{"id":31276,"date":"2017-12-20T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=31276"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:44:33","slug":"video-pardee-school-2017-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/12\/20\/video-pardee-school-2017-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Pardee School 2017 Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rzBefeVbgU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5rzBefeVbgU&amp;feature=youtu.be\">The convocation was held May 20, 2017 at Boston University\u2019s Walter Brown Arena<\/a>. A beautiful warm day greeted the approximately 2,000 guests and 30 faculty members\u00a0who celebrated the\u00a0freshly-minted Pardee School alumni.<\/p>\n<p><span>The 207 undergraduates and 45 graduate students\u00a0joined the more than 9,000 alumni from programs currently under the purview of the Pardee School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Convocation ceremony included remarks from Dean\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a>,\u00a0as well as the\u00a0<\/span>presentation of the following awards<span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Carole A. Chandler Citizenship Award, to Victoria Kelberer<\/li>\n<li><span>The CAS (College of Arts and Sciences) Prize for Undergraduate Academic Excellence, to Devon Flanagan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Pardee School Graduate Academic Excellence Award, to Kevin McLaughlin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Pardee School Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award, to Jessica Depies, Evelyn Hitt and Mark Vicik<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Amb. Hermann Frederick Eilts Graduate Thesis Award, to Paige Pascarelli<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Amb. Hermann Frederick Eilts Undergraduate Thesis Award, to Andrea Van Grinsven<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Convocation also featured the annual presentation of the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Prize for Faculty Excellence, which went to Prof.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jeremy-menchik\/\">Jeremy Menchik<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyYTnMLkroc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>Convocation also provided an opportunity to thank and honor\u00a0Professor of International Relations and Anthropology\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/augustus-richard-norton\/\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a><span>\u00a0for his distinguished career and numerous contributions to the field of International Relations as well as to the Pardee School, its students, faculty and staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2qNA32q0Uj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>A longer version of the convocation ceremony, including the presentation of student degrees,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/for-students\/memorabilia\/video-order-form\/\">can be ordered online from BU Productions.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 207 undergraduates and 45 graduate students joined the more than 9,000 alumni from programs currently under the purview of the Pardee School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411,8434],"tags":[9860,8797,8633,8471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31359,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276\/revisions\/31359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}