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🎓Congratulations to this year’s graduating class of the Richard Gilder Graduate School! This week, the Museum held its ninth commencement under the iconic Blue Whale in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, celebrating four doctoral graduates and 13 Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Earth science graduates.

🐋This year marks the 14th year since the first cohort of students enrolled in the Museum’s comparative biology program, the first and only freestanding Ph.D. degree-granting program to be offered at any museum in the Western Hemisphere. Since the MAT program began in 2011, as the first freestanding museum-based master’s degree program to prepare science teachers in the United States, it has prepared more than 152 Earth science teachers, reaching approximately 68,000 students in high-needs schools in New York City and across the country.

For more on this year’s commencement ceremony, check out the link in our bio.

Photo: M. Shanley/ © AMNH

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