The Rector of the  Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Jesús Pastor Ciurana, has conferred the Doctor Honoris Causa award on the American engineer Paul Mockapetris, known as one of the fathers of Internet. In this ceremony, the  UMH has celebrated the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, in which the University has celebrated the commencement of  85 Doctors of Philosophy and has granted 12 awards for outstanding doctoral research.

PICTURES OF THE CEREMONY:  

• Image gallery of the investiture ceremony of Doctor Honoris Causa Paul Mockapetris.
• Image gallery of solemn academic ceremony to mark the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas 2013 and the commencement of doctoral degrees. 
• Image gallery of the Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards at the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas 2013.

Click on the links above to view pictures of the ceremony.  

Ceremonial (Spanish) / Ceremonial  (English)

CEREMONY SPEECHES:  

• Rector’s speech 
• Doctor Honoris Causa‘s speech (Spanish)/ Doctor Honoris Causa’s speech (English) 
• Prof. Oscar Martínez Bonastre’s Laudatio (Spanish) / Prof. Oscar Martínez Bonastre’s Laudatio (English) 
• Prof. Fernando Borras Rocher’s Laudatio for the conferment of new doctoral degrees.

CEREMONY INVITATION: 

 Click on this link to view the event programme.