New Mexico State University will award more than 2,000 degrees this week at commencement ceremonies honoring spring 2024 graduates.
NMSU will recognize students who completed graduate degrees in a ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Pan American Center. Then, it will recognize students who completed bachelor’s degrees in two separate ceremonies at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, also at the Pan American Center. In total, NMSU will bestow 2,032 degrees.
The Saturday morning ceremony will honor undergraduates from the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and College of Business, while the afternoon ceremony will honor undergraduates from the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Engineering.
"Dre Aguilera Guzman will be among 318 students earning degrees from the College of HEST. Encouraged by family and the students he coached at Picacho Middle School, Aguilera Guzman returned to school in 2019 after a 20-year hiatus. He earned an associate degree from Doña Ana Community College, then transferred to NMSU’s Las Cruces campus to complete a bachelor’s degree in counseling and community psychology."
"Angel Amabisco will also be the first member of his family to graduate from college. Amabisco will earn bachelor’s degrees in government and Spanish."
"Abdalrahman Elaksher practically grew up on NMSU’s Las Cruces campus. His father, Ahmed Elaksher, is an engineering professor, and his mother, Samar Khalil, who works for NMSU Global, earned a Ph.D. at NMSU. His two sisters also attended NMSU, he said."
The Pan American Center will open to the public one hour before each ceremony. Tickets are not required. Graduating students should also arrive one hour before the ceremonies start.
"Neil Burcham, a longtime faculty member in the College of ACES who died in December 2022, will be awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate degree."
The three ceremonies will also be livestreamed on NMSU’s YouTube channel. For more information, visit https://commencement.nmsu.edu.
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