{"id":8800,"date":"2008-05-01T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2008-05-01T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:00:32","slug":"congratulations-and-best-of-luck-to-our-soon-to-be-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2008\/05\/congratulations-and-best-of-luck-to-our-soon-to-be-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations and best of luck to our soon-to-be-graduates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/images\/ecomm04302008\/grads2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>On Sunday, May 11, we will celebrate the successes of our 300 graduating seniors as they embark on their careers, new academic adventures or other post-UConn fun. In a departure from previous years, the School of Engineering will honor its graduates in a special engineering-only ceremony. Two guest speakers will address the new graduates: UConn School of Business graduate and technology leader Kevin Bouley (B.S.&#8217;80), president and CEO of Nerac, Inc. of Tolland, CT, and Paul Adams, Vice President of Engineering at Pratt &amp; Whitney, East Hartford. Senior Christine Endicott (B.S. Chemical Engineering &#8217;08) will also present remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, May 11, we will celebrate the successes of our 300 graduating seniors as they embark on their careers, new academic adventures or other post-UConn fun. In a departure from previous years, the School of Engineering will honor its graduates in a special engineering-only ceremony. Two guest speakers will address the new graduates: UConn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"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":[50],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 03:10:56","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\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}