Thousands of students from the University of California, Davis, will participate in 13 commencement ceremonies this spring, including the first class from the new Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

Commencement season begins Thursday, May 17, and concludes Sunday, June 17.

Guest speakers will include:

• Goodwin Liu, an associate justice of the California Supreme Court, at the commencement for the School of Law on May 17;
• Marie V. McDemmond, president emeritus of Norfolk State University in Virginia, at the commencement for the School of Education on June 13;
• James C. Davis, president of Chevron Energy Solutions, at the commencement for the Graduate School of Management on June 16; and
• Secretary General Chris Buijink of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation for the Netherlands, at the commencements for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences on June 17.

For more about speakers, visit: http://commencement.ucdavis.edu/speakers.html.

Commencement dates, times and locations are as follows:

• May 17 — School of Law at 2 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts;
• May 19 — School of Medicine at 10 a.m. at the Mondavi Center;
• June 13 — School of Education at 4 p.m. at the Mondavi Center;
• June 14 — Graduate Studies at 4 p.m. in the ARC Pavilion;
• June 15 — College of Biological Sciences at 9 a.m. in the ARC Pavilion;
• June 15 — School of Veterinary Medicine at 10 a.m. at the Mondavi Center;
• June 15 — College of Engineering at 3 p.m. in the ARC Pavilion;
• June 16 — College of Letters and Science at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in the ARC Pavilion;
• June 16 — Graduate School of Management at 10 a.m. at the Mondavi Center; and
• June 17 — College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the ARC Pavilion.

In addition, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing will hold a special celebration of its first graduates at 12:30 p.m. on June 14 at the UC Davis Conference Center, before students participate in the Graduate Studies commencement. About 25 nursing students are candidates for a Master of Science degree.

Established in 2009, the nursing school admitted the first students to its master’s and Doctor of Philosophy programs in fall 2010. The school focuses on preparing graduates as educators, researchers and leaders to promote health, advance quality of care and safety, and shape policy.

The School of Law will award 23 Master of Laws and 202 Juris Doctor degrees at its ceremony, and the School of Medicine will award 108 Doctor of Medicine, four Master of Health Informatics and 24 Master of Public Health degrees.

Estimates of degrees to be awarded at the other ceremonies will be available in June. In 2010-11, UC Davis conferred 8,350 degrees.

Tickets are required for all commencement ceremonies except Graduate Studies, and they are distributed to graduating students by individual schools and colleges.

UC Davis will offer live and on-demand webcasts of each of the commencements at http://commencementvideo.ucdavis.edu/.