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Commencement 2014: Spotlight on service

Commencement 2014At the 41st Commencement exercises, Chancellor Michael F. Collins will recognize four exemplary individuals who have dedicated their lives to helping others. U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, Cherylann and Leonard Gengel, and H. Brownell Wheeler, MD, will be honored at the June 1 ceremony.

--Rep. McGovern to receive Chancellor’s Medal at 41st Commencement for career of service

--Chancellor to honor Gengel family’s ‘extraordinary’ efforts to fulfill daughter’s last wish

--UMass Medical School’s first faculty member to receive honorary degree