From Staff Reports, Northwestern News
Northwestern’s fall commencement ceremony will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Percefull Fieldhouse.
Seventy-six Rangers will receive bachelor’s degrees; 15 of the students will graduate with honors. Seventeen students will receive master’s degrees.
The Northwestern band, under the direction of Dr. Michael Black, will perform during the ceremony. The post-graduation reception will take place in the Student Center Ballroom.
The speaker for the ceremony is 1983 Northwestern alumnus Chris Rivera.
Rivera is the CEO and chairman of Emulate Therapeutics, Inc. He is a native of New Mexico and graduated from Northwestern with a business administration degree. He played on the Northwestern men’s basketball team from 1979 to 1983.
“My experience at Northwestern was a pivotal time in my life,” Rivera said in a news release.
“When I enrolled, my intent was to become a Certified Public Accountant. I was not unlike many college freshmen and was unsure of what to major in after my first semester. My adviser, Mr. John Barton [a professor of speech and dean at Northwestern at the time] was the person who encouraged me to take his audiology class. He knew that I liked math and science, and it was the anatomy and physiology that I fell in love with.”
To watch the ceremony online, visit the live stream at www.YouTube.com/NWOSURangers.
