May, June and August, and graduate students whose degrees have been or will be awarded on a monthly basis from January 2010 to July 2010. For other campuses, the figures include degree recipients from December 2009 and candidates for May, June and August 2010. Those numbers also include graduate students whose degrees have been or will be conferred during the 2009-2010 academic year.

Honorary Degrees

Six individuals will be recognized with honorary degrees during various commencement ceremonies. At IU Bloomington, commencement speaker Quincy Jones Jr. will receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree.

At IUPUI, Jane Fortune and Chris Johns will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from IU, while William Plater will receive an honorary degree from Purdue.

At IPFW Graham Richard will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from IU. Richard served as mayor of Fort Wayne for eight years from 2000 to 2008, was named the 2007 government Leader of the Year by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and was an Indiana state senator from 1974 to 1990.

Robert Meeks will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from IU during commencement ceremonies at IUSB. Meeks served as Indiana state senator from 1988 to 2008. He played a large role in helping to secure funding for the IU South Bend campus to build campus housing, to renovate the IU South Bend Education and Arts Building and the new IU Medical Education Center that is shared with the University of Notre Dame.


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