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Biotechnology Graduate gives Undergraduate Commencement Speech - posted June 23, 2008
For Melanie Spero, Rutgers’ commencement ceremony will be a very different experience than her graduation from tiny East Granby High School, the smallest public secondary school in Connecticut, where she walked with only 52 classmates four years ago. Not only will Spero be among 7,200 undergraduates (and about 3,600 graduate students) receiving degrees on May 21, but she also will be the 2008 undergraduate commencement speaker, an honor bestowed by faculty and staff based on the recommendations of the university’s college deans. Spero becomes only the fourth undergraduate to speak at the university commencement as part of...read more. Read her speech