INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES COMMENCEMENT 2020 HAIL TO OLD I.U. Come and join in song together, Shout with might and main; Our beloved Alma Mater, Sound her praise again. Chorus Gloriana, Frangipana, E’er to her be true; She’s the pride of Indiana, Hail to old I.U.! —Joe T. Giles, Class of 1894 w CONTENTS One Hundred Ninety-First Commencement 2 Degree-Granting Schools and Administration 3 Commencement Traditions 4 Commencement Speaker 6 Student Commencement Speaker 7 Spring and Summer Term 2020 Undergraduate Degree Recipients 9 Fall Term 2020 Undergraduate Degree Recipients 55 #iubgrad20 Please tell us about your Commencement experience at go.iu.edu/feedback. ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT Saturday, December 19, 2020 5:00 p.m. EST MICHAEL A. McROBBIE, President of Indiana University, Presiding PROCESSIONAL Janette Fishell Professor and Chair of Organ Indiana University Jacobs School of Music WELCOME President McRobbie THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Led by Brian Horne Associate Professor of Voice Indiana University Jacobs School of Music University Grand Marshal COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Kheng Hua Tan (A biography is printed on page 6.) Class of 1986 ALUMNI INDUCTION CEREMONY Josh Kornberg Chair-Elect, Indiana University Alumni Association Board of Managers STUDENT ADDRESS Madeline M. Fain (A biography is printed on page 7.) Class of 2020 CHARGE TO THE CLASS President McRobbie CONFERRAL OF DEGREES President McRobbie Assisted by Provost Lauren Robel CLOSE President McRobbie HAIL TO OLD I.U. The Indiana University Community RECESSIONAL Professor Fishell 2 DEGREE-GRANTING SCHOOLS AND ADMINISTRATION College of Arts and Sciences, Jacobs School of Music, La uren Robel, Executive Vice President pages 9, 55 pages 41, 61 and Provost, Indiana University Bloomington Rick James Van Kooten, Executive Jeremy Allen, Interim David Henry Dean Jacobs Bicentennial Dean Hannah Buxbaum, Vice President for International Affairs Jane D. McLeod, Associate Executive Brenda Brenner, Interim Eugene Dean O’Brien Bicentennial Executive Fr ed H. Cate, Vice President for Research Paul Gutjahr, Associate Dean for Arts Associate Dean and Humanities and Undergraduate Li ssa Fleming May, Associate Dean Scott M. Dolson, Vice President and Education for Instruction Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Vivian Nun Halloran, Associate Dean Karen Ferguson Fuson, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion School of Nursing, for Communications and Marketing Padraic Kenney, Associate Dean pages 42, 62 Rob Lowden, Vice President for for Social and Historical Sciences and Robin P. Newhouse, Dean Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Graduate Education Mary Lynn Davis-Ajami, Associate Nicola Pohl, Associate Dean for Dean Th omas A. Morrison, Vice President Natural and Mathematical Sciences for Capital Planning and Facilities and Research School of Optometry, page 43 John Sejdinaj, Vice President and Joseph A. Bonanno, Dean Chief Financial Officer Eskenazi School of Art, T. Rowan Candy, Executive Associate Ja cqueline A. Simmons, Architecture, and Design— Dean for Academic Affairs Vice President and General Counsel College of Arts and Sciences, St ephen A. Burns, Associate Dean for W illiam B. Stephan, Vice President pages 21, 58 Graduate Programs for Government Relations and Economic Engagement Peg Faimon, Founding Dean Kimberly D. Kohne, Associate Dean Rowland Ricketts, Associate Dean for Students John Whelan, Vice President for Human Resources Pete Kollbaum, Associate Dean for Hamilton Lugar School Research Ja mes C. Wimbush, Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and of Global and International Todd Peabody, Associate Dean of Multicultural Affairs Studies—College of Arts Institutional Advancement and Sciences, pages 22, 58 Neil A. Pence, Associate Dean for Indiana University Lee Feinstein, Founding Dean Clinical and Patient Care Services Bloomington John Hanson, Executive Associate Associate Dean for Jeffrey D. Perotti, Lauren Robel, Provost Dean Fiscal Affairs Da vid Daleke, Vice Provost for The Media School—College O’Neill School of Public Graduate Education and Health of Arts and Sciences, pages and Environmental Affairs, Sciences 23, 58 pages 43, 62 Da vid Johnson, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management James Shanahan, Founding Dean Siân Mooney, Dean John Nieto-Phillips, Vice Provost for Walter Gantz, Associate Bradley T. Heim, Executive Associate Diversity and Inclusion Dean Dean M. Davis O’Guinn, Vice Provost for Joseph Shaw, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Kelley School of Business, Research pages 26, 59 Eli za Pavalko, Vice Provost for Faculty Philip S. Stevens, Associate Dean for and Academic Affairs Idalene F. Kesner, Dean Faculty