Emporia State University begins a new tradition Friday evening.
The university is holding three official commencement activities for its students, leading off with graduate students at 6 pm Friday. Students getting bachelor’s degrees from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will walk the stage at 9:30 am Saturday, while students getting bachelor’s degrees from the School of Business and Teachers College will receive their diplomas at 2 pm Saturday. All these events will be at White Auditorium.
A nurse pinning ceremony, meanwhile, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday at Albert Taylor Hall.
Among those graduating Saturday morning is Emporian Caite Schoeck, who is graduating magna cum laude with a biology degree and concentration in ecology and biodiversity. Schoeck recently won second place at the Kansas Academy of Science’s 150th annual meeting for best undergraduate oral presentation following her work on lemur use of hands versus mouth in a report co-written with ESU Dr. David Edds. On KVOE’s ESU Buzz this week, Schoeck called her time at ESU “fabulous,” citing her work with Dr. Edds as a case in point.
Schoeck’s findings came from her internship at the David Traylor Zoo and undergraduate research in the Department of Biological Sciences — and sets her up for a summer project with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism sampling different river basins for fish populations.
More information on Emporia State’s commencement activities is available online at www.emporia.edu/commencement.
