Commencement Exercises
College of Letters and Science
Humanities & Fine Arts
Sunday, June Sixteenth
Two Thousand Twenty-Four
Four O’Clock
Commencement Green
PROCESSION
The audience is requested to stand while the procession is entering.
Standard Bearer
Maanavi “Molly” Dua, B.A. in History of Art and Architecture
Susannah Scott, University Marshal
Divisional Chair, Academic Senate
PRESIDING
Daina Ramey Berry
Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts
Michael Miller
Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor of Undergraduate Education
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Kiki Reyes
Office of Public Affairs and Communications
DEAN’S WELCOME
Dean Ramey Berry
GREETINGS
Henry T. Yang
Chancellor
2024 CHANCELLOR’S FACULTY AWARD FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORING
Dr. Simon Todd
Department of Linguistics
Presented by Chancellor Yang
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Secretary of the Smithsonian
STUDENT ADDRESS
Maximilian Park
B.S. in Psychological & Brain Sciences
B.A. in Film and Media Studies
CANDIDATE STAGE CROSSING
CONFERRING OF DEGREES
Chancellor Yang
University Marshal Scott
Commencement Speaker
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Secretary of the Smithsonian
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16, 2019. As Secretary, he oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Two new museums - the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum - are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bunch chronicled the creation of the museum in his book, A Fool’s Errand: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump, and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. In 2021, he received France’s highest award, The Legion of Honor.
UNIVERSITY SONG
Kiki Reyes
Hail to California
Hail to California, Alma Mater dear,
Sing the joyful chorus,
Sound it far and near,
Rallying ’round her banner,
We will never fail—
California, Alma Mater,
Hail! Hail! Hail!
RECESSION
Carillon Music from Storke Tower
Wesley Arai
University Carillonist
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