The Centurion University held its 4th Convocation on Saturday. The dignitaries who attended included Governor Dr SC Jamir, Anthony Bohm, founding partner, Pangaea Impact Investments (Australia) and Ram Sarvepalli, leader- Advisory Services from Ernst and Young.
Besides, Vineet Chatwal, Advisory Partner, Performance Improvement and Risk, Ernst and Young, Prof Peter Beech from Deakin University and Prof Ragnhild lund joined as special invitees. Students from Australian universities, such as RMIT, Deakin and Victoria also were invited on the occasion.
Chief Guest Anthony Bohm advised the students to aim at leaving the world as a better place than they found it. He spoke about five lessons of life that would pave the way to success among which the most important would be “to follow your passion”.
Sarvepalli urged the students for self confidence and to work to attain goals. In total 1,150 graduates of various disciplines were awarded degree in the convocation. 10 students awarded gold medals and five scholars were conferred PhD degree.
Students who were conferred Gold Medals include Susangita Bose, Santosh Kumar Srichandan, Ayushi Singh, Tapasi Parida, Sagar Kumar Bala, Sarthak Soumya Mishra, Sourav Patra, Nirupama Giri, and Jeevan Jyoti Samantaray.
The Governor released a newly published report by Ernst and Young titled, “Role of Higher Education in Creating Sustainable livelihoods and Social Enterprises”.
Vice Chancellor Dr Haribandhu Panda read out the annual report. President Prof Mukti Mishra among others spoke.