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BOSTON Yesterday the Harvard Business School (HBS) recognized and honored the Class of 2021 with online livestreamed Class Day celebrations and graduation ceremonies. Thousands of graduating students and their loved ones tuned in from around the globe from India, Nigeria, the UK, China, Mexico, and more, with the largest concentration in our very own Harvard backyards of Cambridge and Boston.
The livestream featured Class Day speakers, Harvard University’s Degree Conferral Ceremony, and Dean Srikant Datar’s graduation address. After Dean Datar’s address, 787 graduates and their families and guests joined separate livestreams for their diploma ceremonies.
The morning’s student-led Class Day Celebration, hosted by the Class of 2021 Student Association (SA) Class Day Committee Co-chairs Abby Burcham and Ryan Flamerich, featured speeches by MBA SA Class Presidents Caleb Bradford and Annie Plachta; 2021 Class Day Student Speaker Sara McLoughlin Figel; and Distinguish
March 8, 2021
Professor of chemical engineering Hemant Pendse has won the 2021 Maine Distinguished Professor Award. This award recognizes a University of Maine professor who is committed to high quality education, research, and public service through their role as a professor. A committee of 17 people consisting of both students and staff gathered to select the professor for this prestigious award. Chemical engineering student Grace Farrington presented the nomination package to the committee and Dean of the College of Engineering Dana Humphry pushed for Pendse to win the award.
Pendse is the chair of the Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Department at UMaine and also leads the UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation as the faculty fellow director. Pendse conducts research in colloidal phenomena, paper manufacturing and fluid particle systems. Work on instrument and sensor development in labs is also underway through Pendse’s advising. He has 82 publications in his field and has
Pendse named 2021 Distinguished Maine Professor
Hemant Pendse
Hemant Pendse, an internationally recognized leader in forest bioproducts research, has been named the University of Maine 2021 Distinguished Maine Professor.
The annual Distinguished Maine Professor Award honors a UMaine professor who exemplifies the highest qualities of teaching, research and public service. It is sponsored by the University of Maine Alumni Association and its classes of 1942 and 2002.
Pense was nominated for the award by College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey. The selection process is conducted by a 17-person committee of alumni, current and retired faculty, and a representative of the student body. Each nominee is evaluated on three criteria related to UMaineâs land-grant mission: teaching performance based on peer and student evaluations; the quality and productivity of the nomineeâs research, scholarship, and creative activities; and the nomineeâs contributions of profession