Just as many other colleges and universities have done to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions has shifted its commencement ceremony to a virtual platform. To commemorate students graduating in the winter of 2020, the university celebrated with its third virtual graduation on Friday. RMUoHP President Richard P. Nielsen did some calculations prior to the ceremony and found that the graduates on Friday represent over 400,000 hours of dedication to their education. âWhen you invest that much of your time, energy, heart, soul and money, itâs only right that there is some sort of a culminating experience to be able to send you from the educational arena out into the world of practice,â Nielsen said. âItâs kind of a right of passage.â