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TABLE OF CONTENTS Graduate School Commencement .............................. 3 Order of Exercises Baltimore Arena Seating Chart ... ................................ .4 Undergraduate Commencement ................................. 5 Order of Exercises Freeman A. Hrabowski, III .......... ................ .. .............. 6 Joseph Bordogna ................. ... ... ... ... ....... .................. 7 John C. Erickson .........................................................8 Ph.D. Degree Candidates .................................... ... ... 9 Master's Degree Candidates .................................... 11 Bachelor's Degree Candidates ................................. 15 Arts and Sciences ........ .............................................. 15 Engineering ............................................................... 23 Social Work ............................................................... 24 Honors College Graduates ........................ ..................... 25 Phi Beta Kappa ...................................................... 26 National Honor Society Members .............................. 27 Departmental Awards ............................... ... ........ ... 31 Other Awards .................... ... .. ................................... 35 Commencement Information .................................... 36 UMBC President's Board of Visitors ........................ 39 UMBC Alumni Association ...................................... .40 U N D ERG RA D U ATE SEA TIN G BALTIMORE ARENA STAGE Banner Carriers Banner Carriers Faculty jStaff FacultyjStaff College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies Africana Studies Mathematics and Statistics _4 _ American Studies Modern Languages and Linguistics Ancient Studies Music Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Philosophy Biological Sciences Physics Political Science Chemistry Psychology Dance Sociology and Anthropology Economics Theatre Emergency Health Services Visual Arts English Visual and Performing Arts Geography and Environmental Systems College of Engineering Health Administration and Policy Chemical Engineering History Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Information Systems Mechanical Engineering School of Social Work Social Work Emergency medical services are available on the concourse level near section 201. U N D ERG RA D U ATE COMMENCEMENT ORDER OF EXERCISES MAY 23, 2002 THIRTY- EIGHTH COMMENCEMENT BALTIMORE ARENA PROCESSIONAL Trumpet Voluntary, Henry Purcell The Carrollton Brass The National Anthem, sung by Jill H. Olson GREETINGS Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President, UMBC Bruce L. Marcus, University System of Maryland Board of Regents 5 Anne Lepore Burger '87, President, UMBC Alumni Association Arthur T. Johnson, Provost Ian Stucky, Valedictorian for the Senior Class COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS John C. Erickson, President, Erickson Retirement Communities PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES AND CONFERRING OF DEGREES Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Arthur T. Johnson G. Rickey Welch, Dean of Arts and Sciences Craig D. Weidemann, Vice Provost and Executive Assistant to the President Diane M. Lee, Vice Provost for Student Academic Affairs Antonio R. Moreira, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Marilyn E. Demorest, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Charles J. Fey, Vice President for Student Affairs Shlomo Carmi, Dean of Engineering Jesse J. Harris, Dean of Social Work CHARGE TO THE GRADUATES Freeman A. Hrabowski, III RECESSIONAL Trumpet Tune, Henry Purcell Please rise and remain standing until the platform party and faculty and staff have recessed. FREEMAN A. H RAB OWS KI, I I I President of UMBC Freeman A. Hrabowski, III has served Examples of recent awards include the as President of UMBC since May Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in 1992. He joined the University in Education, the Baltimore Sun 's 1987, serving first as vice provost, Marylander of the Year Award, the then as executive vice president. BETA Award (Greater Baltimore Committee's Technology Council), the Born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, Human Rights & Civil Rights Award Dr. Hrabowski graduated at 19 from (National Education Association), the Hampton Institute with highest honors Andrew White Medal (Loyola College of in mathematics. At the University of Maryland), the Hatikvah Award (The Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he Jewish National Fund), the Educator received his M.A. (mathematics) one Achievement Award (National Science year later and his Ph.D. (higher _6_ Foundation), the Outstanding Science education administration/statistics) Educator Award (Eli Lilly & Company), at age 24. the Golden Torch Academic Visionary Award (National