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Program - Commencement
O N E - H U N D R E D A N D F I F T Y- S E C O N D
COMMENCEMENT
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2016
It was in 1885 that the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature
Classes began in 1891 with 32 students and six teachers,
founded the University of Arizona with an appropriation
all accommodated in one building. The original building,
of $25,000 — but no land. This appropriation was not
Old Main, was renovated and brought back online in 2014.
welcomed by many residents of Tucson and Pima County,
The first class graduated in 1895 when three students
as they were looking for either the state capitol building,
received their degrees.
a prison, or even an asylum for the insane — but definitely
not a university.
Today the University of Arizona is in the top 15% of world
universities. It has grown to more than 40,000 students
The money would be available on the condition that
and 14,000 faculty and staff members on a campus of
the community provided a suitable site. Just before
378 acres. The University is organized into 18 colleges
the $25,000 was to be returned to the Legislature,
and 12 schools. It is the fourth largest employer in
two gamblers and a saloon-keeper donated 40 acres
Arizona with a financial impact on the state of more
of land “way out east of town,” and thus the University
than $1.1 billion a year.
could become a reality.
O N E - H U N D R E D A N D F I F T Y- S E C O N D
COMMENCEMENT
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
ALMA MATER
ALL HAIL, ARIZONA,
YOUR COLORS RED AND BLUE
STAND AS A SYMBOL
OF OUR LOVE FOR YOU.
ALL HAIL, ARIZONA,
TO YOU WE’LL E’ER BE TRUE.
WE’LL WATCH O’ER AND KEEP YOU,
ALL HAIL, ALL HAIL.
All Hail, Arizona
ELBERT C. MONRO, 1917
DOROTHY H. MONRO, 1920
Every effort was made to ensure the
contents of this program were current
upon time of publication. For questions
or concerns, please contact the
UA Commencement Office at:
[email protected]
All contents copyright © 2016
the University of Arizona and
the Arizona Board of Regents.
Table of Contents
Processional List · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 4
The Tradition of Commencement · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 5
Honorary Degrees & Awards · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 8
Graduation with Honors · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 14
Doctoral Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 17
Fall 2015 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 18
Winter 2015 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 22
Spring 2016 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 23
Summer 2016 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 36
Master’s Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 43
Fall 2015 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 44
Winter 2015 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 48
Spring 2016 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 48
Summer 2016 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 53
Law Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 57
Medicine & Pharmacy Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 59
Bachelor’s Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 63
Fall 2015 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 64
Winter 2015 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 72
Spring 2016 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 73
Summer 2016 Degrees · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 102
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 1
Arizona Board of Regents
PRESIDENT
CHAIR
Eileen I. Klein
Jay Heiler
VICE CHAIR
Greg Patterson
TREASURER
Rick Myers
SECRETARY
Ram Krishna
REGENT
LuAnn Leonard
Larry Penley
Bill Ridenour
Ron Shoopman
STUDENT REGENT
Jared Gorshe
Mark Naufel
EX-OFFICIO
Gov. Doug Ducey
Diane Douglas
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Message from the Arizona Board of Regents
On behalf of the Arizona Board of Regents, we congratulate you today on a
momentous achievement: your college graduation. Your graduation means
you have fulfilled a great vision through determination and dedication. Those
assets will serve you well as you embark on life’s journey.
By earning your college degree, you have unlocked a door to unforetold
possibilities. Whether that is through a new career, continuing your
education or setting out on a new adventure, the future holds opportunities
that will benefit you and your family. College graduates pass on the benefits
of higher education through shared skills and by creating a college-going
culture. Your graduation is also a point of pride for Arizona. An educated
workforce will meet high-demand job needs of the future and fuel innovation
that benefits society.
The board is proud that you chose to pursue your degree at the University
of Arizona. We hope that your college years leave you with boundless happy
memories, confidence to move forward toward your future goals and the wide
range of knowledge that earning a degree brings to individuals. We hope that
you will commit to the pursuit of knowledge beyond today by embracing
lifelong learning. Please keep your memories of your alma mater alive as we
have forged a strong bond and you are forever woven into the University of
Arizona’s legacy.
Finally, to the families and friends who are participating in this celebration:
Congratulations as you celebrate this amazing accomplishment! We share
in your pride and we thank you for the support you provided during your
graduate’s educational journey.
Sincerely,
Eileen I. Klein
Jay Heiler
PresidentChair
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Processional
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2016
OPENING REMARKS............................................................. Ann Weaver Hart
President, The University of Arizona
NATIONAL ANTHEM............................................................ Sarah Julia Ambrose
BFA, Musical Theatre
GREETINGS........................................................................... Bill Ridenour
Arizona Board of Regents
STUDENT RESPONSE............................................................ Manuel Felix
President, Associated Students
of the University of Arizona
Sarah Netherton
President, Graduate and Professional Student Council
PRESENTATION OF ALUMNI
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD....................................................... Melinda Burke
President, The University of Arizona Alumni Association
PRESENTATION OF STUDENT AWARDS.............................. Melissa Vito
Senior Vice President of Student Affairs &
Enrollment Management, Senior Vice Provost of
Academic Initiatives and Student Success,
The University of Arizona
PRESENTATION OF PROVOST AWARD............................... Andrew Comrie
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost,
The University of Arizona
PRESENTATION OF HONORARY DEGREES......................... Ann Weaver Hart
President, The University of Arizona
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS............................................... Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A.
Surgeon General of the United States
CONFERRING OF DEGREES.................................................. Ann Weaver Hart
President, The University of Arizona
ALMA MATER....................................................................... Sarah Julia Ambrose
BFA, Musical Theatre
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The Tradition of Commencement
Commencement — from the ancient practice of beginning life’s work at the end
of an apprenticeship — has roots eight centuries in the European past.
The robes and caps worn by the faculty and graduating students at the University
of Arizona follow the style of Oxford University, England.
The bachelor’s gown, of poplin or a similar cloth, has long, pointed sleeves; the
master’s gown, also of poplin, has long, closed sleeves with square ends and a
slit at the elbow for the arm to come through; the doctor’s gown has full, round,
open sleeves, is faced with velvet, and has three velvet stripes on the sleeves.
The sobriety of the blue or black gowns is relieved by the bright spectrum of
colors of hood and tassel indicating the wearer’s field of study. At the University
of Arizona, candidates for the bachelor’s degree do not wear hoods, but the
colors of their tassels indicate the fields in which they are receiving degrees. The
candidates for advanced degrees wear hoods lined with silk in the official red
and blue colors of the University. The velvet edging of the hood bears the color of
the candidate’s major field. The official color for the Doctor of Philosophy degree
is dark blue, regardless of the major field of study. Tassel colors used by advanced
degree candidates are: master’s, black; doctoral, old gold.
The official degree colors established by the Intercollegiate Code in 1895 are used
to represent the following major fields of learning at the University of Arizona:
Agriculture & Life Sciences · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Maize
Architecture · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Blue-Violet
Business & Public Administration · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Drab (Light Tan)
Education · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Light Blue
Engineering · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Orange
Family & Consumer Sciences · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Maroon
Fine Arts · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Dark Brown
Health Professions · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Green
Humanities · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · White
Law · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Purple
Letters, Arts, & Science · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Silver
Medicine · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Green
Music · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Pink
Nursing · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Apricot
Optical Sciences · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Orange
Pharmacy · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Olive Green
Public Health · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·Salmon
Sciences · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Gold
Social & Behavioral Sciences · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · White
At the moment the degree is conferred, the new bachelors move the tassels from
right to left to signify their changed academic status.
The academic procession is composed of the officers of administration,
members of the Arizona Board of Regents, deans of colleges, faculty members,
doctoral candidates, honorary degree recipients, other award recipients and
candidates for master’s and bachelor’s degrees.
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The University of Arizona Ceremonial Mace
The ceremonial — or academic — mace of
the University of Arizona reflects the unique
character, mission and values of this institution.
At Commencement, it is carried by the Chair of
the Faculty and signifies the order and authority
of the academic procession. The placing of the
mace in its stand marks the beginning of the
ceremony. Its removal signifies the end of the
platform ceremony.
In medieval times, maces were used in combat. In
time, bodyguards carried maces to protect royalty.
By the 16th century, maces took on the elegance
of silver, gold and precious stones, and were
incorporated into academic and civil ceremonies.
The symbol of authority for the City of London, for
example, is the mace of the Lord Mayor.
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The University of Arizona mace features a crown
of sterling silver surrounding the seal of the
University, which is accented with 22K gold.
Underlying the crown are 24 acrylic strips in
the school colors of red and blue, which add a
jewel-like sparkle. The main shaft is made of local
mesquite with a sterling silver band inscribed
with “The University of Arizona,” accented with
22K gold. The tailpiece repeats the motif of the
crown and surrounds a medallion with an image
of a wildcat, the school mascot.
We thank the University of Arizona Foundation,
the College of Fine Arts and Professor Michael
Croft for adding the gift of this mace to our
Commencement traditions.
Candidates for Degrees will be presented by
Shane C. Burgess
Joan L. Shaver
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
& LIFE SCIENCES, DEAN
COLLEGE OF NURSING, DEAN
Janice Cervelli
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING
& LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, DEAN
Ronald W. Marx
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, DEAN
Paulo Goes
Thomas L. Koch
COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, DEAN
John E. Murphy
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, DEAN
Marc L. Miller
JAMES E. ROGERS
COLLEGE OF LAW, DEAN
ELLER COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT, DEAN
Jeffrey B. Goldberg
Joaquin Ruiz
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, DEAN
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, DEAN
John Paul Jones III
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS, DEAN
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL
& BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, DEAN
Mary E. Wildner-Bassett
Iman A. Hakim
Jory Hancock
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, DEAN
Joaquin Ruiz
MEL & ENID ZUCKERMAN
COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, DEAN
COLLEGES OF LETTERS, ARTS
& SCIENCE, EXECUTIVE DEAN
Patricia MacCorquodale
Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia
Andrew Carnie
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE,
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
HONORS COLLEGE, DEAN
GRADUATE COLLEGE, DEAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 7
Honorary Degrees and Awards
DR. VIVEK H. MURTHY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
HONORARY DEGREE
America’s Doctor and Devotee to
Global Health
Doctor of Humane Letters
College of Medicine – Tucson
DR. VIVEK H. MURTHY
The nation’s leading spokesman for
public health, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is a
champion of improving care and building
coalitions, having devoted his career to
the enhancement of global public health
through education, service, clinical care
and entrepreneurship.
Murthy, 38, was nominated by President
Barack Obama in November 2013 and then
confirmed as the 19th U.S. surgeon general
in December 2014, becoming the first
Indian American and the youngest person
to hold the position.
OLDEN LEE
JAMES MUZZY
LIBOR GRUBHOFFER
The son of immigrants from India, Murthy
discovered a love for the art of healing early
in his childhood while spending time in his
father’s medical clinic in Miami, Florida.
He graduated from Harvard University in
1997 with a degree in biochemical sciences.
In 2003, he earned his medical degree from
the Yale School of Medicine, and a Master
of Business Administration, with a focus
in health care management, from the Yale
School of Management.
providers and educators, working through
centers and villages in rural India.
Murthy also is co-founder of Doctors
for America, a Washington, D.C.-based
nonprofit organization comprising 16,000
physicians and medical students across the
U.S. The organization advocates for access
to affordable, quality health care.
Also, Murthy co-founded and chaired
TrialNetworks, a software technology
company that improves research
collaboration and enhances the efficiency
of clinical trials around the world. In
seven years, Murthy and his team took
the company from conception to an
international enterprise that powers
dozens of clinical trials for more than
50,000 patients in more than 75 countries.
As “America’s Doctor,” Murthy is
responsible for communicating the
most advanced and relevant scientific
information to the public. He oversees the
operations of the U.S. Public Health Service
Commissioned Corps, which includes
approximately 6,700 uniformed health
officers serving in nearly 800 locations
globally. The officers work to promote,
protect and advance the health and safety
of the nation and world.
OLDEN LEE ’68
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Murthy believes that the nation’s greatest
asset always has been its people. As
surgeon general, he has fought to educate
and inspire his fellow Americans around
a key set of priorities: mental health and
emotional well-being, healthful eating,
active and tobacco-free living, chronic
disease prevention, and the country’s
growing opioid epidemic.
Olden Lee’s career has included top
executive roles with some of the world’s
best-known companies, and even in
retirement he has been a trusted voice in
the business community. He also is a proud
alumnus of the University of Arizona and
the Eller College of Management and has
dedicated many years of his time and his
invaluable expertise to his alma mater.
Murthy has helped establish several
organizations dedicated to expanding
public access nationally and internationally
– to quality health care and scientific
information related to personal and public
health and safety. He is co-founder of
VISIONS Worldwide Inc., an HIV/AIDS
education program that operates in the
U.S. and India. He also helped establish
the Swasthya project (“health and wellbeing” in Sanskrit), a community health
partnership that trains women as health
At the UA, Lee lettered in football. He
graduated with a degree in business
administration with an emphasis in
personnel management and immediately
began his career at General Dynamics. Two
years later, he was recruited by PepsiCo
and began a 28-year career in management
and executive roles in the Frito-Lay and
KFC divisions before ultimately serving as
senior vice president of human resources
for the Taco Bell division.
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After retiring from PepsiCo in 1998, Lee
founded his own management consulting
firm. He has chaired the Foreign Service
Impasse Disputes Panel of the Federal
Labor Relations Authority and served
as a commissioner for the White House
Fellows, one of America’s most prestigious
programs for leadership and public service.
In 2003, he joined the board of directors of
the Starbucks Corporation, and in 2009 he
was asked by CEO Howard Schultz to step
in as interim executive vice president of
partner resources. Schultz describes Lee
as a critical sounding board and executive
coach during a challenging period for the
company. Lee retired from the Starbucks
board in March after 13 years of leadership.
Throughout his career, Lee has been
actively involved in a variety of community
and professional associations, including
serving on the boards of Scottsdale
Healthcare, the Phoenix Art Museum,
and the Louisville Opera, as well as Texas
Christian University’s International Board
of Advisors and Spalding University’s
Development Committee and Committee
on Academic Affairs.
Since the early 1990s, Lee also has been
committed to giving back to the UA and
the Eller College. He served as a governing
board member, vice chair, and chair of
the UA Alumni Association. Currently, he
chairs the Eller College’s National Board
of Advisors, and is a member of the UA
President’s Club. Describing his service
and dedication, UA Alumni Association
President Melinda Burke calls Lee “a pillar
of the UA community.” Lee has received a
number of awards recognizing his service
to the University, including the Black
Alumni Outstanding Achiever Award, the
Sidney S. Wood Alumni Service Award, and
the C.A.T.S. Silver Anniversary Award.
The Alumni Achievement Award,
established in 1943, is given to an alumnus
or alumna who has attained prominence
in his or her field of endeavor and
demonstrated outstanding service to the
University of UA. It is the highest honor
the UA Alumni Association can bestow
upon alumni.
JAMES MUZZY
alumni access to the insights of key leaders
in private enterprise and public service.
Co-Founder and Former Managing
Director of Pacific Investment
Management Company
Muzzy currently serves as a member
of the Eller College’s National Board of
Advisors and is a recipient of the college’s
Lifetime Achievement Award for his
accomplishments and service to the college
and the UA.
HONORARY DEGREE
Doctor of Humane Letters
Eller College of Management
James Muzzy, an influential business and
investment leader, has been a longtime
supporter and partner of the University of
Arizona’s Eller College of Management.
Muzzy grew up in Tucson and attended the
University of Arizona from 1958 to 1963,
graduating with a Bachelor of Science in
Business Administration and a Master of
Business Administration. He is a Chartered
Financial Analyst and a Chartered
Investment Counselor.
In 1971, Muzzy co-founded Pacific
Investment Management Co. In more
than 38 years with the firm, he helped
create and build what has become
widely recognized as the world’s leading
fixed-income investment management
company, overseeing more than $1 trillion
in fixed-income assets for governments,
foundations, institutions and individuals
worldwide. Muzzy retired in 2009.
As a long-standing friend and advocate of
the Eller College of Management, Muzzy
has for more than three decades served as a
dedicated supporter, adviser and champion
of the college and its McGuire Center for
Entrepreneurship. He and his wife, Pamela,
funded the James and Pamela Muzzy Chair
in Entrepreneurship, which has helped
attract top scholars to lead the McGuire
Center for Entrepreneurship.
Muzzy also provided financial support
and expertise for the college’s new
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Initiative, which is giving students an
advantage as they seek positions with
startup companies, small businesses,
established corporations or their own
ventures.
Also, Muzzy and his family funded the
remodel of a classroom in McClelland Hall,
which will be the hub of entrepreneurial
activity. Muzzy has hosted a table of
students at the college’s Executive of the
Year event, giving undergraduates and
LIBOR GRUBHOFFER
HONORARY DEGREE
Professor and Past Rector of the
University of South Bohemia
Doctor of Science
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
and College of Science
A parasitologist and biochemist, Libor
Grubhoffer has an international reputation
of excellence in his fields and extensive
history of collaboration and a partnership
with the University of Arizona.
As past rector (president) of the University
of South Bohemia – located in in Ceske
Budejovice, Czech Republic – a position he
held from 2012-2016, Grubhoffer helped
establish programs that internationalize
university students’ education and
strengthens cooperation between his
university, other universities, and the
Czech Academy of Sciences Institutes.
That spirit of collaboration began in 1989
when Grubhoffer accepted a postdoctoral
position with Michael Wells, a UA
biochemistry professor. Grubhoffer worked
with students in the UA Undergraduate
Biology Research Program, and was key in
the development of a National Institutes
of Health proposal to fund international
undergraduate research experiences.
Upon return to the Czech Republic,
Grubhoffer became a foreign mentor for
the UA’s Biomedical Research Abroad:
Vistas Open (BRAVO!) Program. He hosted
eight UA undergraduate BRAVO! students
and one faculty member. The University
of South Bohemia has maintained an
international memorandum of agreement
with the UA since 1993, and Grubhoffer has
facilitated placement of UA undergraduates
in laboratories with Czech scientists. In the
summer of 2015, he made it possible for 10
UA undergraduates to work in laboratories
with Czech scientists, as a part of the
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Honorary Degrees and Awards
CHRISTOPHER JABCZYNSKI
Prozkoumat! (Explore) Program.
workshops on interview preparation.
Grubhoffer established a double bachelor’s
degree program and a joint master’s degree
program of Biological Chemistry with
Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria,
and a new bachelor of bioinformatics
program with that institution in 2012.
More than 100 degrees have been granted
through these programs. He also has
been successful in making significant
improvements to the University of South
Bohemia campus infrastructure by
securing funds to build new facilities.
Christopher has been actively involved at
the University. In the student chapter of the
American Institute for Chemical Engineers,
Christopher served as both a member
and an officer. In 2015, Christopher was
president of the UA chapter of the National
Honor Society for Chemical Engineering,
Omega Chi Epsilon.
Grubhoffer’s scientific expertise is in the
biochemistry and molecular biology of
disease vectors. He maintains a research
laboratory at the Czech Academy of
Sciences Institute of Parasitology and
has secured 15 externally funded grants,
including 10 that involved international
projects. He has authored 120 scientific
articles and serves on a variety of scientific
and advisory boards.
LORENE FISHER
Grubhoffer received a master’s degree from
Charles University in Prague and a doctoral
degree from the Institute of Microbiology
of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
CHRISTOPHER
JABCZYNSKI
PROVOST AWARD
TRAVIS SAWYER
DANA KRALICEK
Graduating in May 2016, Christopher
Jabczynski will earn a Bachelor of Science
in chemical engineering from the College
of Engineering. This non-traditional
student is a Chicago native with a
strong passion for math and science.
Before transferring to the University of
Arizona, Christopher took classes at Pima
Community College, where he was further
inspired and emboldened to be an engineer
and share his love of science with others.
Following his classwork at Pima,
Christopher became involved in outreach,
tutoring, and mentorship, which he
continued at the University of Arizona.
Christopher served the Arizona community
as an Engineering Ambassador at the UA
College of Engineering. This position
allowed him to provide guidance and
information to incoming high school and
transfer students, in addition to running
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Outside of his academic and leadership
activities, Christopher has participated
in many research opportunities. He
received the prestigious NASA Space
Grant Internship, which allowed him to
work in the lab of Dr. Anthony Muscat
on projects related to the semiconductor
industry. Christopher also worked with Dr.
Paul Blowers on big data projects related
to student access to material in a flipped
classroom model, receiving numerous
grants from the Honors College for this
work.
In addition, he has received fellowships to
pursue reactor design from the National
Collegiate Honors Council, and the North
Atlantic Salmon Federation. Christopher
has had numerous internships, with
the most recent at the Dial Corporation,
which led to a utility patent for a soap
formulation.
After graduation, Christopher plans to
pursue employment in the consumer goods
industry, while pursuing his graduate
degree in chemical engineering
LORENE FISHER
ROBIE MEDAL
Lorene Fisher, from Chino, California, will
graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
dance from the College of Fine Arts, with
minors in business administration and
Africana Studies. Studying at one of the
top dance programs in the nation attracted
Lorene to the University of Arizona, but
the added bonus of attending a university
that offered a multitude of top programs,
allowing her to pursue the duality and
versatility she was looking for academically
– dance, business, and Africana studies
– sealed her decision. Lorene received
a merit scholarship to the UA School of
Dance, and an Arizona Excellence Tuition
ROBIE GOLD MEDALS
These medals and a cash award were given by the late Wendell T. Robie of the
Class of 1917 and Inez Benzie Robie of the Class of 1916 of the University of
Arizona. Robie was president of Heart Federal Savings and Loan Association
in Auburn, California.
Qualifications for this award include personal integrity, initiative, cooperativeness, enthusiasm, humility, well-rounded interests, active participation
in student affairs, service to the University, willingness to give more than
required, and love of God and country.
scholarship. She has performed in School
of Dance performances, African American
Advisory Council events, and was among
select dancers honored with performing
in a commercial for Hughes Federal
Credit Union.
Arizona, pursuing a master’s degree at the
Center for the Study of Higher Education,
and serving as a graduate community
director for Residence Life.
Living on campus her freshman year
exposed Lorene to dynamics that
both contributed to and inhibited
student achievement. This experience
ignited a passion in Lorene, which
led to involvement in Student Affairs,
specifically Residence Life. Lorene
enthusiastically served as Hall Council
president her freshman year and as a
resident assistant the following two
years, earning regional and national
recognition including RA of the Year.
In addition, she received leadership
awards, top program commendations
and acknowledgment for winning case
studies. Lorene serves as the 2015-16
Residence Hall Association’s National
Communications Coordinator and has
been instrumental in the University’s
Residence Hall Association, receiving
numerous honors, including 2015 School
of the Year. Additionally, she serves as
an Academic Skills Tutor for the UA
Think Tank, mentoring diverse groups
of students and promoting academic
success and lifelong learning.
ROBIE MEDAL
Lorene is a member of the National
Residence Hall Honorary, Omicron Delta
Kappa Honor Society, Elgie M. Batteau
Honor Society, the National Society
of Collegiate Scholars, and a Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., where she
is a National Leadership Fellow and has
held the positions of chapter president
and Intermountain Region Cluster
Coordinator. She also earned Greek Life’s
Outstanding Campus Involvement honor,
exemplifying, “Service to All Mankind.”
Lorene actively serves the Tucson
community, volunteering for
organizations such as Tucson Clean and
Beautiful, Tucson Unified School District,
and Jack and Jill of America, and she
attends Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist
Church.
After graduation, Lorene will embark on
a new journey here at the University of
TRAVIS SAWYER
Travis Sawyer, a Tucson native, initially
enrolled in college with an interest in
astronomy. However, a misdiagnosis
of leukemia his freshman year quickly
altered Travis’ plans. Following a
semester of extensive testing and
exposure to medical optics, he realized
that his passion was to pursue a career
researching and developing optical
technology to benefit the lives of others.
From this, he chose to pursue optical
engineering at the College of Optical
Sciences, where he will graduate summa
cum laude, and as valedictorian, with a
Bachelor of Science in optical sciences
and engineering.
As an undergraduate, Travis participated
in a wide range of research activities,
earning number of scholarships and
honors. Working with Dr. Robert
Erdmann, formerly of the materials
science department, Travis conducted
image processing research for over three
years, analyzing artwork using different
wavelengths of light such as infrared,
ultraviolet, and X-rays, which led to the
authentication of several paintings.
After teaching himself programming,
Travis began a software business
primarily working with systems
administration and algorithm
engineering. An avid traveler, he spent
a summer in Holland to expand his
company, and studied abroad in Stuttgart,
Germany, working to design and analyze
novel laser illumination systems. Travis
received the Goldwater Scholarship and
the Astronaut Scholarship for his efforts,
which are widely considered to be the
most competitive STEM scholarships in
the country.
Travis’ passion led him to become
involved with the University of Arizona
Student Optics Chapter, acting as
outreach coordinator and an Optics
Ambassador. In these roles, he organized
and participated in events focused on
introducing younger students to career
opportunities in STEM. Furthermore,
he helped expand undergraduate
involvement in research by mentoring
students with projects, working with
the Honors College to award grants,
and providing advice to nationally
competitive scholarship applicants.
As a recipient of the Churchill
Scholarship, Travis will pursue a Master’s
degree in physics at the University of
Cambridge, England, before continuing
on to pursue his Ph.D in optics.
DANA KRALICEK
NUGENT AWARD
Dana Kralicek will graduate summa
cum laude from the Honors College
with a Bachelor of Science in optical
sciences and engineering, and a minor
in mathematics. Dana has received
numerous academic accolades including
Dean’s List with highest academic
distinction, and departmental honors for
optical science. Dana was also selected for
the Center for Integrated Access Networks
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, the
Jack D. Gaskill Endowed Scholarship, and
the Clarence P. Wilson Scholarship.
Originally from Mesa, Arizona, Dana
enthusiastically participated in the
UA community through the Arizona
Ambassadors Honorary as vice president
and historian, Tau Beta Pi National
Engineering Honor Fraternity, and the
Student Optics Chapter as social chair.
While at the UA, Dana has worked as a
research assistant in a psycholinguistics
lab studying the effects of language
learning on the executive control of the
brain. Additionally, she has worked in a
bio-optics lab in Bio5 Institute, where she
researched labeling techniques used to
image colon cancer, and most recently as
a National Science Foundation – funded
research fellow in the Quantum Nanooptics of Semiconductors group, where
she studied the optical properties of novel
semiconductor structures.
During her summers, Dana participated
in a National Science Foundation,
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 11
ROBERT LOGAN NUGENT AWARDS
These awards were established by the Alumni Association in 1964 and
are named in memory of Robert Logan Nugent, who was the executive
vice president of the University of Arizona when he died in June of 1963.
Nugent served Tucson and the University for more than 30 years and
was particularly devoted to guiding and helping Arizona’s young men
and women. He earned his Master of Science in 1925 at the University of
Arizona, was a professor of chemistry, dean of the Graduate and Liberal
Arts colleges and vice president before being named to the second
highest post at the University.
Candidates should have a record of accomplishments that exemplify
Nugent’s high ideals, such as active and enthusiastic participation
and service in community and University endeavors.
Honorary Degrees and Awards
international Research Experience for
Undergraduates Program through the
University of Michigan. There she worked
developing biomedical microfluidic
systems at the Laboratoire d’Optique
et Biosciences, École Polytechnique,
France, as well as interning for the
Optical Engineering group at MIT Lincoln
Laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts.
FABIO MIRE
Dana volunteers for optics outreach, judges
local science fairs, and recently started a
mentoring program. Dana was chosen as
the student representative for the Pac-12’s
“Conference of Champions” documentary,
and has been featured as a speaker in
various international highlights through
the Optical Society.
After finishing her second internship
with MIT Lincoln Laboratory this summer,
Dana plans on continuing her research
and education by pursuing a Doctor
of Philosophy, focusing in optics and
bio-materials to make portable medical
diagnostic equipment.
SHIVANI MISRA
FABIO MIRE
NUGENT AWARD
Fabio Mire is graduating summa cum
laude this May from the Eller College of
Management with a Bachelor of Science
in business administration. He is the
recipient of the Fielding-Singh Award
and was named Eller’s Outstanding
Collegiate Scholar of the Year. He was
also named an Eller’s Top 50 Hispanics
Scholar, and a National Hispanic Scholar.
He has been recognized on the dean’s list
with distinction.
ADAM GEYER
Fabio has been involved in many
organizations since freshman year. He
has held eight leadership positions over
the past three years, including president
of the Eller Leadership Board, president of
the Financial Management Association,
student body treasurer, and founder/
director of the Wall Street Scholars
Program. In addition, he maintained a
job at Modular Mining Systems in the
Corporate Finance department. Fabio has
also enjoyed mentoring students both
at the University, where he’s mentored
over 70 students, and through the
Be A Leader Foundation. Be A Leader
Foundation is an organization dedicated
to providing guidance and mentorship
12 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
to disadvantaged, inner-city high school
seniors in the city of Phoenix.
As an active participant all four years
in Eller’s Make a Difference Day, a day
focused on giving back to the community
by volunteering and supporting
many philanthropic causes, Fabio has
participated in activities ranging from
Ben’s Bells to landscape work for a Tucson
elementary school. He has also volunteered
to assist in other Eller events including
the Cohort Onboarding and the Eller
Millionaire Mile.
During his sophomore summer, Fabio
interned at the Tempe campus of Edward
Jones. This past summer, he interned in the
Investment Banking Division of Deutsche
Bank in New York. These opportunities
have helped Fabio secure a position
following graduation.
Post graduation, Fabio will be moving to
New York to begin his career with Bank of
America Merrill Lynch in the Investment
Banking Division.
SHIVANI MISRA
FREEMAN MEDAL
Shivani Misra will graduate from the
Honors College with a Bachelor of Science
in neuroscience and cognitive science, with
a development and aging emphasis, and
minors in public health and biochemistry,
and a certificate in developmental
disabilities. She is a Flinn Scholar, a Galileo
Scholar, and the Most Outstanding Senior
for both her department and the College of
Science.
Shivani is a first- generation American who
is passionate about making this world a
better place. She is interested in maternal
and child health and sits on the Board of
Directors for the Southern Arizona Division
of the March of Dimes. She has conducted
many social awareness campaigns,
including one she organized in the slums
of Odisha, India, to generate awareness
about the importance of proper nutrition
and folic acid intake during pregnancy.
Shivani aspires to decrease the stigma and
eliminate the disparity associated with
disability. As a Sonoran University Center
for Excellence in Disabilities Education,
Research and Service trainee, she teaches
MERRILL P. FREEMAN MEDALS
In his will, Merrill Freeman, who died in 1919, provided for two medals to
be awarded annually to students selected by the administration of the University of Arizona. Born in 1844 in Ohio, Freeman moved west, was a Wells
Fargo agent and worked in mining and banking. He served the University of
Arizona as a regent and as a chancellor and received an honorary doctorate
in law from the University.
Pilates and movement to students from
the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind.
She is also a research assistant in Dr.
Jamie Edgin’s Memory Development and
Disorders and Down Syndrome Research
Group labs. There she completed her
honors thesis about how inefficient sleep
of infants with Down syndrome affects
their language outcomes. Additionally,
she spent three months in Melbourne,
Australia, conducting research at the
Royal Children’s Hospital.
On campus, she is an ambassador for
the College of Science, neuroscience and
cognitive science, the Undergraduate
Biology Research Program, the Pre-MD
group, and the Honors College. Through
these avenues, Shivani tries to bridge the
gap between science and the community.
She has hosted outreach events and given
presentations at various venues. She
helped create a peer mentoring program
within her major, and helped set up the
annual show Symbiosis, an art showcase
representing the coalescence of art and
science.
Shivani is thrilled to continue learning
and helping the world at the University of
Arizona College of Medicine — Phoenix,
where she will pursue an MD/MPH.
ADAM GEYER
FREEMAN MEDAL
Adam Geyer will graduate with a Bachelor
of Science in neuroscience and cognitive
science with a minor in music. An
Arizona native from Phoenix, Adam was
attracted to the University of Arizona by
the unique neuroscience program, as
well as the pride that the entire Tucson
community has in the institution.
Qualifications include outstanding qualities of manhood or womanhood
and moral force of character. Additional factors, which may be considered,
are popularity, receipt of athletic awards, membership in organizations, and
service on committees and as officers.
Adam found his niche in Greek Life,
serving on the Interfraternity Council
as the vice president of membership
and then as president. During his two
terms on the IFC, Adam oversaw and
executed the formalization of the fall
fraternity recruitment process, which
allowed 87% of potential new members to
receive an invitation to join a fraternity,
compared with 40% in previous years. In
recognition of his efforts and leadership
in the Greek community, Adam was
named 2015 Greek Person of the Year.
This past year, Adam served as a member
of the Bobcats Senior Honorary and as
chapter president of his fraternity, Pi
Kappa Alpha. As president, he and his
executive board were able to eliminate
the organization’s $80,000 debt, and
improve their chapter’s Standards of
Excellence score from 70% to 99%. He
also oversaw the Lute Olson Cancer
Center Run, where he helped expand
the event to include corporate sponsors,
which raised $35,000 for the Arizona
Cancer Center.
In the community, Adam has volunteered
at University Medical Center and the
Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse,
and coaches a baseball team in Tucson
Mountain Little League.
After graduation, Adam will spend the
summer in Budapest as an Atlantis
Program fellow before returning to
Arizona to study for the MCAT and work
on his medical school applications.
Adam’s involvement on campus started
early with his participation in student
government. He became the first
freshman to be selected to the ASUA
Appropriations Board, where he served as
a director for two years before becoming
ASUA’s state affairs director. As state
affairs director, Adam helped spearhead
the student-run “It’s On Us” campaign
to raise awareness of sexual assault on
campus.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 13
Graduation with Honors
The University of Arizona Honors College offers admission to a highly selective group of
academically distinguished students. Students who graduate with honors are awarded
a gold medallion to wear at the Commencement ceremony. Graduation with Honors
signifies that students have satisfied 18 to 30 hours of honors academic work, earned
a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or greater, and completed a senior honors thesis, design
project or capstone experience. The honors academic experience is more exploratory,
experimental and open-ended than the usual classroom experiences. Honors academic
work enables students to engage the material in more depth, to actively participate in
scholarly and creative processes, and to personalize their learning through imaginative,
critical and applied experiences.
Special opportunities provided to honors students include: unique classes,
independent study projects, small group discussions, topic-centered colloquia,
informal interaction between faculty and students outside the classroom, funding
for undergraduate research, one-on-one preparation for graduate and professional
school, and advising for students interested in nationally competitive scholarships
and fellowships. Graduates of the University of Arizona Honors College are highly
successful. The majority of students graduating with honors go on to professional
or graduate schools; the rest immediately enter the workforce in such fields as
architecture, engineering, and teaching.
Maryam Abdul-Wahid
Natalie Abu Hamdan
Berenice Acosta
Gabriel Acosta
Jaynie Adams
Ruben Adkins-Rieck
Marwah Ahmad
Jaslean Ahuja
Clarice Ainscow
Katelyn Alcantara
Maryam Al-Dabbagh
Nicolas Alexandre
Nina Ameli
Brenda Anaya
Darya Anderson
John Andrews
Ella Anguiano
Clara Apodaca-Welch
Scott Appleby
Brianna Aragaki
Reyna Araibi
Marie Archibald
Julio Arias
Mario Aubert-Vasquez
Alana Augur
Paulluvi Bahl
Aanika Balaji
Bryan Balcerzak
Brian Balch
Alexandra Barbosa
Sergio Barrera
Daniel Barsetti-Nerland
Jennifer Battista
Ryan Baxter
Thomas Bello
Whit Bennett
Emeeh Ofelia Benson
Lorela Berberi
Ryan Bergsma
Jose Bermudez Rodriguez
Kaitlin Bianchi
Jerome Biedny
Arya Bina
Andrew Bitzko
Ayana Blackey
Jacob Blacutt
Angela Blanks-Bennett
Aidan Blum
Cory Boone
Alyssa Bowles
Cherise Brashear
Nathan Brooks
Aaron Brussels
Katherine Bullock
Katrina Bunyard
Nyssa Burdick
Brandon Burgman
Sarah Burkey
Katherine Burrell
Andrew Byron
Mariela Cabrera
Elisa Calabrese
Serena Campas
Brooke Campbell
Jonathan Carlson
Kendall Carpenter
John Casey
Salina Castillo
Gregory Castro
Christopher Chan
Julie Charlton
Jacqueline Chau
Emily Chavez
Or Chay
Isabelle Chea
Irene Cheff
Dailu Chen
Zhaoren Chen
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Janine Clark
Meara Clark
Jacob Clubb
Jake Cohen
Courtney Collingwood
Danielle Cooney
Sibyl Cornell
Kevin Cornett
Samuel Cotter
Christopher Crawford
David Crosby
Maya Cross-Killingsworth
Dominique Cruz
Karen Cruz
Michael Cullan
Marietta Cummings
Arthur Dai
Andrew D’Arcangelis
Kayla Darris
Shruti Dasgupta
Swetaleena Dash
Sarah Datri
Riyasha Daulat
McKenzie Davis
Sarah Davis
James DeAguero
Natalie DeBolske
Annastasia Debolt
Kenneth Decker
Charles Deibel
Gregory Depaul
Arianne DePauli
Xander Deputy
Gurman Dhaliwal
Jocelyn Di Nolfi
Jennifer DiLallo
Carrie Dittmer
Davina Dobbins
Sheila Dong
Yuval Dor
Austin Dougless
Alice Dowd
Alexandra Downs
Jessica Draper
Jonathan Dwyer
Chelsey Earnhart
Lauren Edwards
Glenn Elms
Teri Elwood
Meryl Engle
Mara Erhardt
Anthony Eulano
Nicolas Fajardo
JunLiang Fan
Kiah Farr
Abbie Feller
Tiffany Feller
Vanessa Fernandez
Logan Fickling
Dana Fischer
Regan Fitzgerald
Elyse Flores
Jackson Fogerty
Martin Forstrom
Rachel Francher
Heather Francisco
Alexandra Franklin
Emily Franklin
Leyton Galapia
Walter Garay Sandoval
Michelle Gary
Adriana Garza
Sierrane Grace Gatela
Kevin Gee
Rebecca Geren
Jeffrey Gerlach
Yarah Ghotmi
Hayley Gibler
Xaviere Giroud
Alexandra Glandon
Kyle Goble
Alison Gondosch
Phillip Gotobed
Alyssa Goya
Andrew Granatstein
Amanda Greer
McKenzie Grenfell
Kaitlyn Griffin
Taylor Guidry
Ariane Guthrie
Alexander Guyton
Stephanie Guzman
Abigail Guzman-Grass
Angela Haddon
Autri Hafezi
Nikki Hall
Rachel Hansen
Hanna Hard
Justin Hardin
Melissa Harnois
Berkley Harris
Elizabeth Harris
Samantha Harrow
Tynan Hartzell
Denton Hatch
Nicholas Havey
Kyle Hawkins
Dominic Hayden
Timothy Hefferan
Chloe Heinemann
Edgardo Hernandez
Ernesto Hernandez
Brianna Herndon
Shannon Higgins
Tyler Hoelscher
Lauren Hoepfner
Ryan Hofmann
Courtney Holbrook
Joshua Hoskinson
Anh Hua
Annie Huang
Reed Hubbell
Amber Hunt
Nathaniel Husband
Dylan Hutchison
Mina Hutchison
Criston Hyett
Ali Icenogle
Patt Intarakamhang
Kacie Ireland
Andrew Isaac
Harrison Ivie
Chloe Jackson
Tesneem Jalal Tamimi
Virginia James
Suzanna Jeffries
Paulina Jenney
Tatiana Jerome
Chen Jiang
Mykella Jones
Alex Jouflas
Bianca Kao
Tamar Kaplan
Jennifer Kennard
Hunter Kennedy
Ali Khaghani
Eunhye Kim
Jun-Young Kim
Lily Kim
Heather Kincaid
Tonya King
Daniel Kitts
Michael Klebosky
Dylan Kline
Koustubh Kondapalli
Claire Konen
Lynn Konrad
Audrey Koomar
Adele Koutia
Dana Kralicek
Aline Kraus
Katarina Krstic
Laura Kurtzberg
Bailey Lahtinen
Alexandros Lambdin
Susan Lanzel
Chloe Larkin
Kate LaRue
Colin Lasharr
Emma Lathrop
Eli Lavoie-Higgins
Michael Lazar
Spencer Lee
Dustin Leighty
David Leister
Dominic Leonard
Sophia Leone
Kexin Li
Jacob Likens
Thomas Lo Greco
Paola Lopez
Nico Lorenzen
Kevin Luke
Bianca Luna
Murey Luna Torres
Nicholas Lyons
Alejandro Macias Sustaita
Crystal Maciel
Corina MacIsaac
Edward Mackay
Sarah MacKenzie
Mariana Manriquez
Katie Marascio
Fausto Mares-Davila
David Mariotte
Jessie Marman
Craig Marshall
Jennifer Martin
Alaina Martinez
Emily Masterson
Kevin Mauerman
Alex Mayer
Angelica McCarron
Brandon McCraw
Mary McIntosh
Sarah Menchaca
Alexander Miller
Fabio Mire
Shivani Misra
Jennifer Monroe
Acacia Moore
Courtney Moore
Marissa Moreno
Pablo Mosqueira
Jeremy Mowery
Caitlyn Myrdal
Sasikanth Nagisetty Ravi
Laura Nakolan
Richa Nathaniel
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 15
Graduation with Honors
Joseph Neely
China Rae Newman
Christie Nguyen
Dieu My Nguyen
Erik Nguyen
George Nguyen
Kyle Nguyen
Minhkhoi Nguyen
Casandra Nyhuis
Tolulope Obafemi
Samwel Ochieng
Ryan O’Connell
Haley Odom
Jacquelyn Oesterblad
Connor O’Hare
Jordan Olmstead
Ashley O’Neal
Jennifer O’Neal
Zujaila Ornelas
Dominic Palazzola
Karina Paredes
Joshua Paree
Jenna Parker
Kaitlyn Parks
Andrew Parsons
Surbhi Patel
Nicole Paulat
Sheridan Pearson
Rebecca Peiffer
Nadine Peinovich
Vanessa Peña
Christina Petsas
Andre Pettman
Brenda Picasso
Amy Pitman
Cassandra Popeski
David Porfirio
Anshula Prasad
Victoria Preciado
Alexander Prescott
Aaron Pressley
Casey Primeau
Megan Pritchard
April Proft
Erin Przybylinski
Weslin Pullen
Adrianna Pulver
Jasper Puracan
Senovia Quihuis
Jenna Radomski
Molly Ragan
Victoria Ramirez
Lucille Randazzo
Victoria Raught
Julianne Ray
Olivia Ray
Cecilia Read
Jaycee Reidhead
Mara Rembelski
Kristina Rivera
Katie Roch
Alexa Rodriguez
Valerie Rodriguez
Tierra Roller
Amanda Romaine
Iliana Rosas
Emily Rose
Joel Rose
Joelle Roup
Brittany Rudolph
Amanda Ruiz
David Rutgers
Elizabeth Ryder
Alexandra Sackett
Liliana Saldana
Catherine Salgado
Savannah Sanchez
Ivraj Sandhu
Jason Sandler
Anna Sanova
Travis Sawyer
Sarah Saxton
Lindsey Schader
Anna Schamberg
Grace Schau
Adam Schmitt
Jessica Schulte
Brittany Schultz
Nicole Schwalbe
Hayley Schwartz
Amanda Schwarz
William Scott
Anthony Seago
Sarina Sedgwick
Anna Seghezzo
Giulia Seghezzo
Hojin Seo
Alyscia Severance
Dalton Shade
Megan Shearer
Emily Sheen
Kelly Shim
Savannah Shope
Erica Shroff
Jasper Louie Sia
Rebecca Simon
Sky Sobol
Emily Soderberg
Kayla Sonderman
Vanessa Springer
Kathleen Stack
Joshua Stafford
Ryan Stelzer
Jon Stephens
Aubry Stitt
Jule Streety
Donald Sutton
Mischa Szymanski
Siddhant Talwar
Dustin Jed Tanada
16 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Katherine Tanaka
Maryam Tanbal
Shaun Tay
Michael Taylor
Jason Teich
Alyssa Thomas
Shelby Thomas
Jeremy Thompson
Nancy Tiet
Brendan Tinoco
Jason Tokos
Alexis-Jane Torre
Tyler Toth
Victoria Tozer
Claire Tritz
Obumneke Ugbor
Joshua Uhlorn
Mounica Urity
Luis Valdez Soto
Danielle Valencia
Marco Valentine
Mary Vaughan
Victoria Vnuk
Karyn Vo
Laura Vonessen
Brenna Wagner
Mitchell Wagner
Jill Wallitschek
Nyla Wambold
Connor Wasz
Matthew Watson
Rachel Wehr
Tanner Weigel
Savanna Weninger
Janelle Westbrook
Alexandra Westerband
Alisha Whelan
Fabian Wildenstein
Jean Wilkening
Kaitlyn Williams
Alyssa Willis
Elizabeth Willis
Abigail Wirth
Jacob Witt
Timothy Wolfe
Samanntha Wood
Trevor Woodhouse
Ben Wu
Tian Xue
Sierra Yamanaka
Luke Yarnall
Michael Young
Rebeccah Yterdal
Taylor Zadonowicz
William Zandler
Jacqueline Zappia
Zola Zermeno
Felicia Zerwas
Brianna Zittlosen
DOCTORAL
DEGREES
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DEGREES
CONFERRED
FALL 2015
EDUCATION SPECIALISTS
Krystin Michelle
Erchenbrecher
SPECIAL EDUCATION
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS
Abram Cornelius Edewards, III
MUSIC
Thomas R. Cockrell, Ph.D., Music
“Dieu est au-dessus de nous”: A Study of the
Worldview of Verdi’s Marquis de Posa from
the Opera Don Carlos through Music, Text and
Historical Context
Alice Generalow
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
The Orthodox Concert Stage: Performing
Rachmaninoff’s All-night Vigil Op. 37 in a
Liturgical Style
Gregory P Guenther
MUSIC
Kristin E. T. Dauphinais, D.M.A., Music
An Analysis and Performance Manual of John
Musto’s Chamber Music for Baritone: River
Songs (2002) and The Brief Light (2010)
Martin J. Van Klompenberg
MUSIC
William D. Dietz, D.M.A., Music
Characteristics of the School of British Bassoon
Music of the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century,
with Analysis of Representative Works
Jose Leonardi Moore
MUSIC
Theodore O. Buchholz, Ph.D., Music
An Analysis and Performance Editions of Five
Puerto Rican Danzas for String Quartet
DOCTOR OF
NURSING PRACTICE
Maria Chavez
NURSING
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
Improving Diabetes Care in Family Care
Practice: A Quality Improvement Project
Mirandine Fitchette
NURSING
Kate Goggin Sheppard, Ph.D. Nursing
Seclusion Practice in Psychiatric Nursing:
Assessing Nurses’ Attitudes
Ashley Jones
Catherine Samuel-Ojo
NURSING
NURSING
Lorraine (Lori) Martin Plank, Ph.D.,
Nursing
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
Improving the Management of Obesity in a
Rural Community
Leila Kissick
NURSING
The Influence of Pain Self-Management
Education on the Prevalence of Opioid
Prescription among Patients with Chronic
Non-Cancer Pain: An Agent-Based Modeling
Simulation
Terry A. Badger, Ph.D., Nursing
Hilary Smith
An Educational Framework for Doctorally
Prepared Family Nurse Practitioners
Janet C. DuBois, DNP, Nursing
Melinda Klug
NURSING
Shu-fen Wung, Ph.D., Nursing
Atrial Fibrillation in Rural Adults: An Inpatient
Evaluation of Clinical Guidelines Adherence
Elizabeth Knight
NURSING
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
Symptom Trajectories After Emergency
Department Visits for Potential Acute Coronary
Syndrome
Carrie Lopez
NURSING
Janet C. DuBois, DNP, Nursing
Primary Care Provider Knowledge of the
Prevention, Screening, and Management of
Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in Adolescent
Athletes
Rubria Marines-Price
NURSING
Kathleen C. Insel, Ph.D., Nursing
Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Dyspnea
on Exertion in Young Obese Women
Julie McPherson
NURSING
NURSING
Attitudes and Beliefs of Nurse Practitioners
to Augment Breast Cancer Screening with
Ultrasonography
Daria Szelag
NURSING
Gloanna J. Peek, Ph.D., Nursing
Development and Evaluation of an Education
Tool on Infant Feeding for Childhood Obesity
Prevention
Amanda Tong
NURSING
Gloanna J. Peek, Ph.D., Nursing
Brilliant Baby Brainiacs (BBB) - Pediatric
Brain Tumors: Assessing Healthcare Provider
Knowledge
Jill Weinstein
NURSING
Cathleen L. Michaels, Ph.D., RN, FAAN,
Nursing
Heather Carlisle, Ph.D., DPN, Nursing
Evaluation of a Survey of Current Clinical and
Opioid Prescribing Practices in the Treatment
of Chronic Non-Terminal Pain in Arizona
Kati Wijdenes
NURSING
Terry A. Badger, Ph.D., Nursing
Lorraine (Lori) Martin Plank, Ph.D.,
Nursing
Compassion Fatigue Prevalence in an Urban
Trauma Center
Evaluating the Need for Early Stage Alzheimer’s
Disease Patient-Caregiver Dyad Support Groups
in Rural Washington
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
James Mulholland
NURSING
Lorri Marie Phipps, Ph.D., Nursing
Developing a Bicycle Helmet Program for an
Urban Pediatric Emergency Department
Tracy Nguyen
NURSING
John Agudelo
HYDROMETEOROLOGY
Francina Dominguez, Ph.D., Atmospheric
Sciences, Hydrology and Water Resources
On the Hydroclimate of Southern South
America: Water Vapor Transport and the Role
of Shallow Groundwater on Land-Atmosphere
Interactions
Sheila M. Gephart, Ph.D., Nursing
Sarmad Albanna
Preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
Assessment of Advanced Practice Nurses’
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Current Practices
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Kimberly Rogers
NURSING
Lorraine (Lori) Martin Plank, Ph.D.,
Nursing
Health Care Providers’ Beliefs and Attitudes
towards Barriers to Medication Adherence in
an Outpatient Cardiology Clinic
18 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Milorad Cvijetic, Professor, Optical
Sciences, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Design, Characterization, and Implementation
of Optical Systems for Remote Sensing of the
Atmosphere and Astrophysical Objects
Rashid Aljalahema
Melanie Colavito
Elizabeth Ellis-Marino
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
GEOGRAPHY
HISTORY
Jeffrey B. Goldberg, Ph.D., Systems and
Industrial Engineering
Gary Christopherson, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Ph.D., History
Ute Lotz-Heumann, Ph.D., History
Answers to EMS Queries About Dynamic
Deployment: Fractile Performance, Cost, and
Management
The Role of Science in Collaborative Forest
Management
Politics, Nobility and Religion in an
Ecclesiastical State: Baronial Families in
Paderborn 1568 -1661
Jill Anderson
HIGHER EDUCATION
Regina J. Deil-Amen, Ph.D.,
Higher Education
Invisible Influence: New Forms of Cooling Out
in Community Colleges
Avinash Ayyalasomayajula
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Jonathan Vande Geest, Ph.D., Aerospace
and Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical
Engineering
A Computational Framework to Determine
the Mechanical Properties of Ocular Tissues,
and a Parametric Study on their Effects on the
Biomechanical Response of Lamina Cribrosa
William Corbin
Hsin-Chang Feng
CHEMISTRY
Zhiping Zheng, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chemical Transformations Supported by the
[Re6(μ3-Se)8]2+ Cluster Core
Amauri Coto
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Ali Bilgin, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Michael W. Marcellin, Ph.D., Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences
Crosstalk in Stereoscopic LCD 3-D Systems
SPANISH
Qingming Feng
Melissa A. Fitch, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
Homoafectividad y Nueva Izquierda en
America Latina
Dennis Crain
NURSING
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING
Jinhong Zhang, Ph.D.,
Mining and Geological Engineering
Apply Mine Tailings and Fly Ash as
Construction Materials for A Sustainable
Development
Alice Ferng
Ali Bilgin, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Adults’ Perception of Empathy when
Interacting with a Nursing Robot or a
Physically Present Nurse: A Randomized Noninferiority Comparison
Accelerated Radial Magnetic Resonance
Imaging: New Applications and Methods
Jacob Cramer
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Cardiac Organogenesis: 3D Bioscaffolds,
Bioenergetics and Regeneration
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Faten Yasser Halawi-Ghosn, Ph.D.,
Government and Public Policy
Michael Gehl
Hong Hua, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Strategies of Resistance
Design, Evaluation, and Extension of Serious
Games for Training in Mine Safety
Charles Davis, III
Benjamin Berman
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Leonard Brown
Paul Buehler
HISTORY
Ute Lotz-Heumann, Ph.D., History
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Ph.D., History
So That the Common Man May See What Kind
of Tree Bears Such Harmful Fruit: Defamation,
Dissent, and Censorship in the Holy Roman
Empire, ca. 1555-1648
Yu Cao
CHEMISTRY
Dominic V. McGrath, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Zain I. Khalpey, Ph.D.
Surgery, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Galina Khitrova, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
HIGHER EDUCATION
Controlling Light-Matter Interaction in
Semiconductors with Hybrid Nano-Structures
Gary D., Rhoades, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Saeideh Heshmati
Dream Defending, On-Campus and Beyond:
A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Contemporary
Student Organizing, the Social Movement
Repertoire, and Social Movement Organization
in College
Eric Ditzel
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
Todd D. Camenisch, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Molecular Engineering of Phthalocyanines as
OPV Materials
Exposure to Arsenite During Fetal
Development Increases Susceptibility to Fatty
Liver Disease and Alters Hepatic Transport
Jose Cardoza
Katherine Dungan
PSYCHOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY
T. Lee Ryan, Ph.D. Psychology
Barbara J. Mills, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, American Indian Studies
An FMRI Study of Complex Object and
Scene Discrimination: The Contributions of
Perirhinal Cortex, Hippocampus,and Temporal
Pole
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Mary M. McCaslin, Ph.D.,
Educational Psychology
Actions Speak Louder than Words: How Should
Attributional Feedback be Communicated
to Students in Classrooms for the Most
Achievement Gain?
Danielle Hiraldo
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
Robert A. Hershey-Lear, J.D., Law
Indigenous Self-Government under
State Recognition: Comparing Strategies
in Two Cases
Evan Jones
Religious Architecture and Borderland
Histories: Great Kivas in the Prehispanic
Central Southwest, 1000 to 1400 CE
Cecile Carlson
Emily Earl
OPTICAL SCIENCES
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Lars Furenlid, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Medical Imaging
Debora Levine-Donnerstein, Ph.D.,
Educational Psychology
AdaptiSPECT: A Preclinical Imaging System
I Still Play: Exploring Play and Creativity in
Early Adulthood Amongst Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, and Mathematic (STEAM)
Professionals
CHEMISTRY
Robin Polt, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Design and Synthesis of Neurologically Active
Glycopeptides for Neuroprotection and
Antinociception
Nikita Kirnosov
PHYSICS
Ludwik Adamowicz, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Modeling of Physical Systems
Using Explicitly Correlated Gaussian
Functions
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 19
As a member of one of the first graduating classes at the University of Arizona, Mercedes Shibell entered
the University as a freshman (matriculation No. 5) in 1891 at the age of 15. Married and widowed twice, she
became an early career woman. She studied domestic science in San Francisco and worked for the Y.W.C.A.
in food management for 35 years. Her work took her to France for two years during World War I, and later
to South America. In 1960, she was honored at the University’s 75th anniversary. She died in Tucson on
Sept. 14, 1965, at the age of 90.
David Klein
Rubria Marines-Price
Melia Miller-Oana
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
NURSING
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Nathan J. Cherrington, Ph.D.,
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kathleen C. Insel, Ph.D., Nursing
Erica L. Corral, Ph.D.,
Materials Science and Engineering
Nucleoside Transport at the Blood-Testis
Barrier
Elizabeth Knight
NURSING
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
Symptom Trajectories After Emergency
Department Visits for Potential Acute Coronary
Syndrome
Ryan Leary
GEOSCIENCES
Peter G. DeCelles, Ph.D., Geosciences
Post-collisional Evolution of the IndiaAsia Suture Zone: Basin Development,
Paleogeography, Paleoaltimetry, and
Paleoclimate
Hui Leung
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Arthur F. Gmitro, Ph.D.,
Biomedical Engineering
Multimodal Imaging of Tumor
Microenvironment in Murine Window
Chamber Models using Optical, Magnetic
Resonance, and Nuclear Imaging Techniques
Sara Lewis
NEUROSCIENCE
Alan Nighorn, Ph.D., Neuroscience,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Functions of Drosophila Pak (p21-activated
kinase) in Morphogenesis: a Mechanistic
Model Based on Cellular, Molecular, and
Genetic Studies
Xing Liu
ECONOMICS
Ronald L. Oaxaca, Ph.D., Economics
Price V. Fishback, Ph.D., Economics
Three Essays on Labor Economics
Rene Love
NURSING
Terry A. Badger, Ph.D., Nursing
Resilience in Female Street Prostitutes
Thang Luong
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Christopher L. Castro, Ph.D.,
Atmospheric Sciences
Severe Weather During the North American
Monsoon and Its Response to Rapid
Urbanization and a Changing Global Climate
within the Context of High Resolution
Regional Atmospheric Modeling
Donglin Ma
PHYSICS
Rongguang Liang, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Dyspnea
on Exertion in Young Obese Women
Lilly Mathew
NURSING
Oxidation Behavior of Carbon and Ultra-High
Temperature Ceramics
Jamie Molaro
Barbara Brewer, Ph.D., Nursing
PLANETARY SCIENCES
Developing Content for an Online Virtual
Interactive Simulation Case for Cultural
Competency of Nursing Students in Caring for
Puerto Ricans in New York City: A Community
Based Participatory Research Approach
Shane Byrne, Ph.D., Planetary Sciences
Kayla Matz
BIOCHEMISTRY
Megan M. McEvoy, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
The Intricate Balance of Metal Trafficking
in Bacteria: Import of Iron in Bacillus
anthracis and Export of Excess Copper in
Escherichia coli
Elia Medina
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Rose M. Ylimaki, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Countering colonialism in border
communities: Education, leadership, and the
politics of multicultural recognition
Julie Messier
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Brian McGill, Ph.D., Natural Resources,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brian J. Enquist, Ph.D., Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Variation and Integration of Ecophysiological
Traits Across Scales in Tropical and Temperate
Trees: Patterns, Drivers and Consequences
Diana Meter
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Noel A. Card, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Stephen Russell, Ph.D., Family and
Consumer Sciences, Sociology
Aggressive, Assertive and Non-Confrontational
Forms of Defending: Differentiation of Forms
and Consequences of Defending
Alexander Miles
Stress, on the Rocks: Thermally Induced
Stresses in Rocks and Microstructures on
Airless Bodies, Implications for Breakdown
Enrique Montano
PHYSICS
Poul S. Jessen, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Quantum Control and Squeezing of Collective
Spins
Rewati Niraula
HYDROLOGY
Thomas Meixner, Ph.D.,
Hydrology and Water Resources
Understanding the Hydrological Response of
Changed Environmental Boundary Conditions
in Semi-Arid Regions: Role of Model Choice
and Model Calibration
Christine Palumbo
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Luis C. Moll, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural
Studies
Christine Tardy, Ph.D., English
Imagined Destinations: The Role of
Subjectivity and the Generative Potential of
Lived Experiences in Adult English Learners’
Paths to Fluency
Sara Parker
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Jean M. Wilson, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Crossed Wires: PKMzeta Antagonizes aPKC and
the Par Complex to Regulate Morphological
Polarity
Rajni Parmar
NURSING
Barbara Brewer, Ph.D., Nursing
Robert A. Norwood, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
A Study to Examine the Feasibility of an
Integrative Approach to Interventions in
Reducing Anxiety
Hybrid Optical Systems: From Nanometer To
Multi-Meter Scales
Nina Patrick
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Sally Miller
NURSING
Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, Ph.D., RN, Nursing
Tai Chi for Driving Health: Cognitive and
Physical Function Related to Safe Driving
Performance among Older Tai Chi Practitioners
Exploration of Ray Mapping Methodology
in Freeform Optics Design for Illumination
Engineering
20 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Catharine L. Smith, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
The Role of Lysine Deacetylases in
Glucocorticoid-Mediated Transcription
Mary Pierce
HISTORY
Laura E. Tabili, Ph.D., History
Controversy in Seventeenth-Century English
Coffeehouses: Transcultural Interactions with
an Oriental Import
On Thanksgiving Day 1899, the UA played its first intercollegiate game with the Tempe
Normal School (later to become ASU), which had a more seasoned team since it had
made an earlier start in football. Tempe won, 11-2, but the loyal local paper thought
the University “showed more skill and science … but lacked the physical strength …
the Tempe team outweighed the Tucson team by about one-third.”
