May 3–4, 2024
111th Commenc ement
Welcome From the President
Welcome to Rice University’s 111th Commencement ceremony! Today, the entire Rice community comes together to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of the graduating classes of 2024. These students include those receiving bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. The faculty and staff of Rice are privileged to have played a part in educating such outstanding scholars.
These students will go on to achieve great things and make notable contributions to our world. They will be engaged citizens in a wide variety of endeavors. And, they will seek and find solutions to some of society’s most challenging problems.
Our graduate students receiving their degrees emerge well-prepared for their professions and for making intellectual and creative contributions and discoveries. Our undergraduate students who receive their degrees will symbolically complete their journeys at Rice by exiting through the same Sallyport that they entered when they matriculated as new students. All of our students have grown as scholars and responsible citizens. We are confident the education they have received and the lessons they have learned during their time at Rice have prepared them well for the opportunities that lie ahead.
We extend an especially warm welcome to family members and friends who are joining our students on this special day. Many of you have traveled great distances to celebrate the achievements of your loved one. We know your presence means so much to them, and we hope that the day is deeply meaningful for you as well. We thank you for the support and encouragement you have given them.
The presence of our trustees, faculty, staff and alumni at Commencement demonstrates the pride that our entire university has in these distinguished new graduates. We wish them well in the next chapter of their lives, and we hope they will return to visit their alma mater.
With warm wishes for a bright future,
Reginald DesRoches President
2024 Degree Recipients
The recipients whose names are listed hereafter completed their degrees in August 2023, or December 2023 or are scheduled to complete degree requirements in May 2024. The information about degrees printed in this program is not official. Inquiries regarding graduates of the university should be directed to the registrar.
Doctor of Philosophy
AUGUST 31, 2023
Arzeena Sultana Ali Chemistry
Sydney Marie Allen
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Jacob L. Beckham
Chemistry
Alan Cavido Cabrera
Bioengineering
Sihan Chen
Physics and Astronomy
Crystal Brooke Clark
English
Akshat Dave
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Sonia Marie Del Hierro
English
Rishab Dutta
Chemistry
Christopher Martin Flynn
Bioengineering
Bowen Fu
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Daniel John Gorczynski
Biosciences
Niklas Gross Chemistry
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Alec Joseph Ajnsztajn
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Aaron I. Bayles
Chemistry
Benjamin Belzer
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Issam Ben Moallem
Mechanical Engineering
Lucas Hildebrand
Pires da Cunha
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Katie Joanna Hogan
Bioengineering
Sarah Tucker Irons
Psychological Sciences
Christian Robert Jacobson Chemistry
Prashant Bharadwaj
Kalvapalle
Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology
Safiya Khalil
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Ali Zein Khater
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Lingkun Kong
Computer Science
Abigael Jesang Kosgei
Biosciences
Santhoshi Navaneetha Krishnan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kunhua Lei Chemistry
Jinxin Lu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Li Chieh Lu Biosciences
Xiaoyu Lu
Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology
Lina Luo
Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Michael Marolf
Chemistry
Nicolas Sebastian Marquez
Peraca
Physics and Astronomy
Gary Cayden McDonald
Political Science
Randi Taylor McInerney
English
Kelly Alicia McKisson
English
Armando Moreno
Biosciences
Sunny Niu
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Jackson Stone Borchardt
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Robert Anthony Brienza
Physics and Astronomy
John Chen
Computer Science
Yu Chen
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Yujie Chen
Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology
Joshua Philip Chu
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Shabnam Daghaghi
Electrical and Computer Engineering
DeAnna Monique Daniels
Religion
Adrienne Ange Rooney
Art History
Roslyn Ayanna Shanklin
Psychological Sciences
Alex Joseph Veglia
Biosciences
Bo Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Cameron Ronald Wolfe
Computer Science
Tsz Chun Wu
Physics and Astronomy
Kevin Michael Wyss
Chemistry
Zhaozhuo Xu
Computer Science
Fan Yang
Computer Science
Liyang Zhang
Biosciences
Kaixiong Zhou
Computer Science
Peng Zhu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Meghan Kathleen Davenport
Psychological Sciences
Youyuan Deng
Applied Physics
Oliver Scott Dewey
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Eva Dicker
Psychological Sciences
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Doctor of Philosophy,
Chen Dun
Computer Science
Shayok Dutta
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Learned Michael Foote
Religion
Yilei Fu
Computer Science
Yunan Gao
Statistics
Theodor Maxwell
Gerrard-Anderson Chemistry
Kimberly Virgia Jones History
Donghoon Kang Biosciences
John Tyler Lazar
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Claudia Viridiana Leyva Aranda Chemistry
Geng Li
Mechanical Engineering
Wenbin Li
Applied Physics
Yimin Lin
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
MAY 4, 2024
Rohan Adhikari Sridhar
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Samira Aghlara-Fotovat
Bioengineering
Fatima Ahsan
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Salma Alhashim
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Fatima Tayseer Alrashdan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brandon Cooper Alston
Computational Applied
Mathematics and Operations
Research
Baiyang Liu
Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology
Jiawei Lu
Bioengineering
Weiqi Lu
Physics and Astronomy
Cecilia Martinez Jimenez
Chemistry
Srdan Milakovic
Computer Science
Leelook Min
Economics
Joshua Alan Moore Biosciences
Gopal Narmada Naidu
Applied Physics
Zoey Rosalind Neale Biosciences
Miguel Angel Ortiz Salazar Biosciences
Suguru Otani
Economics
Athanasios
PapastathopoulosKatsaros
Chemistry
Maria Jose Pelaez Soni
Applied Physics
Rawand M. Rasheed
Mechanical Engineering
Amir Arabzade
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Anton Reza Banta
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Sergio Barrios
Bioengineering
Sagarika Basak
Physics and Astronomy
Elizabeth Robin Blackert
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Pedro Brandao Dias
Ferreira Pinto
Biosciences
Jessica Lauren Bray
Anthropology
Ivan Rosa de Siqueira
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Yavuz Savsatli
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Cory Schwarz
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Qiran Shao
Economics
Xinting Shuai
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Aldo Stefano Spatafora
Salazar
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Tewodros Belete Taffese
Psychological Sciences
Jordan R. Wagner
Mechanical Engineering
Zhuang Wang
Computer Science
Igor Westphal
Economics
Steven Michael Williams
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Wangfei Yang
Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology
Phylicia Xin Yi Lee Brown Sociology
Jeanine M. Campsall Philosophy
Kendall Marie Capshaw
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Paola Cascante-Bonilla Computer Science
Brendan Anthony Celii
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Caleb Chang
Biosciences
Linyi Chen
Business
Zhi Yang
Chemistry
Ziyan Yang
Computer Science
Zhanghao Yu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Baoyi Zhang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Hongyi Zhang
Physics and Astronomy
Runhua Zhang
Computer Science
Wei Zhang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Yousen Zhang
Physics and Astronomy
Xuan Zhao
Applied Physics
Jingan Zhou
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xiangnan Zhou
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Yuhui Zhu
Mechanical Engineering
Yunxuan Zhu
Physics and Astronomy
Wenwan Chen
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yu-Kuan Chen
Economics
Zhiyu Chen
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jaihee Choi
Statistics
Sung Hun Chung
Business
Nina Elisabeth Cook
English
Kristen Danielle Curry
Computer Science
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Doctor of Philosophy,
Alejandro Nicolas Diaz
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Sara Edelman-Munoz Mathematics
Mohammadamin Edrisi
Computer Science
Emily Taylor Elia Political Science
Erin Marie Euliano Bioengineering
Parker Gage Evans Mathematics
Sophia Judith Farrell Physics and Astronomy
Adam Cyrus Farsheed Bioengineering
Austin King Fehr
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Yicheng Fei
Physics and Astronomy
Lucas Garcia Camargo Bioengineering
Parker Taittinger Gardner
Physics and Astronomy
Andrea Montserrat Garza Elizondo Biosciences
Konstantin Georgiev Anthropology
Cedric Jonathan Ginestra
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jacob Hampton Goell
Bioengineering
Maria Victoria Granja Oramas
Mechanical Engineering
Dejan Grubisic
Computer Science
Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology
Gaurav Gupta
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiding Han
Physics and Astronomy
Maureen Siobhan Haver Anthropology
Yan He
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ze He
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jin Hou
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Yi Hou
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Qinyou Hu
Economics
Hana K. Jaafari
Applied Physics
Hunter Paul Jacobs
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Vijay Vedhan Jayanthi Harikrishnan
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Yujie Jiang Statistics
Lingbo Jin
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kshipra Shyam Kapoor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mohammad Hossein Khalili Samani
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Marcos Ki Hyung Lee
Economics
Xiangyu Kong Biosciences
Rachael Nicole Kress
Chemistry
Nathaniel James Kroeger
Computational Applied
Mathematics and Operations Research
Samuel Andrew Kroger
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Marc-Ansy Laguerre
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bishal Lamichhane
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Aurelius Sereno
Laroche Biosciences
Chenxi Li
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Yifeng Liu
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Yunxi Liu
Computer Science
Zejian Liu
Statistics
Zichang Liu
Computer Science
Dana Marie Lobmeyer
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Kevin Patrick Lorch
Bioengineering
Sen Lu
Economics
Lorenzo Luzi
Electrical and Computer Engineering
James Alexander
Manchester
Mathematics
Kelly Jo Neubauer
Physics and Astronomy
Hoai Nam Nguyen
Statistics
Thao Vy Vo Nguyen
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Yui Nishimura
Political Science
Mingzi Niu
Economics
Andrea Padron
Biosciences
Geoffrey Raymond Pears
Business
Cassandra Nicole Phetmisy
Psychological Sciences
Brett Harris Pogostin
Bioengineering
Longyi Qi
Computer Science
Shahryar Ramezani
Bajgiran
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nicolae Sapoval
Computer Science
Zhambyl Shaikhanov
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dan Shan
Art History
Chuqiao Shi
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Joshua Tyler Smith
Philosophy
Matthew Eugene Robert Southey
Religion
Claire Elizabeth Spadafora
Art History
Thomas Y. Sun
Statistics
Fu Yang Tay
Applied Physics
Mohammad Taha Toghani
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kathleen Marie Ulrich Anthropology
Jiayu Wan Mathematics
Xin Wang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Xingya Wang
Mathematics
Logan Tyler Wigglesworth
Philosophy
Zachary Thomas Wooten
Statistics
Felix Yanyi Wu
Psychological Sciences
Zhi Yan
Computer Science
Le Tracy Yu
Chemistry
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Doctor of Philosophy, continued
Rachel Elizabeth Zahn Psychological Sciences
Iryna Zaporozhets Chemistry
Hongzhi Zeng Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Hao Zhang Applied Physics