Society of Black Dr. Hrabowski serves as a consultant Engineers), and the first U.S. to the National Science Foundation, Presidential Award for Excellence in the National Institutes of Health, the Science, Mathematics, and Engineering National Academy of Sciences, the Mentoring (awarded to UMBC in U.S. Department of Education, and recognition of the nationally acclaimed universities and school systems Meyerhoff Scholarship Program). He is nationally. a fellow in the American Academy of He is a member of numerous boards, Arts and Sciences. including the American Council on Dr. Hrabowski also was instrumental Education, the Baltimore Community in the formation of the Governor's Foundation, the Baltimore Equitable Academy for Mathematics, Science, Society, Center Stage, Constellation and Technology. His research and Energy Group (formerly BGE), the publications focus on science and Education Commission of the States, mathematics education, with a special the Maryland High-Technology Council, emphasis on issues involving minority McCormick & Company, Inc., the participation. He is co-author of the Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust book Beating the Odds (focusing on Company, the Merrick & France parenting high-achieving African Foundations, and the University of American males in science), published Maryland Medical System. He also in 1998 by Oxford University Press, participated in both the Greater and Overcoming the Odds (on Baltimore Committee's Leadership academically successful African Program and Leadership Maryland. American females in science), Dr. Hrabowski is the past president published by Oxford in 2002. of the Maryland Humanities Council and has served as a member of the Governor's Commission on State Taxes & Tax Structure (Linowes Commission), the Governor's Maryland Economic Growth Task Force, and co-chair of the Governor's Transition Policy Group on Education. JOSEPH BORDOGNA Commencement Speaker Joseph Bordogna is deputy director Dr. Bordogna received his Ph.D. from and chief operating officer of the the University of Pennsylvania, where National Science Foundation (NSF). In he also earned a bachelor of science addition to his assignment at NSF, his in electrical engineering. He has career includes experience as a line a master of science from the officer in the U.S. Navy, a practicing Massachusetts Institute of Technology. engineer in industry and a professor. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Complementing his NSF duties, Dr. Science (AAAS) , the American Society Bordogna has chaired committees for Engineering Education (ASEE), the on manufacturing and environmental Institute of Electrical and Electronics technologies within the President's Engineers (IEEE) and the International National Science and Technology Engineering Consortium. He also 7 Council and also served on the served his profession globally as U.S. Japan Joint Optoelectronics president of the IEEE. Project team. Dr. Bordogna has made contributions Prior to his appointment at NSF, Dr. to the engineering profession in a Bordogna served at the University of variety of areas, including early laser Pennsylvania as Alfred Fitler Moore communications systems, electro-optic Professor of Engineering, director of recording materials and holographic The Moore School of Electrical television playback systems. Engineering, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and faculty master of Stouffer College House, a living-learning student resi dence at the university. He was a founder of Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering (PRIME), which enhances minority student skills in mathematics, communications and engineering. He also served on the board of the Philadelphia Partnership for Education. JOHN C. ERICKSON Commencement Speaker As founder and president of Erickson John Erickson is a member of the Retirement Communities, John UMBC President's Board of Visitors Erickson is a developer of residential and is board chairman for the retirement communities for middle University of Maryland Medical System. income senior citizens. His first He also serves on the boards of the project, the Charlestown Retirement Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Center in Catonsville, opened in 1981; Kennedy Krieger Institute, the Living a second community in the Baltimore Classroom Foundation and St. Mary's area, Oak Crest, opened in 1994; a Seminary. third community, in Silver Spring, He received a bachelor of arts degree opened in 2000. Erickson Retirement in philosophy from St. Bernard College Communities also has opened or is in Alabama in 1964 and a master's _8_ about to open similar facilities in degree in education in 1967 from the Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and Virginia. In 1994, Inc. magazine In 1999, John Erickson and his wife, identified Erickson as one of the Nancy, received honorary doctor of nation's