Lauren Price
Gila Silverman
Hsin-wu Tseng
NURSING
ANTHROPOLOGY
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
Mark Nichter, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Public Health
Matthew Kupinski, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Mental Health Readmissions Among Veterans:
An Exploratory Endeavor Using Data Mining
Yi Qin
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Hong Hua, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
A Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparoscope
Jayci Robb
REHABILITATION
Michael T. Hartley, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Attitudinal Ableism: A Three-Study
Exploration into Attitudinal Barriers
Encountered by People with Mental Illness,
Substance Use, and Physical Disabilities
Complexities and Contradictions: Prayer,
Belief, Healing and Identity Among Liberal
American Jews
Task-Based Image Quality Assessment in X-Ray
Computed Tomography
Andrew VanSchoiack
CHEMISTRY
Lindsey Sloat
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Brian J. Enquist, Ph.D., Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Causes and Consequences of Plant Responses
to Environmental Change over Physiological,
Ecological, and Evolutionary Time
Lauren Slosky
MEDICAL PHARMOCOLOGY
William R. Montfort, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Vicki H. Wysocki, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mass Spectrometry: Toward Elucidating the
Biosignature of Coccidioidomycosis and
Insights into Surface Induced Dissociation of
Biologically Relevant Carbohydrates
Gregory Walth
Patrick W. Mantyh, Ph.D. Pharmacology
ASTRONOMY
William Rogers
Targeting the Cystine/Glutamate Antiporter
System xc- in Cancer-Induced Bone Pain
MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING
Jennifer Sonney
George H. Rieke, Ph.D.,
Astronomy, Planetary Sciences
Eiichi Egami, Ph.D., Astronomy
Characterizing the Star Forming Properties
of Herschel Detected Gravitationally Lensed
Galaxies
Mary M. Poulton, Ph.D.,
Mining and Geological Engineering,
Geosciences
Sean D. Dessureault, Ph.D.,
Mining and Geological Engineering
NURSING
Formal Assessment and Measurement of Data
Utilization and Value for Mines
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Kathleen C. Insel, Ph.D., Nursing
Mary Combs, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning
and Sociocultural Studies
Sheilah E. Nicholas, Ph.D., Teaching,
Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Genetic Influences on Executive Function and
Self-Regulation of Body Mass Index
Arghya Sain
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Kathleen Melde, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
A Study on the Effects of Ground Via Fences,
Embedded Patterned Layer, and Metal Surface
Roughness on Conductor Backed Coplanar
Waveguide
Basel Salahieh
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Rongguang Liang, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Jeffrey J. Rodriguez, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computational Imaging for Miniature Cameras
Sheila Sedig
HIGHER EDUCATION
Jenny Lee, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Jenny Lee, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Kathleen C. Insel, Ph.D., Nursing
Parent-Child Asthma Illness Representations
Philip Stevens
NURSING
Neeltut ni’’ilk’eh oltag: Perceptions and uses
of mathematics on the San Carlos Apache
reservation
Jordan Stone
Jerrold E. Hogle, Ph.D., English
Shakespeare’s Influence on the English Gothic,
1791-1834: The Conflicts of Ideologies
NURSING
Constraining the Initial Conditions and Final
Outcomes of Accretion Processes around
Young Stars and Supermassive Black Holes
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
George Stoval, III
An Ethnography: Burmese Refugees and Latent
Tuberculosis Infection
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Jin Wu
Iris Patten, Ph.D., Geography and
Development
Michael E. Staten, Ph.D., Family and
Consumer Sciences
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Scott R. Saleska, Ph.D., Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, Soil, Water and
Environmental Science
A Tale of Two Cities - San Francisco and
Tucson: The Effects of Retail Mix on the
Perceived Value of the City, Urban Identity, and
Willingness to Pay
How Do Tropical Forest Systems
Photosynthesize Under Seasonal Climate
Variability?: Insights from Tropical Phenology
Ryan Seebruck
John Greivenkamp, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Ophthalmology
Engineering Equality: The Organization of
Education Labor Markets and the Distribution
of Teacher Quality in Japan
ENGLISH
Joshua A. Eisner, Ph.D., Astronomy
John Sullivan
Joseph J. Galaskiewicz, Ph.D., Sociology
Jennifer Wiley
Deborah Williams
ASTRONOMY
Public Health Perspectives of Cultural
Competence
SOCIOLOGY
Sandra Wieland
Yiwen Xu
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Non-Null Interferometer for Testing of
Aspheric Surfaces
Sema Tan
Haitao Liao, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Reliability Analysis and Optimization of
Systems Containing Multi-Functional Entities
Matthew Yankowitz
PHYSICS
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Brian J. LeRoy, Ph.D., Physics
C. June Maker, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Local Probe Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional
van der Waals Heterostructures
Assessing Creative Problem Solving Ability in
Mathematics: Revising the Scoring System of
the Discover Mathematics Assessment
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 21
1900. Usual and accepted transportation for a student picnic at Sabino
Canyon in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains.
DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Kathy Carbonell
Xavier Janon
Stephanie Carroll Rainie
SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND
HEARING SCIENCES
ANIMAL SCIENCES
Huanping Dai, Ph.D.,
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Andrew B. Wedel, Ph.D., Linguistics,
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Dairy
Cooling Systems, their Cooling Efficiency and
Impact on Lactating Dairy Cow Physiology and
Performance
PUBLIC HEALTH
Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone, Ph.D., Public
Health, Anthropology
Promoting Family and Community Health
through Indigenous Nation Sovereignty
DEGREES
CONFERRED
WINTER 2015
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS
Robert Wesley Gillam
Individual Differences in Degraded Speech
Perception
Gregory Cohoon
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Robert A. Norwood, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Robert J. Collier, Ph.D., Animal Science
Mehrak Kamalisarvestani
NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Kamran Talattof, Ph.D.,
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Fabrication, Characterization, and Application
of Microresonators and Resonant Structures
Fictional Uncertainty in Modern Persian
Literature: Polyphony, Becoming, and
Ambiguity in Shahriar Mandanipour’s Work
Ufuk Coskun
Rachel Kraut
ANTHROPOLOGY
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
MUSIC
Jennifer Roth Gordon, Ph.D., Anthropology
Daniel Asia, M.M., Music
Job Search Among College Educated Americans
Musica Stellarum
Francis Dakubo
Kenneth I. Forster, Ph.D.,
Psychology, Linguistics
Janet L. Nicol, Ph.D., Psychology
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL
ENGINEERING
The Development of Second Language Reading
and Morphological Skills
Khalid Asadi
Jinhong Zhang, Ph.D.,
Mining and Geological Engineering
Jane R. Zavisca, Ph.D., Sociology
Vlad Kumirov
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING
MECHANICS
J. Guohong Duan, Ph.D., Civil Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics
Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation
of Vegetated Alluvial Channels
Peter Bailey
COMPUTER SCIENCE
David K. Lowenthal, Ph.D.,
Computer Science
Power-Constrained Performance in
Supercomputing
Elizabeth Balgord
GEOSCIENCES
Barbara Carrapa, Ph.D., Geosciences
Triassic to Neogene Evolution of the Andean
Retroarc: Neuquén Basin, Argentina
Sustainable Mining-Solving the Problem of
Chalcopyrite Treatment/Processing- Leaching,
Solvent Extraction and Flotation
Stephanie Dinner
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Michael Sulkowski, Ph.D., Disability and
Psychoeducational Studies
Peer Victimization in Schools: The Roles of
Sociometric Status and Social Skills Deficits
CHEMISTRY
Matthew Cordes, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mechanisms and Consequences of Evolving a
New Protein Fold
Yue Li
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Peter L. Chesson, Ph.D.,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Biodiversity in a Dynamic World: How
Environmental Variability Influences
Coexistence between Introduced and Native
Species
Krishna Muralidharan, Ph.D.,
Materials Science and Engineering
Millie Logan
Surface Engineering and Synthesis of
Graphene and Fullerene Based Nanostructures
Terry A. Badger, Ph.D., Nursing
Tony Gnanaprakasa
NURSING
PHYSICS
The Influence of Generational Age on
Faith’s Role in the Health Beliefs of
African-American Women
J. R. Jokipii, Ph.D.,
Planetary Sciences, Astronomy
Adoum Mahamat
Peridynamic Modeling of Hyperelastic
Materials
Multi-Fluid Problems in
Magnetohydrodynamics with Applications to
Astrophysical Processes
James T. Schwiegerling, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Opthalmology
Annette Bhatia
Michael Harman
Dong Bang
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Erdogan Madenci, Ph.D.,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
HIGHER EDUCATION
Jenny Lee, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
The Cosmopolitan Guru: Non-native Indian
Faculty Career Trajectory in Western Countries
Mette Brogden
ANTHROPOLOGY
Mark Nichter, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Public Health
Refugee Odysseys: an Ethnography of Refugee
Resettlement in the U.S. after 9-11
Eric Greenfield
OPTICAL SCIENCES
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Design, Simulation, and Optimization of an
RGB Polarization Independent Transmission
Volume Hologram
Charles Wolgemuth, Ph.D.,
Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Christopher Martínez
The Biophysical Mechanisms of Bacterial and
Cellular Invasion
William Ingersoll
ECONOMICS
Stanlely S. Reynolds, Ph.D., Economics
Technology Advancement in Network Markets
and Agent Bargaining
22 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
James A. Field, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Maria Sierra Alvarez, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Environmental Fate, (Bio)transformation, and
Toxicology of 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN) in
Soils and Wastewater Sludge
1898. Two students from preparatory class pose on the porch of East Cottage in what
Charles P. Richmond termed bicycle costumes.
Fernando Mayorga
Elham Sadeghi
ARID LANDS RESOURCE SCIENCES
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Timothy J. Finan, Ph.D., Anthropology
Neng Fan, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Growth, Equity, and Sustainability: A Case
Study of the Impacts of Green Revolution
Change in Ceará, Northeast Brazil
Robust and Survivable Network Design
Considering Uncertain Node and Link Failures
Jose Muñoz-Rodriguez
Earlphia Sells
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Bernard W. Futscher, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Mark D. Pagel, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Biomedical Engineering
Natalia Ignatenko, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Postpartum Breast Cancer in Hispanic Women:
Epigenetics and microRNAs
Joshua Olitzky
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Galina Khitrova, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Time and Frequency Resolved Pump Probe
Spectroscopy and Growth of Near Surface
Quantum Confined Semiconductors Coupled
to Metallic Nanostructures
Elizabeth Phillips
PHILOSOPHY
Michael B. Gill, Ph.D., Philosophy
Julia Annas, Ph.D., Philosophy
Living Well: Mutual Vulnerability and the
Virtue of Proper Interconnection
Megan Prescott
ANTHROPOLOGY
Mark Nichter, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Public Health
“The New Heroes”: The localized production
and migration of Filipino nurses out of the
Philippines
Jie Randtke
CHEMISTRY
Lucy M. Ziurys, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Astronomy
Rotational Spectroscopy of Simple Metal
Carbon Clusters: Resolving the Beauty of
Fine and Hyperfine Interactions in Metal
Monoacetylides and Metal Carbides
Rodrigo Renteria-Valencia
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SPRING 2016
DOCTOR OF AUDIOLOGY
Giau Ngoc Le
Daisey Thalia Sanchez
Melanie C. Dunne
EDUCATION SPECIALISTS
Role of Human Tissue Kallikrein-Related
Peptidase 6 in Colon Cancer Invasion
Sara Camille Banegas
Pacifica Sommers
Olivia Jane Kirk
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Peter L. Chesson, Ph.D.,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Interacting Effects of Predation and
Competition in the Field and in Theory
Jae-Hyun Sung
LINGUISTICS
Diana B. Archangeli, Ph.D., Linguistics
A Cross-linguistic Articulatory Analysis of
Palatalization in Korean, English, and
Scottish Gaelic
Nicholas Thorne
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Thomas J. Volgy, Ph.D.,
Government and Public Policy
Weapons for Peace or War? The Role of Military
Independence in Militarized Interstate Dispute
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Anna E. McCabe
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
Kevin James Corner
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
John L. Taylor, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies & Practice
Exploring the Reliability and Validity of
Research Instruments to Examine Secondary
School Principals’ Authentic Leadership
Behavior and Psychological Capital
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS
Christopher Lawrence Bartley
MUSIC
Israel Vaughn
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
OPTICAL SCIENCES
J. Scott Tyo, Ph.D., Optical Sciences,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Handel’s Inventio-Rhetoric and Self-Borrowing
in Messiah
Bandwidth and Noise in Spatio-Temporally
Modulated Mueller Matrix Polarimeters
Daniel James Becker
Jinjing Zhao
Jerry E. Kirkbride, M.M., Music
MUSIC
The Clarinet-Percussion Duo in the 21st
Century: A Survey and Discussion of Works
from 2000 to July 2015
ANTHROPOLOGY
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D., Anthropology
Jonathon S. Reinhardt, Ph.D., English
Hunting Cartographies: Neoliberal
Conservation among the Comcaac
An Ecological Analysis of Digital GameMediated Second Language Learning
Brenda Willer Buys
Elisabeth Roberts
Yilong Zheng
William D. Dietz, D.M.A., Music
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
CHEMISTRY
Bruce P. Johnson, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
S. Scott Saavedra, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Stephanie K. Carlson
Characterization of Charge Transfer Process
Across Perylene Diimide/Electrode Interfaces
for Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Kristin E. T. Dauphinais, D.M.A., Music
¡I Have a Connection!?: The Situated SenseMaking of an Elementary Student about the
Role of Water in Modelled vs. Experienced
Ecosystems
MUSIC
The Bassoon Music of Libby Larsen
MUSIC
An In Depth Look at Approaching Soprano
Roles Written Specifically for Two Different
Mozart Prima Donnas with the Same Voice
Classification
Timothy James Cloeter
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
A Performance Edition of the Fourth
Movement of the Niagara Symphony, Op. 62,
by George Frederick Bristow (1825-1898)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 23
The first “bunk beds” at the UA. Bottom cot turned upside-down, top cot
placed on bottom cot’s legs. Probably in South Hall.
Two students sharing a dormitory room in South Hall.
T. André Feagin
MUSIC
Gregg I. Hanson, M.M., Music
DOCTOR OF NURSING
PRACTICE
Homenaje a Joaquín Sorolla (Cuadros
Sinfónicos): An Analysis of Bernardo Adam
Ferrero’s Musical Interpretation of the
Programmatic Themes from the Paintings of
Joaquín Sorolla
Jennifer Armfield
Edward John Foust
Louella Bauman
MUSIC
Daniel Asia, M.M., Music
Interlude: Songs out of Sorrow
Richard Robert Hintze
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
Kent A. Newbury: A Study of His Choral Works
Shinji Inagi
MUSIC
Pamela A. Decker, D.M.A., Music
The Use of “Computer-Assisted Contrapuntal
and Intervallic Analysis” as a Tool to Help
Determine The Authorship of Organ Works in
The Neumeister Collection
Douglas Blair Leightenheimer
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
From Couperin to Vierne: Liturgical and
Stylistic Connections between the French
Baroque and French Romantic Organ Mass
Michael George McLean
MUSIC
Kelly G. Thomas, M.M., Music
Building Technical Facility in Tuba and
Euphonium Players Through the TubaEuphonium Quartet
Meily J. Mendez
MUSIC
John Milbauer, D.M.A., Music
Polystylism and Motivic Connections in Lera
Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Piano, op. 41
Justin Rifkind
MUSIC
Kelly G. Thomas, M.M., Music
The Role of the Tuba within Popular, New
Orleans Jazz-Inspired Brass Bands and the
Traditional Large Concert Ensembles
Mackenzie K. Romriell
MUSIC
Kristin E. T. Dauphinais, D.M.A., Music
Classically Unsung: A Study of Art Songs by
Alec Wilder
Rebecca Leigh Hagen Watson
MUSIC
William D. Dietz, D.M.A., Music
La Monica: A Study of Early Baroque
Performance Practices as Applied to Philipp
Friedrich Boeddecker’s “Sonata Sopra La
Monica”
NURSING
Shu-fen Wung, Ph.D., Nursing
Evaluation of Project BOOST in a Rural Hospital
NURSING
Janet C. DuBois, D.N.P., Nursing
Nurse Practitioner Knowledge, Perception and
Attitude for Behavioral Therapy use in Type
Two Diabetes
Karina Bechtold
NURSING
Janet C. DuBois, D.N.P., Nursing
Primary Care Provider Knowledge and
Interest in Medical Interpretation Training for
Bilingual Spanish-Speaking Staff
Norria Brice
NURSING
Julie Hinman
NURSING
Luz M Wiley, D.N.P, R.N., APRN-BC,
Nursing
Examining Hispanic Maternal Health and
Activity Attitudes, Values, and Practices in
Pediatric Obesity in an Urban Phoenix Health
Center
Kaniz Islam
NURSING
Luz M Wiley, D.N.P, R.N., APRN-BC,
Nursing
Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
(COPD) Exacerbation by Improving the
Management of Patients with COPD in an
Outpatient Setting
Shahida Khan
NURSING
Ted S. Rigney, Jr., Ph.D., Nursing
Traumatically Injured Patients with Positive
Toxicology Screening and Ability to Wean from
Mechanical Ventilation
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
Esther Lee
The Acute Coronary Syndrome Experience
Among Native American Adults in Northern
Arizona
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
D.N.P Project Committee
Dana Britton
NURSING
Jane M. Carrington, Ph.D., Nursing
Intensive Care Unit Nurses’ Knowledge of and
Compliance with Evidence-Based Guidelines
for the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated
Pneumonia
Christina DeRosa
NURSING
Robin J. Poedel, Ph.D., Nursing
Screening and Prevention of the Female
Athlete Triad in High School Endurance
Athletes
Susan Ellis
NURSING
Kate Goggin Sheppard, Ph.D., Nursing
Barriers Among Primary Care Providers To
Utilizing Palliative/Hospice Care For Patients
With Non-Cancerous Terminal Illness
Tia Foukas
NURSING
Audrey Russell-Kibble, D.N.P, Nursing
Mexican American Adolescents’ Perceptions
of Obesity
Elizabeth Gminski
NURSING
Janet C. DuBois, D.N.P., Nursing
Barriers to Screening, Diagnosis, and
Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in the Pediatric
Population within a Military Treatment Facility
24 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
NURSING
Charissa Lopez
NURSING
Kate Goggin Sheppard, Ph.D., Nursing
Barriers to Practice: Psychotherapy and the
Pychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Thomas Luzny
NURSING
Barbara Brewer, Ph.D., Nursing
Clinical Update: Analyzing the incidence
of venous thromboembolic disease and
associated risk factors following lung
transplantation
Irene Naputi
NURSING
Barbara Brewer, Ph.D., Nursing
Factors Influencing the Use of Hearing
Protective Devices in Military Service Members
Millicent Ogoo
NURSING
Shu-fen Wung, Ph.D., Nursing
Ethnic Differences in Atrial Fibrillation
Disease Risk Factors: A Systemic Review of
Patient Evidence
Sean Olsen
NURSING
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
Improving Adolescent Type-1 Diabetes
Management in Rural Utah: A Case Study
In late August 1899, the former
Horticulturalist’s Cottage was remodeled and
refurnished for classes in domestic science,
and from then until 1908, it was known as
the Domestic Science Cottage — a humble
beginning for a later-day School of Home
Economics.
Andria Pizzato
Megan Ward
Erin Aldrich
NURSING
NURSING
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Mary S. Koithan, Ph.D., R.N., APRN, BC,
Nursing
Thaddeus Wesley W Pace, Ph.D., Nursing
Janet C. DuBois, DNP, Nursing
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Analysis of De-Identified Data Evaluating
Outcomes for an Integrative Healing Retreat
for Families with Children who have Special
Healthcare Needs
Roseanne Prieto
NURSING
Barbara Brewer, Ph.D., Nursing
Preventing Progression of End Stage Renal
Disease: A Systematic Review of PatientProvider Communication in Primary Care
Jennifer Quam
NURSING
Donna B. McArthur, Ph.D.,
Nursing, Neurology
Knowledge of Assessment and Management of
Childhood Obesity among Rural Primary Care
Nurse Practitioners
Sarah Raleigh
NURSING
Judith A. Berg, Ph.D., Nursing
Hispanic Parents’ Knowledge, Attitudes
and Beliefs Towards HPV and HPV Vaccination
in Arizona
Marilyn Schatz
NURSING
Shu-Fen Wung, Ph.D., Nursing
Nursing Practice and Decision-Making Process
in Response to Monitor Alarms Among Critical
Care Nurses
Barriers to Decreasing Hospital Readmission
Rates for Chronic Disease Patients in North
Dakota as Perceived by Primary Care Nurse
Practitioners
Heather Wiggins
Abdulnasser Alhusaini
NURSING
Lorraine (Lori) Martin Plank, Ph.D.,
Nursing
Assessment of Rural Nurses’ Educational
Needs in Providing Evidence Based
End-of-Life Care
Kendra Wilson
NURSING
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
Improving the Rate of Diabetes Preventative
Care Practices in a Nurse Practitioner Owned
Family Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project
Melinda Zeimantz
NURSING
Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, Ph.D., R.N., Nursing
Storytelling in Community Dwelling Stroke
Survivors to Promote Physical Activity
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Salwa Abdullah
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Jill C. Tardiff, Ph.D.,
Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Adrianne Shields
Investigating the Structural Pathogenesis of
Delta160E Mutation-Linked Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy
NURSING
Faranak Aghdam
Eileen A. Owen-Williams, Ph.D., Nursing
Pamela G. Reed., Ph.D., Nursing
Formulating Standardized Screening for
Child Abuse
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Haitao Liao, Ph.D., Systems and Industrial
Engineering
Stacy Underwood
Nanowire Growth Process Modeling and
Reliability Models for Nanodevices
NURSING
Paul Akhenblit
Kathleen C. Insel, Ph.D., Nursing
Michelle Kahb-John, Ph.D., Nursing
Violence Risk Assessment and Decreasing
Seclusion and Restraint Incidence in the Adult
Involuntary Psychiatric Population
Patricia Veleta
NURSING
Kimberly Denise Shea, Ph.D., Nursing
Evaluating the Effects of Heart Failure
Clinic Enrollment on Hospital Admission
and Readmission Rates: A Retrospective
Data Analysis
Sarah Volk
NURSING
Cathleen L. Michaels, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN,
Nursing
Education on Sodium Monitoring for
New Heart Failure Patients
Educational Outcomes of 10 Year Old Students
with a History of Special Education Eligibility
as a Child with Developmental Delay or
Preschool Severe Delay
CANCER BIOLOGY
SPECIAL EDUCATION
C. June Maker, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
The Effects of Duration of Exposure to the
Reaps Model in Developing Students’ General
Creativity and Creative Problem Solving in
Science
Caitlan Allen
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Growth on Word Identification Fluency
Assessments in First Graders: A Prognosis for
Later Performance?
Kelly Allen
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Patricia L. Anders, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Restorying Literacy: The Role of Anomaly
Adnan Alobaid
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Suzanne K. Panferov, Ph.D.,
Second Language Acquisition
and Teaching
Assessment and Evaluation in
Language Programs
Asma Alsahil
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Robert Ariew, Ph.D., French and Italian
Social Networking Mediated Intercultural
Communicative Competence: Affordances and
Constraints
Mark D. Pagel, Ph.D., Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering
Geillan Aly
Investigating Tumor Energy Metabolism with
AcidoCEST MRI
Marcy B. Wood, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Fahd Alalwi
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Peter M. Ecke, Ph.D., German Studies
The Development of Intercultural
Competence: Saudi Students in the USA
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Students’ Agency in an In-Class ComputerCentered Developmental Mathematics
Classroom: The Best Laid Plans of Math and
(Wo)men
Kameswari Ananthakrishnan
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
María Alba
SPANISH
Malcolm A. Compitello, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
La narrativa indigenista en Argentina
Ronald M. Lynch, Ph.D., Physiology,
Biomedical Engineering
Improved β-cell Targeting and Therapeutics
using Multivalent Glucagon Like Peptide-1
(GLP-1) Linked to the α2AR Antagonist
Yohimbine (Yhb): Evaluating the Binding,
Selectivity and Signaling
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 25
The original “Wildcats” — the 1914 football team.
Ashley Anderson
Jonathan Beagles
Micah Boyer
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
MANAGEMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY
Heidi Legg Burross, Ph.D.,
Educational Psychology
H. Brinton Milward, Ph.D., Government
and Public Policy, Management and Policy
Mark Nichter, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Public Health
The Study of Project-Based Learning in
Preservice Teachers
Hope Anderson
How Problem Definition and Target for
Change Impact the Strategy and Structure
of International Humanitarian NonGovernmental Organizations
Making Sense with Stories: Rumor, Social
Transformation, and Treatment-Seeking
Behavior in Benin
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Victor Benjamin
Seth Bradshaw
COMMUNICATION
Robert Ariew, Ph.D., French and Italian
MANAGEMENT
Blended Basic Language Courses: Making
Pedagogical and Administrative Choices
about Technology
Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D., Management
Information Systems
Threat, Anger and Support for War: Media
Coverage of U.S. Policy Toward ISIL
Securing Cyberspace: Analyzing Cybercriminal
Communities through Web and Text Mining
Perspectives
Thomas Branch
Jennifer Andrews
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Anita D. Bhappu, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Devipsita Bhattacharya
MANAGEMENT
Kate M. Kenski, Ph.D., Communication
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND
ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Tribikram Kundu, Ph.D.,
Civil Engineering and Engineering
Mechanics
A Qualitative Study to Elucidate Consumer
Couponing Rejection
Sudha Ram, Ph.D., Management
Information Systems, Computer Science
Martin Arce
Modeling Social Media Based News Article
Propagation - A Network and Probabilistic
Theoretic Approach
Synthesized Confocal Ultrasonic Imaging by
Digital Time Reversal in Combination with
Correlation by Digitally Phased Multiple Single
Point Generation and Detection.
Jeanmarie Bianchi
Jonathan Brand
PSYCHOLOGY
OPTICAL SCIENCES
W. Jake Jacobs, Ph.D., Psychology
Lars Furenlid, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Medical Imaging
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Leisy T. Wyman, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Nolan L. Cabrera, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Deconstructing The Ban On Mexican American
Studies in Arizona Through Decolonizing
Methodologies
Jennifer Arthur
SOIL, WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
Mark L. Brusseau, Ph.D.,
Soil, Water and Environmental Science,
Hydrology and Water Resources
Katerina M. Dontsova, Ph.D.,
Soil, Water and Environmental Science
Batch, Column, and Dissolution Studies of
the Environmental Fate and Transport of 2,
4-Dinitroanisole in Soils
Jill Augustine
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Terri L. Warholak, Ph.D.,
Pharmacy Practice and Science,
Public Health
Design and Development of an Objective,
Structured Management Examinations
(OSMEs) on Management Skills Among
Pharmacy Students.
Elsa Baena
PSYCHOLOGY
T. Lee Ryan, Ph.D., Psychology
Functional Compensation in Response
to Increasing Task Difficulty: Comparing
Semantic and Episodic Memory Tasks in
Young and Older Adults
Timothy Bayley
HYDROLOGY
Paul A. Ferré, Ph.D., Hydrology and Water
Resources
Hydrologic Decision Making under
Uncertainty
Examining Relations among Early-Life Stress,
Deprivation, and Risk-Taking Behavior for
Primary Resources
Staging Liver Fibrosis with Statistical
Observers
Candace Black
Zachary Brooks
PSYCHOLOGY
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Aurelio José Figueredo, Ph.D., Psychology
The Life History Narrative: How Early Events
and Psychological Processes Relate to
Biodemographic Measures of Life History
Thomas G. Bever, Ph.D., Linguistics
Linda R. Waugh, Ph.D.,
French and Italian, English
Melissa Blind
Bilingual Decision Making: Studies in Verbal
Probability, Ethics, and Cognition
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
Eileen M. Luna-Firebaugh, J.D., American
Indian Studies
Jeffrey Brown
OPTICAL SCIENCES
“We Just Took Care of Each Other”: Exploring
Cultural Understandings of Neurological
Conditions
Miroslav Kolesik, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Sharon Bohjanen
Johnathan Brownlee
SPECIAL EDUCATION
OPTICAL SCIENCES
John Umbreit, Ph.D., Disability and
Psychoeducational Studies, Family and
Community Medicine
Raymond K. Kostuk, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge:
An Analysis of Impact on IDEA, Part C Early
Intervention Programs
Improved Holographic Recording Materials for
Volume Holographic Imaging Systems
Lewis Borck
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ANTHROPOLOGY
Modeling Laser Filamentation Dynamics with
Exactly Solvable Quantum Systems
Mathew Bull
Barbara J. Mills, Ph.D., Anthropology,
American Indian Studies
Hendrikus L. Granzier, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
Physiology
Lost Voices Found: An Archaeology of
Contentious Politics in the Greater Southwest,
A.D. 1100 – 1450
Investigation of Signaling in Titin’s Spring
Region and the Therapeutic Potential of
Altering Titin Spring Compliance
Pamela Bourg
NURSING
Thaddeus Wesley W Pace, Ph.D., Nursing
Development of a Plasma Biomarker to Test
Oxidative Stress in Frail Elders with Traumatic
Injury
26 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
James Fred “Pop” McKale came to Tucson in 1911 to accept a job at Tucson High School. His state
championship baseball teams were known for their victories embarrassing the college teams at the UA
and Tempe Normal. A student petition was presented to University President A.H. Wilde, asking him to
hire McKale as athletic director and coach of all UA sports. Although he was opposed to the hiring, Wilde
announced McKale’s appointment on June 2, 1914, at a salary of $1,700 per year.
Wilde’s successor, Rufus B. von KleinSmid, was not much more enthused with the benefits of collegiate
athletics, and records for 1915 show that McKale’s total appropriation to run his program amounted to $835!
Colleen Burkett
Ching-Chih Chang
Ginger Clausen
CHEMISTRY
GEOSCIENCES
PHILOSOPHY
Jeanne E. Pemberton, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Anthony John T. (Tim) Jull, Ph.D.,
Geosciences, Physics
Julia Annas, Ph.D., Philosophy
Understanding Dynamic Properties of PDMS
Interfaces: Correlation of Interfacial Molecular
Structure and Dynamics and Analysis of Fluid
Flow Field Penetration
Iodine-129 as an Oceanic Tracer
Love and Organic Unities: An Emergent
Quality Theory
Daniel Charbonneau
Byron Cocilovo
ENTOMOLOGY AND INSECT SCIENCE
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Elizabeth Campbell
Anna R. Dornhaus, Ph.D.,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Psychology
Robert A. Norwood, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
PSYCHOLOGY
Mary A. Peterson, Ph.D.,
Psychology, Cognitive Science
Can 5.5-Month-Old Infants Use the Statistical
Regularity of an Unchanging Object on a
Changing Background for Segmentation?
Ryan Canatsey
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
Serrine S. Lau, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Modulating Growth and Metabolic Pathways in
Prostate Cancer
Martha Canipe
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Kristin L. Gunckel, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Actual and
Designated Identities as Teachers of Science
and Teachers of Students
David Carlson
OPTICAL SCIENCES
R. Jason Jones, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Frequency Combs for Spectroscopy in the
Vacuum Ultraviolet
Antonella Cassia
TRANSCULTURAL GERMAN STUDIES
Barbara Kosta, Ph.D., German Studies
Why are There ‘Lazy’ Ants? Investigating the
Adaptive Functions of Inactivity in the Ant
Temnothorax rugatulus
Catherine Chaterdon
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION AND
TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Kathryn Chavez
Synthesis of Symmetric and Asymmetric
Phthalocyanines To Study Charge Transfer
on Surfaces
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Patricia L. Anders, Ph.D., Teaching,
Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Creating and Recreating Theory, Praxis and
Professional Development
Te-Chuan Chen
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Hao Xin, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Physics
Novel Electromagnetic Structure, Circuit and
Material for Microwave Engineering
Isaac Chogii
CHEMISTRY
Jon T. Njardarson, Ph.D., Chemistry and
Biochemistry
Aram Cholanians
Terrence J. Monks, Ph.D., Pharmacology
and Toxicology
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
Computer Modeling and Optimized Soil
Sampling to Improve Water use Efficiency on
Managing Agricultural Salt Affected Soils
Dopamine Induced Post-Translational
Modifications of Alpha-Synuclein and the Role
of Arsenic in the Development of Parkinson’s
Disease and Other Synucleinopathies
Alex Chambers
Yuda Chongpison
SPECIAL EDUCATION
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Todd V. Fletcher, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Robin B. Harris, Ph.D., Public Health
James T. Schwiegerling, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Opthalmology
Visible Spectroscopy and Polarimetry for
Biomedical Imaging and Remote Sensing
“Pardon the Lack of Elegance”: The Creation of
New Ritual Traditions from Imperial Contact
in Roman Gaul
CHEMISTRY
Donald C. Slack, Ph.D.,
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Markus Tuller, Ph.D.,
Environmental Physics
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Alison Futrell, Ph.D., History
Aura Collazo-Ramos
AGRICULTURAL AND BIOSYSTEMS
ENGINEERING
Victoria Chan
HISTORY
“Thinking Things Together”: What
Contemplative Practice Can Offer Academic
Writing Instruction
Juan Cena
Effects Of A Self-Advocacy Intervention On
Latino Male College Students’ Ability To
Request Academic Accommodations
Matthew Coleman
Kenneth S. McAllister, Ph.D., English
New Anionic Annulation Reactions and Anion
Accelerated Amino-Cope Rearrangement:
Asymmetric Synthesis of 3-Pyrrolines, CIS
Vinyl Aziridines and Vinylogous Amides;
Application in Natural Product Syntheses
Saudi Arabia in the German Speaking
Imagination: Identity, Space and
Representation
Applications of Structured Light Harvesting
Christina Collins
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Effects of Sport-Related Concussion and PreInjury Neuropsychological Functioning on
Academic Outcomes
Hannah Collins
SPANISH
Melissa A. Fitch, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
Chilean Youth Culture in the Age of
Globalization
Dylan Cooper
MANAGEMENT
Jerel E. Slaughter, Ph.D.,
Management and Organizations
Antecedents of Advice Taking in
Organizations: A Goal-Activation Approach
Emily Cory
PSYCHOLOGY
W. Jake Jacobs, Ph.D., Psychology
The Rooftop Raven Project: An Exploratory,
Qualitative Study of Puzzle Solving Ability and
Enculturation Levels in Corvids
Rebecca Crocker
ANTHROPOLOGY
Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D., Anthropology
Depression, Perceived Financial Burden and
Psychological Well-being among Long-term
Rectal Cancer Survivors
Sadness is a Great Pain for the Body”: The
Emotional Trauma and Embodied Impacts of
Migration from Mexico to Tucson, Arizona
Darlane Cruz
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Patrick Cizek
ECONOMICS
Jessamyn Shaller, Ph.D., Economics
Ronald L. Oaxaca, Ph.D., Economics
3 Essays on Education
Dominic V. McGrath, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Luis C. Moll, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Borne of Capitalism: Razing compulsory
education by raising children with popular
and village wisdom
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 27
In time the players got “uniforms”: padded canvas pants, old shoes to
which a local shoemaker attached cleats, and shoulder pads made of old
shirts and stuffed into their playing shirts. No headgear at all. “Training”
consisted of getting up early and running four or five miles — perhaps as
far as Fort Lowell and back — before showering and going to class.
Sage Green and Silver were the colors of the University of Arizona’s
first football team.
Matthew Dabkowski
Erica DeFrain
Beth DuFault
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
MANAGEMENT
Ricardo Valerdi, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Mary M. McCaslin, Ph.D.,
Educational Psychology
Hope J. Schau, Ph.D., Marketing
Using Network Science to Estimate the Cost of
Architectural Growth
Analysis of Differences in Non-instructional
Factors Affecting Teacher-Course Evaluations
over Time and across Disciplines
Diane Daly
INFORMATION
Catherine F. Brooks, Ph.D.,
Information, Communication
Ephemera in Community Archives
Tatiana Degai
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
Ofelia Zepeda, Ph.D., Linguistics,
Language, Reading and Culture
Robin S. Stryker, Ph.D., Sociology
“IT NM N” – “The One Who Exists”:
Sociolinguistic Life of the Itelmen in
Kamchatka, Russia in the Context of Language
Loss and Language Revitalization
Migration, Nationalism, and the Restructuring
of the Welfare State
Haokun Deng
John Davies
Katerina Aifantis, Ph.D., Civil Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics
John Danielson
SOCIOLOGY
IMMUNOBIOLOGY
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Janko Nikolich-Zugich, Ph.D.,
Immunobiology
Nano Si and Sn-based Anodes for Lithium-ion
Batteries
Age Related Defects in Naive T cells
Michelle Denham
Allison Davis
ENGLISH
ANTHROPOLOGY
Thomas K. Park, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies
Mamadou A. Baro, Ph.D., Anthropology
International Migration and Local Equality:
Changing Household Dynamics in
Northeastern Senegal
Erik Davis
MATHEMATICS
Sunder Sethuraman, Ph.D., Mathematics
Consistency of Modularity Clustering on
Random Geometric Graphs
Luis Davis
Lynda M. Zwinger, Ph.D., English
Representations (of Time) in the Twentieth
Century Novel
Luke DeVault
MANAGEMENT
James T. Schwiegerling, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Opthalmology
Simulating Optical System Performance with
Multifocal Optics and Three Dimensional
Scenes
Anika Dzierlenga
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
Nathan J. Cherrington, Ph.D.,
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mechanism and Functional Consequence
of MRP2 Mislocalization in Nonalcoholic
Steatohepatitis
Ryan Eismin
CHEMISTRY
Jeanne E. Pemberton, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Aggregation Characterization of MicrobiallyProduced and Chemically-Synthesized
Monorhamnolipids
Marco Escarcega
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Mihai Surdeanu, Ph.D., Computer Science
Jesse Dickinson
HYDROLOGY
Paul A. Ferr_, Ph.D.,
Hydrology and Water Resources
Kathleen G. Short, Ph.D., Teaching,
Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Philip Dirlam
STATISTICS
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Is “Not-Trading” Informative? Evidence from
Corporate Insiders’ Portfolios
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Colin Dawson
William Duncan
Richard W. Sias, Ph.D., Finance
Preservation of Periodic Infiltration Pulses in
the Vadose Zone
Creating a Counternarrative to Challenge the
Dominant Public Narrative through Film
And There Were Jazz Clubs: Consumption
Lifelines in a Dynamically Changing
Community
CHEMISTRY
Dong-Chul (Jeffrey) Pyun, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interpretable Models for Information
Extraction
Jacobo Favela
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Jeanne E. Pemberton, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Semi-Transparent Metal Nanostructures as
Bottom Contacts in Organic Photo-Voltaics
Prosper Felli
MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING
Preparation of Electroactive Materials for High
Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Victor Ocavio Tenorio Gutierrez, Ph.D.,
Mining and Geological Engineering
Andrew Dixon
CHEMISTRY
An Integrated Uncertainty and Risk-Informed
Decision-Making Framework for Open Pit
Strategic Mine Planning
Modeling and Unsupervised Learning
of Structured Similarity Among Source
Contexts in Bayesian Hierarchical Infinite
Mixture Models
Andrei Sanov, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Wanjie Feng
Daniel DeBlasio
Zura Dotton
COMPUTER SCIENCE
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Jacobus J. Barnard, Ph.D., Computer
Science, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
John D. Kececioglu, Ph.D.,
Computer Science
Parameter Advising for Multiple
Sequence Alignment
Study of Organic Radicals through
Photoelectron Imaging
Linda R. Waugh, Ph.D.,
French and Italian, English
Language Planning and Language Policies
in Kazkahstan
MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING
Ben Sternberg, Ph.D., Mining and
Geological Engineering, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
A New High-Resolution Electromagnetic
Method for Subsurface Imaging
Lisa Fetman
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Rose M. Ylimaki, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Unity vs. Plurality: An Investigation of
Tensions and Paradoxes in Educational Policy
and Practice
28 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
1904. Two students sharing a dormitory room in South Hall.
Mallorie Fiero
Bryan Gordon
Maryam Hamidi
BIOSTATISTICS
ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Melanie L. Bell, Ph.D., Public Health
Stacey I. Oberly, Ph.D., Linguistics
Statistical Approaches for Handling Missing
Data in Cluster Randomized Trials
Linguistic Documentation for Reclamation
Curricula and Vice Versa
Haitao Liao, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Rachel Fisher
Vishwas Gowda
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
INSECT SCIENCE
Patrick Hanley, Jr.
Sara E. Tolbert, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Wulfila Gronenberg, Ph.D., Neuroscience,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
HISTORY
David Ortiz, Jr., Ph.D., History
Comparative Analysis of Brain and Brain
Component Size in Different Social Bee Species
Privileged Nature: Ornithologists, Hunters,
Sportsmen and the Dawn of Environmental
Conservation in Spain, 1850 to 1935
Case Studies in Teaching Evolution: The
Intersection of Dilemmas in Practice
Tori Flint
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Kathleen G. Short, Ph.D., Teaching,
Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Responsive Play: Exploring Play as Reader
Response in a First Grade Classroom
Andrea Flores
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
A. Eduardo Sáez, Ph.D., Chemical and
Environmental Engineering, Public Health
Eric A. Betterton, Ph.D., Atmospheric
Sciences
Kelli Gray
Game-Theoretic Models for Maintenance
Service Outsourcing and Equipment Leasing
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Amanda Harrington
Luis C. Moll, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Mary Combs, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Daniel C. Malone, Ph.D.,
Pharmacy Practice and Science
Terri L. Warholak, Ph.D.,
Pharmacy Practice and Science,
Public Health
Through Their Eyes: Narratives of Students’
Lived School Experiences of Segregation and
Desegregation
Evaluation of a Community Pharmacy Pay-forPerformance Financial Incentive Program to
Improve Medication-Related Outcomes
Downi Griner
Pengfei He
ART HISTORY AND EDUCATION
MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING
Aerosol Transport Simulations in Indoor and
Outdoor Environments Using Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Lisa Hochtritt, Ph.D., Art
Art Student Teaching: Seminar as a
Reflective Space
Pinnnaduwa Kulatilake, Ph.D.,
Mining and Geological Engineering
Eric Frater
Jinyan Guan
Development of a New 3-D Coal Mass
Strength Criterion
OPTICAL SCIENCES
COMPUTER SCIENCE
James Burge, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Astronomy
Jacobus J. Barnard, Ph.D.,
Computer Science, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Application of CGHs for Optical Alignment
GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
Bayesian Generative Modeling for Complex
Dynamical Systems - with Application to
Computational Emotion Systems
Eithne Luibheid, Ph.D.,
Gender and Women’s Studies
Luis Guel
Maria Galup
Seeds: Sembrando futuros
HISTORY
Gavin Healey
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
Ronald Trosper, Ph.D.,
American Indian Studies
American Indian Graffiti Muralism:
Demystifying the Graffiti Medium and
the Visual Harmonics of American Indian
Signatures on the Modern Landscape
William H. Beezley, Ph.D., History
Forrest Helfrich
Galina Khitrova, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Dios, Patria y Mi Derecho: The Secularization
of Patriotism and Popular Culture of the Law in
Revolutionary Mexico, 1917-1929
Vicki H. Wysocki, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Plasmonic and Superconducting SelfAssembled MBE Grown Indium Islands
Anael Guilmo
Nathan Goldman
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Protein, Peptide and Crosslinked Amino Acid
Discovery: The Analysis of Biomolecules for
Health and Nutrition Applications
John A. Reagan, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Amy Hickman
Ricky Gibson, Jr.
OPTICAL SCIENCES
MANAGEMENT
Tax Strategies and Investment Efficiency
Ocean Surface Reflection of the CALIPSO
Spaceborne Lidar
Dawn Goldstein
Steven Haenchen
Dan S. Dhaliwal, Ph.D., Accounting
NURSING
Kate Goggin Sheppard, Ph.D., Nursing
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Elizabeth T. Jacobs, Ph.D., Public Health
Compassion Fatigue among U.S. Military RNs
Post Overseas Deployment
Ecologic Drivers of Plague Transmission in the
Southwest
Henry Gonzalez
Alysha Hall
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Melissa A. Barnett, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Examining the Influence of Cultural Values
on Pathways to Strengthen Responsible
Fatherhood Among Mexican-Origin Fathers
CHEMISTRY
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION AND
TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Adela C. Licona, Ph.D.,
English, Family and Consumer Sciences
Promotoras and the Rhetorical Economies of
Public Health: Deterritorializations of Medical
Discourse and Practice
Alyson Hockenberry
IMMUNOBIOLOGY
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Angela R. Taylor, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Noel A. Card, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Magdalene So, Ph.D., Immunobiology
Type IV Pilus Retraction Dynamics Influence
Social and Infection Behavior of Neisseria
gonorrhoeae
Social Information Processing, Aggression and
Victimization During Adolescence: The Role of
Extracurricular Activity Participation
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 29
The University’s original cactus garden (located in front of Old
Main from 1896 to 1929) was begun by Professor James W.
Toumey, the botanist for the Agricultural Experiment Station,
in the fall of 1891. The garden was moved in 1896 to the area
shown here. A heart-shaped plot of ground, with a transported
soil cover of about 12 inches over a base of solid caliche, it soon
developed into a garden of over 600 species, an interesting
contrast to the surrounding lawns, shrubs, and trees.
Jennifer Hoenig
Karim Ibrahim
Tai Johnson
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
HISTORY
Jonathon S. Reinhardt, Ph.D., English
The Shifting Nature of Food and Water on the
Hopi Indian Reservation since 1930
Stephen Russell, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences, Sociology
Results from the First of Four Waves of a
Multi-site Longitudinal Panel Study on Risk
and Protective Factors for Suicide Among
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Youth
Andrea Holm
The Interplay of Languaging and Gameplay
in Player-Game Interaction: Analysis of the
Potential of Gaming Ecologies as Contexts
for Languaging and Situated Vocabulary
Development
MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Megan Jackson
Lydia R. Otero, Ph.D.,
Mexican American Studies
ART HISTORY AND EDUCATION
Katherine P. Albers, Ph.D., Art
Floating the Borderlands: Innovation and
Resistance among Mexicanas in
the Borderlands
Running Bodies: Contemporary Art’s Histories
Irene Jagla
Katherine Morrissey, Ph.D., History
Thomas Jones
NATURAL RESOURCES
Benedict J. Colombi, Ph.D.,
American Indian Studies
Howard R. Gimblett, Ph.D., Natural
Resources, Landscape Architecture
Can Native Nation Building Theory Help
Address Barriers to Renewable Energy
Development on Native American Lands?
Benjamin Holman
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION AND
TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Valentina Kachanovskaya
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Damian P. Baca, Ph.D., English
Leonid Kunyansky, Ph.D., Mathematics
Price V. Fishback, Ph.D., Economics
Representations of Yaquis in the
Recognition Era
Investment and Social Welfare: From Fiscal
Policy to Solar Energy
William Janss
Kevin Kawa
Analytical Study and Numerical Solution
of the Inverse Source Problem Arising in
Thermoacoustic Tomography
Lily House-Peters
GEOGRAPHY
Christopher A. Scott, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Desert Forests and Riparian Flows: Tracing
Social-Ecological Transformations in the
Transboundary San Pedro River
PingHsun Hsieh
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Michael F. Hammer, Ph.D.,
Arizona Research Labs, Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology
Model-Based Population Genetics in
Indigenous Humans: Inferences of
Demographic History, Adaptive Selection, and
African Archaic Admixture using WholeGenome/Exome Sequencing Data
Hui-Yu Huang
LINGUISTICS
Heidi B. Harley, Ph.D., Linguistics
Are Patterns in the Acquisition of Relative
Clauses due to the Accessibility Hierarchy or
Frequency Patterns in the Input?
Jingjing Huang
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Feng-hsi Liu, Ph.D., East Asian Studies
ECONOMICS
Mark A. Walker, Ph.D., Economics
Essays in Intertemporal Resource Allocation
Eileen Jeffrey
Genetic and Neuroanatomic Factors that
Influence Executive Functions in Older Adults
Amy Kelly
ANIMAL SCIENCES
Fitness and Vectorial Capacity of Ae. aegypti
Populations in Response to Anthropogenic
Warming
Sean W. Limesand, Ph.D.,
Animal and Comparative
Biomedical Sciences
Stephanie Jensen
BIOCHEMISTRY
Identifying Islet Responses to Oxygen and
Nutritional Deficits and the Role of Adrenergic
Signaling in Pancreatic Beta Cells
John C. Jewett, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kimberly Kelly
A Bioorthogonal Approach to
Chemical Virology
Jivaan Jhothiraman
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Farhang Shadman, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering,
Optical Sciences
Comprehensive Methods for Contamination
Control in UHP Fluids
Debra Johnson
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Jean M. Wilson, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Julie J. Donaldson, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lance Hubbard
Stanley Johnson
Electrostatic Coating with Ligandless Copper
Nanoparticles
T. Lee Ryan, Ph.D., Psychology
Goggy Davidowitz, Ph.D., Entomology
The Learning of Verbal Resultative Component
by second language learners of Mandarin with
different first languages
Anthony J. Muscat, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
PSYCHOLOGY
ENTOMOLOGY AND INSECT SCIENCE
Engagement of T cells with Antigen-Presenting
Cells is Dependent on Clathrin-Independent
Endocytic Trafficking: The Role of Arf6 and
Rab22
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
ECONOMICS
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Milorad Cvijetic, Ph.D., Optical Sciences,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Implementation of Elastic Optical Networking
based on OFDM Adapted in Accordance with
Networking and Transmission Constraints
30 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
ANTHROPOLOGY
Ivy L. Pike, Ph.D., Anthropology
Mark Nichter, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Public Health
Making Bodies Commensurate: The Social
Construction of Humans, Animals, and
Microbes as Objects of Scientific Study
Jeffrey Kennedy
HYDROLOGY
Paul A. Ferré, Ph.D.,
Hydrology and Water Resources
Understanding Infiltration and Groundwater
Flow at an Artificial Recharge Facility Using
Time-lapse Gravity Data
Kristin Khalaf
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Daniel C. Malone, Ph.D.,
Pharmacy Practice and Science
Evaluation of the Measurement Properties of
the Short Form 36 version 2 Health Survey in a
Sample of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Hyo Kim
MANAGEMENT
Dan S. Dhaliwal, Ph.D., Accounting
The Impact of Managerial Overconfidence and
Ability on Auditor Going-Concern Decisions
and Auditor Termination
Unfortunately, it is unlikely that interior photographs of Old Main were taken when
school began in 1891. It is known that besides classrooms, laboratories, and offices,
there were some temporary sleeping quarters for faculty and male students, a
kitchen and mess hall, space for a territorial weather bureau, and a photographic
darkroom. The University was proud of its equipment, both for teaching and
research, and took pains to buy from the best suppliers.
Caleb King
Linda Lemus
Xiao Liu
GEOSCIENCES
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
MANAGEMENT
Mark D. Barton, Ph.D., Geosciences
Geology, Geochronology, and Eocene
Hydrothermal Systems of the Battle Mountain
Mining District, Nevada
Jennifer Kinser-Traut
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Marcy B. Wood, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural
Studies
Voices of Marginalized Youth: Mathematical
Learning, School Choice, and High-Mobility
Colt Knight
ANIMAL SCIENCES
Daniel Faulkner, Ph.D.,
Animal and Comparative
Biomedical Sciences
Intake and Grazing Behavior of Mature Arizona
Range Cattle
Wendy Koosmann
Ana C. DaSilva Iddings, Ph.D., Teaching,
Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Ana M. Carvalho, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
Social Network Sites: Identity,
Translanguaging and Community of
English-Spanish-Portuguese Multilinguals
Cecelia Lewis
MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Lydia R. Otero, Ph.D.,
Mexican American Studies
Breaking Borders: Women of Mexican Heritage
in Douglas, Arizona, during the
20th Century
Guangbin Li
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
James A. Field, Ph.D., Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Removal of Nitrogen Through the Anaerobic
Ammonium Oxidation (ANAMMOX) Process
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Ran Li
Neuropsychological Profiles and Predictors
of Reading Performance of Children with
Developmental Delay with and without
Cognitive Difficulties
Daoquin Tong, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
GEOGRAPHY
Activity Travel and Services Planning
Min Liang
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Antimicrobial Copper Iodide Based Materials
Ya-Hui Kuo
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Mary Ann Eastlick, Ph.D., Family and
Consumer Sciences
Health Analytics for Pharmacovigilance: A
Data and Text Mining Framework
Yun Liu
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Michael Sulkowski, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
A validity study of the Adolescent Peer
Relations Instrument among college students
in China
Joseph Lowney
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Brian P. Anderson, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Manipulation, Modeling, and Measurement
of Nonlinear Wave Phenomena in Optical and
Atomic Media
Hongwei Luo
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Haitao Liao, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Study on Optimal Maintenance and Spare Parts
Reordering Policies Considering On-shelf Part
Deterioration
Christian Lytle
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Nicholas Krasnow
Donald R. Uhlmann, Ph.D., Materials
Science and Engineering, Optical Sciences
Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D.,
Management Information Systems
Hao Xin, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Physics
Additive Manufactured Related Components,
System and Applications in Microwave
and THZ Frequency, Novel Material
Characterization and Compressive Sensing
Microwave Imaging System
R. Jason Jones, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Measurement of the Two-Photon E1-M1
Transition in Neutral Mercury
Ding Ma
MATHEMATICS
Romyar Sharifi, Ph.D., Mathematics
Relations among Multiple Zeta Values and
Modular Forms of Lower Level
Christopher MacGahan
Retailer Personality and Customer Patronage:
The importance of Situational Self-congruence
and Retailer Brand Identification
ChangYu Lin
Elizabeth Leahy
Ivan B. Djordjevic, Ph.D., Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences
Methods for Treaty Verification without an
Information Barrier
Non-binary Coded Modulation for FMF-based
Coherent Optical Transport Networks
Pablo Machado, Jr.
Cong Liu
Dan S. Dhaliwal, Ph.D., Accounting
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION AND
TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Cristina D. Ramirez, Ph.D., English
Rhetorical Education, Language, and
Statehood: Curricular and Extra-Curricular
Sites of Composition at University of Arizona
and University of New Mexico, 1885-1912
Peter Leavitt
PSYCHOLOGY
Daniel L. Sullivan, Ph.D., Psychology
Social Class and Interpersonal
Connectedness in Face-to-Face and
Computer-Mediated Learning
Chee Lee
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Mary Combs, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural
Studies
Luis C. Moll, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Language Ideological Approaches to English
Education in Korea: A sociolinguistic
perspective
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
ECONOMICS
Price V. Fishback, Ph.D., Economics
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Matthew Kupinski, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
MANAGEMENT
Investor Monitoring and Auditor Choice:
Evidence from Hedge Fund Activism
Economic Performance and Social Conflicts in
Chinese History
Priscilla Magrath
Hsuan-Ying Liu
Susan Shaw, Ph.D., Anthropology
Mark Nichter, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Public Health
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Wen Hao Diao, Ph.D., East Asian Studies
Coming of Age Learning Mandarin: Chinese L2
Learners: Investment During their Transition
from High School to University
ANTHROPOLOGY
Moral Landscapes of Health Governance in
West Java, Indonesia
Brandon Marshall
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Tao Liu
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Ivan B. Djordjevic, Ph.D., Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences
Advanced Coded Modulation for High Speed
Optical Transmission
Luis C. Moll, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
African American Student-Ahtletes
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 31
C. 1898. Unidentified conversationalists on the steps of East Cottage.
Laura Marshall
Ahmad Mohassel
Zachary Newman
NATURAL RESOURCES
ECONOMICS
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Donald Falk, Ph.D., Natural Resources
Ashley A. Langer, Ph.D., Economics
Brian P. Anderson, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Tree Growth Response to Biophysical
Gradients and Disturbance
Essays on Transportation Economics
A New Apparatus for Studies of Quantum
Vortex Dynamics in Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein
Condensates
Hector Martinez
PHYSICS
Seok Young Moon
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Poul S. Jessen, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Todd V. Fletcher, Ph.D., Disability and
Psychoeducational Studies
Quantum Control and Measurement Tools for
a Neutral Atom Qudit
Teachers’ Perspectives of Students with ADHD
in Korea and the US
Erin Matyjasik
Peter Mueller
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
MUSIC
Rose M. Ylimaki, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Donald G. Kinser-Traut, Ph.D., Music
Thinking with the Posts: Towards a New
Understanding of Identity Formation and
Agency in Aspiring Latina Leaders
Ashley McClung
Toward a Theory of Formal Function in
Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Keyboard Works
Joaquin Muñoz
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Brandon Northcutt
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Charles M. Higgins, Jr., Ph.D.,
Neuroscience, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Biologically Inspired Algorithms for
Visual Navigation and Object Perception in
Mobile Robotics
Francis Nottke
CHEMISTRY
Mark A. Smith, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Perry Gilmore, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning
and Sociocultural Studies
Leisy T. Wyman, Ph.D., Teaching, Learning
and Sociocultural Studies
Examining the Growth Rates of Reading
Fluency and Its Implications for Retention as
an Intervention
The Circle of Mind and Heart: Waldorf
Schooling, Waldorf-Inspired Critical Pedagogy,
Education and Research Possibilities
Erica McEvoy
Kendra Murray
Salim A. Hariri, Ph.D., Electrical and
Computer Engineering
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
GEOSCIENCES
Survivability Modeling and Analysis
J. R. Jokipii, Ph.D.,
Planetary Sciences, Astronomy
Peter W. Reiners, Ph.D., Geosciences
Kevin Okarski
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Applications of Stochastic Differential
Equations to Diffusive Shock Acceleration of
Cosmic Rays
Interpreting Low-Temperature
Thermochronology in Magmatic Terranes:
Modeling and Case Studies from the Colorado
Plateau
Suzanne Meador
Lateef Mustapha
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Ronald W. Marx, Ph.D.,
Educational Psychology
Srini Raghavan, Ph.D.,
Materials Science and Engineering
Effects of Peer Tutoring on the
Achievement Gap
Thermo-mechanical Characterization and
Interfacial Thermal Resistance Studies of
Chemically Modified CNT TIM-Experimental
and Mechanistic Approaches
Ahmed Meiloud
NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Scott Lucas, Ph.D.,
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
The Paradigm Shift in the Islamist Conception
of Power and Social Order: A Study of
the Political and Legal Thoughts of Four
Prominent Muslim Brothers’ Intellectuals
Kurt Michels
STATISTICS
Hao Zhang, Ph.D., Mathematics
New Statistical Methods and Computational
Tools for Mining Big Data, with Applications in
Plant Sciences
Jacob Miller
GEOGRAPHY
John Paul Jones III, Ph.D.,
Geography and Regional Development
Consumption, Dispersed: Techno-Malls and
Affective Assemblages at Chiloé Island, Chile
Gabriel Navia
MUSIC
D. Boyd Pomeroy, Ph.D., Music
Tektite Hydration and De-Hydration: How Dry
are Tektites and How Did They Get That Way
Seung Oh
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Linda S. Powers, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering
Purification of Adipose Derived Stem Cells and
The Development of a Lateral Flow Assay for
Bloodborne Pathogen Detection
Ricardo Pacheco
CHEMISTRY
Jeanne E. Pemberton, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Robin Polt, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthesis and Characterization of Bio-inspired
Glycolipid Surfactants
The Medial Caesura in Schubert’s Sonata
Forms: Formal and Rhetorical Complications
Katherine Paschall
Micah Nelp
Ann M. Mastergeorge, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
CHEMISTRY
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Biological Synthesis and Transformation
of Nitriles
Risk and Resilience in Low-Income Families:
Linking Contextual Risks, Parenting Styles,
Child Emotion Regulation, Maltreatment and
Early Head Start
Kevin Newman
Mustafa Polat
Indraneel Ghosh, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Olivier Guyon, Ph.D.,
Astronomy, Optical Sciences
Achromatic Phase Shifting Focal Plane Masks
for Exoplanet Coronagraphy
32 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Robert Ariew, Ph.D., French and Italian
Emerging Technologies in Language Pedagogy:
Language Learners’ Perceptions through the
Lenses of Innovation Diffusion and User
Intention Theories
The Wildcats got their name from a 1914 football game against Occidental College where the
Los Angeles Times said that Arizona “showed the fight of wildcats.”
