2024 Commencement Ceremony

Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design 2024

Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

2024 Commencement Ceremony

Barnhill Arena, University of Arkansas

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Program

Processional March

Welcome Dean MacKeith

“National Anthem”

Welcome on Behalf of Morgan Clupka the Graduates

Recognition of the Dean MacKeith Golden and Silver Graduates

Special Recognitions, Dr. Goodstein-Murphree Awards and Honors

Senior Scholar Address Jared Davenport

Introduction of Dean MacKeith Commencement Speaker

Commencement Address Cathleen McGuigan

Awarding of the Degrees Dean MacKeith

Landscape Architecture Prof. McCown

Interior Architecture and Design Prof. Matthews

Architecture Prof. Folan

Closing Remarks and Dean MacKeith Announcements

Recessional March

The Official Party

Peter B. MacKeith

Dr. Ethel Goodstein-Murphree Dean Associate Dean

Dr. Jennifer Webb

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor Assistant Dean for Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs Diversity, Equity, and

Inclusion

John Folan

Carl W. Matthews Department Head, Department Head, Architecture Design Interior Architecture and

Design

Ken McCown

Cathleen McGuigan Department Head, Editor in Chief, Landscape Architecture Architectural Record, 2011-

Jared Davenport Morgan Clupka Senior Scholar Senior Scholar Architecture Interior Architecture and

Design 2022

Commencement Speaker

Cathleen McGuigan

Critic and editor Cathleen McGuigan was the Editor in Chief of Architectural Record from 2011 to 2022. Under her leadership, the magazine won numerous editorial awards, including the Grand Neal Award, the top honor for business-to-business publications. She began her journalism career at Newsweek, where she rose to become the architecture critic and the arts editor. In addition to Newsweek and Architectural Record, her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian and Rolling Stone, among other periodicals.

McGuigan received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and spent a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow. She has been honored as a Poynter Fellow at Yale University and by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as well as by the New York Professional Women in Construction and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Skyscraper Museum in New York.

She is currently working on independent editorial projects, including a biography of the critic Aline Saarinen.

Senior Scholars

Jared Davenport Bachelor of Architecture

Jared Davenport, a native of Texarkana, Texas, is graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture. Jared joined the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in the summer of 2020, right at the onset of the pandemic. During his time at school, he worked in the fabrication labs, assisted with the research of four different professors, and participated in numerous workshops led by pioneers in the field of architecture and design.

He served on the executive team for the American Institute of Architecture Students and Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society, and was a member of Freedom by Design and the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students. Additionally, Jared was a student at the Honors College and received the university’s Presidential Scholarship in 2022 and 2023. He has accepted a position at SCM Architects in Fayetteville, Arkansas, which he will start after graduation.

Morgan Clupka Bachelor of Interior Architecture and Design

Morgan Clupka, a first-generation college student from Siloam Springs, Arkansas, graduates with high distinction, earning a Bachelor of Interior Architecture and Design. During her time at the Fay Jones School, her work was selected to be showcased in the 2024 Spring ELEVATE Exhibition in Little Rock, Arkansas, and her group’s neighborhood design was chosen for construction in Sheridan, Arkansas. Her work was also featured in the school’s Speculations 2024 Spring Exhibition, and her group received an honorable mention for their 2024 IDEC Competition submission. Leading up to graduation, Morgan was awarded the Medal of Excellence for Interior Architecture and Design and was recognized by the Arkansas Alumni Association as a Senior of Significance.

Outside of class, Morgan served as a teaching assistant for four different courses and worked in the Materials Lab in the Fay Jones School. During her summers, Morgan studied abroad in Rome, Italy, and worked for Hollis & Miller Architects in Kansas City, Missouri. These experiences, combined with her academic achievements, have pushed her to grow as an individual and allowed her to flourish. Upon graduation, Morgan plans to join WER Architects/Planners in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She believes that the school has provided her with a strong foundation for success, and she is forever grateful for the faculty, staff, and students who have made her time at the school so impactful.

Special Recognitions

Fay Jones School Academic Honors

Alpha Rho Chi Medal

For the final-year student who has shown leadership ability, performed willing service for the school and demonstrated promise of professional merit through attitude and personality

Kerrigan Servati (ARCH)

Michael J. Buono Sustainability Medal

For the advanced or graduating student who has demonstrated the greatest concern in design studios, cognate courses and the community for environmental, ecological and energy conservation issues.

Tristan Lewis (LARC)

Architecture Academic Honors

AIA Medal for Academic Excellence

For the first-ranked, final-year architecture student in recognition of scholastic achievement, character, leadership and promise of high professional ability

Jared Davenport

Barbara C. Crook Medal

For the final-year students who have achieved the highest record in coursework in the architectural technology group

Jared Davenport Andrew Verkler

C. Murray Smart Medal

For the final-year architecture student or students with the highest scholastic record in the study of history and theory of architecture

Maddox Townsend

Edward Durell Stone Medal

For the final-year architecture student with the highest overall grade point average in design studio work

Jared Davenport

Herbert K. Fowler Medal

For the third-, fourth-, or fifth-year architecture student who demonstrates outstanding hand drawing skills, excellent conceptualization of interior spaces and volumes, especially as they relate to human interaction, and successfully incorporates classic principles of proportion and balance into the design of modern architecture

Caitlyn Reilly

John G. Williams Joy of Architecture Medal

For the graduating senior who exhibits a devotion to the profession and a positive work ethic, and who demonstrates promise of professional success

Virginia Hammond

Mort Karp Medal

For the fifth-year student who has demonstrated the greatest concern for social, cultural and behavioral issues as they relate to design

Sarah Halldorson

Interior Architecture and Design Academic Honors

Interior Design Medal of Excellence

For the first-ranked, final-year interior design student in recognition of scholastic achievement.

