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Commencement
1999
"May
we here today be exhilarated"
Five
Receive Honorary Degrees
154th
Commencement Facts
Student Awards
Brittain
Award: Cameron N. Welborn '99L
McMullan Award: Brant D. Brown '99C
Ones
to Watch
Brian
M. Oubre'99C
Katrina R. Samuels '99C
Stephanie M. Denton '99C
Kenya
K. Hansford '99B
Jason R. Howard
'99B
Oxford
College Commencement
Millennial
musings
"You have given us yourself"
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Ones
to Watch:
Katrina R. Samuels '99C
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| Major: |
Biology, minor in human and natural ecology
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| Post-graduation
plan: |
The day after Commencement, joined a team of Emory and Oxford
students traveling to Durban, South Africa, to build homes with
Habitat for Humanity
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| Career
and life plan: |
"Attend medical school and specialize in internal medicine
and infectious diseases. Ultimately, I want to work in international
public health with indigenous people, integrating traditional and
Western health-care systems." |
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major accomplishment at Emory: |
"I brought back the yearbook and acted as executive director." |
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Motto:
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"Walk on air against your better judgment." (Seamus
Heaney) |
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life-changing experience at Emory: |
"During my freshman year, I attended a lecture by Eloy Rodriguez,
a visiting professor from Cornell University. I became interested
in his work in the tropical rain forest with medicinal plants.
Later, I joined his team as a National Institutes of Health undergraduate
research fellow and conducted fieldwork for three months in the
Yucatan in Mexico. The following summer, I worked in the Venezuelan
Amazon. I have since shifted my career focus, published my research,
and most importantly, gained a greater understanding of this planet,
its people, and myself."
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