Pablo Posso
Gregory Redhouse
Rachael Ronald
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
HISTORY
Anthony J. Muscat, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Mary Jo Fox, Ph.D.,
American Indian Studies
Jadwiga E. Pieper, Ph.D., History
Liquid-Phase Etching and Chemical
Passivation of III-V Semiconductors
The University Experiences of Post 9/11 Native
American Veterans: Strategic Support for
Inclusion, Retention, and Success
Jared Powell
Guatemala on Tap: Nation-Building, Social
Control, and The Cerveceria Centroamericana
in Twentieth Century Guatemala
Leonardo Salemi
GEOGRAPHY
Beverly Reghabi
Sarah A. Moore, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development,
Latin American Studies
REHABILITATION
Michael T. Hartley, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
The Geopolitics of Public Schooling
Exploring the Ethics of Social Media Use in
Rehabilitation Counselor Education
Numerical Investigation of Hypersonic ThreeDimensional Conical Boundary-Layer Stability
including High-Enthalpy Effects
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Brenna Rheinheimer
Katherine Sammler
Jacobus J. Barnard, Ph.D.,
Computer Science, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
CANCER BIOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY
Ronald Heimark, Ph.D.,
Surgery, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Jeffrey Banister, Ph.D.,
Southwest Studies Center
A Statistical Model for Recreational Trails
Steve Przymus
Alternative Transcription of the SLIT2/mir218-1 Transcriptional Axis Mediates Pancreatic
Cancer Invasion
Producing Marine Territories: EEZ Governance
and Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Ana Ribero
Andrew Predoehl
Leisy T. Wyman, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Social Semiotics, Education, and Identity:
Creating Trajectories for Youth at Schools
to Demonstrate Knowledge and Identity as
Language Users
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION AND
TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Adela C. Licona, Ph.D.,
English, Family and Consumer Sciences
Citizenship and Undocumented Youth: An
Analysis of the Rhetorics of Migrant-Rights
Activism in Neoliberal Contexts
Sansanee Punyalert
Sheri Robbins
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
Chantelle N. Reynwar, Ph.D., German
Studies
Video gaming as Literacy Practices: A GenreFocused Course of Business English Learning
Hanif Rahbari
Renee T. Clift, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural
Studies
Translating CREATE to Curriculum – First Year
Teachers Establishing a Space for Student,
Family, and Community Connections
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Stephen Roberts
Marwan M. Krunz, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Computer Science
Stanlely S. Reynolds, Ph.D., Economics
ECONOMICS
Obfuscation of Transmission Fingerprints for
Secure Wireless Communications
Effects of Incomplete Information:
Partial Buyer Information, Optimal Risk
Incentivization, and Use of Non-Monotonic
Contracts
Seafha Ramos
Sheila Rocha
NATURAL RESOURCES
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
Melanie Culver, Ph.D.,
Genetics, Natural Resources
Benedict J. Colombi, Ph.D.,
American Indian Studies
Patrisia Gonzales, Ph.D.,
Mexican American Studies
Hlkelonah ue Meygeytohl: Traditional
Ecological Knowledge in Wildlife Conservation
and An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Culturally Sensitive Research with the
Yurok Tribe
Pavan Reddy
ENGLISH
Charles E. Sherry, Ph.D., English
Return to the Eternal Recurrence
Reimaging Indigenous Identity with
Performance Text: Counting Coup on the “Cops
in the Head”
Migdalia Rodriguez-Rosales
Hermann F. Fasel, Ph.D.,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Hannah Sassi
SOIL, WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
Charles P. Gerba, Ph.D.,
Soil, Water and Environmental Science,
Microbiology and Immunology
Kelly A. Reynolds, Ph.D.,
Public Health, Soil, Water and
Environmental Science
Evaluation of Virus Inactivation and Survival
in Three Unique Environments, through the
Use of MS2 as a Surrogate
Bradley Schmitz
SOIL, WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
Charles P. Gerba, Ph.D.,
Soil, Water and Environmental Science,
Microbiology and Immunology
Ian L. Pepper, Ph.D., Soil, Water and
Environmental Science, Public Health
Reduction of Enteric Pathogens and Indicator
Microorganisms in the Environment and
Treatment Processes
Christina Sciabarra
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Faten Yasser Halawi-Ghosn, Ph.D.,
Government and Public Policy
What Kind of Peace? Termination,
Peacebuilding Strategies, and the Post-Civil
Conflict Environment
Danjue Shang
MANAGEMENT
Christopher G. Lamoureux, Ph.D., Finance
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Option Markets and Stock Return
Predictability
Suzanne K. Panferov, Ph.D., Second
Language Acquisition and Teaching
Jaeho Shim
Effective Pedagogical Practices in Online
English Language Teacher Education (OLTE)
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND
ENGINEERING MECHANICS
J. Guohong Duan, Ph.D.,
Civil Engineering and Engineering
Mechanics
Experimental and Numerical Studies of Grain
Scaled Bed-Load Transport
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 33
The year was 1885 and the mood was mean.
The cities and counties needed money and the
Territorial Legislature controlled the purse strings.
To make matters worse the members of the
13th Territorial Legislature were known to
make decisions for often less than ethical
reasons. They had earned the nickname
“The Thieving Thirteenth.”
There were two major prizes to be won from the
Legislature that year. Phoenix and Prescott came
out on top. Phoenix was given the asylum for the
insane and Prescott kept the state capital. Tucson
received an unwelcome consolation prize of the
University of Arizona, and with it, a measly $25,000
appropriation, just one quarter of the amount
Phoenix received to build the insane asylum.
Sanhita Sinharay
Angela Storey
Darcy Tessman
CHEMISTRY
ANTHROPOLOGY
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Mark D. Pagel, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Biomedical Engineering
Thomas K. Park, Ph.D.,
Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies
Jill Koyama, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Infrastructure and Informality: Contesting
the Neoliberal Politics of Participation and
Belonging in Cape Town, South Africa
Narrations from the US-MX Border:
Transfronterizo Student and Parent
Experiences with American Schools
Stacey Sueoka
Mark Thompson
OPTICAL SCIENCES
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR
AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Development and Application of Catalycest
MRI Contrast Agents for the Study of Enzyme
Activities in Tumor Models
Rhonda Smith
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Russell Chipman, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Katie R. Eklund, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Polarization Optical Components for the
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
Examining A Brief Behavior Progress
Monitoring Tool’s Sensitivity to Change
Anastasia Sugeng
Heather Smyser
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Mary Alt, Ph.D.,
Speech,Language and Hearing Sciences
The Goldilocks of Variability: The Acquisition
of Mental Orthographic Representations in
Emergent Refugee Readers
Tenzin Sonam
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Sara E. Tolbert, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Tibetan Buddhist Monastics Studying Western
Science: Negotiating Buddhist Theology and
Western Science
Carlos Soto
HYDROLOGY
Thomas Meixner, Ph.D.,
Hydrology and Water Resources
Stream-Aquifer Interactions: Its Effects on
Nutrient Variability, Its Role on Streamflow
Permanence and the Effects of Temperature
Measurement Resolution on its Quantification
Katelyn Southard
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Molly Bolger, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Exploring Features of Expertise and
Knowledge Integration among Undergraduate
Students in Molecular and Cellular Biology
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
Paloma Beamer, Ph.D., Public Health
From Field to Home: Assessing Air Infiltration
and Soil Track-in Transport Pathways of
Agricultural Pesticides into Farmworkers’
Homes and Identifying Risk Factors for
Increased In-Home Pesticide Levels
Carol L. Dieckmann, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Elucidating the localiazation of Channel
Rhodopsin I to the eyespot and its role in
assembly eyespot
Miriam Thompson
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Michael Sulkowski, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
GEOGRAPHY
Students on Their Own: How Aggressive
Immigration Enforcement Breaks up Families
and Impacts Youths’ Psychosocial Functioning
Carl J. Bauer, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Anne Thwaits
Governing the Unseen: A Comparative
Analysis of Arizona and Texas Groundwater
Institutions
Elizabeth J. Garber, Ph.D., Art
Zachary Sugg
Amanda Sugimoto
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Katherine J. Carter, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
The Intersection of Divergent Narratives: A
Qualitative Study of the Positioning of English
Learners During Formal and Informal SchoolBased Interactions
Hee Suh
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
ART HISTORY AND EDUCATION
Exploring the Exploratorium: Art/Science
Collaboration in an Informal Learning
Environment
Hannah Tierney
PHILOSOPHY
Shaun B. Nichols, Ph.D., Philosophy
Living Variously: An Analysis of Pluralism and
Personal Identity
Stephen Trefethen
MATHEMATICS
Pham Huu Tiep, Ph.D., Mathematics
Feng-hsi Liu, Ph.D., East Asian Studies
Non-abelian Composition Factors of
m-Rational Groups
Learning Two Different Positions of ‘Zai’
Locative Phrase among Learners of Chinese
Belin Tsinnajinnie
Eyal Tal
PHILOSOPHY
MATHEMATICS
Marta Civil, Ph.D., Mathematics
Stewart M. Cohen, Ph.D., Philosophy
Indigenous and Latino Students Developing
Mathematical Identities
Detaching in Peer Disagreement and HigherOrder Evidence
Michael Valenzuela
Joaquin Ruiz, Ph.D., Geosciences
Wendy Tate
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Re-Os Geochronology and Isotopic Study
of the Upper Jurassic Rocks and Derived
Hydrocarbons in the Sonda de Campeche of
Southeastern Mexico
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Sergio Souto
GEOSCIENCES
Philip Stokes
GEOSCIENCES
Ivo L. Abraham, Ph.D., RN, CS, FAAN,
Pharmacy Practice and Science
Evaluation of Efficiency in the Activation and
Accrual of Interventional Clinical Trials at
Cancer Centers
Kristin L. Gunckel, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
Karl W. Flessa, Ph.D., Geosciences
Andrew Tesoro
Diversity in Geoscience: Critical Incidents and
Factors Affecting Choice of Major
Examining the Comprehensiveness of
Psychological Services Provided to Students
with Cancer upon School Reentry
Jerzy W. Rozenblit, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Machine Learning, Optimization, and AntiTraining with Sacrificial Data
Yissel Valeriano
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Anthony J. Muscat, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
David L. Wodrich, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Surface Passivation of InSb(100) and
InGaAs(100) with Sulfur Chemistries
34 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
One condition the Legislature slapped on Tucson was that the
people of Pima County had to donate 40 acres to the University.
The response was less than overwhelming. No one offered an
inch. One man decided the time had come to take matters into his
own hands. Jacob S. Mansfeld was a member of the new Board of
Regents. He took a walk into the desert about a mile east of town
and picked out a site for the new university. The land was owned
by two professional gamblers, E.B. Gifford and Ben C. Parker, and
saloon keeper W.S. “Billy” Read. They weren’t all that sure their land
was the perfect spot for the new University of Arizona.
Finally, on Nov. 27, 1886, the owners agreed and the deed was filed.
A year later, on Oct. 27, 1887, ground was broken for the building that
was to be known as Old Main.
Timothy Vandervoet
Christine Wiggs
Jong Youn
ENTOMOLOGY AND INSECT SCIENCE
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
Peter C. Ellsworth, Ph.D., Entomology
Andrea Romero, Ph.D.,
Family Studies and Human Development,
Mexican American Studies
Sally Stevens, Ph.D.,
Gender and Women’s Studies
Armin Sorooshian, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering,
Public Health
The Incorporation of Conservation
Biological Control into Bemisia tabaci
Management in Cotton
Natasha Varner
HISTORY
William H. Beezley, Ph.D., History
La Raza Cosmetica: Beauty, Race, and
Indigeneity in Revolutionary Mexico
Srikar Velichety
MANAGEMENT
Sudha Ram, Ph.D.,
Management Information Systems,
Computer Science
Essays on Data Driven Insights from Crowd
Sourcing, Social Media and Social Networks
Bertha Villegas-Kinney
REHABILITATION
Direct Peer Influence and Social Norms:
The Impact of Peers on Youth Participation
in Structured Afterschool Activities and
Substance Use
Katherine Williams
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Timothy Secomb, Ph.D.,
Physiology, Mathematics
Jacob Witt
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Jonathon S. Reinhardt, Ph.D., English
L2 Written Corrective Feedback in DisciplineSpecific Writing: Content and Perception
Self-Determination: VR Counselors’ Role
Promoting Self-Determination to Hispanic
Students with Disabilities in Transition from
School to Work programs
Gwendolyn Woods
CHEMISTRY
Jon T. Njardarson, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Strategic Dearomatization - Rearomatization
Cascades in the Synthesis of Aromatic and
Heteroaromatic Synthons
Shelby Vorndran
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Raymond K. Kostuk, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Diffractive Optical Element Design for
Lateral Spectrum Splitting Photovoltaics
Collin Weigel
ECONOMICS
Stanlely S. Reynolds, Ph.D., Economics
Essays in Experimental Economics
Weston Welge
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Jennifer K. Barton, Ph.D., BIO5 Institute
Structural and Functional Optical Coherence
Tomography Imaging of the Ovary and Colon
James Wermers
ENGLISH
Jerrold E. Hogle, Ph.D., English
Shakespeare’s Queer Religions
A. West
Anthony Young
BIOCHEMISTRY
Vahe Bandarian, Ph.D., Biochemistry
Characterization of the Radical S-adenosyl-Lmethionine 4-demethylwyosine Synthase0
Sheena Young
Anti-Cancer Treatment and the Cell Cycle:
Cellular-Level Mathematical Models
Philip R. Johnson, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Edon Vitaku
On the Nature of Aerosol Physicochemical
Properties and Implications for Health Effects
in the Southwestern United States
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Robert G. Arnold, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
A Decision Tool for Integrated Water
Management: Optimizing Distributed Capacity
in Water Reuse Systems
Samantha Wray
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Shane A. Snyder, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Occurrence and Formation of Emerging
Disinfection Byproducts in Beverages and
OTC Medications
Walter Zacherl
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Eustace L. Dereniak, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences
Lars Furenlid, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Medical Imaging
Integration of Multiple Point Cloud
Datasets into a Common 3D Model
without Control Points
Nicholle Zarkower
COMMUNICATION
LINGUISTICS
Adam Ussishkin, Ph.D.,
Linguistics, Near Eastern Studies
Decomposability and the Effects of Morpheme
Frequency in Lexical Access
David Wysocki, Jr.
Kate M. Kenski, Ph.D., Communication
Media, Race, and Presidential Legitimacy:
The Role (and Non-Role) of Mass Media in the
Assessment of Presidential Legitimacy
Zhonghao Zhang
CHEMISTRY
HISTORY
William H. Beezley, Ph.D., History
Exercising Mexico’s Cosmic Race: Sporting
Culture and Mestizo Citizens
Babak Yadegari
Zhiping Zheng, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Lanthanide Functional Materials
Tao Zhu
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Roberto Z. Guzman, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Saumya K. Debray, Ph.D.,
Computer Science
Automatic Deobfuscation and Reverse
Engineering of Obfuscated Code
Smart Platform Development with
Biomolecules for Biotechnological and
Biomedical Applications
Adnan Yilmaz
Joshua Zimmerman
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION
AND TEACHING OF ENGLISH
Linda R. Waugh, Ph.D.,
French and Italian, English
Kenneth S. McAllister, Ph.D., English
Intercultural Communicative Competence
Through the Lens of Semio-Ethnography:
Research on Turkish International Graduate
Student in the US Socio-Semiotic World
Ban Hammer: Rhetorics of Community
Management in the Computer Game Industry
SOCIOLOGY
Ronald L Breiger, Ph.D., Sociology
Field Theoretic Analysis of Insurgency
Mobilization: The Case of the Afghan
Mujahideen
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 35
In 1912, the University celebrated Arizona becoming a
state 27 years after the UA’s designation as a University.
DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Nicholas Benjamin Jennings
PUBLIC HEALTH
Michael Halpern, MD, Ph.D., MPH,
Public Health
Preventive Service Utilization and Healthcare
Reform: Treatment Patterns in the New
Healthcare Environment
Kaitlyn Anne Fleck Shinaberry
PUBLIC HEALTH
Douglas L. Taren, Ph.D., Public Health
Improving Early Adolescent Girls Social SelfConcept: Using a Mixed Methods Evaluation to
Build the Growing Girls Program
DOCTOR OF NURSING
PRACTICE
Kristina Bardwell
NURSING
Carolina Baldwin, DNP, Nursing
Sheila M. Gephart, Ph.D., Nursing
Kelly Harris
NURSING
Lorraine (Lori) Martin Plank, Ph.D.,
Nursing
Cardiac Rehabilitation for Heart Failure
Patients: An Evaluation of Knowledge and
Practice Patterns of Nurse Practitioners
Evaluation of the Early Warning System at
Banner Desert Medical Center
Amy Kijewski
Genevieve Cardona
Sheila M. Gephart, Ph.D., Nursing
NURSING
Pamela G. Reed., Ph.D., Nursing
NURSING
Dissemination of Patient Decision-Making
Aids via a Web-Based Platform
Risk Assessment of Eating Disorders (RAED) in
Hispanic Women
John Mercado
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SUMMER 2016
Brian Cobbs
Kate Goggin Sheppard, Ph.D., Nursing
Thaddeus Wesley W Pace, Ph.D., Nursing
NURSING
NURSING
Jane M. Carrington, Ph.D., Nursing
Individualized Era-Based Music
Improving Communication between Primary
Care and Emergency Department
Ida Obeso
DOCTOR OF AUDIOLOGY
Diane Curry
Luz M Wiley, DNP, RN, APRN-BC, Nursing
Vivian Victoria Rubiano
Ida Marie Moore, Ph.D., Nursing
EDUCATION SPECIALISTS
Stephanie Rachel Ayoub
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS
Jason Andrew Dungee
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
A Socio-Pedagogical Analysis of Five Short
Choral Works by Adolphus Hailstork
Aran Kim
MUSIC
Tannis I. Gibson, M.M., Music
Performance practice of Chopin vs. Debussy
Thomas Edward Lerew
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
Programming For Success: A Study
of Repertoire Selection Practices By
Undergraduate-Focused, ReligiouslyAffiliated, Collegiate Choral Programs
Nationally Recognized For Performance
Excellence
John Aaron McDermid
MUSIC
Bruce B. Chamberlain, D.M.A., Music
Reimagining the Art of Choral Programming:
Larry L. Fleming’s Annual Christmas Festival
with the National Lutheran Choir
NURSING
Hope: Influence on the Child and Family with
A Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review and
Meta-Analysis
Jessica Curtis
NURSING
Joy N. Kiviat, FNP, Nursing
Mary S. Koithan, Ph.D., RN, APRN, BC,
Nursing
Oncology Providers’ Use of Evidence-Based
Fatigue Assessment in Patient Care: A
Descriptive Study
Claudia Davila
NURSING
Rural Health Nurses’ Knowledge on Heart
Failure Self-Management
Prabhdeep Sandhu
NURSING
Relationship of Physical Activity to A1C in
Mexican American Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus
Amanda Schmidtmann
NURSING
Kate Goggin Sheppard, Ph.D., Nursing
Nurse Practitioners’ Use of Ultrasound to
Diagnose Kidney Stones in the Emergency
Department
NURSING
Jessica Stevens
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
NURSING
Gloanna J. Peek, Ph.D., Nursing
A Quality Improvement Project Designed
to Increase Diabetes Quality Indicators at a
Primary Care Community Clinic
The C.A.S.E. Approach: Enhancing Nurse
Practitioner Students’ Knowledge and SelfEfficacy to Improve Communication with
Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
Mary England
NURSING
Jane M. Carrington, Ph.D., Nursing
Development of a Prodromal Symptoms
Recognition Tool for Women Presenting with
Cardiovascular Event in Primary Care
Lisa Ernest
NURSING
Tiffany Zook
NURSING
Gloanna J. Peek, Ph.D., Nursing
Development and Evaluation of a Clinical
Practice Guideline to Promote Evidence-Based
Treatment of Childhood Atopic Dermatitis in
Primary Care
Lorri Marie Phipps, Ph.D., Nursing
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
A Pertussis Cocooning Program for Alaska:
Surveying Improved Preventative Measures
for Infants
Trisiani Affandi
Julia Fitzpatrick
Megan M. McEvoy, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
NURSING
Graciela E. Silva Torres, Ph.D.,
Nursing, Public Health
Barriers and Facilitating Factors in Delaying
School Start Times
36 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
BIOCHEMISTRY
Structural and Functional Studies of the
Histidine Kinase CusS in Escherichia coli
Among notable alums of the UA are Sens. Barry Goldwater, Jon Kyl and Dennis Deconcini,
U.S. Reps. Morris K. Udall, Raul Grijalva, and John Shadegg.
Sun Ahn
Luis Barros
Heather Bronnimann
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
ANTHROPOLOGY
IMMUNOBIOLOGY
Sabrina V. Helm, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Timothy J. Finan, Ph.D., Anthropology
Linda B. Green, Ph.D., Anthropology
Lonnie Lybarger, Ph.D., Cellular and
Molecular Medicine, Immunobiology
Change to Sustainable Choice: The Role of
Preference-Inconsistent Information
A Case Study of Tohono O’odham Governance
in the Context of the U.S. Reservation System
Analysis of Functional Interactions within the
TCR-CD3-pMHC-CD4 Macro-Complex
Michael Alexander
Patricio Becerra
Tova Brown
NATURAL RESOURCES
PLANETARY SCIENCES
MATHEMATICS
Valerie M. Trouet, Ph.D.,
Dendrochronology, Watershed
Management
Shane Byrne, Ph.D., Planetary Sciences
Nicholas M. Ercolani, Ph.D., Mathematics
The Poles of Mars, Past and Present: A HighResolution Observational Study of the Martian
Polar Regions and their Connection to Climate
Asymptotics and Dynamics of Map
Enumeration Problems
Estimating Inter-annual Carbon Storage
from Tree Rings
Mohammad Alkhamis
MANAGEMENT
Sandy J. Klasa, Ph.D., Finance
Brandi Bethke
PHILOSOPHY
ANTHROPOLOGY
Maria Nieves Zedeno, Ph.D., Anthropology
Litigation Risk and Hedging
Dog Days to Horse Days: Evaluating the Rise of
Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Blackfoot
Golchehr Allahabadi
Tracey Beyer
PHYSICS
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Koen Visscher, Ph.D.,
Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Leilei Peng, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Molecular and
Cellular Biology
Ted Weinert, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Bessel Light Sheet Structured Illumination
Microscopy
Kathryn Anderson
SOCIOLOGY
Joseph J. Galaskiewicz, Ph.D., Sociology
Residential Segregation and Health Outcomes:
The Role of Health-Promoting Community
Organizations in Urban Neighborhoods
Dev Ashish
PSYCHOLOGY
Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D., Psychology
Self-Compassion and the Need of
Self-Preservation
Brian Atkinson
INFORMATION
Patrick B. Heidorn, Ph.D., Informatiion
Identifying Characteristics of Success for
Information Leaders in Research-Intensive
Academic Institutions
Yang Bao
GEOGRAPHY
David Plane, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Daoquin Tong, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Geography of Urban Food Access: Assessment
and Spatio-Temporal Modeling
Viviana Barriga
ARID LANDS RESOURCE SCIENCES
Timothy J. Finan, Ph.D., Anthropology
Defining a Sustainable Energy Strategy to
Improve Livelihood Conditions in Rural
Northern Mexico
Michael Bukoski
Mark Timmons, Ph.D., Philosophy
Connie Rosata, Ph.D., Philosophy
Constitutivism in Ethics
Paul CaraDonna
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Judith L. Bronstein, Ph.D.,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
DNA Replication Error in the Telomere
Initiates Genomic Instability in Budding Yeast
Temporal Ecology of a Subalpine Ecosystem:
Plant Communities, Plant-pollinator
Interactions, and Climate Change
Brandon Bishop
Melisa Celaya
GEOSCIENCES
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Susan Beck, Ph.D., Geosciences
George Zandt, Ph.D., Geosciences
Robin B. Harris, Ph.D., Public Health
Subduction Processes Along the South
America-Nazca Plate Boundary: Receiver
Function Studies of Central Peru and Central
Chile
Evaluation of the Effect of a Medically
Supervised, Multidisciplinary Obesity
Management Program on the Health, Personal
Wellness, and Productivity of Hospital Staff
Members
Geoffrey Boyce
Brunno Cerozi
GEOGRAPHY
SOIL, WATER AND
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Sallie A. Marston, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Over the Line: Everyday Geographies of
Boundary Enforcement in the United States’
Expanding Borderlands
Kevin Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.,
Soil, Water and Environmental Science
Phosphorus Dynamics, Mass Balance and
Mineralization in Aquaponics Systems
Keri Bressette
Agustin Chibly
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
CANCER BIOLOGY
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Kirsten H. Limesand, Ph.D.,
Nutritional Sciences
The Influence of Autism-Related Information
on Autism Knowledge and Teacher SelfEfficacy for Autism Inclusion
Functional Restoration through Salivary
Progenitor Label Retaining Cells
Jordon Bright
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
GEOSCIENCES
Cyf Colon
Victor J. Hruby, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Andrew S. Cohen, Ph.D.,
Geosciences, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Development of Novel Kappa Opioid Receptor
Antagonists with Variable Duration of Action
A High-Resolution Stable Isotope and
Ostracode Faunal Investigation into the
Depositional Environment of the Southern
Bouse Formation, Blythe Basin, AZ-CA
James Broermann
GEOSCIENCES
Richard A. Bennett, Ph.D., Geosciences
Roy A. Johnson, Ph.D., Geosciences
Kathleen Compton
GEOSCIENCES
Richard A. Bennett, Ph.D., Geosciences
Climate Driven Glacial Retreat and the
Rheology of Icelandic Lithosphere: Insights
from Continuously Operating Global
Positioning System (GPS) Stations in Iceland
Analysis of Crustal Extension using Reflection
Seismology, GPS Geodesy and Tests for
Alignment of Volcanic Vents in Southwest
United States and Offshore West Africa
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 37
UA Professor Emeritus Peter Smith’s camera proposal for the Mars Pathfinder mission
was approved in 1993. In 1997 the camera was sending back stunning images of the surface of Mars.
Tracy Crane
Jennifer Ervin
Christopher Guiterman
NURSING
COMMUNICATION
NATURAL RESOURCES
Terry A. Badger, Ph.D., Nursing
Joseph Bonito, Ph.D., Communication
Symptoms and Trajectories of Depression,
Anxiety and Fatigue in Latina Women with
Breast Cancer
Group Norm Development over a Series of
Tasks: Supplementing Task Information with
Personal Experience
Donald Falk, Ph.D., Natural Resources
Thomas W. Swetnam, Ph.D.,
Dendrochronology, Watershed
Management
Jibreel Delgado
Crystal Espinoza-Shanahan
MIDDLE EASTERN AND NORTH AFRICAN
STUDIES
HIGHER EDUCATION
Climate and Human Drivers of Forest
Growth and Disturbance Regimes in Northern
New Mexico
Jeffrey F. Milem, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Chenhui Guo
Scott Lucas, Ph.D.,
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Rival Islamic Revivals: Stability, Change and
the Invention of Traditionalism
Jonathan Delph
GEOSCIENCES
Susan Beck, Ph.D., Geosciences
George Zandt, Ph.D., Geosciences
Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure of the
Anatolian Plate: Imaging the Effects of
Subduction Termination and Continental
Collision with Seismic Techniques
Suzanne Desjardin
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Jill Koyama, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Living Within and Outside the Margins and
Borders: The Impact of School Leadership
on Successful Bridge Programs and Latino/a
Transitions into Community College and
Beyond
Yijun Ding
PHYSICS
Harrison H. Barrett, Ph.D., Optical
Sciences, Medical Imaging
New Particle-Processing Detectors for
Charged-Particle Emission Tomography
Rose Donnell
PSYCHOLOGY
Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D., Psychology
Pilot RCT of Mindfulness-Based Stress
Reduction (MBSR) Versus Progressive Muscle
Relaxation (PMR) to Reduce Symptoms of
Distress Among Elderly Dementia Caregivers:
Results at One Year Post-intervention
Judy Dye
NURSING
Barbara Brewer, Ph.D., Nursing
Relationships Between Injury Severity and
Mental Health in Military Women who have
Sustained Combat Related Injuries in OIF
and OEF
Michael Dzierlenga
CHEMISTRY
Understanding Disadvantage Among Medical
School Applicants
MANAGEMENT
STATISTICS
Paulo Goes, Ph.D., Management
Information Systems
Mingfeng Lin, Ph.D., Management
Information Systems
Hao Zhang, Ph.D., Mathematics
Daoquin Tong, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Empirical Studies on Incentives, Information
Disclosure, and Social Interactions in
Online Environments
Modern Econometric Techniques Applied to
Three Essays in Spatial Economics
Tomoe Hagio
Ying Fang
Maria I. Altbach, Ph.D., Medical Imaging
Fang Fang
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Edward J. Kerschen, Ph.D.,
Aerospace and Michanical Engineering
A Theoretical Prediction Method for Trapped
Mode Flow-Acoustic Resonances in a Wind
Tunnel With a Side Cavity
Alejandro Flores
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
Richard R. Vaillancourt, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
The Role of MTK1 in Cell Migration and
Extracellular Acidification
Hilary Gamble
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Parametric Mapping and Image Analysis in
Breast MRI
Kari Haws
PSYCHOLOGY
Gene E. Alexander, Ph.D., Psychology
Relation of Hypertension, Nocturnal Blood
Pressure Variation, and Family History of
Hypertension to Cognitive Decline and Brain
Atrophy in Older Adults
Megan Henley
SOCIOLOGY
Louise M. Roth, Ph.D., Sociology
COMMUNICATION
Science and Service: Doula Work and the
Legitimacy of Alternative Knowledge Systems
Jennifer L. Stevens Aubrey, Ph.D.,
Communication
Lyndall Herman
From Sexual Media to Unwanted Hookups:
The Mediating Influence of College Women’s
Endorsement of Traditional Heterosexual
Scripts, Sexual Self-Concept, and Perceived
Peer Norms
NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Rafael Garcia
Zachary Hohman
PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
Aurelio José Figueredo, Ph.D., Psychology
Aurelio José Figueredo, Ph.D., Psychology
I’d Give My Right Kidney to be Altruistic:
The Social Biogeography of Altruism in the
United States
Alloparenting Among the Comca’ac
Erin Greenwood
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Joyce Schroeder, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Polarity as a Regulator of Metaplasia
Steven D. Schwartz, Ph.D.,
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Shaness Grenald
The Dynamics of Enzymatic Reactions:
A Tale of Two Dehydrogenases
Mark A. Nelson, Ph.D., Pathology
MEDICAL PHARMOCOLOGY
Synergistic Actions of mu-Opioid and CB2
Agonists in Rodent Models of Acute and
Chronic Pain
38 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Leila Hudson, Ph.D.,
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Being Gazan: Identity, Institutions, and
Internationality in the Gaza Strip
Chris Howard
PHILOSOPHY
Stewart M. Cohen, Ph.D., Philosophy
Mark Timmons, Ph.D., Philosophy
The Fundamentality of Fit
Wei-Jie Huang
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Barrett G. Potter, Jr., Ph.D., Materials
Science and Engineering, Optical Sciences
Investigation of Spectral Sensitizer for
Enhanced Efficiency in Hybrid Photovoltaics
and Environmentally Mediated Subcritical
Microcrack Growth in Monocrystalline Si
The CatCard debuted in 1998 — a card that
does everything from open doors to purchase
textbooks and serves as the University’s official ID.
Elliot Imler
Flora Kimani
Chen Liao
NEUROSCIENCE
CHEMISTRY
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Alan Nighorn, Ph.D., Neuroscience,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
John C. Jewett, Ph.D., Chemistry and
Biochemistry
Arvinder Singh Sandhu, Ph.D.,
Physics, Optical Sciences
The Neuroprotective Role of Cysteine String
Protein in Endocytosis
Triazabutadiene Chemistry in Chemical
Biology and Organic Chemistry
Belal Jammal
Desire Kindarara
Exploring Electron Dynamics by Attosecond
Transient Absorption from Atoms, Molecules,
to Solids.
ART HISTORY AND EDUCATION
NURSING
Elizabeth J. Garber, Ph.D., Art
Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,
Nursing
Art Education and the Development of
Open-Minded Thinking
Erin Jordan
ARID LANDS RESOURCE SCIENCES
Michael A. Crimmins, Ph.D.,
Soil, Water, and Environmental
Science, Geography
Arid Land Flood Risk Assessment
Seok Jung
Clement Lin
Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ HealthIllness Transition Experiences with Type 2
Diabetes Self-Management in the United States
Felix Kling
Danzhou Yang, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
DNA and DNA Secondary Structures as Targets
for Small Molecule Cancer Therapeutics - An
NMR Structural Study
Brooke Lober
PHYSICS
Shufang Su, Ph.D., Physics
GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
Exotics Higgs Decays in Two-HiggsDoublet Models
Sandra K. Soto, Ph.D.,
Gender and Women’s Studies
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Anya Kogan
Janet Meiling Roveda, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
John J.B. Allen, Ph.D., Psychology
Design and Implementation of Low Jitter
Clock Generators in Communication and
Aerospace System
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
PSYCHOLOGY
Prefrontal EEG Asymmetry and
Communication Patterns during Discussions
of Disagreements in Romantic Partners
Conflict in the Struggle: Feminist AntiImperialism, Palestine Solidarity, and the
Jewish Feminist Movement of the Late 20th
Century
Eric Lopez
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Alan Kohler
Chad Westerland, Ph.D.,
Government and Public Policy
OPTICAL SCIENCES
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
The Relevance of Salience in the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals
Stephen R. Yool, Ph.D.,
Geography and Development
Linda R. Waugh, Ph.D.,
French and Italian, English
Phat Lu
In-Situ Cameras for Atmospheric Correction
of Remotely Sensed Data
Metonymy in Language Use and Learning
Maureen Keenan
GEOSCIENCES
Jess Kautz
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Jennifer K. Barton, Ph.D., BIO5 Institute
Design of Optical Endoscopes for
Cancer Detection
Shayan Khoshmagham
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
K. Larry Head, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Real Time Performance Observation in
a Privacy Ensured Connected Vehicle
Environment
Charles Kilpatrick
ASTRONOMY
George H. Rieke, Ph.D.,
Astronomy, Planetary Sciences
New Observational Insight on Shock
Interactions Toward Supernovae and
Supernova Remnants
Bomyung Kim
GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
Sandra K. Soto, Ph.D.,
Gender and Women’s Studies
Time-Space of “Women of Color” in HistoryNarratives of Postwar U.S. Feminism
Barbara Lafuente
Robert T. Downs, Ph.D., Geosciences
Architecture of Databases for Mineralogy
and Astrobiology
Jordan Lancaster
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Thomas D. Milster, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Surface Characterization with Non-Linear
Microscopy
Emily Mackelprang
PSYCHOLOGY
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Judith V. Becker, Ph.D., Psychology
Steven Goldman, MD, Cardiology
What’s the Difference? A Comparison
of the MSI-II Protocols of Male and Female
Sexual Offenders
Development and Testing of a Tissue
Engineered Cardiac Construct for Treatment of
Chronic Heart Failure
Marvin Langston
Merica McNeil
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Leslie K. Dennis, Ph.D., Public Health
Robert Ariew, Ph.D., French and Italian
Spatially Derived Risk Factors for
Cutaneous Melanoma
Analyzing a Group Project in Online Language
Teacher Education
Andrew Laskowski
SeyedSoroush Mehravar
OPTICAL SCIENCES
GEOSCIENCES
Paul A. Kapp, Ph.D., Geosciences
Khanh Q. Kieu, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Geological Investigation of India-Asia Suturing
and Tibetan Orogenesis in the Lopu Kangri
Range, South-Central Tibet
Design and Development of Compact
Multiphoton Microscopes
Chia-Ling Li
NATURAL RESOURCES
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Jose M. Sasian, Ph.D.,
Optical Sciences, Astronomy
An Adaptive Dispersion Formula for
Chromatic Aberration Correction and
Polarization Aberration Analyses in Plane
Symmetric Optical Systems
Melissa Merrick
John L. Koprowski, Ph.D.,
Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Proximate Cues and Ultimate Consequences
for Natal Dispersal and Settlement in an
Altered Forest Landscape: Influence of
Experience, Behavior, and Habitat
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 39
NASA was only 2 years old and little was known about the moon when astronomer Gerard Kuiper
boldly established a Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the UA in 1960. But it paid off when NASA
needed to know if it would be safe to land on the moon, and the UA assured NASA that it was.
Kelly Miller
Lilian Patron
David Rockoff
PLANETARY SCIENCES
NEUROSCIENCE
STATISTICS
Dante S. Lauretta, Ph.D., Planetary Sciences
Richard Levine, Ph.D.,
Neuroscience, Physiology
Nicole Kersting, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
The Rumuruti Chondrite Record of a VolatileRich Environment in the Early Solar System
Corey Montaño
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Carl J. Liaupsin, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Improving Treatment Integrity of Function
Based Interventions Using Function
Based Supports
Roman Nikolaev
dWDR40A is Required for Synaptic
Structure and Function at the Drosophila
Neuromuscular Junction
Nathan Pierce
Jose Rosado-Toro
NATURAL RESOURCES
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
Steven R. Archer, Ph.D., Natural Resources
The Influence of Plant Neighborhood
Configuration on Intra- and Interspecific
Grass-Shrub Interactions
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dennis Pollow, Jr.
Paulette Kurzer, Ph.D.,
Government and Public Policy
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Heddwen L. Brooks, Ph.D., Physiology
Varieties of Islamism: Differences in Political
Party Ideology in Democracies
Estrogen and T Cell-Mediated Regulation of
Ang II Hypertension in Female Mice
Stefanie Novak
Aloah Pope
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
NATURAL RESOURCES
Carol C. Gregorio, Ph.D.,
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Howard R. Gimblett, Ph.D., Natural
Resources, Landscape Architecture
Elucidating the Mechanisms Regulating
Cardiac Cytoarchitecture
CHEMISTRY
Coupling Agent-based Models with Bayesian
Belief Networks in Social-ecological Systems
Modeling: the Role of Uncertainty in the
Resilience of Semi-Arid Riparian Corridors in
the Sonoran Desert
Danzhou Yang, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Steven Randall
Buket Onel
Promoter G-quadruplexes and their
Interactions with Ligand and Proteins
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
TEACHING
Denise Osborne
An Exploration of a University Academic
Bridge Program for English Language Learners
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Miguel Simonet, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
The Acquisition of Fine Phonetic Detail in a
Foreign Language
L. Parchment
LINGUISTICS
Andrew B. Wedel, Ph.D., Linguistics,
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
A Randomization Test for the Detection of
Differential Item Functioning
Douglas Adamson, Ph.D., English
Rustin Reed
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
Eric A. Lutz, Ph.D., Public Health
Evaluation and Comparison of Diesel
and GDiesel® Fuel Emission Exposures in
Underground Mining
Robin Reineke
ANTHROPOLOGY
Jeffrey J. Rodriguez, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Analysis of Right Ventricles using Cardiac
Magnetic Resonance Images
Malena Salinas
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
Sonia Colina, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
Undergraduate Translator Education in Chile:
An Inquiry into Teacher and Student Thinking,
Learning Experiences and Teaching Practices
Alexander Sandweiss
MEDICAL PHARMOCOLOGY
Edward D. French, Ph.D., Pharmacology
The Role of Substance p in Opioid Addiction
Youngmin Seo
ASTRONOMY
Yancy L. Shirley, Ph.D., Astronomy
The L1495-B218 Filaments in Taurus seen
in NH3 and CCS and Dynamical Stability of
Filaments and Dense Cores in the Filaments
Megan Sheehan
ANTHROPOLOGY
Jennifer Roth Gordon, Ph.D., Anthropology
Everyday Visibility: Race, Migration, and
National Identity in Santiago, Chile
Taylor Shingler
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Armin Sorooshian, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering,
Public Health
The Impact of Input Variability on the
Performance of a Computational Model of
Phonemic Acquisition
Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D., Anthropology
Minkyu Park
Diane Richardson
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
TRANSCULTURAL GERMAN STUDIES
Shane A. Snyder, Ph.D.,
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chantelle N. Reynwar, Ph.D.,
German Studies
Attenuation of Trace Organic Compounds by
Oxidative and Adsorptive Processes in Water
Reuse
A Pedagogy of Ambiguity
William H. Beezley, Ph.D., History
Irene Robles-Lopez
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Cuando los Conquistadores se Cayeron:
Aviation and Modernity in Mexico,
1928 to 1960
Jill Koyama, Ph.D.,
Educational Policy Studies and Practice
Rolando Solano
Latino Males in the Borderland: A Case
Study Analysis of the Aspects in Support of
Successful Transfer from the Community
College to the University
Ofelia Zepeda, Ph.D., Linguistics,
Language, Reading and Culture
Raj Patel
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Samuel H. Yalkowsky, Ph.D.,
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Prediction of Maximum Well-absorbed
Oral Dose
Naming the Dead: Identification and
Ambiguity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
40 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Investigations of Physicochemical Properties
of Size-Resolved, Subsaturated, Atmospheric
Aerosol Particles: Instrument Development,
Field Measurements, and Data Analysis
Peter Soland
HISTORY
LINGUISTICS
Tonal Phonetics, Phonology and Literacy in
the Me’phaa Vátháá Community
In October 1926, John F. “Button” Salmon, one
of the most popular players on the football team
and president of the student body, was critically
injured in an automobile accident on the Phoenix
highway. Shortly before his death on Oct. 18, 1926,
Athletic Director J.F. McKale visited him, and asked
if he had any message for the team. Whether truth
or legend, Button is reported to have said, “Tell
them … tell them to bear down.”
A year later, in December 1927, the men’s junior
honorary organization, Chain Gang, sponsored a
fundraising dance to paint “Bear Down” on the
roof of the gymnasium. A professional sign painter
was hired to outline the letters, and the Chain
Gang members completed the job in early 1928.
Goffredina Spano
Matthew Turley
Beverly Washington
PSYCHOLOGY
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
NURSING
Jamie Edgin, Ph.D., Psychology
Michelle M. Perfect, Ph.D.,
Disability and Psychoeducational Studies
Lois J. Loescher, Ph.D., RN, FAAN,
Nursing, Public Health
The Impact of Trauma on Cognitive and
Achievement Abilities of Youth with Type 1
diabetes.
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Guide
Development of a Questionnaire to Assess
Correlates of African American Breast Cancer
Survivors’ Intentions to Prevent Weight Gain
Rethinking Memory Development: Sleep,
Memory, and Perception in a Developmental
Memory Disorder
Brintha Sriskandarajah
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Sabrina V. Helm, Ph.D.,
Family and Consumer Sciences
Mindful Consumption
Megan Stone
LINGUISTICS
Laura Velazquez, V
Veronika Williams
SPANISH
Malcolm A. Compitello, Ph.D.,
Spanish and Portuguese
¿Ortega y Unamuno: La dimensión espacial?
Saumya Vanderwyst
Heidi B. Harley, Ph.D., Linguistics
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Idioms in the Lexicon: Theoretical
and Experimental Perspectives
Patrick L. Tsai, MD, Opthalmology
Jennifer K. Barton, Ph.D., BIO5 Institute
Chris Summitt
Laminins in Schlemm’s Canal Extracellular
Matrix and Their Relationship to Optic Nerve
Head Diseases
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Yuzuru Takashima, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Lithographic Fabrication Process for
Micro-Free-Form Optical Components
Peng Sun
PLANETARY SCIENCES
J. R. Jokipii, Ph.D.,
Planetary Sciences, Astronomy
Charge Particle Transport in Solar
Wind Type Turbulent Magnetic Fields
Michelle Thompson
PLANETARY SCIENCES
Thomas J. Zega, Ph.D.,
Planetary Sciences, Materials Science
and Engineering
Understanding Space Weathering of
Asteroids and the Lunar Surface: Analysis of
Experimental Analogs and Samples from the
Hayabusa and Apollo Missions
Joseph Tillotson, III
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Jim M. Cushing, Ph.D., Mathematics
On the Dynamic Dichotomy between Positive
Equilibria and Synchronous 2-cycles in Matrix
Population Models
Luis Vila-Henninger
SOCIOLOGY
An Evaluation of a Program for Intentional
Learning: A Hybrid Approach to Fostering
Learner Autonomy
Ronnie Williams, Jr.
MATHEMATICS
Romyar Sharifi, Ph.D., Mathematics
August Woerner
GENETICS
Michael F. Hammer, Ph.D.,
Arizona Research Labs, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
John D. Kececioglu, Ph.D.,
Computer Science
Jeffery J. Sallaz, Ph.D., Sociology
Jane R. Zavisca, Ph.D., Sociology
Case Studies in Bioinformatics and
Population Genetics
Direct Democracy in America:
How Voters Evaluate Market Regulation
Sarah Wolff
Peter Vinton
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, Ph.D.,
Anthropology
Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D. Anthropology
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Ted Weinert, Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cellular Biology
erv14: Revealing the Cost of Enhanced
DNA Repair and Maintenance
Kevin Vitayaudom
Eli Chapman, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology and Toxicology
OPTICAL SCIENCES
Michael Hart, Ph.D., Optical Sciences
Targeting Cap-Dependent Translation
Faint Object Detection of Microsatellite
Companions in Geosynchronous Orbit
ANTHROPOLOGY
Food on Parade: The Use of Food to Create
Social Identity and Status Differences
within the Post-Civil War U.S. Army at
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
James Worthington
LANGUAGE, READING AND CULTURE
William Waldrip
Kathleen G. Short, Ph.D.,
Teaching, Learning and
Sociocultural Studies
GEOSCIENCES
Mihai N. Ducea, Ph.D., Geosciences
Paul A. Kapp, Ph.D., Geosciences
Entering into Particulars: Re-conceptualizing
Adolescence through Young Adult Literature
and Critical Narrative Pedagogy
Geochemical Changes to Arc Magmatism
in South Central Tibet During the
India-Asia Collision
Sarah Truebe
Kevin Ward
GEOSCIENCES
GEOSCIENCES
Jonathan Overpeck, Ph.D.,
Geosciences, Atmospheric Sciences
Julia E. Cole, Ph.D., Geosciences
Susan Beck, Ph.D., Geosciences
Past Climate, Modern Caves, and Future
Resource Management in Speleothem
Paleoclimatology
Suzanne K. Panferov, Ph.D., Second
Language Acquisition and Teaching
Level Compatibility in the Passage from
Modular Symbols to Cup Products
Amy Veprauskas
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
Celeste Trimble
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
AND TEACHING
GEOSCIENCES
Paul A. Kapp, Ph.D., Geosciences
Late Paleozoic Tectonomagmatic Evolution
of the Southwestern Tian Shan; Did the Pamir
Gneiss Domes and Salient Form by Northward
Underthrusting of India or Southward
Subduction and Rollback of Asia?
Shan Yu
MANAGEMENT
Mrinal G. Ghosh, Ph.D., Marketing
Money-Back Guarantee and Service Quality
Mehdi Zamanipour
Imaging the Lithospheric Structure of the
Central Andes from the Joint Inversion of
Multiple Seismic Data Sets
SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
K. Larry Head, Ph.D.,
Systems and Industrial Engineering
A Unified Decision Framework for MultiModal Traffic Signal Control Optimization in a
Connected Vehicle Environment
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 41
Laura Zambrano-Vazquez
PSYCHOLOGY
John J.B. Allen, Ph.D., Psychology
The Interaction of State and Trait Worry on
Response Monitoring in Those with Worry and
Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Elly Zimmer
LINGUISTICS
Cecile M. McKee, Ph.D., Linguistics
Children’s Awareness of Syntactic Ambiguity
Dee Zuganelli
SOCIOLOGY
Celestino Fernandez, Ph.D., Sociology
Robin S. Stryker, Ph.D., Sociology
Chicano Studies: Proliferation of the
Discipline and the Formal Institutionalization
of Community Engagement, 1965 to Present
DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Christina E. Oré de Boehm
PUBLIC HEALTH
Cecilia B. Rosales, Ph.D., Public Health
Yaqui Health Development: A Framework
for Assessing Capacity within a Yaqui Public
Health System
Stephen S Michael
PUBLIC HEALTH
Douglas L. Taren, Ph.D., Public Health
Smoking in a Sexual Minority Youth:
A Comparison of Two National Cohorts
Julie Anne Tippens
PUBLIC HEALTH
Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone, Ph.D.,
Public Health, Anthropology
Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing in an
Environment of Risk: A Mixed Methods
Exploration of Urban Congolese Refugee
Resilience in Kenya
42 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
MASTER’S
DEGREES
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 43
2o
16
MASTER’S DEGREES
DEGREES
CONFERRED
FALL 2015
Accounting
Miwa Block
Sihan Cheng
Yifan Feng
Graham Hemmingson
Nathan Kometh
Douglas Shanton
Nathalie Sheriff
Charlie Taylor
Meghan Walkovich
Chong Wang
Jingmin Wang
Xiu Wang
Yilin Wang
Xixi Wu
Dan You
Sheng Yuan
Xiaojiao Zhong
Liuchen Zhou
Tianbang Zhu
Aerospace Engineering
Andrew Law
Agricultural and
Biosystems Engineering
Ying Zhang
Agricultural and
Resource Economics
Nurseit Baizhanov
Agricultural Education
Kristen Wagner
American Indian Studies
Sean Omeara
Anthropology
Sharlot Hart
Ismael Morales
Applied Biosciences
Jesse Calabrese
Crystal Cardoza
Victoria Duckworth
Olin Feuerbacher
Trinity Gary
Erin Kuroiwa
Nicholas Maksim
Daniel O’Connor
Architecture
Shaghayegh Ansari
Miassar Bakri
Engy Elwekil
Paola Moreno
Kimia Pakfar
Fatemeh Zadeh
Art
Rui Qi
Art Education
Laura Fiesel
Lisa Sekulich
Art History
Erica Gilliland
Megan Whitney
Atmospheric Sciences
Matthew King
Business Administration
Igor Archipov
Constance Bell
Taylor Bell
Rohan Beri
Edward Besta, Jr.
Charlie Buchanan
Timothy Burgess
Jeffrey Burrows
Andrea Butterbrodt
Mario Calderon
Eduardo Caratachea
Jeremy Castle
Albert Cattell
Betsy Chernoff
Yontaek Choi
Dereck Clark
David Cox
Justin Cranmer
Louis Crespo
Daniel Deschinny, Jr.
Richard Dewey
Philip Dobbin
Meredith Doran
Maria Duenas
Brian Edgar
William Erly
John Eyre
Rodrigo Fernandez
Michael Flores
Jason Fodeman
Felipe Franco
Timothy Fredlake
Magdalena Funk
Jose Garcia
Thomas Gessel
Calvin Gibby
Jessica Godard
Leah Gomez
Ryan Graves
Jason Gray
Mark Groulx
Lisette Guevara
Jeffrey Guilfoyle
Veenu Gupta
Robert Hadley
Matthew Hall
Sri Hari
James Heaslet
Brad Hill
44 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Sahra Hirsi
Steven Hollar
Timothy Hower, Jr.
Ian Hubbell
Adrianna Huff
Randy Huggins, Jr.
Stephanie Ierley
Bradley Isbell
Marites John
Lynsey Johnsen
Justin Johnson
Ann Jones
Slobodan Jovanovic
Atin Kapadia
Diana Kennedy
Patrick Kerrigan
Justin Kirk
Jefferson Klocke
Andrew Klos
Richard Kovacik
Michael Koza
Miles Krieger
Matthew Lafflam
Julia Levine
Tyson Leyendecker
Max Lieberman
Katherine Logue
Casey Lynch
Michael Marsh
Brian Marx
Jonathan Millay
Michelle Miller
Kristi Mizner
Regina Najera
Ralph Oberhuber
Colleen O'Brien
Scott Odom
Lauren Ortega
Juan Pantoja
Getesh Parshotam
Satish Pattisapu
Todd Payton
Luke Puleo
Kelly Raach
Rohit Rao
Joshua Reed
Bryan Reisner
Gregory Rentfrow
Amanda Reyes
Paul Rice
Rebecca Richmond
Brant Roberts
Courtney Rogers
Stephen Roman
Joel Rosenblatt
Lisa Rulney
Shrinivas Sadachar
Amanda Schleicher
Alyssa Schore
Mathew Schubach
Bryan Severino
Hsi-Ping Shen
Jennifer Sia
Eric Siegfried
Devin Simmons
Christian Simms
Robin Singer
Aaron Smith
Christopher Smurthwaite
Zachary Sonnenberg
Soniyi Soyannwo
Victoria Soyannwo
Amrit Sraow
Anthony Stazzone
Ryan Tevis
Thomas Trewinnard
Wyatt Unger
David Valade
Juan Vega
Kathleen Viskocil
Michael Warner
Jennifer Weber
Jeffrey Weiss
Bowe Williams
Andrew Wood
Scott Yakoubek
Micah Zahler
Nicholas Zima
Cellular and
Molecular Medicine
Alexandria Chaput
Chemical Engineering
Marwan Abduljawad
Amanda Laughlin
Xuehui Li
Russell Ruanto
Chemistry
Wendy Lindsey
Taylor Youtsler
Civil Engineering and
Engineering Mechanics
Sonia Sarmiento
Classics
Jesse Munoz
Clinical Translational
Science
Napoleon Rubio
Communication
Sara Kim
David Rosteck
Computer Science
Avi Dubey
Rahul Kamath
Sachin Nalavattanon
Counseling
Melissa Auvine
Analia Cuevas
Lindsay Janes
Sonja Melton
Engelbert Mittermayr
Alicia Powell
Kelsi Redding
John Richer
Tyrone Shealy, II
Creative Writing
Jan Bindas-Tenney
Nina Boutsikaris
Jarrett Eakins
Ryan Grandick
Nicholas Greer
Maya Kapoor
Lela MacNeil
Morgan Miller
Miguel Ramirez, III
Jonathan Riccio
Adam Sirgany
Sara Vaughan
Ingrid Wenzler
Development Practice
Mariela Castaneda
East Asian Studies
Jin Zhang
Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Timothy O’Connor
Ryan Ruboyianes
Engineering
Briana Anderson
Jeffrey Cornoyer
Ahmad Fakhouri
Morgan Ross
Engineering Management
Economic Geology
Juan Fajardo
Hayley Witt
Raquel Garcia
Luis Salido
English
Grace Hughes
Emma Miller
Lily Pape
Economics
Siquan Chen
Jackson Dorsey
My Ho
Xinyuan Liu
Yisang Park
Jinyeong Sohn
Jingjing Song
English as a
Second Language
Jeannette Bell
Epidemiology
Educational Leadership
Alicia Sorenson
Educational Psychology
Charlene Bruce
Kyla Rischard
Educational Technology
Adolfo Centeno
Leala Cochran
Jose Corrales, Jr.
Meredith Parker
Audrey Sienkiewicz
Dawna Sipe
Ivan Soto
Victoria Hansen
Finance
Jieling Ai
Siyue Dai
Nicole Filicetti
Spencer Heath
Hongya Li
Jacob Rocker
Hao Wu
Shuangchen Wu
Yiyun Xia
French
Cecilia Siruno
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Jose Acedo
Shoaib Bhuria
Dewayne Byrnes, III
Achyuth Chakravarthy
Sean Dalton
Nicholas Fragiskatos
Eric Groot
Charles Iglehart
Tao Jiang
Vincent Leonard
Boyang Li
An Liu
Christopher Lynn
Spencer Marcy
Efreim Morales
Sudarshan Sargur
Pratik Satam
Shemal Shroff
Shashank Sivakumar
Bayan Sobhani
Yang Song
Kevin Thompson
Junyuan Xiang
Di Xiao
Yameng Zhou
Gender and
Women’s Studies
William Barksdale
Shasta Inman
Elizabeth Kinnamon
Carmen Monge
Ellie Wood
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 45
The original wildcat mascot arrived on campus
Oct. 17, 1915, and was introduced to the student
body the following day at assembly in Herring Hall.
He was the gift of the freshman football team,
which had raised the funds ($9.91) to purchase him.
He was officially named “Rufus Arizona,” after
UA President Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
On April 17, 1916, Rufus died. The Arizona
Wildcat reported that:
Geographic Information
Systems Technology
Naveed Ahmed
Shannon Apgar-Kurtz
Maree Archuleta
Robert Breeding
Melinda Brown
Juan Canez
Gregory Christakos
Kara Clauser
Rachael Cushman
Benjamin Denton
Lauren Dreyfuss
Jieru Hu
Michael Joslin
Abdulai Kondeh
Laura Mawhinney
Kenneth McCormack
Lori Radcliffe-Meyers
Amy Read
Alexander Smith
Sandra Steichen
Russell Sullivan
Imtiaz Syed
Stephen Tham
Myles Traphagen
Duane Yazzie
Geography
Noah Coats
Michelle Coe
Emma Lawlor
Roy Petrakis
Government and
Public Policy
Bryan Cortez
History
Kaitlyn Fackrell
Matthew Kieliszewski
Human Language
Technology
Michael Capizzi
Hydrology
Susan Harris
Saeahm Kim
Alissa White
Hydrometeorology
William Lytle
Industrial Engineering
Sandeep Punj
Chao Wu
Yifan Zhao
International Security
Amber Baker
Jesus Campa
Ian Cruikshank
Alexander Dowds
Catherine Fairbanks
Lisa Fayed
john Jones
Kevin King
Christopher Lees
Alexander Mitchell
Michael Pederson
Whitney Price
James Saxon
Logan Schaub
Aaron Seastrand
Lucas Thorne
Blair Tushaus
Kayleigh Wallace
Chad Warren
Jeremy Weinke
Journalism
Musherf Alamri
Landscape Architecture
Lee Eubank
Michael Saer
Language, Reading and
Culture
Michelle Andaloro
Amanda Harakal
Marisol Salazar
Mary Young
Latin American Studies
Erin Fiorini
Lucas Lynch
Library and
Information Science
Stephanie Anderson
Emily Besich
Barbara Brown
Samantha Campas
Margaret Chesley
Craig Cohen, Jr.
Erica Jackson
Taylor Johnson
Janice Koenig
Margaret Miller
Monika Musial
Melissa Pressman
Victoria Salajko
Jasmine Smith
Management
Jia Chen
Arti Gandhi
Ignacio Rodriguez
Management
Information Systems
Lokesh Agrawal
Rachel Almond
Fnu Anand
Tanvi Arjunwadkar
Ananyaa Arora
Carl Burgess
Kevin Cassada
46 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
“While endeavoring to perform gymnastic stunts
in the limbs of a tree to which he was tied, Rufus
Arizona ... fell and was hung.”
Note: Never tie a feline to a tree. Rufus was
memorialized in verse and a Wildcat editorial,
which noted that his “growls urged our team to
victory” and spoke of his “strength, alertness,
tenacity — the true Arizona spirit.” Rufus had
several successors in later years.
