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Stu Shea, president, chairman, and CEO of Peraton, a Virginia-based national security company, will be the featured speaker at �鶹��Ƶ’s Spring Commencement.

The �鶹��Ƶ community came together on the Fairfax Campus on Thursday to celebrate more than 4,600 graduates.

�鶹��Ƶ will honor more than 4,600 summer and fall graduates on Thursday, Dec. 16, in two Winter Graduation ceremonies at EagleBank Arena, marking �鶹��Ƶ’s first indoor graduation ceremonies in two years.

On average, pre-pandemic, around 45 �鶹��Ƶ Korea students had been studying at the Fairfax Campus each semester. The program peaked at 84 students this fall, but they expect more than 100 students this spring.

Lily Patterson knew she wanted to make things when she began her studies at �鶹��Ƶ.

“I just wanted to turn physical things into something that’s really cool and awesome,” she said.

When graduating psychology major Dorothea J. Tyree attends �鶹��Ƶ’s Winter Graduation on Dec. 16, she will be wearing a stole that shows the flags of her native Romania and Germany, where she lived as a teen.

�鶹��Ƶ alum Shaza Andersen, BA Area Studies ’89, is the featured speaker at the 2021 Winter Graduation ceremony.

Arturo Barrera is receiving his bachelor’s in conflict analysis and resolution. He said �鶹��Ƶ supported him before he was a freshman.

Jessica Lammers, who will graduate with her master of public health on Dec. 16, found a job as an environmental health specialist with Fairfax County through her internship.