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UCSB Will Graduate 4,800 Students in Eight Commencement Ceremonies
June 3, 2008
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Approximately 4,800 graduating students will take part in one of eight official commencement ceremonies scheduled at UC Santa Barbara over eight days starting June 8 and concluding June 15. The campus's commencement exercises attract an estimated 35,000 visitors to the Santa Barbara area each year. As is traditional at UCSB, the ceremonies are organized by college, level of degree, and field of study so that each student can be individually recognized. 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. The College of Creative Studies will lead off with its ceremony on Sunday, June 8, at 11 a.m. in Campbell Hall. The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management will conduct its ceremony on Friday, June 13, at 10 a.m. in the Bren Hall Courtyard. On the weekend of Saturday, June 14, and Sunday, June 15, six ceremonies––three each day––will be held on the Commencement Green behind the Faculty Club. A listing of the ceremonies and guest speakers follows. Complete biographical information on all speakers is available on the UCSB Web site at this address: http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/commencement/2008x/speakers.shtml Sunday, June 8, Campbell Hall
11 a.m. - College of Creative Studies
Guest Speaker – Kit Boise-Cossart, green building contractor
Student Speakers – Grant Buchowicz, physics; Jennifer Marsh, art and art history; Ellen O'Connell, literature Friday, June 13, Bren Courtyard
10 a.m. - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Guest Speaker – Lee Stein, environmental entrepreneur
Student Speakers – Class chairs Ashley Conrad-Saydah and Trevor O'Grady Saturday, June 14, Commencement Green
9 a.m. - Science and Mathematics
Guest Speaker – Daniel P. Burnham, retired chairman and CEO of Raytheon Company, UCSB Foundation Trustee
Student Speaker – Lindsay Walker, psychology 1 p.m. - Engineering and Science
Guest Speaker – Wes Bush, president and chief operating officer for Northrop Grumman Corporation
Student Speaker – Camille Bennett, mechanical engineering 4 p.m. - Social Sciences I
Guest Speaker – Sara Miller McCune, founder and executive chairman of SAGE Publications, UCSB Foundation Trustee
Student Speaker – Andrew Kitirattragarn, business economics Sunday, June 15, Commencement Green
9 a.m. - Social Sciences II
Guest Speaker – Emmett D. Carson, CEO and president, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Student Speaker – Mario Galicia, Jr., Chicana and Chicano studies and sociology 1 p.m. - Humanities and Fine Arts
Guest Speaker – Renée Montagne, host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition
Student Speaker – Scott Raymond, geography and art studio 4 p.m. - Graduate Division
Guest Speaker – UCSB alumnus Leroy Chiao M.S. '85, Ph.D. '87, NASA astronaut, professor of mechanical engineering, Louisiana State University
Student Speaker – Roxanne Moschetti, Ph.D., education
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