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After finishing his freshman year at a regional university in Korea, Young Ho Ji worked at a construction site for seven months to save enough tuition money to continue his degree and dreamed of one day studying abroad.

When criminology, law and society major Ari Williams came to �鶹��Ƶ as a first-generation student and a member of the Honors College, she wanted to work in the federal government.

�鶹��Ƶ will confer its third posthumous degree to a Schar School student on May 10.

�鶹��Ƶ Korea student Juyoung Cha is just weeks away from reaching the finish line in Fairfax—earning her BFA in computer game design. In May she plans to walk proudly across the graduation stage in EagleBank Arena along with her younger sister, Subin Cha, who is a �鶹��Ƶ Korea student in accounting.

Sinoxolo “Susan” Favor was doing public health work in her native South Africa long before she enrolled in the College of Public Health at �鶹��Ƶ. Now Favor is graduating from this spring with a BS in community health from the first college of public health in Virginia.

In November 2023, �鶹��Ƶ students, faculty, and staff gathered to help transplant 1,700 plants of more than 50 native species into two groves near the stream behind Student Union Building I between Aquia Creek Lane and Patriot Circle.

The keynote speaker at the Degree Celebration on May 10 will be 2023 Restaurateur of the Year Rose Previte. Find out how her Master of Public Policy degree helped her open her first award-winning restaurant.

Barbara Humpton, president and CEO of Siemens, will be the featured speaker at �鶹��Ƶ’s 2024 Spring Commencement. The ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Thursday, May 9, in EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax Campus.

Spring Commencement has been scheduled for 10 a.m. May 9 at EagleBank Arena. Further updates include the degree celebration schedule, ticket information, and security procedures.

Enjoy these heartwarming moments of accomplishment at �鶹��Ƶ's 2023 winter commencement.