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A Sneak Peek at Com­mence­ment

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Provided by the Bethel College Marketing and Communications Department.

MISHAWAKA—As Com­mence­ment nears, there are a few things for stu­dents to look for­ward to dur­ing this grad­u­a­tion sea­son.

The Com­mence­ment speaker for this year will be Ian Light­cap. Light­cap and his wife are both Bethel alum.

“Ian Light­cap was a Bethel Col­lege FYE block men­tor, speaker of the stu­dent sen­ate, and res­i­dent as­sis­tant. In 2003 he grad­u­ated from Bethel with a dou­ble-ma­jor in Sci­ence Ed­u­ca­tion and Chem­istry. Ian taught at Clay High School for three years. He ob­tained his PH. D. in Chem­istry from the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame, and in 2012 was re­cip­i­ent of the “Out­stand­ing Grad­u­ate Stu­dent” award. Ian’s re­search has spanned many fields in­clud­ing nu­clear waste con­tain­ment, im­proved cat­a­lysts for re­new­able en­ergy ap­pli­ca­tions, and new sen­sors for the de­tec­tion of chem­i­cal weapons and ex­plo­sives. Ian cur­rently serves as one of our four prin­ci­ple lead­ers of the Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able En­ergy at Notre Dame (ND En­ergy), as the Re­search and Fa­cil­i­ties Pro­gram Di­rec­tor of the Ma­te­ri­als Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion Fa­cil­ity. Un­der his di­rec­tion, the fa­cil­ity has grown from 30 to 250 ac­tive re­searchers, in both acad­e­mia and in­dus­try, and from 11 to over 25 an­a­lyt­i­cal in­stru­ments. In 2015, he was the re­cip­i­ent of the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame’s Pres­i­den­tial Achieve­ment Award for Ex­cel­lence,” said Su­san Williams, ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tant to VP of aca­d­e­mic ser­vices.

There will be two cer­e­monies tak­ing place on May 4. The cer­e­mony for the Adult and Grad­u­ate Stud­ies stu­dents will be tak­ing place at 10 A.M. The cer­e­mony for the tra­di­tional grad­u­at­ing stu­dents will fol­low at 5 P.M. Both of the cer­e­monies will last about 90 min­utes. The Nurs­ing De­part­ments pin­ning cer­e­mony will be tak­ing place in the Ever­est-Ro­her Chapel at 1 P.M.

All the grad­u­ates will be re­quired to at­tend the re­hearsal cer­e­monies in the Ever­est-Ro­her Chapel. The re­hearsal for the 10 A.M. cer­e­mony will take place at 9 A.M. and the re­hearsal for the 5 P. M. cer­e­mony will take place at 4 P.M.

More de­tails about Com­mence­ment are avail­able here https://​www.bethel­col­lege.edu/​aca­d­e­mics/​com­mence­ment-2019.

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