UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with Dillon Gillespie during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Gillespie earned a Ph.D. in Space Physics. He is escorted by Dr. Doğacan Öztürk, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with Emily Fedders during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Fedders earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics. She is escorted by Dr. Andrew Mahoney, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with Jamshid Moshrefzadeh during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Moshrefzadeh earned a Ph.D. in Geoscience. They are escorted by Dr. Jessica Larsen, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with David Polashenski during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Polashenski earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics. He is escorted by Dr. Andreas Aschwanden, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Grace Emma Veenstra graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biological Sciences: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Delamere
De'Jour Reed works at ASF as a Ground Station Engineer. He graduated with a Master's of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Graduate Certificate in Aerospace Engineering. De'Jour's advisor is Olanrewaju Oyewola and his Master's project title is Implementation of Passive Battery Thermal Management of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Using Tetrahedral Lattice Porous Plates (TLPP). Photo courtesy Paul Austin
Dr. Anupma Prakash, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of UAF from 2018-2025 and a part of the GI for years before becoming provost, was honored for reaching emeritus status by Chancellor Dan White at the Honoree Recognition Ceremony, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise
Dr. Bernard J. Coakley, Professor of Geophysics, is honored for reaching emeritus status by Chancellor Dan White at the Honoree Recognition Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall, Friday, May 2nd, 2025. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise
Light sticks during the 2025 University of Alaska Fairbanks Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Carlson Center. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Ph.D. recipients during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Ph.D. recipients during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Ph.D. recipients exit the auditorium during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Graduates turn their tassels during the 2025 University of Alaska Fairbanks Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Carlson Center. UAF photo by Eric Engman
The balloon drop during the 2025 University of Alaska Fairbanks Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Carlson Center. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with Dillon Gillespie during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Gillespie earned a Ph.D. in Space Physics. He is escorted by Dr. Doğacan Öztürk, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with Emily Fedders during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Fedders earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics. She is escorted by Dr. Andrew Mahoney, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with Jamshid Moshrefzadeh during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Moshrefzadeh earned a Ph.D. in Geoscience. They are escorted by Dr. Jessica Larsen, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
UAF Chancellor Dan White and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Anupma Prakash pose with David Polashenski during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. Polashenski earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics. He is escorted by Dr. Andreas Aschwanden, right. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Grace Emma Veenstra graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biological Sciences: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Delamere
De'Jour Reed works at ASF as a Ground Station Engineer. He graduated with a Master's of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Graduate Certificate in Aerospace Engineering. De'Jour's advisor is Olanrewaju Oyewola and his Master's project title is Implementation of Passive Battery Thermal Management of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Using Tetrahedral Lattice Porous Plates (TLPP). Photo courtesy Paul Austin
Dr. Anupma Prakash, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of UAF from 2018-2025 and a part of the GI for years before becoming provost, was honored for reaching emeritus status by Chancellor Dan White at the Honoree Recognition Ceremony, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise
Dr. Bernard J. Coakley, Professor of Geophysics, is honored for reaching emeritus status by Chancellor Dan White at the Honoree Recognition Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall, Friday, May 2nd, 2025. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise
Light sticks during the 2025 University of Alaska Fairbanks Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Carlson Center. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Ph.D. recipients during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Ph.D. recipients during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Ph.D. recipients exit the auditorium during the 2025 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus, Friday, May 2, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Graduates turn their tassels during the 2025 University of Alaska Fairbanks Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Carlson Center. UAF photo by Eric Engman
The balloon drop during the 2025 University of Alaska Fairbanks Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Carlson Center. UAF photo by Eric Engman
Congratulations, 2025 graduates and honorees!
Congratulations, UAF graduates, and here's to your next adventure! We've created a photo gallery to celebrate our Geophysical Institute-affiliated graduates and honorees. You've been such an integral part of the GI's accomplishments and research, we can't wait to see the great things you'll do!
More information is available online about UAF's 103nd Commencement, including a profile of the Class of 2025 listing the names of all graduates, prize winners, speakers, honorary degree recipients and faculty receiving emeritus status.
Congratulations to Bernard Coakley of the Tectonics & Sedimentation group and Anupma Prakash, who was part of the GI before she became UAF provost, for being honored with emeritus status at the Honoree Recognition Ceremony, Friday, May 2, 2025.
Photos from commencement and streaming video of the entire ceremony from May 3, 2025 are also online.
You can download the full commencement program with all of the graduates listed. Also available here are pdfs of all of the Geophysical Institute-affiliated doctoral degree recipients with their thesis titles and abstracts, and all of the GI master's degree and bachelor's degree recipients that we know about. If we missed any, please let us know!
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If you don't see your smiling face or name here or, if you notice that the face or name of a GI-affiliated graduate is missing, please send information and photos with the graduate's name and degree to uaf-gi-public-info@alaska.edu so we can add them to the gallery.