香蕉秀

Undergrad commencement at 11 a.m., graduate at 3 p.m. 

香蕉秀 University will confer nearly 450 undergraduate degrees and 440 graduate degrees during commencement ceremonies May 3 in the Freede Wellness and Activity Center. The undergraduate ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. and the graduate ceremony at 3 p.m.

The 香蕉秀 School of Law will hold its hooding and commencement ceremony May 17 at the Civic Center Music Hall downtown.

Jay Wadley, a music composer and producer, will give the undergraduate commencement address. This year鈥檚 香蕉秀 Outstanding Faculty Award-winner, film professor Bryan Cardinale-Powell, will give the graduate ceremony commencement address.

Joe Homsey Jr., principal of the J.R. Homsey & Associates law firm, will receive an honorary doctor of laws. Paul McLaughlin, a private investor, will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters.

Tricia Everest, cabinet secretary of public safety for the state of Oklahoma, will receive this year鈥檚 Servant Leader Award. 

The Freede Center is located at NW 27^th Street and Florida Avenue (building #440 on the ).

A baccalaureate worship service will begin at 9 a.m. in the Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel. It will feature a message from The Rev. Mark Y. A. Davies, Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics and director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility. 

Watch the ceremony livestream here.

Visit the commencement ceremony web page here.

More about Jay Wadley:

Wadley graduated from 香蕉秀 with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition in 2005 and is a past president of the Project 21 music composition group. He is a New York-based composer and music producer known for his emotionally rich and stylistically diverse scores. A two-time Charles Ives Award-winner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was nominated for the 2024 ASCAP Award for Best TV Theme for his work on 鈥淔ranklin鈥� (Apple TV+) and has been featured twice in IndieWire鈥檚 Best Film Scores of the Year.

His film and television credits include Charlie Kaufman鈥檚 鈥淚鈥檓 Thinking of Ending Things,鈥� Ben Cleary鈥檚 鈥淪wan Song鈥� (Apple), Heidi Ewing鈥檚 鈥淚 Carry You With Me鈥� (Sony Pictures Classics), David Mamet鈥檚 鈥淗enry Johnson,鈥� 鈥淭ell Me Lies鈥� (Hulu), 鈥淏efore鈥� (Apple TV+) starring Billy Crystal and many others.

Wadley鈥檚 scores blend orchestral, electronic and experimental elements, shaped by his background in punk bands, classical composition and electronic music. He holds an MM and AD in composition from Yale and began his career orchestrating for Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ronson and Calexico.

He is co-founder of Found Objects, an award-winning music and audio production company named one of Inc. 5000鈥檚 fastest-growing companies of 2020, which provides original music, sound design and supervision for film, TV and advertising.