CHESTNUT HILL, MA — Wilmington students Courtney Capistran and Lisamarie DiOrio recently graduated from Boston College.
Commencement was held on May 23 in Alumni Stadium on the Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Mass. There were some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate degree recipients in the Boston College Class of 2016.
The 2016 Commencement speaker was U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz, a Boston College alumnus who has blended scientific skills with those of diplomacy and negotiation in tackling issues ranging from the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement to clean energy. Moniz received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the ceremony.
Boston College also awarded honorary degrees to four other distinguished individuals: Nannette Canniff, founding president of the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, which has aided the poor in Haiti for more than 30 years; alumnus Jack Joyce, University benefactor and chairman and founder of the Boston College Club; María Eugenia (Gena) McGowan, principal of St. Matthew Catholic School in Phoenix, Ariz., and alumnus Rev. Emmanuel Mwerekande, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Uganda.
About Boston College
Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1863, Boston College today is one of the foremost universities in the United States, with a coeducational enrollment of approximately 14,100 undergraduate and graduate students drawn from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. Its faculty of eminent scholars is dedicated to teaching, both at the undergraduate level and in its nationally noted graduate programs in education, law, management, ministry, nursing, social work and theology. Boston College is focused on its founding Jesuit mission to offer students a transforming educational experience: to help them develop both their intellect and their character, and to encourage them to lead lives of faith, integrity and service to others.
(NOTE: The above press release is from Boston College via Grassroots.)
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