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April 28, 2008
Purdue commencement ceremonies to be shown live on TV, Webcast
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University's four commencement ceremonies on May 9-11 will be broadcast live for television and Internet audiences.Ceremonies are scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday (May 9) for the colleges of Education and Engineering; 9:30 a.m. Saturday (May 10) for the College of Consumer and Family Sciences, School of Management and College of Science; and 2:30 p.m. for the colleges of Agriculture and Liberal Arts; and 9:30 a.m. Sunday (May 11) for the College of Technology and schools of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences.
Each of the ceremonies will be in Elliott Hall of Music and will be shown on Comcast cable Channel 5, Purdue's educational access channel. The ceremonies also will be shown live via Webcast at mms://video.dis.purdue.edu/graduation
The link will not become active until 48 hours before the first ceremony.
Purdue President France A. Córdova will address graduates during the ceremonies. There are 5,947 candidates for degrees.
To watch the ceremonies online, viewers must have Windows Media Player installed on their computers. It can be downloaded for free at https://www.Microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/
download/AllDownloads.aspx
Writer: Jim Bush, (765) 494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu
Source: John Dietrich, video engineer, Information Technology Networks and Security, (765) 494-1042, jsdietrich@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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