Affairs M. A. Venkataramanan, Vice Provost La ureen Maines, Executive Associate R. J. Woodring, Associate Dean for for Finance and Strategy Dean of Faculty and Research Educational Programs Jeffrey M. Zaleski, Vice Provost for As hok K. Soni, Executive Associate Research Dean of Academic Programs School of Public Health, pages 48, 63 Trustees of Indiana School of Education, pages David B. Allison, Dean 36, 60 University Carrie Docherty, Executive Associate Michael J. Mirro, Fort Wayne, Chair Anastasia Morrone, Interim Dean Dean Patrick A. Shoulders, Evansville, Ginette Delandshere, Executive Vice Chair Associate Dean School of Social Work, pages 53, 64 Ma ryEllen K. Bishop, Carmel Bloomington Luddy School of Informatics, Tamara Davis, Dean W. Quinn Buckner, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis Patrick Sullivan, Associate Dean Molly C. Connor, pages 38, 60 Harry L. Gonso, Indianapolis Dennis Groth, Interim Dean Indiana University James T. Morris, Indianapolis Erik Stolterman Bergqvist, Senior Michael A. McRobbie, President Donna B. Spears, Richmond Executive Associate Dean Jo hn S. Applegate, Executive Vice Melanie S. Walker, Bloomington Es fandiar Haghverdi, Executive President for University Academic Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Affairs Kay Connelly, Associate Dean for Ja y L. Hess, Executive Vice President Research for University Clinical Affairs Selma Šabanović, Associate Dean for Na sser H. Paydar, Executive Vice Graduate Education President and Chancellor, IUPUI 3 COMMENCEMENT TRADITIONS Today’s 191st Commencement taking form. The ordinary dress Caps, Tassels, and Hoods exercises mark the joyous of the scholar, whether student or Candidates for associate and culmination and proud recognition teacher, was the dress of a cleric. bachelor’s degrees wear square- of our graduates’ academic Long gowns were worn and may topped caps—also called achievements. The ceremony is rich have been necessary for warmth in mortarboards—which are adorned in academic tradition and protocol. unheated buildings. with colored tassels appropriate to The assignment of colors to signify the school or division from which SYMBOLS certain faculties was a much later they are graduating. The same colors development, and one that was are used throughout the United Traditional in all of our formal standardized in the United States in States. They are: university ceremonies are the Mace, the late nineteenth century. White, Arts and Sciences—White symbol of authority; the Jewel of taken from the white fur trimming Business—Drab Office and Collar, emblematic of of the Oxford and Cambridge Education—Light Blue the Office of the President; and the bachelor’s hoods, was assigned to In formatics, Computing, and Provost’s Chain of Office. arts and letters. Red, one of the Engineering—Copper The Mace has been a symbol of traditional colors of the church, Music—Pink authority since medieval times and went to theology. Green, the color Nursing—Apricot has also been used on ceremonial of medieval herbs, was adopted Optometry—Aqua occasions for hundreds of years. IU’s for medicine, and olive, because it Mace was presented by Phi Delta was so close to green, was given to Pu blic and Environmental Theta in 1949 and is embossed with pharmacy. Golden yellow, standing Affairs—Peacock Blue the seals of the university and the for the wealth that scientific Public Health—Salmon state of Indiana. research has produced, was assigned Social Work—Citron to the sciences. The president’s Jewel of Office is Velvet-lined hoods are worn by also rich in meaning. Its design holders of master’s and doctoral Gowns and the collar from which it hangs degrees. The master’s hood extends Candidates for degrees and are inspired by the arbutus, the to the middle of the back, is edged those who hold these degrees wear university flower. Three precious in velvet in the same color as the traditional gowns. Most are black, stones within the jewel represent tassel, and is lined with colors but some are brightly colored. reading, writing, and arithmetic, and representing the institution from The style of the gown indicates the another three, the arts, sciences, and which the degree was earned. highest degree held by the wearer, humanities. The Jewel of Office was Indiana University hoods are lined and the colors represent institutions presented by Beta Theta Pi in 1945 with cream and crimson. and fields of study. and the Collar of the Jewel of Office The doctor’s hood is longer, has by Sigma Chi in 1958. The gowns for bachelor’s degree wider velvet edging, and fully and associate degree recipients have The provost’s Chain of Office was exposes the lining. a closed front and open sleeves. presented by Beta Theta Pi in 2008. At Indiana University, candidates for Small medallions along each side bachelor’s and associate degrees also