INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON GRADUATE DEGREES COMMENCEMENT 2020 CONTENTS One Hundred Ninety-First Commencement 2 Degree-Granting Schools and Administration 3 Commencement Traditions 5 Commencement Speaker 6 Student Commencement Speaker 7 Spring and Summer Term 2020 Graduate Degree Recipients 9 HAIL TO OLD I.U. Come and join in song together, Fall Term 2020 Graduate Degree Recipients 53 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 #iubgrad20 Please tell us about your Commencement experience at go.iu.edu/feedback. ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FIRST DEGREE-GRANTING SCHOOLS COMMENCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Saturday, December 19, 2020 5:00 p.m. EST College of Arts and Sciences, Maurer School of Law, School of Social Work, pages 9, 53 pages 30, 58 page 39 Rick James Van Kooten, Executive Austen L. Parrish, Dean Tamara Davis, Dean MICHAEL A. McROBBIE, President of Indiana University, Presiding Dean Christiana Ochoa, Executive Associate Patrick Sullivan, Associate Dean Jane D. McLeod, Associate Executive Dean Dean Aviva Orenstein, Associate Dean University Graduate School, Paul Gutjahr, Associate Dean for Arts of Students pages 39, 61 PROCESSIONAL Janette Fishell and Humanities and Undergraduate Ryan W. Scott, Associate Dean for James C. Wimbush, Dean Professor and Chair of Organ Education Academic Affairs Da vid Daleke, Associate Dean Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Vivian Nun Halloran, Associate Dean Deborah Widiss, Associate Dean for for Diversity and Inclusion Research and Faculty Affairs Indiana University WELCOME President McRobbie Padraic Kenney, Associate Dean Michael A. McRobbie, President School of Medicine, for Social and Historical Sciences and Jo hn S. Applegate, Executive Vice pages 31, 58 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Led by Brian Horne Graduate Education President for University Academic Associate Professor of Voice Nicola Pohl, Associate Dean for Katherine M. Hiller , Associate Dean Affairs Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Natural and Mathematical Sciences and Director, School of Medicine— Ja y L. Hess, Executive Vice President and Research Bloomington University Grand Marshal for University Clinical Affairs Eskenazi School of Art, Jacobs School of Music, Na sser H. Paydar, Executive Vice COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Kheng Hua Tan Architecture, and Design— pages 32, 58 President and Chancellor, IUPUI La uren Robel, Executive Vice President (A biography is printed on page 6.) Class of 1986 College of Arts and Sciences, Interim David Henry Jeremy Allen, and Provost, Indiana University page 16 Jacobs Bicentennial Dean Bloomington ALUMNI INDUCTION CEREMONY Josh Kornberg Brenda Brenner, Interim Eugene Peg Faimon, Founding Dean Hannah Buxbaum, Vice President for Chair-Elect, Indiana University Alumni Association O’Brien Bicentennial Executive Rowland Ricketts, Associate Dean International Affairs Associate Dean Board of Managers Fr ed H. Cate, Vice President for Hamilton Lugar School Associate Dean Li ssa Fleming May, Research of Global and International for Instruction STUDENT ADDRESS Madeline M. Fain Scott M. Dolson, Vice President and (A biography is printed on page 7.) Class of 2020 Studies—College of Arts Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Sciences, pages 16, 54 School of Optometry, page 35 Vice President Joseph A. Bonanno, Dean Karen Ferguson Fuson, CHARGE TO THE CLASS President McRobbie Lee Feinstein, Founding Dean for Communications and Marketing T. Rowan Candy, Executive Associate John Hanson, Executive Associate Vice President for Dean for Academic Affairs Rob Lowden, CONFERRAL OF DEGREES President McRobbie Dean Information Technology and Chief Stephen A. Burns, Associate Dean for Assisted by Provost Lauren Robel Information Officer The Media School—College Graduate Programs Th omas A. Morrison, Vice President Kimberly D. Kohne, Associate Dean CLOSE President McRobbie of Arts and Sciences, pages for Capital Planning and Facilities 17, 54 for Students John Sejdinaj, Vice President and Pete Kollbaum, Associate Dean for HAIL TO OLD I.U. The Indiana University Community James Shanahan, Founding Dean Chief Financial Officer Research Walter Gantz, Associate Ja cqueline A. Simmons, Todd Peabody, Associate Dean of RECESSIONAL Professor Fishell Dean Vice President and General Counsel Institutional Advancement W illiam B. Stephan, Vice President Kelley School of Business, Associate Dean for Neil A. Pence, for Government Relations and Clinical and Patient Care Services pages 18, 55 Economic Engagement Jeffrey D. Perotti, Associate Dean for Idalene F. Kesner, Dean John Whelan, Vice President Fiscal Affairs La ureen Maines, Executive Associate for Human Resources Dean of Faculty and Research O’Neill School of Public Ja mes C. Wimbush, Vice President As hok K. Soni, Executive Associate and Environmental Affairs, for Diversity, Equity, and Dean of Academic Programs pages 36, 60 Multicultural Affairs School of Education, pages Siân Mooney, Dean 24, 56 Bradley T. Heim, Executive Associate Anastasia