{"id":889,"date":"2010-04-07T00:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=889"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:42:32","slug":"undergradcommencement-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/undergradcommencement-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Commencement: Save the Date!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Engineering will hold commencement ceremonies for  graduating undergraduates on Sunday, May 9 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jorgensen.uconn.edu\/\">Jorgensen Center for the Performing  Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/images\/ecomm04042010\/grads2.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Seating will begin at 11:30 a.m., and the event  will formally commence at 12:30. From 10:00 &#8212; 11:15 a.m., graduating  students and their families are invited to an informal engineering  reception under a party tent at Dow Field, located adjacent to the Homer  Babbidge Library.  The School&#8217;s administrators, along with faculty and  staff, will be on hand to greet attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The commencement speaker will be UConn engineering alumnus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/robertmadonnabio.php\">Robert Madonna<\/a> (B.S.E. Electrical Engineering &#8217;82), Chief Executive Officer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savantav.com\/\">Savant Systems LLC<\/a>.  Earlier in his  career, Mr. Madonna founded Excel Switching Corporation and served as  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President.  The company was  purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Students are limited to seven tickets, which must be obtained in  advance at the UConn Co-op after seniors purchase their caps and gowns.<\/p>\n<p>Please view full details, including information about parking, campus  maps, cap and gown pickup, and handicap access on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/commencement\">Commencement 2010 website<\/a>.   Note that this website will be regularly updated, so it is advisable  to check it often for the most up-to-date details.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact Kimberly Duby (<a href=\"mailto:kaa@engr.uconn.edu\">kaa@engr.uconn.edu<\/a>)  at 486-5466 with any questions or to request disability accommodations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Engineering will hold commencement ceremonies for graduating undergraduates on Sunday, May 9 in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":213869,"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-889","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":"2026-05-10 23:10:51","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\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225138,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/225138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/213869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}