Doctor of Musical Arts
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Osip Nikiforov Music
MAY 4, 2024
Evie Chen Music
Maxwell James Geissler Music
Seolyeong Jeong Music
Samuel Park Music
Master of Arts
AUGUST 31, 2023
Dallin Taylor Arnold Chemistry
Alex Tomas Balsells Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Kishan Mukesh Bhakta Political Science
Ryan John Block Political Science
Bruno Buccalon Caruso History
Kamri Sue Call Business
Manuel Carmona Pichardo Chemistry
Brett Taylor Carollo Religion
Alina Chow Chemistry
Jerrell Cockerham Mathematics
Nkili Louise Cooper History
Parmeet Kaur Dhindsa Chemistry
Sukanya Dutta Chemistry
Brian E. Funk Chemistry
Emil Niall Gillett Chemistry
Eric Jordan Gomez Chemistry
Hassan Xavier HendersonLott
Religion
Asha Alexandria Jones Political Science
Yongyi Zhao Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jingyi Zhou Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Elizabeth Stepina Zinn
Art History
Hengxing Zou
Biosciences
Jacob Daniel Sandridge Music
Cheng Hao Wu Music
Daniel Alexander Zlatkin Music
Conner Bryan Joyce Political Science
Tabitha E. Koch Political Science
Emily A. Lampert History
Jiamu Lin Chemistry
Rui Liu Chemistry
Mai Lootah Religion
Yuya Nakatani Chemistry
Olivier Peloquin History
Ebony Tabitha Perez Mathematics
Summer Lind Perritt History
Daniel E. Pinto Talero Philosophy
Andres Benjamin Sanchez Alvarado Chemistry
Hunter Sarnelli Mathematics
Patricia Colleena Thornton Philosophy
Jixin Wang Statistics
Zachary Thomas Wooten Statistics
Yuchen Xing Chemistry
Shijin Yu Chemistry
Mengxi Zhang Chemistry
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Master of Arts, continued
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Kayla Rene Clark
Psychological Sciences
Melissa Cloutier
Psychological Sciences
Quinn Forest Georgic
Anthropology
Monika Agnieszka Jankowska Anthropology
MAY 4, 2024
John Matthew Allison
Religion
Patrick John Blonien Business
Cinthia Carvalho Dalcin
Political Science
Jagriti Chatterjee Chemistry
Fabrizio Chavez
Psychological Sciences
Yu-Kuan Chen
Economics
Jaihee Choi
Statistics
Sung Hun Chung Business
Karyssa Alyson Courey
Psychological Sciences
Hongbin George Du Business
Sara Edelman-Munoz Mathematics
Parker Gage Evans Mathematics
Jacob Garrett Kesten
Mathematics
Maria Fernanda Morales Calva
Psychological Sciences
Christine Marie Petersen
Psychological Sciences
Maxwell Scott Plummer Mathematics
Rigoberto Quintana Anthropology
Karen Lee Siu
English
Chenhang Wang
Chemistry
Ruoxin Wang Art History
Yixian Wang
Chemistry
Lixin Zhou Chemistry
Saxton Duke Fisher
Chemistry
Alejandra Gonzalez Mejia
Political Science
Zheng He Political Science
Matthew Robert Holter Religion
Trang Thi Thao Huynh
Political Science
Sho Izumisawa
Political Science
Raven Shanelle Johnson
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Maranda Leigh Joyce Political Science
Aysenur Karagoz
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Marcos Ki Hyung Lee Economics
Jose Antonio Lara Benitez
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Zejian Liu
Statistics
Zihao Liu
Mathematics
Sen Lu
Economics
Heidi Munson Philosophy
Taylin Paige Nelson
English
Sarah Ruth Nicholls Mathematics
Asahi Obata
Political Science
Geoffrey Raymond Pears Business
Agustin Eugenio Miguel Prinetti
Political Science
Brenna Marie Ram
English
Makai Amaya Ruffin
Psychological Sciences
Dillon Stewart
Psychological Sciences
Kaitlyn Margaret Stewart
Psychological Sciences
Maxwell Suffis
Philosophy
Thomas Y. Sun
Statistics
Charles Robert Weeks
Psychological Sciences
Elizabeth Stepina Zinn Art History
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Master of Science
AUGUST 31, 2023
Hossein Babaei
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Burak Bilgin
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gabriella Pauline Gagliano
Applied Physics
Thomas Elliot Herring
Computer Science
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Autumn Rose Bruncz
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Haimu Cao
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matthew YC Cheung
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicholas Alexander Curtis
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Lucas John Eddy
Applied Physics
Sean Michael Farrell
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yifu Jin
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hyunjin Ko
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Mahsan Abbasi
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elsa Yolanda Acosta
De Anda
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Suhail Adel Aldhurais
Applied Physics
Bryant Beau Jerome
Applied Physics
Thomas Aidan Keller
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Shusen Liao
Applied Physics
Tyler Nelson
Applied Physics
Ciril Samuel Prasad
Applied Physics
Yuhao Liu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Daiyi Luo
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Paul Michael Mayer
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emory Isaac Mckenzie
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Melvalean McLemore-Catina
Architecture
Georgia Christina Nelson
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Brian Christopher Noble II Applied Physics
Matthew Clayton-Nelson Parker
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Qing An
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ali Abbas Attarwala
Mechanical Engineering
Sadie Nicole Brasel
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
William Mark Schmid
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gregory Mark Szypko
Physics and Astronomy
Mohammad Taha Toghani
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Ai-Shi Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Durnian Chen Chang Li
Parulski-Seager
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Delaram Pirhayatifard
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xiaokun Teng
Physics and Astronomy
Catherine Anne Tuppen
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Weinan Wang
Applied Physics
Xielin Wang
Applied Physics
Emily Ann Wilcox
Architecture
Joshua Woods
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Adam Teofil Broshkevitch
Mechanical Engineering
Eliana Cadena Semanate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Samuel David DeBartolo
Architecture
Bing Yuan
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Yongan Zhang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mingfei Xu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Victor Solomon Yip
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Han Yu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ziqin Yue
Applied Physics
Bin Zhao
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yunxuan Zhu
Physics and Astronomy
Nicarao Laertes Delgado
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ricardo Espinoza
Masbernat
Applied Physics
Peikun Guo
Computer Science
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MAY 4, 2024
Master of Science,
Zijing Guo
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Yiding Han
Physics and Astronomy
Nina Pixie Inman
Physics and Astronomy
Simon Kiang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wesley Wayne Leung
Applied Physics
Kris Songyue Li
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tao Li
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Siyang Ling
Physics and Astronomy
Jaime Antonio Mendoza
Gonzales
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Adan Joel Mireles
Applied Physics
Evan Stuart Noce
Mechanical Engineering
Noah Michael Pritchard
Mechanical Engineering
Master of Bioengineering
AUGUST 31, 2023
Jing Xiao
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Kahan Kamlesh Bhadani
Clark Bonham
MAY 4, 2024
Jose Pablo Angulo Carvajal
Santiago Aparicio
Alejandra Barragan
Sarah Blau
Vikram Girish Chavare
Katherine Leskin Danko
Hannah Delatte
Yu-Tung Lin
Ashley McFarlane
Nicholas Proietti
Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Chase Puckett
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maria Raquel Rodriguez
Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Sandra Emi Sato Imuro
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yingchu Sun
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Benjamin C. Utzinger
Mechanical Engineering
Yaofeng Xie
Physics and Astronomy
Mehdi Zafari Dehkohneh
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicolás Martín
Zilberstein Sr.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Irfan Zobayed
Mechanical Engineering
Navaneeth Pravin
Travis Jefferson Dowd
Abigail Grace Dowse
George Izuchukwu
Ezeokeke
Bingru Feng
Jair Aden Gonzalez
Zohaib Iqbal
Siddharth Shashikant
Jadhav
Sydney Christina Kepler
Qiaochu Liu
Emily Catherine Murray
Ravikiran Nataraj
Sarah Nicole Piper
Ana Maria Saucedo Saucedo
Devon Suske
Alejandro Gabriel Valdez
Nola Isabelle Wilson
Jeff Young
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Master of Chemical Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Rodrigo Galeano Herrera Wei Tung Hsu
MAY 4, 2024
Minshu Chen
Reba Georgetown Yoseob Kim
William Isherwood Phat Thanh Nguyen
Ameya Pradeep Tambe
Charles Levesque Yifan Li Justin McLean Sharp
Pratyush Roy Sridhar Jianing Tang
Christine Elizabeth Varvitsiotis Chihua Wang
Master of Civil and Environmental Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Zhijun Jiang Pablo Menendez
MAY 4, 2024
Samson Daniel Hoffman Wanson Sylvain
Master of Computational and Applied Mathematics
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Mukunda Krishna Sankalapuram
MAY 4, 2024
Brandon Cesar Isensee
Yizhe Wang
Kiara Alinda Richardson Qi Xiao Xiaofeng Xu
Yiling Xia
Weijie Zhou
Master of Computational Science and Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Yinqi Chang
Matthew Lewis Goree
MAY 4, 2024
Chu An Hsiao Haoyang Li
Changhe Ji Zhongrui Wang
Siling Liu
Dongsheng Yao
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Master of Computer Science
AUGUST 31, 2023
Mohamed AlArayedh
Xunmin Guo
Haitao Lu
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Ahmad Mazen Azizieh
Hunena Saeed Badat
Utkarsh Bahuguna
Xinyuan Cai
Jiaming Cao
Tianyu Cao
Pramod J. Chandrasekhar
Jingze Chen
Yin Chen
Yu-Chia Chen
Yun Han Chen
Fangming Cheng
Ren-kai Cheng
Ting-Chien Cheng
Zhengtian Chu
Gaole Dai
Zhirun Deng
Atharva Kailas Deshpande
Siqi Ding
Chengpeng Dong
Omoikhefe Chinasa
Eboreime
Jiaxin Fan
Tianling Feng
Tianhong Gao
Jiashuo Ge
Jieyun Guan
Joshua A. Haddick
Jiaqi He
Shuo Hou
Ming-Hsuan Hsieh
Shu-Chuan Hsu
MAY 4, 2024
Brian Jennings Batchelor
Sicheng Cao
Kareem El-Sadi
Amee Jo Hill
Hemanth Kumar Jayakumar
Runqi Jiang
Viswanath Reddy Kasireddy
Yiyuan Lee
Hao Meng
Ke Tang
Renxiang Tang
Chao-Hua Huang
Ge Huang
Yewen Huang
Yi-Hsuan Huang
Dongming Jiang
Bang-Yen Kao
Hao-Lun Kao
Harshit Khanna
Sumukh Bharadwaj Koride
Jie Kuang
Ruiqi Kuang
Zhanglin Kuang
Ishita Kundaliya
Yu Hsuan Kuo
Yuan-Jhe Kuo
Runping Lai
Yaojun Lai
Tian Lan
Yueh Che Lee
Dingrui Lei
Alexander Sitong Li
Ang Li
Dongwei Li
Jiehui Li
Jinlin Li
Shuxin Li
Zitong Li
Jingtao Lin
Yi-Chang Lin
Ziang Ling
Kang-Tzu Liu
Xiaoyuan Liu
Guancheng Li
Qifeng Li
Chang Liu
Heather Sharon McIntyre
Hao Qin
Xingcheng Ren
Aaron Emanuel Rodriguez
Ayush Sachdeva
Tyler Dillon Williamson
Yilai Yan
Lei Zhang Fahim Zubayer
Xinyuan Liu
Yuanning Liu
Zhao-Wei Liu
Yu-Tung Lo
Ting Lou
Zhenmin Lu
Zhewen Lyu
Ao Ma
Wenze Ma
Keaton G. Parkinson
Jiapeng Pei
Caroline Schaefer Plaisance
Haitao Shen
Junyang Shen
Po-Cheng Shih
Po-Yu Shih
Avi Singhal
Jiangqi Su
Zhengyu Sun
Xuwei Tan
Yu-Hsi Teng
Benson Thomas
Haoliang Tian
Shraiysh Vaishay
Apoorv Walia
Danyu Wang
Hao-Jen Wang
Jiawei Wang
Ruochen Wang
Yankai Wang
Hung-Chieh Wu
Mengkun Wu
Jiayi Song
Catalina Spjut
Alan Sun
Anitesh Reddy Surakanti
Lujie Tan
Ziang Tang
Akash Tarkunde
David Tereshchenko
Zeyu Wu
Tianqi Xia
Yudi Xia
Zile Xiao
Bowen Xu
Mingyi Xu
Jingbo Yang
Wesley Howard Yang
Meng-Chi Yu
Xuan Yu
Zeyang Yu
Yuan Yuan
Hanyou Zhang
Haochen Zhang
Hongming Zhang
Junhao Zhang
Letong Zhang
Muyang Zhang
Ziyi Zhao
Yanchong Zheng
Weijie Zhou
Zehong Zhou
Christopher Young Willingham
Fangge Xiong
Yufei Zhang
Ke Zhao
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Master of Data Science
AUGUST 31, 2023
Taylor Bryant Chambers
Samuel John Chapman
Benjamin Lewis Dowdell
Todd Marlett Engelder
Zhanibek Issabekov
Rhett Alan Johnson
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Vidya Shalini Bulusu
Minyu Chen
Xiaoyu Chen
Baichuan Chi
Mason Dooley
Noah James Keogh
MAY 4, 2024
Ibrahim Dare Abdulrahmon
Sharath Giri
Lindsey Nicole Jacobs
Ruslan Kharko
Christopher Martin Leinweber
Huafeng Liu
Andrew Paul Meaux
Seifey Usman Mohammad
Guoqing Ning
Nicolas Antonio Osa
Zarah Katrina Esteban Pulmano
Makamba Segua Sackey
Kyle Ryan Sneed
Nasim Taheri
Kimberly Villegas
Zida Wang
Diyaz Yespayev
Kaiwen Li
Zheran Li
Yiwei Lu
Ziheng Pan
Fan Qiao
Matias Seiji Romero