Morrone, Interim Dean Dean Ginette Delandshere, Executive Joseph Shaw, Associate Dean for Associate Dean Research Philip S. Stevens, Associate Dean for Luddy School of Informatics, Faculty Affairs Computing, and Engineering, R. J. Woodring, Associate Dean for pages 27, 57 Educational Programs Dennis Groth, Interim Dean School of Public Health, Erik Stolterman Bergqvist, Senior pages 37, 61 Executive Associate Dean Es fandiar Haghverdi, Executive David B. Allison, Dean Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carrie Docherty, Executive Associate Kay Connelly, Associate Dean for Dean Research Selma Šabanović, Associate Dean for Graduate Education 2 3 COMMENCEMENT TRADITIONS Indiana University M. Davis O’Guinn, Vice Provost for Trustees of Indiana Today’s 191st Commencement of the scholar, whether student or Arts and Sciences—White Bloomington Student Affairs and Dean of Students University exercises mark the joyous teacher, was the dress of a cleric. Business—Drab Lauren Robel, Provost Eli za Pavalko, Vice Provost for Faculty Michael J. Mirro, Fort Wayne, Chair culmination and proud recognition Long gowns were worn and may Education—Light Blue and Academic Affairs Da vid Daleke, Vice Provost for Patrick A. Shoulders, Evansville, of our graduates’ academic have been necessary for warmth in In formatics, Computing, and Graduate Education and Health M. A. Venkataramanan, Vice Provost Vice Chair achievements. The ceremony is rich unheated buildings. for Finance and Strategy Engineering—Copper Sciences Ma ryEllen K. Bishop, Carmel in academic tradition and protocol. Jeffrey M. Zaleski, Vice Provost for The assignment of colors to signify Law—Royal Purple Da vid Johnson, Vice Provost for W. Quinn Buckner, Bloomington Research certain faculties was a much later Medicine—Kelly Green Enrollment Management Molly C. Connor, Indianapolis SYMBOLS development, and one that was Music—Pink John Nieto-Phillips, Vice Provost for Harry L. Gonso, Indianapolis Diversity and Inclusion standardized in the United States in Nursing—Apricot James T. Morris, Indianapolis Traditional in all of our formal the late nineteenth century. White, Donna B. Spears, Richmond Optometry—Aqua university ceremonies are the Mace, taken from the white fur trimming Melanie S. Walker, Bloomington symbol of authority; the Jewel of Pu blic and Environmental of the Oxford and Cambridge Affairs—Peacock Blue Office and Collar, emblematic of bachelor’s hoods, was assigned to Public Health—Salmon the Office of the President; and the arts and letters. Red, one of the Social Work—Citron Provost’s Chain of Office. traditional colors of the church, The Mace has been a symbol of went to theology. Green, the color Doctoral candidates may wear either authority since medieval times and of medieval herbs, was adopted a mortarboard or a velvet tam. has also been used on ceremonial for medicine, and olive, because it Doctoral tassels are gold. was so close to green, was given to occasions for hundreds of years. IU’s Velvet-lined hoods are worn by pharmacy. Golden yellow, standing Mace was presented by Phi Delta master’s and doctoral candidates. for the wealth that scientific IU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Theta in 1949 and is embossed with The master’s hood extends to the research has produced, was assigned the seals of the university and the middle of the back, is edged in velvet to the sciences. state of Indiana. in the same color as the tassel, and The president’s Jewel of Office is is lined with colors representing the Gowns also rich in meaning. Its design institution from which the degree Candidates for degrees and those and the collar from which it hangs was earned. Indiana University who hold these degrees wear are inspired by the arbutus, the hoods are lined with cream traditional gowns. Most are black, CONGRATS, CLASS OF ’20 university flower. Three precious and crimson. but some are brightly colored. The stones within the jewel represent WE’RE PROUD OF YOU. BE AN ACTIVE PART OF THE WORLDWIDE style of the gown indicates the The doctor’s hood is longer, has reading, writing, and arithmetic, and NETWORK OF IU GRADUATES. highest degree held by the wearer, wider velvet edging, and fully another three, the arts, sciences, and and the colors represent institutions exposes the lining. humanities. The Jewel of Office was and fields of study. ALUMNI.IU.EDU/IUPROUD presented by Beta Theta Pi in 1945 and the Collar of the Jewel of Office The gowns for bachelor’s degree and With honor to the Miami, Delaware, by Sigma Chi in 1958. associate degree recipients have a Potawatomi, and Shawnee people, closed front and open sleeves. The provost’s Chain of Office was on whose ancestral homelands presented by Beta Theta Pi in 2008. The master’s degree gown has and resources Indiana University Small medallions along each side extremely long, closed sleeves, from was built. bear symbols depicting each of which the arms extend through a IU Bloomington’s degree-granting slit at the wrist; the end of the sleeve schools, the IU Eskenazi Museum is square, with an arc cut away just of Art, and the IU Libraries. The above the bottom.