MURFREESBORO — An estimated 869 degree candidates are expected to graduate during MTSU’s summer
2013 commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 17, according to a report from the
university’s Registrar’s Office.
Dr. Michael Arndt, the 2012-13
president of the MTSU Faculty Senate and a professor in the university's School
of Music, is the scheduled speaker for the 10 a.m. ceremony in Hale Arena
inside Murphy Center.
MTSU's 2012-13 recipients of the
Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Achievement Awards also will be
recognized at the event.
Of the 869 set to receive their
degrees, 665 are undergraduates and 204 are graduate students, including 182
master’s candidates, five education-specialist recipients and 11 doctoral
candidates. Six graduate students also will be receiving graduate certificates.
Speaker Arndt, who joined the university family in 2002 as a professor of trumpet, also
coaches and directs the MTSU Symphonic Brass Ensemble, the award-winning MTSU
Trumpet Ensemble and numerous other brass chamber ensembles. He has also
guest-conducted both the MTSU Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band.
In addition to presenting and
performing at conferences across the United States and in Bangkok, Thailand,
Arndt performs as a soloist and with the Stones River Chamber Players and the
MTSU Faculty Brass Quintet.
He is a regular addition to the
Nashville Symphony Orchestra trumpet section and plays principal trumpet with
the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra as well as performing with symphony
orchestras in Huntsville, Ala., Chattanooga, Cincinnati and others. Arndt is
active in Nashville recording studios and has played for many of Nashville's
best-known performers for Fourth of July celebrations, benefit concerts and the
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
Arndt received his Bachelor of
Music degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music,
a master's degree in music from the University of Minnesota and a Doctorate of
Music Arts degree from Arizona State University.
The alumni honorees will be
formally recognized during the Aug. 17 ceremony as well. They include:
- The
late Dr. Larry Needham (B.S. ’68) of Lilburn, Ga., a renowned chemist who
spent 34 years working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta. He is the posthumous recipient of the Distinguished Alumni
Award for Professional Achievement.
- Maria
Salas (B.S. ’85) of Nashville, a former MTSU Lady Raider basketball player
who owns her own bankruptcy law firm. She is the recipient of the
Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to Community.
- Deanna
Meador (B.S. ’04), of Gallatin, Tenn., a noted research coordinator who
has developed a money-saving, paperless data collection system at Vanderbilt’s
Peabody Research Institute. She is the recipient of the Young Alumni
Achievement Award.
Graduation information — including
maps and driving directions to Murphy Center, instructions on watching the
ceremonies via streaming video on commencement day, cap-and-gown information
and contacts for the Registrar’s Office — is available at www.mtsunews.com/graduation-info.
Live streaming video of the summer
2013 commencement will be available about 15 minutes before the ceremony begins
at 10 a.m. Aug. 17.
The official program for the Aug.
17 ceremony also is available online at http://www.mtsu.edu/records/docs/commencementprogram.pdf.
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