Israel I. Sierra
Xuezhan Sun
Huailin Tang
Quent Malcolm Titre
Risto Trajanov
Emaad Syed Ullah
Julian Vargas
Yanlin Wu
Patrick Bennett Yee
Jiazhang Yu
Qingxin Yuan
Yijun Zhou
Liuxiao Kang
Xiaoqiao Shi
Surya Sunil
Yuhan Wei
Samuel Michael Sawyer Welsh
Wanying Xu Ruizhe Zhang
Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Jie Gao
Yufei Gu
MAY 4, 2024
Max Aksel Bowman
Anyssa Bailey Castorina
Yihan Hong
Saif Bin Imran Khan
Cameron Kolbe Kramr
Yu Che Lin
Karan Venaik
Abdullah Zaher
Ye Zhou
Chen Huang
Luffina Chunhui Huang
Hsuan-You Lin
Jikun Lu
Rohitaa Ravikumar
Zikang Sheng
Luxi Zhu
Master of Engineering Management and Leadership
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Alexandra Rossana Calembe
da Silva Africano
Rakshith Reddy Gopidi
Yuanxiu Li
Yushi Liu
Sayali Anil Naik
Chidubem Stephen Ogele
Jeremy Daniel Payton
Harshita Prashar
Anubhav Rajauria
Chethana Ramesh
Piyusha Prashantrao
Shinde
Nagendra Singh
Yiran Xu
Yichen Zheng
Baixi Zhong
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Master of Engineering Management and Leadership,
continued
MAY 4, 2024
Sudith Ashokan Samuel De La Torre
Mishel Tatiana Garcia Vela Ahmad Issa
Walid Mouss Uthej Kumar Nakka
Master of Industrial Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Claudia Pedroza Lozano Fernando Dario Raverta
Beixian Gu Weixiao Liao Haocheng Pan Yangjiayu Qiu
MAY 4, 2024
Jacqueline Cabrera Fosado Songbo Du Joshua Aaron Yaffee Patricio Zorrilla Amaya
Master of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Yubing Chang
Tao Hu
MAY 4, 2024
Yifan Huang Haizhou Zhan
Husain Fakhruddinbhai Chhatariya
Xincheng Zhu Yongqi Zhuo
Master of Mechanical Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Chin Ting Kong
MAY 4, 2024
Daniel Alec Cohen
Alec David Dietz
Elmo Emmanuel Garza Ronen Oosthuizen
David Piersall
Ricardo A. Poveda Calderon
12
Master of Statistics
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Bingrui Chen
Yingen Megan Chew Jinglin Gao
MAY 4, 2024
Ziqi Dong Jiaxu Gao
Jiaowei Li Yuwen Liang Yihao Liao
Chuwei Lin Xueqi Lu Yaopeng Ma
Weitao Ran Xingliao Wan
Yangqianzi Jiang Youjin Kim
Ziting Tang Zilong Wang
Shaoyu Yan Xiaoyu Zhang
Master of Science in Applied Chemical Sciences
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Dhanushki Narmada Imaduwa Wickramarachchige
MAY 4, 2024
Yiming Guo
Master of Science in Bioscience and Health Policy
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Rahul Arvind Vanchinathan
MAY 4, 2024
Ninel Akhmadikina Ari Joshua Broussard Dilmi Achana Ranpatabendi Rong Shi
Master of Science in Energy Geoscience
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Gbemisola Adeyemi Afolabi Jonathan Matthew Membreno
MAY 4, 2024
Fortune Tolumofe Oyewole
Camille Lyn Pierce Sean J. Porter
Austin Lubbers Warren
13
Master of Science in Subsurface Geoscience
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Julio C. Enriquez
Master of Science in Environmental Analysis
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Salil Sudhir Puranik
MAY 4, 2024
Master of Science in Space Studies
AUGUST 31, 2023
Ricardo Javier Gonzalez
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Chase Leitner
MAY 4, 2024
Alec Hopkinson Creel
Aayushi Doshi
Jordan Robert Duhe Sarvesh Rashme Fotedar
Eric An-Cherng Peng Marco Salmaso Myrna Cosette Valenzuela Beltran
Master of Science Teaching
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Renum Saxena
14
Hoon Hee Han Joyce Yue Li
Master of Architecture
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Deandra Lee Smith
MAY 4, 2024
Rachel Atkinson
Anna Sophia Brancaccio
Alexander Crawford Burran
Candela Cicinelli
Paul A. DeFazio
Dante Rafael Gil Rivas
Gabriel Gomes Raymundo
Andrew Yuxuan Jiao
Lorraine Liu Kung
Master of Music
AUGUST 31, 2023
Daniel Juna Sidharta Leibovic
DECEMBER 30, 2023
James Ryan McCarthy
MAY 4, 2024
Demetra Alikakos
Luke Alonzo Walters Arnold
Judson Alexander Baines
Anna-Sofia Andrea Botti
Joshua Phillip Bullock
Lauren Briley Carroll
Qian Chang
Stephanie Hannah Chee
Caleb Walker Christiansen
Hannah Jane Corbett
Shannon Crowley Teixeira
Matthew DiTusa Daily
Katherine Naomi Danforth
Katherine Ann Dobbs
Oliver Dubon
Hannah Mae Duncan
Sophia Theresa Filippone
Ethan Rey Gonzalez
Soledad
Viviana Aurelia Goodwin
Sara Seungmin Han
Changchang Hao
Sofia Hashemi-Asasi
Annelise Haukenes
Jamison Ardain Hillian
Garri Hovsepyan
Yu bin Kim
Mihhail Kriiva
Connor Allen Landers
Erik Morgan Larson
Han Lee
Mengshen Li
Weilan Li
Daniela Machado
Rachel Anne Martin
Calvin Mayman
Conor Quinn McAvinue
Tessa Grace McQueen
Noah Kiprob Langat
Isabelle Nora NdoumyKouakou
Christopher Kemmon Sanders
Yufei Wang
Nicole Catherine Yip Juchen Zhang
Michael Austin Miller
Cordelia Lindsey Mutter
Kaia Astrid Nakamura
Adam C. Partridge
Alexis Pelton
Arutyun Piloyan
Emma Sydney Potter
Tian Qin
Dana Rath
Emily Sakurako Richardson
Camille Ibiza Robles
Angela Ryu
Augusta Lynn Schubert
Beautiful Pamela Nanett
Sheriff
Allison Elena Smith
Jihong Son
Jin Wook Suk
Cheae Yun Sung
Yein Hwa Tai
Hannah Grace Tassler
Chi Ting
Sophia Lynn Volpe
Chuwen Wang
Emma Grace Webb
Audrey Claire Welsh
Christopher Charles Witt
Alisha Marie Zamore
Michael John Zogaib
15
Artist Diploma in Music
MAY 4, 2024
Caitlin Elizabeth Aloia
Master of Accounting
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Miles Edward McCord
MAY 4, 2024
Kami Leigh Boutotte
Faye Lorraine Bruttell
Daniel Jin Cho
Jonathan Seth De La Cruz
Hector Maximuz Diaz
Mallary Lynn Frank
Alexis Nicole Freeman
Kelly Nicole Helms
Clancy Avalon Henson
Roger Manh Hoang
Aiza June Ishaq
Vanessa Lynn Johnson
Julie Daeun Jung
Jiao Aiden Kang
Moray Thomas Kelly
Lindsay Elizabeth Landry
Ian Myers Lundy
Courtney Fei Miller
Nafisa Zainab Nazeer
Marie Jong-Hyun Park
Mitchell Evan Parker
Samuel Carter Parker
Brooks Gordon Raby Yumeng Lily Ren
Master of Business Administration
AUGUST 31, 2023
Syed Yousuf Allauddin
Shea M. Baker
Selim John Baysal
James Aaron Boswell
Danny Daeyun Cha
Amaka Erin Chidozie
Michael-Paul Cokinos
Joseph McCuddy Culligan
Kevin Brice Doffing
Jose Adrian Duarte Diaz
April Lind Dunlevie
Kaitlyn Marie Flynn
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Aiyana Marie Adams
Joey McKay Adolf
Armando G. Agustin
Basil Fayez Alkoussari
Balaji Gurappa Allam
Abhik Banerjee
Paradees Rayhon Barona
Sapna Patel Hohman
Justin Wu Jiang
Amil Azim Kanji
Grace Kim
Jeffrey Alexander Kindschuh
Vladan Kozina
Dawei Liang
Grant Alexander McCary
Paul Reed Miracle
Muhammad Saad Nakhuda
Joshua James Obregon
Ihechiluru Charles Osueke
Nikita Ramesh Patel
Kejia Peng
Sean Philip Richards
Venkata Praveen Kumar Sadhu
Marlina Elena Sanchez
Carmen Saucedo
Harold Cecil Schuman
Tyler James Sheble
Eden Tzu-Han Sin
Isaac Smith
Kendall Louise Robertson
Erik Rodriguez
Natalie Stone
Tyler Edwin Strobel
Willa Tao
Jiamin Zhen
Justin T. Thai
Paul Robert Tomlinson
Christian Jon VanSickle
Tyler Scott Voyles
Xianliang Wang
Thomas Wieslaw
Nicholas Adam Wilson
Xiongtao Yang
Ye Bin Yoon
Keaton Buell Beck
Thomas Robert Burbank
Carlos Andres Casas De Leon
Samarjit Chakraborty
Hua Chen
Ogechi Chima
Alyssa Brooke ChinenMendez
Sheryl D. Collins
Emily Elizabeth Ann Corwin
Samuel Eugene Crawford
Reagan Leigh Creely
Antonio Luis Cruz
Maitray Vishwambhar Dixit
Justin Michael Dunlap
Anthony Christian Fehr
Megan Ziyue Wang Fung
Pearson Alexander Garnett
Charles Henry Garrett
Prithvi Govind
16
Master of Business Administration,
Drake Wagnon Greenwood
Yue Guo
Chase Deion Hacker
Heidi McLaren Hansen
Devin R. Harrigan
Olvin A. Hernandez Perez
Laura Kathleen Hicks
Itaru Hirai
Angelica Maria Hoyos
Erin Melissa Hulme
Veerendra S. Jadhav
Lyndel N. Johnson
Imran Khan
Hiroaki Kida
Sidney Robert King
MAY 4, 2024
Sarah Nicole Aboukhair
Keenan Adlai Abraham
Dylan Keith Adams
Sussy Aguirre
Sunjan Ahmed
Sonam Aidasani
Erhun Aiwerioghene
Olubunmi Olusola
Aiwerioghene
Nabil Akhtar
Shane Edward Albers
Vanessa Alejandro
David Robert Alldredge
Bukonla Shadiat Aloba
Benjamin Terrence Amisano
Nicholas Charles Anderson
Sean Paul Anderson
Bala Nataraj Anumalasetty
Swetambari Arabolu
Carlos Aranda González
Guerra
Brenda Paola Arguello
Christopher Paul Armstrong
Karla Deyanira Arriaga
Deepika Awasthi
Umut Aybar
Kayode Rasheed Ayinla
Jingjing Bai
Sarah Hanif Balagam
Rajesh Perumbavoor
Balasubramaniam
Glenn Arlen Ballard
Aishwarya Girish Bannore
Havalle Joseph Barazi
Stephen Anthony Barletta
Santhisri Kodali
Seung Ho Lee
Catherine Anne Levacy
Jason Wright Ligon
SriHarsha Magapu
Lipsa Mahapatra
Justin Wyatt Malbrough
Matthew Philip Manzano
Jeffrey Joseph McIntyre
Muhammad Umer Mirza
Sohail Ahmed Mohammed
Amy Lynn Morales
Colter Scott Morgan
Liam Ryan Morris
Nicholas Eugene Mueller
Robert Anthony Nelson
Adam Bradford Nielson
Olivia Raynice Norfleet
Ugochukwu Kelvin Nsaka
Braden Ellis Olson
Chinenye Oga Ozougwu
William David de Hoog
Pahl
Tom Harris Pappas
Delshi Patel
Alfonso Puente
Thomas Cyriac Puthettu
Gaurav Savaliya
Zhongkai Shen
Amy Lynn Silva
Michael Frank Barnhart
Rutwik Jagannath
Basavaraju
Nicole Marie Beittenmiller
Laetitia Beyegue Mafoma
Sameera Bhamidipati
Marwa Mujahid Bhatia
Karthik Kumar Reddy
Bhumireddy Singa Reddy
Vaishali Maganbhai Bhuvela
Christopher James Binkley
Emil Mathew Binny
Warda Binte Humayun
Derek Kyle Blewett
Bo Bo
Karan Bobal
Gizem Bolukbasi Aycicek
Jordan Matthew Boni
Venkata Sai Preetham Botta
Ann Louise Broostin
Anthony Austin Bucek
Michael Stanley Bucek
Brandon Glenn Burke
Mark Phillip Buscovich
Stephen Bradley Caldwell
Juan Antonio Calvo
April Sarah Cannon
Itzel Diaz Cantu
Omar Cantu
Steven Kirby Carroll
Jessica Faith Carter
Laura Kathryn Casey
Emely Reyes Castillo
Stefan Cavazos
Dayana Rocio Ceccovilli
Gurpreet Kaur Chahal
Jennifer Be Chang
Pharohl Lucas Charles
Jessica Alejandra Chavez
Hanyuan Che
Sumala Sai Cheedella
Tzy-Dong Kevin Chiu
Krittika Choudhary
John Stephen Chouinard
Kelly Michelle Christian
Victor Charles Cisneros
Katherine Rose Cohlmia
Andrew Robert Coit
Daniel W. Collins
Nicole Conforti
Zoraida Ceja Cordoba
Mario Ernesto Cordova
Christie Lynn Cornelius
Zachary Joseph Creamer
Jason Philip Crowe
Pranav Jayant Damle
Vincent Earl Dawkins
Eduardo De La Torre
Nathan Scott Deal
Jonathan Jovan Dehoyos
Christian Blair Delouche
Ryan Timothy Dempsey
Sachin Deora
Ryan Jack DePuit
Daniel Case DeRuiter
Varidhish Ranganath Desai
Jude Thomas deTar
Jonathan Shamus Determan
James Michael DeWitt
Amanda Marina Diaz
Ashim Kumar Singh
Seung Min Song
Alma Renee Sotelo Castro
Yulong Su
Roger Sun
Brittany Allemann Taylor
Geoffrey Lee Tordt
Anh P. Tran
Fatima Ahmed Vaid
Lu Wang
Laura Mary Kate Wellman
Brandan Allan West
Christina Wilson
Samuel Amos Wilson
Colin Dieter Woolums
Darik David Dillard
Nicholas Samuel Dodd
Eleanor Naa Anyemah Donkor
Michael R. Dotson
Ward Rolston Dudley
Daniel Leonard Dugan
Somasekhar Duggaraju
John Nolen Dukes
Robert James Corbett Dunbar
Holly Margaret Dunn
Duc Thanh Duong
David Paul Dupre
Goutam Duvvada
Hermin Monisha Edwin
Chidinma Elochukwu Ejim
Silver Kelechi Enyinnia
Amer Estefan
Misty Beth Fehler
Lavina Fernandes
Javier Ignacio Fernandez Gonzalo
Ayodeji Obafemi Frederick Ferreira
Troy Adam Gordon Fields
Ryan Patrick Flick
Karim Alexandre Fotso
Christopher James Frank
Derek Laurence Fry
Clayton Garner Fuller
Bhavesh Hardas Gadhavi
Valerie Marie Galvan
Denny Brian Garcia
Stephanie Garcia
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Master of Business Administration,
Elizabeth Evans Garrett
Lauren Elizabeth Gates
Claudia Elizabeth German
Danna Najat-Rihab Ghafir
Samuel Gene Gieseke
Jose Manuel Giovannetti
Jerrica Lynn Givens
Akhilesh Gogikar
Kyle Anthony Goncalves
Richard Kendall Gordon
Jahnavi Gudi
Fahad Gulzar
Aditya Gupta
Anjul Gupta
Chandan Gupta
Shiva Gupta
Jocelyn Gutierrez
Jessica Ann Hanson
Ehsan Ahmed Hashmani
Ali Haydar
Tareck Hani Haykal
Zhiyuan He
Augustus Jacob Helpert
Mary Caroline Hepner
Alberto Herrejon
Olavarrieta
Madison Danielle Hess
Andrew Anderson Hesterly
Wesley Houng
Justin Hover
Haleigh Howe
Yijiao Huang
Sanober Hussain
Daniel Jay Hwang
Shazia Iqbal
Zachariah Khaled Issa
Ryan Joseph Jagelsky
Tooba Jahangir
Simran Jaisinghani
David Jaurrieta Hinojos
Dinesh Kumar
Jayachandran
Raul Jimenez
Alexis Rae Johnson
Daniel Bruce Johnson
Srivatsa Jois
Colyn Gregory Jurek
William Zielke Kaetzer
Sharath Chandra Kalyanapuram
Subash K. Kannan
Mohamed Fahim Khalifa
Kevin Kim
Jasper Michael Knighten
Bolutife Kolawole
Kovida Koneru
Emma Anne Johnson Konet
David Braden Koogler
Akshay Kumar
Mohan Kumar
Nita Elizabeth
Kuttikandathil
Tushar Kumar Lakhmani
Jeremy Lawrence Larus
Keenan Edward Lashier
Adedoyin Adeleke Lawal
Kayla Rose Lawler
Angela Lawrence
Richard Eugene Lay
Dan Lazar
Khanh Vy Hong Le
Junho Lee
Koyau Lee
Ray Yun Jui Lee
Romain O. Lemoine
Jonathon Sean LeNeave
David Hersh Levy
Fei Li
Huiting Li
Sihan Liu
Ashwin Lohithakshan
Parambath
Rishabh Lohray
Aubrey Derick Love
Tarun Reddy Mabbu
Clayton Andrew Macalla
Karin Alexis Macias
Kenneth Jamal Malik
Soham Malik
Ana C. Mancera
Krishna Sharada Manne
Jianjun Mao
Sinean Karim Maredia
Feby K. Mathew
