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A master's degree candidate smiles for his family before the evening commencement ceremony

A mother hugs her son after the morning commencement ceremony.

New graduates from the Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities take part in commencement ceremonies at the Val A. Browning Center on December 15, 2023.

New graduates from the Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities take part in commencement ceremonies at the Val A. Browning Center on December 15, 2023.

The first cohort of students in Weber State University’s Department of Physician Assistant Medicine receive their white coats during the program’s first White Coat Ceremony on December 14, 2023.

Students enjoying hot chocolate around the fire at the winter festival.

Graduating seniors stand for the National Anthem during the undergraduate commencement. The four students in uniform are the ROTC cadets who are honored and take their commissioning oath in front of the crowd.  The cadets then change into graduation regalia and join their classmates. The oath is not official as each of the services have their commissioning later in the day. 

Emily Rowen gestures to family and friends after she received her master’s degree in natural resource sciences at the winter commencement. 

Jeffrey Mann spoke calmly to "Janet" as she loudly complained about aches and pains, thrashed around the bed and disrupted another patient in the room. Mann then moved to another room, donned a dressing gown and proceeded to take that patient's blood pressure.

It was all in a day's work for Mann, who got a taste of what working in a hospital and caring for multiple patients would be like during a pilot simulation in early December.

The Community Hearing Clinic is now offering some highly specialized services for individual with dizziness or balance issues as well as neurodiagnostics associated with the hearing and balance systems. Justen Knape, a graduate student, demonstrates part of the new services offered.