RBS Commencement 2021

The Graduating Class of 2021

Due to the deadly, coronavirus pandemic, RBS Commencement 2021 was, like last year’s, a virtual event. Admittedly, a virtual graduation may not have the same vigor and excitement of an in-person graduation ceremony at the RAC, but numerous RBS staff members went above and beyond their typical roles and responsibilities to ensure that both the students and their outstanding achievements were joyously celebrated throughout the month of May. This involved many long hours proofing graduate profiles, obtaining appropriate graduate gifts from vendors, arranging photo opportunities inside RBS-NB, distributing hard-earned specialty cords to graduates, creating the wonderful presentation, and coordinating the technology with internal and external IT service providers, and shipping thousands of gift boxes to RBS graduates around the globe.

Thank you to all the RBS faculty and staff who helped make RBS Commencement 2021 a memorable occasion for the graduates and their families. Your Resilience, Resourcefulness, Responsibility and Reinvention do not go unnoticed.

If you have not yet watched the 2021 Commencement New Brunswick ceremony, please visit https:// commencement.rutgers.edu/rutgers-university-commencement-0. For the Newark Campus, visit: https:// myrbs.business.rutgers.edu/graduation

For a complete list of messages to our graduates, visit: https://myrbs.business.rutgers.edu/graduation/faculty-celebration

Picture above: Undergraduate New Brunswick Students pose at the main stairwell at 100 Rockafeller Road: Alice Zheng, Justin Musella, Rishabh Kapoor, Hongjin Xia, and Amy Bangad.

Jackie Perkel-Joseph, Administrative Assistant, Supply Chain Management - NB, graduates with a Masters in Liberal Studies.

Lorri Layton, Program Development Specialist, Center for Real Estate Studies, graduates with a Masters in Communications and Media from the School of Communications and Information.

Congratulations Jackie and Lorri!

Elissa Aponte, Dean’s Office-NB, Student Assistant, takes a test shot pose in front of RBS banner used for Commencement photos.

Matt Peyrek, Program Coordinator, Dean’s Office Student Experience and Engagement, shares a picture of him and sister, Michaela. Michaela recently graduated from high school in New Brunswick and will be entering Rutgers as a pre-med track student and member of SAS’s Honors Program. She will be the ninth person from Matt’s family to come to Rutgers (both NB and NWK).

Brenda Anderson, Program Coordinator, Dean’s

Office, shares a picture of her niece Areille, and friend

Hakeem Kornegay, attending senior prom. Arielle graduated from Rahway High School and will be attending Union County College in the Fall.

Undergraduate-NB Student, Michael

Luckowec takes a humorous shot with a social distancing decal. COVID is not raining on his celebratory parade.