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1,400 Students Graduated During Winter Commencement Ceremonies total of 1,410 students—939 undergraduates and 471 curricula, physics, and the new biomedical engineering program, graduate-level students—received their degrees during highlighted by the Duey Center for Biomedical Engineering and the separate commencement cereDuey Center for Immersive Learning. monies held by all five University Three recipients of Presidential Medallions colleges the weekend of December 14-15. were also honored during other commenceMarc Duey, the founder, president, and CEO ment ceremonies: of ProMetrics, gave this year’s sole commenceThomas A. Fillippo ’69, the chairman of the ment address, speaking at the ceremony for board of Devault Foods, a long-time WCU supCollege of the Sciences and Mathematics porter who has served on the WCU Council of graduates. Duey’s King of Prussia-based firm Trustees since 1998. is a data aggregation, analytics, and reportBarbara J. Lappano ’67, M’73, retired profesing partner to specialty biopharmaceutical sor of dance (1970-2004) who is the executive manufacturers. For more than a decade, the director of the Alumni Dance Chapter, direcadjunct professor has taught in the Marketing tor of WCU’s annual Winter Dance Festival, Marc Duey, CEO ProMetrics Department and the Pharmaceutical Product and creator of a dance minor scholarship in Development program. her name. In association with the Duey family, he made a generous gift of $1 Michael Peich, professor emeritus of English, the founder of the million toward WCU’s construction of the Sciences & Engineering University’s Aralia Press, co-founder of the renowned West Chester Center and The Commons. Slated to open this year, this $130-million University Poetry Conference and, since 2014, a member of the West facility will house the University’s rapidly growing health sciences Chester University Foundation Board of Trustees.
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