share interactive transcript request transcript/captions live captions
download
|
MyPlaylist
SPEAKER 1: Good morning. And welcome to all graduates, honorees, families, friends and my fellow members of the staff and faculty of Cornell University's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Speaking for all of us in CEE, it is an honor, a privilege, and a pleasure to celebrate with you today.
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogohono, the Cayuga Nation. The Gayogohono are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with an historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell university, New York state, and the United States of America.
We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogohono dispossession and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogohono people, past, and present to these lands and waters.
Before starting, the first thing I need to do is point out the exits. So if there's any emergency or fire alarm, there are plenty of exits on either side going directly out to the outside. So just if something happens, move calmly away.
We will do our best to move today's ceremonies along as quickly as possible. Graduates have places to be by 12:30 and family and friends have seats to find in the stadium. On the back of your programs, you'll see a paragraph about photography. During our ceremony, Grad Images, our professional photographers for today, will be taking pictures of each graduate. We ask the guests to please stay seated throughout the entire program to allow the professional photographers to take the pictures.
We'll now begin by acknowledging those graduates who have received school awards or other special recognition. Student awardees, when I call your name, please come forward to the front to receive your award. And then please stay up front until all awards have been given out so that we can get a group photo.
The first prize is the Charles Lee Crandall essay contest, awarded annually for the best papers written by juniors or seniors. There are no restrictions on subject material other than to have some direct or indirect connection with civil and environmental engineering. The winner is Regina Galvan Rumayor.
[CHEERING]
The John E. Perry undergraduate prize. This award is given to members of the graduating class who demonstrate enthusiastic participation in student life and commitment to the profession of engineering. In addition to scholarship, Perry prize winners are chosen by faculty and students by ballot. And the winners are. Brendan Rodriguez--
[CHEERING]
--and Caleb Julian Huang.
[CHEERING]
Johnny Perry Teaching Assistant prize. Established in 1985, this award is given annually to the teaching assistants within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who exhibit concern and care for the students in his or her class and fulfills the teaching functions enthusiastically and skillfully. The winner is identified using ballot distributed to the faculty and students. And the winner is [INAUDIBLE].
[CHEERING]
He's a graduate student and he's not here. Also, the Winslow T Sherman student merit award, presented annually to a member of the Civil and Environmental Engineering graduating class of Cornell University, who is an active member of the Cornell student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Established in 1932 and is considered the most worthy of this honor by virtue of high character and academic achievement. And the winner is Megan Kalmbach.
[CHEERING]
Will the Chi Epsilon members please stand to be recognized?
[CHEERING]
Chi Epsilon is the National Civil Engineering Honor Society in the United States. Its members embody the qualities of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability. Students membership is recognized by the purple and white cords. You may be seated now.
[APPLAUSE]
This is a full ceremony to recognize all graduates. Again, we'll move as quickly as possible. But ask that graduates remain seated until you are called forward. And after your class has been recognized, graduates should return to their seats and remain seated until the end of the ceremony.
We present the degrees in the order as they were printed in the program. I invite Professor April Gu to the podium.
APRIL GU: Graduates, please come forward as you hear your name called.
[READING NAMES]
In addition to our ceremony here, these new doctors of philosophy were also individually recognized at a separate ceremony yesterday by the graduate school. CEE is delighted to be able to honor them here at our school ceremony.
On behalf of the faculty and the staff in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, we proudly present you the 2024 graduates who have received their Doctor of Philosophy degree.
[CHEERING]
Graduates, please return to your seats. Master of Science degree holders.
[READING NAMES]
On behalf of the faculty and the staff in the School of Civil and Environmental engineering, we present to you, the class of 2024 master's science graduates.
[CHEERING]
I introduce Francis Vanek.
FRANCIS VANEK: Good morning, everyone. Graduates, please come forward as you hear your name called.
[READING NAMES]
On behalf of the faculty and staff in the School of Civil and Environmental engineering, we present to you, the class of 2024 master of engineering, civil and environmental engineering degree majors.
[CHEERING]
Graduates, please return to your seats. And now I'll introduce Robert Newman.
ROBERT NEWMAN: Graduates, please come forward as you hear your name.
[READING NAMES]
On behalf of the faculty and staff of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, we present to you the Masters in Engineering, Engineering Management class of 2024.
[CHEERING]
Graduates, please return to your seats.
SPEAKER 1: Next is the Bachelor of Science presentations. There will be two presentations. First for civil, then for environmental engineering. The graduates, please come forward as your name is called.
[READING NAMES]
On behalf of the faculty and staff in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, we present to you the Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering majors, class of 2024.
[CHEERING]
Graduates, please return to your seats.
[CHEERING]
And that's professor Damien Helbling to come to the stand to present the Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering.
[CHEERING]
DAMIAN HELBLING: Good morning.
[READING NAMES]
On behalf of the faculty and staff in the School of Civil and Environmental engineering, we present to you, the class of 2024 Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering degree recipients.
[CHEERING]
Graduates, please return to your seats.
SPEAKER 1: Thank you all, family members and guests, for traveling today to attend this ceremony. I take this opportunity to thank the staff for preparing this rather complicated event.
[APPLAUSE]
A boxed lunch has been prepared for all of you. The lunch is in a box. Feel free to stick around. We have until 12:15. We have this space until 12:15 when the next group has to set up for their event. We figure you we'll need a little bit of nourishment. You've got things to go to.
The sandwiches are turkey club wrap, chicken wrap, gluten free vegan wrap, and a vegetarian portobello mushroom wrap. Just they're right over here. Pick it up as you go and take photos. Feel free to take photos. You can use our beautiful red background with the risers. Or in the back there's another banner you can use for taking pictures.
Thank you. This concludes the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's graduation ceremony.
[CHEERING]
Be safe. Enjoy. And congratulations, graduates.
