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Environmental Health Has 6 PhD Graduates at Summer Commencement
The UC Department of Environmental Health had six doctoral graduates at the University of Cincinnati's Summer Commencement Saturday, Aug. 9. The six graduates represented the most PhD degrees in the College of Medicine, according to Shuk-Mei Ho, PhD, Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health.
The graduates were: Eileen Steinle Alexander, Maryse Amin, Rebecca Currier, Florence Fulk, David Randolph and Diana Taft.
It was the first Summer Commencement since 1979 to include associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral graduates accepting their degrees at the same ceremony.
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