{"id":242952,"date":"2026-05-25T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:17:39","slug":"queens-graduates-looking-forward-to-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242952\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s graduates looking forward to future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a13bde2968fe.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The first of many convocation ceremonies were held at the campus last week.\n        <\/p>\n<p>For the more than 5,600 graduating students at Queen&#8217;s University, this week was the start of the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s held their spring convocation at Grant Hall Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s ceremony featured graduates from the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Law.<\/p>\n<p>One of them was Ryan Navaro who graduated from medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says there is a lot of memories that he will carry with him on his next journey.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Justine also received her degree in medicine on Thursday with her parents in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Justine&#8217;s mom says she was excited to see her daughter graduate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Another medical graduate, Jaryd Te, finished his last exam a month earlier and spent the time on vacation before returning to Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>He says he is glad to have finally finished school.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s ceremonies featured graduates from the Faculty of Business.<\/p>\n<p>There are more ceremonies taking place June 22-26 at Slush Puppie Place.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Ken Hashizume with files from Kassandra Rodriguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of many convocation ceremonies were held at the campus last week. For the more than 5,600&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-242952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}