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Famed opera singer, WWU alumna to receive honorary doctorate at summer graduation

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The executive director of a food and agriculture initiative will be the commencement speaker at Western Washington University’s summer graduation ceremony Saturday, Aug. 18.

About 450 undergraduates and 75 master’s candidates will receive degrees this quarter.

Deborah Atwood, head of AGree: Transforming Food and Agriculture Policy, also is an alumna of Huxley College of the Environment and Western’s Campus School.

Heidi Grant Murphy, a Western alumna and renowned opera singer, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts and sing the national anthem at Western’s summer commencement, which begins at 10 a.m. in Carver Gym.

Graduating senior Amanjeet Sahota, a political science major from Bellingham, will give the student commencement address.

No tickets are required for those attending commencement. Seating will be first come, first served.

People also may watch a live feed of the televised ceremony in lecture halls in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (SMATE) building. The halls are on the bottom floor, near the main entrance.

The ceremony also will be streamed live at www.ustream.tv/channel/wwu-live-events1.

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