Students set to cross stage at Fall Convocation
The ceremonial mace, carried by the university Bedel to symbolically protect the Chancellor at Convocation.
More than 1500 students will earn their degrees Friday, Nov. 22 at Fall Convocation ceremonies happening in downtown Hamilton.
Students in business, engineering, humanities, social sciences and the Arts & Science program will cross the stage at 9:30 a.m., while students in science and health sciences will cross at 2:30 p.m.
Suzanne Labarge will be installed as McMaster’s new Chancellor at the morning ceremony.
Edward Calabrese, a professor of toxicology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be given an honorary degree at the afternoon ceremony.
Calabrese is an expert in susceptibility to pollutants and has been a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and NATO Countries Safe Drinking Water committees. He has received the Marie Curie Prize and the Springer Award of the International CCN Society.
