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Commencement Programs Office of Student Affairs

Spring 2014

2014 Spring Commencement

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Graduate Undergraduate Friday, May 9, 2014 Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:00 P.M. 9:00 A.M. Hanner Fieldhouse Paulson Stadium 590 Herty Drive 203 Lanier Drive Statesboro, Georgia Statesboro, Georgia

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1 Graduate Ceremony ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FYACULT MARSHALS Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies JOHN R. DIEBOLT, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor, Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies ROBERT W. FERNEKES, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Information Services Librarian, Henderson Library College of Business Administration EDDIE METREJEAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Accountancy MANOUCHEHR TABATABAEI, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Information Systems Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and JUAN VARGAS, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Professor, Computer Sciences Information Technology BRIAN L. VLCEK Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering College of Education C. AMELIA DAVIS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Curriculum Foundations and Reading DEVON JENSEN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Leadership, Technology, and Human Development College of Health and Human Sciences URSULA A. PRITHAM, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Nursing STEPHEN J. ROSSI, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Associate Professor Health and Kinesiology College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences PEGGY LINDSEY, M.A., Lecturer, Writing and Linguistics JOE N. PELLEGRINO, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Literature and Philosophy Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health EVANS AFRIYIE-GYAWU, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences JAMES H. STEPHENS, D.H.A., Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management College of Science and Mathematics KATHLYN M. SMITH, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Geology ZACH STAHLSCHMIDT, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology READERS JASON A. LAFRANCE, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Leadership, Technology, and Human Development RAYMONA H. LAWRENCE, Dr.P.H., Assistant Professor, Community Health CHERYL T. METREJEAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Accountancy MARC E. MOULTON, M.F.A., Associate Professor, Art

THE PLATFORM PARTY BROOKS A. KEEL, Ph.D., President JEMELLEH COES, M.Ed., 2014 Georgia Teacher of the Year, Special Education, English Language Arts Teacher, Langston Chapel Middle School, Bulloch County Board of Education JEAN E. BARTELS, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Afairs ROBERT L. WHITAKER, M.B.A., Vice President for Business and Finance TERESA E. THOMPSON, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Afairs and Enrollment Management STEVEN C. BURRELL, Ed.S., Vice President for Information Technology/Chief Information Ofcer CHARLES E. PATTERSON, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Dean, Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies RUSSELL T. KEEN, B.B.A., Vice President for Governmental Relations and Community Engagement CURTIS E. RICKER, D.A., Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences THOMAS R. KOBALLA, JR., Ph.D., Dean, College of Education ALLEN C. AMASON, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business Administration A. BARRY JOYNER, Ph.D., Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences MARTHA L. ABELL, Ph.D., Dean, College of Science and M