{"id":203592,"date":"2012-07-18T18:44:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:10:10","slug":"commencement-2012-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/07\/commencement-2012-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2012: VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 5<sup>th<\/sup>, the School of Engineering celebrated commencement 2012 with fanfare, tradition and a palpable air of excitement. Before thousands of proud family members, friends and faculty seated expectantly in Gampel Pavilion on an overcast morning, more than 400 engineering students strode \u2013 some with relief and others with purpose \u2013 across the famed basketball court to receive their B.S. certificates and join the ranks of UConn engineering alumni.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1TkfHlqOuw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amid the pageantry of flags, brass music, speeches, choreographed entries and velveted robes, the new graduates glowed.\u00a0 A highlight of this year\u2019s ceremonies was guest speaker Arunava Majumdar, who recently served as the nation\u2019s first Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency \u2013 Energy (<a href=\"http:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/\">ARPA-E<\/a>), who reminded the audience that engineers are the architects of the nation&#8217;s destiny. Few graduates\u00a0are better equipped to grow the country&#8217;s economy, innovate, compete technologically and transcend barriers than UConn engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Relive, or\u00a0experience for the first time, some of the pomp and power of this milestone day by clicking on the video link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 5th, the School of Engineering celebrated commencement 2012 with fanfare, tradition and a palpable air of excitement. Before thousands of proud family members, friends and faculty seated expectantly in Gampel Pavilion on an overcast morning, more than 400 engineering students strode&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 13:48:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224828,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203592\/revisions\/224828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203592"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203592"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}