Rutgers' 247th Anniversary Commencement, Sunday, May 19, 12:30 p.m.
An estimated 14,302 graduates – for the fourth consecutive year, a record – will receive degrees from Rutgers this year. They include approximately 9,695 baccalaureate degrees, 4,607 master’s degrees and doctorates (including professional doctorates) and three specialists of education. Last May, a record 13,981 students graduated. Since its founding in 1766, Rutgers has awarded 513,283 academic degrees.
Location: High Point Solutions Stadium, Busch Campus, Piscataway
Remarks: The Honorable Virginia Long, retired associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court; alumna, Rutgers School of Law-Newark (1966) and member of Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni (2001); and of counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP, Princeton. Long will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Honorary degrees:
Besides Long, Rutgers will present honorary degrees to Ralph Izzo, chairman and chief executive officer of the Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. and outgoing chair of Rutgers’ Board of Governors following a three-year term as chair (Doctor of Humane Letters); Jane Lubchenco, world-renowned environmental expert and undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and former NOAA administrator (Doctor of Science); and Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (Doctor of Letters).
General information:
This is the third universitywide commencement scheduled at High Point Solutions Stadium and first presided over by President Robert L. Barchi, whose tenure as Rutgers’ 20th president officially began in September 2012. All undergraduate and graduate degrees are conferred at this ceremony. The School of Arts and Sciences will graduate an estimated 5,018 seniors at commencement and hold individual department receptions. The remaining schools and colleges will hold convocations or receptions. The schedule follows.
NOTE: Estimated numbers of graduates are from the Office of the University Registrar.
IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND PISCATAWAY
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE COMMUNITY
Friday, May 17, 7 p.m.
Location: University Inn and Conference Center, 178 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick
DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m.
Location: Antilles Field, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick
Speaker: Analisa Leonor Balares, founder and CEO of Womensphere and the convener of Womensphere Global Summits
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK
(UNDERGRADUATE NEW BRUNSWICK)
Saturday, May 18, 2 p.m.
499 undergraduate degrees
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
Speaker: Carolyn Slaski, managing partner, Ernst & Young LLP (New Jersey). Rutgers College, Class of 1984.
MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Saturday, May 18, 2:30 p.m.
150 graduating seniors, 85 graduate degrees (30 Doctor of Music, 20 Master of Music and 35 Master of Fine Arts)
Location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Christopher O’Riley, pianist and host of NPR’s From the Top
EDWARD J. BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY
Saturday, May 18, 3 p.m.
25 undergraduate degrees, 145 graduate degrees (200 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)
Location: Graduate student convocation – Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., New Brunswick
Speaker: James G. Bach, P.P., chief operating officer, The Louis Berger Group Inc. MCRP, Rutgers Class of 1975.
Thursday, May 16, 6 p.m. Undergraduate convocation
Location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
Sunday, May 19, 2:30 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate reception, University Visitor’s Welcome Center, 100 Sutphen Road, Busch Campus, Piscataway
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS
Saturday, May 18, 7 p.m.
78 undergraduate degrees, 175 graduate degrees (150 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
Speakers: Members of the Class of 2013, with their programs and hometowns – Alison Lawler, Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management and psychology. Nutley, N.J.; Frannie Kenajian, Bachelor of Arts in Labor Studies and Employment Relations and psychology. Cranford, N.J.; Steven Stokes, Master of Labor and Employment Relations. Galloway, N.J.; Morenike Sylla, Master’s in Human Resource Management. Indianapolis; William M. Dwyer, industrial relations manager, PSEG Services Corp., Newark; president, SMLR Alumni and Friends, Class of 1997.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF APPLIED AND PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Sunday, May 19, 9:30 a.m.
70 graduate degrees
Location: University Visitor’s Welcome Center, 100 Sutphen Road, Busch Campus, Piscataway
GRADUATE SCHOOL-NEW BRUNSWICK
Sunday, May 19, 10 a.m.
946 graduates
Location: Lot 53A Tent (between Hill Center and soccer field) Busch Campus, Piscataway
UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT
High Point Solutions Stadium
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Sunday, May 19, 12:30 p.m. (during Commencement)
5,018 graduating seniors
Location: High Point Solutions Stadium, Busch Campus, Piscataway
Speaker: Richard S. Falk, acting executive dean
For information about individual academic department ceremonies, click here.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Sunday, May 19, 3:30 p.m.
