Emory College of Arts and Sciences

“We feel pride in your accomplishments,” Dean Robert A. Paul told fresh graduates of Emory College, “and privileged to have participated in your education.”

Paul, outgoing dean after nine years, presided over a ceremony at which 2,017 undergraduates — the oldest 59, the youngest 19 — received their diplomas, with 45.5 percent of them earning a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or over.

Paul singled out for special notice the 184 students in the Honors Program, “a concentrated and rigorous program of academic inquiry,” as well as all graduating members of Phi Beta Kappa.

—David Raney