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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 29, 2018
Lance.Wallace@comm.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
The Georgia Institute of Technology will hold its 255th Commencement ceremonies May 4-5 at McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Tech campus.
Full Summary:
Spring semester 2018 commencement ceremonies will feature keynote addresses from Provost Rafael Bras, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, Jan Davis, and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Commencement Crowd
President Peterson at Commencement
Jan Davis
Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice
Rafael Bras
Keisha Lance BottomsThe Georgia Institute of Technology will hold its 255th Commencement ceremonies May 4-5 at McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Tech campus.
The Ph.D. ceremony will begin at 9 a.m., doors open at 7:30 a.m., May 4, and feature the traditional hooding of the candidates and a keynote address by Rafael Bras, Georgia Tech provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. The first faculty member to hold the K. Harrison Brown Family Chair, he holds faculty appointments in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Bras earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also taught for more than 32 years. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on global climate change.
After the Ph.D. ceremony, Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson will host the President’s Graduation Celebration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Tech Tower Lawn, or the Student Center Ballroom in the event of rain.
The master’s ceremony is scheduled for 3 to 5:30 p.m., and doors open at 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, Georgia Tech alumna and president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine, will deliver the keynote address. Rice is the sixth president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and the first woman to lead the free-standing medical institution.
She is a renowned infertility specialist and researcher and has served as the dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president of health affairs at Meharry Medical College, where she founded and directed the Center for Women’s Health Research. She earned a degree in chemistry from Georgia Tech and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
The two bachelor’s ceremonies are scheduled for May 5. The morning ceremony will run from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Georgia Tech alumna and former astronaut Jan Davis will deliver the keynote address. Davis earned a degree in applied biology from Georgia Tech before going on to complete a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering at Auburn University. She earned her master’s and her doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
During her career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), she provided technical support for space shuttle payloads, served as the capsule communicator on seven missions and logged more than 673 hours in space on three space flights.
Tickets are required, and the will call window opens at 7 a.m. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. This ceremony includes the following academic disciplines:
The second bachelor’s ceremony will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and features an address from Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. She was elected Atlanta’s 60th mayor in November 2017 after representing southwest Atlanta on the Atlanta City Council for eight years.
Bottoms earned her bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M University and her law degree from Georgia State University. Tickets are required, and the will call window opens at 1 p.m. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
This ceremony includes the following academic disciplines:
More than 2,120 undergraduates will receive bachelor’s degrees. The master’s ceremony will award 1,370 master’s degrees and the Ph.D. ceremony will award 180 doctorates.
