265 th COMMENCEMENT MAY 17, 2021 Class of 2021265th COMMENCEMENT MAY 17, 2021 CLASS OF 2021 Keeping Franklin’s Promise In the words of one elegiac tribute, “Great men have two lives: one which occurs while they work on this earth; a second which begins at the day of their death and continues as long as their ideas and conceptions remain powerful.” These words befit the great Benjamin Franklin, whose inventions, innovations, ideas, writings, and public works continue to shape our thinking and renew the Republic he helped to create and the institutions he founded, including the University of Pennsylvania. Nowhere does Franklin feel more contemporary, more revolutionary, and more alive than at the University of Pennsylvania. His startling vision of a secular, nonsectarian Academy that would foster an “Inclination join’d with an Ability to serve Mankind, one’s Country, Friends and Family” has never ceased to challenge Penn to redefine the scope and mission of the modern American university. When pursued vigorously and simultaneously, the two missions – developing the inclination to do good and the ability to do well – merge to help form a more perfect university that educates more capable citizens for our democracy. Penn has embodied and advanced Franklin’s revolutionary vision for 281 years. Throughout its history, Penn has extended the frontiers of higher learning and research to produce graduates and scholars whose work has enriched the nation and all of humanity. The modern liberal arts curriculum as we know it can trace its roots to Franklin’s innovation to have Penn students study international commerce and foreign languages. The first medical and business schools in the United States were launched here. And the first general-purpose electronic, digital computer – ENIAC – was invented right here at the University of Pennsylvania. The entire Penn family, including our 330,000 alumni world-wide, shares our commitment to grow inclusion by building a diverse community for living, learning, and service; to spark innovation by inspiring inventive thinking across disciplines; and to accelerate impact by sharing the benefits of new knowledge and discoveries through active engagement with our local and global communities. Today, Penn proudly graduates a class of women and men who have shown the intelligence, drive, integrity, and character to become engaged citizens who will serve humanity with distinction. Our Penn graduates are poised to take their place as productive democratic citizens and as just and humane stewards of our world. In these challenging and perilous times, a world in need of young women and men who are willing to shoulder the moral responsibilities of leadership can look to Penn. Franklin wrote: “We may make these times better if we bestir ourselves. The noblest question in the world is ‘What good may I do in it?’” The answer to this question will be furnished by Franklin’s newest heirs, the graduates of 2021. 1 CLASS OF 2021 CLASS OF 2021 Contents Keeping Franklin’s Promise ...........................................................................................................................................................1 Commencement Ceremony ...........................................................................................................................................................4 Academic Regalia and Traditions ..................................................................................................................................................6 Schools of the University ..............................................................................................................................................................8 Honorary Degree Citations ..........................................................................................................................................................11 Degrees in Course ........................................................................................................................................................................16 School of Arts and Sciences .............................................................................................................................................16 College of Arts and Sciences ..................................................................................................................................16 College of Liberal and Professional Studies ..........................................................................................................23 Graduate Division ....................................................................................................................................................24 School of Engineering and Applied Science ...................................................................................................................25 Wharton School ..................................................................................................................................................................32 School of Nursing ..............................................................................................................................................................40 Perelman School of Medicine ...........................................................................................................................................42 Law School .........................................................................................................................................................................44 Weitzman School of Design ..............................................................................................................................................46 School of Dental Medicine ................................................................................................................................................48 School of Veterinary Medicine ..........................................................................................................................................49 Graduate School of Education ..........................................................................................................................................50 School of Social Policy & Practice ....................................................................................................................................54 Annenberg School for Communication ...........................................................................................................................55 Graduate Faculties .............................................................................................................................................................56 ROTC Commissions .....................................................................................................................................................................60 Principal Academic Honor Societies ...........................................................................................................................................61 Prizes and Awards ........................................................................................................................................................................64 Faculty Honors ..............................................................................................................................................................................73 Alumni Representatives ...............................................................................................................................................................80 Trustees of the University ............................................................................................................................................................82 Officers of the University .............................................................................................................................................................83 3 CLASS OF 2021 The Commencement Ceremony The graduates are requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the singing of the National Anthem, the Invocation, the Dismissal and the singing of “The Red and Blue,” and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the feld. Music Timberdale Brass Eric J. Schweingruber, Director Academic Procession Opening Proclamation David L. Cohen, Chair of the Board of Trustees The National Anthem Henry Jacob Platt, C’21 Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fght O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our fag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Invocation Charles L. Howard, Chaplain Greetings Amy Gutmann, President Academic Honors Wendell E. Pritchett, Provost Greetings William W. Braham, Chair, Faculty Senate Conferral of Honorary Degrees The President Elizabeth Alexander, GR’92*........................................................ ..............................................Doctor of Humane Letters Poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Frances H. Arnold*..................................................................................