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Commencement 2017: Highlights of the ceremony in pictures

June 04, 2017

Below are highlights of the graduates and distinguished guests at the UMass Medical School 44th Commencement in Worcester on Sunday, June 4.

  • Professor Julie Jonassen does double duty as Commencement organist.
  • School of Medicine graduates process into the tent.
  • Graduate School of Nursing students on their way!
  • Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students ready to be hooded.
  • Chancellor Michael F. Collins presides over Commencement 2017.
  • UMass President Marty Meehan and UMass Trustee (and SOM alum) Kerri Osterhaus-Houle, MD, listen to Chancellor Collins.
  • Dean Terence R. Flotte and Chancellor Collins present an honorary degree to Victor Grifols.
  • President Meehan and Chancellor Collins with honorary degree recipient Patricia K. Donahoe, MD.
  • Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, delivers the Commencement address.