Skip to content

UNM Graduation Events

Order of Graduate Ceremony

Performance by the UNM Brass Choir

  • Conductor: Eric Rombach-Kendall
  • Pre-ceremony music
    • Fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss; Arr. David Marlatt
    • Entry of the Guests from Tannhauser - Richard Wagner; Arr. J.D. Shaw
    • Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Aldridge Grainger; Arr. Joseph Kreines
    • Festfanfare - Alfred Uhl; Arr. Geoffrey Emerson
    • Amazing Grace - Arr. William Himes; Setting by J.D. Shaw
    • A Centennial Fanfare - John Zdechlik
    • America the Beautiful - Katharine Lee Bates; Arr. Paul Bara
  • Processional
    • Pomp and Circumstance - Sir Edward Elgar; Arr. Brian Binder

National Anthem

  • Grace Weaver, UNM Vocal Performance and Music Theory major

Presentation of Colors by the UNM Color Guard

  • Cadet Hans Ramoso
  • Cadet Jordan Hernandez
  • Cadet Bernadette Deremiah
  • Cadet Esmeralda Estrada

Welcome

  • Garnett S. Stokes, UNM President

Board of Regents’ Greeting

  • Jack Fortner, Member, UNM Board of Regents

GPSA Greeting

  • David Saavedra, President, UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association

Keynote

  • Molly Whitt, M.D., UNM School of Medicine, Class of 2020

Recognition of Graduates with Honors and Distinction

  • Garnett S. Stokes, UNM President

Remarks from Alumni Association

  • Mike Silva, President, UNM Alumni Association

Conferring of Degrees in Course

  • Recognition of Doctoral and Terminal Degree Candidates
  • Recognition of Master's Degree Candidates

Tassel Ceremony

  • Garnett S. Stokes, UNM President

Alma Mater

  • Grace Weaver, UNM Vocal Performance and Music Theory major

Recessional

  • Mariachi Tenampa