Multimedia: Spring Commencement
Nearly 6,000 Hokies received degrees from Virginia Tech during the Spring 2016 Graduate School and University Commencement ceremonies. Congratulations to them all (and check out the Storify collection of #HokieGrad posts)!
Video: Congratulations, Class of 2016
See more videos from the weekend in our Spring 2016 Commencement playlist.
The HokieBird led commencement speakers Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards and Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, and the Flint Water Study team onto the field.
Graduates jump as Metallica's Enter Sandman is played.
Edwards and Hanna-Attisha challenged graduates to take a stand on important issues, asking graduates to take a selfie and post it to social media using #IWillServe.
Hundreds of photos taken by the crowd using #IWillServe were featured later in the keynote commencement address.
Check out our Storify collection of just some of the hundreds of #IWillServe posts.
This year, 1,987 graduating seniors completed their baccalaureate degree programs with honors, having achieved an accumulative grade point average of at least 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.
Approximately 1,349 students were honored at the Graduate School Commencement: 935 master’s degree candidates, five education specialist degree candidates, five Ed.D. candidates, 98 advanced graduate certificate candidates, and 296 Ph.D. candidates.
This year's most popular major among graduating seniors is mechanical engineering. The next four most popular majors are human nutrition, foods and exercise; biological sciences; business information technology; and human development.
Irving Linwood Peddrew III, the first African American student to attend Virginia Tech and the first to attend any historically all-white four-year public institution in the 11 former states of the Confederacy, will receive an honorary degree.
Approximately 25,000 friends and families attended Friday's University Commencement.
Stanley Atcitty, an energy storage systems researcher for Sandia National Laboratories, spoke at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony on Thursday.
A new graduate celebrates.
President Tim Sands presided at Virginia Tech's commencement ceremonies.
A graduate cheers at Virginia Tech's University Commencement ceremony.