Chenjie Chen
Di Chen
Ping Chen
Zhijiang Chen
Megha Chilana
Neil Dacanay
Mansi Desai
Kanika Dhyani
Justin Dvorak
Jordan Edris
Mark Eldridge
James Emling
Jon Erickson
Gregory Ford
Chirag Garg
Ankan Gaur
Siva Gavara
Swetha Gorrela
Dongxin Han
Ravi Hariani
Justin Horne
Shaundra Houston
Anu Jacob
Mangesh Jadhav
Arun Jalanila
Rishika Jolly
Akash Joshi
Sanket Joshi
Prashant Karnad
Chanpreet Kaur
Nancy Khanduja
Samantha Kluth
Pooja Kodali
Joe Koolippurackal
Amit Kumar
Ha Lam
Tang Lee
Binbin Li
Wanyi Lu
Manu Mathur
Karthikeyan Moorthy
Rahul Nadathur
Gayathri Nallore
Karan Nandwani
Anthony Nellisherry
Bhavna Oberai
Ramakanth Pallavali
Aditya Ramani
Anuja Ravande
Jorge Rodriguez
Andrea Ronér
Steven Saunders
Max Scartezina
Darshil Shah
Riddhi Shah
Harman Shera
Chirag Shetty
Davinder Singh
Saurabh Siroya
Falguni Sonawala
Anirudh Soundararajan
David Spinelli
Jagannathan Subramaniam
Old Main, 1909
Aravind Subramoney
Vishwanath Tanneeru
Kandarp Thakar
Kushagra Tiwari
Ajit Umale
Aishwarya Venkatachari
Muralidhar Vijayakumar
John Vitolas
Dianne Witt
Sidhardha Yepuri
Chung-Cheng Yu
Atul Zachariah
Shiqi Zhang
Materials Science and
Engineering
Samuel Angart
Nicholas Krasnow
Mechanical Engineering
Ethan Boroson
Middle Eastern and North
African Studies
Paul Brown
Molecular and Cellular
Biology
Julie Huynh
Music
Hillary Engel
Kathy Zavala
Natural Resources
Shannon McNeil
Robert Shepard
Nursing
Amy Alberts
Kristina Bardwell
Christina Becerra
Karina Bechtold
Suzanne Blixt
Jennifer Booze-Hawkes
Celeste Braly
Sarah Brantner
Traci Brockhus
Jennifer Brown
Patricia Bush
Amy Butler
Melissa Cassidy
Sandra Chandler
Kathryn Chappell
Brian Cobbs
Elaine Cooley
Darrell Cooper
Heather Couch
Jennifer Curtis
Jessica Curtis
Kylee Dalene
Mellissa Davis
Christina DeRosa
Dana DeSapio
Katie Dozbaba
Mary England
Xin Fan
Nicole Feldmeyer
Julia Fitzpatrick
Catherine Fleischer
Liana Flores
Tia Foukas
Gaila Gache
Shannon Gambee
Deni Gardner
Elizabeth Gminski
Chassitie Gomez
Brian Greenbush
Tolulope Green-Yesu
Maria Guillen
Sarah Haddix
Margie Hamlin
Rowyn Harlan
Kelly Harris
Diane Hiel
Bonnie Hoewing
Elda Hovsepian
Titilayo Igbekoyi
Cynthia Jackson
Naundria Jackson
Lindsay Johnson
Susan Jostes
Lisa Jouppi
Kimberly Kamps
David Kent
Amy Kijewski
Ronald Klug
Julie LaPlante
Laurel Layton
Amy Ledesma
Nasslynne Lenz
Violeta Lewis
Kacey Lohmann
Carrie Lopez
Sabrina Luce
Shaye Mascall
Emily Mastin
Jeanine Maurer
Suzana McGowan
Jennifer McInnis
John Mercado
Pamela Mertz
Angela Miller
Tetyana Missey
Samone Mock
Alecia Murphy
Kimberly Noumi
Jenna Oaks
Ida Obeso
Matthew O'Donnell
Sean Olsen
Lisa Pacheco
Dena Payne
Terri Pettry
Anne Piper
Kathryn Plaxco
Jennifer Quam
Erin Rasmussen
Gena Reed-Roberson
Morgan Reimann
Kristine Rizo
Lianne Robertson
Bailey Rogers
Christin Salzman
Prabhdeep Sandhu
Krupa Shah
Sheri Shaw
Beth Shindler
Melinda Sims
Georgia Smith
Hilary Smith
Sarah Stoit
Oana Stratman
Shelby Taillon
Anjanette Techmeyer
Amanda Tong
Nicole Vienneau
Sarah Volk
Kati Wijdenes
Bethany Williams
Bethany Wintczak
Teresa Wong
Yuhong Zhou
Optical Sciences
Kasarachi Aguwa
Jeffrey Davis
Akira Eguchi
Alonzo Espinoza
Nasrin Ghanbari
Christopher Janich
Justin Knight
Roger Lucheta
Donglin Ma
Bo Miller
Evan Richards
Randy Scott
Ross Uthoff
Mark Wiley
Jilin Yang
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Eric Lau
Philosophy
Richard Garzon
Planetary Sciences
Patricio Becerra
Ali Bramson
Davin Flateau
James Keane
Thaddeus Komacek
Margaret Landis
Kelly Miller
Jamie Molaro
Sarah Morrison
Michelle Thompson
Jess Vriesema
Psychology
Alisabeth Ayars
Yating Liu
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Gen. John J. Pershing
Public Administration
Rochelle Cox
Mariela Jaramillo
Brendan Martin
Anthony Pena
Daniel Wilson
Public Health
Audrey Alva
Erika Barrett
Thomas Cahir
Cheryl Craig
Shiana Ferng
Deidre Greyeyes
Constance Howard
Chance Leonard
Ivy Lin
Kathleen Pettit
Cindy Quintero
Jason Rivera
Sukeshi Roberts
Brittany Shutes
Dawn Stokka
Andrea Wheeler
Real Estate Development
Richa Singh
Gry Sundet
Russian
Aleksey Novikov
Adam Starbuck
School Psychology
Megan Beardmore
Imelda Murrieta
Second Language
Acquisition and Teaching
Kristin Lange
Christine Palumbo
Secondary Education
Gabriela Amavizca
Lauren Merkwan
Dawn Myers
Sociology
Justin Knoll
Spanish
Rosa Aguirre
Special Education
Laura Allocco
Marquetta Crossman
Cynthia Davis
Natalie Davis
Marcy Follett
Gabriel Gibbons
Jennifer Hill
Dana Holladay
Alexander Lacy
Jonathan Novak
Cindy Peterson
Carla Prichard
Awad Ramdan
Jessica Ringenback
Jordan Schwalbach
Statistics
Julia Fisher
Sara Ziebell
Systems Engineering
Febisola Deko
Sergio Gomez, Jr.
Sara Minaeian
Teaching and Teacher
Education
Janine Bennette
Tracie Ert
Eric Flewelling
Haley Gallagher
Maria Javier
Elizabeth McDonald
Adam Middleton
Elizabeth Warner
Water, Society and Policy
Nathaniel Delano
Reshet Gebremariam
Aerospace Engineering
Timothy Ashcraft
Corrianne Lamkin
James Powell
Nathan Sheets
Agricultural and Biosystems
Engineering
Kayla Bertsch
Caitlyn Hall
Shiwei He
William Kacheris
Agricultural and Resource
Economics
Joshua Albright
Xuan Barletta
Niloy Chowdhury
Theresa Duffy
John Flaherty
Ashutosh Kumar
Kenneth Lewis, III
Wenjun Wu
Xiaoyi Yang
Agricultural Education
Sonora Cubillas
Teresa DeKoker
McKinley Reed
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WINTER 2015
American Indian Studies
Cellular and Molecular
Medicine
Animal Sciences
Roger Sean Tseng
Library and
Information Science
Maryellen Authier
Emily Lauren Howard
Lucia McBride
Eric-John Courtney Tate
Microbiology
John George McMullen, II
Mining, Geological and
Geophysical Engineering
Rebecca Grace Copp
Natural Resources
Alexis H. Arizpe
Plant Pathology
Kayla R. Arendt
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Accounting
Chao Wei
48 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan
Elizabeth Shulterbrandt
Joseph Mishak
Monique Torres
Lindsay Vance
Anthropology
Kassi Bailey
Richard Higgins
Luke Kaiser
Heather Miljour
Jay Stephens
Applied Biosciences
Dustin Daniel
Siyuan Feng
Fnu Fuayagem
Dakota Maness
Conor Quinlan
Chama Rezkallah
Alfred Stangl
Bryanne Wadington
Applied Mathematics
Jesse Adams
Architecture
Hourieh Ahmadnia
Mosad Alhawas
Abrar Alkadi
Khader Barnawi
Ivan Camacho
Situated at the west entrance of Old Main, the Memorial Fountain,
honoring those UA students who lost their lives in World War I, was the
gift of Alexander Berger, an uncle of Alexander Tindolph Berger, one of
those to whose memory it is dedicated.
Andrew Cook
Trevor Cordivari
Charles Garney
Zachary Kutchin
Jim Wright
Art
Anthony Barron, Jr.
Brian Ganter
Lara Haddad
Jiasi He
Katherine Killian
Ryan Napier
Andrew Shuta
Art Education
Christine Broduer
Taylor Miller
Tomomi Sakamoto
Art History
Sarah Baker
Janette Ruiz
Marie Teemant
Aubree Zdanovec
Atmospheric Sciences
Gabriel Moreno
Konstantine Pryles
Wenfu Tang
Biochemistry
Amanda Hanson
Biomedical Engineering
Kyle Hadinger
Kaitlin Harpel
Philemon Mikail
Diana Montoya
Ryan Rath
Biostatistics
Jessika Ava
Valerie Cousineau
Kevin Doubleday
Brenda Vincent
Jing Zhai
Business Administration
Ashraf Abdellatif
William Allison
Kelly Beahan
Jesse Bertin
Timothy Cawthorne
Jason Ferris
Janani Gopinath
Christopher Gutierrez
Dushyanth Hegde
Bernardo Higuera Inzunza
Armando Ibarra
Patrick Kazar
Charles Kharrl
Seda Koyluoglu
Nishant Kumar
Brett Leverett
Yi-Chiang Lin
On Jan. 31, 1920, the Memorial Fountain in front of Old Main was dedicated
amid a huge turnout of students, faculty, townspeople, and military who
had come to honor the University’s World War I dead and to greet the guest
of honor, Gen. John J. Pershing. General Pershing’s speech was brief and
impressive, following which the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was
conferred upon him by President von KleinSmid.
Supriya Lal
Sumit Mandal
Ann Mathew
Deepak Muddebihal
Srinidhi Rajanarayanan
Nathaniel Sema
Shashwat Sher
Praharsh Srinivasula
Rahul Vemuri
Jason Marietta
Joshua Mickler
Navin Mohan
Jayati Naswa
Ravital Ofir
John O'Hair
Atul Patel
Rahul Prayakarao
Lee Pusateri
James Rein
Joray Robinson
Christopher Silman
Rohit Sonik
Richard Triana, II
Daniel Womack
Counseling
Cellular and Molecular
Medicine
Arati Babaria
Guadalupe Dávila
Jeremey Gneck
Audriana Hurbon
Daniel Lee
Shuaizhi Li
Anthony Maltagliati
Nirushan Narendran
Sarah Pace
Chana Paluszcyk
Danny Robles
Emily Rodela
Hannah Shy
Ngoc Van
Creative Writing
Chemical Engineering
Mohammed Hantoosh, Jr.
Paul Nakazato
Chemistry
Dmytro Bandak
Brandon Cornali
Jessica Roberts
Matthew Swan
Paco Cantu
Joel Hans
William Slattery
Dance
Magdalena Kaczmarska
Danielle Sheather
Myra Veluz
Lindsey Worley
Development Practice
Civil Engineering and
Engineering Mechanics
Grecia Falcon
Michael Potucek
Rebeca Reyes
Emma Barker-Perez
Albert Casella
Ashley Erbe
Sophia Jones
Daniel Kebede
Kierstin Kohn
Nikki Skelton
East Asian Studies
Classics
Matthew Barnes
Min Chen
Zhuofei Cheng
Eduardo Cuellar
Xin He
Christianne Ono
Shannon Ells
Ian Merrill
Communication
Candace Manriquez
Farah Qadar
Samantha Stanley
Eric Tsetsi
Computer Science
Shubham Agarwal
Shivkanth Bagavathy
Aarthy Bhaskar
Steven Brener
Aditya Kousik
Hannah Beer
Jennifer Clos
Stephanie Cook
Jessica Dinius
Eric Estrada-Grijalva
Andrea Gomez
Carlos Gómez
John Herycyk
David Howard
Fred Huang
Priscila Matei
Anna Panaligan
Toni Saia
Sarah Seavey
Jessica Spigner
Brianna Williams
Traci Zweig
Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Amanda Henderson
Economic Geology
Andrew Early
Alexandra Macho
Matthew Wetzel
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Steward Observatory, 1923
Educational Leadership
Nancy Acosta
Rosa Alvarez
Daniel Boice
Alex Callahan
Lourdes Cirerol
Teddy DeSouza
Lori Felix
Viridiana Fimbres
Alejandro Gonzalez
Xin Guan
Patricia Hurley
Tracey Klell
Jennifer Newman
Steven Spiece
Tamela Thomas
Josef Torres
Educational Psychology
Benjamin Caldera
Naichuan Cao
Lauren Pierce
Michael Riley
Educational Technology
Jonathan Borgwing
Paula Corrette-Fay
Talia Czerr
Clinton Hardwick
Kimberly Mast
Sahara Salas
Stacie Widdifield
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Aditya Annigere
Akshaya Appaswamy
Ryan Biggie
Kai Chen
Siteng Chen
Badrunnahar Chowdhury
Wesley Folz
Bo Gong
Shuqing Gu
Ibrahim Hakami
Peter Hall
Amit Juneja
Pavithra Lakshminarayanan
Bo Lei
Xiaoran Li
Sree Malladi
Netraj Mejari
Mark Sellers
Jian Shan
Brad Simons
Sunil Soman
Julia Wetherill
Lan Yang
Lizhuo Yang
Gavin Young
Yiming Zhang
Han Zhao
Jiyang Zhou
Engineering
John Cotter
Mahmoud Dehaybi
Jonathan Dufek
Jack Lundin
Mohammad Sohanaki
Engineering Management
Dario Altamirano
Douglas Barber
Anthony Coleman
Kerry Gonzales
Gladys Guerrero
Sara Jamil
Dhruva Kapoor
Jiao Wang
English
Hunter Knox
Christopher Sloman
English as a
Second Language
Cody Dees
Lauren Harvey
Siti Juwariyah
Nancy Kwoh
Emily Palese
Eric Slaughter
Entomology and
Insect Science
Lydia Brown
Environmental Engineering
Mojtaba Aghdam
Kevin Daniels, Jr.
Weikang Ji
Camila Madeira
Chi Nguyen
Emily Orenstein
Daniel Serwon
Norma Villagomez-Marquez
Bingcong Zhang
Environmental
Health Sciences
Modhi Alshammari
Epidemiology
Alesia Jung
Chelsi White
Family and Consumer
Sciences
Jose Gonzalez
Finance
Abdullah Alawadhi
Ross Tieken
Arthur Weiss
French
Miriam Akoto
Clare Horton
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Abraham Lamptey
William Lebbs
Randy Mastin
Luella Moore
Gerdine Ulysse
Gender and
Women’s Studies
Justin Ostrowski
Susana Sepulveda
General Biology
Tara Lausman
Geographic Information
Systems Technology
Cassandra Fausel
Roland McIntosh
John Silva
Steven Steinmetz
Kyle Valkenburg
Nicholas Zimmermann
Geosciences
Rebecca Beadling
Jennifer Dabbs
Daniel Favorito
Kim Fendrich
Dominik Kardell
Intan Yokelson
German Studies
Nicholas McNutt
Patrick Ploschnitzki
Higher Education
Monique Driver
Monika Honeyestewa
Sarah Kosso
Victoria Outfleet
Michael Palacioz
Alex Romero
Chris Sogge
Carlos Tavares
Anthony Valenzuela
Serena Valle
Hector Villa
History
Nina Bogdan
Clea Conlin
Abram Delecki
Benjamin Flores
Brandon Hermann
Chelsea Párraga
Claire Perrott
Jesus Salazar
Jalyn Wheatley
Human Language
Technology
Raymond Daniels
Heather Lent
Ellyn Matthias
Zachiah Miller
In 1985, UA surgeon Jack Copeland made history when he implanted an artificial heart and went on to
develop the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart — the first one to win FDA approval.
Nicholas Walker
Kai Wong
Hydrology
David Bernard
Chloe Fandel
Rajarshi Mukherjee
Brian Sheppard
Rodrigo Andres Sanchez, Sr.
Han Tang
International Security
Charles Allport
Richard Baxter
Jacob Boisselle
Christopher Browne
Michael Buzzell
Peter Calderon
Juliette Eastwood
Andrew MacNeil
Joseph Melander
Patrick Mulloy
Andrew Ochoa
Moises Ochoa
Joseph Oviatt
Elizabeth Sanchez
Joel Simmons
James Stobie
Ashley Verigood
Journalism
Stephen Choice
Ary Hermawan
Hannah Saletan
Landscape Architecture
Sultan Alamri
Jonathan Marenfeld
Ethan Rapp
Mark Zepp
Language, Reading
and Culture
Aaliah Alhissan
Suzannah Herron
Maritza Olague
Latin American Studies
Katelyn Chisholm
Shahrazad Encinias
Library and
Information Science
Youngwoo Ban
Christine Butkiewicz
Andrea Castaneda
Nicholas Gonzalez
Cordelia Hooee
Robyn Huff-Eibl
Elia Jimenez
John Kyritsis
Victoria Ogino
Jessica Redhouse
Emalie Schaefer
Beau Smith
Microbiology
Carl Smith
Jessica Ugstad
Alicia Zalusky
Ofelia Zepeda
Kamini Joshi
Kyle Jones
Alexandra McMullin
Hannah Saletan
Linguistics
Arlene Hughes
Mining, Geological and
Geophysical Engineering
Management
Evelyn Chau
Liqi Zhou
Karen Roth
Srisharan Shreedharan
Management
Information Systems
Jonathan Alvarez
Julia Callaway
Jeremiah Case
Andrew Chan
Alexander Chang
Saurav Das
Shriranjani Devarajan
Stephen Dolan
Dawei Feng
Jie Feng
Jason Gutierrez
Kanchana Hettiarachchi
Jiayi Hou
Ryan Jicha
Arthur Jicha, III
Ian Kaufer
Yiyi Liang
Brendan McDermott
Shiv Mehra
Jayati Naswa
Jon Nolen
Sameer Patil
Donald Popham
Mazhar Shaik
Xinmei Song
Surya Voleti
Kevin Welsh
Gechen Wu
Carolina Zambrano
Junxian Zhang
Siqian Zhou
Neha Bandekar
Michael Lien
Ian Liu
Michelle Riffer
Travis Struck
Music
Faez Abarca
Laura Boschma
Gregg Brandon
Miguel Campos, III
Lauren Danloe
Eric Fiero
Jinwon Kim
Yunchen Liu
Samantha Luna
Jung Oh
Jessica Pierpont
Michael Royer
James Stirling
Joshua Tan
Aika Tatebe
Bryce Tomlin
Byron Ward
Xiaodi Xu
Natural Resources
Maria Altemus
Jane Barlow
Morgan Brizendine
Kelsey Hawkes
Timothy Jessen
Timothy Lyons
Christina Perez
Kyle Thompson
Roy Ulibarri
Chase Voirin
Jaron Weston
Materials Science
and Engineering
Garrett Coleman
Adam Haas
Ethan Kral
Matthew Munroe
Ankush Nayak
Paul Neff
Magnum Piña
Nursing
Mathematics
Amy Been
Mechanical Engineering
Seyyed Behkam
Brett Wormer
Mexican American Studies
Adrianna Gonzalez
Molecular and
Cellular Biology
Angila Beard
Craig Beckman
Josef Bennett
Karen Britton
Kelly Brobst
Cynthia Carsten
Lu Carter
Alice Charitable
Russell Cormier
Lena Cornell
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 51
Christina DudleyBarry
Gretchen Emery
Sky Everest
Shandelon Garner
Carole Garrett
Angelica Granillo
Stacey Hanover
Lisa Hill
Michael Hubert
Shannon Hunger
Thomas Ismond
Martha Jeffries
Sunny John
Jordan Landrum
Denita Marr
Vanessa Mason
Susan Mayernick
Stacy Meredith
Elizabeth Metcalf
Jonathan Morello
Leighanne Morton
Deborah Neal
Kaitlyn Norris
Ifeyinwa Nwokike
Charene Phillips
Janet Rajczyk
Karin Rallo
Clara Rauch-Davis
Alison Rodriguez
Lisa Ryan
Misty Sangray
Jeannie Shah
Brenna Shatswell
Lindsay Sletten
Donna Snow
Rachel Stageman
Shari Staydohar
Tracy Terrones
Emily Traynham
Lisa Trott
Nutritional Sciences
Meghan Strom
Christopher Ussery
Optical Sciences
Jesse Ball
Joshua Brent
Timothy Grabowski
Christopher Guido
David Hill
Chongyuan Huang
Rhiannon Jenkins
Derek Keyes
Donald Kilgus
Barbara Kruse
Edward LaVilla
Jason Merritt
Bharati Neelamraju
Ruijuan Niu
Garret Odom
Won Park
Maria Ruiz
Litong Shen
Daniel Sickinger
Taylor Sorensen
Patrick Thrasher
Ashley Valdez
Junfeng Wang
Jeffrey Wilhite
Mohan Xu
Yufeng Yan
Jerrod Young
Philosophy
Paul Addison
Pamela Reed
Nelson J. Smith, V
Photonic Communications
Engineering
Sifang Cui
Xiaoyu Yang
Physiological Sciences
Claire DeLucia
Sabine Harrington
Eric Hines
Doraid Sadideen
Sujana Vinjamuri
Andrew Wojtanowski
Planetary Sciences
Sarah Peacock
Planning
Ryan Fagan
Nicole Lavely
Plant Pathology
John Evans
Psychology
Jennifer Duchschere
Peter Helm
Christopher Stare
Cindy Woolverton
Public Administration
Robert Alvarez
Christopher Boyd
Eliab Chavez
Emilia Eldridge
Ryan Gardner
Anthony Garvey
Ashley Gurevitz
William Holst
Jessalynne Howard
Ryan Jones
Eric Larson
Lynette Miller
Keith Murfee-DeConcini
Christopher Saunders
Sara Skiles
Edith Wageman
Leishara Ward
Jieqing Zeng
Public Health
Stephen Barnes
52 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Argelia Benavides
Bryna Bettis
Valerie Bloss
Mandy Boltz
Heidi Bramblett
Stephanie Caler
Demian Castillo
Tracey Cayatineto
Chao Chen
Katelyn Chisholm
Lauren Crow
Steven Erly
Kimberly Fajardo
Troy Foster
Elizabeth Frailey
Christine Girard
Audrey Gray
Jennifer Ha
Krista Hansen
Yuan He
Kelly Heslin
Faihza Hill
Margaret Hill-Kipling
Laura Hoffman
Elizabeth Hunt
Connor Kelley
Nicholas Knutson
Lisa Kopp
Sarah Leffler
Ross Luther, III
Marica Martinic
Samuel McGuffin
Amy McPherson
Laura Morehouse
Terry Mullins
Krysta Myers
Brittany Nigon
April Olson
Samuel Packard
Candalerian Preston
Sarah Rawdin
Amber Roney
Shafquat Saif
Rimpi Saini
Devon Shaffer
Jennifer Shipley
Hannah Stocker
Abigail Stoica
Shikira Suell
Allison Thomas
Leah Tinney
Tammy Trujillo
Michaela Udoko
Amanda Urbina
Joshua Warlick
Daniel Williamson
Russian
Ladonna Burns
Jacob Ornburn
School Psychology
Keri Bressette
It was a sensational 7-6 Arizona football victory
over Pomona College on Nov. 6, 1914, that led to
the building of the “A” on Sentinel Peak, west of
Tucson.
In what was doubtless a burst of enthusiastic pride
for his alma mater, Albert H. Condron, a member
of the 1914 team and a civil engineering student,
suggested to one of his professors that a class
assignment be made to survey Sentinel Peak for
the location of an “A”.
Secondary Education
Jacobo Carrasco
Trisha Carroll
Wayne Catan
L. Corrales
Douglas Crowley
Davey Dolifka
Katrina Durham
Kellie Licking-Murray
Joshua May
Lauren Soest
Casey Willingham
Sociology
Amalia Ashley
Andrew Davis
Morgan Johnstonbaugh
Alexander Kinney
Liwen Zeng
Yi Zhao
Soil, Water and
Environmental Science
Erin Abel
Quentin Benally
Melissa Clutter
Kimberly Danny
Diana Gutierrez
Trevor McKellar
Trevor Pivo
Thien Tran
Michael Westphal
Spanish
Yamile Díaz
Sergio Gomez
Louisiana Lightsey
Claire Lozano
Rebecca Pitts
Diego Raya
Gabrielle Yocupicio
Special Education
Eréndira Alatorre
Beth Carter
Ian Finnesey
Jenny Grady
Jean Green
Christina Hirmiz
Adam Johnson
Ramazan Karatas
Kirsten Lansey
Yaira Manchego
Kallie Mendenhall
Ivy Paluszak
Rachel Sarro
Britney Strenn
Speech, Language and
Hearing Sciences
Alana Baxter
Ashley Bourgoyne
Mattie Brokaw
Jamie Brown
Laura Burger
The site was cleared of shrubbery and cactus,
trenches dug to outline the letter’s foundations,
rock at hand was mixed with mortar, and water
was hauled up the mountain by six-horse teams.
The total cost of materials, equipment, and
transportation was $397. The back-breaking
work was done by the students themselves,
Saturday after Saturday, with many difficulties
and discouragements, but the “A” was finally
whitewashed on March 4, 1916. No one called it
Erin Coon
Bethany Erickson
Jessie Erikson
Mara Goodman
Madelaine Heath
Jenna Lochner
Jalen Naseman
Sarah Olson
Nicole Overy
Bonnie Rostan
Benjamin Schiedermayer
Rachel Shatto
Elizabeth Smith
Nicole Sugino
Susan Williams
Katherine Zeiger
Lauren Zimmerman
Statistics
Xuan Barletta
Derick Bishop
Ruoyu Huang
The basalt rock quarried from the construction site
was used to build the rock wall surrounding most
of the University’s historic district.
Ivana Somoza
Kathryn Surber
Maurita Villarreal
Casey Virgil
Clay Wiers
Theatre Arts
Eve Bandi
Melissa Erdman
Alyssa LeBlanc
Angela McMahon
Elisabeth Mikula
Water, Society and Policy
Brian O’Neill
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SUMMER 2016
American Indian Studies
Systems Engineering
Sufyan Mohamed
Jacob Obradovich
Stephania Vasilieva
Monty S. Begaye
Paulette Ann Winder
Animal Sciences
Caroline Elyse Foy
Teaching and Teacher
Education
Stefania Almeziab
Dania Apodaca
Stewart Benson
Caroline Bickley
Hannah Bohne
Jacob Brainerd
Kathryn Bryant
Brieanne Buttner
Jessica Cenedese
Sjana Chana
Thomas Cupis
Erin DeSoto
Gabrielle Durrett
Kimberly Economou
Rachel Eidelman
Gregory Epstein
Melissa Espindola
Lucas Gomez
Jason Harlow
Chelsea Jones
Brooke Kasprzyk
Yichang Liu
Angela Marquez
Basanti Mazumdar
Kelsey Meeks
Kylie Mosell
Arianna Moskowitz
Jennifer Mota
Alyssa Muir
Sarah Ochoa
Nicole Peterson
Flor Preciado
Nicholas Sitzman
Jared Smith
Russell Smith
Sentinel Peak anymore. It was known thereafter as
“A” Mountain. The “A” is 70 feet wide and 160 feet
long (or tall).
Anthropology
Gabrielle Chantal Miller
Applied Biosciences
Matthew Sterling Shallenberger
Jinying Xu
Melissa Amanda Lanee Young
Biostatistics
Min Zhu
Business Administration
Joey Edwards
Christopher Ryan Emery
Robert Emanuel Greenberg
Nicholas Theo Harp
Emily Elizabeth Knapp
Cellular and
Molecular Medicine
Thomasina Blackwater
Abhijeet Satish Namjoshi
Civil Engineering and
Engineering Mechanics
Serag Salah Aonyas
East Asian Studies
Chengyuan Li
Educational Technology
Andria Kristine Brown
Paul R. Stoll
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Anthony Deshun Spann
Lavanya Umapathy
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 53
In 2008, the UA became the first public university to
lead a NASA mission—the Phoenix mission to Mars.
Entomology and
Insect Science
Angela Marie Hoover
Finance
Chen Li
Yuchen Miao
Deyi Shan
Pooja Joharimal Sharma
Chen Zhang
Geographic Information
Systems Technology
Bree A. Gomez
Geography
Sophia Layser Borgias
Megan Mills-Novoa
Geosciences
Victor Higareda Garcia
Dakota Rose Isaacs
Matthew Paul King
Emma Veronika Reed
Marie Glenyss De los Santos
Hydrology
Francisco Balocchi Contreras
Ben Krisanto Yap Paras
Yu-Li Eric Wang
Industrial Engineering
Cheng-Wei Lin
International Security
Matthew Aaron Bell
Lindsi Paulina Cosyns
David Keith Fero
Anya Victoria Sira
Journalism
Carson Lee Suggs
Language, Reading
and Culture
Roxana Morales
Shang Guan Mu Wen
Library and Information
Science
Laura Marie Cox
Erika E. Lankton
Travis S. Teetor
Management
Qian Huang
Xiaodong Nie
Hong Pang
Kun Qian
Yunfei Wei
Yinyue Yu
Management Information
Systems
Benjamin Christensen
Jeff R. Hawkins
Scott Lee Livingston
Aleksandra Milosevska
Terrance Andre Purcell
Gerald Robles
Sina Seif-Naraghi
James Michael Watts
Medical Pharmocology
Marlon D. Taylor
Microbiology
Shelby Daniel Wendel
Middle Eastern and North
African Studies
Zoe Mae Kosoff
Lara Tarantini
Mining, Geological and
Geophysical Engineering
Junhyeok Park
Keith Ward Taylor
Molecular and Cellular
Biology
Rachel Courtney Wellington
Music
Shiho Takeda
Natural Resources
Hannah Lucia Farrell
Brandon T. Forbes
Mark Anderson Kautz
Maxwell N. Mazzella
Matthew A. Rotunno
Ian Michael Shiach
Nursing
Sabina Ahmad-Post
Lauren Michelle Andersen
Christa Jean Arthur
Michael James Barker
Samuel Paddack Barnes
Audrey Basic
Garion Jacob Bienn
Grace Bonilla
Amanda Lea Boris
Lindsay Rose Bottarini
Angelica Jaclyn Buono
Jacqueline Marie Burruel
Lauren Marie Calvano
Kathleen Frances Carter
Matthew Corey Choate
Nathan Naor Cohen
Amanda Lynee Conley
Samuel Cordivin
Jennifer Lynn Curtis
Caitlin Denning
Mirtha Z. Zamudio Deras
Lukas Shane Eddy
Ellie Rose Elgar
Krystal Yun Frick
Fuanjia Njukeng Fuangunyi
Rosamaria Garcia
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Michael Andrew Gerhart
Daniel Mark Gust
Caitlin Harrison
Katharine Rose Heffernan
Gina Henrich
Crystal Elaine Hernandez
George Joseph Hernandez
Hailey Hill
Lesley Carla Ho
Annick Nnenna Hope-Ezeigbo
Roya F. Khodavisi
Stephanie R. Korte
Chelsea Daniele Kruger
Deryl Spencer Lamb
Randy Leedom
Nicole M. Leeper
Taylor Renee Lofton
Megan Michelle Madsen
Toby Thad Marsh
Nancy J. Martinez
Melissa Erin Mason
Amy Michelle Matschekowski
Marlina Mazyck
Margaret McGough
Rebecca Lynn Mckeeth
Laura Elizabeth Mead
Audrey Elanda Meggitt
Amber Lynne Mitchell
Brittany Nicole Morehead
Carly Nacke
Karina Navarro
Anthony Minh Nguyen
Linda Chidimma Nwaekeke
Kinlee Ellen Osmer
Aikaterini Pattas
Crystal Renee Pearson
Jessica Bianca Peppitoni
Adam Perkins
Brittany Angelica Pitts
Rebekah J. Premo
Karen T. Quach
Carolyn Reichling Quinn
Carlos Jose Ramos
Megan Danielle Reingold
Jordan Cabanne Ronstadt
Elizabeth Jean Rorke
Ayan Mohamed Said
Shana Sangston
Kourtnee Bryanne Satchell
Tiffany Schlecht
Torri Shae Sitzman
Starlean S. Sykes
Coppelia Josef Estrella Tarantal
Paige Nicole Taylor
Amy Jo Thompson
Lucina Christabel Velasquez-Lopez
Ashley M. Vergara
Sophie Christine Wagner
Sarah Christian Walter
Danielle Marie Wilson
Linda Zhou
Abby Rose Zollinger
One of the most photographed and remembered
events of President Babcock’s tenure was the
famous St. Patrick’s Day Strike. A petition
addressed to him requesting a full holiday was
turned down by the president, who wrote across
it in green ink: “I may be ‘green’ but not so ‘green’
as this.”
Nutritional Sciences
Laura L. Hopkins
Rachel Marie Smith
Optical Sciences
Jordan C. Jur
Zachary Joseph Walker
Plant Pathology
Elizabeth Ann Bowman
Plant Science
Seth A. Steichen
Public Administration
Leslie Claire Keena
Martin Piecuch
Jeremy A. Wartz
Secondary Education
Andrew Scott Cassano
Debra Baerbel Claus-Walker
Keith Robert Hudson
Natalia Reeves
Julia A. Weakley
Soil, Water and
Environmental Science
John David Hottenstein
Holli Marie LaBrie
Justine L. McCune
Special Education
Elyse Marie LaFarelle
Statistics
John Wauters Economic Geology
Matthew Karl Wetzel
Educational Leadership
Alexis Joy Gonzalez
Educational Technology
Azeddine Chaouchi
Laura Hapeman
English
David Michael Jorgenson
Finance
Seth Tylor Robert Jensen
Brady A. Nittmann
Gabriel Elias Sayegh
General Biology
Tara Lynne Lausman
Geographic Information
Systems Technology
Gerald Blankson
Brian E. Cunningham
Jarrett Cziesch
Michael Dehn
Matthew Deveney
Tisha Gonzales
Robert Keaton
Ausrine Kelbauskie
Jason Bryan Kennedy
Gregory Kimmel
Ethan Lagarde
Julie Mikolajczyk
Deyanira Nevarez Martinez
Lori Radcliffe-Meyers
Aninna Marie Thornburg
Kyle Valkenburg
Geography
Bobbie Nicole Jones
John Clinton Tuttle
Materials Science
and Engineering
Garrett J. Coleman
Mechanical Engineering
Cameron Kingsley
Medical Pharmacology
Michelle A. Coe
Roy Petrakis
Marlon D. Taylor
Microbiology
Geosciences
Jhon Sebastian Jimenez Rodriguez
Higher Education
Kristen Cummings
Amanda L. Parkman
History
James Collin Barefoot
Hydrology
Saeahm Jihyun Kim
Information Resources
and Library Science
Tiffany A. Hornbeek
Lisa Chedester Keene
John McMullen
Arlette G. Schneider
Natural Resources
Jane Elizabeth Barlow
Emily Leanne Dynes
Mark Anderson Kautz
Shari Lynn Ketcham
Allyssa L. Kilanowski
Ian Michael Shiach
Colleen M. Svancara
Daphne J. Szutu
Kyle William Thompson
Natural Science for Teachers
Cynthia Hart
International Security
Corey Brown
Richard Joseph Fisher
Journalism
Ann Posegate
Landscape Architecture
Ashlynd Anne Tahy
Latin American Studies
Jonathan Daniel Denton-Schneider
Erin Fiorini
Eric Franqui
Lucas Lynch
Library and
Information Science
Maria Virginia Bernardi
Michelle Ashley Gohr
Taunya Jean Pappenfus
Nicolas Fassett Resteiner
Amy E. Rodriguez
Caitlin Kelly Ryan
Linguistics
Joseph James Dupris
Management
Evelyn Wing-Yee Chau
Management Information
Systems
Jonathan Alvarez
Eden T. Jaeger
Howard Jiang
In impulsive defiance the male students, most
of them wearing their cadet uniforms, marched
downtown and simply took the holiday that
had been denied. The story was carried in the
newspapers throughout the territory, enraging
many, including Governor Brodie. The ringleaders
were promptly disciplined with extra drills, and
some even put to work laying bricks.
Nursing
Farhana Abdulla
Jason Edward Andolino
Allyce Barnett
McKenzie Rae Bethke
Mark Bleicher
Jodi Lynn Bleth
Lucianna Marie Bruni
Kelly Margaret Bulger
Karina Camacho
Krista Marie Castillo
Cynthia Mitsuko Chamberlain
Autumn Elizabeth Champion
Sandra Marie Coble
Georgina Crookes
Megan M. Donohoe
Morgan James Duffin
Angelica Jovahn Earls
Brea Erickson
Siobhan Marie Foley
Amy Suzanne Fowler
Nicholas James Frost
Brittany Biddix Fryar
Korena E. Garcia
Natalie Garcia
Jennifer Garlington
Danielle Laura Gimblett
Sofia Grigera
Kaela M. Hatchel
Matthew Hembrook
Emily Allison Himstreet
Christine Hubert
Kelsey Christine Jephcote
Julie Leah Kenney
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 55
Laura Joanna Kennicutt
Amy Ruth Koepke
Claire Catherine Laurence
Cynthia Tiffany Lee
Ryan James Little
Crystal S. Loftin
Christine Marie Lopez
Melissa Lowry
Stephanie Laev Marks
Amber M. Meesenburg
Sonia Satsuki Mendoza
Ryan Paul Mette
Stephanie Nicole Morgan
Atousa Mira Nainavaii
Liudmyla Nelson
Sarah Anne Netherton
Annissa Michelle Ochoa
Fallon Star Orndorf
Sara E. Ottman
Sarah Nicole Padilla
Sylvia Ester Paton
Karlyn Megan Patton
Holly Pecsek
Alexander Ewald Pedersen
Ramon Jose Perez, Jr.
Scott Petersen
Nicasia M. Piermarini
Kelly Jean Prows
Melaney Jane Rayburn
Emily Erika Rebro
Samantha Ann Redmon
Patricia A. Robles-Medina
Carol Patricia Rouff
Melissa M. Saucedo
Kelly Carter Schaaf
Amelia Beth Schutte
Regina Seibert
Sompasong Sengsourya
Julie Rae Shumate
Ashley Lynn Smith
Bethany McCarten Smith
Jocelyn Renee Smith
Sarah Elizabeth Stafford
Julie Elizabeth Sukraw
Sarah Jane Swenson
Michelle Chehwa Tan
Somkhit Thoummany
Philippe Pierre Dagdagan Trajano
Deborah Ann Travis
Joshua Paul Van Dyke
Kristin Vorholzer
Amanda White
Natalie White
Rori A. White
Scott Christopher Whitlow
Optical Sciences
Nicolo Antonietti
David Andrew-Stephen Hill
Adam Joseph Persia
Physiological Sciences
Hanan George Alsakka
Anthony L. McCoy
Plant Pathology
Ana Sofia Avelar
Psychology
Yating Liu
Public Administration
Rebecca Terese Fealk
Miriam Saleh
56 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Public Health
Carmenlita Chief
Nina J. Lara
Madiha Makhdumi
Rini Rajul Parekh
Secondary Education
Zachary Davidson
Karina Lizarraga Calderon
Daniel Robert Matchette
Miranda Jean Wilson
Soil, Water and
Environmental Science
Valerisa Joe
Elissa Lea Malott
Special Education
Meaghan Kemp
Statistics
Deborah Hur
Systems Engineering
Sergio Gomez, Jr.
Teaching and
Teacher Education
Angela C. Gonzalez
Victor Kojo Vigbedorh
Water, Society and Policy
Carrie Anne Albro
DEGREES
PREVIOUSLY
CONFERRED
Anthropology
Victoria Carley Moses
Alexandra Youngyee Spielhagen
Art History
Rachel Elizabeth Sadvary
Astronomy
Business Administration
Creative Writing
Parke Travis Cooper
Colin Hodgkins
Kevin E. Newman
Public Health
Hannah Maling Renno
School Counseling
John Paul Kozlowski
Sociology
Meltem Odabas
Adam George Winn
Statistics
Brandon J. Swift
Shireen Zena Asous
Maria Coronado
Angelica M. Hemme
John Joshua Jackson Sr.
John Roshan Peter
John M. Wurth
Optical Sciences
Brian Kendall Mannakee
Teaching &
Teacher Education
Krista Kaylene Boss
Sergio Dominique Gutierrez
LAW
DEGREES
Educational Technology
Sean Michael Scott
Electrical &
Computer Engineering
Mariya Bhopalwala
Shuai Chang
Delbert Anthony Gallego
John Edmund Schilling II
Rachel Trojahn
English as a
Second Language
Tucker Thomas Dunn
Patrick V. Murphy
Charles Winchell Phipps II
History
Alexandra Elizabeth Ritter
Language, Reading
& Culture
Michelle Aguilera
Linguistics
Shiloh Nicole Drake
Bryan J. Gordon
Medical Pharmacology
Lynn Bui
Molecular &
Cellular Biology
Gustavo M. Untiveros
Music
Christopher Harrison Billings
Nursing
Rita Mae Greene
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2o
16
LAW DEGREES
DEGREES
CONFERRED
FALL 2015
Juris Doctor
Mohammed Ibrahim A. Alshubrumi
Yasser Abdullah Althnian
Nurseit Baizhanov
Alex Harley Bergener
Inayat Chaudhry
Yanrui Chen
Victor Antonio De la Flor Kivaki
Shasta Nicole Inman
Jefferson Todde Klocke
Miles Krieger
Tae Hoon Nam
Joseph K. Nwoga
Paul Michael Rice
Junjuan Song
Mengxi Xu
Quan Yuan
Jun Zhao
Ye Zhu
Master of Laws
Yanrui Chen
Mandalmaa Erdenebileg
Parth Girish Shah
Peggy Margaret Alice White
Jun Zhao
Master of Legal Studies
Mark Alan Hanshaw
Ruth Heaton
Josephine Antoinette Hilliard
Abe W. Lai
Yi Rong
Jessica Rhea Willis
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SPRING 2016
Juris Doctor
Angela E. Addae
David Francis Ahluwalia
Raisa Noor Ahmad
Prova Ahmed
Talal Abdullah A. Alothman
Khashayar Attaran
Joeseph John Baker
Aaron Andrew Baumann
Christian C. Bearden
Daniel James Benjamin
Glaucia Batista Brannock
Jason David Brierley
Alexis S. Brooks
Timothy D. Butterfield
Briana L. Campbell
James D. Carlson
Gabriela Guadalupe Castillón
Seunghui Choe
Adam E. Cirzan
Lacee N. Collins
Nathan A. Curtisi
Nafiseh Lisa Davary
Megan Jessica DeCorse
Creighton P. Dixon
Zachary Ryan Elkins
David T. Estle
Jose Carlos Estrada Terraza
Michael A. Fehser
Douglas S. Flanagan
Matthew J. Fowls
Madelynn S. Franklin
Javier A. Gherna
Derek R. Graffious
Jason Michael Gray
David P. Gurney
Jennifer Leigh Haley-Brown
Abraham J. Hamadeh
Maria Herrera Mellado
Katherine Hollist
Casey R. Hutchison
Matthew A. Johnson
Hayoon Jung
Jacqueline Kafka
Nicholas Kaldawi
William H. Kennedy
Clayton Robert Kramer
Kevin J. Kristick
Suzette Marquez Leonardo
Joseph E. Leverence
Greggary E. Lines
Jahna Frances Locke
Mark Walker Lohr
Nicole M. Lopez
Dallin C. Marcy
Briar Eileen Martin
Ian Michael McCloskey
Angela J. Menard
Brian Matthew Mistler
Samuel F. Mitchell
Erica A. Morris
Leila Morshed Mohseni
Michelle E. Moussa
Sean Kinsey Moynihan
Kevin Andrew Munsch
Samuel C. Newman
Oluwadamilola Kikelomo Oguntade
Ann T. Palmer
Bradley R. Pollock
Ryan D. Pont
Katherine Curl Reitz
Alexander Richard Renckly
Raymundo Reyes
Patrick Riell
Dominic J. Rizzi
Daniel G. Roberts
David Leighton Rosenthal
Lauren Kelsey Ruiz
John A. Salvatore
Alisha M. Schmidt
John F. Schneringer
Jessica Adeline Schulberg
John A. Shumate
Richard L. Simmons
Matthew J. Skelly
Christopher M. Sloot
Erik D. Smith
Jessica Sornsin
58 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Hee Yon Sung
Clark Garrett Taylor
Logan C. Taylor
Chelsea Thompson
Elizabeth Thuenen
Adrienne A. Ticer
Leah Alexis Tinney
Houston Phelan Traher
Mitchell Lee Turbenson
Sen Umeda
Alexander P. Valentine
Cody D. Vandewerker
Cathleen A. Ward
Cody G. Winchester
Eric A. Wootton
Il hwan Yoo
Shuang Yu
Jingyuan Zhou
Scientiae Juridicae Program
Nicholas Foss Barbantonis
Elifuraha Isaya Laltaika
Jaime Marie Nadine Lavallee
Mohammad Moin Uddin
Master of Laws
Aroua Farhat
Jonathan David Loe
Rosa Meguerian-Faria
Junhyeon Yi
Jingyuan Zhou
Master of Legal Studies
Adam Phillip Andrews
Carolina Carrizosa
Jessica Paige Garrard
Christopher Gutierrez
Paul Langdale
Pilar A. Martinez
Julio Cesar Osornio
Rocio Ruiz
Sherrie Lynn Stewart
David Vitkus
Sarah Jael Walker
MEDICINE &
PHARMACY
DEGREES
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Manuel Pacheco became the first Hispanic president of the UA in 1991. When his 11 brothers and sisters
had all gotten their college degrees, his mother enrolled and got a degree also, earning a higher GPA
than any of her children.
DEGREES
CONFERRED
FALL 2015
Doctor of Medicine
Bradley J. Bowles
Kent G. Martin
Eric Alexander Parmon
Victor J. Vallet
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SPRING 2016
Doctor of Medicine
Charity Adusei
Izayadeth Aguayo
Shahjehan Ahmad
Waseem Albasha
Jaymeson R. Arthur
Jenna D. Bahadir
Sandeep Singh Bains
Devon Charles Baker
Lilanthi Ranjanee Balasuriya
Bonnie Jane Barbee
Bianca Elena Barcelo
Jeffrey Barrett
Shane Forest Batie
Brian Bayze
Spencer Todd Bertoch
Aubrey Anne Bethel
Mandy Ward Boltz
Chelsea Caterino Bonfiglio
Trenton James Bowen
Brett Joseph Brewer
Jeffrey Patrick Brown
Jenna Leigh Buchanan
Alicia J. Buck
Whitney E. Burns
Meisje C’sable Burton
Lydia Armida Cervantes
Rachael Charles
Andrew Vernon Chesley
Meredith Allison Close
Karen Elise Coffman
Adam Grant Colbert
Paul Burdett Comish
Danielle Coimbra Sales Correia
Lauren Duffey Crow
Stewart J. Dandorf
Brandon Richard Deason
Jacob Thomas DeMenna
Ryan McClean DiGiovanni
Brett Corydon Dusenberry
Sarah Nicole Eberson
Carin T. Eldridge
Kaitlin Nelson Elsenheimer
Jacquelin Lee Esque
Micah Etter
Michael Todd Farnworth
Trenden Lester Flanigan
Christopher Foss
Garrett Fitzpatrick Frantz
Andrea Christina Galaviz
Sheena Galhotra
James Daryl Gentry
Alexander James Geyer
Audrey Johnson Gray
Brianna Michelle Grigsby
Emelia Blythe Hakes
Brandon Gately Hammond
Lucy Han
Katherine Nicole Hartl
Yuan He
Steven Ross Henglefelt
Diana Leigh Heringer
Laura Ann Hoffman
Kelsey Elizabeth Sullivan Hoidal
Alix Chen Hopp
Riley Bjarne Hoyer
Camille Marie Hunter
Callie Corrine Hurtt
Elaine Joyce Hutchison
Ameya Ashok Jategaonkar
Ragni Jindal
Sama M. Kamal
Gagan Preet Kaur
Jack B. Keenan
Aaron B. Klassen
Lakshmi Sahitya Koripella
Liliya Kraynov
Brett Robert Larsen
Lucy Cheng Lester
Melissa Lin
James Robert Lish
Natalie Liu
Danielle Dan Long Livingston
Hannah Darkow Loebl
Kaohinani Joseph Longwolf
Sarah Low
Melissa Brenda Ludgate
James Scott MacKenzie
Jacob Tyler Maddux
Maria Cristina Marian
Erica Siovhan Marshburn
Robert Michael Wayne Masoner
Samantha McGlone
Dana C. Mckee
Deven Marie McMorrow
Russell R. Means
Jennifer Min
Carmel M. Moazez
Michael John Molloy
Christopher Michael Morrison
Christine Moss
Bijan Mossadeghi
Elijah Mun
Rachel M. Nicholson
Brigham John Nicoll
Katherine Michelle Nielsen
Jason Allen Noble
Eric C. Ohlson
60 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Shawn Y. Ong
Ross Palmer
Sindhu Pandurangi
Jessica Nicole Sanchez
Matthew Bruce Petterson
Terry Nathaniel Platto
Rebecca Elizabeth Raynor
Robin Caitlin Richards
Hal T. Richins
Gray Roberge
James Wesley Roberts
Jeffrey M. Robertson
Gianna Marie Romano
Rimpi Kaur Saini
Khalid Ibrahim Salim Khan
Matthew Akira Schmidgall
Jane Salamanca Schryer
Coreen Ann Schwartzlow
Joseph Paul Seelbaugh
Nima A. Sekhadia
Sarah Severson
Romy Bianca Shane
Jon Mark Shillington
Michelle Vita Sipe
Tiffany G. Son
Shravan Sridhar
Sarika Kumari Srivastava
Michael Stoddard
Alexander David Stoker
Camilla Robinson Sulak
Kirandeep Kaur Sumra
Rebecca Marie Thiede
Timothy P. Tiutan
Maryn Elizabeth Torner
Alexandra Tsontakis
Chad Van Pelt
Samantha Elizabeth Varner
Sravanthi Vegunta
Ketan Verma
Elise T. Vo
Shaida Megan Vossough
Laura K. Wade
Scott R. Wallace
Andrew Caswell Wallmann
Michael David Weed
Rebecca Alene Wendt
Matthew Garrett Wharton
Christopher Chen Wu
Isaac Yourison
Christina Marie Vega Zarraga
Aqib H. Zehri
Doctor of Pharmacy
Farhana Alam
Rahma Ali
Ranna Ardebili
James Edward Backus, Jr.
Cameron Christopher Beatty
Joseph Christian Beck
William Joseph Binder
Bradley Ray Bingham
Hilary Jean Boles
UA Professor Charles M. Falco collaborated with artist David Hockney on the “Hockney-Falco Thesis,”
which demonstrated that artists as early as Jan van Eyck used optics to project images as aids for their
most iconic paintings. The New York Times called this one of the 10 most important ideas of 2001.
William Ryan Brewer
Daniel Glenn Clark
Scott Lee Clark
Justin Michael Cossette
Lien Tuyet Do
Paul Andrew Dunlavy
Daniel S Einfrank
Pearce Holland Engelder
Chyi-Jade Fann
Martin Kosar Faridian
Brieanna A Flores-Keown
Kristy Jane Foote
Camille Acacia Gagliardo
Tyler Gallo
Michelle Evelyn Garfunkel
Amanda Lyn Grear
Cassia Rae Griswold
Cameron Tyler Hannum
Kevin Michael Hawkins
Carlos J. Hernandez
Alyssa N. Hinchman
Tan Ho
Sara Teresa Hodges
David Michael Hoehn
Kammi Galla Humed
Lynda Hamida Idouraine
Alina Tiffany Jaeger
Elizabeth Jing
Caroline Soojin Kim
Trishna S. Kuber
Diana Ann Kung
Raina Lad
Larry N. Le
Douglas Ryan Lee-Chan
Sue Young Lee-Chuu
Deanna Renee Leonardi
Aaron J. Leyba
Kathryn Marie Limke
LeAnna Maria Lugo
Eric Thanh Ly
Megan Courtney Lybeck
Kyle Malhotra
Jackelyn Sue Marciano
Nisha J. Maymana
Meghan N. Menke
Scott Nelson Mirgeler
Gillian Dugan Mitchell
Deo Clarben Mopera
Melissa L. Nelson
Huong T. Nguyen
Christopher Daniel Obeso
Adam Odeh
Julia A. Olson
Saul Ortega
Erik Michael Overgard
Dhara P. Patel
Joseph Brendin Pellerito
Kimberly Ann Pham
Hoang V. Phan
Walter Samuel Putnam
Ollga Qyra
Jessica N. Reilly
John Zachary Riddle
Caroline Lee Riedel
Carol So Hyun Rim
Morgan Michelle Robertson
Richard Lowell Robertson
Kathy Louise Russell
Wendy Beatriz Sanchez
Tatiana Sawyer
Peter Donald Semonche
Melissa Joy Shreve
Kaitlyn Ann Skulkan
Charity Jane Smith
Tyler Wayne Stuntz
Theresa I. Swartzfager
Soba Tharmarajah
Kayleen Whitney Thompson
Sylvia A. Trinh
Jared Carl Turley
Caitlin O’Brien Vaughn
Andrew Thach Vo
Alicia Vu
Mary Guan Wang
Bryant C. Wong
Wendy Wong
Rona Zhou
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SUMMER 2016
Doctor of Pharmacy
Courtney Michele Cash-Fackler
Lawrence Taylor Hunt
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 61
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BACHELOR’S
DEGREES
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 63
2o
16
BACHELOR’S DEGREES
DEGREES
CONFERRED
FALL 2015
Accounting
Roberto J. Aguero
Mohammad Abdullah Md.
Alnashwa Al Shehri
Daniel Ross Alu
Michael Scott Augerson
Marlano L. Batson
Robert Patrick Biggs
Elyse McKenna Brink
Erin Denise Cadenhead
Christopher Wayne Davis
Robert Chase Dickson
Marisa Anne Farrell
Myles Edward Haughey
Christopher Michael Hutchison
Autumn Erika Konke
Ni Liao
Karina Marquez
Trent L. McCormick
Nadine Sabbah Merheb
Austin Charles Metzger
Robert Gould Morrison
Dylan Jackson Alban Mustoe
Anisette Noperi
Paul David Oman
Christian B. Orth
Keith Pattison
Cynthia Esmeralda Pelayo
Amy Lynn Pitman (Honors)
Beixuan Qin
Brendon Rex
Daniel P. Ryan
Yawen Tan
Jeffrey David Teiman
Saruuldari Tuvshintugs
Anqi Wang
Leslie Ann Wilson
Jiamei Yan
Aerospace Engineering
Ruben C. Adkins-Rieck (Honors)
Youra Jun
Agribusiness Economics
and Management
Garrett J. Doughty
Alexandria Ann Eatherly
Mary-Claire Grotheer
Cameron Lynn Maud
Matthew Thomas Parkinson
Cheyenne Christine Swasey
Agricultural Technology
Management and Education
Adolfo Ruiz Elizarraras
Francisco Javier Moreno
Maya Linda Shaw
Brady James Sorenson
Animal Sciences
Jamie L. Adams
Jacqueline Cortney Ballam
Honore Ann Bremer
Shae Taylor Couch
Sammantha Franscine Cushman
Spring Ann Evans
Annaliese Noel Hibbard
Francesca Lucia Le Donne
Robert Anthony Marsteller
Raven Nicole Schellenberg
Erica Lynne Zaborac
Anthropology
Amber Lynn Burt
Rudrani Mary Chatterjee
Kevin Matthew Cornett
Riley Christopher Duke
Liam Quinn Etheridge
Ariel Buckley Fry
Hayden S. Jorde
Carolyn Linnea McClary
Omar Alonso Moreno
Chelsea Anne Morris
Lauren M. Nossek
Zoe Celeste Williams
Applied Science
Travis Ryan Baldwin
Michael Patrick Bassett, Jr.
Zachariah Nathaniel Bradshaw
Melissa Dawn Dixon
Zanett Belle Franco
Judith Helen Freeland
Jesus Antonio Garcia
Murphy Rebekah Hiscox
Stephanie Kara Johnson
Alexandra Anne Karp
Stephanie Joan Kline
Joy M. Lefler
Jeannie Yeon Leonard
Esther Alicia Leyva-McGee
Rachel Ann Morris
Skyler Travis Nix
Darla Kay Parker
Philip John Viner
Jeremy Andrew Watson
Architecture
Stratton David Andrews
Bradie Kissinger
Art Education
Jonathan F. Grantham
Laura E. Jackson
Cailey Justine Kleiner
John Gordon Peterson
Amanda Schraufnagel
Alexis Ross Tonkel
Art History
Natalie Gonzalez
Alicia June Lark
Xiaohe Liu
Philip R. Rodin
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Astronomy
Megan Nicole Nieberding
Biochemistry
Kevin Robert Granger
Kevin Spencer Jung
Katelyn Rose Kremer
Blake Nicholas Meyer
Justin Payom Rouintan
Stephanie Zawada
Biology
Clarice Anna Ainscow (Honors)
Mitchell Gianni Augusta
Lindsey Rachelle Earl
Leila Esmaeili
Angelina Destiny Fath
Benjamin Carl Gassmann
Stephanie Jane Gordon
Stefan Tyler Gorham
Kevin Robert Granger
L’oreal Christian McGee
Chelsea Anne Morris
Erin Margaret Peterson
Mateo Elias Rivera-Currier
Reggie Taylor
Ryan Threlkel
Biomedical Engineering
Alexan I. Gomez
Elliot J. Montes, III
Amy Vaughn
Biosystems Engineering
Todd Lawence Crouthamel
Elizabeth De Vogelaere
Kody Michael Huey
Business Administration
Talal Saeed Alghamdi
Judith Maldonado
Business Economics
Dustin Lance Benadretti
Bryce E. Fix
Jacob Joseph Freitas
Austin Edward Mahfouz
Erin Kaylin McGuinness
Nadine Sabbah Merheb
Michael David Murphy
Martin Alan Quintanar
Colin Andrew Shedd
Sean Patrick Sullivan
Dung Anh To
Business Management
Guillermo Anaya, III
Kyle Clark Baker
Melissa Bohon
Emily Anne Chavez
Jianlei Du
Connor Alexander Field
Weston Davis Firmage
Alvaro Martin Flores Martinez
Austin Scott Fouts
Xochitl Marina Gracia Acosta
Drew Henderson
Andrew S. Hennis
John Charles Hill
Lizbeth Rubiano Holguin
Austin Erin Hosto
Tomas L. Jaimez
Courtney Kinzer
Jeffrey James Kurt
Nicholas Anthony Lau
James Michael Malamatenios, Jr.
Ethan M. Marks
Andrew Joseph Martinez
Derick J. Metzl
Jeremy Lee Miller
John William Morris
Mayada Nagiela
Kaili Owens
Manveer Pabla
Erika Shay Rue
James T. Skillman
Kelly L. Smith
Brandon Douglas Sturgis
Cole Chase Swearingen
Kieren Matthew Thompson
Nicholas Gordon Wepfer
Leah Elizabeth Wolk
Care, Health and Society
Yamayra Castanos
Kayla Charles
Allison Rose Flores
Sabrina Goo
Keely Brianne Kouts
Spencer David Lewis
Samantha Svea Moore
Gerardo Rodriguez, Jr.
