The One Hundred Seventy-second Commencement May Eighth, Two Thousand Seventeen Emory University The One Hundred Seventy-second Commencement The Eighth of May Two Thousand Seventeen The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Order of Exercises .................................................................... 2 Where the sun doth shine, That is where our hearts are turning Musical Selections .................................................................... 3 ’Round old Emory’s shrine. Order of Procession ................................................................. 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Award Recipients ..................................................................... 4 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 6 Hail the Gold and Blue! Diploma Ceremonies ................................................................ 7 Tho’ the years around us gather, Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 8 Crowned with love and cheer, Still the memory of Old Emory In Memoriam ........................................................................... 8 Grows to us more dear. Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 We will ever sing thy praises, Emory College of Arts and Sciences ..................................... 9 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Oxford College .................................................................. 14 Hail the Gold and Blue! School of Medicine ............................................................ 14 —J. Marvin Rast 1918C 29T Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 15 Candler School of Theology .............................................. 17 School of Law .................................................................... 17 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 19 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 22 James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ....................... 25 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 26 Recipients of Honors and Prizes ............................................ 37 A Commentary on Commencement ....................................... 49 Emory University Commencement 2017 1 The Order of Exercises Gathering Music Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Processional Atlanta Pipe Band Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet National Anthem Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Invocation Rev. Bridgette Young Ross Dean of the Chapel and Spiritual Life Presidential Address Claire E. Sterk Presentation of the Marion Luther Brittain Service Award Ajay Nair Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Presentation of the Scholar/Teacher Award Stuart M. Zola Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Presentation of the Thomas Jefferson Award Allison Dykes Vice President and Secretary of the University Authorization to Confer Degrees John F. Morgan 67OX 69B Chair of the Board of Trustees Conferral of Honorary Degrees Claire E. Sterk Keynote Address Natasha Trethewey Conferral of Degrees Claire E. Sterk Welcome to the Emory Alumni Association Kim Tyson Chenevey 02OX 04B President, Emory Alumni Board Closing Remarks Claire E. Sterk Benediction Nandini Kamlesh Doshi 17C, Hindu Kazim Haider 17B, Islamic Noam Kantor 17C, Jewish Sasicha Manupipatpong 17C, Buddhist Anh-Duy Q. Nguyen 17C, Christian Alma Mater Malik Alexander 17B Joseph Hee-Won Park 17C Andrew Shifren 17C Brian Steinberg 17B William McAfee Warren 15OX 17C Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Guests are asked to please remain seated during the processional and recessional. Please silence any electronic devices and refrain from talking during the ceremonies. The Quadrangle and Emory College of Arts and Sciences ceremonies can be viewed in rooms 206, 207, and 208 in White Hall and on the web at www.emory.edu/commencement. Overflow viewing for the Quadrangle ceremony is available at McDonough Field. In support of Emory’s sustainability initiatives, we ask that you return any unneeded copies of this program to the program distribution tables and take the time to properly dispose of your recyclable and compostable waste items in the proper containers. 2 Emory University Commencement 2017 Gathering Music The Faculties Jubilate Deo .......................................................... Gregor Aichinger chief marshal of the university Revecy Venir du Printans ....................................... Claude Le Jeune Professor Bobbi Patterson 94PhD Sonata from Die Bänkelsängerlieder ............................ Daniel Speer English Folk Song Suite ............................ Ralph Vaughan Williams the platform party Fancies, Toyes, and Dreames ...................................... Giles Farnaby Vice President and Secretary of the University Allison Dykes Georgia on My Mind .............................. Hoagy Carmichael/Moore University Historian, Vice President, and Senior Adviser The Fairest of the Fair .......................................... John Philip Sousa to the President Gary S. Hauk 91PhD Contrapunctus IX ........................................ Johann Sebastian Bach University Trustees Soliloquy for Solo Trumpet ........................... John Anthony Lennon Recipients of Special Awards Commencement Vocalists Senior Adviser to the President Robert M. Franklin Jr. The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, under the directorship Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations of Emory University Organist Timothy Albrecht, performs Susan Cruse this morning’s commencement music, which includes arrangements Senior Vice President and General Counsel Stephen D. Sencer by Michael Moore. President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare, Stuart Stephenson and Michael Tiscione, trumpet Jonathan S. Lewin Jaclyn Rainey, horn President of the Emory Alumni Board of the Emory Alumni Nathan Zgonc, trombone Association Kim Tyson Chenevey 02OX 04B Bernard Flythe, tuba President of the University Senate Kristin Wendland Registrar JoAnn McKenzie Dean of the Chapel and Spiritual Life Bridgette Young Ross Processional Student Ministers Director of Yerkes National Primate Research Center R. Paul Johnson Emory and Old St Andrews .............Henry Frantz 71C 74L/Moore Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair An Academic Procession ........................... Johannes Brahms/Moore Dean of Oxford College Douglas A. Hicks Prelude to “Te Deum”…….. .......Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Moore Vice Provost for Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies and Fanfare to “La Peri” ...................................................... Paul Dukas Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies Lisa A. Tedesco Please remain seated while the platform party, faculty, and Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health James W. Curran graduates process into the Quadrangle. Dean of Roberto C. Goizueta Business School Erika James Dean of the School of Law Robert Schapiro Dean of Candler School of Theology Jan Love Recessional Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Linda A. McCauley 79N La Rejouissance from Interim Dean of the School of Medicine David S. Stephens “Royal Fireworks Music”..............George Frederick Handel/Moore Interim Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences Michael A. Elliott Please remain seated until the platform party, faculty, and Interim Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs graduates have departed. Stuart M. Zola Taylor Branch Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Order of Procession Claes Tingvall Natasha Trethewey The Atlanta Pipe Band Chair of the Board of Trustees John F. Morgan 67OX 69B Bedel of the University Maxwell Logan Zoberman 17C Candidates for Baccalaureate and President Claire E. Sterk Professional Degrees deputy university marshals Each school is preceded by the bearer of its gonfalon. Senior Lecturer Kristin Wendland, Faculty Marshal Associate Professor Henry Bayerle, Faculty Marshal at Large Candidates for Master’s Degrees Associate Professor Jason Schneider, Faculty Marshal at Large Professor Arri Eisen, Emory College of Arts and Sciences Candidates for the Degree of Professor Nancy J. Newman, Medicine Doctor of Philosophy and Faculty Sponsors Assistant Professor Laura Zajac-Cox, Allied Health Associate Professor Carolyn Clevenger, Nursing Corpus Cordis Aureum (The Golden Corps of the Heart) Associate Professor Steffen Lösel, Theology Professor Richard D. Freer, Law Members are Emory University alumni from the Class of 1967 Professor Doug Bowman, Business or earlier. They are attired in distinctive golden robes. Professor Nancy J. Thompson, Public Health Professor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate School Michele Davis 87C, Alumni Emory University Commencement 2017 3 Presentation of the He authored the strategic implementation plan that helped Emory’s Marion Luther Brittain Service Award 7,800 undergraduate and 7,200 graduate students usher in this pivotal moment in SGA/GSGA history, and 91.2 percent of stu- This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students by the dents voted in favor of the historic restructure. university, is an expression of gratitude for service performed Greenbaum has served the Emory community with great without expectation of reward or recognition. The award passion, not just as GSGA president but also as a graduate busi- was established at Emory in 1942 through a bequest from a ness representative