{"id":161087,"date":"2020-05-15T07:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=161087"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:48:48","slug":"commencement-9000-uconn-huskies-present-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/05\/commencement-9000-uconn-huskies-present-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Commencement With 9,000 UConn Huskies Present in Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, May 9, nearly 9,000 University of Connecticut students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – were awarded their degrees at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts – without any of them being in the building.<\/p>\n

The necessities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic meant that UConn would be conferring degrees without a traditional ceremony, but that didn’t mean there wouldn’t be a ceremony.<\/p>\n

Streaming live on the University’s YouTube channel<\/a> from Jorgensen starting at noon, a commencement celebration like no other in school history featured on-stage remarks from President Thomas Katsouleas and Board of Trustees Chairman Daniel Toscano ’87 (BUS), taped remarks from students, Gov. Ned Lamont, and women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma, and a scrolling roster of every graduate’s name.<\/p>\n

In these images captured by University Photographer Peter Morenus, the improvisation and Husky pride of that day are chronicled:<\/p>\n

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