OIST Graduation Ceremony 2017 - Dr. Caroline Starzynski

The audience clapped as the graduates processed into the auditorium

Dr. Steven Chu delivered a thoughtful and motivational speech to the graduates.

Dr. Zafer Hawash speaks with former OIST president Jonathan Dorfan and his wife, Mrs Renee Dorfan, after the ceremony.

The graduates received traditional Hawaiian neck garlands called ‘lei’, made from candlenuts, after the ceremony as a gift from Robert Nakasone, an OIST Board of Councilors member from Hawaii.