UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COMMENCEMENT2018 DECEMBER 13 • 2 p.m. Graduate Degree Ceremony UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COMMENCEMENT2018 DECEMBER 13 • 2 p.m. Graduate Degree Ceremony Graduate School School of Law School of Architecture College of Arts and Sciences Business School School of Communication School of Education and Human Development College of Engineering Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music School of Nursing and Health Studies 1 CommencementCommencement MarshalsProgram Grand Marshal Shannon K. de l’Etoile, Ph.D. Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Alumni Association Banner Marshal Nicholas Christin, B.B.A. ’70, M.S. ’71, J.D. ’74, L.L.M.E. ’78 Faculty Senate Marshal Richard L. Williamson, J.D. Academic Banner Marshals Graduate School Sharan Majumdar, Ph.D. School of Law Andrew Dawson, J.D. School of Architecture Allan Shulman, M.Arch. College of Arts and Sciences Charles Mallery, Ph.D. Business School Dhananjay (DJ) Nanda, Ph.D. School of Communication (Jack) Wesley Miller IV, M.A. School of Education and Human Development Soyeon Ahn, Ph.D. College of Engineering Victoria Coverstone, Ph.D. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Hans Graber, Ph.D. Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Alberto J. Caban-Martinez, D.O., Ph.D., M.P.H. Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Anne Searcy, Ph.D. School of Nursing and Health Studies Juan E. Gonzalez, Ph.D. Faculty Marshals School of Architecture Denis Hector, M.S. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, M.Arch. College of Arts and Sciences Tracy Devine Guzmán, Ph.D. Angel Kaifer, Ph.D. Business School Patricia S. Abril, J.D. Joan Martinez Evora, J.D. School of Communication Valerie Manno Giroux, Ph.D. John Soliday, Ph.D. School of Education and Human Development Elizabeth Harry, Ph.D. Kevin Jacobs, Ph.D. College of Engineering Fabrice Manns, Ph.D. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D. 2 Commencement Program Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Raul Murciano Jr., D.M.A. School of Nursing and Health Studies Charles Downs, Ph.D. Mary Hooshmand, Ph.D. Graduate School Hooders Johis Ortega, Ph.D. Kate Ramsey, Ph.D. Doctor of Nursing Practice Hooders Greta Mitzova-Vladinova, D.N.P. Kenya Snowden, D.N.P. School of Law Hooders Donna Coker, M.S.W., J.D. Andres Sawicki, J.D. Alumni Marshals Raul Murciano, M.S.E.E. ’71 Orlando E. Mora, B.S.M.E. ’74, M.B.A. ’79, M.P.R.A. ’88 Robert E. Chisholm, M.S. ’77 Adam D. Sendzischew, B.B.A. ’02, M.B.A. ’07 Gina L. Guilford, M.F.A. ’03 Lars P. Jensen, M.B.A. ’07 Rayna S. Howse, B.S. ’12, M.B.A ’16, M.D. ’17 3 Commencement ProgramProgram Academic Procession * University of Miami Commencement Band Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music University of Miami Fanfare Robert M. Carnochan, D.M.A. David Lambert, D.M.A. ’05 Director of Wind Ensemble Activities Pomp and Circumstance Jeffrey P. Summers, M.M. Edward Elgar Doctoral Conductor Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music President’s Procession * President’s Processional Fanfare – Toward Our New Century Brian Balmages, M.M. ’00 Pomp and Circumstance Edward Elgar Convocation Opening Jeffrey L. Duerk, Ph.D. Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost The National Anthem * Amanda Arguello The Star Spangled Banner Student, Vocal Performance Francis Scott Key Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Invocation * Rev. Katie Lineberger Executive Director, Wesley Methodist Center Rabbi Mendy Fellig Director, Chabad Jewish Student Center Imam Dr. Tarek Chebbi Principal, Islamic School of Miami Welcome Julio Frenk, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. President Presentation of Honorary Degree Recepient Hilarie Bass, J.D. ’81 François Baron Englert Vice Chair Doctor of Science, honoris causa Board of Trustees Conferral of Honorary Degree President Frenk Introduction of Speaker Hilarie Bass Advice to Graduates Richard D. Fain Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Chair, University of Miami Board of Trustees 4 Commencement Program Conferral of Academic Degrees Graduate School Guillermo Prado, Ph.D., Dean School of Law Osamudia James, J.D., Acting Dean School of Architecture Rodolphe el-Khoury, Ph.D., Dean College of Arts and Sciences Leonidas G. Bachas, Ph.D., Dean Business School John Quelch, Ph.D., Dean School of Communication Gregory J. Shepherd, Ph.D., Dean School of Education and Human Development Laura Kohn-Wood, Ph.D., Dean College of Engineering Jean-Pierre Bardet, Ph.D., Dean Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Roni Avissar, Ph.D., Dean Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Carl Schulman, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H. Executive Dean for Research Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Shelton G. Berg, M.M., Dean School of Nursing and Health Studies Cindy Munro, Ph.D., Dean Alumni Association Welcome Xavier Cortada, A.B. ’86, J.D. ’91, M.P.A. ’91 Director, University of Miami Alumni Association Alma Mater * Jeffrey P. Summers, M.M. William S. Lampe Doctoral Conductor and Christine Asdurian Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Amanda Arguello Student, Vocal Performance Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Recessional University of Miami Commencement Band Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Man of the Hour Miami March The Crosley March The Noble Men March Henry Fillmore *Those who are able are asked to stand for these portions of the program. At the conclusion of the program, the audience will please remain standing until the platform party has left the Watsco Center. 