UHCL announces spring 2013 Commencement

By The Signal Last updated Jan 20, 2016 169 0

UHCL Professor of Psychology Dorothea Lerman will speak during UHCL’s noon Commencement Sunday, May 19, at Reliant Arena. Approximately 535 students from the School of Human Sciences and Humanities and the School of Science and Computer Engineering will participate in the noon ceremony. During the May 19 5 p.m. UHCL Commencement, 441 graduates from the Schools of Business and Education will cross the stage. The speaker at the ceremony will be UHCL Professor of Bilingual and Multicultural Education Laurie Weaver. Photos courtesy of UHCL Office of Communications. — UHCL Professor of Psychology Dorothea Lerman will speak during UHCL’s noon Commencement Sunday, May 19, at Reliant Arena. Approximately 535 students from the School of Human Sciences and Humanities and the School of Science and Computer Engineering will participate in the noon ceremony. During the May 19 5 p.m. UHCL Commencement, 441 graduates from the Schools of Business and Education will cross the stage. The speaker at the ceremony will be UHCL Professor of Bilingual and Multicultural Education Laurie Weaver. *Photos courtesy of UHCL Office of Communications.*

Diana North
Contributing Writer
UHCL Office of Communications
University of Houston-Clear Lake celebrates the spring 2013 commencement Sunday, May 19, at Reliant Arena, One Reliant Park, Houston, TX, 77054.

Graduates from the School of Human Sciences and Humanities and the School of Science and Computer Engineering will cross the stage at noon, with keynote speaker Professor of Psychology Dorothea Lerman. Commencement for the School of Education and School of Business will be held at 5 p.m. and the speaker will be Professor of Bilingual and Multicultural Education Laurie Weaver.

Lerman, a licensed psychologist and board certified behavior analyst, currently serves as director of the UHCL Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Lerman was the founding editor of “Behavior Analysis in Practice” and is currently editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis.” She has had more than 60 research articles and chapters published to date. Lerman was the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Contribution to Applied Behavioral Research Award and was named a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis-International in 2008. She received the university’s 2011 President’s Distinguished Research Award.

Weaver is the recipient of the 2004 President’s Distinguished Teaching Award and served as the university’s 2004 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award nominee. She joined UHCL in 1997 full -time, after having received her master’s degree at UHCL in 1988 and teaching as an adjunct instructor from 1988 to 1995, and her areas of expertise are bilingual education and English as a second language. Weaver has served as co-principal investigator and co-director of the Collaborative Teaching of English Language Learners grant as well as the co-principal and co-director of the Collaborating in Academic Success for All grant. She has also served in a leadership role in implementing the two-way immersion program at the McWhirter Elementary Professional Development Laboratory School.

Approximately 976 of the 1,171 graduating students will participate in the ceremony. Of these, 535 will be awarded degrees in the first ceremony and 441 in the second ceremony.

Commencement Kick-Off, open to graduating students, their families and friends, is scheduled for Friday, May 17, 5:30 – 7 p.m., in the university’s Bayou Building, Atrium II. This event offers music, food and fun for soon-to-be-alumni and is sponsored by the university’s Office of Alumni and Community Relations. Tickets are required, but three free tickets will be given to each graduate. Additional tickets will be $2 each.

For information regarding the Commencement Kick-Off and to pick up free tickets, call the Office of Alumni and Community Relations at 281-283-2021 or email Coordinator of Outreach and Communication Mindi Funderburg at funderburg@uhcl.edu. For additional information about the commencement ceremony, call UHCL’s Office of Academic Records, 281-283-2525, or visit http://www.uhcl.edu/records/Commencement.