We celebrated five new gerontology PhDs and our newest master’s degree alumni at the UMass Boston graduate commencement ceremony on May 24, 2023. (Ngai Kwan, PhD ’23, could not attend the ceremony.)

Learn more about our newest doctoral alumni and their dissertations.

Corina Ronneberg, Celeste Beaulieu, and Taylor Jansen
Professor Beth Dugan, adviser, with Taylor Jansen
Professor Edward Alan Miller, adviser, with Corina Ronneberg
Mei Chen (and the youngest of her two babies born while she pursued her doctorate) with adviser, Professor Jeffrey Burr
Taylor Jansen and Corina Ronneberg
Marisha Mahadevia, who worked two years as an assistant to the Gerontology Institute’s finance director, graduated with an MS in Business Analytics
Celeste Beaulieu and Mei Chen
Kathrin Boerner, professor and director of the doctoral program, (left) with gerontology professors Pamela Nadash and Beth Dugan
Ellen Birchander, center, director of the Management of Aging Services master’s program, with her 2023 graduates (from left): Dorcus Shambi, who earned a research master’s degree; John Goldsby, Pam Yoder, Nicholas Bradley, Sophia Casale, and Jill McClellan Phelps.