A Match Made at Rutgers

The photo at left may well be my favorite photo submission since I started the blog and not just because of the cute smiling faces.

School of Criminal Justice masters' grad Brian O'Hara sent me this adorable photo taken at last Friday's ceremony along with this caption:

Adriana Garcia & Brian O'Hara, classmates in SCJ MA 2010, will be married October 2, 2010.

Congratulations to both of you on your academic achievements and your upcoming wedding!

Below, some fellow graduates pose with the happy couple:

Executive MPA and SPAA/Graduate School Commencement

Terri Buccarelli sent these photos from last week's Graduate School and School of Public Affairs ceremony in the Golden Dome, and the Pi Alpha Alpha induction.

It was a very rainy, wet day, but that didn't stop some 400 or so Masters and PhDs from being conferred, as well as the first 2 Bachelors in Public Service. 

At left, Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration Marc Holzer with two Pi Alpha Alpha inductees. Below, he's pictured again with another inductee (far left) and Associate Dean Judith Kirchhoff (center).

Getting ready for the ceremony:

The eMPA grads pose for a group photo before the ceremony:

Thanks for the great photos! Anyone nostalgic or curious on what the guest speaker, our very own Dr. Glenn Shafer, had to say to the new grads and their guests, the transcript is on our commencement website

More Happy Graduates...

I've been getting a steady stream of photos since graduation - it's getting hard keeping up with y'all! At left, Rosemary Kuria sent this photo (of herself?) from the Graduate School/SPAA graduation.

Below, a Social Work grad, Mitchell LaDean, sends in these two photos - look at that huge grin...

Robert Marasco sent in this group below of more MPA graduates. Clockwise from top left: Renotha & Kevin, Veronica & Phil, Joyce Lanier, Robert Marasco, and Melissa & Joyce.

Congratulations to all of you! Now my only question is: where are the Nursing, Criminal Justice, and Law graduates? I haven't heard from any of you yet...

Business School Grads

Germaine Benemile sent me this great group of photos from the Business School graduation last week, where he was among the largest Rutgers Business School graduating class yet! It was sunny and warm, a great day for the walk to NJPAC, where the actual ceremony was held. Newark Mayor Cory Booker spoke at the ceremony this year (seen below, top left). Afterwards, I caught him tweeting about how proud he was of Rutgers-Newark (yes, our mayor is on Twitter!)


Thanks Germaine, for these photos! And thanks to the others who've sent me photos in the past few days. I'll be posting more! For more from the Business School graduation, check out our photo gallery.

SPAA Grads

I've been getting quite a few photos from the School of Public Affairs & Administration (SPAA) grads over the past few days. Below are some from Joshua Holmes 

This next one is from the Pi Alpha Alpha awards ceremony, sent in by Maite Rios

More from the graduation:

I'll be posting more from all the graduations as I get them in - for a complete list of all the ceremonies, including the official FASN/UC photo gallery, speaker transcripts and more, visit www.newark.rutgers.edu/commencement 

MFA Graduation

Graduation festivities have been underway all this week at Rutgers.

Yesterday afternoon was the Graduate School and School of Public Affairs & Administration ceremony. This year, 17 students from the inaugural MFA class graduated as part of that group. Fittingly enough, the speaker was director of the program, Jayne Anne Phillips, who's been touring in support of her highly acclaimed novel Lark & Termite all semester. One of the grads in the fiction concentration, Paul Vidich, sent me some great candid shots of our classmates. (I took some of the podium shots).

Remember these faces, you never know who's going to become the next Pulitzer Prize winner.

Congratulations all of you!! The program is going to miss you next year... 

Tomorrow afternoon is our big undergraduate ceremony at NJPAC, watch for me wandering around with our official photographer. And if you took/plan to take any great photos or video, be sure to send them over!