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UConn's CLAS Graduation Marks End of a Journey for 2,700 Students [VIDEO]
Thirty-nine Tolland residents took part in one of two commencement ceremonies Sunday for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the largest college at UConn, held at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion.
Thousands of family and friends watched on Sunday afternoon as nearly 2,700 students from the ’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) became UConn graduates during commencement ceremonies at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs.
Representing 55 different majors from 23 departments, students received their diplomas in dual ceremonies Sunday in disciplines ranging from journalism, psychology and political science to communications, human development and family studies. Thirty-nine of the new graduates call Tolland home.
Students were addressed by Cindy Luo, a graduating senior from Madison, a dual-degree student with majors in linguistics and philosophy, classics and ancient Mediterranean studies and English. UConn President Susan Herbst delivered the keynote address.
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"College is only the first step, a place where our budding interests are nurtured and developed," Luo said. "Keep on learning. Be flexible. Try something new. But remember yourselves: remember what makes you happy – keeps you going," she said.
Herbst praised students for their hard work, and urged them to define their own lives.
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"I hope you will be able to look back at this brief, precious time spent here at the University of Connecticut as among the best and most rewarding years of your life," Herbst said. "Don’t forget no matter how old you are, you will always be Huskies."
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Here's the students who live in Tolland who received degrees this weekend:
- Michael John Allen, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Jennifer Artiaco, Bachelor of Science
- Mandeep Kaur Bajwa, Bachelor of Arts
- Marissa Lynn Boucher, Bachelor of Science
- John Jacob Brow, Bachelor of Science
- Ricardo Rene Cardona, Bachelor of Science
- Kaitlyn Shoushan Clarke, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Melanie Marie Conrad, Bachelor of Arts
- Allyssa Marie Crane, Bachelor of Science
- Samantha Ann DeRosa, Bachelor of Science
- Kevin Robert DeRoy, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Briahna Lainey Drumm, Bachelor of Science
- Kayla Marie Gosse, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Erin Elizabeth Hall, Bachelor of Arts
- Erin Elizabeth Hall, Bachelor of Arts
- Anthony Roopnarine Haripaul, Bachelor of Arts
- Joshua Alexander Krieger, Bachelor of Arts
- Kayla J. Lachut, Bachelor of Science
- Jason G. LaForte, Bachelor of General Studies
- Sunghee Lee, Doctor of Pharmacy
- Keunhyung Lee, Bachelor of Science
- Christopher James Leonard, Bachelor of Arts
- Paul Joseph Lipcius, Bachelor of Science
- John Matthew Loftus, Bachelor of Science
- Eric Peter Markow, Bachelor of Science
- Gregory Thomas Matthews, Bachelor of Science
- Samuel Bronson Moser, Bachelor of Arts
- Donsun Mark Nadeau, Bachelor of Arts
- Scott Thomas O'Neil, Bachelor of Arts
- Nicole Qualls, Bachelor of Arts
- Casey Adriane Michelle Ruffin, Bachelor of Arts
- Evan Michael Sauve, Bachelor of Science
- Zachary David Savage, Bachelor of Science
- Benjamin Robert Skoff, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Bradley Stentzel Sprecher, Bachelor of Science
- Christine J. Vareed, Bachelor of Science
- Jessica Lynne Von Villas, Bachelor of Arts
- Gerard Anthony Walter, Bachelor of Science
- Waleed W. Zawawi, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
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