Undergraduate Commencement ~ Class of 2001

Class of 2001

Class listing
Congratulations to this year’s graduates! The unofficial list of degree candidates is based on information supplied to, and confirmed by, the Registrar’s Office. It has been carefully reviewed, and given the number of listings and the changing status of many prospective graduates, mistakes and omissions may have occurred. Please accept our apology for any such errors. The status of students eligible to graduate is in no way affected by their not being included here. If your name has been listed incorrectly or omitted, please advise the Registrar’s Office.

The online listing of graduates is derived from the printed program which is freely available at the Commencement ceremony. For ease-of-use, we maintained the original format of the paper version in our downloadable PDF file (No longer available)

Graduates are listed by school or college in the following order:

Colleges of Arts and Sciences
School of Education
College of Engineering
College of Food & Natural Resources
Isenberg School of Management
School of Nursing
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration
Continuing Education and University Without Walls

Graduates are also listed additionally under the following honors:

Honors Program
The Honors Program offers highly motivated students of proven academic ability the opportunity to pursue an intensive and rigorous program of study, including the possibility of undertaking undergraduate research. Honors Program participants must maintain at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average while taking a minimum of six honors courses.

Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi, founded in 1885, is the national engineering honor society for engineering students of distinguished scholarship and exemplary character. Today the Society has 219 collegiate chapters and more than 368,000 members worldwide. The Massachusetts Zeta chapter of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is celebrating its forty-fourth anniversary this year.

Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded in 1776, is the oldest and foremost national academic honor society for Arts and Sciences in the United States. Only a select number of American colleges and universities have been accredited by Phi Beta Kappa. Nu Chapter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was formed in 1965.

Sigma Theta Tau
Sigma Theta Tau, founded in 1922, is an international honor society committed to fostering excellence, scholarship, leadership, and research in nursing to improve health care delivery worldwide. The Beta Zeta Chapter at the University was founded in 1972. Criteria include class rank in the upper 35 percent of the graduating class.

Beta Gamma Sigma
Beta Gamma Sigma, founded as a national organization in 1913 with three chapters, now has 335 chapters across the United States and Canada with approximately 425,000 members. Beta Gamma Sigma is the national honor society of business administration. Membership is limited to the top percentages of each class in schools that are members of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. Election to membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest scholastic honor that a student in business administration can attain.

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