Slideshow: 2015 doctoral hooding ceremony
At MIT, advanced degree candidates receive their doctoral hoods in a separate ceremony held the day before Commencement. This academic year, MIT has awarded 506 doctoral degrees, including those conferred earlier in the year, in September and February. This year’s ceremony for the newly minted PhDs and ScDs took place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today, June 4, in the Johnson Athletics Center, where Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart greeted the new graduates. Faculty representatives from departments across campus assisted in awarding students their hoods. Watch the archived webcast of the hooding ceremony. Below is the prepared text of Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart's welcoming remarks at MIT's doctoral hooding ceremony, held June 4, 2015: Good morning. Please be seated. I’m Cynthia Barnhart, and as chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is my privilege to welcome you to the annual ceremony for the investiture of doctoral hoods. It is an honor for us to be joined today...