Victor H. Mathew
Kimberly Stone McCormack
David Bruce McLean
James Elliott McLean
Devin Lars Mehra
Brittney Renee Mekler
Sunil B. Meti
Anthony Samuel Miano
Adrienne Simone Miller
Katherine Mary Miranda
Sonia Yuri Miyazono
Sohini Reddy Modusu
Danish Momin
Fabricio Giardini Moretti
Matthew Robert Morones
Brandon Scott Morris
Russell Glenn Morris
Max Carlton Moxley
Joshua David Mrozack
Ryan Conor Mulvania
David Collins Murphy
Mitra Mehta Murthy
Andrew Michael Myers
Kiran Naushad Ally
Huy Hoang Nguyen
Thu Anh Nguyen
Tracy Jing Ning
Ian Alonzo Nobmann
Nellen Chika Nwaobasi
Jonathan Enyinna Nwogu
Alexandra Houston O’Brien
William Mcgowin Odom
Monisade Kikelade Ogunlana
Samuel Suhyun Oh
Orebowale Bolajoko
Okunoren
Motunrayo Oladokun
Ifunanya Cynthia Olalemi
Harold Andres Olaya Vargas
Xavaier C. Oliphant
Malesha Oliver
Ijeoma Nkeiruka Onianwa
Lina Margarita Osorio
Marin
Chidozie Stanley Osueke
Joshua Fredrick Owens
Jose Arturo Pacheco Nunez
Luis-Miguel Padilla
Ravi Kumar Pakalapati
David Edward Palmer
Ankit B. Patel
Jay Dinesh Patel
Sunny Patil
William Wallace Pecue
Gabriel David Pedigo
Diego Alvaro Pedrazas
Peter Felix Pelache
Allison Lynn Pelzel
Jaquelline Pena
Vilani Fernando Perera
Eric Stewart Perez
Gabriela Yarely Perez
Waquar Perwez
Peter Anh Tu Pham
Sreenivas Vikram Aditya Pillavella
Pranav Pokhrel
Alexandra Faye Post
Kristen Nicole Potts
Yamilli Prasad
Donovan Preston
Alok Priyadarshi
Paul Ben Provenza
Dhiraj Purswani
Nimotallahi I. Quadri
Roberto Carlos Ramirez
Karina Sandhya Orengo Rao
Amruta Ravan
Akshay Ravindra Kumar
Raywa Ravipati
Jonathan Jordan Ray
George Michael Reeves
Alexandra Leona Reid
Andreana Laura Rivera
Ashleigh Denise Rogers
Jennifer Wolf Rogers
Michael James Rogers
Delena Natanya Roper
Ryan James Rosecrans
Kirby Addison Ross
Samir Rostane
Sandip Roy
Ayushi Sahrawat
Jenna A. Saleh
Gustavo Andre Sanchez
Angela Shaddai Sanchez
Guerrero
Rayvonn Anthony Sanchez
Rodriguez Lee
Ana Marcela Santos Castro
Priyank Saxena
Jessica Mintz Scheps
Rebecca Ann Schulz
Zvi Selevan
Abhinav Sharma
Aishwarya Sharma
Molley Moses Sheriff
Aswita Madhava Shetty
Alexander Shim
Fernando Sierra Ibanez
Harpreet Singh
Shubham Singh
Aditya Singh Shekhawat
Kaitlin Laura Sivell
Alex Skufati
Carlyle Gorddon Small
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Master of Business Administration,
Lucas Dane Sneed
Scott Joseph Snodgrass
Karyn Lynn Snyder
Huichu Song
Megan Elizabeth Sparaco
Kalyn Mae Speck
Eric Scott Springmann
Jeffrey William Steines
Christopher James Stillwell
Andrea Nicole Suarez
Shriram Sukumaran
Hero Sultando
Wenqi Sun
Hari Prashanth Sundaram
Radha Ann Tamerisa
Malav M. Thakor
Tao Tian
Michael Tiong-Ee Ting
Ahmad Ali Tipu
Gabriel Trad
David Andrew Truhlar
McKinley Trusclair
Cassandra Nicole Turner
Tapovrat Tuteja
Akil Ali Umatiya
Ifeyinwa Francisca Unigwe
Robert Ross Urban
Inemesit Crystal Usoro
Saher Hashmani Vaid
Isha Vivek Vaishampayan
Shywin Vasanth
Sriram Vattipally
Daenera Marissa Vazquez
William Joseph Vedder
Aishwarya Veeranki
Leticia Velazquez
Kirithika Sundaram Venugopal
Karen Da Rocha O. Verboski
Jonathan Verswijver
Ismael Vilchis
Valeria Villafranca
Manikanta Voona
Na Wang
Shuo Wang
Ziquan Wang
Ashley Rachele Ward
Alexis Jade Weaver
Nathan Scott Weiss
Nathan Jay Werner
Tyler James Wight
Donicia Deshaun Williams
Emurode Rachel Williams
Matthew Fuller Williams
Master of Energy Economics
AUGUST 31, 2023
Ahmad Nasser A. Alkayraan
Janice Tiana Gaspar Martins
Ascenso
Christian Gustavo Bernardi
Berat Beran Camak
Yaoxi Chen
Honganni Duan
Ishmael Yaw Ferguson Eshun
Jing Ge
Andres Guggeri
Caleb Nathaniel King
Grace Stephanie Kplohi
Yaozuo Liu
Antonia Pagiaziti
Leslie Citlali Phillips
Justin Poole
Krishna Raj
Master of Arts in Global Affairs
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Justin Gooseberry
Master of Global Affairs
AUGUST 31, 2023
Erna Sóley Gunnarsdóttir
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Hadi Saleh A. Almansour
Elsharif Elhindi
Daniel Collins Williamson
Jonathan Andrew Wilson
Elizabeth Michele Windler
Andrew Skinner Wynn
Arshat Xembayev
Aquib Shaheed Yacoob
Shalini Singh Yadav
Qianhua Yan
Sarah Shanshan Yang
Derek Alan Yenzer
Evan Yin
Aaron Hongyi Yuan
Rimsha Zaki
Hang Zhou
Michael Bryan Zimmerman
Javier Ramirez Morales
Trim Ternava
Melissa Mackenzie Wallace
Mazin Abdullah Zareef
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Master of Global Affairs,
MAY 4, 2024
Anota Michelle Adekunle
Adan Aguinaga
Mohammed Al Juboori
Ekua Boakye-Mensah
William McCormick Braeger
Cameron Alexander Chottiner
Annie Demeter
Jee Yea Han
Praneel Paresh Jadav
Byron Louis LeFlore
Juma Otoviano
Herjy Macdonal Similien
Emmanuel Tilias
Zihan Xu
Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Human Factors
MAY 4, 2024
Alina Maria Arakal Shanle Longmire-Monford
Matthew Schwartz
Master of Industrial-Organizational Psychology
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Meridith Anne Townsend
MAY 4, 2024
Zainab Ali Agha
Maryam Khan
Chase Logan Siner
Natalie Vincent
Zhou
Master of Social Policy Evaluation
AUGUST 31, 2023
Lauren Adele Dawson
Evan Scott Foston
Olivia Rose Gonzalez
Sijie Huang
Yusra Kamal Ibrahim
Shangzhe Li
Efrata Mulugeta Mola
Adriana Sofia Oseguera Gamba
Solara Day Rosales
Erya Wang
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Master of Arts in Teaching
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Allison Danyelle Lohman
MAY 4, 2024
Alyssa Rebecca Davidson
Sara Jane Gage
Kimberley Ellen Harrison
Jose Alexander Maldonado
Eric Robert Murphy
Francisco Jose Rodriguez
Master of Liberal Studies
AUGUST 31, 2023
Troy D. Tabner
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Roberto Argentina
Rudy Dismuke
MAY 4, 2024
Sophia Burke Bemiss
Anne Slayton Doventry
Clayton Odom
David Jovani Vanegas
Olivia Yahaira Vega
Sarah Elise Young
Ling Zhu
Karl Van Gardner
Bachelor of Architecture
MAY 4, 2024
Preston Lawrence Branton
Tianle Chen
Yiying Chen
Yuxin Dai
Daniela Ennis
Gabriella Feuillet
Andrea L. Gomez
Yidong He
Denise Manley
Alan Jeffrey Tenenbaum
Xinyue Liu
Weisizhe Ma
Juhi Apurva Parikh
Alfonso Pelaez Rovalo
Yilin Ren
Andrea Rebeca Rubero
Jared Philip Snow
Christina Mei Zhou
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Camila Pia Sosa
Bachelor of Arts
AUGUST 31, 2023
Garrett Joseph Braden
Jack Bradley
DeBraylon Carroll
Abayomi O. Dada
David Alan Davisson
Tre’shon Dwayne Devones
Joshua Wesley Kearney
Ynez Hanson Kerley
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Chike Anthony Anigbogu
Benjamin P. Baker-Katz
Amy Elizabeth Barnett
Evan Samuel Berger
William Fuller Burbank
Aaron Shigemi Chang
Shria Singh Chug
Tyra J. Cole
Matthew Ryan Colglazier
Xavier Angelicus Elizondo
Robert Houston Farris
Phillip Winfield Gaines
William Pierce Gallo
Dylan William Glenn
Bikramjeet Singh Grewal
MAY 4, 2024
Cal David Abdulky
Calvin Henry Aberg
Liliana Marie Abramson
Jose Gerardo Acuna Valenzuela
Andrew Bradford Adams
Adedoyin T. Aderele
Valeria Aguirre
Ayyan Ilyas Ahmad
Ivanshi Ahuja
Saeed Aijaz
Jana Alghamdi
Muhammad Huzaifa Ali
Matthew Benjamin Alter
Anna Carolina Alves
Eseoghene N. Amata
Camellia K. An
Matthew Hunter Anderson
Grace Regan Andrews
Yuka Aoyama
Sofía Maria Arana
Marc Aaron Bonto Armeña
Shragvi Balaji
Divyam Bansal
Riley Alexander Barker
Samuel Paul Barton
Sarah Gabrielle Bartos
Virginia Frances Baskin
Elizabeth Reynolds Kuhlman
Asher James Lanzone
Brian Y. Lin
Kirk Lockhart
Sarah Madhani
Stephanie Martinez
Charlie Mendes
Maria Alejandra Mora
Siddarth Ravi Halaswamy
Junyang He
Alaina Michelle Heuser
Timothy Anton Horn
Ping Jim Hsieh
Caleb Daochu Huang
Gowri Mukunda Iyengar
Haoyu Jiang
Jun-ha Jung
Charles Kent Kidd
Satasha Jaden Kostelecky
Tabitha Hailey Lewis
Heidi Li
Joyce Yue Li
Jiayan Liang
Nathan Jackson Becker
Sarah Miriam Benjamin
Dayan Berrones
Faviola M. Betancourt-Torres
Jasmine Beveridge
Connor Bezio
Jordan Leahr Billups
Sarah Moriah Birenbaum
Francesca Elizabeth Bliss
Parker Isabella Blumentritt
Tianyi Bo
Alyssa Noelle Boerst
Maya Elizabeth Bokunewicz
Christelle Nolugie Bonzil
Joshua Patrick Borja
Andrew Dale Bough
Tyler Timothy Braito
Lauren Mae Brantley
Kayden Jay Brewer
Kelley Welles Briggs
Jeffrey Evan Brover
Chase Madison Brown
Elizabeth Katherine Buchwald
Andrew Kalani Buehler
Yenvy Nguyen Bui
Isis Ellysa Burgos
Arnav Burudgunte
Meg Niu
Richard Inioluwa Omotosho
David Ethan Pichardo
Jose Angel Ramirez
Sydney Lane Rodman
Mathew Ross Santos
Cynthia Yue Sheng
Blessing Ben Umoeka
Amirta Manikandan
Chad Michael Miller
Sydney Quinn Miller
William Manuopangai Misinale
Emily Montanez
Race Ridley Nelson
Yerin Ashley Noh
Seokchan Oh
Jenny Hayoung Park
Rathna Meena Ramesh
Gared Ryan Ramirez
Jazzmyne Monique Rias
Teresa Carlyle Roark
Anne Shelton Rubsamen
Joshua I. Schaffer
Brian James Butler
Donovan Aaron Butler
Qianlong Cai
Kaylah Rae Cantu
Ramiro Ivan Cantu
Ye Cao
Elena Catherine Carmichael
Carla Daniela Carmona
Rodolfo D. Carreon
Ian David Carroll
Robert Sean Cartwright
Drew Ellen Castleberry
Maiana Duque Castro
Brandon Everett Cayce
Jerome Jonathan Cerio
Ishaan Singh Chahal
Jessica Chang
Victoria Chang
Brandon Austin Chen
Chloe Chen
Cuiyuanxiu Chen
Kevin Chen
Sophia Wang Chen
Vincent Chen
Jonathan Yong-Jie Cheng
Katherine Cheng
Tianyou Cheng
Tarush Verma
Connor Thomas Walsh
Christa Belle Westheimer
Michelle Elizabeth Yang
Garret Wayne Zaskoda
Samuel Joseph Zhou
Lily Madeline Sethre-Brink
Jonathan Robert Tenney
Ethan Hong Tsaur
Jennifer Wang
Cyrus Washington
Tina Tianyi Wen
Xinyue Wu
Joshua Aaron Yaffee
Haocheng Zhang
Vivian K. Zheng
Alex Bohan Zhong
Yongtong Zhou
Grace Anne Chiang
Joshua Yu-Ping Chiang
Isabella Clai Childers
Teresa Vansui Chin
Emma Margaret Chipman
Daniel Seoungmin Cho
Celine Choi
Vanessa Chuang
Katherine Ayumi Chui
April Dongju Chung
Ashley Chung
Steven Magdi Cloud
Adam Karp Cohen
Sydney Elizabeth Coldren
Christopher Conti
Andrew Stuart Cormack
Danyle N. Courtley
William Hahn Cover
Austin William Cox
Jacob Lewis Coyle
Michael A. Cuenca
Aubrey Yuran Cui
Hengtao Cui
John Anthony Curylo
Naman Dandia
Alexander James David
Ayla Fumiko Davis
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Bachelor of Arts,
Michael Rui de Figueiredo
Gabriel Agustin del Campo
Arjun Joshi Delity
Sophia Kristina Devereux
Saagar Dhanjani
Cynthia Jazmin Diaz
Waverly Case Dickason
Alton J. Dillon
Sebastian James DiPrampero
Idalina Du
Yangyufei Du
Philip Andrew DuBose
LeGrand E. Dudley
Benjamin Rusk Dukes
Jonathan Albert Dunbar
Jordan Hunter Dunbar
Kay Duong
Benjamin Odis Earles
Belle Meceal Eaton
Grace Helena Eichenour
Valerie Myra Elizondo
Ekenedilichukwu Uzoma
Emenike
Emery Ellis Engling
Brooke Ermias
Renzo M. Espinoza
Isabella Virginia Estes
Nathan Bernard Estiandan
Brita Annise Faerber
Joshua Fang
Natasha Mariyam Faruqui
Yingjie Feng
Elizabeth Gail Fessler
Paul Andre Filerio
Naomi Elizabeth Filkin
Tyler L. Foster
Ava Paulina Fradlin
Lucas Dean Fraley
Gabrielle H. Franklin
Skye K. Fredericks
Colin Christopher Freeman
Ryan Zachary Freidin
Brendan Ryan Frizzell
Katherine Elizabeth Frucht
Tiancheng Fu
Mikala Ann Furuto
Michelle Christine Gachelin
Sufei Gao
Guy Gabriel Garibay
Arnav Garyali
Adrianna Janette Garza
Margaret Jacquelyn Gee
Briana Nicole Gellineau
Nabeeha Kiran Ghani
Jeremy Aviel Ghatan
Karm Amar Ghei
Marissa Giangiorgi
Charlotte Catherine Gidley
Carson Ard Gilchrist
Edward Townsend Gilman
Eli Joseph Ginsburg
Jacob Fred Givoni
Barret McLeod Glass
Bora Göbekli
Daniel Nathan Goldenberg
Pavithr Sairam Goli
Puneetha Santoshi Goli
Shivani Gollapudi
Luis Enrique Gomez Gorgonio
Nicholas Oscar Gonzalez
Prayag Gordy
Abhinav Gorjala
Natalie Danielle Gorji
Srihari Gotluru
Maximilian Robert Grayer
Anamaria Rose Grieco
Rodolfo Gutierrez-Garcia
Anissa Angelina Hall
Kristen Diane Hall
Alexander Lyu Han
Margaret Yuxin Han
Maria Christina Hancu
Anya Vi Hansen
Elias Matthew Hansen
Benjamin Hao
Charles Hargon
Morgan Obiajulu Harris
Patricia Chiyoko Hashimoto
Timothy William Hays
Jessica He
Rongyin He
Yuxi He
Van Michael Heitmann
Jenny Heo
Rebekah J. Heo
Rafe Alex Hessekiel
Autumn Grace Wen-Lu
Hildebrand
Daniel Steven Himes
Bailey Analise Hogan
Alexander James Holzbach
Hannah Katherine Hoskins
Joel Timothy Hrncir
Anna Hsu
Bingbing Hu
Xin Hu
Yajing Hu
Emily Meiting Huang
Jacqueline Shiqi Huang
Jessica Shurui Huang
Yuelong Huang
Yuening Huang
Zichen Huang
Lauren Jessica Huffmaster
Kai Ming Hung
Lauren Campbell Hurt
Alem Huseinovic
Newton Thieu Huynh
Gospel Ikedichi Ibe
Anthony Michael Insalaco
Meryem G. Ismael
Subash Jagadeesan
Mehek Jain
Caleb J. James
Evan Mitchell Jasica
Devika Mehul Jhaveri
Jerry Jiang
Deema Jihad
Prisha Chowdary Jonnalagadda
Grace Saju Joy
Yuan-An Ju
Sean Preet Judge
Da Yon Jung
Sriya Naga Kakarla
Nathaniel Edward Kamper
Hannah Ryu Kang
Ethan Edward Kao
Arden Michaela Katz
Zoe Rose Katz
Harveen Kaur
Baylee Jade Keevan
Connor Justin Kelly
Shaun Richard Kerry
Andrew JunHa Kim
Eunsu Kim
Justin Min Kim
Ki Rim Kim
Sabrina Haejin Kim
Sora Shimazu Kim
Stephanie Jeesu Kim
Sydney Nayoung Kim
Clay Anthony Kindiger
Chloe Iris Kinnebrew
Sachi Kishinchandani
