It’s UConn’s most important weekend of the year.

Yes, move-in weekend is huge; and yes, the last three years have featured Final Four weekends exciting enough to keep the entire population of Connecticut glued to their screens.

But this is why we – the staff, the faculty, and above all, the students – are here in the first place.

From Saturday, May 10 through the evening of Monday, May 12, nearly 8,000 Huskies will hear their names called and walk across the stage at Gampel Pavilion, the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, or the Student Union Theatre, and walk off the stage as graduates and alumni. The celebration wraps up on May 18, as the UConn School of Law confers its degrees in Hartford.

It's a long weekend of big smiles, happy tears, and striking a pose near the statue of Jonathan or the giant U-C-O-N-N on Rte. 195, all combining to make lifelong memories of the final minutes before “student” turns into “graduate.”

University photographers Sean Flynn, Sydney Herdle, and Peter Morenus will be at all 17 ceremonies this month. Here are just a few of the unforgettable moments they captured on Saturday and Sunday.