Sloan Elise Sonksen
Marjorie Ann Torres
Carly Ann Troeger
Chemical Engineering
Jorge Diez
Chemistry
Jacob Jerome Bernal
Rachel Nadine Burnett
Bryce A. Fronstin
Kevin Robert Granger
Alyssa Nicole Hessler
Lucinda Ann Hyatt
Eleanore Pearl Leichtenberg
Elizabeth Nguyen
Vicki Dao Nguyen
Alex Christy Pagel
Kayla M. Senden
Yue Tang
Civil Engineering
Isaac Hamilton- Josiah Gilles
Christopher Bryan Gin
Steven Gomez
Kevin Mark Kent
Jared Padayao Polk
Ernnon Quanah
Nawar Kareem Raies
Jose Gerardo Ramirez
Classics
Katrina Elizabeth Duran
Jennifer B. Kittredge
Grace Katherine Welch-Zaricor
Commerce
Marcela Kanae
Cory James Schlosser
Communication
Brendan Anthony Bera
Ashley Bowman
Karen Camacho
Anna-Katharina Claesson
Melissa Delgado-Martinez
Dominique Melisse DellaMaggiore
Kara Melis Dyrek
Emily Renee Erickson
Zachary F. Germano
Seung Min Hahm
Michelle M. Henneman
Ruben A. Hernandez
Hayden S. Jorde
Kirstin Elizabeth Larson
Xiaohe Liu
Abigail Kaitlind Malit
Claire Nicole McCarthy
Erin Leigh McKenna
Jordan Katherine Mette
Matthew Lee Netherby
Javier D. Oloño
Fleet Paul Phillip
Johanna Pigue
Emily Kay Raines
AnaLydia Rose Rodriguez Reiner
Christian Reyes
Krystal Annmarie Richards
Jaycee Alysa Richey
Blake McClure Roberts
Ameen B. Ruslan
Giana Lauren Siska
Katherine Rose Smith
Nicole Ann Soley
Delaney Marie Weed
Computer Science
Courtney D. Akin
Devin Matthias Birtciel
Ronald Clint Bradley
Mark Acuna Buxton
Jonathon Shea Singh Cheema
Charles Andrew Conrad
Zachary Lento Dokouzian
Kazuomi Enami
Brian Edward Felix
Sean Dean Valentine Gallardo
Matthew Douglas Gietl
Hunter Jeffrey Gong
Avery Gonzales
Jarryd A. Goodman
Audrey Lee Hession
Shien Hong
Katelyn Danielle Hudspeth
Timothy W. Janssen
Carina A. Johnson
Maxwell B. Justice
Alexander Michael Klomstad
Darshan J. Kothari
Nathaniel Lin
Michael Francis Ubaldo Loveridge
Parker F. Mathewson
Joshua McCloskey
Jorge Naranjo
Austin M. Paine
Clinton R. Parker
Samuel David Ramirez
Tanya Romero
Zachary Ryan Romero
Yi Shi
Jordan Tyler Smith
William Paul Snider
Dylan A. Souza
Brayden Douglas Streeter
Andre T. Takagi
Luis A. Teran
Felix A. Vasquez
Jon Paul Weiser
William Harvey Wilder
Creative Writing
Allison Cara Alterman
Whitney Elizabeth Bowers
Austin Brian Cook
Lucia Dabdoub
Sara Jean Deegan
Tam Thi Dinh
Yuval Dor (Honors)
Kai Johann Eilert
Zane Dillon Emory
William Geiger Fraser
Angela Garcia
Emma K. Harken
Elizabeth Collins Hullar
Nicole Danielle Kane
Tiffany Rose Lee
Richard J. Leis, Jr.
Shawnee Cloud Melnick
Kyanah Murphy
Patrick Daniel Murphy
Karishma Ullal
Danielle Nicole Valencia (Honors)
Criminal Justice Studies
Bradley Andersen
Shay Elizabeth Berges
Skhy Cuzco Blitzer
Ryan Edward Cafiero
Kristen Valerie Canada
Jesús Cardona
Hayley Lauren Carr
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 65
During the 1920s and ’30s the sport that first brought
the University of Arizona national recognition was
polo. The sport was established in 1922 with horses
and a coach provided by the military, and with athletes
from the school’s ROTC unit. The first teams were the
target of snide remarks from football and basketball
Julia Cynthia Clark
Rebekkah J. Colyer
James G. Dluehosh
Agustin Javier Estrada
Maritza Jimenez Chavez
Kayley Laura Koontz
Bertha Genesis Lazalde-Ruiz
Cassandra Angela Liska
Autumn Marie Lockwood
Eliza Daritza Lopez Sanora
Ashleigh Jean Loucks
Jay McCraw
Jesse John Metzler
Taylor Michael
Evan L. Oncay
Andrew Alphanso Reeves
Nicholas Francisco Sanchez
Derek Keith Smith
Evan Mathew South
Annikka Marie Steel
Michael Thomas Susa
Brittany Nicole Volz
Samantha Lynn Wente
Christina Mae Wilcox
Joseph Leland Wilkerson
Dance
Tamra C. Brooks
Sean Dahlberg
William P. Dingeldein
Margaret A. Hoobler
Shannon Gail Rodriguez
Bethany L. Schimonsky
Early Childhood Education
Shyleigh L. Scott
East Asian Studies
James Hajime Hosobe
Kiara Shay Murray
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
Nicolas M. Alexandre (Honors)
Alyssa Christine Daily
Kathryn A. Demaine
Fredrick Marc Drumlevitch
Nico P. Lorenzen (Honors)
Skylar W. Sherbrooke
Chelsey Lee Trejo
Sebastian Vargas
Economics
Thomas William Abramowitz
Cyrus Alexander Afkhami
André Alarcón
Matthew Allen
Mario Andrade, Jr.
Mayra E. Artis
Jun Bai
Michael William Bryant
Sichao Chen
Peijia Cheng
Bret Matthew Cisneros
Brian Patrick Connors
Manon Gidali
Austin James Gilliland
Qi Guo
Sida Guo
Junghun Han
Lu He
Jiajia Huang
Zachary John Iverson
Brandon William Ives
Gaohuan Jiang
Yitao Jiang
Yongtao Jiang
Connor Shepherd Kennedy
Hiroki Kidoguchi
Jaimie Lyn Kleshock
Kristopher Charles Konz
Jack Lawrence
Quan Li
Kaijun Liao
Lili Lin
Yuchen Lin
Menghua Liu
Mingming Liu
Yuanchu Liu
Yuyang Liu
Jeremy Michael Myhand
Ming Niu
Zachary D. Osselaer
Yu Pan
Jiahao Peng
Tressa Jean Points
Abhi Prakash
Timothy Kevin Prouty
Long Qian
Patrick Douglas Redding
Jason Theodore Robinson
Zachary James Ross
Lindsey M. Schader
Jun Shen
Madison Leigh Starnes
Yixuan Su
Gedeon F. Tegene
Chengxi Tian
Ge Wang
Zi’an Wang
Ji Weng
Jianfei Xiong
Nan Xu
Zichao Xu
Wei Xue
Matthew Adam Yackey
Wenjie Yu
Yue Zhang
Yuting Zhang
Tianxiang Zhao
Weiwei Zhao
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Kymberly Diane Beeston
Jason Christopher Blomquist
66 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
team members, but the detractors soon had to eat their
words. The 1924 squad captured the Western Collegiate
Championship and traveled to the East Coast where it
presented President Calvin Coolidge with a cowboy hat.
The team met Princeton for the intercollegiate title, losing
6-2 and 8-0.
Andrew Byron (Honors)
Christopher N. Carry
Leroy Duarte
Tembong Fotabong Fonji
Aaron Grabowska
LaRay Graner
Shien Hong
Peter A. Lankisch
Kyle C. Larson
Christopher Bradley McIntyre
Sergio Esai Mendez
Norman J. Miller, III
Alex Edward Moser
Nicholas Albert Paco
Daniel James Papajohn
Zachary D. Petruska
Robert W. Ramos, Jr.
Christopher Scott Sanford
Matthew Calvin Watson (Honors)
Tai Xu
Jue Zhang
Elementary Education
Mariah E. Dejovine
Shelby Rose Empens
Symantha Margarete Espinoza
Kathryn M. Ezzo
Ruth M. Greenway
Tatiana Marie Hickle
Kelsey Julia Kramer
Jason Michael Lett
Xi Liao
Ana Angelina Montoya
Grace Emily Naugle
Alexa Evangeline Pullen
Kristen A. Quenelle
Courtney Elizabeth Riebe
John Jefferson Taylor
Engineering Management
Michael James Vogel
English
David Scott Anderson
Katherine Lynne Cooper
Domonique Rieal Cox
Tam Thi Dinh
Zane Dillon Emory
Natalia R. Farr
Angela Garcia
Rita Bess Hardy
Emma K. Harken
Chloe Janelle Heinemann (Honors)
Torey Elizabeth Krepps
Richard J. Leis, Jr.
Whitney Forrest Martin
Kiara Shay Murray
Amy Ruth Nippert
Taylor Marie Stephens
Entrepreneurship
Emily Anne Chavez (Honors)
Kieren Matthew Thompson
The coming of World War II and the conversion
of cavalry from horses to mechanized equipment
was to spell doom for the sport at the University.
Without the financial and personnel support of
the U.S. Army and the campus ROTC detachment,
the University was unable to continue sponsoring
a team.
Environmental and Water
Resource Economics
Alba Ruby Ramos
Joel Addison Rose (Honors)
Environmental Hydrology
and Water Resources
Asher W. Benter
Laura E. Nakolan (Honors)
Rachel S. Tucci
Environmental Science
Krystalle Sharlyn Diaz
Kirk Arvin Kuiken
Katie Marascio (Honors)
Margretta Murphy
Trevor Raye Pivo
Alexander Nour-Jhan Wassimi
Sarah Ann Edwards
Samuel Alexander McGrath
Joshua Martin Montgomery
Alexis S. Sainz
Fiona Elizabeth Smeaton
eSociety
Matthew Lee Olmut
Family Studies and
Human Development
Karly Jeanne Andersen
Michael Elliot Ascher
Ivanna G. Bennett
MecKenzie Wells Breckenridge
Michelle Chard
Elizabeth Nicole Cirrito
Maya Dillard
Jesse Charles Dykema
Sarah Ann Escalante
Deanne Thi Fenton
Gema Graciela Gallego-Soto
Jacquelyn Gutierrez
Estevan E. Hurtado
Cassidy R. Johnson
Kara Briane Knight
Jessica Caitlin Luse
Brianna Lee McLain
Erika Denise Mendoza
Jordan Leigh Menefee
Aubrey Lynn Miller
Brittany Nystrom
Bertha Lois Skye
Alexandra Westerband (Honors)
Lydia Anne Winstead
Film and Television
Anna Arakelova
William Dean Browne
Megan Louise Litwicki
Alexander Dean Pierce
Carlos Roberto Rivera
Lisa Elizabeth Schaefer
Edgar Andres Thimgan
Bear Down Gym
Finance
Hamad F. A. A. Alayoubi
Dustin Lance Benadretti
Zachary Stewart Bransky
Mark Gregory Buchanan
Ryan Karl Deutsch
Austin Thomas Edmonds
Juan Carlos Frisby
Alexandra Westray Green
Nicole Sari Iglehart
Autumn Erika Konke
Garrett Mitchell Labar
Erika Landavazo
Yuanchu Liu
Austin Edward Mahfouz
Marshall Lee Marik
Luis Arturo Martinez Millan
Benjamin Patrick Matiella
Joshua McCloskey
Amanda Ashley McCoy
Zachary Alex Merzel
Trevor D. Morgan
Martin Alan Quintanar
Jesus Javier Rivera
William Scola
Nan Shentu
Stephen Thomas Spera
Michael David Stanley
Xinbing Wang
Mingming Zhao
French
Matthew M. Klass
Karina Marquez
Claire Nicole McCarthy
Ivana Maria Osete
Zachary Paul Young
Gender & Women’s Studies
Kelia Erin Noonan
Adrianna Maria Uthoff
General Studies
Charles Philip Ackman
Yasmine Elizabeth Anderson
Mark Philip Arnold
Joseph Blaise Babicke
Gabriel C. Bailon
John C. Barbour
Tyler Webb Barrett
Aaron Joseph Bell
Cynthia Ann Booker
Beau Griffith Boyster
Andrew T. Brassinga
Phoebe Benjamin Burnham
Belen Caballero
Adam Mackenzie Caldwell
Michael N. Chaput
Allison Paige Cook
Michelle M. Doran
Catherine M. Dritsas
Mark Cameron Eisenhower
Joanna Flores
Xinyue Fu
Sydney Rachel Gillman
Brooke Elise Goldstone
Chelsea Kathleen Goodacre
Devin C. Gordon
Demi A. Graham
Roshni Shireen Greeney
Alison L. Gustke
J’lynn N. Harvey
Marie R. Hill-Northrip
Kun Hu
Johnny Jackson, IV
Kiana Marie Klepper
Ryan Scott Kole
Kaige Andrew Lawrence
Torri Michelle Lawrence
Shannon Paige Lembeck
Jiaqi Li
Samuel Taylor Locke
Charles Lindsay Loy
Brandon Manumaleuna
Kailey B. McElwee
Bianca Medina
Stephen Nathaniel Lambert Morris
Oscar Muñoz, Jr.
Nicholas Steven Nassif, Jr.
Nichol M. Newell
Esteban Daniel Obregon
Deborah Marie Ortiz
Linzy Pierson, III
Cosmin A. Popescu
Philip Walsh Porter
David J. Richards
Ruben Eduardo Rodriguez
Kasra Sabery-Shirvani
Lucas Rey Salas
Rachel Cheyanne Scarpino
Jonathan David Benjamin Sears
Ryan Z. Shainen
Jon Anthony Smith
Eric Daniel Townsend
Matthew Lue Tsubota
Taylor M. Van Arsdall
Donna Louise Villaescusa
Virginia Wait
Gina Marie Walsh
Kevin Jordan Weber
Carter David Wood
Jeffrey Scott Worthy
Joseph Patrick Xavier
Misha Zaslavsky
Geography
Jim B. Christian
Zachary Thomas Driscoll
Michael G. Faircloth
William Charles Mebane
Michael Robert Pesanti, II
Geosciences
Abdulrahman Abdullah Alnoaim
Muhammad Nur Addeen Amran
Brian Richard Drozdowicz
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 67
Kristen Marie Joyse
Patrick Angelo Mazzone
Clarke Jay McCleave, Jr.
Scott Kendall Mesich II
Kevin David Ortiz
Kaitlynn Lea Walker
Leon Prescott Wells
German Studies
Max Samuel Lancaster
Global Studies
Vincent Dominguez, Jr.
Melissa C. Grooms
Kenna Logan Naseman
Robert Carroll Nelson
Catherine Grace Peach
Juliana Rengifo Piedrahita
Mary Chase Tsui
Eldon Nathaniel Vita III
Government and Public
Service
Thomas R. Callahan
Patricia Leyva
History
Jacob Ryan Arzouman
Jason Eric Beasley
Stacy Lynn DiMattio
Katrina Elizabeth Duran
Thomas Michael Gimber
Kriston Hoy Mei
Mark Alexander Molette
Omar Alonso Moreno
Zachary Andrew Price
Paul Eduardo Ribera
Sarah M. Rieger
Maria Magdalena Rodriguez
Lindsey Paige Stegemoller
Ryan William Vanderah
Maria Fernanda Velasco
Ashley Rose Vogel
Aleah R. Weber
Makena Noelle White
Industrial Engineering
Jason D. Miller
Information Science
and eSociety
Alexia Helen Santarelli
Information Science
and Arts
Jack Christopher Collier
Tianyi Rong
Jordan Lee Sandler
Information Science
and Technology
Malhaar R. Dave
David E. Goodman
Benjamin Paul Green
Teresa Lysette Miranda
Cole Tanner Sturman
Since 1938, when it was declared unsafe, Old Main
had stood unused and locked up. One could only
walk around the lower area under the verandas.
There were various proposals and arguments for
its demolition but Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds Billy Bray — after making a survey —
said it would cost more to tear it down than to
let it stand.
It was, in the end, the U.S. Navy that kept
Old Main from sinking. In September 1942, the
Navy awarded a contract for the repair and
rehabilitation of the UA’s most treasured building
for use of the wartime Naval Indoctrination School.
The entire structure was refurbished at a cost of
$89,000.
Interdisciplinary Studies
Management
Information Systems
Scott Ernest Alves
Italian
Samantha Nicole Baxter
Matthew M. Klass
Journalism
Alexandra Cecelia Adamson
Alexandra Paige Aldrete
Brandon Michael Bracamonte
K. Ann Dickman
Claudia Mathilda Eastwood
Jorge Francisco Encinas, Jr.
McKinzie Nova Elaine Frisbie
Kendra Paige Hall
Noor A. E. M. Jarki
Emily Ann Kirschenheuter
Callie R. Kittredge
Max Samuel Lancaster
Yuji P. Miyaji
Sarah Louise Pelfini
Zachary Bryan Pleeter
Lexus M. Scott
Rose Valenzuela
Morrena Jo Villanueva
Jessie Gretchen Webster
Hallie Alexandra Wilson
Latin American Studies
Zachary Thomas Driscoll
Ruben A. Hernandez
Paul Eduardo Ribera
Brennan Michael Villarreal
Law
Anissa Mireille Villa
Linguistics
Erin Alyssa Cloutier
Stephanie Crawford
Literacy, Learning
and Leadership
Kelsea Christine Backinger
Alexis Kathryn Berger
Sara Madeline Feigenbaum
Amy Darlene Ford
Haley Megan Keenan
Jessica Anne Kirsch
Caitlin Anne Korte
Graciela Aurora Morales
Angel Anthony Navarro
Raychael Rebecca Rice
Alexandra Francis Rodseth
Amy Elizabeth Rolander
Melody Lynn Roy
Izamar Iliana Sanchez
Tami M. Smith
Shannon Eve Taylor
Shelby Eliza Taylor
Elizabeth Jean Tuvell
Gabriela Vizcaino
Hunter Dennis Lee Williams
68 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Marlano L. Batson
Jordan Michael Belobraydic
Nicola Bertello
Michael Ryan Brown
Phyllis Shunchen Cao
SzeYuen Chan
Cassandra Jane Rea Cornforth
Jessica M. Foggiano
Jacob Wayne Gorin
Jieun Huh
Chen Jiang
William Coleman Johnson III
Nicole Elizabeth Kellermeyer
Joshua Charles Knapp
Ian Foster Knutson
Laura Le
Kelsie Lee Leppert
Robert Gould Morrison
Michael David Murphy
William Robert Natusch
Paul David Oman
Zachary Nathan Potter
Beixuan Qin
Sarra Hassan Said
Janette Sandoval
Marisol Sandoval
Nan Shentu
Kirsten Katherine Borthwick Smith
Michael David Stanley
Jamie Storey
Grant Christopher Suman
Yong Xiang
Ziyang Xu
William Marcus Yuen
Robert Mark Zimmerman
Marketing
Rand Abdulkareem, Sr.
Aaron Chase Brukman
Gene Evart Bunger
Sean Burke
Romina Cecena
Achea Alexa Compton
Jianlei Du
Nicole Edgar
Davis Evan Finney
Megan Leigh Helfond
Wayne Patrick Jablonski
Maria E. Jimenez
Alexander J. Kulpinski
Catherine Clotilde Lahlouh
Laura Le
Mayada Nagiela
Robert Michael Nale, Jr.
Robert Carroll Nelson
Michael Thomas Pancrazi
Ruben A. Parra
Kendall Lauren Prince
Anna Elizabeth Rochford
Hannah Nicole Sager
Christella Jasmine Saldana
During World War II more than 11,000 men
trained at the University for service on
land, at sea and in the air. The largest
group (10,000) were the men in the Naval
Training School.
The basketball hardwood floor was covered
with Masonite. Navy flags hung from the
rafters, and the indoctrinees’ personal
luggage was stored on the balcony seats.
Five hundred bunk beds took over Bear
Down Gym.
Edith Sosa
Shane S. Sprague
Kieren Matthew Thompson
Arisa Uehara
Jake Scott Walton
Weiyang Xie
Materials Science
and Engineering
Mohammad Yaseen Alhasan
Meera Saeed Alshehhi
Asher D. Fishgold
Lynn Q. Nguyen
Mathematics
Kevin Kenji Arthur Bierig
Charles Andrew Conrad
Adam Christopher Dean
Terry R. Fuller
Matthew Douglas Gietl
Audrey Lee Hession
Vincent William Hunt
Michael L. Iuzzolino
Chen Jiang (Honors)
Mathew Jay Laing
Kevin Wayne Lendo, Jr.
Menghua Liu
Tianlin Liu
Jiacheng Lu
Laura E. Nakolan
Lindsey M. Schader (Honors)
Riley Jean Sullivan
Brian Mathew Valenzuela
Wei Xu
Yue Zhang
Yiting Zheng
Mechanical Engineering
Abdulaziz M. Th A. Alameeri
Lyndsay L. Batman
Colin D. Bell
Brent Anderson Carper
Christopher M. Drawert
Matthew Groff
Harrison Hans Herzog
Vincent William Hunt
Youra Jun
Francisco Jose Luttmann
Mackenzie Emerson Maddock
Patrick Lee Mitchell
Michel E. Mora Bustamante
Vianre A. Nocos, Jr.
Ashley Ann O’Neal (Honors)
Nichole Ortiz
Connor Frederick Owen
Alexander Porter
Liliana Saldana (Honors)
Ariel Jason Schwartz
Gregory Lewis Stanford
Toshifumi Tanabe
Mirna Rosalia Vega
Jeffrey C. Williams
Hong Zhang
Media Arts
Kaeli Lynn Modrzejewski
Neil Solomon Schwartz
Christian John Wlach
Mexican American Studies
Kamron Isaac Karnes
Microbiology
Chelsea Chantal Adamson
Aida Mani Garcia
Deidra L. Goldtooth
Terrence Michael Peel-Charles
David Luu Phu
James E. Thornton, Jr.
Madison A. Young
Middle Eastern and
North African Studies
Alisa Gretchen Kaiser
Riley Jean Sullivan
Mining Engineering
Kyle D. Cramer
Caitlin E. Hale
Adrian D. Patterson
Richard A. Richards
Neuroscience and
Cognitive Science
Destiny Baird
Nicole Diane Baldwin
Georgia E. Behrend
Michael Vincent Dicaro
Elizabeth Grace Fernandez
Samuel David Gamboa
Patrick Michael Graham
Michael L. Iuzzolino
JungMin Kim
Adele J. Koutia (Honors)
Nico P. Lorenzen
Erin Elizabeth Norman
Sarakai Vi
Kelsey C. Wallace
Zachary Paul Young
Nursing
Molecular and
Cellular Biology
Estevan Acevedo
Hadel Ahmed Alghurab
Jordan A. Clarke
Cathleen Cover
Ena J. Cruz
Matthew David
Jennifer Daw
Erika A. Diaz Fuentes
Anthony Roberto Pasquale Fabiano
Elizabeth Grace Fernandez
Kevin Robert Granger
Jaqueline Medina Hernandez
Michael L. Iuzzolino
Jun-Young Sun Kim (Honors)
Ashley Michele Maitland
Kaitlyn Mary McGrath
Mary-Beth Roberts
Justin Payom Rouintan
Brendan Sharkey
Jessica Lynn Strautman
Sarakai Vi
Abel Villalobos, Jr.
Music Education
Jennifer Brobeck
Benjamin L. Iniguez
Levi Tarrant Pratt
John Michael Shaheen
Musical Theatre
Lindsey Shea Mony
Christopher Robin Okawa
Natural Resources
Casie Leeann Cutman
Cecily C. Davies
Tamar Rene Ferrel
Robert J. Gallas III
Theresa Nicole Huckleberry
Jason Michael Myrand
Ethan Martin Sandoval
Taylor Lane Ulrich
Kaitlin Sarah Allen
Dalina Alvizo
Amy Lynn Aragon Pollock
Gabriella A. Avitia
Bryanna Marion Barcelo
Madison Marie Bardsley
Stefany Marie Barriga
Patience Bekoe
Whitney A. Bouquet
Carly Elizabeth Bove
Julie Jane Brandt
Johnna Marie Carrig
Jenna Michelle Coakley
Felicia N. Coiner
Christine Marie Coleman
Kevin Matthew Cornett (Honors)
Elizabeth B. Crose
Sara Elyse Dacquisto
Megan Elizabeth Deschenes
Chelsey L. Earnhart (Honors)
Marlee Beth Feinholz
Camille Jessie Firestone
Tiffany M. Garcia
Lauren A. Griffin
Emily Diane Heiland
Brittany Christine Huonker
Mariya Isarevich
Jacquelyn Lee Jackson
Suzanna Lee Jeffries (Honors)
Tonya Rochelle King (Honors)
Paige E. Kivi
Marissa L. Lizarraga
Haley Nicole McCuen
Rayna Alicia McParlane
Paola Miramontes
Trudy Inez Morrison
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 69
The ending of World War II and the availability of
government financial aid to returning veterans
resulted in a flood of young men and women to
universities and colleges throughout the country.
The UA was no exception.
Ashley Marie Parker
Kaitlyn Courtney Parks (Honors)
Jessica Lynn Rosenow
Mary Sepulveda
Michelle Denise Splaver
Monica Clare Stewart
Corey Suzukawa
Katelyn Tolentino Tamaray
Tania Maria Valencia
Heather Weaver
Devyn Alexandria Weber
Shengen Angela Katherine Yeh
Nutritional Sciences
Annalise M. Castillo
Ryan Andre Crete
Bernard Ke-Aloha Dime
Theresa Thuy’vi Do
Paige Evans
Lena Yan Feng
Kelli Ann Forbes
Giovanni Michel Garcin
Celina Raquel Gastellum
Daniel A. Gonzalez
Lance Christopher Kokot
Melanie Elizabeth Lammers
Tiffany Rose Lee
Gordon Ly
Kathleen Elizabeth Martinez
Zelle Morefield
Jenny Thanh Nguyen
Marina Elizabeth Ornelas
Rachna Ghansham Rajpal
Anthony Saul Romero
Felicia Christina Rosano
Kayla Jane Sonderman (Honors)
Ashleigh Charm Waterland
Kevin Jun Yu
Operations Management
Kervin Cagan
Jessica Kendrick Puleston
Grant Christopher Suman
Optical Sciences
and Engineering
Loren Jones
Ryota Kimura
Performance
Jacqueline Sheliece Black
Cameron Mayo Figueroa
Margaret Romney
Jennifer Brobeck
Levi Tarrant Pratt
Philosophy
Estevan Acevedo
Ronald Joseph Dillabough, Jr.
Uphaar M. Dooling
Sir Thomas C. Jackson-Gatson
Johanna Pigue
Allison May Reilly
William James Sikes
Philosophy, Politics,
Economics and Law
Alyssa Ariana Rogers
Physics
Megan Nicole Nieberding
Alexandria Ruth Will-Cole
Physiology
Saif Ali Alghamdi
Rochelle Dawn Almario
Lauren Rae Brownlee
Kathleen Noel Callahan
Jordan A. Clarke
Sheridan Leigh Cohen
Cristian E. De La Cruz
Katherine DeBarge
Renee’ Courtney A. Del Rosario
David Andrew Diaz
Alexandra Nicole Elliott-Makedonsky
Silvia Patricia Esparza
Kiah Johanna Farr (Honors)
Kyle David Goble (Honors)
Tiffany Lynn Guerrette
Nicholas David Hawkes
Janghwan Jung
Alexandra Anne Karp
Bhupinder Kaur
Taylor Jayne Keck
Matthew M. Klass
Michael Anthony Kolbash-Isaacs
Adele J. Koutia
Kristian Russell Larson
Francis I. Lennartz
Alana Caroleen Martinez
Kathleen Elizabeth Martinez
Nikolas A. Martinez
Elizabeth Nguyen
Jahnnan Jayesh Patel
Marcos Puente
Monique Artuz Ramales
Kevin J. Severson
Michael Charles Sjoquist
Jessica Lynn Strautman
Christine Tang
Shaun Li Jian Tay (Honors)
Kristina Marie Vasta
Ashley Chey Vincent
Fletcher John Zumbusch
Plant Sciences
James D. Ochse
Philipp Walter Von Bieberstein
Political Science
Casey James Adams
Jennifer Lynn Alexander
Yvonne Elizabeth Alpert
Blake Mark Bailus
Brianna Elizabeth Beyer
Abigayil Bay Brown
Mason Lawrence Burchfield
Amanda Burkey
K. Ann Dickman
70 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Thousands of servicemen had trained at nearby
airfields and, remembering the sunlight and clear
skies, came “home” to Tucson — many accompanied
by wives and small children. There was no time to
construct additional dormitories to house the new
arrivals but the 114 two-family Quonset huts and the
five TDUs (four families each) offered by the Federal
Mark Ehrenreich
Eli Patrik Johnson
Jaimie Lyn Kleshock
Courtney Lacaillade
Pete Malone Lauderdale II
Farah Abdi Magale
Kriston Hoy Mei
Danielle Joan Novelly
Joshua Patrick Pettigrew
Sean Clifford Rambaran
Brianna Ynez Rodriguez
Gregg Ryan
Jasmine Kaur Sandhu
Steven George Scharboneau, Jr.
Nathalia Untiveros
Maria Fernanda Velasco
Brennan Michael Villarreal
Kyron Ray White
John Paul Williams
Psychology
Jorge Eduardo Alvizar
Marina Lee Atkinson
Mercedes Marie Bickerstaff
Catherine Denise Biggs
Christopher Jay Bloom
Haley Colleen Brewington
Rebecca Julia Brown
Sydnie S. Brown
Michelle Alice Bulisache
Taylor Rae Carlton
Geoffrey Chapman
Arianna Marie Charos
Aubrey Wynne Coil
Kaitlyn M. Colyer
Megan Mairi Connolly
Alexandria Couturier
Maigan Ashlee Davey
Krystina Eileen Delgado
Gilberto A. Dena
Nadeen Ann Dittmer
Lucero Dorame
Brittany Yvette Dorsey
Silvia Patricia Esparza
Gianni Oriente Febbraro
Christopher Yale Frank
Amanda Jolene Gnatek
Tiffany Lynn Guerrette
Chelsea Alexandra Hargitt
Glen Anthony Harris
Doris Lizeth Hernandez
Annaliese Noel Hibbard
Erin Brittain Hill
Jacquelyn Christine Hinek
Kathryn Ada Hoyt
Breanna Jean Hunt
Gaelen Sean Isaacson
Cassidy R. Johnson
Anthony Quinton Jones
Jennifer B. Kittredge
Kristopher Charles Konz
Melanie Elizabeth Lammers
Vlad Traian Laslo
Public Housing Authority appeared to be a good
“temporary” solution. They rose on the east and
west sides of the Polo Field (now University Medical
Center).
Protest in
downtown
Tucson,
sometime in
the ’70s
No one ever imagined that some of these
“temporary” dwellings would last for 38 years.
Christina P. Le
Christopher Paul-Anthony Leung II
Fernando Andre Lozano
Weixiao Luo
Alejandra Martinez
Kaitlyn Mary McGrath
Christina S. Miller
Cristian Katherine Morales
Bradley Allen Neppl
Sarah Anne Nuñez
Lawrence N. Onate
Tawni Renee Otterman
Jaeyun Park
Preston Vance Pierce
Alexander Gandhi Puca
Catherine Rose Pudelko
Jordann Nicole Rawlins
Joseph Robert Riviera
Jonathan A. Rosales
Jane Roth
Peter A. Santa Cruz
Kathryn Elizabeth Schwarz
Kyle Edward Shelley
Shane S. Sprague
Sebastian Alberto Suarez
Andrea Nicole Surico
Jennifer K. Tashiro
Kieren Matthew Thompson
Kaitlyn Elizabeth Tkac
Clarissa Marie Torres
Kristina Marie Vasta
Jeremy Masatsuru Verbin
Anissa Mireille Villa
Katherine Ann Watt
Savannah Webster
Edward Kerns White
Jack Leonard Wood
Aaron Michael Woods
Shuyang Wu
Zachary Ryan Young
Yuting Zhang
Public Health
Maria Awino Abiero
Michael Akins
Arely B. Amezquita
Regine-Ann Marie Yutuc Arenas
Sarah Cancino
James Chavarria
Travis Michael Connors
Jess Arthur Curtis
Oliver Daahir, Sr.
Merrion J. Dawson
Parneet Dhindsa
Guadalupe Estrella
Jessica Lorena Galindo
Paige Morgan Gracyalny
Gregory W. Haft
Hilary Kaye Hagadorn
Jayelle Kiana Harrison
Emily M. Harty
Benjamin Allen Harvey
Crystal A. Holland
Jenna Marie Hollander
Jilliane Midori Lewis
Ashley Anne Lowe
Briana Rose Lozano
Jill Naomi Magnuson
Courtney L. McCaughey
Alexandra Danielle Miller
Mokenge Ndiva mongoh
Kylee Palmer
Chandani S. Patel
Nidhisha D. Patel
Rishi Raval
Marissa Rodriguez
Christine Elise Rouff
Jaclyn Leigh Rybin
Matthew Robert Sheehy
Brandon Keshiva Siew
Zachary Heera Siew
Elizabeth A. Snider
Rebecca Diane Standfast
Vanessa Stoll
Jenna Marie Thomas
Taylor Nicole Thornby
Italia Trejo
Karla Margarita Valencia
Alexis G. Vasquez
Rebecca Valentin Wheeler
Kevin Ivan Ybarra
Emily Veronica Yonkovich
Public Management
and Policy
Heather Ashley Ambrose
Reyna Imad Araibi (Honors)
Hallie Lynn Benedict
Christopher Michael Bernhardt
Michelle Lynn Bland
Daniel Robert Dalecio
Karina Michelle del Rio
Mark Garrett Fitzgerald
Meghan Elizabeth Hall
Sierra Nicole Kennedy
James P. McCabe
David McGovern, Jr.
Kriston Hoy Mei
Phillip John Noon
Nicholas Francisco Sanchez
Diana A. Sigala
Derek Keith Smith
Brittany Nicole Volz
Joseph Leland Wilkerson
Hao Zhang
Regional Development
Janine Genevieve Clark (Honors)
John Connolly
Allison Nicole Koski
Andrew Lombard, Jr.
Lynzie Alexandra Powell
Charles H. Priano
Religious Studies
Trever Alford Cook
Tiffany Rose Lee
Alyssa Jennifer Silva
Retailing and
Consumer Science
Alyssa Rose Addington
Lauren Marie Berkheimer
Kateri Ann Brown
Emily Ann Buchner
Gabrielle D’Annunzio
Alana Caroline Dederick
Jacob Kelly Dewey
Jessica Rene Dorer
Jamie Nicole Dunlap
Alexandra C. Giroux
David Elisha Hoffman
Brian J. Hopton
Maxine Siu Mihng Huntsinger
Alexis Evangelia Kyroudis
Alexandra Marie Lettner
Ciera Marie Lopez
Miranda R. Lyle
Kelsey Lynn Martin
Elise M. Martinez
Spencer Ross Melvin
Taylor M. Moore
Sophia Monique Muñoz
Kaitlyn Nicole Nuckols
Kristen Leigh Pierce
Eliana G. Rascon
Daniel Stephen Schneider
Selina Lysette Soto
Scarlett M. Tompkins
Taylor Marie Villarreal
Jake Aaron Wexler
Logan Scott White
Christine Victoria Woodrich
Russian
Alexandra Nicole Elliott-Makedonsky
Science Education
Zac Troy Goertz
Sociology
Amber Lynn Burt
Maigan Ashlee Davey
Krystina Eileen Delgado
Danissa Evelyn Gil
Tori Leigh Grosz
Ashley Brianne Hintz
Max B. Houtkooper
Angela M. Huizar
Jamie Leigh Meril
Zhiye Mo
Allison Lynn Ramirez
Krystal Annmarie Richards
Max Tyler Ruckle
James Andrew Stefansic
Travis Ryan Woolley
Spanish
Mary Begakis
Andrea Castillo
Marion Patricia Cook
Alexis Yesenia Cruz
Vincent Dominguez, Jr.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 71
The year was 1885 and the mood was mean.
The cities and counties needed money and
the territorial Legislature controlled the purse
strings. To make matters worse the members
of the 13th Territorial Legislature were known
to make decisions, often for less than ethical
reasons. They had earned the nickname, “The
Thieving Thirteenth.”
Lydia L. Guerrero
Estefania Lopez
Danira E. Maldonado
Frances María Montaño
Maurice Montaño
Estefani Lucia Munguia
Robert Carroll Nelson
Alejandra Victoria Rodriguez
Jose Francisco Romero
Special Education and
Rehabilitation
Heather Mae Copps
Jacob Levi Falk
Avonna Formalejo
Eser Aziel Hernández
Maggie Marie Johnson
Hallie Renee Neale
Heather Megan Nunley
Kaitlin Marie Ochoa
Adrianna Privitera
Kelly Louise Seiberlich
Ashley Stevens
Alison Chapin Strandberg
Olivia Lauren Timothy
Georgia Jo Trester
Speech, Language and
Hearing Sciences
Danielle De Alba
Shannon Michelle Delaney
Jennifer Nicole DiLallo (Honors)
Andrea Grambs
Leah Jo Hartman
Michael Lee Higgins
Katherine Juarez
Christina Barbara Logan
Priscilla Maria Loredo
Ana Mezquita
Katarina Ursula Moga
Jennifer J. Oleson
Vania Michelle Pantoja
Vivian Rebeil
Silvia Isabel Valdillez
Caitlin Nicole Van Voorst
Studio Art
Walter F. Allen-Henderson
Jessica Lauren Belock
Katie McCoy Branson
Sierra Alexandra Caley
Vanessa A. Cook
Ernesto Esquer
Kalynn Rose Gunderson
Rufus J. Hobbs
Sarah Elizabeth Horn
Laura Elizabeth Kassmann
Yingkai Ma
Randy Allen Martin
Audrey Molloy
Joseph Michael Oland
Cassandra Jennifer Popeski (Honors)
Julia R. Rado
Francisco Jose Manuel Reynoso
Marie Anne Rodriguez
Madeleine Rodriguez Marshall
Olivia M. Ruiz
Cathryn Campbell Shiel
Christopher Sutherland
Nathan Michael Taylor
Xutong Wang
Charisse K. Warsco
Mutian Yang
Shea Claudette Zimmerman
Sustainable Built
Environments
Jared Henry Baker
Scott Clements
Jason Alexander Goff
Chloe Jackson (Honors)
Christopher Moreno
Lynndsay Brooke O’Neill
Patricia Marie Paul
Loran Drew Shamis
Sustainable Plant Systems
Jose Israel Gonzalez
Gonzalo Lopez
Kyle Lee Ramsay
David G. Rodriguez
Systems Engineering
Alec Byron Dollarhide II
Brent Allen Johnson
Travis Everett Kibler
Christian Daniel Magallanes
Eric Robert Moser
Theatre Arts
Julianne Diana Carmona
David Alec Marr
Emilio Roberto Rodríguez
Talia J. Voutsas
Kelsie Ashton Williams
Theatre Production
Steven Charles Davis
Cortni Sharon Elkins
Taylor Joy Halliday
Ryan Moore
Emma Christine Smith Siegert
Urban and Regional
Development
Thomas Martin Bannon
Christopher James Oglesbee
Veterinary Science
Anna S. Geissler
Amber Nicole Johnston
Aileen G. Jordan
Darah Lynne Sueme
72 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
There were two major prizes to be won from the
legislature that year. Phoenix and Prescott came
out on top. Phoenix was given the asylum for
the insane and Prescott kept the state capital.
Tucson received an unwelcome consolation
prize of The University of Arizona, and with it, a
measly $25,000 appropriation, just one quarter
of the amount Phoenix received to build the
insane asylum.
DEGREES
CONFERRED
WINTER 2015
Accounting
Yuyao Wu
Agribusiness Economics
and Management
Jeffrey Blake Hanger
Andy Lee
Biology
Gabriella Magdalena Mendez
Business Management
Collin Alexander Ray
Joel David Redmon
Communication
Camille Anne Eisner
Samantha Dianne Gilbert
Megan Elizabeth McKee
Criminal Justice Studies
Lucas Stephen Henkel
Ryan Kenneth Workman
Dance
John Alexander McBride
East Asian Studies
Devina Alvarado-Rodela
Economics
Abduellah A. M. Alsana
Yu Bao
Qiang Cui
Quansen Fu
Yajie Fu
Jinchen Hu
Alma K. Leyva
Yun Qin
Chaoyong Xia
Environmental and Water
Resource Economics
Shiyan Hu
Family Studies and
Human Development
Taylor Costello
French
Xinxiang Ni
General Studies
Taylor Jordan Arizobal
Mingxi Deng
Anna L. Ducote
Andrew Ganjian
Michael E. Gomez, Jr.
Yanzhe Li
Charles James May
Mark Anthony Sutton
C.C. Stevens was the man sent to Prescott to
win the state capital for Tucson. He came home
with what he hoped would be welcomed as good
news about the University. Instead of celebrating,
Tucson responded angrily. Some reports say the
people of Tucson greeted him with a shower of
ripe eggs, rotten vegetables, and a dead cat. Thus,
the very beginning for the University of Arizona
wasn’t all that proud.
Ana Victoria Valenzuela
Zhesheng Zhao
Kailing Zheng
Geography
Leah Elizabeth Schenkelberg
Information Science and
Technology
Razz Fox
Kewei Le
Journalism
Casey A. Woollard
Literacy, Learning and
Leadership
Edel Adem
Middle Eastern and North
African Studies
Jordan C. Olmstead (Honors)
Music
Jaden Kiefer Medlock
Nutritional Sciences
Javier M. Tapia
Performance
Andréa Katrina Megumi Yamamoto
Philosophy
Brendan Reilly O’donnell Goodwin
Cory Jeannette Sprott
Physiology
Jetta Sproul
Political Science
Nicholas J. Chelemen
Psychology
Anna Juliette Askanas
Dea E. Rubner
Erick Vasquez
Kaitlyn Marie Webb
Yu Wu
Yunqiao Zhou
Public Management
and Policy
Tiffany Lam Mendoza
Regional Development
Jordan Taylor Fallman
Retailing and Consumer
Science
Anne Elizabeth Vient
Sociology
Buqing Wu
Special Education
and Rehabilitation
Lauren Kathryn Smith
Krista Nicole Van Winkle
One condition the legislature slapped on Tucson
was that the people of Pima County had to donate
40 acres to the University. The response was less
than overwhelming. No one offered an inch.
One man decided the time had come to take
matters into his own hands. Jacob S. Mansfeld
was a member of the new Board of Regents. He
took a walk into the desert about a mile east of
town and picked out a site for the new university.
Sustainable Plant Systems
Brandon Ian Phinizy
DEGREES
CONFERRED
SPRING 2016
Accounting
Connor Lee Ahern
Natalie Charbel Amine
Tyler Brent Anaya
Justin David Barber
Sabrina Lee Bigelow
Renea Michelle Bonnell
Savannah Nicole Bridges
Kaylie Marie Burton
Daniel Isaac Caine
Elvia Victoria Carrillo
Joe Carrillo
Charles Jason Espinas Catangui
Jacky Chau
Fangxu Chen
Siyu Chen
Jasmine Hui-Hsin Cheng
Emily Elizabeth Clearwater
Marietta Fe Cummings (Honors)
Christopher Charles Deak
Sara Grace Delaney
Nicholas Thomas Delbrook
Braedon Dougan DeLizio
Suzanne Alexandra DeSalvo
Tanner James Devlin
Matthew Charles Dunn
Priscilla Ung Duong
Gabriel Encinas
Tiffany Emily Feller (Honors)
Elyse Mireya Flores
Heather Lynne Francisco (Honors)
Samantha Elaine Gallegos
Chelsea Renee Gardner
Carolyn Elizabeth Garrett
Matthew Thomas Gildersleeve
Christian Scott Gray
Margaret Elizabeth Griffin
Charles Hanessian
Marissa Danielle Holguin
Saurabh Jain
Danielle Giovanna Jones
Nicholas Edward Jones
Sagitta Khawam
Michael John LaNue
Grant Daniel Lawrence
Megan Elizabeth Lucena
Xi Luo
Dina Mamarbashi
Peter David Marshall
Madel Itzel Martinez
Andrew Gabriel Matalón
Ethan James Mauck
Allie Dahlin McKinney
Roman Matthew Medrano
Braden Paul Meyers
The land was owned by two professional
gamblers, E.B. Gifford and Ben C. Parker, and
saloon keeper W.S. “Billy” Read. They weren’t all
that sure their land was the perfect spot for the
new University of Arizona.
Finally, on Nov. 27, 1886, the owners agreed and
the deed was filed. A year later, on Oct. 27, 1887,
ground was broken for the building that was to be
known as Old Main.
Allison Caroline Minarcik
Maximiliano Mondelo
Jordan Ngoc Nguyen
Gloria Osiris Ornelas
Emily Ione Posler
Tyler Pribramsky
Jasper Lao Puracan
Lu Qu
Evan J. Quinn
Delaney Rose Rader
Taylor Danielle Rainer
Amanda Mae Robinson
Ryan Duane Routh
Michael James Schuh, Jr.
Yu Shi
Savannah Marie Shope (Honors)
Emma Evangeline Speciale
Zachary Noah Steigerwald
Zachary James Swanson
Michael P. Tancredo
Hayley Grace Van Dyk
Florence Maria Vasquez
Taylor Renee Veldhuizen
Garrett Samuel Vinikoor
Weijue Wang
Jack Steven Wesley
Nicholas Montgomery Widner
Alyssa Diane Williams
Scott Rossman Williams, Jr.
Steven Wolsfeld
Jared Yalung
Heehun Yang
Muhammed U. Yilmaz
Casey John Zima
Aerospace Engineering
Matthew Kenneth Aaserud
Ivan Almirudis
Nicholas Michael Bley
Ethan Ryan Burnett
Pengcheng Cai
John Alexander Casey (Honors)
Gabrielle Marie Debbins
Kenneth Harrison Decker (Honors)
Parisa Footohi
Alberto Fabian Garner
Andrew Samuel Kirby Granatstein
(Honors)
Julie Ann Imbornoni
Jacob Anthony Kaplan
Conner L. LaMont
Dustin Taylor Leighty (Honors)
John August Meersman
Nicholas Robert Merendo
Brielle Munsch
Tynan Mark Newman
Luis Rodolfo Pichardo
Rolland Prempeh
Tierra M. Roller (Honors)
Cameron Michael Vissers
Salvatore Antonio Vitale
Africana Studies
Adam Mengistab Andemicael
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 73
The UA’s first school colors were sage green and
silver — sage in reference to the indigenous
sagebush and silver symbolizing the state’s mining
industries. In 1898, an editorial in the school
newspaper declared, “We think those colors well
chosen, as they show originality and individuality.”
The November 1900 issue ran an editorial
suggesting that the combination of sage green
and silver had “outgrown its usefulness.” The
Aubrey L. Arrowood
Symone D. Gittens
Sydney Nicole Haliburton
Kelsey Noel McGee
Lindsey Shotwell
Agribusiness Economics
and Management
Nathan John Bannister
Nancy Anne Bowling
Dulce M. Carrillo
William Russell Charles
Ryan Richardson Cole
Zachary J. Dale
Gabriela Alejandra Dauz
Kelly Lauren Foust
Ashley Jeffers-Sample
Kearsten L. Jensen
Robert Lee Kramme
Destiny Monaé Lowery
Sarah E. McNall
Matthew Bryan Phelps
Cassandra Kay Phillips
Taylor Louise Regan
Jip Rodenburg
John Barton Rosenbach
Randy Gale Williams
David Ethan Yubeta
Agricultural Technology
Management and Education
Taylor Thomas Benedict
Emily Taylor Brewer
McKenna Lee Caughey
Donald Scott Coon
Erika Marie Derma
Danielle Renee Duran
Leon Harrell Farr IV
Jayme Dene Frazier
Seldon E. Goff
Paige Griffith
Caylie C. Handgis
Joshua James Hodges
Kalee Crista Hunter
Moriah Jennie Jacobs
Derek Samuel Julian
Francisco X. Orozco, Jr.
Leonel Parra
Bryan C. Pastor
Brooke Nichole Phelps
Shelby Laine Pierce
Lindsey Joy Rizer
Ricardo Ruiz
Bryette Ann Sipes
Tyler Mark Smith, I
David Tapia
Benjamin Gered Tepperman
Breanna Joan Watkins
Isaiah Chayanne Wong
American Indian Studies
Maria Lourdes Escalante
Animal Sciences
Mickey Kay Bagley
Kinzer L. Baker
Stephani Lynn Bemiss
Sierra Noelle Bracamonte
Chelsea Duree Brown
Dominic Lewis Brown
Nicole Rose Chapman
Hope Anna Christianson
Sarah Auburn Crane
Kaitlin Elaine Dickson
Ashley Marie Ellis
Alexis Marie Endicott
Zane Steven Gouker
Bridget Marie Grobosky
Brook Renee Grobosky
Anna Lena Hilker
Merri S. Hughes
Toni Noel Martinez
Alyssa M. Mazza
Laurence Frank Myers
Kaitlyn Christine Patterson
Rachael Marie White
Shelby Young
Anthropology
Ashley Marie Begay
Bryttenni Violet-Nicole Bell
Anne Marie Bruno
Katrina Lee Bunyard (Honors)
Sekilah Taylor Calvin
Leah Salome Chen
Shelby Corrine Constandaki
Michael Angelo Cortez
Juliana Costanzo
Kiana Lee Diehl
Sarah Nicole Dorsey
Alysha Marie Frias
Brianna Elise Herndon (Honors)
Hannah Marie Herrick
Nathaniel Bernard Higginbottom
Sheryn Lane Hodes
Paige Kathleen Holmes
Tyrene Hubbard
Tanner Gregory Jean-Louis
Hunter Marlene Johnson
Hunter Leigh Kennedy
Mary Elizabeth Knudson
Heather K. Koenig
Pola Laskus
Edgar A. Lozoya
Angela Rabelista Maier
Sarah Elizabeth Menchaca
Irasema Angelica Molina
Katherine P. Morin
Chelsea Ann Marie Norman
Olivia Carmen Otero
Joanna Estefania Ovalle-Zelaya
Sarah Marie PallasDowney
Kimberly Dawn Ramsey
Donovan Bradley Reich
Britnee Leigh Rynearson
Rachel May Sagar
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writer asserts that school colors should produce a
decorative college pin, flag or varsity sweater and
the sage and silver failed to do so.
The December issue that year reported that a
committee had been selected to review school
colors and ultimately the students almost
unanimously adopted cardinal red and navy blue as
the new school colors.
Alison Elizabeth Salzer
Kristina Marie Savage
Emma Christena Schoettmer
Samantha Lynn Schuster
Jenna Nicole Smith
Kirthana Lakshmi Srinivasan
Marvin Anthony Tala
Andrea Christine Thomas
Destiny D. Timmons
Karyn Bao An Vo
Jennifer Wainwright
Kimberly Meilin Wang
Giselle Elizabeth Webb
Natalia Amber Williams
Caroline Lee Znachko
Applied Science
Nasir A. Ahmadi
Timothy Sean Apodaca
Dominica Lynn Aquino
Frank Javier Avitia
Amanda Marina Ayon
John Junghoon Baik
Alec Jason Baray
Sascha Elizabeth Bianchi
Gabriela Bonicichi
Marc Emery Boudreau
Rene Justin Broussard
Ronald Wayne Couch
Edward James Dwan
Leonard Gene Franklin III
Raul Merced Juan Garcia
Melanie Gail George
Terri Sue Karahalios
Santiago Lopez Hugues
Diana Laura Luna-Velazquez
Susan Loraine Magnussen
Yessenia J. Manriquez
Albert Xavier Morales, Jr.
Wendy Rae Mullen
Lorraine Marie Orozco
Deanna Harlean Rascon
Michael Anthony Restelli
David Andrew Rutgers (Honors)
Ryan Brandon Sanborn
Heather Michelle Tooth
Jeremiah Albert Whittier
Billy Zsambok
Architecture
Tatyana Aksamentova
Tareq Rakan Alzawawi
Ryan Daniel Baxter (Honors)
Edward John Bilek
Patrick Nicholas Ceguera
Connor Jeffrey Chelwick
Mario T. Curley
Malcolm Burgis Daruwalla
Nicholas Doyle DePratti
Luca Andrea D’Ippolito
Alice L. Dowd (Honors)
Antoinette Marie Escobar
Benjamin Teohua Gallegos Reichelt
The UA hired J.F. “Pop” McKale in 1914
as Athletic Director and coach of all UA
sports and his first football team made
history. At a game against Occidental, an
LA Times reporter wrote, “The Arizona
men showed the fight of wildcats….” The
name stuck.
Jose Manuel Gonzalez
Audrey Gusick
Nikki E. Hall (Honors)
Cristina Maria Jeffery
Christina Katharina Kukurba
German Eduardo Lopez Corte
Alex R. Mayer (Honors)
Brad Douglas McFarlane
Jessica Ann McQuillen
Kevin Michael Murney
Hoang Truc Pham Nguyen
Indira Diana Orderique
Taylor N. Parrott
Thong Phan
Edson H. Pinto
Kevin Reid
Katie Austin Roch (Honors)
Kylle B. Roehm
William D. Ruoff III
Monica Mercedes Sanchez
Grace E. Schau (Honors)
Abigail Scheel
Amanda N. Schwarz (Honors)
Ryan Patrick Stucka
Chelsea Nicole Thorn
Quan T. Trang
Alekxis Valenzuela
Yanet Vega
Sydney Jalene Ziemba
Shwan B. Zuhdi
Art Education
Sarah Ukiah Suzanne Hoy
Sabrina Alexandra Wilson
Art History
Cherise Lukacs Brashear (Honors)
Amanda Louise Greer (Honors)
Karina Guida
Jennifer Kaye Jamison
Jennifer Carol Lewis
Brandee Marlese Newkirk
Katherine Lynn Raymer
Brittany Desiree Rudolph
Astronomy
Christian Fabian Villegas
William Anthony Yingling
Biochemistry
Marwah Hamdi Ahmad (Honors)
Nyssa Katherine Burdick
Katherine Lauren Burrell (Honors)
Christopher Asia Chan (Honors)
Xiaoxiao Chen
Barbara Ifunanya Chukwu
Courtney Enright Collingwood
(Honors)
Lisa Valerie Daconta
Fabian De La Cruz
Natalie Nicole DeBolske (Honors)
Heather Ann Emmons
Francisco Santiago Enverga
Seth Raymond Erikson
Spencer Elliot Escobedo
Tierra H. Etsitty
Taylor Camille Foxworthy
Melissa Jo Harnois (Honors)
Kylie LaRue Holliday
Anh Buu Hua (Honors)
Annie Huang (Honors)
Danielle Marissa Hutchens
Efren A. Ibarra
Ali Lois Icenogle (Honors)
Salil Pramod Kalarn
Bailey Jo Lahtinen (Honors)
David Raymond Maestas, Jr.
Craig Anthony Marshall (Honors)
Christine Ellen McDevitt
Benjamin James Miller
Courtney Marie Moore (Honors)
Blaine Adrian Muir
Nathaniel Conrad Napierski
Christie Jenny Nguyen (Honors)
Minhkhoi Nguyen (Honors)
Charles Robert Norwood
Brian Miguel Ortega
Sarah Ruth Pattengale
Shawna Lynne Perrine
Adrianna Elizabeth Pulver (Honors)
Alina Nhu-an Quach
Sabrina Rene Rivas
Zainab Abdulkareem Sadeq
Nicole Curran Schwalbe (Honors)
Jonathan Michael Snell
Lindsey Nichole Stager
Kassidy James Tompkins
Enna Tran
Xianghao Zeng
Biology
Edgar Aguayo
Waseem O. AlKakoz
Jacob David Aragon
Alana Anita Augur (Honors)
Lauren Rose Bernas
Nana Mayor Boahen
Nicole M. Bundy
Alexandria Rose Butler
Carla Marie Cane-Wissing
Jeffrey Maxwell Coffeen
Christopher Richard Crawford
(Honors)
Sarah Judith Datri (Honors)
Cassandra M. Dauenhauer
Sarah Nicole Davis (Honors)
Dillon Mathew Driscoll
Kimberly Michelle Escarcega
Mary C. Figueroa
Daniel James Fimbers
Katherine Gail Flurry
Sarah Lillian Freeburg
Amanda Lee Frye
Leyton Jared Galapia (Honors)
Evan Corey Gelzayd
Andrew Timothy Gray
Ishani Joshi
In 1915 UA students met the University’s
first mascot—a real desert bobcat, named
Rufus Arizona after the UA president
Rufus von KleinSmid. The practice of
using a live animal as a mascot was
discontinued in the mid-1960s. The first
costumed-student mascot, “Wilbur”
appeared during the 1959 football season
and was an instant hit.
Polina Flurovna Kamalova
Zachary Aaron Kaplan
Patrycja Magdalena Kubica
Denée Nicole LaMacchia
Rachel Lynn Mardis
Taniya Mathew
Darrien Gerard McFarlin
China Rae Newman
Tolulope Fesayo Obafemi (Honors)
Ama Sarfowaa Owusu-Dommey
Nadine Peinovich (Honors)
Hoon Sang Pyon
Isabella Victoria Rivera
Daniela Nicole Rolph
Andrew Kai Won Russell-Cheung
Samantha Lynn Schuster
Christian G. Sheppy
Samantha Jane Skolsky
Nancy Tiet (Honors)
Rosemarie Dina Turk
Lindsay Elizabeth Vicars
Alexa Nicole Wong
Hallie Alice Wurst
Dana Elizabeth Zack
Jennifer Ashley Zeiger
Qian Zhang
Biomedical Engineering
Czarina Lizette Aguilar
Eze Ahanonu
Alexandra Jordan Barbosa (Honors)
Thomas Lawrence Bello (Honors)
Alyssa Jeane Benjamin
Elisa Camille Calabrese (Honors)
Kristin Nicole Calahan
Kendall Anne Carpenter (Honors)
Andrew Joseph D’Arcangelis (Honors)
Hailey Marie Davenport
Christopher Joseph Roel Gallo
Michelle Elizabeth Gary (Honors)
Collin Andrew Gilchrist
Xaviere Nora Giroud (Honors)
Nicolas V. Guzman
Jamie Lynn Hernandez
Caitlin Clare Howard
Nathaniel Alexander Husband
(Honors)
Mykella Samantha Jones (Honors)
Christopher David Larkin
Christina Lee
Melissa T. Lee
Brooke Lindsay
Cory Luke
Corina Nicole MacIsaac (Honors)
David Raymond Maestas, Jr.
Emily Marie Masterson (Honors)
Mary Irene McIntosh (Honors)
Joel Levi Mintz
Sasikanth Nagisetty Ravi (Honors)
Daniel Enrique Palomares
Kathryn Montrey Pflueger
Yaroslav Valerievich Pilipenko
Victoria Lynne Raught (Honors)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 75
Wilma Wildcat was created when costume designers were attempting to make another costume for Wilbur
and instead created Wilma. She made her first appearance on March 1, 1986, on a blind date with Wilbur.
Wilbur and Wilma were married on Nov. 21, 1986, before the UA-ASU football game. Her primary
responsibilities are women’s volleyball and women’s basketball.
