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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) The University of California, Riverside will hold Commencement ceremonies on the weekend of June 12 and 13, 2004. Commencement ceremonies will be held on both the lawn south of the University Commons (Commons lawn) and inside the Student Recreation Center at various times throughout the weekend. More than 3,700 students are eligible to graduate this year. For more detailed information on UC Riverside’s Commencement ceremonies, including additional visitor information, consult the Commencement Web site . Ceremony locations can be found on the campus map .

Commencement Ceremonies are held according to students’ majors, events are as follows:

FRIDAY, JUNE 11

• 4:00 p.m. Commencement Awards Ceremony, Commons Terrace Rooms. Each year, the University of California, Riverside honors the recipients of the Commencement Awards for their extraordinary work in the classroom and laboratory and their contributions to the campus and the community.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12
COMMENCEMENT — College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences I (Commons Lawn) Business Administration Majors

• 8:00 a.m. Ceremony begins

Keynote Speaker: Richard J. Heckmann, Chairman and CEO, K2, Inc.

• 10:00 a.m. Ceremony concludes

COMMENCEMENT — Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (Student Recreation Center)

• 1:00 p.m. Ceremony begins
  Keynote Speaker: Peter Staudhammer, Director and COO, The Alfred E. Mann
  Institute for Biomedical Engineering


• 3:00 p.m. Ceremony concludes

COMMENCEMENT — College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences II (Commons Lawn)
Bachelor’s Degrees in:

• African American Studies


• Anthropology


• Art (Studio)


• Art History


• Asian American Studies


• Asian Studies


• Business Economics


• Chicano Studies


• Chinese


• Classical Studies


• Comparative Ancient Civilizations


• Comparative Literature


• Creative Writing


• Dance


• Economics


• English


• Ethnic Studies


• Film and Visual Culture


• French


• Germanic Studies


• History


• Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary


• Language


• Latin American Studies


• Liberal Studies


• Linguistics



• 6:00 p.m. Ceremony begins
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Harkeerat Dhillon, orthopedic and hand surgeon, Riverside Medical Clinic


• 8:00 p.m. Ceremony concludes

SUNDAY, JUNE 13
COMMENCEMENT — College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (Commons Lawn)

• 8:00 a.m. Ceremony begins
  Keynote Speaker: Thomas Adams (PhD ’69), CEO, Leucadia Technologies, Inc.


• 10:00 a.m. Ceremony concludes

COMMENCEMENT - Graduate Division and Teacher Credentials (Student Recreation Center)

• 1:00 p.m. Ceremony begins

Keynote Speaker: Yolanda Moses (MA ’75, PhD ’76), Special Assistant for
Excellence and Diversity, UCR

• 3:00 p.m. Ceremony concludes

COMMENCEMENT — College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences III (Commons Lawn)
Bachelor’s Degrees in:

• Human Development


• Music


• Music and Culture


• Native American Studies


• Neuroscience


• Philosophy


• Political Science


• Psychology


• Religious Studies


• Russian Studies


• Social Relations


• Sociology


• Spanish


• Theatre


• Women's Studies



• 6:00 p.m. Ceremony begins

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edward J. Blakely (BA ’60) Professor, University of
Sydney, Chair of the Board of the Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable
Suburban Development, UCR

• 8:00 p.m. Ceremony concludes

The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 20,500 students. The campus will open a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion.

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