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Highlights from the 2015 UMass Medical School Commencement in pictures

May 31, 2015

Below are highlights from the 2015 UMass Chan Medical School Commencement, where 233 degrees, including two honorary degrees, were awarded on Sunday, May 31.

  • A rain shower could not dampen the enthusiasm for Commencement 2015.
  • Professor and chair of molecular, cell and cancer biology Michael Green, MD, PhD.
  • Patrick Muldoon and Eric Dickson, MD, represented UMass Memorial Health Care during Commencement.
  • UMass Chan Learning Community Mentors, 2015
  • Chancellor’s Medal Winner Michele Pugnaire, MD, carries the University mace.
  • Students await the beginning of the processional.
  • Faculty members George Witman, PhD, and Deborah Harmon Hines, PhD, enter during the processional.
  • Keynote speaker Victor Dzau, MD and University of Massachusetts President Robert Caret during the national anthem.
  • Dean Terence Flotte and Chancellor Michael F. Collins award an honorary degree to Monica Coenraads.
  • Members of ACCEL (Academic Consortium Combating Ebola in Liberia) receive special recognition at Commencement.
  • Victor Dzau, MD, is invested with the honorary degree.
  • Elizabeth Terhune was the Graduate School of Nursing class speaker.
  • Allie Muthukumar addressed the audience on behalf of the students of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
  • Daniel Maselli was chosen as class speaker by his fellow graduates of the School of Medicine.