These two graduates were all smiles at one of last year’s commencement ceremonies.

Pomp and circumstance will play for approximately 4,400 graduating seniors as they participate in eight official commencement ceremonies taking place on June 7, 12, 13, and 14. Chancellor Henry T. Yang will shake the hand of each student graduating from the College of Creative Studies, the College of Engineering, the College of Letters and Science, the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and the Graduate Division.

Commencement is the campus’s grandest affair, and the Office of Public Events welcomes staff members who are interested in providing assistance during Commencement weekend on June 13-14. Workers are needed for a variety of duties, including faculty and student preparation, book sales, serving as marshals, and staffing information tents. For more information, particularly about arranging for compensated overtime, go to <www.ia.ucsb.edu/commencement/2009x
/staff.shtml>.

The commencement schedule begins with the College of Creative Studies at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, in Campbell Hall. The guest speaker will be Christopher Miles, a UCSB alumnus and associate professor of art at California State University, Long Beach.

The ceremony for the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management is at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 12, in the Bren Hall Courtyard. The guest speaker is Joel Reynolds of the Natural Resources Defense Council

Commencement weekend begins on Saturday, June 13, with the Science and Mathematics ceremony at 9 a.m. The guest speaker will be Bob Duggan, chief executive officer of the biotech firm Pharmacyclics, and a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation. The Engineering and Science ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. with best-selling author and journalist Paul Roberts delivering the commencement address, and the Social Sciences I ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. with Benjamin J. Cohen, the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Economy, as the guest speaker.

The ceremonies continue at 9 a.m. on Sunday, June 14, with Social Sciences II, followed by Humanities and Fine Arts at 1 p.m. and the Graduate Division at 4 p.m. Mark Juergensmeyer, professor of global and international studies and of sociology and director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, will speak at the 9 a.m. ceremony, followed by Alan F. Horn, president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros., at 1 p.m., and the Rev. Anne Howard, executive director of The Beatitudes Society, at 4 p.m.

All ceremonies on Saturday and Sunday will take place on the Commencement Green.