Emma Taylor Korsmo
Eliza Marija Kraule
Vindhya Dharma Kukunoor
Shivani Makarand Kulkarni
Rahul U. Kumar
Nishanka Reddy Kuthuru
Molly Jane Kyles
Mason Lee LaFerney
Nathan Reece LaRock
Taya Mei Lasota
Cole Thomas Latos
Austin Matthew Lee
Brian Van Lee
Jasmine Joowon Lee
Jason Man Lee
Justin Lee
Michelle Haerin Lee
Samuel Chulhee Lee
Keegan Elijah Leibrock
Michael Christopher Leone
Daniel Yuwen Li
Jiayi Li
Julia Li
Margaret Jieying Li
Kathy Liang
Mia Lin
Daniel Wei Ling
Jasmine Liou
Sydney E. Little
Gordan Tang Liu
Jeffery Liu
Maggie Mengni Liu
Ruofeng Liu
Jet Luke Lopez
Shivani Lakshmi Lotlikar
Payton Todd Lovell
Karen Lu
George M. Lyu
Audrey Ma
Emily X. Ma
America Cassandra Malacara
Denise Maldonado
Jena Lin Manning
Norberto Manzanares
Huijun Mao
Mia Natalie Mapula
Rodrigo Martin
Karen Marie Martinez Perez
Sahara Diane Maruska
Joel Mata
Jose I. Mata
Chacko Mathai
Leyah Mary Mathew
Gina Min Matos
Ella Catherine McBee
Morgan Taylor McMains-Nurisio
Hadley Grace Medlock
Imogen May Meers
Shalin Sacheen Mehta
Benjamin Kaden Meisburger
Saikishore Reddy Mettupalli
Chimuanya Chibuzo Mgbeokwere
Aaliyah Nichole Mobley
Prerna Mohan
Harmony Verlinda Moore
Stephen Andrew Moore
Sergio Samuel Morales
Roberto Carlos Morales
Quintero
Connor Patrick Morris
Ariana Moshiri
Madison Jean Mouton
Nikhita Mummaneni
Joon Hyuk Mun
James Reynolds Murphy
Andrew Philip Murray
Elizabeth Ann Myers
Olivia Jasmine Miri El NailBeatty
Lamont Kylin Narcisse
Neha Rishi Nayar
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Bachelor of Arts,
Edelawit Tesfaye Negash
Jazara Sarai Nelson
Carly Truong Ngo
Brooke Le Nguyen
Catherine Thanh Nguyen
Emily Nguyen
Hoang Minh Nguyen
Huyen-Tram Nguyen
Joshua Wang Ni
Arielle Serenity Noah
Giscar Gecy Obambo
David Ocampo
Chiro Awoke Ogbo
Munachimso Ekene
Ogbunamiri
Ginikanwa Mukosolu Okafor
Jessica Linn Opsahl-Ong
Enifome Eroboghene Orieka
Phoenix Autumn Orta
Nisha Oruganti
Abigail Robinson Oudekerk
Jose Oviedo
Sarita Palacio
David L. Palmer
Jacob Yuzhe Pan
Ivan Alexander Paredes
Sophia Misoh Park dos Santos
Savannah Leigh Parrot
Naven Gokul Parthasarathy
Natasha Patnaik
Mayah S. Pazgal
Harshitha Pelaprolu
Sofia Rose Pellegrini
Lai Peng
Sophia Peng
Athenea Perez
Juan Miguel Perez-Padilla
Carl Eric Pfanstiel
Ethan Long Pham
Thanh Van Pham
Trey Thomas Phillippi
Emma Kate Phillips
Vivian Anne Phillips
Keegan Maxwell Pierce
Tyzic Luke Pina
Maariyah Piperdi
Jared Michael Plank
August Karl Pokorak
Michael Andrew Popa
Katelynn Lucia Porras
Spencer Jackson Powers
Thomas M. Pratt
Eric Nathan Press
Tom George Punnen
Zhenyu Alison Qiu
Joanna Yang Quan
Akshat Rathi
Isabel Coulter Rawlings
Maximus A. Renteria
Alex Jerome Ribes
Brandon Rice
Jack Andrew Riedel
Christopher Ray Lawrence
Rivera
Sarah Elizabeth Roberts
Kian Michael Bradley Robinson
Ricardo Noel Robles
Scott Emerson Roche
Mauricio Alexander Rodriguez
Maria Alejandra Rodriguez
Quevedo
Sophia Cho Rohlfsen
Madison Michelle Roy
Qiufeng Rui
Emily Rose Ryan
Naomi Alazar Sahle
Mattia Alfredo Saladini
Blaine Tenagne Samson
Renee Lynette Sanders
Arielle Marie Sanford
Eric Savarese
Lily Margaret Scholnik
Randall Lockett Schulz
Theodore Samuel Schweizer
Isabella Sara Seigel
Priyanka Senthil
Brian Daniel Serrata
Maham Amin Sewani
Yash Pratap Shahi
Kexuan Shang
Jenny She
Cameron Marcus Sheffield
Kexin Shen
Nithya Ashok Shenoy
Christopher Shi
Evan William Shope
Taylor Shannon Shui
Ammar Danyal Siddiqi
Tara Katelyn Simpson-Sullivan
Alexander Slinkman
Hunter Reine Smith
Maggie Elizabeth Smith
Soumya Somani
Sarah Elizabeth Sowell
Jonah Sebastian Sposito
Ananya Srivastava
Luke Jefferson Stancil
Chloe Soleste Starr
Reuben Samuel Stecher
Lucy Elizabeth Stickney
Haiming Sun
Vipin Suren
McKenna Joanne Tanner
Zane Mukhtar Tannir
Alan Mitchell Tapper
Muriel Theresa Taylor-Adair
Benjamin John Teddlie
Yonas Asrat Tekola
Jaime Tellez
Karina Teslenko
Hemish B. Thakkar
Maanvi Thawani
Tyson Deshaun Thompson
Angela Pilar Torres
Gerardo Torres
Elisabeth Engracia TorresSchulte
Peter Wilson Townley
Jason T. Tran
Federica Trevisan
Nikita Tripurana
Niyah S. Troup
Kaitlyn Dane Trushenski
William Juitse Tsai
Orestis Tsatalmpasidis
Isabel Hannah Tu
Ryann Nicole Tudor
Hugh Bergquist Van Lenten Underhill
Ron A. Underwood
Chukwusom Anthony Uzowihe
Maria Moore Franco Valera
Miriam Fernanda Valle Sirias
Rijuta Vallishayee
Sal Hitesh Vavilapalli
Luis Ricardo Verdin-Gomez
Shikhar Verma
Christie Shaelle Vieux
Andres Felipe Villada
Jonah Sebastian Wagner
Albert Yang Wan
Amber Wang
Ariana Xinyu Wang
Celeste Yiqi Wang
Runtian Wang
Ryan Zuja Wang
Serena Yutong Wang
Shuren Wang
Emily Ann Ward
Anthony Michael Weeks
Colin Xin-Yao Wei
Jonas Michael Weissberg
Emma Neumer Whitehurst
Rose Elizabeth Whitt
Iasha J. Williams
Jacob Andrew Williams
Benjamin Dixon Wilton
Journey Mathoni Winkle
Carissa Ann Witt
Christina Evelyn Wong
Edward Aidi Wong
Jacob Christian Wong
Rebecca Sileshi Workalemahu
Jacqueline Wu
Jiwei Wu
Kaiyuan V. Wu
Shenyuan Wu
Tiffany Wu
Plae Ian Wyatt
YiQing Xia
Jiayi Xin
Annie Xu
Bruce Xu
Huairuo Xu
James Jing Xu
Yanqing Yang
Paulina Marie Yannitsadis
Yundi Yao
Joel Nathaniel Yearick
Rebecca May Yee
Christian Andrew Yeh
Sumin Timothy Yoon
Victoria Chidi Young-Odor
Samuel Hwanhee Yu
Rebecca Helen Zadeck
Kelly Chenxin Zeng
Jiahao Zhang
Benjamin Zhao
Xiaoqi Zhao
Jeffrey Zhong
Yuewei Zhou
Dean Zhu
Liufei Zhu
Ziying Zhu
Gabriel Tomoya Zook
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Bachelor of Science
AUGUST
Ritesh Dontula
31, 2023
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Zachre Augustine Andrews
Vanuli Arya
Karla Miranda Chapa
MAY 4, 2024
Nischal Ada
Fatima Rania Akilo
Matthew Hunter Anderson
Anthony Skylar Atkinson
Yourong Bao
Samuel Paul Barton
Keerthi Bhoda
Astra Silver Wednesday Burke
Elena Catherine Carmichael
Ricardo Castellon
Brandon Everett Cayce
Gautam Chaudhry
Xiaowei Chen
Evelyn Shuenwha Chiu
Alexander Junna Cho
Rhea Cho
Aubrey Yuran Cui
Lillian Rulan Cui
Dylan Lee DuCharme
Jonathan Albert Dunbar
Jacob Daniel Eguia
Trinity A. Eimer
Caden Taylor Farley
Caleb J. Fikes
Shonik O. Ganjoo
Aishani Sivasai Gargapati
Edward Townsend Gilman
Prayag Gordy
Anamaria Rose Grieco
Galio Guo
Matthew Gutierrez
Rodolfo Gutierrez-Garcia
Alexander Lyu Han
Margaret Yuxin Han
Mitchell Han
Xinyi Han
Maria Christina Hancu
Anya Vi Hansen
Timothy William Hays
Adam Qiling He
Nicholas Joseph He
Charlotte Ann Hoebig
Amanda Laura Hogan
Evan Huang
Benjamin Jeremiah Rosengard
Sierra Chen
Seniha Elcik
Supraja Kadagandla
Chloe Shay Liebenthal
Alexander Donghuy Hwang
James Jun-Gyu K. Hwang
Tanya Jain
Kevin Jin
Olivia C. Kaneko
Victor Couto Kaplan
Isha Khapre
Kayla Ashley Kim
Stephanie Jeesu Kim
Rishab Venkat Kolachina
Brian Seyeon Lee
Charles Gicheol Lee
Caroline Andrade Leung
Hannah Xuecong Li
Kathy Liang
Alex Long Lin
Jeffery Liu
Jessica Liu
Virginia Liu
Pierre Phillip Loch-Temzelides
Shivani Lakshmi Lotlikar
Karen Linyi Lu
Zhengyi Lu
Abhinav Bhargav Madduri
Sai Likhith Reddy Mallannagari
Sai Prasada Rao Koti Surya
Manikonda
Timothy Malcolm Mansfield
Nafiza Meher
Andrew Nathanael Miller
Suchir Misra
Audrey Noelle Moehring
Prerna Mohan
Stephen Andrew Moore
Riaz Mowzoon-Mogharrabi
Adam Horan Nelson
Bela Grace Nelson
Jaison Tm Nguyen
Lam Giang Nguyen
Arie Noah Ogranovich
Valentina Osorio
Victoria Nicole Payne
Advaith Peddi
Jinyu Pei
Russell Warren Ludwigsen
Elijah Salvador Sales
Keegan Maxwell Pierce
Rohan Pillai
Tania Reyes
Timothy William Rinehart
Taylor Maurine Rosen
Katherine Elizabeth Rosner
Jian Ruan
Gabriel Saenz
Addison Jennifer Saley
Khondker Sadman Salim
Arielle Marie Sanford
Katlyn Emilie Schmeltzer
Alexa Frederique Scott
Alexandra Serrato
Maham Amin Sewani
Nayeli Sanchez Shad
April Xue-Mei Sheffield
Kexin Shen
Zhongda Shi
Sadie Rose Siegel
Elena Rose Siemens
Bikram Pal Singh
Nikita Vikram Singh
Max Jakob Litman Slotnik
Tanmay Srinivasan
Ananya Srivastava
Alexander Kyungmin Suh
Jessica M. Suh
Kihan Eli Sung
Vishnu Susheer
Anthony Norman Tan
Tiffany Lin Tang
Alan Mitchell Tapper
Maria Josie Telesforo
Aanchal Thapa
Maanvi Thawani
Adam James Thomas
Brianna Elyse Thompson
Helen Tian
Mallory Nicole Tucker
Clara Francesca Ursic
Chukwusom Anthony Uzowihe
Christina Marie Walker
Amilia Anne Warkentine
Ashley Danielle Weeks
Jessica Jiaxin Wen
Shenyuan Wu
Ziyin Xiong
Tian Xue
Claire Yixin Yang
William Yang
Jiahao Zhang
Taylor Zhang
Xiaoqi Zhao
Grace Gina Zhou
25
Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Anna Leah Tutuianu
MAY 4, 2024
Anushka Agrawal
Erica Danielle Anton
Faraz Ali Asim
Ethan David Boniuk
Melissa Sophia Cantu
Archit Aravind Chabbi
Richard Chan
Harlan Scooter Thomas Cook
Robert Chen Heeter
Christine Elise Humphrey
Katherine Ann Impelman
Shreya Jindal
Sathvik Reddy Kakanuru
Brennan Grant Keogh
Griffin Charles Kingsley
Thomas Philipe Kutcher
Hye Ryung Lee
Kevin Zhang Li
Ananya Lingineni
Jing Liu
Shreya Majeti
Shannon Virginia McGill
Mason Louis Melendez
Nathaniel William Miller
Kathryn Alice Mischlich
Valentina Lara Ortega
Paula Ortega Giménez
Abinand Krishna Parthasarathy
Sahana Prasanna
Vidal Alejandro Saenz
Kian David Samra
Lily Margaret Scholnik
Juan Jose Tellez
Kaiyuan V. Wu
Ethan Derek Yang
Sunny Yu
Qingxin Zheng
Brandon Lee Zimmer
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
AUGUST 31, 2023
Andrea M. Gomez Lauryn Aaliyah Walker
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Danica Isabella Pietrzak
MAY 4, 2024
Albert Alonzo Allmand
Sean Michael Bishop
Isabella Maria Chiodi
Kyle Arthur Clayton
Maximo Trevino Estrada
Ivana Jenesis Hsyung
Kilian Thomas James
Pearl Pacharee Khotsombath
Vanessa Mendoza
Alia Imtiyaz Nathani
Joseph Pannell Paci
Bryant David Ruff
Anusha Srivastava
Aidan Christopher Terlizzi
Kamal Adetola Tijani
Erik Philip Tomasson
Bryan Vo
Anthony Michael Weeks
Isabella Quinn Williams
Zhixin Xia
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Mamadou Misbaou Bah Amelia Margarita Moncayo-Reyes
MAY 4, 2024
Elizabeth Avakov
Johanna Ikabu Bangala
Adam Joshua Castaneda
Weng Zhun Gan
Haydn Larry Howe
Taigen Marie Hunter-Galvan
Jonah John Jimenez
Benjamin McDowell Smiley
Katherine Caledonia Tanner
26
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Kyle Shant Derbabian
Harrison C. Huang
MAY 4, 2024
Mohamed Ayman Abead
Adiv Ahsan
Anthony Skylar Atkinson
Nihal Bhatnagar
Arnav Burudgunte
James Bryant Cassady
John Anthony Cesarz
Cuiyuanxiu Chen
Emma Thien-Y Chestnut
Daniel Cufino
Haotian Dang
Bikrant Das Sharma
Jacob Andrews Flynn
Talia Ann Frindell
Nikhil Karl Gautam
Duy Hoang Ha
Hung Phan Nguyen
Benjamin William Thomas
Raiyan Zannat
Yongtong Zhou
Christopher Hallock-Solomon
Bing Han
Chase Michael Hartsell
Taha Hasan
Jingwen Hu
Emily Meiting Huang
Rithik Jain
Buyun Jiang
Lucas Jeremy Judys
Camille Yinghan Kao
Zoe Rose Katz
Bo Sung Kim
Marco Antonio Lagos
Xuanchen Li
Daniel Liang
Eric Chen Liu
Charles Warren Lockyer
Vinson Lu
Ryan Leutze Mbuashu-Ndip
Shreyas Minocha
Shourya Munjal
Newton Nderitu Mwangi
Quang Nhat Nguyen
Ndidiamaka Olivia Nwosu
Tochukwu Michael Okwuonu
Jinyu Pei
Jacob Dylan Pellegrino
August Karl Pokorak
Howard H. Qian
Sanjay Jude Melvin Rajasekhar
Ryan Matthew Ramos
Alexander Rosales
Mina Kim Ryumae
Parv Shrivastava
Evan Reese Stegall
Joshua Luke Stidham
Heather Tesia Szczesniak
Adam Cheng Tao
Lauryn Tuo
Ryan Zuja Wang
Jacob Andrew Williams
Harrison Lee Witt
Ningzhi Xu
Anthony Dong Yan
Jiawen Yao
Anthony H. Zheng
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
AUGUST 31, 2023
Anyssa Bailey Castorina Ruben Sebastian Marroquin Oscar Leonardo Reynozo
MAY 4, 2024
Samatar Burhan Dalmar
Richard Spencer Stonema
Darwall
James Kai-Chieh Ding
Noah Gongora Elzner
Weili Fan
Juan Arturo Garza
Alexander James Holzbach
Davis Landen Jackson
Zhengyi Lu
Elliot Timothy Metcalf
Noemi Moreno
Olivia Smyth Mudrick
Jack Solomon Pearce
Ethan David Peck
Juan Patricio Vera Garza
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
MAY 4, 2024
Sambhu Mahadeva
Balakrishnan
Maya Deva Borowicz
Evan Martin Dunbar
Jacob Andrews Flynn
Zhongqi Gao
Darrell Zachary Good
Sean Madla Hamilton
Peter Benjamin Humphreys
Chacko Mathai
Tochukwu Michael Okwuonu
Ryan Tae Min Pai
Eric Nathan Press
John Daniel Reko
Sophia Cho Rohlfsen
Qiufeng Rui
Joshua Luke Stidham
Jack Dylan Tomkiewicz
Samuel Xu
Anthony H. Zheng
Gabriel Tomoya Zook
27
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and NanoEngineering
MAY 4, 2024
Sena Anne Ahadzie
Galio Guo
Jackson Thomas Soudier Hughes
Samuel Caleb Raphaelson
Grant William Samara
Howard Davis Thames
Yiyi Yang
Aasha Grace Ackerly Zinke
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
AUGUST 31, 2023
Blanca Esmeralda Diaz Chavez
Andrew Christopher Hooke
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Kendall Cooney
MAY 4, 2024
Veronica Antonieta Aguilar
Javier Alatorre
Marc Aaron Bonto Armeña
Isabella Michiko Avilez
Andrew James Bare
Summer Rianne Barrette
Eli Daniel Case
Maya Chantrea Chhong
Alois Tadiwa Chipfurutse
Antonio Marco Crivello
Shannon N. Dunwell
Emily Mae Ellison
Aleix Estevadeordal
Charles G. French
Dante Jain Garderet
Robert F. Sanchez