5 Commencement Program University of Miami Commencement Band Jeffrey Summers Graduate Conducting Fellow Frost School of Music Flute Horn Emily Bedard Peter McFarland Alyssa Mena Caitlin McKinney Anna Kevelson Natalie Miller Alex Witt Oboe Cameron Roberts Trombone Joseph Wenda Steven Eckert Thomas McKee Bassoon Ryan Smith Melaine Ferrabone Wesley Thompson Keegan Hockett Euphonium Clarinet Abraham Zimmerman Tina DeMeglio Claire Grieller Tuba Amy Hoang Philip Beatty Rachel Komroff TJ Graf Patrick Prentice Lee Seidner Double Bass Benjamin Webster Dezmond Rodgers Saxophone Percussion Frank Capoferri Max Braunstein Joey Speranzo Daniel Gerhardt Nicholas Tobin Katherine Fortunato Samuel Valancy Conor Mulford Trumpet Logan Butler Kyle Elgarten Ben Hunter Nelson Martinez Mack Wood Cameron Zhen Commencement set was designed by Kristian A. Rodriguez, B.S.C. ’04, M.F.A. ’18, art director in University Communications. 6 HonoraryCommencement Degree Pr Recipientogram FRANÇOIS BARON ENGLERT 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physics François Baron Englert was born in Belgium in 1932, eight years after But, as Englert wrote in his Nobel his parents emigrated with his older brother from Poland in search of a biography, he soon realized that his better life, and to escape anti-Semitism in their homeland. interests lie “less in practical applications They worked hard and managed to forge a decent existence when than in the understanding of the Nazi Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and gradually began underlying theoretical structure.” So he persecuting Jews. After two years of relative normalcy, the young returned to college to earn his master’s Englert was, like all Jews, compelled to wear the distinctive Star of degree in physics in 1958 and his Ph.D. David. A few months later, the Germans began deporting Jews to in 1959. That same year, based on concentration camps where they were murdered. recommendations and a few previous Englert, his older brother, and their parents survived the Holocaust publications in Condensed Matter Physics, by separating and hiding their identities. They were sheltered in those he was offered a two-year research dark times by courageous and generous strangers who took great risks associate position at Cornell University to save them from the Nazis. As a result, Englert grew up to find the in Ithaca, New York, where he began his work with a young professor missing piece in the cosmic puzzle—how subatomic particles gather named Robert Brout. mass, and thus hold the universe together. Their shared vision of science and life laid the groundwork for their For his theoretical discovery of the mechanism that contributes lifelong friendship, fruitful collaboration, and, eventually, a Nobel to our understanding of the origin of mass, which he and Peter W. Prize. When Englert returned to ULB in 1961, Brout soon joined Higgs independently proposed in 1964 and received the Nobel Prize him in Brussels and the pair went on to codirect ULB’s theoretical in Physics for in 2013, Englert is receiving a Doctor of Science, honoris physics group. In 1964, not long after their reunion, Englert and Brout causa, from the University of Miami. published the first paper describing how an invisible field present It took nearly five decades and the largest and most complex throughout the universe imbues elementary particles, such as electrons, machine ever constructed to confirm the theory that Englert and with mass. Higgs’ paper would soon follow. Robert Brout, his longtime collaborator at the Free University of Confirmed by the CERN supercollider decades later, a year after Brussels (ULB), and Higgs, from the University of Edinburgh, Brout’s 2011 death, Englert, Brout, and Higgs’ theories provided proposed. The Brout-Englert-Higgs boson, implied by their the mechanism that would complete the Standard Model of particle mechanism, was confirmed on July 4, 2012, when thousands of physics, which describes how the basic building blocks of matter, scientists at the CERN Laboratory extracted this particle, originating governed by fundamental forces, interact. In other words, it describes from an invisible field pervading the universe, by collisions of how the universe, and everything in it, from flowers and people to stars elementary particles in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, located and planets, is constructed.