Purdue sets schedule and announces student responders for spring commencement ceremonies

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Small steps will quickly culminate in a large leap for Purdue’s Class of 2024 because the college prepares for eight graduation ceremonies at Elliott Corridor of Music on Could 10-12.

The spring 2024 graduating class will embody 8,284 undergraduates, 2,323 graduate college students, 210 college students from skilled applications and 244 college students from Purdue Polytechnic’s statewide applications.

Purdue President Mung Chiang will attend all eight ceremonies and ship the keynote speech at every. Every ceremony may also function a pupil responder.

Graduation division dates and occasions 

• Division I — Friday, Could 10, 9:30 a.m., Faculty of Well being and Human Sciences
• Division II — Friday, Could 10, 2:30 p.m., Faculty of Schooling and Purdue Polytechnic Institute
• Division III — Friday, Could 10, 7 p.m., Faculty of Science
• Division IV — Saturday, Could 11, 9:30 a.m., Faculty of Engineering (Civil Engineering; Electrical and Pc Engineering; Engineering Schooling, together with Interdisciplinary Engineering Research and Multidisciplinary Engineering; Industrial Engineering; Supplies Engineering)
• Division V — Saturday, Could 11, 2:30 p.m., Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Engineering (Agricultural and Organic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental and Ecological Engineering)
• Division VI — Saturday, Could 11, 7 p.m., Faculty of Engineering (Development Engineering and Administration, Chemical Engineering, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering)
• Division VII — Sunday, Could 12, 9:30 a.m., Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. College of Enterprise and Faculty of Veterinary Drugs
• Division VIII — Sunday, Could 12, 2:30 p.m., Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Liberal Arts

The doorways to Elliott Corridor of Music will open 90 minutes earlier than every ceremony, and tickets are required for entry. Every commencement candidate might request as much as 4 tickets. Solely clear baggage or small clutch baggage are permitted in Elliott Corridor of Music, and all baggage will likely be checked. Extra info could be discovered at Spring Graduation FAQs. The ceremonies will likely be livestreamed from the Purdue Information YouTube channel and linked on the Purdue graduation web site earlier than every ceremony begins. 

Pupil responders

• Megan Walawender of Carmel, Indiana, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Well being and Human Sciences, would be the pupil responder within the Friday morning (Division I) ceremony.
• Paige Fulkerson of Carmel, Indiana, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Schooling, would be the pupil responder within the Friday afternoon (Division II) ceremony.
• Mridhula Srinivasan of Dallas, Texas, who’s to obtain two Bachelor of Science levels from the Faculty of Science, would be the pupil responder within the Friday night (Division III) ceremony.
• Justice Rowe of Milo, Iowa, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Engineering, would be the pupil responder within the Saturday morning (Division IV) ceremony.
• Kayla Zalesny of Nipomo, California, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Agriculture, would be the pupil responder within the Saturday afternoon (Division V) ceremony.
• Sydney Hummel of Nolensville, Tennessee, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Engineering, would be the pupil responder within the Saturday night (Division VI) ceremony.
• Amanda Hubert of Dexter, Michigan, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Science from the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. College of Enterprise, would be the pupil responder within the Sunday morning (Division VII) ceremony.
• Ian Chen, a twin citizen of Taiwan and Canada, who’s to obtain a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Pharmacy, would be the pupil responder within the Sunday afternoon (Division VIII) ceremony. 

Honorary doctorates

Two people will obtain honorary doctorates throughout graduation. Carolyn Woo, former CEO of Catholic Reduction Companies, will obtain an honorary doctorate of administration from the Daniels College through the Division VII ceremony. Jennifer Rumsey, chair and CEO of Cummins Inc., will obtain an honorary doctorate of engineering from the Faculty of Engineering through the Division VIII ceremony.

Woo’s ties to Purdue started in 1972, when she arrived within the U.S. from Hong Kong as a pupil, incomes a bachelor’s diploma in economics, a grasp’s diploma in industrial administration and a doctoral diploma in strategic administration by 1979.

After two years in business, Woo was recruited again to the college as a college member after which administrator, first as director of grasp’s applications within the College of Enterprise after which as affiliate govt vice chairman for tutorial affairs. Below her management, the Krannert College of Administration grasp’s program achieved a prime 20 rating in Businessweek.

From 1997-2011, Woo served as dean of Mendoza Faculty of Enterprise on the College of Notre Dame. In 2012 she grew to become CEO of Catholic Reduction Companies, the official worldwide humanitarian company of the Catholic neighborhood within the U.S., serving within the function till 2016. 

Woo is acknowledged for her instructing, analysis, service and management via quite a few awards and honorary doctorates. She was cited as certainly one of Change journal’s Prime Forty Leaders Below Forty and, in 2013, named by Overseas Coverage journal as one of many 500 Most Highly effective Folks on the Planet.

Woo is a frequent contributor to “Give Us This Day” and the writer of two books, “Working for a Higher World” and “Rising: Studying From Girls’s Management in Catholic Ministries.”

Rumsey oversees the strategic path, development initiatives and world operations for the 105-year-old, Indiana-based Cummins Inc., which has greater than 75,500 workers worldwide and achieved $34.1 billion in income in 2023.

Rumsey has centered her 25-year profession on advancing applied sciences and bringing merchandise to market that energy prospects’ success and make a constructive distinction on this planet. She was acknowledged in 2020 by the Society of Girls Engineers for her contributions to engineering and efforts to create environments that entice and retain extra girls engineers. She was inducted as a Society of Automotive Engineers fellow in 2022, and in 2023 she acquired the Girls Enterprise Collaborative’s CEO Excellence in Gender Fairness and Variety Award, along with being acknowledged as certainly one of Fortune’s Most Highly effective Girls. 

Rumsey earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Purdue College in 1996 and a Grasp of Science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise in 1998.

About Purdue College

Purdue College is a public analysis establishment demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked amongst prime 10 public universities and with two schools within the prime 4 in the US, Purdue discovers and disseminates information with a top quality and at a scale second to none. Greater than 105,000 college students research at Purdue throughout modalities and places, together with almost 50,000 in individual on the West Lafayette campus. Dedicated to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s foremost campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue by no means stops within the persistent pursuit of the following big leap — together with its first complete city campus in Indianapolis, the brand new Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. College of Enterprise, and Purdue Computes — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives. 

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