We are joyfully celebrating our lab graduates this week. We first celebrated our grads — Dr. Jennifer Jenkins (Ph.D. Cellular Biology), James Gaither (B.S. Biology) and Andres Villalobos (B.S. Engineering) with a lab lunch at the National on Wednesday. Yesterday, we celebrated Jen’s graduation with a toasty but exciting celebration in Sanford Stadium. I got to hood her and she got to walk across the stage to officially have her degree conferred. This morning was the Engineering Convocation, where Andres was selected to be the student speaker. He did a wonderful job and represented himself and the College well. Later today, I’ll head to the Cellular Biology Ceremony. Then tonight is the full UGA undergraduate ceremony where both Andres and James will officially receive their degrees. We are so proud of our grads and grateful to have shared time and science with them in the lab.
Lab Lunch!
Left (front to back): Tulip, Christina, Rachel, Jen, Taylor, Kendall
Right (front to back): Macey, Chris, James, Andres, and Skylar
Our happy doctoral graduate!
It was so fun to get to wear our regalia and to hood our first Ph.D. student!
Andres was selected as the Convocation Speaker for the College of Engineering.
Here he is delivering his talk!