UofL's December 2022 commencement ceremony to celebrate 2,300 graduates

The University of Louisville’s December 2022 commencement ceremony for August graduates and December degree candidates will take place at 7 p.m. Dec. 16 at the downtown KFC Yum! Center. Of the approximately 2,300 students earning degrees, more than 900 have indicated they will take part in the ceremony.   Lori Stewart Gonzalez, interim UofL president, will preside at the event, and College of Medicine outstanding Ph.D. student Mariam R. Habil is the student speaker.   

The ceremony will be broadcast live at uofl.edu/livestream.

In addition to commencement at KFC Yum! Center, the UofL Graduate School will host a doctoral hooding and graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. on the same day. About 55 graduates are expected at the ceremony, which will be on Belknap Campus in the Swain Student Activities Center Ballroom, second floor.

UofL’s U.S. Army ROTC cadre, Cardinal Battalion, will hold a commissioning ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, in Ekstrom Library’s Chao Auditorium. Cadet Charlie Chen, who is graduating with a bachelor of science in chemistry from the College of Arts & Sciences, will be commissioned a second lieutenant at that time.

For more information, visit Louisville.edu/commencement.