Cecilia Maria Read (Honors)
Kristina Ray Rivera (Honors)
Nicholas Gage Schott
Blake Anthony Stacy
Mackenzie A. Steinbach
Harrison Webb Stovall
Tyler Daniel Toth (Honors)
Joshua Alan Uhlorn (Honors)
Breanna Marie Wang
Alexandria Renae Yetter
Sepideh Zakikhani
Setareh Zakikhani
Biosystems Engineering
Maya M. Aldaghi
Riley Jake Anderson
Ella Monique Anguiano (Honors)
Perla Esmeralda Ballesteros
Nicole Xuan Bui
Vicki Chu
Brooke Christine Conrardy
Alexandra Michelle Downs (Honors)
Ashley C. Hanno
Kenneth John Hickman
Victoria Alexandra Karlsson
Michael Anthony Lopez
Qianwen Luo
Marko Obradov
Haley Marit Odom (Honors)
Claire Kristin Tritz (Honors)
Bailey Alleen Warner
Business Administration
Diego Heriberto Alvarez
Austin Joseph Clarence
Jared Scott Kleinberg
Ngan Nelson
Jeremy Craig Lucas Sanchez
Andrew Tong Tran
Business Economics
James Albert Bacani
Davis M. Baker
Nishan Nicholas Berksanlar
Aidee Michelle Campuzano
Aaron Roman Carrillo
Michael Thomas Cipriano
Adam Jeffery Clare
Colin Michael Comerford
Adrian Contreras
Andrew T. Crooks
Ryan Anthony Dale
Andrew Moses Diodati
Jackson Thomas Fogerty
Jeffrey Robert Gerlach (Honors)
Sam Sheppard Griffen
Davis Kidwell Harrison
Logan Daniel Kelly
Michael Thomas Klebosky
Dominic Christian Leonard
Jacob Martin Lowry
Kyle Henry Marquez
Paul Mitchell McEwen
Ciro Vitale Minopoli
Jennifer Sarah Monroe
Erik Nguyen (Honors)
Jacob Michael Nicholas
Daniel Nikolic
Nicholas Alexander Palomares
Andrew John Parsons (Honors)
Kush Ghanshyam Patel
William Jacob Ramirez
Cesar Ivan Sanchez
Bryce Lansil Schuler
Hayley Ann Schwartz
Emily Marie Sheen (Honors)
Daniel Robert Shumway
Jeffrey Garrett Siwik
Brendan Edward Thornhill
Kyle David Trudeau
Timothy Robert Wolfe
Jesse Wong
Tyler John Worden
Ting Xiao
Anna Catherine Young
Business Management
Mayra Maria Almada
Alejandro Benavides
Rachael Megan Benge
Alec Thomas Beyersdorf
Samantha Lynn Bishop
Chaya Blair Boks
Vanessa Kathleen Brown
Braxton Eric Brutsche
Julia R. Capanna
Nicole Marissa Caviedes
Jephanie Y. S. Chen
Benjamin Phillips Collins
Laura Elizabeth Conn
Jacob Lewis Cooper
Valeria Irene Cooper
John Michael Crossman
Mariah Whitney Curtin
Michael Ernest Darling
Nico Robert DeMaio
Jacob Frank DeMand
Travis Jack Dollarhyde
Tyler Scott Doran
William Jeremiah Driscoll
Lauren Ashley Evans
Alexandra Hilary Forster
Walter Rogelio Garay Sandoval
Fernando Enrique Garcia
Steven Ray Garibaldi
Larry Bernal Gaurano III
Ashley Nicolle Gerbracht
Catherine Ann Gillett
Amanda Sierra Gunderson
Samuel James Guterman
Vance Jeffrey Hagan
Christopher Michael Hans
Rachel Lindsey Hansen (Honors)
Brooke LaShay Hardy
Amy Elizabeth Harris
Ryan Paul Heffner
Reed Scott Heller
76 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Lucero Plascencia Heraldez
Angel Gregorio Hernandez
Andrew Hernandez, Jr.
Morgan M. Holdcroft
Megan Ashley Howard
Xiaogang Huang
Nellie Beatrice Hundshamer
Taylor Isenburg
Michael Branden Janish
Jessica Ann Jarvis
Adrienne Simone John
Jacob Phillip Jones
McRae Andrews Kirmse
Audrey Marie Koomar
Matthew David Krell
Liam Ewald Kroning
Sabrina Rebecca Langer
Karina Nicole Latimer
Ekaterina Hope Lewis
Yali Li
Gerardo Junior Lona Rios
David Bradley Lugviel
Andrew Ryan Luher
Jose Eduardo Luque Rodriguez
Lam Hoang Luu
Rishi Raj Mahendru
Dylan Glenn Mallory
Jade Ashton Martinez
Casey Jordan Matzke
Morgan Taylor McDevitt
Brenna Clare McGill
Edward J. McNamara, IV
Conor Matthew Albano Miller
Layla Marie Moayeri
Emily Lucille Modell
Ernest Alexander Montaño
Cody Michael Moore
Hanna Mzili
Jacob Fitzgerald Newsome
Maria Del Mar O’Bolger
Heather Therese O’Connor
Jessica Nicole Ogden
Jonas Robin Otter
Austin Andrew Owens
Nicholas Alexander Palomares
Dylan John Parrillo
Autumn Nicole Peña
Stephanie My Phu
Russell Emilio Platt
Senovia Alma Quihuis
Kyle Clark Reddin
Joshua Lazer Robinson
Brittany Desiree Rudolph
Melissa Elaine Sainsume
Hesham Abdulrahman Sairafi
Grace E. Schau (Honors)
Spencer Albert Schmidt
Austin Matthew Schwartz
Dalton Jeffrey Shade
Joseph Michael Shetler
Vickey Situ
Denny Song
Hailey Rae St. Clair
The U.S.S. Arizona bell is enshrined in the Student Union
Memorial Center tower in memory of the 1,177 men who
lost their lives when the battleship was destroyed in the
raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
One of the Arizona’s two bells salvaged, our bell was in
the Puget Sound Navy Yard to be processed as salvage
when then-U.S. Army Capt. Wilber L. Bowers, Class of 1927,
discovered it.
Savannah Marie Swaine
Derek Joseph Tappen
Kaleb Erick Tarczewski
Luke Elliott Thompson
Gannon Hilton Thute
Jason Alexander Tokos (Honors)
Jerry Allen Tong
James Trapp
John Edmund Travis
Samuel Austin Turner
Ashley Nicole Vargas
Alina Layne Vigil
Savannah Joy Wolfe
Trevor Harold Zeller
Ryan Joseph Zettle
Care, Health and Society
Jena Allred
Adam Mengistab Andemicael
Aubrey L. Arrowood
Brooke Ashley Beckler
Stephanie R. Begay
Tehra L. Bingham
Anto de Murelle Boubeka-Mbondzi
Brittany Marie Kahiwalani Bungcayao
Rosario
Amber Marie Campos
Andrew Michael Caviglia
Madison Nicole Cline
Bianca Nicole Comer
Nicole Marie Coppins
Lucia Cordoba
Jennifer Marie Cox
Lexy Naomi Davis
Yaxaira Amairani Dorame
Elaina Louise Fabre
Gwendolyn Davey Facciano
Catherine Anne Fennie
Danielle Alisa Frank
Kaylenn Noelle Furuya
Amanda C. Gandy
Amber Lynn Gardner
Alexandra Lee Gates
Shannon Eileen Graves
Jillian Christine Hanlock
Alexis Hernandez
Joel Wilson Horn
Alyssa Leigh Hoyt
Noor S. Jabbar
Elisa Jauregui
Katrina Marie Kaehr
Kiarash Kavosi
Lillian Marisa Kenton
Tiffany Knorr
Payton Rose Kornfeind
Marin Brittany Kranz
Caitlin Elizabeth Latin
Ashley Marie Lewis
Itzayana Leyva
Margo Rebecca Libby
Angel Rafael Lopez
Jennifer Madriaga Madriaga
Margaret Lillian Malkin
Taylor Livingston Marques
Amanda Erin Medell
Ashley Kira Moran
Maryan Muhina
Luis Alexander Muñoz
To Nhi Dao Nguyen
Parker Matthews Nieves
Christopher John O’Connor
Selena Maria Pallanes
Owais Muhammad Rana
Clarissa Isabel Sanchez
Laura Angelina Santana
Sarah Ann Schwartz
David John Sebak
Kaitlyn Elizabeth Shilling
Margarita A. Verdugo
Lauren E. Vonosten
Richard Levi Ybarra
Niza Renee Zamudio
Chemical Engineering
Tyler Scott Alanis
Gabrielle Nicole Tryon Ambrosio
Ari Samuel Auerbach
Matthew Nathaniel Bahr
Brian Palmer Balch (Honors)
Jacqueline A. Barrow
Iesha Monique Batts
Michael Gabriel Bauman
Phillip Befus
John Martin Bernal
Owen Michael Bertelsen
William M. Blair
Aidan Io Blum (Honors)
Hanah Veronica Boles
Sarah Abigail Brunswick
Zhewei Cai
Lauren M. Chon-Lopez
Elyse Renee Cordeau
Israel De La Cruz
Daniel Alejandro Diaz
Ryan Cariaga Dormond
Austin William Dougless (Honors)
Ning Du
Jonathan Henry Dwyer (Honors)
Christopher Raye Escalante
Solomon Roberto Figueroa
Michael J. Flammia
Matthew Allen Fry
Ismael Garcia
Joseph Daniel Gaul
Jason Allen Green
Tucker Hair
Christopher Ivan Hawkins
Christopher M. Jabczynski
Scott Daniel Jauch
Jazmin Jurkiewicz
Ali Khaghani (Honors)
Dylan Jacob Kline (Honors)
Kate Marie LaRue (Honors)
Hannah Rae Ling
David Humberto Lopez
Paola Andrea Lopez (Honors)
He took immediate measures to prevent its destruction
and it was presented to the University in 1946. The
privilege of being the first to ring the bell in its present
location was properly reserved for “the man who saved
the bell” and on Sept. 11, 2002, Bill Bowers, at age 99, did
his job.
Dillon John Manzanares
Fausto Israel Mares-Davila (Honors)
Benjamin Andre Mendiaz
Karla Y. Murrieta
Ian Middleton O’Malley-Keyes
Toluwani Michael Omotinugbon
Diana I. Pantoja
Erik Gibson Pastor
Austin Christopher Pudwill
Austin Pyrek
Katherine Reynolds
Martin Alexander Rubio
Juan Jose Sandoval
Adam Louis Clayton Schmitt (Honors)
Sarina Ann Sedgwick (Honors)
Jasper Louie Tang Sia (Honors)
Jared Peter Souza
Cali Marie Squire
Kendra Lynn Staggs
Connor James Swensen
Jazryc Travis Tatum
Jun Terashima
Gavan Kaoaoamakakuikalani Turner
Brenna Maureen Wagner (Honors)
Jean Verial Wilkening (Honors)
Ben Heng Wu (Honors)
Luke Brian Yarnall (Honors)
Sheng-Shuan Yeh
Rodney Tadiwa Zinyemba
Chemistry
Kelechi Catherine Abarikwu
Daniel Martin Araki
Clay Bradley Arrington
William Ang Bahureksa
Trace Nicolas Bartels
Jonathon Charles Brace
Ambjorn Karl Brynnel
Samantha Nicole Calle
Courtney Enright Collingwood
Kellen Chase Coulson
John Emlyn De Lorenzo
Alyse Elizabeth Dorris
Kaitlyn Renee Griffin (Honors)
Lizi Gu
Iva Habensus
Samantha Lynn Harrow (Honors)
Tyler Mark Kennedy
Jordan David Levine
Congzhou Li
Jonathan Tyler Madriaga
Andrew Tyler McDonald
Eyal Dor Ron
Zachary Jonathan Ruetz
Cody Jozef Schmidlin
Carlos David Silva Gaxiola
Valeria Valdez
Jose Roberto Vasquez
James Robert Walsh
Senlu Wang
Yuan-Chung Wang
Tian Xue (Honors)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 77
Composed of 12,000 enthusiastic student sports fans, ZonaZoo is the biggest student section in the
Pac-12 and was named the 2015 Student Section of the Year. It offers special access to UA sporting
events and special events, and is open to all UA students.
Civil Engineering
Armando Aguirre
Ivan Francisco Arrizon
Batyrzhan Bakenov
Rebecca Bunker
Carlos Ntwali Bunzira
Haley Elizabeth Cubbage
Abigail Lynne Davidson
John Michael Evans
Joe Thomas Griffin
Alan Lorenzo Hatch II
Megan Ann Hoke
Mitchell Jensen
Katherine Rose Kelly
Tobin Glen Kopp
Kyle Mackenzie Lehto
Nicholas James Long
Jesus Manuel Lozolla
Carter Michael Miles
Abdullah Mohammed Mostafawi
Ali Taleb Mostafawi
Benjamin James Sanders
Nicolas Samuel Santiago
Jonathan W. Schmidt
Nicholas Anhtri Trandai
Joel Jeffrey Turk
Luis Fernando Valdez Soto (Honors)
Rafael Ernesto Vila Lizmov
Alina Truc Vo
Haiwen Zuo
Classics
Allison Tracey Benz
Jasmine Kaur Gill
Araceli Mercedes Gomez
Annie Huang
Alexandros Ponciano Lambdin
Ginevra Miglierina
Suzanne Marguerite Mongelli
Zachary D. Palomino
Casey Steven Scoular
Commerce
Francovna Douyon
Rebecca Ann Moore
Benjamin Daniel Ramirez
Nicole Dawn Thiel
Communication
Hannah Jane Adams
Rafaella C. Aguiar
Laura Elizabeth Anderson
Hayley Nicole Arenson
Kase Spear Aufsesser
Lindsey Morgan Ball
Kelly McGuire Balogh
Brittany Ashley Barbanera
Matthew Barnes
Tyler Andrew Baumanis
Benjamin Ross Bernstein
Emily K. Berryhill
Emily Sue Bregger
Riley Thomas Brown
Taylor Marie Buononato
Lauren Marie Burgos
Danielle Marie Butterly
Jake Michael Campbell
Sandra Lucia Canett
Hannibal Ryan Casimir
Katlin M. Christian
Julia Sarah Cohan
William Simon Cohen
Taryn Leigh Courtney
Gabriela Emma Craft
Kristina Marie Cullinane
Earnest J. Cunningham
Natalie Joyce D’Anna
Michael James Dehen, Jr.
Monica Danielle Deicke
Edden Leigh Dembsky
Jessica Marie DiCarlo
Ilana Helen Donner
Jenna Leanne Dougherty
Curtis Anthony Dozier
Brittany Anne Driscoll
Amanda Hope Eisen
Samantha Ally Epstein
Adriano Louis Fabbri
Alexander Mitchell Fishman
Erin Lynn Flor
Griffin James Foster
Allison Nicole Freshwaters
Brett Lane Fricke
Jared Mason Garrolini
Benjamin James Gelvin
Adam Richard Gonzales
Mason Douglas Gregory
Stephanie Lucy Greller
McKenzie Erica Grenfell (Honors)
Madison Jean Griffith
Lucille Kathryn Guignon
Vanna Gworek
Olivia Danielle Haddad
Mackenzie Terese Hahn
Courtney Grace Hall
Roxanne Elizabeth Harding
Emily Sheffield Hassard
Ashley Elizabeth Hegan
Emma Kathleen Hentzen
Sarah Ellen Hester
Lauren Danielle Hickey
Hayley Nicole Hollingsworth
Sean Michael Horan
Natasha Lyn Hossain
Adam Anthony Hylton
Alexandra Cecelia Incaudo
Jacob Dietz Jerome
Megan Elizabeth Jimerson
Dallas Nicole Johnson
Kaeli Johnson
Sarah Michele Johnson
Shea Lee Johnston
Kelsey Michelle Kearns
Alexis Jeannine Keeter
Taylor Marie Kilburg
Jennifer Lauren King
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Kiersten Hannah Kirby
Nicole Blair Kornhauser
Pauline Nicole Lam
Holly Ann Lebda
Jalen Lewis
Nicholas Thomas Liekhus
Taylor James Lockwood
Alexandria Loda
Bryan Lugo
Jonathan Glenn Managbanag
Elizabeth L. McLaughlin
Morgan Nicole Meyer
Ramsey Heather Moore
Zachary Irons Morris
Hailey Shannon Napier
John Patrick Naumann
Kylee Renee Nelson
Courtney Mardell Nerland
Kaley Eileen Nowaczyk
Mariah Alena Nunes
Sarah Jeanne O’Quinn
Nicole Grace Page
Leah Erin Pardue
Katie Lynn Parsons
Garrett Robert Peabody
Tilon Silas Pervenecki
Christina Kathryn Petsas (Honors)
Kristen LeighAnne Polson
Courtney Dana Pomush
Megan Nicole Pylman
Hannah Elizabeth Rajs
Natalie Patricia Ramirez
Adriana Marisol Rivera
Lindsay Alyson Roberts
Devon Andrew Roemer
Luke James Rogers
Priscilla Monique Rose
Julia Frances Rosenberg
Jonathan Alfred Roussel
Gabriella Lidalyn Sandrini
Marisa Ann Sarmiento
Amanda Louise Sawyer
Anna Marie Scott
Hannah Shahabi
Brianna Marie Shanley
Courtney Nisana Shapiro
Grant Joseph Shapiro
Brandon Patrick Sheffler
Summer Lynn Shelton
Mackenzie Crosby Sickle
Thomas M. Siles
Amy Lauren Silverman
Teresa Domenica Spalliero
Erica Paige Sperling
Rachel Faye Spitz
Kamryn Elizabeth Stichter
Maorr Jacob Stockfish
Catherine Marciana Strauser
Cristina Elizabeth Terán
Christy Jamie Thompson
Hannah Marie Thoren
Alexis-Jane Araneta Torre
Morgan Marie Treat
Homecoming celebrations are a UA tradition
dating back to 1920 and possibly earlier.
Only war caused the University to suspend
Homecoming festivities in 1918 and from
1943-45.
Between 60,000 and 70,000 alumni attend
Homecoming, which now includes more than
100 tents on the Mall, with food, drink, fun
and, of course, the Homecoming football game.
Beginning in 1949, the Homecoming parade
was held through the streets of downtown
Tucson. Now the parade circles the UA Mall and
includes 50 student-built floats.
Michelle Tripp
Shivam Wadhawan
Chelsea Lee Wernik
Cicely Cherie’ White-Lee
David Wolfert
Taylor Thomas Wood
Lily Katherine Yost
Liann Sun Zimmer
Vanna Gworek
Computer Science
Kalina Ognianova Alexieva
Nicole Elizabeth Attea
Gabriel Adrian Basadre
Melissa Becerra
Gregorio Morre Bersales II
Victoria Marie Brenner
Brandon Rex Brown
Kristoffer Reyes Cabulong
Nicholas Robert Callahan
Patrick Michael Callahan
David S. Carrig
Alberta Fidelia Chaj
Christopher Andrew Chapline
Vincent Chen
Amanda Lynn Chesher
David Norman Christy
Peter Cortés
Samuel Jackson Cotter
Dylan Micheal Crouch
Justin Charles Crouch
Maxwell Augustus Curry
Nicholas Andrew DeJaco
Greg A. DePaul
James Clark Deveuve
Adam Ray Dimka
Brett Ian Lopez Dunbar
Eamon James Dysinger
Jamel Hamer El-Merhaby
Alexander William Ewing
Trevor Scott Fasulo
Jordan Matthew Fitzpatrick
Joseph Michael Flynn
Lisa Marie Foessel
Lorenzo Filippo Fusaro, Jr.
Joseph Garcia
Mark Delamotte Gardner
Timothy John Garrabrant
Benjamin James Gaska
Michael B. Glenn
Diego Gregorio Gomez
William Michael Grijalva
Bryce Edward Hammond
Peter Warnick Hanson
Michael Arthur Hejny
Changchang Hu
Kevin Duy Huynh
Hasanian Jamal
Cody Steven Jensen
Helen Louise Jones
Christopher Joseph Karl
Gregory Michael Ketterer
Kyle Phillip Knez
Jason Philip Knott
Tanner James Koch
Constantine George Kyriakakis
Spencer Yushian Lee
Yazeed Loonat
Samuel A. Lopez
Daniel Saqueton Luces
Garrett W. MacDuffee
Hari Mainali
Ethan Charles Mangosing
Ethan Tu Manns
Kelsey Rebecca McCabe
Andrew L. McClain
Xavier Thomas-micheal McLallen
Jeremy Joseph Menke
Todd Merbeth
Josue Morga Villarreal
Jeremy Dale Mowery (Honors)
Alejandro Daniel Nicolette
Zachary Thomas Nixon
Alexander Rotondo Nuccio
Christopher Jonathon Pawlik
Justin M. Pitz
David J. Porfirio (Honors)
Megan Kristin Pritchard
Kenneth Bryan Ralls
Aaron Raymer
Emily M. Reff
Anthony Jacob Riccelli
Jonathan Isaac Robinson
Erik Francis Saetren
Stephen Matthew Seall
Brian Michael Seaman
Francisco Gabriel Serrano
Allan Lawrence Smith
David Michael Smith
Meghan R. Smith
Dori Elle Steinbach
Carson Gregory Stelzer
Christopher Ryan Stepanski
Jon Stephens (Honors)
Jason Matthew Steving
Andrew Greenwood Stockton
Trevor Daniel Sullivan
Kaden Joseph Taylor
Jason Robert Tom
Jennifer Trinh Tran
Cindy Trieu
Dakota J. Trotter
Stephen Ashod Varjabedian
Daniel Joseph Vaughn
Damaris L. Vergara
Joseph Edward Visic
Karyn Bao An Vo (Honors)
Laura Souza Vonessen (Honors)
Brendan Ryan Vos
Sydney L. Warner
Ashley Lanae Watkins
Kevin Matthew Wiedeman
Kyle Willson
Jonathan Dean Wright
Christopher R. Yingst
Alexa Michelle Zarbock
Yunhao Zhang
Creative Writing
Sabryna Jade Alers
Al-Enoude Feras Almghrabi
Gilbert Luis Arámburo
Elliot Jean Brietta
Danielle Nicole Cooney (Honors)
Samantha Jean Coxall
Kayla Nicole Czeryba
Jacob Michael Dennis
Sheila J. Dong (Honors)
Samantha Lee Edmiston
Brittany L. Enos
Tomabari Zua Ganago
Rebecca Lynn Goldansky
Megan Mary Goodwin
Robert McDonald Gourley
Marlene Elizabeth Grayson
Antoni Grgurovic
Jared Bryant Hughes
Paulina Beverly Jenney (Honors)
Zane Alexis Johnson
Rofida Kamel Khairalla
Lily Claire Kim (Honors)
Meganlyn Margaret Lastine
Carol Anne Lipari
Marie Nicole Lo Duca
Richelle Nicole Martin
James Allen Scott Miller
Paige Taylor Neely
Dieu My Thanh Nguyen
Paige Nicole Osborn
Joseph David Palacino
Gabriel Arnoldo Palacios
Dana Frances Pattison
Emily Mariann Pearson
Katherine Marie Penney
Elizabeth Marie Pierson
Stavros Robert Popoff
Conrad Alden Pursley
Lucille Rose Randazzo (Honors)
Bailee R. Rollins
Catherine Marie Salgado
Eric Small
Galina G. Swords
Yitsiee Nlda B. Taylor
John Carey Thomas
Shelby Taylor Thrasher
Sean A. Wilkins
Criminal Justice Studies
Eljazzi F. Al Hasawy
Jacob Logan Amado
Fidencio Alfonzo Armenta
Nolan Delaney Baker
Kimberly Leila Beheshti
Kayla Jo Bertoldo
Rebecca Suzan Bowers
Amber Rose Brigham
Stephanie Renee Coleman
Erik Michael Crawford
Elyssa Daniele Creary-Scher
Sierra Jade Cruce
Veronica Cuellar
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Fight! Wildcats! Fight!
Arizona’s first fight song was “Fight! Wildcats! Fight!” written in 1929 by Dugald Stanley Holsclaw,
Class of 1925. Holsclaw went on to serve in the state Legislature for many years.
“Fight! Wildcats! Fight!” was officially introduced by the UA band at the 1930 Homecoming game and was
also performed by Rudy Vallee and his orchestra over the NBC radio network that same year.
Gaspar Cuen
Kyle Christopher Dawicki
Danielle Renee De La Rambelje
Brandon Thomas Delgado
Jordan Brianne Dishman
Mackenzie Myrene Everson
Ryan Jeffery Ewing
Regan Lynsey Fitzgerald (Honors)
Marie Jocelyne Floriant
Eva Elizabeth Fowler
Tiler Michael Frank
Merissa Leaellen Fynan
Tyler John Giles
Daniel Stephen Gottlinger
Elizabeth Anne Hartley
Manny Herrera
David Joshua Hill
Taryn H. Hill
Daryn Rose Holst
Nicholas Matthew Horn
Tomas Andrew Hull
Alan Fernando Jimenez
Kristian Connor Kent
Caitlynn Alleece Kestler
Aeric Allen Helsel Koerner
Jeffrey Benjamin Lipin
Karen Denisse Lopez
Victor Martin Lopez
Megan Elizabeth Lucena
Jessica Yanin Macias
Robert Andrew Marquez
Alan Martinez
Caleb Martinez
Dalina Marie Miranda
Jose Alejandro Montaño
Mackenzie Ashlyn Moore
Rene Antonio Moran
Daisy Moreno-Cota
Luis Carlos Noriega
Alexis Diana Ortiz
Fabiola Peraza
Neal Mark Petersen
Danielle Maria Pitts
Craig Donald Porter
Brandon Richard Prost
Robert Reemo Rabert
Nicholas Anthony Rey
Emily Brena Romero
Ileana Berenice Ruiz Torres
Michael Fernando Ruppert
Juan Ramon Sanchez
Luciano Sanchez
Victoria Annette Schoch
Felicia Albina Sifuentes
Joan Amari Smith
Lauren Summer Sosinski
Lauro Antonio Soto
Seth Henry Svob
Brittany Lee Tafolla
Jamie Louise Tugenberg
Jenna Marie Turner
Richard L. Vargas, Jr.
Alicia White Vildusea
Brendan Richard Wiberg
Madison Eve Wisler
Jorge L. Zamora
Liliana Zayas
Dance
Miranda Allen Beck
Kelsey Elaine Bennett
Zachary Edward Birdwell
Brooke Olivia Brady
Daniel A. Burgueño
Malaika Rinyire Cambridge
Katherine Amanda Cheng
Ryan Allen Dervin
Hannah Grace Duncan
Kathleen Elizabeth Dunckley
Danielle Anice Farzanegan
Abbie Alyse Feller (Honors)
Lorene Michelle Fisher
Daniel S. Gilmore
Alan Gonzalez
Ashley Taylor Hammond
Ambrosia Nicole Hauser
Paige Kathleen Holmes
Grace Marie Janiszewski
Terra Hunter Kell
Jennifer Michelle Martin (Honors)
Hattie Rae McConnell
Jordan Allecea Merritt
Thomas William Porter IV
Andrew Ryan Ranshaw
Jadyn Nicole Reddy
Maeve Malone Shelly
Kennedy Ashton Thomas
Amanda Anne Winter
Julie Rose Zukaitis
Early Childhood Education
Mallory Anderson
Tessa Margaret Baumgartner
Alixandrea Nicole Bender
Anca Bugheanu
Louise Amie Cailes
Alexandria Brooke Capanna
Vanessa Cordova
Kristine Marie Daigle
Kaitlyn Alysse Dennis
Julia Thomas Dickson
Jessica Jo DuPerre
Jenna Rhea Evans
Darian Jade Gravestock
Lindsay Tess Jacoby
Tiffany Cecelia Kadlec
Katherine Diana Larned
Callie Anne Mattus
Laura Catherine McIntosh
Shelby Lynn McKarns
Danielle N. Murrieta
Haley Ann Robling
Lindsey Shotwell
Erika Rae Vegas
Catherine Lynn Waring
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Kathryn Lee Wilhelmi
Megan Elizabeth Zwerk
East Asian Studies
Hamad Abdulrahman Jalal K Alkaabi
Brandon James Barnett
Thomas Murphy Brown
Jonathan Conrad Brunenkant
Leah Salome Chen
Robert Alan Douglas
Cynthia M. Haley
Sara Jing Hamilton
Derek Shane Heemsbergen
Koh Hodge
Anh Buu Hua
Amber Marie Hunt
Alan James Lee
Li Hsiang Lee
Chao Liang
Alexander John Lindahl
Karla Marquez
Kurt H. Matsunaga
Jesse D. Pegram
Miranda Risa Peters
Bradley Pierce Vanek
Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
John Emmet Andrews (Honors)
Jose Armando Bermudez Rodriguez
(Honors)
Carissa Lauren Cabrera
Kyle Christopher Fischer
Iris Delaney Francisco
Brittney Marie Hensley
Joshua Scott Hoskinson (Honors)
Emilia Rae Hoyos
Ashly Rose Lona
Kevin Barry Mauerman (Honors)
Elyse Laurel May
Tyler Alan Mccormack
Belen Molina
Katherine Luke Morgan
Karina Emilia Paredes (Honors)
Chelsea J. Powers
Jessica Rae Rydman
Peter John Santoro
Victoria Emily Tozer (Honors)
Kristin Nicole Ulvestad
Casey David White
Economics
Saeed Ali Alneyadi
Christopher Ryan Arguedas
Ryan A. Barnhart
Sergio Ernesto Barrera (Honors)
Jeffrey Robert Behrendt
Bethany Ashleigh Bonny
Dylan Jay Brinkmann
John Michael Burnett
Russell W. Burnham
Cecelia Rachelle Byers
Senran Cao
One day in 1952 Jack K. Lee, an applicant for
the UA’s band directorship, was leaving Tucson
by air following an interview with University
administration. From his airplane window, Lee
observed the huge letters on the roof of the
UA gymnasium.
band director, and in September of that year,
the UA band performed “Bear Down, Arizona!”
in public for the first time. Soon thereafter,
“Bear Down, Arizona!” became accepted as the
UA’s fight song.
Inspired, he began to scribble down the music
and lyrics to an up-tempo song. By the time his
plane landed, he had virtually finished it. A few
weeks later Lee was named the University’s
Chaopengyu Chen
Liu Jin Chen
Xiaoxiao Chen
Yanshan Chen
Yu Chen
Han-Kuei Chiu
Brandon Nicholas Christian
Jessica Amanda Crosby
Arthur Dai (Honors)
Justin Matthew David
Jonathan Michael Dellerman
Xiaoyu Ding
Wenshuai Dong
George Dean Eveland III
JunLiang Fan (Honors)
Ya Fang
Kian Farjami
Shilu Feng
Austin Aaron Fox
Cassandra Caitlin Fredrickson
Chaonan Fu
Yuhao Fu
Haden Richard Gregory
Aaron Jackson Gross
Haoyu Gu
Zheng Han
Zhongsheng Hao
Samuel Warren Heiman
Jonathon Charles Huckins
Shannyn Sophia Marianne Hultin
Yujia Huo
Shisong Kang
Tyler Jeffrey Kaplan
Kevin Markland Kelly
Andrea Louise Kloc
Sehun Lee
Jiahui Li
Jiazheng Li
Zhen Li
Qiyong Liang
Yuanbo Lin
Chen Liu
Wenchao Liu
Nitisha Lotun
Gabriela Sandoval Martinez
Martin Ariel Martinez
Alexander A. Miller
Yifei Mo
Robert Joseph Mulato
Thanh K. Nguyen
Joaquín Núñez, Jr.
Aaron Sterling Nymeyer
Brendan Steven Oleksy
Ana Jimena Padres
Andrew Steven Payne
Madeline Summer Pigeon
Shawn Ross Plourde
Quan Quan
John Sebastian Ramirez Zavala
Max Daniel Reinsdorf
Joseph Anthony Scire
Suravi Sengupta
Linhan Shang
Bowen Shen
Kamron R. Sherkat
Jingyu Shi
Zhihao Shi
Logan Carter Simpson
Jung Han Song
Yutian Sun
Zhongjie Sun
Thomas David Swinford
Jacob Joe Taylor
Brendan Parker Tinoco (Honors)
Victoria Ann Vnuk (Honors)
Jing Wang
Mengying Wang
Yali Wang
Xiazi Wei
Mark David Wheeler
Jiawei Xu
Zizhe Xu
Shuqian Yang
Weixing Yao
Qian Yu
Mingrui Zhang
Shengqiang Zhang
Wenjie Zhang
Yuhang Zhang
Yunfei Zhang
Dewang Zhao
Jian Zhao
Chengfei Zheng
Minglu Zhou
Xin Zou
Hengye Zuo
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Maryam Alia Abdul-Wahid (Honors)
Tamara M. Alani
Jonathan Peter Avila
Eugene Patrick Balaguer
Rubi Roxana Ballesteros
Matthew Ray Barragan
Christian Adolfo Becerra
Whit Bennett (Honors)
Julian D. Bostick
Cody A. Briner
Matthew James Burger
Ian Krispin Carmichael
Juan Carlos Castillo
Jesus Damian Chavolla
David Rene Contreras
Paul Michael Cross
Moslin A. Cruz-Castellanos
Greg A. DePaul (Honors)
Timothy Ebinger
Arminda Estrada
Nicolas Ramon Fajardo (Honors)
Xinran Fang
Krystian Flores
Uriel Francisco Garcia
Miguel A. Garcia Duran
John Houston Gentry
Kade John Colin Gigliotti
Phillip Tulio Gotobed (Honors)
Jonathan Glenn Hawkins
Luis Leonardo Hernandez
Solomon Jay Jackman
Yuyue Jiang
Atta Kashmiri
Colin Andrew Lasharr (Honors)
Spencer Yushian Lee (Honors)
Kaiqi Li
Kevin Joseph Lin
Angel Josue Lopez
Murey Alexis Luna Torres (Honors)
Joseph V. Mardesich
Thomas Vincent May
David Mendoza
Steven Joe Ilagan Murrell
Timothy Ni
Megan Kristin Pritchard (Honors)
Nikitha Ramohalli
Yiming Shi
Phillip James Showers
Brett Michael Spradling
Robert Michael Starr, II
Jon Stephens (Honors)
Mengtao Tang
Ross Daniel Tharp
Kyle Walker
Jiaxiang Wang
Ray Charles Weaver
Adam Matthew Williams
Steven Edward Wirth
Guanghan Wu
Junfeng Xu
Kaishen Xu
Jingwei Yuan
Qidi Zhai
Yi Zhang
Michael Anthony Ziccarelli
Electrical Engineering
Michael Marc Comeau
Elementary Education
Clarissa Alvarez
Alejandra Barrera
Kaylene Frances Bauman
Melissa Bawkin
Molly Patricia Beaver
Chaim Idan Bismanovsky
Carol Kay Boes
Jovana Hernandez Campos
Jessica Cecilia Cañez
Dara Lynae Carlson
Simone Alexis Charles
Awa Binti Chibasa
Matthew Michael Chiorazzi
April Rose Clark
Jennifer Lee Clark
Sara Lasalle Coffaro
Nicole Edlina Coury
Lauren Alison Cruz
Teresa Marie Cruz
Alexandra Paige Dates
Brielle Monique De Clercq
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“All Hail Arizona,” composed by alumni Ted and Dorothy Monro, was adopted as our
alma mater on May 7, 1926.
Amber Candace Defoe
Madison DeWeerdt
Amy Allison Dias
Mitchell Dominguez
Brianna Marie Eaton
Leticia Maria Fischer
Luisana Garcia
Kellie Lynn Gillespie
Daron Veronica Gordon
Katherine Elizabeth Govern
Shannon Alysse Grant
Jenna Elise Grauso
Meredith Ann Green
Victoria Grace Guerchon
Casey Anne Harmon
Sherry Lynn Harris
Nicole Lee Hoffmann
Kristin Marie Hopwood
Belinda Ann Hughes
Yesenia Jimenez
Olivia Elliott Johnson
Tyler Weathington Kiecolt
Nicole Paola Kory
Jenna Elise Lacovara
Lilian Le
Elizabeth Mary Leon
Breanna Lee Lindner
Amairani Carolina Luna
Andrea Christine MacMeans
Mary Elinor Mallek
Brandie Maria
Genaliz Marin
Nicole Marie Martinez
Sydney Ashland Massey
Alexandra Janine Mazur
Andrew Joseph McClellan
Miranda McCluskey
Kellen Marie McCoy
Brianna Elizabeth McLaughlin
Ashtyn True Mead
Amelia Miramon
Isabel Morales Bonilla
Michelle Carol Petti
Charles Jacob Pierce
Maxi Mishoe Potter
Alma Noemi Preciado
Kirk Bradford Preston
Jaclyn Francine Pulliam
Michelle Rose Ramirez
Cary Brooks Reis
Rosa Maria Rodriguez
Rachel Ann Roussey
Angela Lynne Saltz
Kyle Mcauliffe Sanders
Nancy Sandoval Izelo
Shelby Kramer Scheck
Gabrielle Elizabeth Schiffer
Erika Ellen Schlittenhart
Kasey Michelle Schneider
Katie Elizabeth Serrao
Mandy Jo Stanley
Jacqueline Ann Stehle
Alex Alyssa Swenson
Hali Alice Tease
Danielle Nicole Tolton
Danielle Lynn Tune
Jaclyn Nicole Turner
Kayla Josephine Vasquez
Lindsay Taylor Wong
Kayla Lee Wright
Mariko Edithmarie Yoshinaga
Kalyanne Lynne Younker
Kiersten Lee Zaelit
Brianna Rene Zittlosen (Honors)
Engineering Management
Gregory Wilhelm Burleson
Eric Stephen Espinosa
Erin Camille Evangelist
Kevin Robert Garrick
Ricky Joseph Gonzalez
Elizabeth Grace Harris (Honors)
Matthew R. Kirk
Edward Francis Mackay, Jr.
Brian J. Nicodemus
Olivia Lauren Poettmann
Jason Scott Teich (Honors)
Erik Joseph Traulsen
English
Kasondra Lee Alfano
Al-Enoude Feras Almghrabi
Sierra Rose Altom
Brianna Lee Aragaki (Honors)
Alexandria Leigh Baucco
Megan Michelle Bondy
Miklos Karoly Braun
Karen Gabriela Castro
Rebeka Su Catania
Kacie Marie Claudel
Danielle Nicole Cooney
Jillian Nadine-Bell Daggitt
Katherine Arianna Dichristofano
Clayton Eddleman
Samantha Lee Edmiston
Brittany L. Enos
Jussara Annrae Esprit
Isabel Marie Garcia
Marlene Elizabeth Grayson
Antoni Grgurovic
Shannon Leigh Higgins (Honors)
Brock Kainoa Hintze
Sarah Elizabeth Hughes
Mary Keane
Claire Louise LaForge
Carol Anne Lipari
Daniel Kenichi Llano
Sarah Alyce Lupo
Julie C. MacFarland
Matthew Robert Mallicoat
Ian Daniel Martella
James Allen Scott Miller
Justin Edward Morrow
Jennifer Gwen Munoz
China Rae Newman (Honors)
Anne Thi Nguyen
Daniel Gordon Olitzky
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Paige Nicole Osborn
Joseph David Palacino
Erika F. Parra
Emily Mariann Pearson
Katherine Marie Penney
Elizabeth Marie Pierson
Lucille Rose Randazzo
Wheeler Daniel Reece
Alexa Jordan Rodriguez (Honors)
Brittany Desiree Rudolph (Honors)
Elizabeth Gabrielle Ryder (Honors)
Joshua Aaron Schwartz
Kristian Nicole Simpson
Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
Victoria Margarita Stilb
Haley Nicole Stuber
Kaely Jae Wang
Sarah L. Webb
Jacob Richard Woodworth
Dominique Nichole Zuniga
Entrepreneurship
Sky Kurt-Anthony Bartsch
Arya Bina (Honors)
Christopher Robert Bocz
Alyssa Marie Bowles (Honors)
Vaughn Avery Brinkman
Daniel Isaac Caine
Jackson Thomas Fogerty (Honors)
Walter Rogelio Garay Sandoval
(Honors)
Fernando Enrique Garcia
Larry Bernal Gaurano III
Kori C. Hazel
Audrey Marie Koomar (Honors)
Kramer Charles Kutschko
Douglas Nicolas Loftus
Gerardo Junior Lona Rios
Morgan Taylor McDevitt
Daniel Aaron Medwin
Austin James Muscarello
Jacob Michael Nicholas
Brittany Alyssa Nordlund
Jonas Robin Otter
Victoria Calvillo Preciado (Honors)
Senovia Alma Quihuis (Honors)
Jeremy Craig Lucas Sanchez
Jason Brett Sandler (Honors)
Bryce Lansil Schuler
Joseph Michael Shetler
Natalie Rachel Sokol
Jimmy Song
Jordan Christine Spallas
Cameron Ross Steiner
James Reese Stewart
Donald Joseph Sutton III (Honors)
Zachary James Swanson
Connor Joseph Wasz (Honors)
Savannah Joy Wolfe
Timothy Robert Wolfe (Honors)
Chaoying Yan
William Chan Yee
Muhammed U. Yilmaz
Michael Alan Young (Honors)
In 1914, Coach “Pop” McKale’s football team was
so successful that discussions began to honor
the team and the University by building a huge
“A” on Sentinel Peak, west of downtown Tucson.
Working Saturdays from November to March in
1916, students completed the 70’ by 160’ “A” of
Environmental and Water
Resource Economics
Dylan Guttman Cronin
Jonathan Martin Giess
Marita Anne Hill
Shangzhou Jiang
Kennedy Lyn Maionchi
Ivan Sebastian Simon-Kallstenius
Environmental Hydrology
and Water Resources
Maximiliano Campos-Alvarez
Lejon Hamann
Dofanga Michel Romaric Kone
Katarena Angelik Matos
Alexander B. Prescott (Honors)
Claire Kristin Tritz (Honors)
Environmental Science
Hanan Alhashmi
Darya Nicole Anderson (Honors)
Julio Antonio Arias (Honors)
Lillian McGowan Canty Christopher
Matthew Warren Geiger
Hanna Rose Hard (Honors)
Carly Elizabeth Herndon
Shelby Rae Hoglund
Joshua Scott Hoskinson
Kashja S. Iler
Mary L. Jones
Alexander Scott Lohman
Steven Michael Lovell
Marisa Heatley Lunde
Ryan Daniel Mangiafico
Hunter Lee McBurnett
Kyla Ann McPeak
Lydia Marie Pettit
Emily Jessica Rose (Honors)
Steven Anthony Saeed
Shana Alysse Sandhaus
Samantha Jane Skolsky
Samantha Ann Springs
Patrick Brandt Taylor
Victoria Emily Tozer
Mitchell Harold Wagner (Honors)
Jill Rosemarie Wallitschek (Honors)
Rachel Nicole Wehr (Honors)
Patrick James Brewer
Jennyfer J. Corona
Caroline Nicole Digilio
Annie Joe Dolan
Michelle I. Gonzalez
Emily Shyanne Huddleston
Melanie Evonne Jones
Colby Haynes Leonard
Bruno A. Loya, Jr.
Madison L. Lugo
Siomhara Andreina Salazar
Riley Evan Schoneman
Logan Anne Marie Wagner
Brianna Danielle Zurita
eSociety
Ashley Milburn
Breenista Marie Rangel
Arielle Rose Roude
Andre Michael States
Evironmental Studies
Paulina Beverly Jenney
Christopher Robert Moore
Family Studies and
Human Development
Karen Michelle Abshire
Rachel Jean Zager Altfeld
Daisy Diane Arevalo
Jamie Elaine Babb
Jennifer Theresa Baker
Krystel Yasmin Barcelo
Cindy Bay
Maggie Claire Beronio
Ayana Caitlin Blackey (Honors)
Rebecca Ann Boyd
Kelsey Gisele Brewster
Peggy Irene Brownlee
Frances Elizabeth Burdette
Catherine Sarah Butler
Amylee Leilani Calaway
Karen Campos
Janette Esperanza Carrillo
Karina Castillo
Victoria Angelica Celaya
Landy Giovanny Ceniceros
Felicia Marie Christensen
Kristen Danielle Cofske
Gabrielle B. Copeland
Lucia Cordoba
Dulce Maria Cortez
Tatum Lindsay Craft
Jennifer Elizabeth Davis
Bridget Kathryn Dunholter
David Vincent Ellis
Layla Hosneeya El-Sharkawy
Ruby Stephanie Escalante
Jessica Stephanie Fafrowicz
Anna Yan Feng
Michelle Marie Ford
Erika Alexandra Garcia
Bailey Sumner Gibart
Madison Marie Gilbreath
Gabriela Gotsis
Jessica Sydney Granick
Priscilla Marie Hansen
Cari Ann Hobbs
Miranda D. Huff
Lauren J. Kaiser
Haley Shea Kesteloot
Alexa Daniele LaRaus
Lauren Jean Lebsack
Anna Elizabeth Lewis
Czarina Leyva
Sydney Marie Lien
Gloria Lizarraga
Samantha Ann Marshall
rock, cemented with mortar mixed on-site and
whitewashed it that day.
This began an annual tradition. Each fall, the
freshman class re-paints the “A” on what is now
known as “A” Mountain.
Caldonia Ebony Denise Mask
Hannah Rose McCurdy
Courtney Ryan McElroy
Amanda Marie McShane
Summer Ashley Miller
Abdulmajed Adel Mohammed
Christine Lillian Montes
Seyma Johana Morales
Emery G. Ochoa
Guadalupe Yazmin Ornelas
Katherine Leigh Pfordt
Andrea Pineda
Emily Pineda
Kylie Taylor Popkins
Sean Elizabeth Provencio
Josely Rendon Jimenez
Sara Elise Rojas
Ronald Reyes Ruanto
Marissa Nicole Sandoval
Annabeth Blanchard Seamans
Josephine Alexandria Sebring
Breanna Nicole Sims
Brittni Kylene Smaltz
Alyssa Marie Smith
Jasmine Rose Smith
Melissa Nicole Solomon
Erica Marie Sorensen
Janna Michal Spiegel
Hannah Lucille Stamp
Alexandra Vayden Suarez
Jaime Nicole Sugar
Anne Marie Summons
Shelby Alayne Thomas (Honors)
Holly Annette Trask
Serina N. Trevino
Maria Isabel Uribe
Lizbeth Y. Valera
Susannah Helene Vickroy
Alexa Karina Villa
Priscilla Cristina Villafaña
Teresa Marie Viverto
Kori Leanne Ward
Kara Marie Welch
Abigail Ruth Will
Jasmine Tuynae Wilson
Abigail Dru Wirth (Honors)
Cassandra Yetzer
Film and Television
Priscilla Marie Beck
Ian Henry Bogert
Cassidy Rae Brazeel
Anthony Tereso Carrillo
Gregory Alexander Castro (Honors)
Katlin M. Christian
Paige Lauren Cuff
David Morgan Deem
Katherine Arianna Dichristofano
Jennifer Rose Gellman
Caroline Hermina Greenberg
Alexander Steven Guyton (Honors)
Aurora Michelle Herrington-Auerbach
Zachary Steven Hynek
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The first band at the University of Arizona was
formed as a military unit in 1902 with 12 musicians.
Since 1913 (a year after Arizona became a state) the
UA has never been without a band.
In 1951, women were allowed to join the
marching band.
In 1967, the UA band provided halftime
entertainment for the inaugural Super Bowl.
Donald Lee Jordan III
Sydney Amanda Kramer
Eli A. Lavoie-Higgins (Honors)
Owen Glenn Lewis
Jordan Maxwell Mandel
Evan Jules May
Bryan Shane McAdams
Sarah Elizabeth McCoy-Meshey
Bret Colin Miller
Daniel Gordon Olitzky
Carly Alyssa Passovoy
Ellie Mariel Polsky
Colin Michael Prenger
Matthew Enrique Ramirez
Kaylah Joy Rasmussen
Gilbert Manriquez Rataezyk
Landon John Shepanek
Rheanna Brooke Sorenson
Peter Matthew Stazzone
Nysa Sea Marie Swanson
Alexis Renee Taylor
Robert Claud Upchurch, IV
Ariella M. Valencia
Tyler Wayne Vertrees
Eric Cameron Webster
Nelson Christopher Young
Jiaxin Zheng
Finance
Timothy Joseph Abel
Fabinne Nicole Abi-Ad
Alfonso Tadeo Aceves, Jr.
Dana Faisal Alayoubi
Abdullah Othman Alghamdi
Anthony James Castro Almero
Allegra Paz Amend
Marie Alexandra Archibald (Honors)
Reed Michael Austin
Kelsey Bales Baez
Sky Kurt-Anthony Bartsch
Hannah Rose Baurer
Burton Kenneth Bennett
Sonja Marie Berge
Arya Bina
Christopher Robert Bocz
Benjamin Jacob
Brehne Matthew Charles Burnett
Victor John Cabibo
Jonathan Anders Carlson (Honors)
Hunter Hawkins Carreira
Matthew Mark Cayton
Zhaoren Chen (Honors)
Adam Jeffery Clare
Jeffrey M. Corkum
Stephen Charles Crim
Andrew T. Crooks
Luis Gerardo Cuellar, Jr.
Tyler M. Cunningham
Andrea Paola De La Fuente
Tanner James Devlin
Robert David Foiles
Alfredo Fragoso
Dennis Carl Rainer Galinsky
Andrew Francis Garriott
Vincent Pierino Giovannini
Samuel Isaac Goldsmith
Alejandro Roberto Gomez
Jake Nicholas Gorski
Nikolas Karl Grosch
John William Haas
Austin James Hempy
Blair Thomas Henning
Ryan Alan Henry
Marissa Ashley Hergott
Lauren Paige Hoepfner (Honors)
Ryan Chad Holley
Oliver Allen Holyoak
Jessica Elizabeth Hosek
Jiajia Huang
Jack Jeffrey Ittel
Ian Whitehouse Jaffe
Zachary Stratton Janikis
Ilena Manasi Jayaraman
Bryan Anthony Johnson
Ibraheem Saeed Kashkash
Maximillian Wentworth Keyser
Rizhon LaQoree King
Andrew Christopher King, Jr.
Samuel Scott Kinkade
Ryan James Kuhl
Kramer Charles Kutschko
Matthew James Leahy
Dominic Christian Leonard (Honors)
Shuai Lin
Yujia Liu
Taylor James Lorenson
Sean James Luther
Andrew George Magill
Joshua Michael Manelis
Joseph George Marciano III
Stephen John Marcucci
Anthony Marselian
Rodolfo Martinez
Jacob Thomas Matenaer
Ryne Everett Mauck
Garrett Conner McComb
Sean Edward McDowell
Jaime Steven McFarland
Sean Christian McGarry
Roman Matthew Medrano
Reagan Melnychyn
Samson Clay Meyer
Fabio André Mire (Honors)
Acacia Marie Moore (Honors)
Kevin Richard Murphy
Austin James Muscarello
Michelle Olivia Lugo Navarro
Collin Stuart Nelson
Laura Helen Nevin
Yanelly Victoria Nuñez
Robert Andrew Nurse
Jack Louis Otis
Kyle Glen Palmer
Michael James Parkes
Kush Ghanshyam Patel
Andrew David Paul
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In 1977, the band performed in President Carter’s
inaugural parade.
In 2009, the Pride of Arizona Marching Band was
named one of the top five in the country by the
College Band Directors National Association.
It now numbers more than 250 members, including
a battery-unit drum line, award-winning baton
twirlers, pompom dancers and color guard.
Stephen John Pessagno
Lauren Elizabeth Peterson
Justin Mark Pierce
Stephen Douglas Plunk II
Jacob Maxwell Pugliano
Edgar Javier Quezada
Sanjay Kumar Ramiah
Elias Nicholas Razzouk
Blake James Reeves
Michael Ritter
Corene Patricia Roads
Christopher Michael Robinson
Jessica Robles
Madeline Alice Rogers
Brett Everett Ruckle
Jeremy Morris Sachs
Jason Brett Sandler
James Alexander Schoonmaker
Michael James Schuh, Jr.
Jessica Jane Schulte (Honors)
Nathan Alexandro Schupp
Sijie Shao
Aaron Mathew Shapiro
Nathan Thomas Shearer
Kelly Nicole Shearon
Jimmy Song
Jackson Christopher Stamets
Alec Zane Swanberg
Zachary James Swanson
Connor Iman Tate
Yannis Manolis Tsagarakis
Keenan Robert Turner
Jaling Kao Ulrey
Marco Dimitri Valentine (Honors)
Michael Thomas Vogel
Connor Joseph Wasz
Lindsey Kathryn Weaver
Theodore Alexander Wolter
Jesse Wong
Tyler John Worden
Mingzan Yang
Yifan Yang
Zachary Keane Zemer
Remington Thomas Zona
Brian Charles Zurek
French
Alexandra Jordan Barbosa (Honors)
Audrey Chambers
Valeria Irene Cooper
Katherine Danielle Cornish
Sarah Nicole Davis
Ross James Eckley
Lizette Sarahi Garcia Ramirez
Lisdye Danae Garcia-Gonzalez
Morgan Mariah Gasho
Linda Kollie
Lynn Caroline Konrad (Honors)
Caitlyn M. McFadden
Galen Robert McIsaac-Davidson
Eric Dryden Myre
Matthew James Nichols
Andre Luke Pettman
Scott Rossman Williams, Jr.
Spring Fling has been a UA tradition since
1974. It is recognized as the largest studentrun carnival in the nation, and has grown
to be the seventh largest event in Tucson
with over 32,000 guests in 2016. Students
flock to this special event for the typical
carnival attractions: food, games, rides and
entertainment.
Gender and
Women’s Studies
Merry Grace Austin
Claire Louise Duffy
Kassandra Manriquez
Rhiannon Lee O’Leary
Jacqueline Alyse Zappia
General Studies
Jamar Divine Love Allah
Arwa Abdullah Al-Rasheed
Celeste Marie Anaya
Ryan James Anderson
Cesar L. Avila
Alec T. Babb
Joshua Laurence Baer
Leslie Rose Selover Baker
Mallory Lauren Baker
Jacklyn Malka Banayan
Matthew Neil Berg
Darren L. Blakely
Amy Pearl Brenton
Cayman Bwayne Bundage
Foster Everett Bundy
Ashley Lauren Burgess
Ronald Nesmer Calzolari
Jeremy James Carman
Drew Charles Caron
John Miguel Castillo
John Cho
Jerod Austin Cody
Cameron Richard Coles
Chy Anna Cunningham
Griffin Richard Dales
Christopher Sinclair Detwiler
Christina Marie Domenici
Gunnar Hanspeter Donau
Michael P. Dorgan
Hannah Douglas
Stacey Leanne D’souza
Ernesto Durazo III
Regina Aquino Ebell
Sinjon Escalante
Marissa N. Espino
Rebecca Lauren Fabbri
James R. Farris
Derrick Andrew Fenn
Kayla Michelle Fiore
Alessandra Marie Flagello
Kristen C. Frederick
Octavia A. Fullmore
Cara Sage Furlan
Tessa Jean Fury
Jack Ryan Gelber
Michael Daniel Gildea
Batia Shira Gordon
Rachel M. Grimm
Jacob A. Hazzard
Corey Hugh Craig Headmann
Zachary Ashton Hemmila
Traci Lynn Hicks
Robert Trent Hoffman
Liam Holdsworth
Adam Michael Horne
Zachariah Patrick Houston
Cody David Ippolito
Courtney Brooke Jamieson
Vincenzo Anthony Jordon III
Sarah Haley Judis
Charissa L. Kaczmarek
Aaron Robert Karp
Nathan Grant Kempton
Rikki C. Keziah
Tyler John Lammers
Russel Langstrand
Kolton Robert Lapa
Wanwan Li
Jesus Alberto Lizarraga IV
Riley Christine Luebke
Roxanne Lorene Majeski
Jordan Mandel
Joseph James Mandros
Shelby Rose Martinek
Juan Carlos Martinez
Alec Joseph Martucci
Jared David Masarek
Marissa Leigh Mathieu
Hongli Mi
Kauri Lou Modrzejewski
Michaela Raye Moeykens
Maxwell Zachary Monroe
Antonia Montgomery Munroe
Austin Jack Alika Myers
Xiaoyue Ni
David Tyler Nicasio
Tomas O’Donnell
Jonathan Paul O’Rourke
Evelyn M. Ortiz Narvaez
Isaac A. Ost
Anthony William Moreno Pantoja
Francisco Antonio Parga, Jr.
Brenda Perez
Lydia Margarita Perez
Amanda Ann Perry
Hanna V. Peterson
Taylor David Poe-Brieske
Annie Dylan Polachek
Christopher Robert Ponce
Briar Margot Preston
Joseph James Previte
Iliana Quinonez
Jerrard William Randall, Jr.
Jordan Faye Rich
Suzette A. Rodriguez
Alexander Morris Rosenthal
Zachary Matthew Ross
Hayden Louis Sage
Chadwick Elliot Sarnowski
Taylor Reese Schick
Kyle Gregory Schoch
Janie Schwartz
John Patrick Seavey
Zachariah Stewart Sepulveda
Taylor Marie Smith
Frank Timothy Smith III
Antonio L. Smothers
All of this fun raises precious funds for more
than 40 diverse clubs and organizations on
campus. Spring Fling showcases student
commitment in a way that very few
universities can!
John William Somers
Brenna Gail Stewart
Erin Brooke Suvalsky
LaShaunda Rene Swanson
Janna Madeline Sweidan
Tyger Talley
Blake Edward Tamarkin
Minako Tanaka
Kyle Lawrence Tannahill
Nathaniel Lorenzo Thompson
Cole Thurston
Pau Gaspar Tonnesen
Alexander Richard Troutman
Thomas Jeffrey Valente
Vanessa VanDemark
Sergio Christopher Walker
Brandon Michael Walsh
Ryan Patrick Walsh
Ellen Rose Watson
Kathy Ann Watson
Oday J. Wer
Taryn Rae Wright
Gabriel Russell York
Sabrina Ashley Zuniga
Geography
Nuru Hope Adem
Grace Holden Mariah Augee
Brett James Burkholder
Smriti Ravi Govindan
Galen D. Gudenkauf
Michael Iskandar
Thomas David Jenkins
Taylor Madison Kurowski
Alessandro Antonio Marafino
Trevor Ryne Salago
Aaron Cole Shapiro
Zazil-xa Davis-Vazquez
Geosciences
Ahmed Sami Alhawaj
Jade Marie Bowers
Jie Ming Chong
Joseph Tyler Foster
Elysse Hernandez
Daniel Chester Marone
Jérémie D. Pfister
Julia Rose Richter
Emily Katherine Ryan
Louis Sennett Shanley
Westin Philip Skillings
German Studies
Jaynie Elizabeth Adams
Kalie Jane Anderson
Morgen Elisabeth Daniels
Stephanie Nora Della Cella
Johnathan Arick Dominguez
Glenn Allen Elms
Nicholas Alexander Flanery
Joe Thomas Griffin
Amaris Sen Henry
Lara Anita Hilliard
Matthew R. Kirk
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When football teams from the University of Arizona and Territorial Normal School (now Arizona State
University) took the field on Thanksgiving Day in 1899, they never imagined that it would put them in
the NCAA record book more than 100 years later.
The trophy that was awarded to the winner that day (ASU) and is still given to the winner of this annual
football game, making the Territorial Cup the oldest trophy for a rivalry game in America.
Kathryn Sarah L’Heureux
Kayla Jenette Lucas
Alexander A. Miller (Honors)
Julia Naderhoff-Craig
Laisa Melanie Neuner
Trevor Douglas Raine
Albert J. Reiber
David Andrew Simmons
Sharon Elizabeth Smith
Kathleen Laura Stack
Alyssa Shea Thomas
Anna Michelle Winslow
Global Studies
Christopher L. Burr
Jingyu Chen
Katherine Danielle Cornish
Courtney Alexa DeYoung
Johnathan Arick Dominguez
Meghan Kathryn Fernandez
Miles Alexander Glick
Alyssa Danielle Goya (Honors)
Caitlin M. Gullette
Sarah Shea Johnson
Alexandros Ponciano Lambdin
(Honors)
Marisa Hanako Latinka
Madeline Nicole Linn
Kayla Jenette Lucas
Emeline Anne-Marie Geneviève Neau
Matthew James Nichols
Jacquelyn N. Oesterblad (Honors)
Aiza Krystelle Pedregon-Abbott
Analya Romo
Jacob Isaia Rutherford
Jetmira Syla
Sierra Glen Tall
Trevor Barton Taylor
Mackenzie Chord Thompson
Man Tong
Government and
Public Service
Leo Aaron Federico
Sandra Jeannette Luquin
History
Jaynie Elizabeth Adams (Honors)
Kalie Jane Anderson
Jerome Vincent Biedny III
Chloe Danielle Boyle
Caitlin Elisabeth Callaghan
Heidi Lauren Charles
Annalisha Senovia Cordova
Gabriel David Dale
Morgen Elisabeth Daniels
Anthony Lorenzo Douglas
Justin Egkan
Abbie Alyse Feller
Stephanie Christine Filice
Nicholas Alexander Flanery
Emily Ann Fox
Rachel Marie Francher (Honors)
Rebecca Codi Garcia
James Mark Gregory
Nicholas Gunn
Emily Sue Hedges
Shamond Raphael Hoskins
Daniel Jameson Humphries
Clinton M. Johns
Avalon Lindgren
Alexander Michael Lucio
Emily Ann Martin
Sean Alexander Morio
Travis Martin Parker
Rebecca Tess Peiffer (Honors)
Hajo Anthony Riley Pluess
Conrad Alden Pursley
Ankur Mohan Razdan
Jaycee Lorraine Reidhead (Honors)
Alyssa Madonna Reinicke
Micaela Andrea Rivera
Roya Jasmine Rodieck
Nicole Marie Rudy
Britnee Leigh Rynearson
Joanna Clarissa Sanchez
Casey Steven Scoular
Billy Ralph Seamans, Sr.