Mark William Schara
Jared Giovanni Verdejo
Ruben Thanh-Danh Efstathiou
Kirubel Woldai Ghebreab
Olivia Mae Goganian
Damian Gonzalez
Austin Ellis Wiggins Greer
Esau Guajardo
Cadan James Hanson
Katie Elizabeth Hart
Douglas Andrew Hebda
Ayaka Hoshida
Jeremy Hurtado
Ethan Robert Kelly
Kennedy Claire King
Sophie Rita Leibowitz
Leighton Andrew Less
Andrew Robert Linhart
Bachelor of Music
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Kevin Eric Fink
MAY 4, 2024
Ryan Palmer Rodney Babe
Riley Alexander Barker
Olivia Claire Bennett
Jacob Duff
Hanna Elizabeth Frampton
Dimitri Eugene Galterio
August Robert Haller
Diego Alec Lopez-Bernal
Reece Elizabeth Lusich
Jordan Scott Martin
Aidan Donahoe McKenna
Raymond Franklin Neathery
Santiago Parra-Vargas
Brandon Caleb Peoples
Jorge David Quintero
Gerardo Rivera
Catherine Elizabeth Russell
Balla Sabou Sanogo
Pooja Sashital
Elizabeth Crotty Schweiker
Hemish B. Thakkar
Jonah Sebastian Wagner
Cassandra Roxane Wagoner
Jonas Michael Weissberg
Antoine Solles Wiley
Lindsay Alyssa Wright
Wesley Hatch Wright
Ethan Derek Yang
Junyang Ye
Anas Nafees Yousaf
Nathan Jeffrey Yun
Daniel Paul Zislis
Colin Samuel Hill
Sophie Norris Kim
Jun Yong Liu
Soren Lorentzen
Megan Marissa Martono
Sofia Sae Yung Matthews
Joanna Christine McDonald
Johnathan Orion Miller
Alejandro Moreno-Gonzalez
Kanade Lynn Motomura
Isabelle Alexandra Nichols
Lily Rebekah Primus
Timothy William Rinehart
Lena-Marie Alicia Stoger
Elissa Rae Volling
Anne Mary Winkelman
28
Distinction in Research and Creative Work
Anushka Agrawal
Bioengineering
Fatima Rania Akilo
Chemistry
Grace Regan Andrews
Architecture
Zachre Augustine Andrews
Statistics
Erica Danielle Anton
Bioengineering
Anthony Skylar Atkinson
Physics and Astronomy
Tyler Timothy Braito Linguistics
Maiana Duque Castro
Psychological Sciences
Archit Aravind Chabbi
Bioengineering
Victoria Chang
Psychological Sciences
Gautam Chaudhry
Chemistry
Brandon Austin Chen
BioSciences
Xiaowei Chen
Chemistry
Rhea Cho
BioSciences
Sydney Elizabeth Coldren
Anthropology
William Hahn Cover
Political Science
Bikrant Das Sharma
Computer Science
Ayla Fumiko Davis
Art
LeGrand E. Dudley
Psychological Sciences
Emery Ellis Engling
Cognitive Sciences
Elizabeth Gail Fessler
Art History
Caleb J. Fikes
Statistics
Gabrielle H. Franklin
English
Skye K. Fredericks
Anthropology
Brendan Ryan Frizzell
Center for Civic Leadership
Sociology
Michelle Christine Gachelin Kinesiology
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Aishani Sivasai Gargapati
BioSciences
Medical Humanities
Kirubel Woldai Ghebreab
Mechanical Engineering
Bora Göbekli
History
Pavithr Sairam Goli
BioSciences
Puneetha Santoshi Goli
BioSciences
Shivani Gollapudi
Sociology
Damian Gonzalez
Mechanical Engineering
Prayag Gordy
Statistics
Alexander Lyu Han
BioSciences
Statistics
Bing Han
Computer Science
Mitchell Han
BioSciences
Xinyi Han
BioSciences
Maria Christina Hancu
Chemistry
Katie Elizabeth Hart
Mechanical Engineering
Douglas Andrew Hebda
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Autumn Grace Wen-Lu
Hildebrand
BioSciences
Anna Hsu
Kinesiology
Ivana J. Hsyung
Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Jacqueline Shiqi Huang
Art History
Lauren Jessica Huffmaster History
Jackson Thomas Soudier
Hughes
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
James Jun-Gyu K. Hwang
BioSciences
Medical Humanities
Anthony Michael Insalaco BioSciences
Tanya Jain
BioSciences
Prisha Chowdary
Jonnalagadda
English
Supraja Kadagandla
BioSciences
Sriya Naga Kakarla Kinesiology
Medical Humanities
Zoe Rose Katz
Linguistics
Harveen Kaur
BioSciences
Stephanie Jeesu Kim
Philosophy
Sydney Nayoung Kim History
Griffin Charles Kingsley
Bioengineering
Rishab Venkat Kolachina BioSciences
Elizabeth Reynolds Kuhlman
Sociology
Shivani Makarand Kulkarni
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Thomas Philipe Kutcher
Bioengineering
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Hye Ryung Lee
Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen
Samuel Chulhee Lee
BioSciences
Caroline Andrade Leung BioSciences
Hannah Xuecong Li
BioSciences
Margaret Jieying Li
BioSciences
Kinesiology
Chloe Shay Liebenthal
Physics and Astronomy
Alex Long Lin
Chemistry
Jasmine Liou
Psychological Sciences
Jing Liu
Bioengineering
BioSciences
Pierre Loch-Temzelides
Chemistry
George M. Lyu
Computational Applied
Mathematics and Operations Research
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Emily X. Ma
English
Sai Likhith Reddy
Mallannagari
BioSciences
Timothy Malcolm Mansfield
Chemistry
Huijun Mao
English
Physics and Astronomy
Megan Marissa Martono
The Shepherd School of Music
Chacko Mathai
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ella Catherine McBee
English
Shannon Virginia McGill
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Morgan Taylor McMainsNurisio
Sociology
Nafiza Meher
BioSciences
Shalin Sacheen Mehta
Political Science
Johnathan Orion Miller
The Shepherd School of Music
Prerna Mohan
Chemistry
Stephen Andrew Moore
BioSciences
Maria Alejandra Mora
Social Policy Analysis
Roberto Carlos Morales
Quintero
Sociology
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Distinction in Research and Creative Work,
Alejandro Moreno-Gonzalez
The Shepherd School of Music
Riaz Mowzoon-Mogharrabi Chemistry
Nikhita Mummaneni BioSciences
Raymond Franklin Neathery Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen
Adam Horan Nelson BioSciences
Phoenix Autumn Orta Anthropology
Valentina Osorio
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Ryan Tae Min Pai
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Savannah Leigh Parrot Art
Natasha Patnaik
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research
Sophia Peng Anthropology Medical Humanities
Rohan Pillai Chemistry
Sahana Prasanna Bioengineering
Lily Rebekah Primus
The Shepherd School of Music
Tom George Punnen BioSciences
Howard H. Qian
Computer Science
Samuel Caleb Raphaelson Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Isabel C. Rawlings
Psychological Sciences
Timothy William Rinehart
The Shepherd School of Music
Sarah Elizabeth Roberts
Psychological Sciences
Taylor Maurine Rosen BioSciences
Madison Michelle Roy Cognitive Sciences
Qiufeng Rui
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Emily Rose Ryan
Art History
Gabriel Saenz
Chemistry
Khondker Sadman Salim BioSciences
Isabella Sara Seigel
Center for Civic Leadership
Priyanka Senthil Kinesiology
April Xue-Mei Sheffield Physics and Astronomy
Kexin Shen
Physics and Astronomy
Ammar Danyal Siddiqi Kinesiology
Elena Rose Siemens
Environmental Science
Bikram Pal Singh
Environmental Science
Max Jakob Litman Slotnik
BioSciences
Hunter Reine Smith Kinesiology
Soumya Somani Kinesiology
Sarah Elizabeth Sowell
Center for Civic Leadership
Reuben Samuel Stecher
Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations
Jessica M. Suh BioSciences
McKenna Joanne Tanner English
Maria Josie Telesforo Chemistry
Howard Davis Thames
Materials Science and
NanoEngineering
Aanchal Thapa BioSciences
Adam James Thomas Chemistry
William Juitse Tsai
Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
Clara Francesca Ursic Physics and Astronomy
Rijuta Vallishayee History
Luis Ricardo Verdin-Gomez
Sociology
Elissa Rae Volling
The Shepherd School of Music
Ryan Zuja Wang
Cognitive Sciences
Ashley Danielle Weeks BioSciences
Jessica Jiaxin Wen BioSciences
Lindsay Wright Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Annie Xu
Statistics
Claire Yixin Yang Chemistry
Ethan Derek Yang
Mechanical Engineering
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
Yiyi Yang
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Sumin Timothy Yoon Anthropology
Anas Yousaf
Mechanical Engineering
Vivian K. Zheng
Political Science
Jeffrey Zhong
Computer Science Statistics
Grace Gina Zhou BioSciences
Ziying Zhu
Cognitive Sciences
Aasha Grace Ackerly Zinke
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Oshman Engineering
Design Kitchen
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Honors, Prizes and Awards to Faculty, Staff and Alumni
Association of Rice Alumni Distinguished Alumni Awards
Miriam John ’70
Travis McPhail ’04, ’07, ’11
Talithia Williams ’07, ’08
Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal
Melissa Kean ’96, ’00
Albert Kidd ’64, ’65
Association of Rice Alumni Meritorious Service Awards
James “Jimmy” Disch
Wanda ’78 and Richard Gass ’78, ’79
C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Endowed Award for Student Life and Clubs
Robert Beaird
Kristianna Bowles
David Medina
Charles W. Duncan Jr. Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty
Sophie Esch
Kaden Hazzard
Elizabeth Gillis Award
Anne Santos
Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Excellence
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Eduardo Salas
Faculty/Staff Service Award
Pia Byrd
Friends of Rice Graduate Students Award
Beth Leaver
Rick Mello
George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching
Sabia Abidi
Peter Carl Caldwell
Daniel Jamie Catanese
James DeNicco
Esther Fernández
Özge Gürcanlī
Lesa Tran Lu
Luay Nakhleh
Stephen Wang
George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Betul Orcan Ekmekçi
Honorary Alumnus Award
Cynthia Allshouse
Marjorie Corcoran Award
Illya Hicks
Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award
Rebecca Schreib
Presidential Award for Mentoring
Jeffrey Hartgerink
Beatrice Riviere
Provost’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Advisor
Richard Lavenda
Provost’s Award for Outstanding Early-Career Achievement
Sylvia Dee
Gökçe Günel
Provost’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement
Christopher Fagundes
Aditya Mohite
Rice Staff Excellence Award
Kandice Lozano
Christine Medina
Armandina Ramos
Rice University Faculty Award for Excellence in Professional Service and Leadership
Fred Oswald
Rice University Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service
Cymene Howe
Antonios Mikos
Rice University Faculty Award for Excellence in University Service and Leadership
Jeffrey Fleisher
Tracy Volz
Rice University Student Association
Staff Mentor Award
Kate Abad
Robert Lowry Patten Award
Fariha Ahmad
Zina Helal
Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching
Rebecca Schreib
Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
Mark Ditman
Prizes and Awards to Degree Recipients
Alan Grob Prize
Soumya Somani
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Maria Hancu
Alex Lin
Ruofeng “Charlie” Liu
Ryan Wang
Graduate Student Association Lifetime Contribution Award
Joshua Moore
Graduate Student Association Service Award
Lucas Brown
Priyan Pathirana
Graham C. Stebbings College Service Award
Vishnu Susheer
Hugh Scott Cameron Service Award from the Student Association
Debasree Saha
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Marc Armeña
Joshua Chiang
Alejandro Moreno-Gonzalez
Sallyport Award
Joshua Moore
Priyanka Senthil
Student Association Outstanding
Senior Awards
Marc Armeña
Anissa Angelina Hall
Caleb Huang
Rathna Ramesh
Debasree Saha
Ammar Siddiqi
Celeste Wang
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Honorary Societies
Alpha Kappa Delta
Brendan Frizzell
Anissa Angelina Hall
Morgan McMains-Nurisio
Roberto Morales Quintero
Olivia Robson
Isabella Seigel
Luis Verdin-Gomez
Colin Wei
Chi Epsilon
Caroline Hashimoto
Haydn Howe
Sabrina Talghader
Wanqi Yuan
Eta Kappa Nu
James Ding
Weili “Winnie” Fan
Juan Garza
Darrell Good
Rachel Gu
Davis Jackson
Zhengyi “Ares” Lu
Chacko Mathai
Ryan Pai
Qiufeng Rui
Josh Stidham
Jack Tomkiewicz
Gabriel Zook
Omega Psi
Morikeoluwa Ayodeji
Sarah Birenbaum
Brandon Chen
Daniel Cho
Katherine De Paz
Philip DuBose
Nabeeha Ghani
Hannah Kang
Karen Martinez Perez
Sophia Niamh Reinsch
Michael Popa
Madison Roy
Ryan Wang
Phi Beta Kappa
Ivanshi Ahuja
Fatima Rania Akilo
Anna Carolina Alves
Vanuli Arya
Sarah Gabrielle Bartos
Faviola M. Betancourt-Torres
Connor Bezio
Sarah Moriah Birenbaum
Tyler Timothy Braito
Chase Brown
Brandon Austin Chen
Grace Anne Chiang
Rhea Cho
Sydney Elizabeth Coldren
William Hahn Cover
Aubrey Yuran Cui
Cynthia Jazmin Diaz
Waverly Case Dickason
Joshua Fang
Natasha Mariyam Faruqui
Elizabeth Gail Fessler
Skye K. Fredericks
Brendan Ryan Frizzell
Michelle Christine Gachelin
Sufei Gao
Jacob Fred Givoni
Bora Göbekli
Puneetha Santoshi Goli
Prayag Gordy
Rodolfo Gutierrez-Garcia
Siddarth Ravi Halaswamy
Anissa Angelina Hall
Alexander Lyu Han
Anya Vi Hansen
Patricia Chiyoko Hashimoto
Jessica Shurui Huang
Yuelong Huang
Lauren Jessica Huffmaster
Mehek Jain
Evan Mitchell Jasica
Sriya Naga Kakarla
Hannah Ryu Kang
Arden Michaela Katz
Shaun Richard Kerry
Kayla Ashley Kim
Ki Rim Kim
Vindhya Dharma Kukunoor
Shivani Makarand Kulkarni
Brian Van Lee
Samuel Chulhee Lee
Julia Li
Jiayan Liang
Kathy Liang
Gordan Tang Liu
Karen Linyi Lu
Audrey Ma
Norberto Manzanares
Huijun Mao
Shalin Sacheen Mehta
William Manuopangai Misinale
Stephen Andrew Moore
Madison Jean Mouton
Jaison Tm Nguyen
