December graduating class of The University of Nebraska-Lincoln earned eight new Juris Doctor degrees, 348 new graduate and professional degrees, and 1,072 new baccalaureate degrees

 

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (December 23, 2019) — Rhonda Sue Lundgren of Geneseo was among 1,404 graduates who received degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during winter commencement exercises December 20 and 21.

Lundgren earned a Master of Business Administration from the Office of Graduate Studies.

The December graduates are from 49 countries, 36 states, and more than 150 Nebraska communities.

Kwame Dawes, award-winning poet, writer, and Chancellor's Professor of English, and Glenna Luschei, Editor of Prairie Schooner, delivered the undergraduate commencement address December 21 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. LJ McElravy, associate professor of leadership in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication, and associate dean of graduate student professional development, gave the address at the graduate and professional degree ceremony December 20 at the arena. Riko Bishop, a judge of the Nebraska Court of Appeals, spoke to the law graduates December 20 at Hamann Auditorium in McCollum Hall.

The university presented Mike Johanns, former US senator for Nebraska, former US secretary of agriculture, and former Nebraska governor, with an honorary Doctor of Laws during the undergraduate ceremony.

For a complete list of graduates, visit https://go.unl.edu/grads-dec19.

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