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Gov. Charlie Baker will deliver the keynote speech at the 43rd Commencement Exercises. |
Students, faculty and families gather to celebrate academic excellence and achievement this week as UMass Medical School marks Commencement 2016. A series of award festivities begin Thursday and lead up to Sunday’s 43rd Commencement Exercises, with a keynote speech by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker.
On Thursday, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will hold its seventh annual Student Academic Achievement Awards ceremony in The Cube of the Albert Sherman Center at 3 p.m., to be followed by a reception at 4 p.m.
Also on Thursday, the Graduate School of Nursing Alumni Association will hold an alumni dinner in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Sherman Center at 5 p.m. Outstanding student awards will be presented at the event. Also included in the evening will be the Lillian R. Goodman Lectureship in Graduate Nursing Program with GSN Alumni Speaker Michele DeGrazia, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAAN.
On Friday at 9 a.m., the School of Medicine Class of 2015 will be welcomed as new members of the Alumni Association in the Faculty Conference Room at the annual alumni breakfast. Outstanding medical educator and student awards will be presented.
On Saturday evening, a private dinner will be held for honorary degree recipients Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA, president of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, and Dermot Desmond, an international financier and philanthropist. Photos and highlights of the event will be posted on UMassMedNow on Sunday.
Also on Saturday night, graduates of the three schools and their friends and families, as well as all members of the extended UMMS community, are invited to join in a campus celebration featuring live music and dancing. Hors d’oeuvres, drinks and dessert will be served at the party, which will take place in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Sherman Center from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Commencement Day will kick off on Sunday morning with a complimentary brunch for faculty, graduates and guests. Buffet service will be available in both the Faculty Conference Room and Albert Sherman Center Café from 9:30 to 11 a.m., with seating available inside and outside as weather permits.
General seating for Commencement in the tent on the Campus Green will begin at 11 a.m., with the processional march beginning at 11:45 a.m. The formal Commencement exercises will start promptly at noon.