Morgan Clupka

Interior Design Medal for Excellence in Material Exploration

For a final-year interior design student who has demonstrated curiosity, research capabilities, creativity and sophisticated application of materials in studio design projects

Kristin Rapach

Interior Architecture and Design Medal for Advocacy Through Design

For the final-year student who has demonstrated passion for advocacy of underrepresented groups through design and research

Lacey Oxford

Interior Architecture and Design Medal for Sustainable Design

For the final-year student who has demonstrated commitment to issues of sustainable design

Sophie Forrer

Awarding of the Degrees

Bachelor of Architecture

Valeria Alba Sanchez

Abigail Grace Archibald High Distinction

Asher Ayati

Callie Barnett

William Brookover

Rube Carrigan

Nicolas Chaney

John Phillip Conrad

Ella Grace Cook

Nathan Crofts Cum Laude

Lauren Brooks Danley High Distinction

Jared Davenport Summa Cum Laude

Nicholas Pasquale DeLuca

Brendan Tyler Douglas

Saxon Greer Ewalt

Matthew Findlay Distinction

Raquel Gamboa Livas Distinction

Vincent Matthew Gemmiti III Cum Laude

Victor Gonzalez

Sarah Halldorson Cum Laude

Virginia Hammond Magna Cum Laude

Aubrey Hardcastle High Distinction

Jackson Harris Distinction

Olivia Harris High Distinction

Kayla Hart High Distinction

Will Hedges

David Benjamin Hoff

Nicholas Hurley Cum Laude

Chloe Jones Distinction

Jaxon Reid Jordan Distinction

Mason Keener Summa Cum Laude

John Kennedy

Karsen Koziol

Anthony Alexis Mancia

Cade McCullough

Jennifer Morehart Cum Laude

Quincy Mae Munsell High Distinction

James Morris Muse III

Keelyn Elizabeth O’Malley

Jacob Peery

Enrique Angel Perez Garcia

Emma Taylor Petersen Distinction

Isaiah Reeder

Caitlyn Reilly High Distinction

Kaitlyn Marie Rhinehart Distinction

Michael Schmidt Cum Laude

Kerrigan Faith Servati Magna Cum Laude

Maddox Townsend Summa Cum Laude

Andrew Brycen Verkler Magna Cum Laude

Alexander White Cum Laude

James Williams

Jubal Young

Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies

Zenic Rice

David Schrouf

Bachelor of Interior Architecture and Design

Justin Allen Anderson

Riley Brevard

Hannah Michaela Buskin

Faron Clayton

Morgan Ann Clupka Highest Distinction

Jason Cote Distinction

Tatem Criner Magna Cum Laude

Amanda Crow

Logan Cully

Sophia Deckelman

Corinne Ashley Douglas Distinction

Audrey Eisenberg

Emma Sinclaire Elkman

Jackson Fisher

Sophie Nichole Forrer Highest Distinction

Lily Gillihan

Bailey Jewel Going Distinction

Hollie Lynne Goins

Caitlin Elizabeth Hagedorn Distinction

Chloe Hendrick

Eden Aiyana Isbell Cum Laude

Anna Beth Jeane

Alexa Knopp

Emily Lang

Madison Laxton

Ally Jean Lemons Distinction

Zade Mahler

Madison Kara Miles High Distinction

Myah Naomi Mobbs

Mia Moorhead Highest Distinction

Angelique Moulin

Kaitlin Musgraves

Hayley Nape Distinction

Lyndi Belle Nau

Mary Newberry

Dora Liliana Ortiz

Lacey Oxford Magna Cum Laude

Reagan Phillips

Abigail Jalyn Price Distinction

Isabel Provisor Lemery Magna Cum Laude

Kristin Rapach Cum Laude

Joan Reiber Distinction

Evelyn Anne Ritter

Meagan Roberson

Anna Robinson

Lauren Olivia Robinson Distinction

Jennifer Sandoval-Salinas Magna Cum Laude

Payton Christein Schoester

Honor Jessica Swan

Payton Renee Thompson

Catherine VanHoose Cum Laude

Madison Wells Distinction

Angel Williams High Distinction

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Andreia Alfaro

Klayton Bowen

Jesse Ronald Light

Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architectural Studies

Tristan Lewis

Ethel

Goodstein-Murphree Associate Dean

Melinda Smith Director of Student Services

Michelle Parks Director of Communications

Carol Rowser Assistant Dean for Administration

Kendall Vermilion Special Events Manager

Sheri Lynn Brown Senior Academic Counselor

Madeline Bray Coordinator for Student Recruitment

Rachel Callahan Creative Services Manager

Tara Ferkel Communications Specialist

The Fay Jones School community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the Spring 2024 Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design Commencement Ceremony a success.

Congratulations to the Class of 2024!

Unless otherwise noted, students listed in the Commencement program are candidates for graduation. Appropriate degrees and honors will be awarded following Commencement to the candidates who successfully complete all requirements. This is not an official list of graduates.