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UConn's CLAS Graduation Marks End of a Journey for 2,700 Students [VIDEO]
Forty residents of Windsor 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. Forty of the new graduates call Windsor 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 Windsor who received degrees this weekend:
- Habib Ahmed, Bachelor of Science
- Marcel Ke'Juan Arnold, Bachelor of Arts
- Jonathan Lee Bellamy, Bachelor of Arts
- Katherine Anne Bernard, Bachelor of Science
- Matthew Dominick Bona, Bachelor of Arts
- Patrick Lloyd Brooks, Bachelor of Science
- Devra Noel Brown, Bachelor of Arts
- Yaneeke Marketa Calderon, Bachelor of Arts
- Andrew Joseph Capobianco, Bachelor of Science
- Erin Paige Clifford, Bachelor of Science
- Allisia Nicole Dariah, Bachelor of Arts
- Juan Manuel Diaz, Bachelor of Science
- Charles Francis Dowe, Bachelor of Arts
- Erika Elizabeth Enkler, Bachelor of Science
- James Joseph Giaquinto, Bachelor of Arts
- Emma Elizabeth Higgins, Bachelor of Arts
- Kyle Phillip Higgins, Bachelor of Arts
- Kenneth Ted-Luck Hung, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Elizabeth Roxana Law, Bachelor of Arts
- Melissa Lepak, Bachelor of Arts
- Yuk-Ting Li, Bachelor of Arts
- Bryan Patrick Lilley, Bachelor of Science
- Andre Earl Anthony Mack, Bachelor of Arts
- Sarah Mahmood, Bachelor of Science
- Mikhail Evgenyevich Markov, Bachelor of Science
- Tiffany A. Marrow, Bachelor of Arts
- Jeffrey Aiden McCarthy, Bachelor of Science
- Erin Gene-Marie Neagle, Bachelor of Arts
- Thienkim Long Nguyen, Bachelor of Science
- Onyekachi Jonathan Obiocha, Bachelor of Arts
- Jillian Kay Prescod, Bachelor of Science
- Nafissa Oumarou Salihou, Bachelor of Science
- Shanice Michelle Smith, Bachelor of Arts
- Sonam Ilesh Sutaria, Bachelor of Science
- Shiv Ilesh Sutaria, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Laura Ashley Thompson, Bachelor of Arts
- Hoang Huy Trinh, Bachelor of Science
- Jonathan Andrew Wenger, Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Erin Elizabeth Wenker, Bachelor of Arts
- Jason J. Ynostroza, Bachelor of General Studies
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