HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Marshall Space Flight Center Director Patrick Scheuermann will deliver the spring commencement address at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The commencement will be May 4 at 10 a.m. at Propst Arena in downtown Huntsville's Von Braun Center.

UAH expects to award 860 diplomas - 630 bachelor's degrees, 194 master's degrees and 24 doctoral degrees. Scheuermann will receive an honorary doctorate from UAH during the ceremony.

Scheuermann came to Huntsville in September 2012 to take over what is one of NASA's top field centers. Marshall has 6,000 government and contractor support workers and a budget of more than $2 billion. It is leading development of the Space Launch System, NASA's new heavy-lift rocket for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.

Before coming to Marshall, Scheuermann headed NASA's engine-testing Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He is a native of New Orleans and a graduate of the University of New Orleans. Scheuermann and his wife, the former Sarah Melissa Lee of Pearl River County, Miss., have a son and daughter, Chandler and Christina.

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