610 graduates
Location: Lot 53A Tent (between Hill Center and soccer field) Busch Campus, Piscataway
Speaker: Paul Hoffman, president and CEO, Liberty Science Center, Jersey City
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Sunday, May 19, 4:30 p.m.
353 graduates (330 master’s, 20 doctorates, three specialists)
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave. New Brunswick
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
Sunday, May 19, 4:30 p.m.
800 joint undergraduate degrees, 180 graduate degrees
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Monday, May 20, 10 a.m.
683 graduates
Location: Lawn near College Pond (“Passion Puddle”), George H. Cook Campus, New Brunswick
Rain: Monday, May 20, 10 a.m., Louis Brown Athletics Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Livingston Campus, Piscataway
ERNEST MARIO SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Monday, May 20, 9 a.m.
205 Pharm.D. degrees
Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick
Speaker: Nimesh S. Jhaveri, executive director-Pharmacy and Healthcare Experience, Walgreens. Class of 1990. Member, Rutgers Board of Trustees.
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Monday, May 20, 3 p.m.
510 graduate degrees
Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Livingston Campus,
Piscataway
ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY – ARMY
Tuesday, May 21, 11 a.m.
19 Army second lieutenants to be commissioned
Location: Kirkpatrick Chapel, 81 Somerset Street, New Brunswick. Reception to follow in the main lounge of the Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Ave.
Speaker: Col. Stephen G. Abel, Col., U.S. Army (Ret.), director for Veteran and Military Programs and Services, Rutgers
ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY – AIR FORCE
Thursday, May 23, 11 a.m.
11 second lieutenants to be commissioned
Location: Wilson Hall, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, N.J.
IN NEWARK
SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Monday, May 20, 10 a.m.
195 undergraduate and 20 master’s degrees
Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren Street
Speaker: Laurie O. Robinson, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University
Joint Convocation
NEWARK COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Wednesday, May 22, 10 a.m.
596 graduates
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-NEWARK
69 graduates
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree during universitywide Commencement
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK –
UNDERGRADUATE
Wednesday, May 22, 2 p.m.
547 undergraduates
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: R. Donohue Peebles, founder, chairman and CEO, The Peebles Corp., New York City, one of the country’s largest African-American real estate development firms
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK–
GRADUATE
Wednesday, May 22, 6 p.m.
715 graduate degrees
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: Kevin Cummings, president and CEO, Investors Bank
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Thursday, May 23, 10 a.m.
175 undergraduate and 79 graduate degrees
Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren Street
Speaker: Newark Mayor Cory Booker
Joint Convocation
GRADUATE SCHOOL-NEWARK
Thursday, May 23, 2 p.m.
215 graduates
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ADMINISTRATION
18 undergraduate and 95 graduate degrees
Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren Street
Speaker: Gregory F. Ball, vice dean for science and infrastructure, and professor of psychological and brain sciences, Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Alumnus (doctorate), Institute of Animal Behavior (now, the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience), Rutgers-Newark.
SCHOOL OF LAW-NEWARK
Friday, May 24, 10 a.m.
270 graduates
Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center Street
Speaker: Vincent Warren, executive director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Class of 1993. Recipient of the Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service, 2012
IN CAMDEN
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-CAMDEN
Thursday, May 23, 9 a.m.
268 undergraduate degrees, 105 advanced degrees
Location: Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbor Boulevard
Speaker: Richard Miller, president and CEO, Virtua, Marlton, N.J., a nonprofit health care system
Student speakers: Samantha McClernan, Mantua, N.J. (undergraduate). Douglas Minck,
Belle Mead, N.J. (graduate)
SCHOOL OF LAW-CAMDEN
Thursday, May 23, 1 p.m.
265 graduates
Location: Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbor Boulevard
Speaker: Paul J. Fishman, U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Thursday, May 23, 3 p.m.
57 graduates
Location: Fine Arts Complex, Gordon Theater, Third and Pearl streets
Speaker: Dr. Adrienne Kirby, president and CEO, Cooper University Health Care.
Class of 1979
Joint Convocation
CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Thursday, May 23, 6 p.m.
522 graduates
GRADUATE SCHOOL-CAMDEN
174 graduates
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-CAMDEN
185 graduates
Location: Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbor Boulevard
Speaker: Kathryn L. Holloway, M.D., chief of Neurosurgery Section, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital, and professor of Neurosurgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 1980
Student Speakers: Robin Parry, Maple Shade, N.J. (undergraduate). Jennifer Shukusky, Flanders, N.J. (graduate)