Kevin DeJong (Senior Editor) and Shweta Kumar (Editor) from the Big Molecule Watch recently interviewed Rachel Goode, Ph.D. to discuss an article she recently co-authored.
This past Saturday, May 21, the students and families who arrived at the Ritchie Center represented a return to some degree of normalcy. It has been three years since the last spring Commencement ceremony in the Ritchie Center without mask requirements, social distancing and limitations on crowd size. Three months after that ceremony, in August 2019, this year’s class of graduates from the Sturm College of Law arrived on the University of Denver campus for their orientation. Less than seven months later, they would all be sent home because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The perseverance exhibited by the graduates over the past three years, along with the challenges they now face entering the law profession, was a theme throughout the Commencement ceremony.
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Clark, who is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and a tenured faculty member at Denver Law, focused on the importance of being courageous. She talked about the courage the graduates