USU Commencement, Graduate Hooding This Weekend
U.S. Senator Robert Bennett, long-time champion for Utah’s agricultural community and for higher education, addresses graduates Saturday at Utah State University’s 121st graduation ceremony. He joins a group of four other prominent individuals receiving honorary doctorates during the event at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan.
Others receiving honorary doctorates are: Marc C. Bingham, entrepreneur and Utah businessman; Huey D. Johnson, pioneering conservationist and environmental policymaker; Bonnie D. Parkin, former Relief Society President for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Bertrand D. Tanner, eminent micrometeorologist and scientific entrepreneur, who will be honored posthumously.
Other graduation details:
Graduation: Saturday, May 2, 9:30 a.m., Dee Glen Smith Spectrum
School of Graduate Studies: Friday, May 1, 1:30 p.m. in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum
Individual college convocations (all Saturday, May 2):
Agriculture: 2 p.m., Kent Concert Hall
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business: 2 p.m., Dee Glen Smith Spectrum
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services: 4 p.m., Dee Glen Smith Spectrum
Engineering: noon, Kent Concert Hall
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: noon, Dee Glen Smith Spectrum
Natural Resources: noon, Morgan Theatre
Science: noon, Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom, Taggart Student Center
Graduation picnic: Saturday, May 2, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., USU HPER Field (tickets required)
Numbers of Degrees:
Bachelor’s: 2,247
Master’s: 429
Doctorate: 37
Gender of graduates:
Female: 1,123
Male: 1,124
Geographic origin:
Foreign countries: 18
U.S. states: 32
Utah counties: 29
Ethnicity:
American Indian/Alaskan native: 11
Asian/Pacific Islander: 20
Asian: 32
Black, non-Hispanic: 15
White, non-Hispanic: 1,982
Hispanic: 63
Not Specified: 113
Multicultural: 8
Pacific Islander: 3
Most popular degrees (top 10):
Elementary Education (116)
Physical Education (78)
Accounting (77)
Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education (74)
Mechanical Engineering (74)
Psychology (71)
Economics (60)
Business (59)
English (59)
History (58)
Commencement Speaker: U.S. Senator Robert Bennett, influential statesman and long-time champion for Utah’s agricultural community and for higher education
Student Speaker: Erin N. Cottle, valedictorian, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Valedictorians:
College of Agriculture: Heidi M. Moss
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business: Lacee L. Wilkee
College of Natural Resources Valedictorian: Kelly J. Sivy
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services: Katelyn B. Hansen
College of Engineering: Armand H. Rundquist
College of Science: Jake C. Jones
Honorary Degree Recipients:
Robert Bennett, Doctor of Laws
Marc C. Bingham, Doctor of Business and Entrepreneurship
Huey D. Johnson, Doctor of Natural Resources Conservation
Bonnie D. Parkin, Doctor of Humane Letters
Bertrand D. Tanner, Doctor of Agricultural Meteorology
Special Faculty Award:
D. Wynne Thorne Research Award: Alexander I. Boldyrev, College of Science
Teaching Awards:
Eldon J. Gardner Teaching Award: Jeffrey T. Doyle, Huntsman School of Business
Distinguished teaching awards:
College of Agriculture: Heidi J. Wengreen
College of Engineering: Thomas H. Fronk
College of Education and Human Services: Kim Corbin-Lewis
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: Adrianne Moore
College of Natural Resources: Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh
College of Science: John R. Stevens
E. G. Peterson Extension Award: James Barnhill
Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards: Randall M. Jones, Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Department Teaching Excellence Award: Department of Biology, College of Science