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| Michael Charette and Ellen Boudreau attend Convocation ceremonies. (Pearce photo) |
They say married people start to look like each other, but dress like each other?
For Michael Charette and Ellen Boudreau, it was only for one special day. During spring convocation ceremonies, the couple who met and married while studying for their PhDs sported matching black gowns faced with yellow silk and velvet birretums with golden tassels.
It felt good to don the regal ensembles Ă‘ Ellen added four-inch stilettos to hers Ă‘ after years of rigorous thesis and lab work. Michael (BSc Ă•97, PhD Ă•07) and Ellen (BSc Ă•00, PhD Ă•07) are both pursuing post-doctoral fellowships at Yale University School of Medicine.
ÒItÕs so much better to have someone in the trenches with you,” says the newly minted Dr. Boudreau. ÒThey understand what youÕre going through Ñ the thesis and lab work Ñ because theyÕre going through it all too.”
Others in the Boudreau clan have also discovered romance at ±«Óătv.
EllenĂ•s brother Robert Boudreau (PhD Ă•06) and his fiancĹ˝e Randy Lynn Newman (PhD Ă•04) also met while doing graduate work at ±«Óătv. And before that, EllenĂ•s parents, Leonard Boudreau (BSc Ă•72) and Elaine Boudreau dated and married during their university years. (EllenĂ•s other brother John is also a Dal alumnus; he graduated with a BSc in 2006.)
This spring, ±«Óătv graduated 53 PhD students, the largest class to date.Â