Monday, May 11, 2009

SNRAS students graduate May 10


SNRAS graduates pose before commencement ceremonies May 10 at the Carlson Center
The University of Alaska Fairbanks conferred 1,179 degrees on 1,121 students during its 87th commencement ceremony Sunday, May 10 at the Carlson Center.

SNRAS awarded twenty-two baccalaureate degrees and six master’s degrees.
Geography graduates were Cameron Baird, Brennan Conor, Nelson Crone, Andrea Devers, Keith Forte, David Hamm, Kandace Krejci, Alice Orlich, Kristen Shake, Nicholas Toye, Chris Van Dyck, Jesse Wells. Devers earned two degrees, both a B.A. and a B.S. in geography and earned student leadership honors. Crone, Maxwell, and Orlich received Golden Key Honor Society recognition. Orlich graduated cum laude.

Natural Resources Management grads were David Ellsworth, Jessica Guritz, Larsen Hess, Jennifer Kapla, Cody Maxwell, Ronald Norman, Mia Peterburs, Cassidee Hall Plunkard, and Eli Sonafrank. Guritz graduated magna cum laude.

Master’s graduates were Erin Kelly, Lorene Lynn, Douglas Smart, Quinn Tracy, Sarah Runck, Noreen Zaman.

Among the three honorary degrees UAF awarded during the commencement ceremony was Yup’ik elder and storyteller Annie Cungauyar Blue who has worked closely with the Math in a Cultural Context program for many years.

Related reading:

"UAF Peace Corps program has first graduate," Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, May 11, 2009, by Chris Eshleman

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