Julie L. Gerberding, MD, the first woman to serve as director of the CDC, implores the pandemic Class of 2020 at Washington University in St. Louis to apply the unique lessons it learned these past 15 months for good in a delayed 159th Commencement ceremony.
Nearly 1,400 members of the Class of 2020 returned to the Washington University campus on Sunday, May 30, to celebrate an in-person Commencement on Francis Olympic Field.
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160th Commencement will be one for the history books
Historic Francis Olympic Field is being set up to host the university’s 160th Commencement ceremonies. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)
May 19, 2021 SHARE
An unprecedented academic year coming to a close brings an unprecedented Commencement for Washington University’s graduating students this week.
To allow for in-person ceremonies during COVID-19, the traditional universitywide ceremony in Brookings Quadrangle will be broken up into eight ceremonies over the next two days, May 20 and 21, on Francis Olympic Field.
Of the more than 3,200 undergraduate, graduate and professional students being conferred degrees tomorrow and Friday, more than 2,540 will be in attendance.
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