2025 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
May 17, 2025 | 7:30 p.m. | Lied Center
Registration for this ceremony will open on March 3, 2025. PLEASE apply for graduation by March 3, 2025 if you wish to receive communication about registration for the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
About the Ceremony
The Doctoral Hooding Ceremony celebrates the hundreds of graduate students every year who complete a doctoral degree. In order to graduate, all of these students made substantive and original contributions that advanced the state of knowledge in their academic fields. These students have mastered the cutting edge of research and pushed past it, marshaling evidence to create new knowledge. This Lawrence campus event celebrates graduating doctoral candidates come from the schools of Architecture and Design, Business, Education and Human Sciences, Engineering, Journalism and Mass Communications, Music, Social Welfare and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.