Ryan Milton Shapiro
Brandon Xavier Shaw
Adam Michael Shingler
Brenton Isaiah Sims
Adam Robert Smith
Franz D. Stallkamp
Clayton Lee Tawney
Robert John Thompson IV
Patricia Anne VanVoorst
John Richard Waters
Tanner Alec Weigel (Honors)
Dennis James Willich
Tyler Alexander Wootan
Elizabeth Celina Wrozek
Jacqueline Alyse Zappia (Honors)
Tara Rae Zuern
Industrial Engineering
Sultan Saleh Alghufaili
Helal Suhail Almazrouei
Tareq A A M Alsalem
Butti Abdulla Alshamsi
Ivanna Deanna Barcelo
Alberto Becerra
Lindsey Ann Bergquist
Heriberto Bujanda Preciado
Santiago Burrola
Sarah Helen Caro
Daniel Jimming Chen
José Luis Escobedo
Abdullah Haidar
Stephannie Sieu Okimura
Mohammad Rabata
Carl Andrew Reusser
Connor Edward Shea
Information Science
and eSociety
Sydney Taylor Cohen
Amanda Hope Eisen
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Melissa Gail Baniel Fox
Vanna Gworek
Gianna Marie Inzerillo
Zariah Ashley Lombroso
Shannon Marie Magpiong
Lauren Elizabeth Mallen
Meghan Ashley O’Brien
Katie Lynn Parsons
Elijah Gabriel Piccarreta
Courtney Dana Pomush
Aaron Matthew Rosen
Mary Kathryn Wahlers
Information Science
and Arts
Jack Alden Bass
Michael Guyer
Carlson Anton Holloway-Factory, Jr.
Rachel James Hoover
Blake Charles Jennings
Laura Jaël Kurtzberg (Honors)
Gilbert Benjamin Lopez III
Michael James Rogers
Mary Beth Ross
Zakaria Hassan Said
Alonna Veronica Truitt
Samuel Coleman Willis
William Joseph Zandler (Honors)
Information Science
and Technology
William J. Alexander
Zachary D. Arellano
Falcon Allen Bonsell
Nicholas Paul Erickson
Nathanael John Gerstner
Vivian Yi chen Hsu
Christian Wesley Johnson
Bonnie Dee Kermgard
Efren Loya
Matthew Armand Madrid
Jenna Nicole Murphy
Tyler Robert Murphy
Kelly Marie Novak
Hyunjae Park
Alexander Matthew Sauceda
Adam Edward Soll
Tomasz Stawicki
Aaron Stewart
William Henry Stoltz
Dillon Michael Walker
Colter Thomas Williams
Nicholas Aaron Wolf
Zhongkun Xiang
Will Patrick Zielinski
Italian
Christopher L. Burr
John Emlyn De Lorenzo
Emily E. Gray
Frances Marie Griffin
Thomas Gaetano Lo Greco (Honors)
Ian Daniel Martella
Irasema Angelica Molina
Just as the bell from the U.S.S. Arizona was about
to be melted down and used for bullets, UA alum
Bill Bowers retrieved it from a salvage yard and had
it hung from the clock tower in the Student Union
Memorial Center where it remains today.
Eliza-Guadalupe Molina Del Rio
Brandee Marlese Newkirk
Elizabeth Jean Porter
Katherine Lynn Raymer
Ariella M. Valencia
Vanessa Sayuri Wallace
Karen Gabriela Castro
Journalism
Kofi O. Akoto
Zachary Thomas Armenta
Mary Megan Bokovitz
Skyler Frederick Brandt
Sara Lindsey Cline
McKenzie Ann Colson
Devon Michael Confrey
Julian Avery Cronen
Natalie Joyce D’Anna
Joanna Francesca Daya
Sydney Ilana Dennen
Margaret Lindsay Driver
Michael Noah Edmond
Meryl Alyce Engle (Honors)
Janella Imaobong Eshiet
Adriana Veronica Espinosa
Abby Nicole Friedemann
Corina Carmen Gallardo
Sydney Nicole Haliburton
Kyle Clifford Hansen
Chelsea K. Hemphill
Shannon Leigh Higgins
Emily Shyanne Huddleston
Kethia Kong
Emily Marie Lai
Malena Lynne Larson
Anna Mae Ludlum
Denise Joy Lum
Kathryn Marie Mailliard
Kassandra Manriquez
David Wallace Mariotte (Honors)
Shelby Ann Marra
David J. McGlothlin
Ashley Lynn McGowan
Ethan Michael McSweeney
Paloma Maciel Pombo Mello
Joshua Alexandro Morales
Cali Rebecca Nash
Lauren Clark Niday
Nicholas James Peppe
Zeina Cabrera Peterson
Seth Pines
Svetlana Ruth Popovic
Alexa Paola Portillo
Stefani Elizabeth Quihuis
Claire Rose Rifkin
Arturo Ivan Robles, Jr.
Elana Nicole Roeder
Silvia Sanchez
Karen D. Schaffner
Matthew Donald Scheurman
Kasey Marie Shores
Ebony Ann Stoglin
Victoria Helene Teplitz
Timothy Nicholas Towle
Alicia Maria Vega
Riley Nicole Versfelt
Lindsey Erin Wilhelm
Judaic Studies
Edden Leigh Dembsky
Latin American Studies
Vanessa Renee Acevedo
Patricia Fernanda Ahumada
Clara S. Apodaca-Welch (Honors)
Mario Aubert-Vasquez
Melissa Maria Conrad
Morgan Elyse Onstead Cortez
Dominique Cristiana Cruz (Honors)
Zazil-xa Davis-Vazquez
Alejandro Enriquez
José J. Federico
Martin Dylan Forstrom (Honors)
Rebecca Codi Garcia
Aleene Luisa Hernández
Shamond Raphael Hoskins
Ana Laura Islas
Pola Laskus
Connie Yelitza Lira-Saavedra
Marissa Nicole Moreno
Sofia Nuno
Benjamin Kevork Remy
Xitlaly Rosalia Reyes
Lia P. Vazquez
Law
Nicolette Taylor Beuther
Chloe Danielle Boyle
Mariela Cabrera (Honors)
Paige Marie Corley
Estevan Cesar Cortez
Carla Renee DeMore
Ambrosia Nicole Hauser
Amy Lynn Lenz
Jared Joseph Menke
Christopher Robert Moore
Jule Amanda Moreno
Gibraham Morgan
Erin Cathleen Przybylinski (Honors)
Sarah Elizabeth Saxton (Honors)
Joshua Taka Stafford (Honors)
Samantha Marie Wright
Linguistics
Zirley Ixtil Belnap
Jerome Vincent Biedny III (Honors)
Sarah Marie Blomstrand
Jonathan Conrad Brunenkant
Caroline Mary Champagne
Moises Dante Coronel
Michael Angelo Cortez
Sameer M. Duqmaq
Jodie Gabrielle Friedman
Andrea Louise Fulgham
Morgan Mariah Gasho
Benjamin James Gaska
Derek Shane Heemsbergen
When the University of Arizona opened its doors
in 1891, there were only two colleges (Agriculture
and Mines), six faculty and 32 students. Students
could get demerits for running on the verandas of
Old Main.
Amaris Sen Henry
Amber Marie Hunt
Lukas Ross Johnson
Hunter Leigh Kennedy (Honors)
Kyle Phillip Knez
Carla Valentina Lagunas
Kara Nicole Lee
Alexandre Lemaire
Breanna Jo Manlick
Kevin James McClain
Marissa Ann-Marie Miguel
Jenna Lei Parker
Jesse D. Pegram
Sharon Elizabeth Smith
Haley Kathryn Starr
Trevor Daniel Sullivan
Bradley Pierce Vanek
John Richard Waters
Jocelynne Simone Weathers
Duncan McGrady Clore Yeatts
Atha Daniel Zimmermann
Literacy, Learning and
Leadership
Amanda Zira Agate
Jamie Elana Aries
Maya Nona Bakerman
Keyla Araduby Barrera
Morgan Marie Batcher
Emeeh Ofelia Jurado Benson (Honors)
Sarah Nicole Boge
Spencer Ann Brickell
Monika C. Cabrera
Keyahndra Lynn Cannon
Miranda Ryan Castillo
Courtney K. Cohn
Sarah Kay Coopman
Mary Guadalupe Coronel
Rosa K. De La Herrán
Michael Gary Tishma Delagnes
Maxwell Lawrence Eichel
Victoria Lynn Goldstein
Guadalupe P. Gonzalez
Hector Reymundo Gonzalez
Travis David Gross
Oscar Joe Guerin
Sara Victoria Guyer
Louis P. Joseph, Jr.
Trami T. Le
Nikki Danielle Lewis
Ramon Jose Lopez Serrano
Arianna I. Luna
Allison M. Marques
Michelle Ruth Marz
Andrea Lee McDougall
Shannon Kathleen McGuinness
JayLissa Renee Mockta
Steven Kenneth Motush
Viviana Alexis Ortiz
Morgan Kendall Palmanteer
Megan Lynn Pavlic
Allison Dawn Pollack
Larissa Antonette Ravago
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“Sustainable architecture” wasn’t in anybody’s vocabulary when Old Main was completed in 1891.
Yet the deep roof overhangs, wraparound verandas, and a ground floor that was partially recessed
into the earth kept the building cool long before air conditioning was invented.
Christopher Michael Rodriguez
Irasema Saavedra
Marilyn Margaret Sandy
Hayden Christopher Sheridan
Jennifer Lindsay Small-Woods
Austin William Thomas
Emily Denae Van Horn
Casey Lee Weiner
Logan Brooke Weiss
Management
Information Systems
Mahmmod Saad Alabagi
Megan Elizabeth Allen
Andrew Alvarez
Ebitie Thomasina Amughan
Jacqueline Angulo
Charles Dixon Anthon
Tyler J. Antosh
Michael Emanuel Askenazi
Tori Nicole Augustinovich
Kelli Elizabeth Baker
Bryan David Balcerzak (Honors)
Nicole Lauren Barker
Tyler Renee Basich
Lyria Irene Beck
Scott Maxwell Bolin
Alyssa Marie Bowles
Cole William Brauner
Nicholas Austin Brown
Joseph Steven Buege
Steven Vicente Cabrera
Elvia Victoria Carrillo
Nicholas Michael Chadwick-Ballard
Fangxu Chen
Siyu Chen
Jasmine Hui-Hsin Cheng
Tara Nichole Christensen
James Walter Davis
James Richard DeAguero (Honors)
Nicholas Andrew DeJaco
Taylor Alexander Delgado
Suzanne Alexandra DeSalvo
Richard Daniel Diaz
Andrew Moses Diodati
Jiayu Du
Maysam H. Eljerdi
Steven Thomas Fingleton
Heather Lynne Francisco
Christian Werner Freischlad
Dennis Carl Rainer Galinsky
Wen Gao
Omar R. Guillen
Connor Alexander Harris
Cydnee Marie Hill
Ryan Kathet
Michael Thomas Klebosky (Honors)
Lynn Caroline Konrad
Austin Taylor Laske
Ermin Li
Chen Liang
Germán Roberto López
Taylor James Lorenson
Xinyi Lu
Carlos Alberto Lujan
Xi Luo
Lam Hoang Luu
Dylan Mango
Tyler Jordan Marchand
Jacob Thomas Matenaer
Emma Elizabeth McMahon
Braden Paul Meyers
Brandon Joseph Mikelaitis
Jordon Paul Mikelaitis
Jennifer Sarah Monroe (Honors)
Carlos Morfin
Bailey Marie Moses
Jordan Ngoc Nguyen
Spencer Andrew Nichols
Mariam A. Nikola
Andrea Marie O’Brien
Kaitlyn O’Rahilly
Kayla Leigh Owens
Natalie Parada
Kalyn Allen Peters
Jasmine Michelle Peterson
Evan J. Quinn
Aditya Prashant Rege
James Cromwell Richardson
Elizabeth Tarrant Ritter
Caroline Elise Roseri
Tomas Alisha Ruiz
Hesham Abdulrahman Sairafi
Nathan Alexandro Schupp
KC James Seitz
Sijie Shao
Yu Shi
Dillon Chandler Smart
Mathew Machado Soares
Da Song
Nicolette Kathleen Spathas
Miles Jackson Steadman
James Reese Stewart
Riley Michael Tabar
Bradley Edward Tandy
Ryan Hiroto Teranishi
Kevon Ray Thompson
Sam Toiber
Jordan Allyse Trejo
Michaela Marie Trimmer
Mounica Urity (Honors)
Thao N. Vo
Huizi Wang
Mingda Wang
Jamie Nicole Warman
Maxwell Stuart Wheeler
Nichelle White
Brandon Michael Williams
Ryan Taylor Williams
Samanntha Kristan Wood (Honors)
Haiyan Wu
Jingye Xue
Kristine Nahatai Yamada
Chaoying Yan
Yanqing Yao
William Chan Yee
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Liran Zhang
Baoye Zhao
Bowen Zheng
Ying Zhou
Marketing
Charles Edward Abrams
Chad Walker Ahrensdorf
Samantha Brooke Allen
Jacqueline Angulo
Paul Albert Arduini
William Aaron Asarch
Nicole Catherine Barron
Jessica Louise Barshis
Kayla Jordan Beck
Jazmin Beltran
Brittany Katherine Bickley
Garrett Jerome Biselli
Kaitlin Alli Bloom
Kaleigh Marie Borgschatz
Kyle Raymond Brindlinger
Kyra Marie Burley
Connor Thomas Canale
Julianne Kanoelani Capati
Bronte Marie Carney
Nicole Elizabeth Chavez
Jephanie Y. S. Chen
Kiara Marie Christopherson
Leslie Michelle Cole
Laura Elizabeth Conn
Mason Michael Conte
Cassandra Alyssa Controne
Mariah Whitney Curtin
Nicole Elizabeth Dahl
Madeline Ray Dawson
Christopher Leo DeSoto
Carrie Lynn Dittmer (Honors)
Quinn Benjamin Edwards
Alisa Rae Espinoza
Bradley William Evans
Michael Fedorchek IV
Jessica Michelle Foster
Kylie Ann Gacek
Makenzie Alexandra Gash
Ciana Maree Gastelum
Camille Anne Goehausen
Jacob Micheal Gonzales
Jacob Dimitri Gonzalez
Jordan Michael Gorman
Amanda Noriaty Samsie Greenler
Fiona Theresa Hanlon
Daiana Harangus
Karli Ann Hartwig
Madeline Zirbes Harwood
Jessica Elizabeth Haworth
Kori C. Hazel
Brooke Michelle Hinkel
Tiana Love Hooper
Killian Dean Hunter
Kacie Ann Ireland (Honors)
Sean M. Irwin
Lauren Olivia Kenney
Alexandria Nicole Kessler
While astronomer Roger Angel was walking across campus to his office in 1985, he looked up and
realized that he had finally discovered a space that was big enough to house his new lab for spinning
and polishing gigantic telescope mirrors: the space under the bleachers on the east side of the UA
football stadium.
Gage Leelin Kistner
Santiago Kloehr
Ryan Michael Knight
Brandon Michael Kockelman
Irena Krstic
Brittany Elaine Kruglick
Karina Sanjay Kumar
Shannon Rose LaVoye
Jonas Lars Helge Legernes
Alexander Clark Lines
Grant Connor Lochotzki
Douglas Nicolas Loftus
Alix May Loire
Alegre Pilar Lopez
Lyndsey Danielle Lopez
Patrick Lueders
Cliff Alexander Marg
Karla Marquez
Isabella Frances Mayer
Katherine Nicole McCallister
Alexandra Nicole McDaniel
Paul Mitchell McEwen
Emily McKelvey
Camille Ann Medai
Adrianne Gavin Medina
Daniel Aaron Medwin
Jordan Allecea Merritt
Melissa Ann Messana
Elizabeth Suzanne Morris
Keaton Kristine Mower
Riley Edward Murtagh
Kristina Lindsey Natchez
Waverly Lien Newton
Brittany Alyssa Nordlund
John Joseph Nykaza
Laura Marie Oldham
Jin Woo Park
Bryce Haleigh Patrick
Carmen Rosemarie Picarello
Victoria Calvillo Preciado
David Preisch, Jr.
Caroline Blake Pryor
Alexis Nicole Ramadan
Kevin Tyler Ramos
Hunter Rae Randolph
Katrina Ellen Rice
Dominic Joseph Ricotta
Elizabeth Ann Peterson Rosenberg
Keesha Merritt Rutledge
Jennifer Mei Schultz
Madeline Elizabeth Schwabe
Hayley Ann Schwartz (Honors)
Filemon-Mateo Scooler
Julia Elizabeth Seidner
Dalton Jeffrey Shade (Honors)
Patrick James Shearer
Joshua Phillip Siegel
Austin Patrick Sills-Trausch
Aneesh Singh
Namrata Singh
Sarah Jordan Smith
Samantha Helena Sodden
Natalie Rachel Sokol
Jordan Christine Spallas
Sarah Elizabeth Spillman
Samantha Rose Steadman
Scott Steven Steinback
Alex Akemi Steinbrook
Hannah Alexandrea Sullivan
Donald Joseph Sutton III
Mischa Gerardo Szymanski (Honors)
Nehal Tenany
Amanda Rene Tennyson
Kiersten Ashley Tessler
Perrine Michele Theys
Mitchell Bernard Thomas
Jacob William Thompson
Collin Gregory Troutman
Ashley Marie Tucker
Mataya Leigh Vanden Berge
Mary Elizabeth Vaughan (Honors)
Danielle Brianna Vickers
Alana Maria Vieira
Sabrina Marie Weber
Shawna Taylor Weltsch
Dylan Blake Wheeler
Audrey Elizabeth Wheeless
Audra Charlene Wick
Otho Jerrell Wilbur, Jr.
Makenna Christine Willhite
Cody Alan Masa Wong
Luke Alex Yontz
Allison Marie Zidich
Materials Science
and Engineering
Katelyn Nicole Alcantara (Honors)
Anfal Alobeidli
Lautaro Alfredo Civetta
Samuel Jackson Cotter (Honors)
Nicholas Joseph Didato
Teri Alida Elwood (Honors)
Kristina Fay Farrell
Tarlton Verle Ferrin
Zackary David Fortuno
Eric John Gabriel
Benjamin David Geller
Patrick Joshua Horrocks
Caser Ray Johnson
Austin Michael Lancaster
Andy K. Luc
Dakota S. Luepke
Kevin Daniel Luke (Honors)
Cole Lumsden
Kayli Nicole McArthur
Brandon C. McCraw (Honors)
Don The Nguyen
Kyle Vinh Nguyen (Honors)
Ryan James O’Connell (Honors)
April Grace Proft
Taylor Quin Rhoades
Jacob Harley Rochester
Melanie Lee Sanez
Garrett James Tinderholt
Moses Mucai Wangusi
Lou-Anne Wegrzyniak
Mathematics
Angela Bode Aguilar
Benjamin Martin Anderson
Scott Dale Appleby
Yun Bai
Sergio Ernesto Barrera
Thomas Lawrence Bello
Taylor James Bisson
Zachary James Boeder
Jackson Tyler Brickey
Adrianne J. Brown
Nicholas Robert Callahan
Patrick Michael Callahan
Matthew Michael Campbell
Yuena Chen
Zhaoren Chen
Haley M. Cica
Ashley Christine Corkill
Samuel Jackson Cotter
Michael Joseph Cullan (Honors)
Maxwell Augustus Curry
Arthur Dai
Greg A. DePaul
Xander Mitchell Deputy
Timothy Ebinger
Safinaz Thair Elisha
Megan Elizabeth Evett
Juliana Lorraine Falk
Shilu Feng
Kyle Solowiej Hawkins
Xiaohan Hu
Kevin Duy Huynh
Criston Matthew Hyett (Honors)
Peter Jerald Irving
Hasanian Jamal
Shan Ji
Katie Lynn Johnson
Brandon Anthony Kennedy
Emma Tara Kernen
Aaron J. Kilgallon
Janet L. Kinsey
Samuel C. Kinslow
Kelly Ann Kulp
David Edward Leister
Zhengting Li
Yazeed Loonat
Paola Andrea Lopez
Brandon Ross Mahoney
Hari Mainali
Alissa Mellie Marco
Noah Daniel McCollum-Gahley
Jack James McLain
Yun Mei
Lauren Elizabeth Morford
Matthew Martin Morse
Jeremy Dale Mowery
Andrew Scott Pattison
Dillon Jay Pena
Alexander B. Prescott
Hang Qi
Jeffrey Tyler Relf
Katherine Reynolds
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Photographer Ansel Adams’ hat, camera, notes, letters, negatives and fine prints are all part of the
archive that Adams gave the UA in 1975 when he and UA President John Schaefer co-founded the
Center for Creative Photography as a new kind of museum where the public would have access to all
of those items.
Jonathan Isaac Robinson
Rafael Rojas
James Stephen Sanchez
Edgar Yuuki Sawada
Gunnar R. Scott
Brian Perry Sexson
Megan Jeanette Shearer (Honors)
Emily Marie Sheen
Jasper Louie Tang Sia
David Andrew Simmons
Jakub Henryk Stechly
Dori Elle Steinbach
David James Toomey
Alexis-Jane Araneta Torre (Honors)
Blake William Traube
Alonna Veronica Truitt
Joel Turnblade
Daniel Joseph Vaughn
Laura Souza Vonessen
Breanna Marie Wang
Ashley Lanae Watkins
Matthew Messina Willette
Ben Heng Wu
Weijie Xiang
Linwei Yao
Yumin Ye
Corey Robert Martin Zammit
Wenjie Zhang
Haiwen Zuo
Rebecca Tess Peiffer
Mechanical Engineering
Shaurya Aggrawal
Abdulaziz Mohammed S Al Moaigel
Scott Dale Appleby (Honors)
Levin Isaac Atondo
Aiman Mohamed Aween
James Arthur Bartley
Jennifer L. Battista (Honors)
Benjamin Bailey Bell
Andrew Ross Bitzko (Honors)
Benjamin Macleod Bossler
Walker Humes Bowman V
Callie Ann Branyan
Jonathan Samuel Carson
Kyle Timothy Daughenbaugh
Eliza R. Dawson
Gabrielle Marie Debbins
Matthew Stewart Dieterich
Hunter Pitre Dixon
Jordan McKinley Driggs
David Charles Duperre
Oscar Escarcega
Xiuquan Fang
Ricardo René Felíx
Zachary Joseph Fier
Michael James Gardiner
James Weston Gilles
Justin Levi Ray Gray
Michelle Victoria Gutierrez
Evan Lowell Hastings
David Hoang
Reed Matthew Hubbell (Honors)
Dustin Vi Huynh
Han-Jay Huynh
Patt Intarakamhang (Honors)
Tyler Mead James
Stephen Gregory Jewell
Romeo Neil Judeh
Weston J. Keller
Nicole Reann Kreger
Alan Martin Lamadrid
Joseph Lamont
David Edward Leister (Honors)
Quincy Mark Levien
Chenmu Li
Jeremy David Loo
Joseph Dominic Lucero
Brandon Ross Mahoney
Austin Jacob Masterson
Michael Patrick McDermott
Christopher P. McEvoy
Connor Thomas McGreal
Gabriel Mercado
Jose R. Migueles
Cody A. Mitts
Carmelo Moraila
Diego Morales
Scott Andrew Morrison
Jeffrey Jon Mrkonich
Brielle Munsch
Ahmed Ismail Mustafawi
Austin Nawrocki
Taylor James Parot
Antonio Peña
Rolland Prempeh
Matthew Andrew Prevallet
Savannah Nichole Sanchez (Honors)
Kaitlyn Bea Sandford
Tao Shen
Andrew Michael Siemens
Jeremy Michael Smith
Jack David Speelman
Kathleen Laura Stack (Honors)
Ryan William Stelzer (Honors)
Derek James Strickland
Aiva Elizabeth Teskey
James Thomas Thayne
Craig Anthony Thompson
Brandon Michael Toland
Juldis Trakanthaloengsak
Lilly Linh Truong
Joel Turnblade
Jacob Ernest Vigil
Dean Michael Whitman
Nicholas Charles Wilcox
Parker Thomas Williams
Trevor Andrew Woodhouse (Honors)
Weibin Wu
Bo Xiao
Matthew A. Yturralde
Tao Yu
Corey Robert Martin Zammit
Alisa Zukova
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Media Arts
Malcolm G. Critcher
Mexican American Studies
Mónica Contreras
Eleuterio Martin Cortez
Connie Yelitza Lira-Saavedra
Olivia Carmen Otero
Xitlaly Rosalia Reyes
Ana Aracely Ureña
Microbiology
Marlyn Alejandra Alvarado
Aanika Balaji (Honors)
Cameron Jacob Birch
Brody James Blackburn
Jacob Matthew Blacutt (Honors)
Kylie Georgeanne Boardman
Amaris Elizabeth Castellanos
Courtney Nicole Coombe
Maya Laura Cross-Killingsworth
(Honors)
James Timothy Dolan III
Jasim Mohammad El-Ali
Aidan Richard Foster
Miranda Raye Gardner
Celina Giselle Gomez
Sidney Dale Guthrie
Kara Joy Jensen
Ismael Ivan Jimenez
Lacey Mae Jones
Alex Christopher Jouflas
John Franklin Kagy III
Noor Muhammad Karadi
Davyn Louis
Haymee Verenice Lucio
Sarah Elizabeth Menchaca (Honors)
Kendra Elaine Miller
Ross Calvin Monasky
Alexander J. Natale
Elizabeth Nguyen
John Michael Patinella
Nicole Suzanne Paulat (Honors)
Victoria Rene Ramirez (Honors)
Gabriella V. Rivera
Xavier Issac Rivera
William Reid Robertson
Dario Silva
Samantha Rochelle Withers
Middle Eastern and
North African Studies
Zachary Jordan Esparza
Joseph Clinton Collins
Kyle P. Dignoti
Maysam H. Eljerdi
Emma Alexandria English
Dana Maria Helfenbein
Chaeson Hernandez
Megan Renee Kleinwachter
David Douglas Koopman
Bryce Cameron Levitt
Jeehye Min
A solar-powered steam boiler built in 1957 was
the first solar project on campus. In 2012, panels
were installed on the roof of Second Street
Garage to generate electricity and reduce the
UA’s carbon footprint.
Jacquelyn N. Oesterblad
Gideon Benjamin Rafal
Celina Marie Robles
Giana Saleem Sayegh
Sunrise Joy Wicklund
Mining Engineering
Mark Gerard Anderson
Brian Joseph Anthis
Bryce Ronald Ayers
Christa Anastasia Boon
Taylor Alexandra Dawn
Dakota Shea Doyle
Mara Adelaide Erhardt (Honors)
Ethan Robert Gluck
Paul Edwin Mather
Peter Francis Mather
John Paul Miller
Pablo Mosqueira (Honors)
Mario Alberto Muñoz
Richard Lewis Murdick
Patrick James O’Neill
Jose Daniel Pulido
Rogelio Quintero
Eric Russell Rothweiler
Cody Rowley
Jacob Henry Sauceda
Nicholas Robert Shea
Sydney R. Stauffer
Mark Andrew Stethem
Daryn Jamison Stickler
Daniel Klaus Strickler
Ericka Barbara Tucker
Damian Michael Watson
Yafeng Zhang
Molecular and
Cellular Biology
Natalie Ann Abu Hamdan (Honors)
Marwah Hamdi Ahmad
Jonathan Michael Ahmann
Maryam Nazar Al-Dabbagh (Honors)
John Emmet Andrews
Ban Seok Bae
Jason Matthew Bolton
Joseph Bower
Katherine Lauren Burrell
Nicole Marie Buzuleciu
Alec Joseph Calac
Christopher Richard Carnahan
Christopher Asia Chan
Erica Chang
Katie Lynn Cocchi
Matthew Robert Coope
Juliana Costanzo
Janet Lee Courtright
Lisa Valerie Daconta
Joseph Anthony Demyan
Shivani Desai
Gurman Singh Dhaliwal
Heather Ann Emmons
Gardenia Enriquez
Seth Raymond Erikson
Spencer Elliot Escobedo
Ryan Mohamad Farhat
Christelle Louise Feliciano
Sarah Ali Fermawi
Mary C. Figueroa
Spencer Fosnot
Jay Kip Freeman
Louie Garcia
Alexandra Nicole Glandon (Honors)
Johnna Reymann Hartenstine
Desirae M. Heitman
Nicholas Dominick Helle
Britten Jade Hernandez
Ernesto Hernandez
Shelby Taylor Hicks
Kylie LaRue Holliday
Ryan James Horewitz
Stephanie Renee Hughes
Ali S. Hussaini
Efren A. Ibarra
Mugtaba M. Idris
Nikki Praful Javia
Salil Pramod Kalarn
Christopher Joseph Karl
Syeda Shaher Bano Kazmi
Kristin Marie Kelly
Charlotte Marie Kishi
Koustubh Kondapalli
Bailey Jo Lahtinen
Tania Maria Larrinaga
Kendra Eileen Liu
Vinson Liu
Nitisha Lotun
Elizabeth Nayeli Luna
David Raymond Maestas, Jr.
Craig Anthony Marshall
Kurt H. Matsunaga
Rahik Raiyad Mazumder
Kevin J. Mistler
Belen Molina
Skylar Nicole Murdaugh
Krista Masae Nakamura
Nathaniel Conrad Napierski
Joseph Lucas Neely (Honors)
Jennifer Loan Anh Nguyen
Minhkhoi Nguyen
Charles Robert Norwood
Patrick John O’Connor
Brian Miguel Ortega
Katerina Alexis Oskolkoff
Neil Nitin Patel
Nikesh Kanaiyalal Patel
Surbhi B. Patel
Alec Josh Perkins
Andrea Del Mar Pla Gutierrez
Anshula Prasad
Reighard Alayas Pullins
Adrianna Elizabeth Pulver
Jasper Lao Puracan (Honors)
Alina Nhu-an Quach
Shyon Rahimzadeh
Julianne Florence Ray (Honors)
In 1986, the campus switched outdoor lighting to
mercury vapor lights to preserve Arizona’s dark skies
for astronomers.
Daniel Ryan Rojas
Iliana Nicole Rosas (Honors)
Alva Gabriela Sainz
Jeffrey Eiji Sameshima
Diane Patricia Savarese
Zachary John Saxman
Anthony William Seago (Honors)
Hojin Seo (Honors)
Kelly Paige Shim (Honors)
Rebecca Louise Simon (Honors)
Viputheshwar Sitaraman
Christopher Paul Stallkamp
Bailey Jane Stankus
Margo J. Stapleton
Stephen Alan Stern
Sowan Andrew Thai
Kassidy James Tompkins
Aaron Joseph Topping
Enna Tran
Blake William Traube
Frank Daniel Valdes
Sergio A. Valdez
Sarah Su Vallejo
Edrick F. Villalobos
Ruben Villalobos
Thao N. Vo
Jennifer Wainwright
Nathan James Walker
Alisha Briana Whelan (Honors)
Jacob Robert Witt (Honors)
Joseph Henry Woodwick
Zufan T. Yegezu
Music
Oliver Percival Blaylock
Andrew Robert Coyle
Sean Andrew McCann
Kirk Iver Warren
Music Education
Thomas E. Alcaraz
Emily Renae Asay
Daniel E. Barsetti-Nerland (Honors)
Sandy Thomas Delozier
Christina Mattix Hales
Janis Lynn Hedin
Vincent Christopher Jackson
Damon Ray Knepper
Juan Carlos Lomeli
Rachel A. Schlesinger
Jeffrey John Simpson
Jule Josef Streety (Honors)
Jiali Ying
Musical Theatre
Sarah Julia Ambrose
Kierna Siobhan Conner
Shoshana Tarno Freisinger
Jamie Dillon Grossman
Rhetta Augusta Mykeal Kampel
Ethan Michael Kirschbaum
Brian Andrew Klimowski
Audrey Elizabeth Roberts
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When A.E. Douglass founded the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research (and the branch of science known
as dendrochronology) in 1937, it was “temporarily” located in cave-like windowless rooms under the
bleachers on the west side of the UA football stadium — where it remained until 2010.
Jaclyn Nicole Stickel
Austin Michael Wright
Natural Resources
Ashly Rose Lona
Brian Thomas Cooke
Emilio H. Corella
Joseph Anthony Dahms
Amy Suzanne Floyd
Vanessa Gonzalez
Jennifer Marie Hanson
Benjamin Nielsen Kelley
Lisa Danielle Lang
Nicholas Lowe
Anthony Michael Luketich
Vanessa Luois
Sandy Jocelyn Marin
Luis Francisco Martinez
Yoseline Robledo
Laura P. Ross
Vanessa Laurel Springer (Honors)
Leland Frederic Sutter, Jr.
Michael James Taylor (Honors)
Neuroscience and
Cognitive Science
Alexis Marie Aiman
Stephanie Marie Alonso
Tareq Naseer Alsamarh
Angélica Álvarez
Shireen Merhdad Anbardan
Noah Ryan Begley
Kaitlin Elise Bianchi (Honors)
Paige Nicole Brei
Nyssa Katherine Burdick (Honors)
Alec Joseph Calac
Christopher Asia Chan (Honors)
Julie Ann Charlton (Honors)
Karen Guadalupe Cruz (Honors)
Riyasha Daulat (Honors)
Michael Christopher de Leon
Stephan Christopher Dong
Petimat Dudurkaewa
Lauren Lee Edwards (Honors)
Lena H. Elias
Francisco Santiago Enverga
Dara Sam Farhadi
Logan James Fickling (Honors)
Erinn Kendra Fung
Kennya Garcia
Kevin Matthew Gee (Honors)
Adam Jay Geyer
Yarah Ghotmi (Honors)
Hayley Lauren Gibler (Honors)
Derek Martin Gin
Emily Jade Giron
Taylor Joseph Guidry (Honors)
Autri Nicole Hafezi (Honors)
Leah Danielle Hall
Peter Warnick Hanson
Alexandra Kae Harms
Ernesto Hernandez (Honors)
Maura Rae Higgs
Bianca Jean-An Kao (Honors)
Tazheh Aislinn Kavoosi
Koustubh Kondapalli (Honors)
Katarina Krstic (Honors)
Susan Ashley Lanzel (Honors)
Michael Phillip Lazar (Honors)
Connor Reed Leighty
Alexander John Lindahl
Kendra Eileen Liu
Anna Christine Livsey
Laila Andrea Mamaril Manalo
Rossteen Mansouri-Rad
Joshua Christian Massee
Angelica Rae McCarron
Paola Mendoza
Lauren Marie Metoyer
Shivani Misra (Honors)
Suzanne Marguerite Mongelli
Caitlyn Nicole Myrdal (Honors)
Minhkhoi Nguyen
Dieu My Thanh Nguyen (Honors)
Casandra C. Nyhuis (Honors)
Jennifer Nicole O’Neal (Honors)
Adrian J. Ostertag
Joshua Howard Paree (Honors)
Surbhi B. Patel (Honors)
Luis Rodolfo Pichardo
Casey Anne Primeau (Honors)
William Thomas Roddy
Leyla Michelle Sadatmousavi
Anna Liliana Seghezzo (Honors)
Giulia Francesca Seghezzo (Honors)
Stephanie Danielle Serrano
Theodore Gray Smith
Sky Sobol (Honors)
Abigail Rocio Solorio
Nathan Alan Stange
Mary Payton Stauch
Emily Tran
Frank Daniel Valdes
Joshua Andrew Yell
Nursing
Jennifer Lynn Aguirre
Raymond Theodore Jesse Alvarado
Sarah Rae Baumann
Brooke Danielle Bogenn
Danielle Christina Bragg
Peyton Alexandra Brown
Dylan O’keefe Carey
Morgan Keli Carolan
Macy Marice Dailey
Alexandra Anderson Eugenio
Katelyn Renee Fergan
Brita H. Furr
Breanna Paige Garcia
Brendan Kevin Gibbons
Audrey Wei Ser Goh
Allison Sophia Gordon
Brooke Elizabeth Gowey
Kristin Ann Gustavson
Ky Tai Ha
Melissa Lynn Harris
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Nicholas James Harrod
Emilee Hawk
Diana Christine Hess
Minli Huang
Leann Eleanor Huso
Karen Lorena Jimenez Gudino
Kailey Shea Jones
Bree Ann Junghans
Rebekah Chongmin Kim
Kathryn Connelly Kozakowski
Vania Lara
Emma Bridget Lathrop (Honors)
Valerie Ann Lindsay
Crystal Lynn Maciel (Honors)
Krystal Marie Mccluney
Ashley Michelle Moon
Whitney Danielle Mudd
Caroline Melissa Porter
Cynthia Laritza Quinonez
Hannah Louise Ridinger
Amanda Marie Romaine (Honors)
Kacey Danese Romo
Alison Marie Schlichting
Alexis Nicole Schrantz
Eric Seddon Smith
Kendra Louise Teetsel
Daniela Ainhoa Torres
Andrea Renee Trillo
Daniela Wallace
Liuying Wang
Yujie Wang
Janelle Lianna Westbrook (Honors)
Nutritional Sciences
Morgan Emily Agster
Arely M. Aguirre
Jaime Rae Aguirre
Sadiya Hussein Ahmed
Carla Del Rosario Arvizu
Joseph Norris Baca Bemis
Joycelin Ann Benally
Haley Ann Berner
Carlin Quin Biederbeck
Stephanie Jeanelle Bradshaw
Bonnie Dale Brandon
Victoria Gabrielle Bravo
Rachel Marie Bryant
Mylinh Thi Bui
Sydney Elizabeth Cain
Brooke Madison Campbell (Honors)
Mariah Rose Campoy
Daisy Canchola
Monica Giselle Casarez
Karly Allison Cassese
Sheri Chen
Yosleysy B. Cuevas
Christina Vo Dao
Tiffany Lynn Doggett
Jillian Paige Dohrn
Shane Michael Early
Elizabeth Suzanne Evans
Sarah Ali Fermawi
Ian Timothy Fitzgerald
On Jan. 31, 1920, U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing dedicated the Berger Memorial Fountain just west of Old
Main. The fountain is inscribed to the 12 “sons of the university” who answered their country’s call for
service and gave their lives in World War I.
Jacob M. Fleming
Cristina Maria Florez
Katie Renee Fort
Alexandra Marie Franklin (Honors)
Seraiah Noel Fredrickson
Emily Catherine Gin
Ashley Marie Guthrie
Ariane Renee Guthrie (Honors)
Jordan Nicole Hagen
Kelsie Allena Hamelin
Morgan Lynne Harvey
Grace Marie Heise
Alysa Paige Herchet
Connie Huang
Jordan Hunn
Chloe Gwen Hunter
Brett Ellen Jordan
Alex Christopher Jouflas (Honors)
Rayna Leigh Katz
Matthew Perry Koppinger
Marisa Hanako Latinka
Michele Helen Lauer
Sarah Arline Lavelle
Karen Marie Lohse
Maria Belen Love
Kelly Ann Mach
Julian Manzanares
Cody J. Martin
Laura Michelle Martin
Elizabeth Marie Mata
Shannon Marie McCarthy
Elisabeth Lauren McCrystal
Nicholas Patrick McDaniels
Emily Marie McGovern
Charlotte Marie McIntyre
Laura Lynne Merritt
Rachel Katherine Meyer
Carly K. Monson
Maria Georgina Montoya Reyes
Ella Kathleen Moore
Molly Christine Morabito
Megan Leigh Naquin
Alexander Hayes O’Hara
Rachel Kim Park
Melissa Pentecost
Stephanie Jaye Poiani
Jenna Brianne Radomski (Honors)
Toni-Monique Simona Ramirez
Rahul Singh Rikhy
Rochelle Meghan Rocha
Valerie Alexandria Rodriguez (Honors)
Alexandra Elvira Samarron Longorio
Giana Saleem Sayegh
Erin Bethany Schiff
Sarah Ann Schwartz
Asha Anne Shanti
Victoria Helen-Louise Stamper
Ryan Everette Starr
Caitlin Michelle Suriano
Brittney Rochelle Taylor
Malia Catherine Teschke
Norma Yaneth Vazquez
Elaine Jessica Regidor Vicente
Paige Rene Weedman
Lihong Wei
Savanna Nicole Weninger
Kelsi Carla Wildermuth
Sophia Abigail Yatsenko
Jessica Therese Zepeda
Operations Management
Jacqueline Angulo
Siyu Chen
Brian Ronald Haas
Chen Liang
Brandon Joseph Mikelaitis
Spencer Andrew Nichols
Thomas Arthur Olson
Kaitlyn O’Rahilly
Aditya Prashant Rege
Jessica Jane Schulte
Nathan Alexandro Schupp
Thao N. Vo
Mingda Wang
Liran Zhang
Baoye Zhao
Optical Sciences
and Engineering
Jaden Robert Bankhead
Cory Stefan Boone (Honors)
Ian T. Carr
Xander Mitchell Deputy (Honors)
Alex Joseph Erstad
Olivia Rae Fehlberg
Stephanie Guzman (Honors)
Kyle Solowiej Hawkins (Honors)
Timothy John Hefferan (Honors)
Brian Edward Herrera
Emily Hunting
Shawn Michael Iles
Dana L. Kralicek (Honors)
David Mario Lopez
Nicholas Paul Lyons (Honors)
Ariel Muñoz
Ramon Angel Orozco Garcia
Krysta Rhiann Pavlica
Weslin Charles Pullen (Honors)
Travis William Sawyer (Honors)
Oliver Joshua Spires
Maryam Amanda Tanbal (Honors)
Jacob Robert Tevik
Fabian Cipriano Wildenstein (Honors)
Kaitlyn Elizabeth Williams (Honors)
Performance
Melanie Aurora Alameda
Carl Alexander Bosse
Adrienne Marie Cannon
Caroline Grace Crawford
Meghan Kathleen Davis
Lauren Nichole Dietrich
Ross James Eckley
Ryland Gibb Mandish
Michael McAtamney
Kwesi Iniko Pasley
Shantell Petty
Mohammed Jasem Qabazard
Rachel A. Schlesinger
Andrew Kirven Stickney
Paul William Thoenes
Alfredo Vazquez
Matthew Thomas Viesca
Philosophy
Joshua Bastidas
Mara K. Batinica
David Caleb Crosby (Honors)
Anthony Lorenzo Douglas
Kendall Rae Dunn
Julian Gabriel Gonzales
Dylan Jackson Haines
Jacob Kapena Ioane
Monique Raquel Israel
Trevor Faulconer James
Calvin Craig Jensen
Calvin Craig Jensen
Cristien Matthieu Keeme-Sayre
Kethia Kong
Stuart Donald Kratz
Taylor James Lockwood
Irving Lopez
Sarah Lynn Morey
Kirah Devery Mueller
Luis Enrique Parra III
Catherine Kristine Rigby
Joshua Aaron Schwartz
Trey James Sherwood
Andrew Lee Smith
Luke Adler Stauffer
Danielle Joann Terry
Brendan Parker Tinoco
Adam David Velasco
Dennis James Willich
Antoni Grgurovic
Carla Valentina Lagunas
Julie C. MacFarland
Philosophy, Politics,
Economics and Law
Gabriel Gibson Acosta (Honors)
Brandea Alexandra Bidelspach
Sarah Anne Burkey (Honors)
Serena Christine Campas (Honors)
Eric Esteban Cardenas
Katelyn Shawn Charlton
Eric Alexander Combs
Daniel Dalton Douglas
Dardan Kosumi
Dominic Joel Medina
Meezan Noor Mir
Nicholas Calvin Mitchell
Briana Ortega
Haley Kallen O’shell
Anna R. Schamberg (Honors)
Megan Nicole Schandle
Andrew Michael Soukhome
Alonso Alberto Vidal
Sean E. Winkler
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In 1978, the UA left the Western Athletic Conference and
joined the PAC 10, which included universities such as
Stanford and Berkeley, schools the UA considered its
academic peers. Then in the summer of 2010, the PAC
10 became the PAC-12, and in spite of the additional
competition, the UA shines.
Physics
Tavita Eric Bates
Nathan Ji-ming Brooks (Honors)
Emily Rose Creager
Eric Fernando Galang
José Francisco García Salcido
Miles Ross Giamelo
Dylan Jackson Haines
Criston Matthew Hyett
Lucas Inigo
Jonathon Hovannes Khacheryan
Aaron J. Kilgallon
Audrey Augusta Matson
Rick Daniel Patton
Dillon Jay Peña
Rachel Marie Riley
William Elliot Scott (Honors)
Christian Fabian Villegas
Jeffrey Andrew Wick
William Anthony Yingling
Physiology
Michael David Abrahamson
Justin Sean Acker
Alexa Junelie Aguayo
Farah Alsafar
Natalie Marie Alvarez
Nina Ameli (Honors)
Alyssa Nicole Angieri
Julia Diane Arvanites
James Joseph Babinsky
Alexa Ann Baggenstos
Paulluvi Bahl (Honors)
Kylee Juleene Bankofier
Dakota Lee Beach
Jonathan Michael Bell
Lorela Berberi (Honors)
Morgan Janine Berryman-Maciel
Sachit Pramod Bhakta
Tyler Matthew Bien
Joshua Leon Black
Nicholas Glyn Blom
Aaron Robert Brussels (Honors)
Danielle Marie Buchanan
Katherine V. Bullock (Honors)
Jennifer Rae Burros
Gabriel Bustamante
Jerome Buttel
Ioana Andreea Buzila
Salina Maria Castillo (Honors)
Alexandra Nicole Chacara
Erica Chang
John Christopher Chang
Isabelle Chea (Honors)
Sarah Shannon Cho
Caitlin Ann Collins
Stephanie Nicole Contreras
Morgan Elyse Onstead Cortez
Evelyn Cruz
Kayla Rebecca Darris (Honors)
Shruti Ria Dasgupta (Honors)
Swetaleena Dash (Honors)
Austin Mark Daus
McKenzie Sarah Davis (Honors)
Sorka Tamwura Deeyor
Ian Russell Del Grosso
Shivani Desai
Gurman Singh Dhaliwal (Honors)
Jocelyn Christine Di Nolfi (Honors)
Kassandra Esmeralda Diaz
Alexandra Meghan Dimoski
Desirée DeAnna Dixon
Davina Nicole Dobbins (Honors)
Kara Anne Donovan
Kushal Amit Doshi
Dylan Matthew Dunseath
Naim Spencer Duran III
Blake Everett Eichler
Idara Udoh Ekpoh
Ryan Mohamad Farhat
Farzeen Farzeen
Vanessa Fernandez (Honors)
Sarah Elizabeth Fischer
Taylor Jean Fitzgerald
Tatum Foulds
Jessica Lynn Marie Fowler-Chavez
Ashtyn J. Francis
Adrian Franco, I
Stephen Paul Franklin
Kyle Louis Frazier
Julia Freeman
Samantha Niki Fung
Louie Garcia
Lizette Sarahi Garcia Ramirez
Luis Ernesto Garcia Ramos
Jossen Padilla Gastelum
Kevin Matthew Gee
Alyssa Rose Gerads
Sunita Ghimire
Mikael Alan Gibbens
Jasmine Kaur Gill
Amanda Leanne Ginn
Samantha Jo Gluzinski
Roxana Gomez
Sarah Yvonne Goodman
Cale Jeffery Grenillo-Weaver
Ashleigh Elizabeth Grogan
Abigail Leigh Guzman-Grass (Honors)
Amanda Khalil Halawani
Kelly Justine Hart
Nicholas Francis Havey
Dominic John Hayden (Honors)
Jaimie Christa Hearn
Joanna Marie Penara Hilao
Robert Xuan Hoang
Tyler Matthew Hoelscher (Honors)
Courtney Holbrook (Honors)
Robert-Louis Hollingsworth
Cyrie Janelle Holman
Ronald Walter Homyak III
Melanie Catherine Hood
Monica Miran Houser
Thomas Georg Huck
Andrew Jonathan Isaac (Honors)
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Tesneem Akram Jalal Tamimi (Honors)
Hayden August Jardee
Jamie Allison Jensen
Tatiana Jerome (Honors)
Brett Ellen Jordan
Valerie Lauren Julian
Angelica Mae Juliano
Marissa Christine Kellogg
Andee Michealah Kepler
Mustafa A. Khan
Naveed Rashid Khosraviani
Binna Kim
Eunhye Kim (Honors)
Heather Noelle Kincaid (Honors)
Parker L. King
Daniel James Kitts (Honors)
Max Kohlmann Klahr
Ume S. Kobayashi
Kali Christine Komer
Lior Kopel
Aline Catherine Kraus (Honors)
Chloe Elizabeth Larkin (Honors)
Matthew Robert Lemke
Madison Taylor Lieurance
Jacob Andrew Likens (Honors)
Jamie Heather Littlefield
Shane L. Littlefoot
Derek G. Yin Liu
Vinson Liu
Kaitlyn Victoria Lopez
Elizabeth Nayeli Luna
Alejandro Macias Sustaita (Honors)
Corina Nicole MacIsaac
Jenna Kay Mahdi
Patrick George Mahoney
Dakota James Marshall
Lauren Ellen Martin
Nicolas Stephan Martin
David Martinez
Alaina Nicole Martinez (Honors)
Clay William Matthews
Allen Gabriel Maxwell
Raeven Simone Maxwell
Jennifer Denise Mendoza
Logan William Moore
Anthony Moreno-Torres
Kaitlyn A. Morgan
Nicole Elizabeth Morgan
Alex Arthur Morrison
Mackenzie Leigh Moyer
Breauna R. Munoz
Richa Nathaniel (Honors)
Holly Lynne Nay
Natnicha Tippaha Nealy
Joseph Lucas Neely (Honors)
David Casey Negelspach
Daniel Nguyen
Stefanie Marie Nguyen
George Van Nguyen (Honors)
Lindsay Marie Novak
Caitlin Victoria Cora Ocheltree
The University Technology Park opened on the former
site of the IBM plant on Rita Road in 1996. It is now
called the UA Tech Park.
Samwel Brian Onyango Ochieng
(Honors)
Patrick John O’Connor
Troy Dylan Oesterle
Connor Quinn O’Hare (Honors)
Jacob Olivas
Jennifer Nicole O’Neal
Katlyn Renee Packal
Anand V. Patel
Vanessa Nicole Peña (Honors)
David J. Porfirio
Lauren Michelle Powers
Anshula Prasad
Anne Alyse Pywell
Desiree Michelle Ranshaw
Joshua Randall Renolds
Ricardo Abraham Reyes
Robert William Ignacio Reyes
Weston Tyler Richardson
Drew A. Riggleman
Deanna Maria Johnette Robain
Sariah Evans Robinson
Naiby Rodriguez
Alejandro Peña Romero
Amanda Marie Ruiz (Honors)
Aruna Sakthi Aravind
Ivraj Singh Sandhu
Kyle Robert Sanowski
Maya Charuni Sarihan
Zachary Taylor Sbragia
Hojin Seo
Jacob Mitchell Serr
Alyscia Cory Severance (Honors)
Sona Rose Shahbazian
Morgan Rae Shano
Erica Subodh Shroff (Honors)
Alexis Jane Simmonds
Austyn Paul Skulkan
Elizabeth Lynn Smith
Olivia Nicole Smith
Kelli Lynn Sobieski
Amie Katarina Stodder
Derek L. Stutesman
Wesley David Sutton
Siddhant Talwar (Honors)
Dustin Jed Tanada (Honors)
Valerie Isabella Taraborelli
Logan Patrick Ternes
Sawyer Joseph Thein
Mitchell Toliver Stengl Thomae
Keara A. Tintle
Emily Tran
Thuy Dung Nguyen Tran
Nathan Russell Tyler
Alexander O. R. Urzua
Andrew Raymond Van Vianen
Christopher James Vance
Vanessa Monique Vargas
Brittany Loren Vazquez
David Gregorio Villalpando
Anthony Raymond Villanova
Meleighe Lyn Wallace
Savanna Nicole Weninger (Honors)
Mariah Elizabeth Willard
Michael James Willis
Elizabeth Ann Willis (Honors)
Jacob Robert Witt
Jerry Doyle Worsham III
Isabella Yanine
Alina Dion Yee
Zachary Jacob Yee
Dylan Scott Young
Carmen B. Zaldivar
Valerie May Zapanta-Dispo
Gabriel Jesus Zelaya
Plant Sciences
Erica R. Hernandez
Stephen Joseph Jinga
London Matheau McDougal
Tracey Leigh Till
Political Science
Berenice Acosta (Honors)
Tucker Delaney Allard
Omar Andre Arvizu, Jr.
Michael Nicholas Bogden
Jorge Andres Bours
Scott Mitchell Brenske
Samantha Rae Briggs
John William Brown
Joshua Daniel Budgick
Adam Matthew Bukani
Sarah Anne Burkey
Marcel Moore Caldwell
Molly Bridget Callahan
Adriana Izabella Campas
Dylan Curtis Campbell
Nicholas Thomas Cappellini
Jade R. Carr
Jie Ming Chong
Kanwar Angad Singh Chopra
Jacob Riley Clubb (Honors)
Rebecca Catherine Coats
Alexandra Socorro Cody
Sydney Lauren Coon
Rachel Alexandra Corradini
Eleuterio Martin Cortez
Winsten Paul Dan
Eric Matthew Davidson
Jeffrey Scott Davis
Charles Louis Deibel II (Honors)
Sydney Ilana Dennen
Katherine Ann Dorch
Jessica Faye Draper (Honors)
Bryan Andrew Drazner
Jessica Ann Ebert
William Haydon Ekstrom
Maria Lourdes Escalante
Zachary Jordan Esparza
Anthony Connor Eulano (Honors)
Margaret Briggs Farry
Manuel Abraham Felix
Cesar Antonio Fierros, Jr.
Gavriela Rina Fine
Elyse Mireya Flores (Honors)
Cole Alexander Fouch
Austin Aaron Fox
Harrison Benjamin Fuchs
Tomabari Zua Ganago
Abigail Sydney Garcia
Lisdye Danae Garcia-Gonzalez
Dylan Rose Pence Geerlings
Grace Elizabeth Gegenheimer
Geoffrey Glenn Gibson
Julian Gabriel Gonzales
Robert McDonald Gourley
McKenzie Erica Grenfell
Gabrielle Marie Hall
Ashley Elizabeth Hegan
Aleene Luisa Hernández
Austin Waring Hillemann
Kyle James Hoeye
Amber Marie Hunt (Honors)
Ana Laura Islas
Harrison McKinney Ivie (Honors)
Mikaela Marie Jackson
Duane John Jackson, Jr.
Calvin Craig Jensen
Emily Pilar Jernee
Quentin Hughes Kareiva
Mario Rene Kin Portillo
Charlotte Marie Kishi
Annie MacFarland Kosky
Delaney Krauss
William Francis Larkin
Stephen Charles Lockwood
Alexandria Loda
Bianca Joy Luna (Honors)
Kevin Patrick Lund
Mariana Manriquez (Honors)
Jennifer Michelle Martin
Katy Leanne Mason
Evan Jules May
Shannon Marie McDonough
Liam Michael McGrath
Ethan Michael McSweeney
Patrick Ryan Means
Jared Joseph Menke
Karina Nicole Merino
Ana Alicia Meza
Emily Grace Michael
Mark Anthony Morales
Marissa Nicole Moreno (Honors)
Cathleen Elizabeth O’Brien
Patrick Charles O’Neill
Zujaila Mizar Ornelas (Honors)
Kurt Matthew Paczkowski
Zachary D. Palomino
Jenna Lei Parker (Honors)
Dorian Patel
Daniel Isidore Ryan Peltin
Zachary Michael Armani Pokrant
Andres Alexander Portela, III
Elizabeth Jean Porter
Jason Paul Postorino
Ashley Elizabeth Racine
Molly Baker Ragan (Honors)
Veronica Gabriela Rangel
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The sculpture in the Student Union roundabout has replicas of 1,511
dog tags hanging on it, each one bearing the name of an individual
assigned to the American Navy battleship U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 7,
1941, the day it was bombed at Pearl Harbor.
Peter Mathew Raptis
Kimberly Cheyanne Reeve
Ilene Marie Reynoso
Maximilian Javier Rodriguez
Michael Angel Romero
Isaac Ruiz De La Torre
Nathan James Rydel
Ysabella Maria Salazar
Tessandra Renee Salmon
Jonathan Donald Schubert
Andrea Rochelle Sirois
Michael Anthony Spanks, Jr.
Andrew Olsen Stavoe
Andi Lynn Teufel
Ricardo Torres
Elisa Briyith Vasquez Pereyra
Harrison James Viles
Max Joseph Warshaw
Aaryn Rose Weich
Rochyl Serene Windham
Anna Michelle Winslow
Keane Wong
Hunter Kayed Woods
Sierra Raye Yamanaka (Honors)
Joseph Mark Zanoni
Ximeng Zhu
Harry Grifo Zimmerman
Chelsea Ann Marie Norman
Jacquelyn N. Oesterblad
Gideon Benjamin Rafal
Psychology
Alyssa Marie Abraham
Jaslean Kaur Ahuja
Jasmine E. Alas
Courtney Lynn Alba-James
Jenna Layla Aldulaimi
Matthew Roy Allred
Brenna Elise Alvarez
Jazmine Zemira Amaya-Grajeda
Nnenna Ijeoma Anako
Brittany Darlene Aragon
Elizabeth Armenta
Parker Ryan Armetta
Chaska Ardena Arnold
Valerie Rebecca Baccaro
Paulluvi Bahl
Brittany Ray Baker
Luke David Barber
Racheal Renee Barnes
Stephen Patrick Michael Barney
Jed Baronia
Kimberly Leila Beheshti
Tory Laree Bellavance
Zirley Ixtil Belnap
Julia Catherine Bennett
Jocilyn Elizabeth Benninger
Nicole Onica Bertoldo
Kaitlin Elise Bianchi
Hayden Alexandria Black
Miguel Roberto Bojorquez
Kenneth Carl Bottrill
Christina Kathleen Boudreau
Rebecca Ann Boyd
Kiah Simone Bradley
Paulina Bueno
Jennifer Rae Burros
Kamree Shereen Cady
Brianna Lynn Cappellini
Morgan Elizabeth Caron
Alicia Nicole Carpenter
William Brendan Carpenter
Chelsea Ann Carpentier
Kathlin Alyssa Carreon
Kenia Jordana Carrera
Janette Esperanza Carrillo
Armando Castellanos
Nataly Castro Guzman
Andrew Nicholas Cavazos
Caroline Mary Champagne
Alexia Chavez
Brooke Alexandra Chavez
Or Avraham Chay (Honors)
Irene Cristina Cheff (Honors)
Sophie Soraya Chitsaz
Jacob Riley Clubb
Jake Morgan Cohen (Honors)
Tyler P. Constable
Daniela Sarai Constantino
Elefteria Athena Contoravdis
Madelyn Christine Cooper
Charles Austin Cordier
Sibyl Rae Cornell (Honors)
Caroline Marie Croman
Veronica Cuellar
Beatrice Bustamante Curbita
Jacob N. Dadisman
Shruti Ria Dasgupta
Danielle Renee De la rambelje
Roberto Juan De La Rosa
Celestina De Leon
Gurman Singh Dhaliwal
Denisse Diaz
Melissa Diaz
Sheila J. Dong
Marqus A. Dorame
Neyveth Yolisma Duarte
Brigit Helen Duffy
Shima M. El-Gasim
Danielle Simone Enfield
Sumiko Jean Erves
Destiny Crystal Estrada
Lexis Crystine Evans
Rebecca Anne Fahey
Benjamin David Fay
Kellie Nicole Fecarotta
Stephanie Taylor Feher
Jessica Deninne Felix
Stephanie Eileen Fick
Logan James Fickling
Chantelle Corrine Figueroa
Carly Alexandra Fitch-Chinich
Danielle Caitlain Floyd
Catherine Wynn Forhan
Tatum Foulds
Courtney Brianna Francis
Corina Carmen Gallardo
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Yahaira Garcia
Marcos Gasca, Jr.
