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The One Hundred Seventy-third Commencement May Fourteenth, Two Thousand Eighteen Emory University The One Hundred Seventy-third Commencement The Fourteenth of May Two Thousand Eighteen The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Order of Exercises .................................................................... 2 Where the sun doth shine, That is where our hearts are turning Musical Selections .................................................................... 3 ’Round old Emory’s shrine. Order of Procession ................................................................. 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Award Recipients ..................................................................... 4 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 6 Hail the Gold and Blue! Diploma Ceremonies ................................................................ 7 Tho’ the years around us gather, Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 8 Crowned with love and cheer, Still the memory of Old Emory In Memoriam ........................................................................... 8 Grows to us more dear. Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 We will ever sing thy praises, Emory College of Arts and Sciences ..................................... 9 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Oxford College .................................................................. 14 Hail the Gold and Blue! School of Medicine ............................................................ 14 —J. Marvin Rast 1918C 29T Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 15 Candler School of Theology .............................................. 17 School of Law .................................................................... 18 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 20 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 23 James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ....................... 25 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 27 Recipients of Honors and Prizes ............................................ 37 A Commentary on Commencement ....................................... 53 Emory University Commencement 2018 1 The Order of Exercises Gathering Music Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Processional Atlanta Pipe Band Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet National Anthem Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Invocation Robert M. Franklin Jr. James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership Presidential Address Claire E. Sterk Presentation of the Marion Luther Brittain Service Awards Paul Marthers Interim Vice President of Campus Life Presentation of the Scholar/Teacher Award Dwight A. McBride Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Presentation of the Thomas Jefferson Award Allison Dykes Vice President and Secretary of the University Authorization to Confer Degrees Robert C. Goddard III Chair of the Board of Trustees Conferral of Honorary Degrees Claire E. Sterk Keynote Address Michael Dubin 01C Conferral of Degrees Claire E. Sterk Welcome to the Emory Alumni Association Ashley Moran Grice 97PH 03B President, Emory Alumni Board Closing Remarks Claire E. Sterk Benediction Raviteja Alla 16Ox 18C, Hindu Gillian Grace Hecht 18C, Jewish Micaela Violet Petersen McCall 18C, Buddhist Ivena Santilair 18B, Christian Rabiah Sundus Tameez 18C, Islamic Alma Mater Alexander King Bedenbaugh 19C John Lawrence Graham 19C Ryan Redmond Lehrman 18C Winston Leung 18B Justin Y. Yoo 20C Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Guests are asked to please remain seated during the processional and recessional. Please silence any electronic devices and refrain from talking during the ceremonies. The Quadrangle and Emory College of Arts and Sciences ceremonies can be viewed in rooms 206, 207, and 208 in White Hall and on the web at www.emory.edu/commencement. Overflow viewing for the Quadrangle ceremony is available at McDonough Field. In support of Emory’s sustainability initiatives, we ask that you return any unneeded copies of this program to the program distribution tables and take the time to properly dispose of your recyclable and compostable waste items in the proper containers. 2 Emory University Commencement 2018 Gathering Music The Faculties Jubilate Deo .......................................................... Gregor Aichinger chief marshal of the university Sonata from Die Bänkelsängerlieder ............................ Daniel Speer Professor Bobbi Patterson 94PhD The Throne Room .....................................................John Williams English Folk Song Suite ............................ Ralph Vaughan Williams the platform party The Raiders March ....................................................John Williams Vice President and Secretary of the University Allison Dykes The Fairest of the Fair .......................................... John Philip Sousa University Historian and Senior Adviser to the President Pirates of the Caribbean ............................................... Klaus Badelt Gary S. Hauk 91PhD Georgia on My Mind .............................. Hoagy Carmichael/Moore University Trustees Contrapunctus IX ........................................ Johann Sebastian Bach Recipients of Special Awards Soliloquy for Solo Trumpet ........................... John Anthony Lennon Commencement Vocalists Senior Adviser to the President Robert M. Franklin Jr. The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet performs this morning’s Senior Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs commencement music, which includes arrangements David B. Sandor by Michael Moore. Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Stuart Stephenson and Michael Tiscione, trumpet Susan Cruse Jaclyn Rainey, horn Senior Vice President and General Counsel Stephen D. Sencer Nathan Zgonc, trombone Executive Vice President for Health Affairs; President, CEO, and Michael Moore, tuba and artistic director Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare Jonathan S. Lewin President of the Emory Alumni Board of the Emory Alumni Association Ashley Moran Grice 97PH 03B Processional President of the University Senate Henry Bayerle Registrar JoAnn McKenzie Emory and Old St Andrews .............Henry Frantz 71C 74L/Moore Student Ministers An Academic Procession ........................... Johannes Brahms/Moore Director of Yerkes National Primate Research Center Prelude to “Te Deum”…….. .......Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Moore R. Paul Johnson Fanfare to “La Peri” ...................................................... Paul Dukas Interim Vice President of Campus Life Paul Marthers Dean of Oxford College Douglas A. Hicks Please remain seated while the platform party, faculty, and Dean of Rollins School of Public Health James W. Curran graduates process into the Quadrangle. Dean of Roberto C. Goizueta Business School Erika James Interim Dean of the School of Law James B. Hughes Jr. Dean of Candler School of Theology Jan Love Recessional Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Linda A. McCauley 79N La Rejouissance from Dean of the School of Medicine Vikas P. Sukhatme “Royal Fireworks Music”..............George Frederick Handel/Moore Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences Michael A. Elliott Please remain seated until the platform party, faculty, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies and graduates have departed. Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies Lisa A. Tedesco Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Order of Procession Dwight A. McBride Bill Bolling The Atlanta Pipe Band Carmen de Lavallade Gay J. McDougall Candidates for Baccalaureate and Michael Dubin 01C Professional Degrees Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert C. Goddard III Bedel of the University Gurbani Singh 18B Each school is preceded by the bearer of its gonfalon. President Claire E. Sterk Candidates for Master’s Degrees deputy university marshals Associate Professor Henry Bayerle, Faculty Marshal Candidates for the Degree of Associate Professor Jason Schneider, Faculty Marshal at Large Doctor of Philosophy and Faculty Sponsors Professor Pamela Scully, Faculty Marshal at Large Professor Arri Eisen, Emory College of Arts and Sciences Corpus Cordis Aureum (The Golden Corps of the Heart) Professor Nancy J. Newman, Medicine Assistant Professor Laura Zajac-Cox, Allied Health Members are Emory University alumni from the Class of 1968 Professor Marcia Holstad, Nursing or earlier. They are attired in distinctive golden robes. Associate Professor Steffen Lösel, Theology Professor Thomas C. Arthur, Law Professor Doug Bowman, Business Associate Professor Dawn Comeau, Public Health Professor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate School Kim Chenevey 02Ox 04B, Alumni Emory University Commencement 2018 3 Presentation of the drafted legal memoranda for the Southern Regional Office of Marion Luther Brittain Service Awards Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on behalf of LGBT and HIV-positive individuals, researched Islamic law and interna- This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students by the tional human rights issues for the School of Law, and organized an university, is an expression of gratitude for service performed important panel discussion for Emory’s Office of LGBT Life. without expectation of reward or recognition. The award Schladt has made enormous contributions to