Grads prepare for the procession on the Arts Quad, May 27.
Some farewells before leaving Cornell.
Robert Young, natural resources Ph.D. '07, waits with his daughter, Lucie Janet Young.
Checking the weather, or looking into the future?
We don't know what this means. Possibly they need to rearrange themselves.
Spots of color were supposed to make it easier for parents and friends to find graduates in a sea of black robes.
Getting ready for the long walk to Schoellkopf Stadium.
Some decorations probably were not for the benefit of parents.
Leaving the Arts Quad, the procession passes the reviewing stand.
Each unit in the procession announced itself with a banner.
Signs like this greeted the marchers along the way.
Graduates of the Program in Real Estate enter Schoellkopf Stadium.
In a turnabout, a student photographs the audience.
Hotel School students brought along the key to the Statler from Hotel Ezra Cornell weekend.
Hotel School senior Joe Brill arrived with a pineapple on his mortarboard.
Enthusiastic Hotel School grads brought balloons and a party atmosphere.
The banner first seen on the Arts Quad arrives at Schoellkopf.
Paulvalery Roulette, a Human Ecology grad, wore boxing gloves to symbolize the fight to make it through four years.
Enthusiasm in the stands.
Graduate Qingtao Xing snaps a photo of his wife, Dan Dan Xing, as she watches from the stands.
President David Skorton arrives at the stadium.
President Skorton begins his first Cornell Commencement address.
Skorton calls for a new kind of Marshall Plan, led by universities, to reduce worldwide inequality.
Skorton's wife, Professor Robin Davisson, sits with other faculty members at the ceremony.
Elsewhere in the audience, Andrew Farnsworth, a Ph.D. graduate in ornithology, brings along a stuffed woodpecker.
Degree marshals from the undergraduate colleges stand in front of the crowd as President Skorton confers degrees for every 2007 baccalaureate degree candidate.
Veterinary graduates celebrate receiving their degrees by waving their plastic examining gloves.
Senior Class President Edvard Gumbs, second from left, stands with fellow graduates to sing the alma mater.
Volunteers gather to watch the academic procession leave the stadium.
Shahzad Bashir, left, of Texas and his sisters, Suraiya Mazhar of Pakistan and Dr. Ghazala Javed of Charleston, S.C., relax in an almost empty Schoellkopf post-commencement.
