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First Joint Program Commencement at WHOI. New R/V Knorr at the dock.

First Joint Program Commencement at WHOI. New R/V Knorr at the dock.
First Joint Program Commencement at WHOI. New R/V Knorr at the dock.
First Joint Program Commencement at WHOI. New R/V Knorr at the dock.
First Joint Program Commencement at WHOI. New R/V Knorr at the dock.
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First Joint Program Commencement at WHOI. New R/V Knorr at the dock.
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06/01/1970
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This image was used in Currents magazine, 1999.
In 1968, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced the creation of a joint program for graduate studies in oceanography. After 40 years together, the marriage is still going strong. The first MIT-WHOI Joint Program commencement, shown above, occurred in Woods Hole in 1970. In June 2008, the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering awarded its 800th degree. Read more about the joint program in the recent issue of Oceanus magazine.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 2:
From top: The MIT-WHOI Joint Programs first commencement ceremony in 1970.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 2:
There they sit, two on either side of the aisle, awaiting their diplomas in the first commencement ceremonies for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering in 1970. WHOIs research vessel Knorr, retired in 2014, served as a fitting backdrop.
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The first four graduate students to receive degrees from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program at the first commencement ceremonies in 1970 sit in the front row on either side of the aisle. WHOI's recently retired research vessel, Knorr, served as a fitting backdrop to the pomp and circumstance. In the program's most recent external review in 2014, a committee of distinguished ocean scientists wrote: "The JP is a national asset without which the ocean sciences in the world would be diminished." In ceremonies today, the program, launched in 1967, will celebrate the awarding of its one-thousandth degree. You can get a cool commemorative T-shirt marking the milestone at the WHOI Store.
Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives
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