Lam Giang Nguyen
Giscar Gecy Obambo
Natasha Patnaik
Juan Miguel Perez-Padilla
Emma Kate Phillips
Katelynn Lucia Porras
Teresa Carlyle Roark
Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Quevedo
Randall Lockett Schulz
Christopher Shi
Soumya Somani
Chloe Soleste Starr
Tiffany Lin Tang
McKenna Joanne Tanner
Zane Mukhtar Tannir
William Juitse Tsai
Rijuta Vallishayee
Luis Ricardo Verdin-Gomez
Shuren Wang
Colin Xin-Yao Wei
Jessica Jiaxin Wen
Edward Aidi Wong
Rebecca Sileshi Workalemahu
Huairuo Xu
Rebecca May Yee
Victoria Chidi Young-Odor
Jiahao Zhang
Pi Delta Phi
William Tsai
Pi Sigma Alpha
Maya Adhikari
Precious Akinrinmade
Anna Alves
Riley Barker
Vincent Behnke
Chase Brown
Luisa Bustamante Tolda
Jonathan Cheng
James Collura
Will Cover
Kai Cowin
Sara Davidson
Skye Fredericks
Brendan Frizzell
Kate Frucht
Diego Hinojosa
Yajing “Eddie” Hu
Mehek Jain
Devika Jhaveri
Hayley Jue
Andrew Kim
Nishanka Kuthuru
Pedro Magarao Ribeiro
Norberto Manzanares
Shalin Mehta
Roselyn Ovalle
Diego Palos Rodriguez
Kayla Peden
Carl “C.J.” Pfanstiel
Katelynn Porras
Louis Crawford Rice
Maria Bianca Schutz
David Shaw
Sarah Sowell
James Stewart-Aday
Dean Toumajian
William Tsai
Ruoqing Wang
YiQing Spring Xia
Grace Yetter
Yasha Zemel
Psi Chi
Ashley Chung
Da Yon Jung
Shaun Kerry
Mia Lin
David Palmer
Angela Torres
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2024 Commencement Marshals
Chief Marshal
Fred Oswald
Security Marshals
Dave Johnson, Head Marshal
Helen Toombs
Tracy Volz
Platform Marshals
Gustavo Grullon, Head Marshal
Damian Blättler
Kevin Crotty
Vicky Yao
Advanced Degrees Marshals
James Weston, Head Marshal
Agustina Fernandez-Moya
Jason Hafner
Ashok Veeraraghavan
Doctoral Marshals
Jim Elliott, Head Marshal
Christina Diaz
Jeremy Fiel
Anna Rhodes
Elizabeth Roberto
Undergraduate Marshals
Chris Mize, Head Marshal
Nicholas Bourgeois
Jamie Catanese
Kate Coley
Kalil Erazo
Nick Espinosa
Greg Fitch
Dani Foster
Alana Holmes
Mack Joyner
Laura Kabiri
University Delegation
April DeConick
Faculty Senate Representative
Petko Ivanov
Staff Council Representative
Jae Kim
Undergraduate Student
Association Representative
Tania Min
Association of Rice
Alumni Representative
Military Appointments
Joseph Paci
Commissioned Ensign U.S. Navy
Undergraduate Marshals, continued
Jessica Krom
Shannon LaBove
Caitlin Lindsay
Rick Mello
Kari Mullen
Steph Parker
Norma Santamaria
Ric Stoll
Faten Tayeh
Lebena Varghese
Matt Wells
Kasey Leigh Yearty
Joseph Young
Xin Tan
Graduate Student
Association Representative
Austin Lee
Commissioned Ensign U.S. Navy
Association of Rice Alumni
Welcome to the Association of Rice Alumni (ARA), Class of 2024! Founded in 1919 to continue the relationship between the university and its alumni, the ARA now has more than 60,000 members worldwide. There are no membership dues to join; as a Rice graduate, you are immediately part of this global community. Keep your contact information up to date to stay connected with the Rice and alumni community by registering for the Rice Portal. To register, visit riceconnect.rice.edu and click on “login or register” to access your online community account. To view a calendar of all upcoming Rice alumni events and to learn more about Rice alumni groups, visit alumni.rice.edu. Congratulations again, and welcome to the ARA!
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2023–2024 Retirees
Retiring Faculty
Paul Engel
53 years of service
Deborah Nelson-Campbell 50 years of service
Danny Samuels 47 years of service
Richard J. Stoll 45 years of service
Kyriacos Zygourakis 44 years of service
Michael Maas
40 years of service
Ka-Yiu San
40 years of service
Michel Achard
27 years of service
Mark David Ditman 27 years of service
Raquel Cisneros Puccio 18 years of service
Ross Reedstrom 27 years of service
Olga C. Trejo 26 years of service
Bassoodeo Goberdhan 25 years of service
Dora L. Vides 25 years of service
Celeste C. Boudreaux 24 years of service
Judy Anne Radigan 24 years of service
Deborah K. Rashdi 24 years of service
Angela Wren Wall 24 years of service
Virginia Weckstrom Kantor 12 years of service
Charlie Geyer
11 years of service
Retiring Staff
Hubert C. Daugherty
41 years of service
Carmen R. Irvin 39 years of service
Sandra E. Edwards 38 years of service
Kenneth T. Marshall 34 years of service
Lanita K. Martin
32 years of service
Rachel S. Miller
32 years of service
Wayne Robinson
32 years of service
Debra G. Purtee
29 years of service
Adria L. Baker
28 years of service
Susan K. McClure
28 years of service
Mary Du Mont Brower 23 years of service
Monica Elizabeth Gongora 23 years of service
Jose F. Romero 23 years of service
Elsie M. Harris 22 years of service
Robert David Krueger 22 years of service
Marian Saldivar Phillips 22 years of service
David Wayne Anderson 21 years of service
Sandra Maria Bloem Curtis 21 years of service
Gerald Lee Mixon 20 years of service
Sebastian T. Osorio 19 years of service
Mary Alice Ward 19 years of service
Carolyn Marie Duhon 18 years of service
Rafael Enrique Nunez 18 years of service
Richard D. Roberts 18 years of service
Valda Renee Adams 17 years of service
Drahomira Brejchova 17 years of service
Regina Renee Diaz 17 years of service
Linda L. Thrane 17 years of service
Gloria Isabel Carrera 11 years of service
Kenneth G. Cross 11 years of service
Ewart Gladstone Jones Jr. 11 years of service
Haejin Elizabeth Koh 11 years of service
Robert Wayne Martin 11 years of service
Alberto Fabio Pimpinelli 11 years of service
Carolyn Renee Lovett-Hebert 16 years of service
Amy Marie McClurd 16 years of service
Brian Soika 16 years of service
Joseph Daniel Suarez 16 years of service
Elizabeth Ann Wilson 16 years of service
Edward C. Woodward 16 years of service
Maria Dolores Mendez 15 years of service
Barbara L. Windish 15 years of service
Lazara Arevalo 14 years of service
Steven M. Wiggins 14 years of service
Timothy W. Patterson 13 years of service
Eloina Castelan Rojas 13 years of service
William R. Turner 13 years of service
Lisa J. Emmite-Baker 12 years of service
Froilan Rojas 12 years of service
Patricia Aviles 11 years of service
Maria Elena Rojas 11 years of service
In Memoriam
Ron Sass 66 years of service
Calvin “Herb” Ward 47 years of service
Stephen Subtelny 32 years of service
Harold Hyman 29 years of service
Douglas Oliver 26 years of service
George W.S. Abbey 22 years of service
Lue Vega 21 years of service
John Dobelman 19 years of service
Ericka Lawton 11 years of service
Javier Sanchez 5 years of service
Ahmad Kabbani 4 years of service
Triny Carranza 1 year of service
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Notes on Commencement
The Commencement Ceremony
Rice Commencement features two distinct kinds of ceremonial elements: the focus on individual degree recipients as they are named, presented and congratulated and the focus on the communal experiences of graduation through the student procession, speeches and the conferral of degrees.
Each of the four Commencement ceremonies features the individual recognition of graduating students as they cross the stage and receive congratulations along with a ceremonial diploma tube. The candidates for each degree are presented as a group by the appropriate university official. The dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies, assisted by the academic deans, presents all the advanced degree candidates. The dean of undergraduates, assisted by the college magisters, presents the undergraduate degree candidates. The president formally confers the degrees earned.
At each ceremony, remarks from university leaders celebrate the community of graduates. As the final ceremony of the Commencement weekend, the undergraduate ceremony features the Commencement speaker and the singing of Rice’s alma mater. It concludes with a short fireworks display.
The Rice Diploma
Rice diplomas are unusually large, measuring approximately 18 inches by 23 inches. The text is arranged to resemble the general shape of an urn. Tradition holds that the shape is a Grecian urn, since it is known that President Edgar Odell Lovett, an admirer of the classics, designed and composed the diploma. Above the text, the academic seal of Rice University is embossed in gold.
The degree recipients will receive their actual diplomas over the summer.
Academic Procession
The academic procession, an essential part of most Commencement exercises, has its origin in historical church processions.
The Commencement procession is generally composed of two groups: Rice faculty and dignitaries, then the candidates to receive degrees. The university marshals, distinguished by their blue and gray gowns and soft, Cambridge-style caps, are responsible for directing the participants throughout the ceremony. First, a fanfare sounds, then the chief marshal raises a ceremonial mace and leads the procession, followed by the president, the members of the board of trustees, and the faculty in order of academic rank and, within rank, in order of seniority. The procession ends when the chief marshal places the mace on its stand at the front of the platform.
For the doctoral and advanced degrees
commencements, the candidates process into Tudor Fieldhouse by school. The Brown School of Engineering enters first, followed in order of school founding by the School of Humanities, the Wiess School of Natural Sciences, the School of Architecture, the Shepherd School of Music, the Jones Graduate School of Business, the School of Social Sciences and the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.
For the undergraduate ceremony, the procession into Rice Stadium begins with the color guard, followed by the chief marshal, president, board of trustees and faculty, as well as a university delegation with representatives of the Faculty Senate, the Staff Council, the undergraduate Student Association, the Graduate Student Association and the Association of Rice Alumni. The candidates assemble with their residential colleges, led by their magisters and college presidents. Students chosen as assistants to the marshals escort each college. Baker, the oldest college, enters first, followed in order by Will Rice, Hanszen, Wiess, Jones and Brown. Lovett leads the remaining colleges, followed by Sid Richardson, Martel, McMurtry and Duncan. At the end of the ceremony, the assembly sings Rice’s alma mater.
All the ceremonies conclude with a recessional march; the chief marshal raises the mace once more and leads the president and the board of trustees, faculty and administration in the recessional, followed by the graduates.
Academic Regalia
The resemblance of academic regalia to the robes of religious orders is no coincidence; the caps, gowns and hoods worn today have their origins in the Middle Ages, when universities were church institutions and both teachers and scholars were clerics.
U.S. colleges and universities adopted their own uniform code of academic dress in 1895. While the code has been modified since, the costume still reflects a rich tradition of Western higher education. If one is familiar with the basic accoutrements and with what shape, color and material can signify, then the academic procession and the Commencement exercise will have more meaning.
Three main garments compose the regalia — cap, gown and hood. In addition, a stole is worn by many at Rice to indicate an affiliation with one of Rice’s residential colleges.
The caps and gowns worn by graduates of U.S. colleges and universities vary only slightly from school to school, and from these the highest level of academic degree that the wearer has earned can be determined. Undergraduates serving today as ushers and assistants to the marshals are wearing bachelor’s gowns of royal blue.
The mortarboard, or Oxford-style cap, is worn by most members of the academic procession. It is usually black. The tassel of the cap may be black, or it may be a color indicating the discipline in which the degree was earned. It
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may be metallic gold for doctors, governing officials of the university, and persons being specially honored during the program.
The gown, too, is usually black, though there are exceptions. Harvard, for example, allows a crimson gown; Yale, a blue gown; and Princeton, a black gown appointed in orange. The bachelor’s gown is the simplest in design and has long, pointed sleeves. The master’s gown, which is slightly more elaborate, has oblong sleeves open at the wrist. The doctor’s gown is, appropriately, the most elaborate — velvet trim runs down the front and around the neck, and three velvet bars decorate the bell-shaped sleeves. Special blue gowns for Rice doctoral students were introduced at the 1997 Commencement.
The third costume component, the hood, is the most symbolic. The hood’s length and the width of its velvet trim indicate the level of the earned degree. The color of the velvet trim indicates the academic field in which the degree has been earned.