Elizabeth Anne Giannone
Tyler John Giles
Derek Martin Gin
Ananza Gianni Gonzalez
Erica Esther Gonzalez
Yamilette A. Gonzalez
Emily Jean Goodlett
Lauren Catherine Gouker
Mabelle Erica Gozun
Lisa Huynh Gray
Megan Elizabeth Green
Jessica Morgan Griffith
Giavonna Angelina Grizzanti
Hannah Groezinger
Brigette Jane Gross
Ophir Francine Gross
Samantha Lynn Gubka
Oreana S. Guerrero
Bianca Nicole Gutierrez
Alexandra D. Guzman
Angela Kristina Guzman-Matanane
Iva Habensus
Natalia R. Hankins
Victoria Haro
Stefanie Lauren Harris
Brandon Herbert Harrison
Denton B. Hatch (Honors)
Maya Antionette Haywood
Alexa Read Henrichsen
Katherin Ann Hernandez
Edgardo Hernandez (Honors)
Taylor C. Herndon
Aleida Del Carmen Herrera
Carissa Nicole Herring
Sydney Rose Hiles
Erin M. Hill
Madison Trice Hollis
Jamie Katherine Hoppe
Amanda Hope Horrigan
Shuheng Hu
Makenna N. Huber
Merri S. Hughes
Seoyun Hwang
Lourdes G. Ibarra
Christina M. Inocencio
Amanda Martina Interpreter
Shuvonno Islam
Alec James Janofa
Andrea Guadalupe Jayassi
Anjanique Kyndra Johnson
Sarah Chantel Johnson
Christina Renee Kalel
Heena Singh Kalsi
Tamar Frances Kaplan (honors)
Jennifer Lyn Karman
Nicholas Athan Katsos
April Cherie Keenan
Madison Leigh Keller
Jennifer Lynne Kennard (Honors)
Erica Roxanne Kent
Raphael WonJae Kho
The American Heart Association endorsed chest
compression-only CPR, a method developed by
physicians at the UA Sarver Heart Center, in 2009.
Omar Majed Khodr
Erin Y. Kim
Tonya Rochelle King
Kristin Jana Ann Klarenbach
Katelyn Louise Klen
Ena Knezevic
Michelle Diane Knott
Glenn James Knowlton
Krystina Amber Koepnick
Linda Kollie
Laura A. Kristol
Maria Kurilo
Kayla Boyd Kurti
Dalia Lafta
Tara Brianne Lakin
Kaitlin Mary Lamack
Katelyn K. Landt
Betsy Lara
Lauren Beverley Lasrich
Taite Noel LaValle
Jonathan Isaac Lawson
Alexandra Michael Lawwill
Michael Phillip Lazar
Michelle Le
Erika Alexis Lerma
Zishen Li
Alexandria Page Lightfoot
Andrea Marie Lipp
Kristen Louise Long
Katelyn Nicole Loomis
Josette Aida Figueroa Lopez
Kristin Mae Lopez
Marilyn Lopez
Marisa Yolanda Lopez
Stephanie Maritza Lopez
Susanna Victoria Lopez
Robin Kae Lowes
Riley Lyons
Zewei Ma
Jenna L. Macfarland
Heather Marie Mahfoud
Sruthi Mallapragada
Jacqueline Olivia Marquez
Dawn Lorraine Martin
Marlene Martinez
Sophia Martin-Sanchez
Marina Yuryevna Maskaykina
Hannah Rose McCurdy
Kelsey Noel McGee
Erika Patricia McGrew
Morgan Taylor Mckee
Paola Mendoza
Lesly Ruiz Meranza
Lauren Marie Metoyer
Rani Elizabeth Metz
Marissa Rose Mezzatesta
Ginevra Miglierina
Marilyn Michelle Millett
Alexander Kyle Mincer
Saphire Gonzalez Miramontes
Ana Leasa Leana Montalbano
Madison Robin Moore
Julian Albert Morell
Anna Sophia Mulcahy
Austin Kay Mullen
Daniel Michael Nelson
Heather Christine Noblitt
Akela Dawn Oania
Jennifer Mae Trueblood Oquendo
Alma Ortiz
Ashley Laura O’sullivan
Jacqueline N. Pacheco
Peter J. Palmer II
Anna Panagiotakopoulos
John Brennen Parker
Kayla Michelle Patterson
Amelia Mary Paul
Lauren Anne Pearce-Walker
Natalie Nicole Pecic
Shannon Marie Pelton
Tianzuo Peng
Saidy Rocio Perez
Jason William Perrin
Andre Luke Pettman (Honors)
Carson Marie Pfau
Dustin Richard Phelps
Cristin Phibbs
Lauren Ashley Pierce
Lorena Piña Nuñez
Alexis Cole Pion
Aliana Maria Pitts
Kristin Nicole Posada
Ambar Raquel Priego
Elan Maree Prince Henry Fox
Amanda Victoria Provax
Fengheng Qiu
Amber Roschelle Ramdeen
Aurora Margarita Ramirez
Gianna Ramirez
Brittni Lanette Ravago
Ilene Marie Reynoso
Anna Teresa Reza
Jamila Ashley Riley
Sabrina Rene Rivas
Iyanna Medheen Rivera-Gough
Kristen Eleanor Rizzo
Alyssa Rae Roche
Aimee Rodriguez
Andrew Justin Rodriguez
Rosa Maria Rodriguez
Kwame Shabazz Rogers
Laura Elise Rogers
Bailee R. Rollins
Frederick W. Rowe III
Alexis Carole Ruzich
Alexandra Sackett (Honors)
Tara Kristen Salpietra
Anna Andrea Sanova (Honors)
Tatum Kiera Santacasa
Samuel Santana II
Joseph Benjamin Santos
Marisa Ann Sarmiento
Hannah Grace Schepps
Griffin Arnold Schoenbaum
Jennica Jade Schoppenhorst
Brittany Diane Schultz (Honors)
Gabrielle Nkenge Scott
Alyscia Cory Severance
Brianna Marie Shanley
Chelsea Rose Shira
Anna Victoria Shoopman
Jerome Alexander Shumway
Amanda Erin Siedler
Christopher James Siegel
Thomas M. Siles
Leslie Ann Simmons
Susan Melissa Simmons
Melina Gabrielle Soll
Texana Jayne Sonnefeld
Camiele LuAnn Sorensen
Michelle Leigh Stanley
Andrea Nicole Steiniger
Megan Kathleen Steuter
Anna Chunyan Stocking
Sarah Stricker
Carlene Ann Swift
Maura Ruth Annalysse Tapia
Nicole Chantelle Tate
Sean Amaobi Taylor
Maria V. Tecson
John Carey Thomas
Micah William Thomas
Richard DinhTri Tran
Giancarla Dimich Trevisan
Emma Lian Trobia
Nicole Lorraine Trujillo
Fernando Valencia
Gabriel Fernando Valencia
Marissa Georgette Valencia
Khanh Chau Ngoc Van
Brianni Rene Van Tassel
Izabella Marie Vanek
Ariana Trinidad Marin Varelas
Erica Marie Vega
Victoria Alejandra Villaseñor
Amy Thi Vu
Meleighe Lyn Wallace
Nyla Wambold (Honors)
Taylor Rae Ward
Zachary Ward
Christina Michelle Warniment
Matthew Watson
Christina Nicolle Weinstein
Maxwell Louis Weishan
Eitan Jonathan Weisner
Kendall Clark Welliver
Thomas Gerard Wieser, Jr.
Blaine Michelle Willcocks
Zachary David Winders
Michael Scott Wojtanowski, Jr.
Chelsea Maya Wright
Brianna Rachelle Wyatt
Lian Xiao
Roman Alberto Yocupicio
Sierra Rae Yslas
Rebeccah Davita Yterdal (Honors)
Taylor Michele Zadonowicz (Honors)
Felicia Kay Zerwas (Honors)
Alexandria Emily Zubia
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016 97
Public Health
Nicole Ellen Acuña
Mary Michael Ahern
Jeffrey Paris Alcantara
Mario Aubert-Vasquez (Honors)
Camille Becker
Natasha Bodiroga
Sarah Jessica Bracy
Elizabeth Brooks
April J. Brookshier
Alyssa Lee Burke
Gabriel Alejandro Camacho
David Pete Campas
Kyle Ann Campbell
Clarice Amy Capin
Jacqueline Khiet Chau (Honors)
Anthony Tyler Chlopek
Melissa Maria Conrad
Summer Nichole Contreras
Bridget Kathryn Cool
Kelsey Marie Culver
Chi Lien Dang
John Christopher Danovich
Theresa Rae De Alva
Veronica Belen Doe
Jessi Breanne Duran
Taylor Ann Eisenhower
Elizabeth Cathryn Eisner
Tinsaye Eshate
Shu Zhen Fang
Isabel Marie Felix
Kelsi Ann Ferreri
Allison Michelle Gerling
Stephanie Elaine Gilboy
Paola Andrea Gonzalez Martinez
Sarah Daily Gruber
Angela Jensen Haddon (Honors)
Laura Therese Haley
Lorraine Elizabeth Heydorn
Martin Hoyos Ballesteros, Jr.
Valeria Huizar
Karen Ibarra
Oscar Andres Infante
Dinorah Jaime
Sarah Christine James
Taylor Lynn Jones
Samantha Perez Juvera
Taylor Jean Kelley
Neel Keshav
Kelly Kessay
Derek D. Koller
Deidre Violet Kruckenberg
Tkiya Rensha Langendorf
Layton Andrew Lewis
Tyler Jay Lloyd
Susanna Mae Lluria
Ana Lopez Francisco
Ashleigh Renee Madden
Gianna Marie Mattio
Lauren Elizabeth Maxwell
Ashley Taylor McHale
Kristin Lynn Mefford
Adjoa A. Mensah
Naa Adjeley Mills
Eliza-Guadalupe Molina Del Rio
Madison Nicole Moore
Mami Meg Morita
Amanda K. Moyer
Mary N. Ngugi
Andrina Tram-Anh Nguyen
Lauren Gwendoline Oslar
Hayley Noelle Owen
Nitesh Dilipkumar Patel
Isabel Rose Guihama Paulk
Rachel Pennington
Alison Melissa Penze
Jasmine Perez
Jennifer Michelle Perez
Brenda Celis Picasso (Honors)
Samantha Arleen Pierce
Daniel Garry Pohoretsky
Aria Gabriela Pongratz
Ciara Coleen Powell
April Marie Reinhold
Rachael Marie Renzaglia
Arianna C. Resendiz
Adriana Kaye Reynolds
Erik Rivas
Alexis K. Rocha
Olivia Amado Romanoff
Sarah Grace Rose
Nolan M. Rozell
Aracely Ruiz
Arianna Larissa Ruiz
Ahmed Sadeq
Tris Nicole Sampson
Hailey Christine Schwartz
Lori Ann Shaffer
Morgan Jean Shields
Samantha D. Slack
Michaela Maureen Soha
Francisco Fabian Soto
Joseph Michael Spicciatie
Dakota Lee Staren
Ryley Kaitlyn Tegler
Mahelate Fassica Tesfaye
Wayne Stuart Thatcher
Kamila Yerbolkyzy Tuyakbayeva
Obumneke Jessica Ugbor (Honors)
Francisco Xavier Uribe Valencia
Pedro Uribe Valencia
Janelle E. Vallejo
Johana Azceneth Velasquez
Laura Catherine Vo
Jessica Carol Weatherford
Amy Nicole Weisbaum
Lauren Kate Welco
VanTesha Mosha Willingham
Alyssa Brooke Willis (Honors)
Amber Rose Wobma
Amy Yang
Jasmine J. Yi
Mercyzoe Zapata
98 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COMMENCEMENT 2016
Public Management
and Policy
Eljazzi F. Al Hasawy
Jayson Lawrence Astor
Angel Silvestre Avila
Phillip Kelly Barrett
Timothy Russell Beaubien
Christopher M. Blake
Austin Reed Bondy
Shawn Michael Brady
Courtney Renee Buller
Amanda E. Correia
Sarah Christine Daniels
Jeanluke Olivier Dubas
Brynne Olivia Duvall
Frederick Forest Eberhardt
Patrick Warren Fairbanks
Kevin James Feeney
Courtney Marie Ferguson
Maribel Fierros
Ana Sophia Fimbres
Sarah Michelle Findysz
Merissa Leaellen Fynan
Miles Alexander Glick
Benjamin Samuel Gonzales
Berkley Hope Harris (Honors)
Cameron David Hefner
John Aloysius Hoffman
Aeric Allen Helsel Koerner
John James Leyba
Angel Ivan Lopez
Audra Josephine Lopez
Daniel Josue Marin
Rachel Elizabeth Mayer
Jesse Randal Melen
Maxwell Isaac Orloff
Mario D. Pitts
Kelly Nicole Rezny
Michael Fernando Ruppert
Luciano Sanchez
Christopher Jordan Shaw
Ariel Ciera Smith
Lauren Summer Sosinski
Anthony Steven Tepedino
Cayenne Constantine Towne
Kierstyn Tami Tsosie
Danielle Socorro Vrana
Keiera Deena Wheeler
Aaron O’Neil Wilson
Samantha Marie Wright
Shuhan Yang
Regional Development
Anthony David Aceves
Jacob Adams
Tareq A. A. M. Alsalem
Chase Jeffrey Caprio
Jonathan Philip Engleman
Ariel Gabriel Ezekiel
Max Edward Foster
Jason Erik Goldstein
Sophia Denise Gonzalez
Grant Kyne Gunderson
Timothy Steven Hawes
Lara Anita Hilliard
Austin Clark Houska
Cameron S. Hudson
Timothy Austin Hurley
Michael Thomas James
James Bennett Jessup
Bryn Cullen Johnson
Aaron B. Khosh
Troy Ian Kobrin
Peter Wentworth Kraemer
Taylor Madison Kurowski
Samuel George Lacebal
Thomas Ridgely Lincoln III
Jake Earl Martin
Craig Murray McGrouther
Michael Jennings McWilliams, Jr.
Tyler Garrett Means
Tucker Miles Morehouse
Max Benjamin Nathan
Kyle Phillip Nelson
Aaron Michael Sachs
Clarissa Sarabia
Rusty Shae Sary
Austin Kenneth Schmidt
Jake Austin Sherman
JD Simons
Nelson R. Simons
Kyle Kenneth Weissenburger
Eric Michael Willett
Bryan E. Yabut
Religious Studies
Pilar Michelle Dougall
Sameer M. Duqmaq
Molly Cullen Eisele
Alysha Marie Frias
Cody Allen Hicks
Jennifer Kaye Jamison
Cristien Matthieu Keeme-Sayre
Regina Sue Laine
Katelyn Nicole Loomis
Kirah Devery Mueller
Samantha A. Sandoval
Corey Charles Wegwert
Zachary Jacob Yee
Retailing and
Consumer Science
Morgan Taylor Bassin
Sydney Paris Berkley
Benjamin Alexander Bressler
Claire Taylor Bright
Kristy Marie Camilleri
Josh Richard Carlon
Brooke Melania Chapman
Sarah Shee-lyn Chee
Cody Gene Chewning
Erica Nicole Cialdella
Jennifer Annette Desjardins
Skyler Nicole Devine
Hollyn Elizabeth Dohanyos
Gabrielle Monique Douglas
Nicholas Jerome Duran
Jacob Mathias Eckstein
Chelsea Taylor Estes
Samuel Graham Findlay
Christopher John Finelli
Jamie Taylor Forster
Kathleen A. Garcia
Mitchell Scott Gouker
Alyssa Katharine Greene
Dulce April Grijalva
Daiana Harangus
Amanda Trudy Ho
Kathryn Anne Hodgins
Jennifer Amber Karson
Garrett James Keillor
Madison Ann Kime
Andie Katherine King
Jennifer Nadine Lautenbach
Rachel Amanda Laven
Jennifer Sy Le
Robert Matthew Lee
Jacob Samuel-Gordon Levinson
Kelley Maloney
Haley Jean Martin
Lisa Ann Mazzone
Sara Lorraine Meier
Ashley Hendry Meyer
Morgan Nicole Mickeleit
Kathian Evelyn Moreno-Sanchez
Thea Moresco
Christina Mary Norris
Erica Rachel Olkes
Danitza Paseta
Katie Alyssa Payne
Aubry Lia Pressman
April Marie Prokes
Melissa Yolanda Renteria
Alexia Ivana Sandoval
Leah Abigail Schaeffer
Anna Lorene Schorr
Tadessa Eroica Smith
Nathaly Soberanis Mariles
Aubry Alexandra Stitt (Honors)
Jenna Elise Strauss
Sydney Rose Strommen
Nicole Kathleen Susie
Steven Anthony Torres
Nicolle A. Tran
Charlene Cao Truong
Enrique Valenzuela-Atondo
Evelyn Vasquez
Carly Ann Verderame
Allison Michelle Vergara
Rachel Alexis Weinstein
Russian
Svetlana Ruth Popovic
Science Education
Zackary Evan Esling
José Francisco García Salcido
Hayley Murphy Keith
Elyse Laurel May
Chelsea J. Powers
Reid Alex Small
Sociology
Rebecca Maril Abitia
Alyssa Marie Abraham
Mylitza Acuña
Taylor Rose Alesso
Nnenna Ijeoma Anako
Christopher Amona Bereiter
Tiara Bertram
Emabil Blanco
Jake Morgan Cohen
Bryce T. Crawford
Cecy Elizabeth Cuevas
Sophia Lynn Custis
Gloria Damian Almaraz
Haoyang Ding
Marqus A. Dorame
Anna Yan Feng
Mary Severina Ferrando
Brenda Figueroa
Marielena Andreina Flores
Nikki Fujiwara
George Francis Galloway, Jr.
Tyler Andrew Gastelum
Martha Stephany Gonzalez
Gia Alexa Granatell
Ophir Francine Gross
Jeff Michael Guerin
LaToya Lekaye Hale
Nicole Pilar Hernandez
Valeria Herrera
Elizabeth Megan Herriot
Sydney Rose Hiles
Abigail Anne Johnson
Katelyn Louise Klen
Dalia Lafta
Jalen Lewis
Shauntel Lines
Faith Margaret Moehn
Isamar Maria Molina
Gregory Joseph Myers
Alexis Johannah Nalbach
Sofia Nuno
Rhiannon Lee O’Leary
Rebecca Deana Parra
Erika Joelle Pinkus
Mary Louise Risso
Grant D. Rosenberg
Shayla Jude Sandoval
Christine Marie Scolinos
Kiteria Ashley Shackelford
Rachel Ashley Sholts
Barbara Jeaná Stafford-Matthews
Dominic Thomas Stella
Brianna Vega Stutz
Emily Sarah Tene
Tess Allia Terry
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Taylor Nicole Tertel
Emily Nicole Tipton
Aaryn Rose Weich
Andrew Charles Wilson
Ayden M. Young
Mia Young
Spanish
Araceli Paola Acosta
Mylitza Acuña
Alexa Junelie Aguayo
Patricia Fernanda Ahumada
Angélica Álvarez
Amiebelin Amaya
Nubia America Amaya
Amy Renee Beltran Parra
Anna Lee Bjornsen
Alejandra Leigh Castañeda
Michael Cazares
Sicilia Cazares Montaño
Daniela Sarai Constantino
Rosa K. De La Herrán
Alejandro Enriquez
Dannya Desireé Esquivel
Manuel Abraham Felix
Alyssa Danielle Goya
Alexandra D. Guzman
Marina De Jesus Guzman
Nicholas Francis Havey (Honors)
Dana Maria Helfenbein
Danielle Marissa Hutchens
Sean M. Irwin
Emily Pilar Jernee
Maria B. Kantor
Andrea Marie Lipp
Jennifer A. Lopez
Bianca Joy Luna
Raeven Simone Maxwell
Gibraham Morgan
Mario Alberto Muñoz
Briana Lynn Nash
Valeria Olivia Peña-Quijada
Christina Kathryn Petsas
Samantha Arleen Pierce
Jonathan Arthur Price
Emily M. Reff
Dennis Felipe Rojas
Jocelyn Ruiz
Irasema Saavedra
Catherine Marie Salgado (Honors)
Valentina Saucedo
Cody Jozef Schmidlin
Giulia Francesca Seghezzo
Olivia E. Sequeira
Sona Rose Shahbazian
Tadessa Eroica Smith
Samantha Rose Testa
Cristian Urcadez
Francisco Xavier Uribe Valencia
Pedro Uribe Valencia
Jose Roberto Vasquez
Elisa Briyith Vasquez Pereyra
Lia P. Vazquez
Eduardo Morales Villalobos
Tanner Alec Weigel
Luke Brian Yarnall
Special Education and
Rehabilitation
Alisa Marie Armell
Taren Carter Atkins
Zaida Leticia Barajas
Alex Keith Bartholomew
Elizabeth Kholood Behman
Caitlin Kimberly Bennethum
McKenna Leigh Bishop
Brittany Megan Bromley
Tamara Nichole Chandler
Gabriella Renee Chisick
Michelle Virginia Cohen
Maria Elizabeth Cornish
Mary Clare Crocker
Jillian Nadine-Bell Daggitt
Patricia Mary De Luca
Kaitlin Michelle Dyal
Jillian D. Garcia
Regina Janesch Hughes
Julie Ann Lovelace
Audra Joan McCorkle
Shannon Elizabeth McKivitz
Brian Robert McWilliam
Devin Katherine Merrick
Ann Marie Merritt
Kelsey Rae Meyer
Hannah L. Murray
Rachel Beth Oekerman
Regino David Palazuelos
Danya Palencia
Cayla Alaine Pennick
Caitlin Crosby Petiti
Sydney Ruth Prystowsky
Alyssa Bethzabe Rosales
Kirstie Elizabeth Sorenson
Svetlana Valery Temyanko
Marissa Nicole Teran
Samantha Marie Torretto
Alison Leslie Troyetsky
Jessica Alexis Valencia
Monica E. Velasco
Katherine Rae Weiser
Brandi M. White
Ciarra Cathleen White-Griggs
Speech, Language and
Hearing Sciences
Jaslean Kaur Ahuja (Honors)
Kiana Marie Kealoha Aki
Taylor Lynn Albright
Breanne Nichole Amparan
Jocilyn Elizabeth Benninger
Fernanda Bueno
Paulina Bueno
Lauren Alyssa Burgheimer
Karissa Mechelle Castaneda
Jacklyn Penny Churchill
Liza Palima Clark
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Megan Elizabeth Clark
Valeria Cordova
Michael Ryne Coronado
Drew Larran Currier
Samantha Renee Danner
Lupita Itzayan De Los Santos
Tani Noelle Doherty
Juan Dominguez, Jr.
Glenn Allen Elms (Honors)
Taylor Rochelle Fields
Courtney Brianna Francis
Melissa Kelly Gottschlich
Lauren Nicole Greenwood
Megan Renee Gross
Julia Danielle Harris
Jacob Jeffrey Heinz
Mina Nicole Hutchison (Honors)
Kayla Tsujiuchi Ichiba
Mayra Alejandra Jauregui
Marielle Briana Katz
Elissa Holly Kawamoto
Claire Catherine Konen (Honors)
Haley Marie Lanoue
Stefanie Ann Lauderdale
Alexandre Lemaire
Dominique Y. Leon-Guerrero
Angela Ly
Sarah Anna MacKenzie (Honors)
Laila Andrea Mamaril Manalo
Brianna Marie Manjarre
Crystal Martinez
Angelica Rae McCarron (Honors)
Jordan N. McGuire
Kayla Megan Miller
McKenzie Anne Moore
Clemente Morales
Rachael K. Munroe
Marisa Murugan
Kalona Kramer Newcomb
Alma Ortiz
Nicole Danielle Palmer
Sheridan Leigh Pearson (Honors)
Victoria Lynne Powell
Melissa Marie Quiceno
Alyson Renee Reiswig
Maureen Rebecca Render
Naomi C. Rhodes
Joshua Louis Ritter
Jade Nicole Rivera
Dina Rebecca Rodriguez
Denise Alicia Santos
Stephanie Marie Schank
Brittany Diane Schultz
Jennifer Shi
Stephanie Loren Shi
Samantha Diane Simpson
Alexa Anne Stevens
Susannah Lynn Townsend
Mayra Guadalupe Valdez
Kristen M. Valenzuela
Olivia Michelle Vinson
Kylene Hart Wenner
Brandi M. White
Kara Elizabeth Wilt
Haley Elizabeth Woods
Ciera Cassandra Judith Yates
Studio Art
Sara M. Balbuena
Kayla M. Ballesteros
Aubrey Elizabeth Behrens
Alexandra N. Burney
Isabella Christina Colaianni
Isabelle Anna Diamond
Jessica Erin Felix
Alyssa Andrews Ferguson
Jacqueline Elizabeth Finn
Leah Elizabeth Flannigan
Maya Hawk Heilman-Hall
Casey Eric Jargo
Matthew Ryan Kennedy
Jessie Paige Marman (Honors)
Kevin T. Matsunaga
David J. Meyer
Noah Kent Miller
Juncong Mo
Alicia Nicole Montaño
Adela Antoinette Navarrette
Gabrielle Lee Oase
Tyler R. Oberlin
Jieun Park
Abigail Elizabeth Parrella
Curtis Lambert Ryan
Cassandra Serrano
Cynthia Kristine Sodari
Lucas William Stevenson
Alexandra Rae Surges
Dominic Joseph Valencia
Rebecca Anne Van Scoter
Natalia Amber Williams
Kiera Michelle Woods
Jiahui Yan
Sustainable Built
Environments
Jonathan Erik Asheim
Cody Thomas Bonnet
Diana Lee Englert
Ambar Alexis Gardner
Sierrane Grace Sinoben Gatela
(Honors)
Connor Jackson Harmon
Houston Rory Harris
Tynan Scott Hartzell (Honors)
Yuxi Li
Amanda Helene Maass
Joseph Aaron Myers
Andre Elias Rioux
Gypsy Sato
Kellie Amanda Sheehan
Emily Soderberg (Honors)
Elizabeth Anne Stowe
Genna Renee Vande-Stouwe
Margaret Zamarripa
Daniel Robert Zedick
Zola Veronica Zermeno (Honors)
Sustainable Plant Systems
Brenda Anahy Anaya (Honors)
William Tyler Artwohl
Angela Ernestina Cordova
Sergio Antonio Matias
Connor Dylan Osgood
Taylor Nicole Sanders
Helene Dorothy Stefanakos
Matthew James Watson
Systems Engineering
Erik Michael Baker
Erika Joanne Balbas
Karla A. Beas
Ryan Kenneth Bergsma (Honors)
Matthew Lee Britton
Allison Nicole Bronstein
Christian-Gardner Kanekaualehua
Brown
Lindsey Skyler Carlson
Annastasia Sophie Debolt (Honors)
Ryan P. Grady
Nicole Louise Grisamore
Melesio Hernandez, Jr.
Clayton Matthew Jeanette
Matthew Linnaus
Jordan Kendall Lo
Hieu Trung Luong
Ricardo Antonio Matty
Christopher J. Meyer
Brian T. Ngo
Casey Ryan Philip Odom
Ryan Lee Province
Ethan Tyler Rickert
David Jordan Rico
Lindsay C. Small
Alfie C. Tsang
Hang Thi-My Van
Edward Antonio Vergara III
Danton Xixo Whittier
Alexander Jay Yudkovitz
Daniel M. Zavala
Theatre Arts
Robert Dema, Jr.
Angelique Libanio Fustukjian
Megan Renee Hanks
Allison Ann Knuth
Nathan Adriel Oppenheimer
Simon L. Ridley
Emily Anne Stevens
Jeanne Nicole Torres
Angelina Valencia
Alberto Vasquez
Theatre Production
Fatimah Yzabel Amill
Lauren Ashley Bardon
Bryn K. Booth
Elizabeth Katherine Boyles
Sterling Christian Boyns
Jenise StarGatherer Catrone
Tommy Chheng Chek
Zackry William Colston
Abigail Grace Harms
David Joshua Hemmo
Gregory James Houston
Grace Caroline Kirkpatrick
Hanna Christine Lockhart
Dorann Rae Matson
Rachel Victoria Miller
John Louis Millerd
Sara Elizabeth Patterson
Carlos Santos Sanchez
Jonathan Lee Thompson
Candice Jgermaine Washburn
Urban and Regional
Development
Lance Robert Bantlin
Daniel Leroy Clemons-White
Alejandro Escalante
William Foster Groves
Mitchell J. Regina
Blake Ellis Zanni
Veterinary Science
Emily Ann Arguello
Nicole Paige Baker
Hayli Shay Burdsal
Marion Cambrelin
Imani Miesha Carswell
Katrina Marie Coronado
Betty Anai Damian
Faye Elizabeth Daniel
Cesar A. Davila, Jr.
Annise Margaret DeGonzague
Markie Elizabeth Dipple
Lindsey A. Dunn
Emily Grace Franklin (Honors)
Lauren Taylor Garcia
Alison Marie Greaber
Savannah Morgan Gucwa
Kristen Abigail Hendrickson
Madison Christine Horton
Alexis Nicole Ivanecky
Erin Michelle Jones
Tyler Edward Klee
Kate Jo Ann Lamas
Luke Eric Lehrling
Sophia Josephine Leone (Honors)
Rebecca J. Nelson
Shannon Kelly Palmer
Andrea Del Mar Pla Gutierrez
Christina Ann Promer
Megan Terese Rodriguez
Stephanie Celeste Marietje Schiavone
Whitney Marie Seng
Chauncey Brooks Smith
Isabella Grace Stepanovic
Alyssa Shea Thomas (Honors)
Tara Diandre Tillotson
Emily Belknap Walsh
Jessica Marie Wilson
Aimee Marissa Mei Laun Wong
Shawna Marie Wood
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CONFERRED
SUMMER 2016
Accounting
Eduardo Arellano
Taylor Nicole Black-Araiza
Lauren Renee Del Prato
Kelly Thao Dinh
Griffin John Goudreau, I
Rossana Jacinto Hernandez
Elizabeth Ann Huska
Corey Toshio Kado
Youjin Lee
Gabrielle Cariaga Maluto
Lesly Carolina Perez
Cassandra Ruiz
Olivia E. Sequeira
Ronald Cole Westover
Omar Kareem Williams-Pope, Jr.
Aerospace Engineering
Daoyang Liu
Africana Studies
Dominique N. Anderson
Alexandra Dixon
Agribusiness Economics
and Management
Sean Christopher Bannon
William Charles Beger
Alvaro Borquez-Schwarzbeck
Giovanni Cherico
Jorge Correa, Jr.
Melissa Figueroa
Anthony Jordan Goduco
Alexandra Kay Itule
Kyle Thomas Jackson
Tao Jin
Myls Ryan Miller
Jose David Mota, Jr.
Matthew R. Robinson
Agricultural Technology
Management and Education
Joseph Kelly Borchard
Blake Hodges
William Conner Mog
Gary J. Shaw
Animal Sciences
Michelle Leigh Allen
Stephanie M. Enright
Anthropology
Benjamin Douglas Baker
Benazir Dadayeva
Marquita Shantel Harris
Kendall Alexa Hassler
Dwight Chester Honyouti
Christopher Michael Martinez
Priscilla Madril Rivera
Heather Alicia Taylor
Jorge Luis Zavala
Fengting Zhao
Applied Science
Lindsay Nicole Dearing
Magen Rochelle Klovos
Joseph Paul McGeachy, III
Robert Paul McGrew, Jr.
Architecture
Kelly Marie McCann
Nathanial Miller
Michael R. Nardoci
Art History
Christiana Zoë Duron
Fengting Zhao
Biochemistry
Denisse Watt Cuarteros
Gregory Daniel Lyons
Daniel Andy Plewa
Nhan Ly Tran
Biology
Brandon Michael Burgman
Kassandra D. Cedillo
Nikki Chand
Mariam Chaoui
Kaylan Furell Geiger
Amanda Rose Ianniello
Brittney Michelle Jackson
Michael Patrick McConaughy
Jasmyne Elizabeth Pacheco
Holly Michelle Truong
Business Administration
Rakan Khalid F. Alabbas
Ahmad Hasan Alhindawi
Angela Shumanski Almeida
Yomara Armenta
Tanner Lee Cameron
Alanna Olga Castro
Andrew J. Dempsey
Michael Robert Gallegos
John Ronald Gallivan
Adriana Beatriz Garza (Honors)
Jose Cruz Granados
Ian Philip Hause
Rodolfo Ibarra
Josué Andrés Irigoyen-Au
Brandon Michael Jacobson
Shaishav Jariwala
Brenden Patrick Leahy
Julie Anne Lee
Carlos Enrique Medina
Hung Huu Viet Nguyen
Henry Roust O’Keefe
Jose Feliciano Oviedo
Michael Demetrius Price
Tyler David Rennie
Jennifer Anne Richardson
Jocelyn Yvette Rivera
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Oscar Romero-Gutierrez, Jr.
Jamie Huskey Sampson
Ayko Santiago
Therese A. Screen
Amrakh Y. Shakhpazov
Maria Val Timin
Junea Danielle Valenzuela
Roque Vasquez
Nicole Linn Waibel
Garrett S. Washburn
Parker Alexander Wayne
Business Economics
Nick Anthony Charron
Shane Tanner Sisson
Business Management
Paul Christopher Abraham
Clifton Wade Albright, Jr.
Michael Gordon Baker
Forest Dylan Chapman
Christian Hernan Cortes
Leslie Anne Creighton
Eric Hunter Deweese
Dante Amedeo Egger
Jacob Timothy Haggard
Jonathan Lee Hurwitz
Tyler Michael James
Nicholas Bennington Mrozowski
Patrick Thomas Mulrow
Trevor Vincent O’sullivan
Andrew Jacob Prolman
Tyler Jordan Samko
Cory Mark Williams
Macy Wu
Care, Health and Society
Kingsley Isaac Abrokwah
Gabriela Acuña
Ramon Balderrama Orta
Rielly Nicole Bingham
Wen Cai
Chandler Marie Chavez
Bryanna M. Comilang
Devin Jamal Crim
Zabrina Davila
Elisabeth Muriel Fega
Paige Taylor Giddings
Jordan Nicole Johnson
Richard Vincent Nickerson
Alexandra Nicole Oxuzidis
Alexsandra Lizzette Rascon
Alexandra Marie Rideout
Danielle Nicole Rodriguez
Abinaya Sundaram
Chemistry
Kexin Li (Honors)
Daniel Andy Plewa
Steven William Shader
Classics
Benjamin Douglas Baker
Communication
Tiana Jo Bellanti
Michael Richard Borushek
Danielle Veronica Bracamonte
Matthew Christopher Burt
Victoria Ashley Davis
Kaitlyn Marie Drennan
Joshua Matthew Dudas
Alison Christine Enos
Zara Ann Estes
Katie Lyn Gabel
Sarah Kendall Gulbrandsen
Jonathan Scott Harbin
Erich Anthony Harman
Mckenna Bae Harris
Derek Evan Hernandez
Luke Anson Hilger
Brandon Michael Hoppe
Allison Lea Ison
Shannon Rae Laidlaw
Taylor Rae Law
Lauren Elyse Levy
Ashlee Marie Marinez
Madeline Carol Martin
Hattie Rae McConnell
Julia Claire Mellinger
Emma Siobhan Muriel
Michael Stuart Namm
Emma Prescott Nyren
Zachary Joseph Oliveira
Ryan Scott Petersen
Hailee Ann Roberge
Erika Liri Rosinski
Rachel Erin Rosove
Andres Amir Shahbaznia
Rachel Lynsie Shrode
Amanda Jill Silverman
Brennan Lee Smallwood
Anjana Manisha Sripal
Melanie Margaret Stewart
Lauren Marie Stoeckle
Lindsey Michelle Stone
Taylor Yvette Sturges
Summer Ann Tassin
Randy Rexl Thomas
Maleyna Denise Tilford
Bridget Lee Twedt
Briana Ann Vanbibber
Camden Staretz Weisz
Nicole Lee Wood
Aimee Woolfolk
Zakiya Linda Zardes
Li Zhou
Danielle Patricia Zielinski
Computer Science
Desone Maurice Burns II
Magdalena Donnels
Rafael J. Garcia
Joshua James Korth
Kexin Li
Kegan J. Schaub
Creative Writing
Magdalena Misus Murguia
Abrahim M. Selim
Criminal Justice Studies
Yvette Balderrama
Justin Scott Behnke
Misaely Jocelyn Camacho
Nataly Castro Guzman
De’Ja Cummings
Cody Michael Ellis
Arianna Aimee Fimbres
Darrell Fox, Jr.
Abraham Gomez
Kirstina Rose Harris
Dylan James Imoehl
Dayanna Jacquez
Richard Jay Karsten
Marina A. Kropacheva
Gilberto Manuel Manjarrez
Brian David McNally
Tia Marie Mendenhall
Anne Catherine Millay
Beatriz Moir
Italo R. Olono
Jamie Danielle Ott
Cynthia Patricia Quijano
Brian Ross Smithrud
Tyler Ford Snyder
Ruby Soto
Dance
Forest James Berger
Kevyn Ryan Butler
Matthew Allen Crook
Benjamin James Koehl
East Asian Studies
Nathaniel Ward Breniser
Sheng Dong
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
Heather D. Gillette
Halie Alexandra Lawless
Miriam Talitha Matei
Anjeanette M. Mckay
Christopher John Smolar
Matthew John Velazquez
Emily Elizabeth Watkins De Jong
Economics
Abdulla A. Al Qabandi
Nourah O. J. A. Al-Qassar
Xichen Cao
David Amador Cerna
Hao Chang
Mingru Chen
Xiayu Chen
Kristian David Cota-Abert
Victor Damm
Qicong Deng
Qiyu Deng
Prince Isioma-Oluwafemi Eboka
Mateo Madrid Garcia
Dentin Ezekiel Garrett
Fei Han
Xingyu Han
Mengdan Hao
Li He
Qichao Hu
Ruiming Hu
Xingyuan Huang
Fanqi Ji
Menglin Jiang
Yan Jiang
Yulong Jiang
Aixin Kang
Haewook Kim
Joseph Henry Kimpler V
Benjamin James Koehl
Zhengyang Kuang
Dahui Li
Xuan Li
Yang Li
Haodong Liang
Hongfan Lin
Zihao Lin
Ying-Chun Liu
Patrick Michael McNeece
Richard Pierre Arundel Merkle
Felipe Ignacio Moreno-Monge
Xiangrong Ni
Nisha Ravi Panjabi
Jin Qiu
David R. Rodriguez
Steven C. Rubly
Piaoyin Rui
Eugene Hunter Ruiz
Daleep Singh Sandhu
Xing Shu
Paul Stefan Smith
Xuan Tan
Bradley Vincent Tolaio
Yuxiu Tu
David Allen Valencia
Feng Wang
Han Xu
Yinghui Yang
Hongkai Zhang
Jiaxuan Zhang
Bolin Zheng
Lu Zhou
Danli Zhu
Zhiling Zhu
Jing Zou
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Junhwa Song
Engineering Management
Valeria Pinon Fuerte
Huilong Gao
Nicholas Robert Hinsberg
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English
Anjali Rashmi Goria
Nathaniel Jacob Harrison
Veronica Louise Jauregui
Susan Renee Jenn
Patricia Lianne Serfino
Entrepreneurship
Madeline Nicole Blank
Dante Amedeo Egger
Andrew Neal Felice
Environmental and Water
Resource Economics
Clint Jacob Cochrane
Ethan Craig Wissler
Environmental Hydrology
and Water Resources
Olga Victoria Constantino
Environmental Science
Aaron Matthew Alvarez
John Watson Dempsey III
Cynthia Elena Van Gogh Hernandez
Shamila Rebekka Hutabarat
Matthew Cesar Prieto
Mara Kathleen Rembelski (Honors)
Sara Swiokla
Environmental Studies
Allison Koren Bruce
Ryan Christopher Cardona
Matthew A. Clark
Kristina Lee Cornett
Katherine Anne Healey
Alexander Jacob Katz
Zachary Michael Zembower
eSociety
Patrick Ryan McMillin
Jillian Esther Sandler
Family Studies and
Human Development
Karina Lopez Acero
Aiden Huckleberry Allen
Carey Theresa Brunelle
Joseph Andrew D’Acquisto
Alexandra Nicole Erickson
Karol Guevara
Lynda Ann Gurnsey
Ashley Marie Lopez-Almazan
Maria Mata
Yazmine Josephine Moore
Lauren Elizabeth Musselman
Rocio Napoles
Alexandra Kisting Nicholls
Ashley Nicole Rhymes
Skyla Renee Robinson
Melissa Ruiz
Kaela Ward
April Ann Wilkie
Film and Television
Matthew Michael Decker
Javier Emmanuel Desantiago, Jr.
Chloe Nicole Fenney
Robert Rafael Gonzalez
Katherine Anne Healey
Ana Humphrey
Joshua D. Montijo
Dillon Ramage
Juan V. Ruiz
Alisaryan Dakotah Scroggins
Jacqueline Trujillo
Dominic B. Villarrubia
Trevor Mcwhorter Williams
Ashley Nicole Wright
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Khaled Alabdulrazzaq
Mohammad Abdulaziz S. A. M. AlBader
Abdulrahman Alzaid
Dylan Francis Christopher
Shixiang Cui
Chien Yi Hsu
Ryan Patrick King
Griffin James Knight
Edward Tyler Kraus-Sanders
Richard Clay Mundinger
Zhihao Ouyang
Jesse Zev Rozio
Arjun Singh
French
Alison Nicole Gondosch
Arielle Silva Leal
General Studies
Alvaro Martinez Arizpuru
David Alan Artzi
Shayne Marie Austin
Amanda Michelle Bancala
Shakeil L. Becker
Farrin Nicole Bell
Brysen Hatcher Brown
Jenna Rose Brown
Giovanna Marie Campisi
Andras Vajda Cruz-Aedo
David De La Fuente
Heather Ashley Devers
Brendan M. Dolan
Sarah Nicole Duarte
Kayla Ann Eller
Andrew Michael Fresolone
Fengliang Gao
Gina Rachel Gleitman
Marquan L. Graham
Hallie Katherine Greenawalt
Kate Gu
Claire Marie Hanselman
Amanda R. Hernandez
Stephanie J. Herrmann
Cosondra Michelle Holmes
Jeremy Matthew Hunter
Logan Hideichi Ishimine
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Andrew Paul Jew
Zhuoyi Ji
Darwin Rand Johnson
Sophia Madison Johnson
Jonathan Kaplan
Brenden Patrick Lawless
Junxiao Li
Siow Perng Lim
Amanda Renee Lindquist
Kevin Patrick Mathews
Jenna Maxwell
Conor Joseph McCullagh
Alexa Nicole Montgomery
Jennifer Nicole Newman
Liam Victor Palmieri
Samantha Joy Paz
Emily Sara Pearlstein
Ishan Gagan Ranjan
David Rodriguez
Julia Marie Rogers
Kaitlyn Nicole Rosenthal
Joseph Peter Ryan
Stephanie Sanchez
Megan Anne Shanholtzer
Corey Adam Shanks
Cassidy Ann Solares
Michael Jay Tack
Naoki Takeda
Connor Charles Thronson
Holly Brielle Trevino
Kalvin Anthony Ventoza
Anna Francisca Virgen
Taoyi Wang
Thomas Nathan Wilson
Alan Robert Winder
Briell Odon Wolff
Joshua I. Woolf
Landon Jeffrey Wright
Shujun Yan
Xin Zhao
Pengpeng Zhou
Sara Zurlinden
Geography
Benjamin Edward Rose
Geosciences
Jordan Tyler Abell
Turki Mohammed H. Al Lugman
Omar Abdulhadi Alanzi
Hassan Abdullah Aldubaisi
Othman Abdalhadi M. Alenezi
Asha Singh Benson
Angela Lillie Blanks-Bennett (Honors)
Zachary Andrew Capozzi
Enrique Rodolfo Chon
Mason Lee Gates
Justin O’Lee Hardin (Honors)
Sharon Nicole Harris
Caelan Montana Hartnett
Max Larkin
Felipe Ignacio Moreno-Monge
Karl Theo Perkins-Hardy
Nelly Rubio
Thomas Samuel Sparks
German Studies
Jesse William Archbold
Sheyla M. Valdez
Global Studies
Itzell Celaya
Jenna Raye Glad
Angelica M. Madrid
Alejandro Romo
Jennifer Sara Rosenfeld
History
Madeline Annetta Bynes
Ashley Elizabeth Cuperus
Scott Ray Gallagher
Claire Catherine Mannisto
Jeremy Richard Moore
Samuel James Oseguera
Dalyx Perez
Stephen Albert Preciado
Alexander Jon Vient
Industrial Engineering
Matthew James Foley
Information Science
and eSociety
Olivia Renee Goldson
Kristina Elaine Hughes
Hancheng Li
Alexander Joseph Riley
Brittany Leigh Taylor
Information Science
and Arts
Yi Han
Chen Tzu Liu
Information Science
and Technology
Richard D. Gerber
Rebecca Leigh Geren (Honors)
Jonah Steven Hankins
Thomas C. Olla, Jr.
Xavier Antonio Ortega
Matthew Shanks
Journalism
Shelby Erin Edwards
Valeria Flores
Lauren Ikenn
Hunter Nicholas Kerr
Yazmine Josephine Moore
Layla Nicole Nicks
Hannah Reeann Palaniuk
Ashley Nichole Pradetto
Judaic Studies
Zachary Mark Neal
Latin American Studies
Sarah Maria Staron
Law
Mechanical Engineering
Gabriela Alexandra Centorami
Kyle David Leonard
Katherine Arlene Medina
Alberto Miguel Perez
Linguistics
Ziying Zhou
Literacy, Learning
and Leadership
Maria Christine Allen
Adelinde Meira Catts
Nicholas Mark Giannini
Nicole Emma Kaiser
Elias James Luna
Paige Christine Moffett
Jazmine Isabel Rojo
Jaime Elizabeth Rubenstein
Management
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Jordan Patrick Andrews
Drake Alexander Brockway
Masen Cameron Cruickshank
Gabriel Lyndsey Greenfield
Blake Lawrence Kaplan-Zusman
Griffin James Knight
Yu Chen Lin
Blake Leslie Smith
Bangkai Sun
Brek Kevin Thompson
Alec Scott Weaver
Marketing
Daniel Scott Balesteri
Skyler Michael Bell
Madeline Nicole Blank
Sunvir Singh Chopra
Andrew Neal Felice
Gabriella King Fernandez
Lysandra Yvette Gomez
Kayla Marie Greenwood
Brian Austin Hanshaft
Nolan Kelly Houlton
Chien Yi Hsu
Lauren Marie Ponsi
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and Engineering
Sean Patrick Arnold
Mathematics
Sam Aggrey D’Almeida
Alexander Matthew Farley
Rema Lynn Hamdan
Atta Kashmiri
Jiayi Li
Kexin Li
Marisol Norzagaray
Marcus Ray Rosales
Jon Martin Scott
Yanbin Xie
Mohammad K. A. S. Alrashed
Shayla Raquel Austin
John Daniel Codde
Alex De La Rosa
Sinan Elisha
Ian Seamus Hoffman
Qichao Hu
Benjamin Devers Kaufman
Yanjun Liu
Megan Elizabeth Marquiss
Raul Mishiyev
Ian Robert Nettleton
Kyle Nguyen
Andrew James Porter
Thomas John Reid
Andrew Mario Sharpe
Zhengting Wu
Microbiology
Carolina Constance Larkin
Cort J. Lawrence
Ivette Lugo
Audra Ann McEowen
Kylie Debra Smith
Middle Eastern and
North African Studies
Randall David Nice
Alaa Ali Nooraldeen
Christopher Earl Saltmarch
Mining Engineering
Jingqing Chang
Molecular and
Cellular Biology
Brandon Michael Burgman (Honors)
Jose J. Carranza
Marina Elena Chavez
Meara Ann Clark (Honors)
Leslie Dominguez
Kevin Gene Ehrichs
Maysam H. Eljerdi
Andrea Mariah Jones
Kyle Andrew Kaschl
Clayton Charles McKinney
Ashley F. Miranda
Natasha Sonia Ng
Dominic James Palazzola (Honors)
Nikita Vinu Patel
Pari Arun Patel
Alyssa Carlin Swayzee
Nhan Ly Tran
Jordan Lynn Trapp
Natural Resources
Andrew Edward Bello
Adam John Killebrew
Kevin J. Krutzsch
Caitlin Elizabeth McCurry
Natalya Canyon Robbins Sherman
Melissa N. Stevenson
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Cognitive Science
Aubrey Rae Downey
Dustin Ryan Goodwin, Jr.
Nicole Marie Grimes
Dylan Michael Hutchison (Honors)
Alexandra Lei Pond
Taylor Michelle Russell
Jeffrey Mark Saccone
Zaira L. Serrato
Courtney Taylor Smith
Nursing
Raquel Lenea Hansen
Nutritional Sciences
Morgan Ohara St. Clair Binder
Brook Alexandria Burgess
Gabriel Andres Castillo
Ashleigh Elizabeth Comber
Vahania Sofia Gomez Samaniego
Rachel Elizabeth Hodges
Jonathan Madrigal
Connor John Maly
Christopher Huy Pham
Emily Kathryn Ralston
Priscilla Madril Rivera
Yadira L. Valencia
Jiaxuan Zhang
Operations Management
Yu Chen Lin
Mohammed Mostafawi
Performance
Joelle Annette Roup (Honors)
Philosophy
Shireen Nicole Dehghan
Samara Elise Hutzler-Moule
Briana S. Squires
Jovahn Walid Thomas
Jana Alette van der Walt
Physics
Won Hyuk Jeong
Marcus Ray Rosales
Physiology
Karina Lopez Acero
Damon Joseph Begley
Brook Alexandria Burgess
Marquis Bernard Carswell
Julia Elizabeth Chalk
Dailu Chen (Honors)
Genaro Victor Cornella
Jennifer Chinomso Ehiri
Jennifer Daisy Kenyon
Caroline Lo
Jenny Mai
Andrew Stuart McAlister
David Means
Carrie Suzanne Montgomery
Damon Salar Motamedi
Brooke Ann Namoki
Ken T. Nguyen
Sheena Rose Lopez Querrer
Alexa Ojeda Roddey
Ana Edith Samaniego
Emily Elizabeth Sargent
David Joseph Seamans
Kambrea Gabriella Soltero
Alvin Quan Thai
Nhan Ly Tran
Tri Minh Tran
Travis Kyle Vaujin
Plant Sciences
Allora N. Arnold
Political Science
Jordyn Jean Abbott
Saif Massam Mohd
Massam Juma Alfalasi
Ali Nabil Alhusseini
Nourah O. J. A. Al-Qassar
Daniel Choice Anderson
Kwasi Arhin
Ava Michel Barlow
Madeleine Ann Bayle
Madeline Annetta Bynes
Christopher Castellon
Zully Isamar Chaidez
Samuel Joseph Collins
Jillian Elizabeth Davis
Austin Thomas De Young
Brusalene Ami Donahue
Lauren Jennafer Dwulet
Evan Christopher Edwards
Danielle Christine Farley
Nicolas Martin Flores
Sebastian Garlant
Avery Spencer Gingerich
Alison Nicole Gondosch (Honors)
Spencer Herschel Grijalva
Virginia Mae James (Honors)
Arielle Silva Leal
Louie Mbarkeh
Nicholas Field McAdoo
Steven Glenn McGuinnis
Kenly Anne Morgenstern
Mignone Noel Mujambere
Hannah Reeann Palaniuk
Amanda Nicolle Perez
Aaron Dejon Pressley (Honors)
Andrew Michael Ram
Olivia Sundiata Ray (Honors)
Peyton Ashley Reavis
Allyson Joelle Rimmer
Taylor Philip Salberg
Hunter Michael Sartini
Marisa Jade Smith
Kambrea Gabriella Soltero
Luis Manuel Sotelo
Jacob Jerome Spaeth
James Walter Stewart
Lance Alex Street
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Jeremy Thompson (Honors)
Karim E. Yafi
Psychology
Aiden Huckleberry Allen
Daniel Choice Anderson
Megan Lauren Arce
Ramon Balderrama Orta
Melissa Lauren Bermudez
Ebed M. Brambila
Maria Fernanda Cervantes
Zully Isamar Chaidez
Stephanie Y. C. Chen
Maeve Caroline Cionci
Matthew A. Clark
Camryn Cristine Conforti
Rizelle Irish Cruz
Brusalene Ami Donahue
Jamie Lynn Doss
Kyle Thomas Duckworth
Victoria Elizabeth Eudy
Joshua Arthur Farmer
Gregory Sean Field
Jennifer Gonzalez
Shadora Imanie Grate-White
Ashley Lynn Gray
Hailey Cassie Marie Hardy
Jessica Taylor Hartson
Jamil Johnathon Hijazi
Klien Donna Margaret Hilliard
Ariel Tallie Horowitz
Lawrence Ifeanyi Igwe
Randy Chinedu Iloenyosi
Dylan James Imoehl
Tasia Marie Ivey
Erica Nakidra Jackson
Esteban Reshad Kallen
Clara Alena Kallenbach
Chunyu Lai
Christopher Shane Lieber
Jonathan Madrigal
Loan Ngoc Mai
Kelsey Erin Malak
Drisana Mercedes Martinez
Gabrielle Marie Martinez
Brandon Joseph Minaya
Karina Mercedes Mora
Kaela Christine Murphy
Amy Nicholson
Alaa Ali Nooraldeen
Lauren Charlene Oswald
Marlena Francesca Passeri
Jason Thomas Petras
Alexandra Lei Pond
Stephany Vanessa Quintero Galaviz
Casey Anne Rau
Marshall Wellington Riebe
Brianna Monique Rios
Anthony Rodriguez-Rivera
Stephanie Lauren Rubin
Miguel Angel Santana II
Samir J. Shah
Daniel Eric Shammas
Lyle T. Shorty
David Allen Simmons
Kayla Michelle Simpson
Sara Elizabeth Slepian
Brittney Nicole Smith
Joshua Tristan Stinga
Christine Caryl Surrell
Karastyn Sharice Tapia
Lauren Marissa Tevis
Alexis Kathryn Thomas
Jessica Torres
John Patrick Utley, Jr.
Karina Cady Valle
Briana Monique Vasquez
Daniel Viramontes Apodaca
Jonna Ellen-Marie Watmore
Konner Reed Wilson
Elizabeth Ryan Woods
Meixin Wu
Brandon Young
Ziying Zhou
Public Health
Marie Corazon Ponce Aquino
Samantha Marie Balland
George Rigoberto Berigan
Sommer Mykel Berry
Tony James Bishop
Olivia Jane Boyer
Blaire Caroline Brown
Katlyn Gratie Campbell
Sergio Castelo
Ximena Contreras
Kendra N. Dadisman
Joyelle Malinda Dancy
Tayler Brooke Dykes
Marissa Lynn Echols
Dannya Desireé Esquivel
Victoria Elizabeth Eudy
Yolanda Lucia Flores
Desdemona Renae Fullen
Nicole Gonzalez
Annie Kankera Haguma
Perris Howard
Andrea F. Howerton
Faes Jamal Ibrahim
Scott Robert Johnson
Isaac Y. Kim
Elizabeth Lebaron
Arlene Leon
Tiana Jade Liss
Nalani Anaka Volice Livingstone
Isabell Wanjiku Mbugua
Caitlyn M. McFadden
Sonal Mistry
Kaela Erin Mitchell
Michael Alexander Navarro
Piper Effie Newman
Kendy Nguyen
Anthony Martin Perri
Kristina Joy Perrin
Kellie Ann Ringler
Angelica Viloria Rivera
Rebekah G. Robinson
Amber Marlena Ross
Brooke Elizabeth Serack
Madhavi Timsina
Anahi Valenzuela
Jesse Wei-Han Wu
Anaiz De Jesus Zamorano
Public Management
and Policy
Jessica Guadalupe Alvarado
Ke He
Abraham Felipe Hernandez
Levi Joseph Jones
Marina A. Kropacheva
Mackenzie Delane Letcher
Skyler Thomas Miller
Italo R. Olono
Jamie Danielle Ott
Reyna K. Parra
Stephanie Marie Salazar
Gary J. Shaw
Ashley Carolina Uribe
Hallie Michal Wine
Regional Development
Jaham Jassim Al Kuwari
Zachary Brandon Ashourian
Harris Alan Brooks
Chelsea Elizabeth Canizales
Parker Allen Scott
Ryan Michael Shapiro
Jordan Tyler Shum
Stefan James Wolf
Religious Studies
Brittany Janelle Hart
Jenna Ke’ale Heldt
Anthony Randolph Lopez
Amanda Nicole Madlangbayan
Loan Ngoc Mai
Brittney S. Marshall
Amanda Priya Parvez
Brandon James Peacock
Kassandra M. Ruiz
David Allen Simmons
Carl Raymond Smith
Alexis Kathryn Thomas
Yuxin Yang
Spanish
Gabriela Alexandra Centorami
Carolina Espinoza
Melissa Figueroa
Arianna Aimee Fimbres
Sebastian Garlant
Brandon Nicolas Gonzalez
Jennifer Gonzalez
Itzel Anahi Iniguez
Angelica M. Madrid
Katherine Arlene Medina
Ashley F. Miranda
Margarita Ochoa
Alexandra Nicole Oxuzidis
Reyna Elizabeth Padilla-Guzman
Mariana Peralta
Ana Edith Samaniego
Anahi Valenzuela
Kristen M. Valenzuela
Irving Velazquez
Veronica Verduzco
Marilyn Zepeda
Special Education
and Rehabilitation
Allora N. Arnold
Retailing and
Consumer Science
Jourdyn Nichole Baxter
Nicole Tanee De La Rambelje
Oliver Leo Jastia Fernandez
Chelsea Hills
Nadya Karina Mendez
Jenae Katherine Moule
Katie Hatsune Nakamura
Andrew McCarthy Nosal
Harny Obed Rios II
Allison Rachel Sachnoff
Janette Velasco
Sociology
Yaling Chen
Karen Christine Cooper
Dominic Dominianni
Joshua Matthew Dudas
Arielle Leeahn Ellis
Alison Nicole Gondosch
Katherine Elizabeth Gunn
Gina Katica Halenbeck
Andrew Isaac Alpert
Wade Bachman Banowsky
Speech, Language
and Hearing Sciences
Charlotte Bell Bachmann
Frederick Baker
Carolina Contreras
Eva F. Guerrero
Danielle Brittany Linn
Brittany Ester Newland
Gina Marie Sbragia
Hanna Rose Szymanski
Taylor Tran
Elizabeth Marie Villa
Janine Victoria Wilson
Studio Art
Dayna Paige Broder
Ying Cao
Joshua Kai Flood
Aidan Michael Heigl
Terra Love
Isai Pacheco
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Olivia Toiber
Xinyi Wang
Miriam E. Warren
Luke Hamilton Williams
Sustainable Built
Environments
Hannah Hassan Al-Juaid
Alexis Oskar Cardenas
Jessica Paola Estrada
Shiloh D. Foster
Margaret Ellen MacDonald
Carl Benjamin Patterson-Markowitz
Sustainable Plant Systems
Daniela Lomeli-Anaya
Systems Engineering
Nicholas Addison Hand
Matthew Sybrant
Theatre Arts
Steffan Alan Jones
Alan Russell Smith
Urban and Regional
Development
Zachary Phillip Baker
Blake Lenzie-Paul Dyson
Will Parker Etherton
Zachary Delcampo Green
Trenton Cooksey Mason
Zachary Dominic Mastro
Wyatt Jack Miller
Veterinary Science
Esmeralda Alvarado
Kaleigh Catherine Chabra
Rachel Amanda Claus-Walker
Madeline Grace Crawford
Trisha Marie Fabijanic
Cynthia Paola Franco
Marissa Renee Gibbs
Megan Kathleen Irwin
Cheyenne Nicole Merrick
Shannon Renee Miller
Kelsea Noelle Moore
Ryan Ng
Hunter William Noble
Foster E. Powers
McKenna Catherine Reinhard
Megan Elizabeth Richardson
Amelia Luisa Rosenberg
Ashley Lynn Sanders
Emily Danyale Shook
Myriah Sujansky
Savannah Elizabeth Templeton
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