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This year’s Winter Commencement student speaker Ayham Elayan is graduating from Â鶹ÊÓƵ this week with a bachelor of science in bioengineering with a pre-health concentration.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ will honor nearly 5,300 students graduating or earning certificates at Winter Commencement at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax Campus.

Working full-time while getting a graduate degree is no easy feat. But for Air Force veteran and soon-to-be Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum Kathleen Gillmore, hard work is second nature.

Max Dacey enrolled at George Â鶹ÊÓƵ with a singular goal: to earn his degree quickly and better support his family. A former competitive rugby player, he didn’t imagine a traditional college experience. However, a year and a half later, the public relations major from Alexandria, Virginia, is graduating with far more than he expected.

Honor College student Cashlyn Bonds said her time at Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been defined by her passion for justice, human security, and international understanding.  

Ali Reza Manouchehri, BA Philosophy ‘99, co-founder and chief executive officer of MetroStar, a company he started as a Â鶹ÊÓƵ student, will be the featured speaker at Winter Commencement on December 18 at EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax Campus.

Photos from Â鶹ÊÓƵ's 2024 winter graduation celebrations.

With a final pre-tassel-turning lesson about leadership, kindness, and resilience, more than 5,200 Â鶹ÊÓƵ students graduated or earned certificates Thursday at Winter Commencement in EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax Campus.

George D. Schindler, former president and chief executive officer of business and information technology company CGI, was the featured speaker at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Winter Commencement on Dec. 19.

At 15 years old, Goonatilake is poised to become the youngest graduate in Â鶹ÊÓƵ history with a 4.0 grade point average (GPA). This computer science prodigy from Leesburg, Virginia, is doing things at his own speed and far outpacing societal norms.