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Congratulations Graduates

In June 1970, WHOI personnel watched the first commencement ceremony of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Since then, the program has graduated more than 900 students, many of whom have gone on to high-level positions at universities, research institutes, corporations, and government agencies. In 2004, an external review committee concluded: “The MIT/WHOI Joint Program remains a (if not the) top educational program covering all the marine sciences and engineering.” On Saturday, June 6, members of the class of 2015 and the five previous classes will march in a commencement ceremony at WHOI, an event that happens once every five years. To all of them we say, “Congratulations, fair wind, and following seas.” (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)