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One Hundred and Eighty-Third FINAL EXERCISES The Lawn May 20, 2012 The University of Virginia is grateful to the 392nd Army Band from Fort Lee, under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Five Charles H. Vollherbst, for its participation in Final Exercises. Contents Finals Speaker, 2 Finals Program, 3 A History of Final Exercises, 4 The Academic Procession, 5 Board of Visitors and Administration, 6 Faculty Marshals and Finals Committee, 7 Graduates and Degree Candidates * School of Medicine, 8 School of Law, 8 School of Engineering & Applied Science, 10 Curry School of Education, 14 Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, 17 School of Architecture, 18 School of Nursing, 19 McIntire School of Commerce, 20 School of Continuing & Professional Studies, 23 Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, 23 Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 23 College of Arts & Sciences, 30 Student and Faculty Awards, 40 Honorary Societies, 41 Locations of Final Exercises and Diploma Ceremonies, 44 Maps, inside back cover The Good Old Song, outside back cover * The degree candidates in this program were applicants for degrees as of May 11, 2012. The deans of the University’s schools will make any necessary changes in the awarding of diplomas and/or the conferral of degrees and report them to the Office of the University Registrar for the official records. In addition, distinction and honor notations in this program are based on coursework completed as of the end of the Fall 2011 semester and may be adjusted based on coursework from Spring 2012. The August 2011 and December 2011 degree recipients precede the list of May 2012 degree candidates in each section. © 2012 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Printing by University of Virginia Printing and Copying Services 1 Finals Speaker Katherine A. Couric Katherine A. “Katie” Couric is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, tireless advocate for cancer research and awareness, and New York Times best-selling author. She is well-known for her un- precedented 15-year tenure as co-anchor of NBC News’ Today from 1991 until 2006 and for becoming the first solo female anchor of a national nightly news broadcast, as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric from 2006 to 2011. At CBS News, Ms. Couric also contributed to 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, and primetime specials. She now serves as a special correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week, and primetime specials. Her new daily syndicated daytime talk show, Katie, will premiere on September 10th. Ms. Couric grew up in Arlington and was graduated from the University of Virginia with honors in 1979. While at the University, she was associate editor of the Cavalier Daily and a Lawn resident. She earned a B.A. degree in English Language and Literature and began her broadcast journalism career as a desk assistant at ABC News in Washington, D.C., soon after her graduation. Over the next 10 years, she worked as an assignment editor, associate producer, producer, and political correspondent for CNN, and a reporter for television stations in Miami and Washington, D.C., before joining NBC News in 1989 as deputy Pentagon reporter. In June 1990, she was named NBC’s first national correspondent. Over the past two decades, Ms. Couric has covered the most important news stories around the world. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her interviewing and reporting skills, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric twice, the Walter Cronkite Award for Special Achievement for “National Impact on the 2008 Campaign”, the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media, the George Foster Peabody Award, and Alfred I. duPont Awards for her work individually and for a series she conceived for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. She also has received six Emmy awards. After losing her husband to cancer in 1998, Ms. Couric became an advocate for cancer research and aware- ness. She is a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, an organization that has raised nearly $200 million to accelerate research that can get new therapies to patients quickly. She launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance with the Entertainment Industry Foundation and cancer activist Lilly Tartikoff to fund cutting-edge research and generate awareness about the life-saving value of screening for colorectal cancer. Ms. Couric also has supported the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center here at the University, named for her late sister, who was a journalist and writer before becoming a Virginia state senator. Ms. Couric lives in New York City and has two daughters. 2 Finals Program Sunday, May 20, 2012 Academic Procession Gweneth L. West, Grand Marshal Degree Candidates Faculty President’s Party The Pledge of Allegiance The National Anthem, performed by the 392nd Army Band from Fort Lee Welcome Teresa A. Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia Introduction of Finals Speaker Helen E. Dragas, Rector of the University of Virginia Finals Address Katherine A. Couric Greetings from the Alumni Association Victoria Dux Harker, Chair of the University of Virginia Alumni Association Board of Managers Conferring of Degrees, Ms. Sullivan School of Medicine, Vice President and Dean Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., FAAN, FACP School of Law, Dean Paul G. Mahoney School of Engineering & Applied Science, Dean James H. Aylor Curry School of Education, Dean Robert C. Pianta Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean Robert F. Bruner School of Architecture, Dean Kim Tanzer School of Nursing, Associate Dean Janie Heath McIntire School of Commerce, Dean Carl P. Zeithaml School of Continuing & Professional Studies, Dean Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Dean Harry Harding College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Dean Meredith Jung-En Woo Final Words to the Class, Ms. Sullivan Academic Recession, The Good Old Song We request that the audience remain in place until the academic recession has passed. The presentation of diplomas will follow at the locations noted in this program. Degree candidates who do not receive their diplomas at school or departmental ceremonies may receive them at the Office of the University Registrar in Carruthers Hall after 2 p.m., Monday, May 21. 3 A History of Final Exercises at the University of Virginia So astute was Mr. Jefferson in determining the basic educational policy for the University of Virginia that the policy has seen very little change in the University’s 193-year history. The colorful ceremony you will see today, however, would not have been held under Thomas Jefferson’s original plan, which did not provide for degrees and diplomas. Although the early students of the University were highly respected for their knowledge, some of them petitioned the Board of Visitors for diplomas to improve their opportunities for employment. Out of deference to the founder, the Board took no action on these requests during Jefferson’s lifetime, but fifteen months after his death, it changed the policy and directed that plans be laid for the first “Public Day” (commencement). In July 1829, the first Public Day was held in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. The program was very long, and it included orations by students. By 1848, the program began with a procession led by students and involved a single address by a prominent person. Public Day was held in the Dome Room until the Rotunda annex was completed in 1853. It was then held in the public hall of the annex until the Rotunda and the annex burned in 1895. When Cabell Hall was completed in 1898, the Public Day programs were held in its auditorium. President Alderman’s inauguration in 1905 brought about the more formal procession as seen today. It is now led by a faculty grand marshal. When the McIntire Amphitheatre was completed in 1921, it became the site for the final exercises. A sudden drenching rainstorm disrupted the 1949 ceremony, sending the soaked graduates and guests into any shelter they could find. The threat of sudden storms and the increased number of graduates caused President Colgate Darden to declare that the 1952 ceremony would be the last to be held in the amphitheatre. Since then, Finals have been held on the Lawn except in bad weather. Even when the ceremonies were held in the amphitheatre, the participants marched from the Rotunda, down the Lawn to the site of the ceremony. Students have long considered it a high privilege to have the opportunity to walk down the Lawn at Finals, and today’s students place an even greater importance on this privilege. So important to many of them is the ceremonial walk down the Lawn, that a number of students, cheated out of a ceremony on the Lawn by bad weather, “confirm” their graduation by processing down the Lawn after Finals. Through 1961, the president conferred the degrees and handed each recipient a diploma. By this time, graduates numbered in the thousands. The ceremony had become much too lengthy and the logistics too complex. Beginning in 1962 and continuing today, degrees are conferred in a main ceremony by the president. Degree recipients and their guests then reassemble later in “diploma ceremonies,” where the diplomas are presented to the graduates by the deans. 4 The Academic Procession The Procession The academic procession is led by the grand marshal of the University bearing the official silver and ebony mace. Most of the processioners wear the academic costume accepted by a majority of the principal institutions of higher learning in the United States, though certain academic officials, such as the rector of the University, wear particular costumes indicative of current office.