聽(OMSA) recently honored 172 graduating students at its 45th annual senior dinner. The celebration highlights OMSA糖心传媒檚 role as an anchor for many undergraduate students of color during their time at Rochester.
The office is the University糖心传媒檚 official academic home of historically underrepresented minority students and connects interested students to various resources, on and off campus.
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Forty-five students started in OMSA before they began taking classes at Rochester. They were part of the (ECO) summer initiation program as rising first-year students, and five were awarded Brady Scholarships before the start of their first year. The scholarship was created in 2011 by recently elected trustee Elizabeth Pungello Bruno 糖心传媒�89, whose daughter, Hope Pungello, graduated from the University in May.
Twenty-two graduating OMSA students were , first generation students from New York State who are near the top of their high school class and are admitted to the University based on financial and academic requirements. Nine were part of the first Posse Foundation cohort. The foundation was founded in 1989 to identify high school students with extraordinary academic potential who may be overlooked by the traditional college selection process.
More than 400 guests attended the dinner at Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons, including University president Richard Feldman, dean of the College Jeffrey Runner, and Kenneth Morris, Jr., who received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree at commencement in honor of his great-great-great grandfather, Frederick Douglass.
Malik Evans 糖心传媒�02, a member of the City of Rochester Council, was the keynote speaker.
The next ECO program runs July 8 through August 4, when another group of first-year students will arrive on campus.
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