View Celebration photos here.

Exams are over, dissertations are complete, hard work has paid off—it’s now time to celebrate! Family and friends joined students and faculty at the Charles E. Smith Center on May 18 for special ceremonies to commend and recognize achievement in the arts and sciences. Greeted by a din of cheers, graduates processed in the Charles E. Smith Center for a day filled with wise words, congratulatory handshakes, and well-wishes on future endeavors.

To view the entire text of Dean Barratt’s speech as well as the other Celebration Speeches, click on the links below:

Peg Barratt, Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
Denver Brunsman, Assistant Professor of History
Daina Stukuls Eglitis, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Jennifer Christine Nash, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Adam Bertram Bethke, BA Criminal Justice and Political Science
Simon McNorton, MA Public Policy
Paul Seltzer, BA Women's Studies

Award-Winners

12:00 Program:

• Robert W. Kenny Prize – Mark Mullen, Assistant Professor of Writing
• Undergraduate Department Advising  – Fran Buntman, Assistant Professor of Sociology
• Distinguished Scholar – Adam Bertram Bethke, BA Criminal Justice and Political Science
• GW Alumni Association Prize – Joanna Stacy Falk, BA English and Psychology

3:00 Program:

• Robert W. Kenny Prize – Mark Mullen, Assistant Professor of Writing
• Undergraduate Department Advising  – Ioannis Eleftherianos, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
• Distinguished Scholar – Paul Seltzer, BA Women's Studies
• GW Alumni Association Prize – Madeline Michele Hendricks, BA Dramatic Literature

Graduate Program:

• Graduate Department Advising - Nils Olsen, Director of Graduate Studies, Organizational Sciences