Sights and Sounds from Boston University’s Class of 2025 Commencement
Joy, tears, laughter, and plenty of pomp mark ceremony celebrating this year’s BU grads
Sights and Sounds from Boston University’s Class of 2025 Commencement
Sights and Sounds from Boston University’s Class of 2025 Commencement
Raindrops and thunder couldn’t dampen the ebullient mood on Boston University’s Nickerson Field Sunday as an estimated 22,000 family members and friends gathered to cheer on the Class of 2025 during BU’s 152nd Commencement.
BU President Melissa Gilliam, presiding over her first Commencement ceremony, told the graduates, “We are living in uncertain times,” but she urged them to “trust in all that you have learned and trust that this institution has provided you with knowledge, experience, and values that will carry you through.”
Alum and actor Emily Deschanel (CFA’98), best known for her 12-year television run as Dr. Temperance Brennan on the Fox crime procedural Bones, delivered the Commencement address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. Other honorary degree recipients were two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author, journalist, and physician Sheri Fink, who received an honorary Doctor of Science; Sheldon Lee Glashow, Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist and Boston University professor emeritus, who was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science; Rebeca Carrillo Martinez (LAW 92), Chief Justice of the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals, who received an honorary Doctor of Laws; and Dominc Timothy Moulden, an artist, community organizer, and educator, who was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
Congratulations to the 7,966 members of the Class of 2025.
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