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  • Preparations outside Royce Hall. (Photo: Tyler Yin/ UCLA.)

  • Waiting to enter Royce Hall. (Photo: Tyler Yin/ UCLA.)

  • Filing into the hall. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • Ready to begin! (Photo: Tyler Yin/ UCLA.)

  • Associate Vice Provost and Institute Director Chris Erickson introduces Howard Berman. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • Former Democratic Congressman Howard Berman addresses UCLA International Institute graduates. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • Listening to Mr. Berman's remakrs. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • Students waiting to hear their names called. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • UCLA International Institute students and, in front row, Program Chairs. (Photo: ©GradImages, 2016.)

  • A few of the many creative graduation caps worn by Institute students. (Photos: ©GradImages, 2016.)

  • The sentiment of the evening. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • Graduates! (Photo: Tyler Yin/ UCLA.)

  • Achievement. (Photo: Tyler Yin/ UCLA.)

  • Celebration. (Photo: ©GradImages, 2016)

  • IDS students take a selfie. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

  • A group of friends. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)

UCLA alumnus Howard Berman salutes class of 2016

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UCLA International Institute, June 14, 2016 — The UCLA International Institute held its commencement ceremony in Royce Hall on Saturday evening, June 11. Despite cloudy and cool weather that hid Southern California’s sunny norms, students in the Institute’s global studies, international development studies and areas studies programs (including M.A. students) happily celebrated their graduation with family and friends.

Commencement speaker Howard Berman completed both a B.A. in international relations (1962) and a law degree (1965) at UCLA. Yet despite 40 years in state and national politics (including three years as chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee), Berman said it was the first time he had spoken at a commencement. In his warm and friendly address, he related his education at UCLA to his long professional career. (Click below to hear his remarks.)

The Institute was thrilled to have an alumnus speak whose educational and professional interests were so in tune with those of its students. As its newly minted graduates step into their futures, the Institute wishes them much professional and personal success — wherever their lives take them.

Photo: Oliver Chien/ UCLA..

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Published: Tuesday, June 14, 2016