When is georgetown university graduation 2018

Share This: share on facebook share on twitter share via email print. Festivities are getting underway this weekend for several schools around the area. For the rest of the D. Commencement ceremony Basilica, east steps : Saturday May 12, 10 a. University commencement ceremony National Mall : Sunday May 20, a.

Commencement ceremony library steps and lawn : Saturday May 19, 11 a. Undergraduate commencement ceremony Xfinity Center : Monday May 21, 1 p. Undergraduate commencement ceremony Xfinity Center : Saturday May 19, 5 p. Related News. Inmate dies at Va. Walmart picks DC for in-home delivery. The university will host the ceremonies May 28 and 29, Full disclosure: Charbonneau previously served as executive editor at The Hoya. The university canceled the traditional in-person commencement ceremony for the Class of because of the COVID pandemic.

In its place, Georgetown hosted a minute Facebook livestream May 16, , to celebrate graduating seniors. Graduation ceremonies began Thursday afternoon with Senior Convocation and ended with the School of Medicine and Georgetown Law ceremonies on Sunday morning and afternoon.

The graduating seniors, who hail from all 50 states and 55 other nations, marched together in the processional May 17 for Senior Convocation in McDonough Arena, where they began their journey four years earlier at New Student Convocation. Like Judge Friendly and Judge Learned Hand before him, there is no doubt that Merrick Garland will be remembered as one of the finest judges in history to have served on any court in our nation.

In a minute Commencement address , Norton told the graduates to never forget that they are lawyers first — even if they enter into public service, teaching or another career apart from the traditional practice of law.

Students younger than the graduates, she reminded the audience, are leading the way on the issue of gun violence. Change that requires legislative solutions will not occur easily. That is where young lawyers can come in: Trusted members of their own generation speaking in their own terms, speaking in their own language, offering reasons why hearing the other side of arguments is critical to our society…the Class of knows that lawyers sharpen their own cases best when they have heard the other side.

Georgetown University President John J.