7 – 9 p.m.

Annual IBES Cocktail Party 
For Environmental Sciences & Studies alumni and graduating seniors

Please join us for a delightful evening of refreshments and camaraderie, where you can reconnect with old friends and talk with students from this year’s graduating class of Environmental Sciences & Studies concentrators. RSVPs requested by April 20.

Urban Environmental Lab (UEL), 135 Angell St 

9 p.m. –  midnight

Campus Dance

The biggest outdoor party of the year and a decades-old Brown tradition.

College Green and Simmons Quad

11 a.m.

IBES Commencement Forum | IBES Commencement Forum | Ocean Health, Our Health: Science, History, and Policy

Moderated by Kim Cobb, Lawrence and Barbara Margolis Director of IBES. Speakers include Baylor Fox-Kemper, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences & IBES Faculty Affiliate; Rebecca Gasior Altman, PhD’08, writer, environmental sociologist, and IBES Research Affiliate; and Miriam Goldstein ’03, Executive Director, National Ocean Protection Coalition

The ocean plays a critical role in supporting all life on Earth, even as climate change, plastics, and overfishing test the limits of its resilience. Join Brown faculty and alumni experts in ocean science, ocean policy and plastics to understand how we got here, and how we can all help turn the tide for a sustainable future for the world’s oceans.

Watson School of International and Public Affairs, 111 Thayer Street, Joukowsky Forum

1 p.m.

Baccalaureate

A multifaith service for graduating seniors.

Procession from College Green to service at First Baptist Church

9:45 a.m.

University Procession & College Ceremony

Seniors march through the Van Wickle Gates in this decades-old Brown tradition.

From Waterman Street to First Baptist Church

1:15 p.m. (estimated)

University Ceremony

College Green