Dr. Patrick McGah

This week was an exciting one...Pat's birthday and dissertation defense, on the same day!  Luckily both went well and now Pat is officially Dr. McGah!!  On Monday, Pat and I went out for his birthday to Wild Ginger and a walk at the Sculpture Park downtown.

They even brought Pat dessert!

Beautiful day at the Sculpture Park downtown

Wednesday, Pat's birthday, was the day we have all been waiting for for a long time!  Pat had the presentation for his dissertation defense.  The first portion was a 50 minute presentation open to the public.  It was fun to have his lab-mates and lots of friends come for the presentation.  Pat did an awesome job!!  Then after a few questions from the audience, Pat went into a closed door session with his committee and a few other professors from the department.  They asked him questions for over an hour about his research.  After a few minutes of deliberation, Alberto come out to the hallway with a huge smile on his face and a congratulatory handshake and hug for Pat...Dr. Pat, now!  It was all very exciting!!

Pat ready for the big presentation

He even had some cool pictures and videos to show

Action shot!

A proud dissertation chair --Alberto and Pat after a successful defense 

For a bit longer we will be Dr. and Mrs. McGah

Pat enjoyed celebrating for a bit longer at the College Inn.  Thanks so the many people who stopped by to celebrate!  Sadly there are no pictures, because I headed back to HNA for Back to School night to meet the parents.  However there were many hilarious text messages sent from the celebrations as I was at work!