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Graduates at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 151st Commencement, scheduled for Saturday, June 13, at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium, will hear from Mary E. Brunkow, Class of ’83, who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  

More than 7,000 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ graduates of the Class of 2024 plan to participate in the June 8 ceremony for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Seattle. Officials expect about 40,000 family and friends to cheer the graduates from the Husky Stadium grandstands. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma will hold its commencement June 7; Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell’s graduation ceremonies are June 9. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce will present 18,006 degrees to the Class of 2024 across all three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campuses’ ceremonies.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 149th Commencement is scheduled for Saturday, June 8, at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium. This year, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ will recognize best-selling author Daniel James Brown and Susan Solomon, a professor of environmental science and chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both will receive honorary degrees for their contributions to the humanities and sciences.

Months after the Class of 2023 began their college careers, the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, upending their lives. Now, on the eve of their graduation, they emerge into a world much changed by the global health crisis. 

On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ held in-person Commencement ceremonies at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium where the University conferred degrees on the Class of 2022. On Sunday, it welcomed alumni from the 2020 and 2021 school years for a Return to Husky Stadium Graduation Celebration.

Cue the band: It’s time for “Pomp and Circumstance.â€�

There will be flowing robes and purple-and-gold tassels. The gonfalons, symbols of the 16 colleges and schools that make up the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, have been unfurled and prepared. Campus is being adorned and the iconic Drumheller Fountain soon will again be cast in a purple glow.

Former Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Robert Stacey will speak to the graduates of the classes of 2020 and 2021 when they return to Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium for an in-person celebration on Sunday, June 12.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 147th commencement ceremonies are scheduled to return this June to in-person celebrations in Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium for the first time since 2019. Similar in-person commencement ceremonies are being planned for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma.

Drumheller Fountain is turning purple.

The iconic Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ landmark will be illuminated in the school’s signature color from dusk to dawn as the anticipation builds for the June 12 commencement ceremonies.

The special accent lighting is just one of many features the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is adding to its already beautiful campus to provide graduates opportunities to pose for photos with family and friends. Special banners will hang on Suzzallo Library and the HUB, among other locations. Sidewalks in the Quad and along Rainier Vista will be decorated and 4-foot-tall block Ws will be strategically placed making already terrific photo ops even better.