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Graduate Recognition Ceremony, June 11, 2008The department’s 2008 graduation ceremony finally outgrew the Henry Art Gallery auditorium. Our 28 undergraduates and 33 graduate students were honored at the University of Washington’s HUB auditorium for the first time. Keynote speaker Don Villarejo, the retired founder of the California Institute of Rural Studies, recounted the differences that environmental and occupational health have made over a half-century. Workplace illnesses and fatalities have decreased, he said, because of technological improvements and social change, yet there is still work to be done. The field still experiences a tension between theory and practice, and Villarejo encouraged the graduates not to lose sight of the people who suffer in silence in hazardous workplace and community conditions. Undergraduate program speaker Megan Claire Turner wished her fellow graduates well as they move on to "prestigious acronymed institutions such as CDC, EPA, and B-O-E-I-N-G." Graduate program speaker Isaac Mohar gave a thought-provoking speech about the marginalized, oppressed, and diseased populations of the world, and reminded his fellow graduates of the importance of their field. Graduates were introduced one-by-one with introductions they wrote themselves. At least 14 graduate students and seven undergraduates said jobs or further training would keep them in the state. A number of awards were announced. The ceremony concluded with a reception at the University of Washington Club. 
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