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UNM Graduation Events

Order of the ceremony

Performance by the UNM Brass Choir

  • Conductor: Christopher Dollesin, Graduate Student of Bands
  • Pre-ceremony music to be selected from the following
    • A Centennial Fanfare - Zdechlik
    • First Suite in E-flat - Holst/Mowat
    • Also Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss/Marlatt
    • On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss - Holsinger/Prentice
    • Liberty Bell March - Sousa/Allen
    • Adventus - Lovrien
    • America, the Beautiful - Bara
    • Pictures at an Exhibition - Moussorgsky/Stewart
  • Processional music
    • Academic Procession - C. Williams/Shaw
    • Olympic Fanfare - J. Williams

National Anthem

Presentation of Colors by the UNM Color Guard

  • Cadet Una Tholson
  • Cadet Sinai Uvilado
  • Cadet Malakai Bengsten
  • Cadet Kaden Gutierrez

Welcome

Board of Regents’ Greeting

  • Victor Reyes, Student, UNM Board of Regents

GPSA Greeting

  • Michel Rivera Ramirez, President, UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association

Keynote Address

Recognition of Graduates with Distinction

Recognition of Popejoy Dissertation Prize Winner

Remarks from UNM Alumni Association

  • Kenneth Armijo, President, UNM Alumni Association

Conferring of Degrees in Course

Alma Mater

Recessional