For undergraduate degrees, five colors denote specific academic fields:
Golden yellow — Natural Sciences and Engineering
White — Humanities and Social Sciences
Brown — Architecture
Drab — Business
Pink — Music
Graduate degrees have an expanded palette:
Orange — Engineering
Golden yellow — Natural Sciences
White — Humanities and Social Sciences (including Education and Liberal Studies)
Brown — Architecture
Drab — Business
Pink — Music
For doctoral degrees, the hoods are trimmed in velvet, with the following colors:
Blue — Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs
Pink — Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) programs
The hood also identifies the institution at which the wearer took his or her degree. It is worn to expose the colors in its lining. In 1985, most schools adopted a chevron for their hoods. Because of the limited number of colors selected, duplication of designs is common. The Rice hood has a blue lining with a single gray chevron.
Degrees
All Rice degrees have been awarded for work done in course. Rice does not award honorary degrees. The
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Music degrees normally require four years. The Bachelor of Architecture degree requires two years beyond the B.A., including one spent on preceptorship with an architectural firm.
The Master of Arts degree and the Master of Science degree often require two years and the presentation of a thesis, but in some departments students are eligible for a master’s degree without submitting a thesis once they have been admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. Rice awards a number of professional master’s degrees that normally require one or two years of concentrated training in a specified field beyond the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree.
The Artist Diploma in Music is awarded at the completion of a two-year course of study beyond the master’s degree. The curriculum prepares students for a career focused on performance at the highest levels.
The Diploma in Liberal Studies is awarded at the completion of a two-year course of study beyond the master’s degree. The curriculum extends the educational goals of the Master of Liberal Studies program and allows students to deepen their interdisciplinary knowledge and lay the groundwork for contributions to their community in the form of critical publications, community service, doctoral studies or career work.
The Doctor of Philosophy degree is awarded after successful completion of a program of advanced study and scholarly research culminating in a written dissertation. As final evidence of preparation for the degree, the candidate must pass a public oral examination. Normally, three or more years are required to complete the graduate study leading to the Ph.D. degree. The equivalent degree in architecture is the Doctor of Architecture. The Doctor of Musical Arts is awarded after completion of a program of advanced study and required performances or original compositions.
Undergraduate Honors
Undergraduate honors, based on the grade point average of academic work done at Rice University, are awarded to degree recipients being conferred the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Music.
Distinction in Research and Creative Work is a university honor bestowed by the faculty in individual departments. The specific requirements vary among departments. Students must apply for the honor, and the application requires a supporting letter from a faculty member.
Approximately 5% of the students graduate with highest honors (summa cum laude), the next 10% graduate with high honors (magna cum laude) and the next 15% graduate with honors (cum laude).
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Insignia of the
Graduate
Student Association and Residential Colleges
Each residential college has its own emblem, which is displayed on its banner and carried in the procession. The Graduate Student Association banner, displaying its shield, precedes the doctoral, master’s and special bachelor’s degree candidates.
Graduate Student Association
The shield of the Graduate Student Association features eight lozenges representing the university’s eight schools that offer graduate programs. The grackle is the mascot of the association, and the two grackles in the emblem represent students in the two types of advanced degree programs at Rice — professional and research.
Baker College
Magisters, Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio and Cassy Romano
Members wear red stoles with the college crest. In addition, silver piping adorns the stoles worn by the magisters, faculty associates and winners of the Baker College Service Awards (Baker Fellows).
Will Rice College
Magister, Ken Whitmire
Members and faculty associates wear rust stoles with a white border that bear the college crest. A gold border is on the stoles worn by the magisters, the Will Rice Fellows and award winners.
Hanszen College
Magisters, Fabiola López-Durán and Carlos Martinez-Rivera
Members, magisters and faculty associates wear black and smoke-blue stoles displaying the college crest. Hanszen Mentors also wear blue and yellow honor cords.
Wiess College
Magisters, Flávio Cunha and Fabiana Alves dos Santos
Members, magisters and faculty associates wear gold stoles displaying the college crest.
Jones College
Magisters, Zachary and Trisha Ball
Members and faculty wear green stoles displaying the college crest. Jones Fellows wear a purple honor cord.
Brown College
Magisters, Douglas and Emmanuelle Schuler
Members and faculty associates wear yellow stoles displaying the college crest. A maroon border is on the stoles worn by current and past magisters. Brown Fellows wear a burgundy cord.
Lovett College
Magisters, Mike Gustin and Denise Klein
Members, magisters and faculty associates wear blue stoles displaying the college crest. A cream border is on the stoles worn by the Lovett Fellows. A gold border is on the stoles worn by the Lovett magisters.
Sid Richardson College
Magister, Melissa Marschall
Members, magisters and faculty associates wear white stoles displaying the college crest. Two gold stars appear on the left side of the stoles worn by Sid Richardson Fellows.
Martel College
Magisters, Daniel Domingues da Silva and Livia Borges Domingues
Members wear a light blue stole displaying the college crest. Magisters, resident associates, distinguished graduates and honored members wear light blue stoles and dark red cords. Martel Mentors wear light blue cords.
McMurtry College
Magisters, Jenifer Bratter and Noe Perez
Members, magisters and faculty residential associates wear a purple stole displaying the college crest. A silver border adorns the McMurtry Fellows’ stoles.
Duncan College
Magisters, Eden King and Winston Liaw
Members wear a forest-green stole embroidered with the college name and crest. Magisters, Duncan Fellows, resident fellows, and faculty and resident associates wear a gold honor cord.
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Academic Insignia
The original university shield was designed by the artist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the opening of the Rice Institute in 1912. To create the design, la Rose combined the main elements of the coats of arms of several prominent families named Rice or Houston. The elements featured within the shield are a double chevron and three owls of Athena, symbols of wisdom, selected as charges. The form of the owls was taken from a Greek coin dating from the fifth century B.C. The Rice shield can be seen on the cornerstone of Lovett Hall and on the flag of the university, along with the shield of the state of Texas.
Because Rice University was dedicated by its founder to the advancement of “letters, science and art,” these words were incorporated into the design of Rice’s academic seal. The seal is prominently displayed on the emblem of authority at the ceremony, the university mace. Carried by the chief marshal, the meter-long mace has a walnut staff with a golden owl atop it. Engraved on four sides of the cube on which the owl sits are the initials WRU, for William Rice University, and the academic seal.
A Brief History of Rice
The William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art filed its state charter in the Texas capital May 19, 1891. The original charter stipulated that the institute would charge no tuition and would be for “the instruction and improvement of the white inhabitants of the City of Houston and State of Texas.” The institute was founded with a bequest of $4.6 million from the estate of William Marsh Rice, a merchant who arrived in Texas in 1838 and soon thereafter moved to the newly founded city of Houston. In the 1840s and 1850s, he accumulated his wealth by providing supplies to plantation owners and selling cotton and sugar crops produced in large part by enslaved labor. Rice, too, owned and benefited from their labor. After the Civil War, he took the oath of loyalty to the restored United States and lived thereafter in New Jersey and New York, while keeping a close eye on his many ongoing profitable endeavors in Texas. The childless Rice was murdered Sept. 23, 1900, in New York by his butler and lawyer in an attempt to steal his fortune. After considerable litigation, Rice’s bequest was deployed in 1904 toward the purpose he intended — his namesake institute in the rapidly growing city of Houston. The institute’s trustees selected Edgar Odell Lovett, a mathematician from Princeton University, to serve as the first president and sent him on an international trip to bring back the best pedagogical practices, ideas and personnel.
From Oct. 10–12, 1912, the Rice Institute celebrated its opening with lectures by eminent guests from around the world. President Lovett proclaimed that he and his colleagues planned “to assign no upper limit to its educational endeavor.” With 77 male and female students and a faculty of about a dozen in its opening year, the institute quickly grew in size and importance, led by Lovett and James Addison Baker Jr., who chaired Rice’s Board of Trustees from 1891 to 1941. By the time Lovett stepped down as president in 1946, the institute was a key part of a booming city of more than half a million residents.
From its beginning, the Rice Institute’s goals included graduate programs, with the first doctorate awarded in 1918. In the 1950s, under President William Vermillion Houston, who served from 1946 to 1960 (during which the residential college system and the annual Beer Bike competition began), the institute expanded its ambitions. Graduate offerings steadily increased in the sciences and engineering and came to include the humanities and social sciences. On July 1, 1960, the Rice Institute was renamed William Marsh Rice University. In 1962, Rice celebrated its semicentennial led by President Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer, who throughout his leadership from 1961 to 1968 deepened the university’s commitment to research and guided the founding of the School of Architecture in 1965.
Until the early 1960s, the university prohibited the admission of Black students. Growing national pressure from funding and accrediting agencies alongside the larger moral and political pressures of the Civil Rights Movement compelled Rice’s trustees to desegregate the university and begin a legal process to remove racial barriers from its charter. The first Black student to be enrolled was mathematics graduate student Raymond Lewis Johnson in 1964. In fall 1965, the first two Black undergraduate students arrived — Charles Edward Freeman III and Jacqueline Elizabeth McCauley. These first three students were subsequently joined by an increasing number of Black students who brought further distinction to the university and who continued to push for full acceptance by the rest of the Rice community. That same year, Rice began charging tuition for the first time and launched a $33 million development campaign.
During and after the Cold War, Rice took advantage of a boom in available research funding. President Norman Hackerman, who served from 1970 to 1985, oversaw the debut of the Shepherd School of Music and the Jones Graduate School of Administration, now the Jones Graduate School of Business. In 1975, the Division of Science and Engineering divided into the George R. Brown School of Engineering and the School of Natural Sciences, now the Wiess School of Natural Sciences. The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences separated into two schools in 1979. In 1985, Rice joined the Association of American Universities, an invitation-only group of leading research universities in North America. Rice President George Erik Rupp, who served from 1985 to 1993, led the creation of several interdisciplinary centers. Innovative
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faculty forged into new fields such as nanotechnology, where professors Robert F. Curl Jr. and Richard E. Smalley shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996. As a result of these continued advancements, Rice has consistently earned a ranking among the nation’s top 20 research universities.
Under the administration of President S. Malcolm Gillis from 1993 to 2004, the university dramatically expanded its international character by welcoming more students from abroad and building partnerships with institutions around the world. At the same time, the university continued to deepen its commitment to its home city of Houston, expanding partnerships with local industry and the Texas Medical Center. The Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies brings thousands of Houstonians to campus each year for learning opportunities and personal and professional development. The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, founded in 1993, provides vital insight to local and national policymakers on the important questions of the day.
For nearly two decades, under the leadership of President David W. Leebron from 2004 to 2022, the university continued to expand its local and global footprint under a period of tremendous growth, punctuated by new programs and facilities like the Kinder Institute for Urban Research in 2010, the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance in 2013, the Doerr Institute for New Leaders in 2015, the Moody
Center for the Arts in 2017, the Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2017, the Ion in 2021, and the Brockman Hall for Opera in 2022.
In 2019, the university launched a new financial aid policy, The Rice Investment, that deepens and extends its ongoing commitment to need-based scholarships for low- and middle-income students. With the generosity of untold individuals and foundations, Rice’s endowment has kept pace with its burgeoning enrollment and expanding infrastructure and programming. The endowment of $10 million in 1913 grew to $7.8 billion as President Reginald DesRoches, Rice University’s first Black president, took office July 1, 2022.
As its resources have increased, Rice has served a flourishing and diverse student population. For fall 2022, degree-seeking undergraduate students totaled 4,480, alongside 4,085 degree-seeking graduate students. At matriculation, Asian Americans composed 29% of the Class of 2026. Students identifying as Hispanic or Latino were 17% of that group, and Black students made up 8%. A growing segment of undergraduate and graduate students at Rice hail from more than 60 countries around the world. Rice has 749 full-time faculty members and 147 part-time faculty members. Already in the midst of a strategic planning process and a $2 billion fundraising campaign, the university will continue to build and evolve, ever aiming for a bolder future.
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Commencement at Rice
Rice Institute’s first graduation exercises were held Sunday and Monday, June 11 and 12, 1916. The baccalaureate on Sunday included a sermon and the singing of Latin and English hymns. At Commencement on Monday, Rice awarded its first Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees. Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford University, addressed the 36 candidates for degrees and their families on the subject “Is War Eternal?” That same June, President Woodrow Wilson, longtime friend and former Princeton colleague of Lovett, was working for a negotiated settlement to hostilities in Europe. Ten months later, the United States officially entered World War I.
Since that first graduation, the ceremonies have been held, at different times, in the Academic Quadrangle, in the courtyard of the chemistry laboratories, in the Rice gymnasium, and in local high schools and churches. In 1960, Commencement was moved to the front of Lovett Hall. Baccalaureate and Commencement were combined for the first time in 1972 by President Norman Hackerman. In 1986, President George Rupp returned the ceremony to a morning event in the Academic Quadrangle, site of the first Commencement.
In 2014, President Leebron reorganized Commencement. Growth in the number of degree recipients was making the single unified Saturday ceremony untenably long. The model for Commencement had each student presented at a Friday ceremony — retaining the Rice tradition of presenting and congratulating each student as an individual — followed by the conferral of degrees in a plenary ceremony Saturday morning.
With an increase in the size of the graduating classes, a committee was formed in 2022 to develop a vision for current and future graduation ceremonies. Based on this committee’s recommendations, beginning in 2023 Rice now has four separate Commencement ceremonies at which each graduating student is recognized by name as they cross the stage: Master of Business Administration Ceremony, Doctoral Ceremony, Advanced Degrees Ceremony and Undergraduate Ceremony.
Lovett deeply loved the graduation ceremonies and guided them with great personal attention. His appreciation of the classics and his pride in the fact that Rice degrees were individually earned and diplomas individually conferred were always reflected in his remarks to Rice graduates.
Adjustments to Commencement were made on occasions during both World Wars. In 1917, a special graduation exercise was held at Camp Fuston, near San Antonio, for the 11 graduates who had volunteered for military service and were then in training. Later, the 31st Commencement, in June 1945, was followed by the 32nd in March 1946 and the 33rd in June 1946.
Owing to the sacrifices that we as a nation were asked to make during World War II, many Rice alumni were forced to forego graduation ceremonies at Rice. In honor of these individuals, the 1998 Commencement featured the presentation of a special certificate to war-era graduates who received their degrees in absentia.
Speaker, Peggy Whitson ’86
Throughout her 37-year career, Peggy Whitson has flown on three NASA longduration space flights and Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), accumulating 675 days in space, more than any other American astronaut or female astronaut in the world.
Whitson is currently serving as director of human spaceflight for Houston-based Axiom Space. Over the past almost four decades, she has held various remarkable leadership positions, often being the first woman to do so, including chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office, commander of the International Space Station (twice), chair of NASA’s Astronaut Selection Board, chief of NASA’s Operations Branch, deputy division chief for NASA’s Medical Sciences Division and Astronaut Office, and commander of Ax-2, a private space mission in May 2023.
During her three previous space missions to the International Space Station (Expeditions 5, 16, 50/51/52), she conducted 10 spacewalks, logging over 60 hours in space. Throughout her career she has contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science.
Whitson received degrees in biology and chemistry from Iowa Wesleyan University and a doctoral degree in biochemistry from Rice. She has been honored with numerous forms of recognition, including a listing in TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World (2018), the Women in Aviation Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), and NASA medals in leadership, outstanding leadership and exceptional service.
Whitson grew up on a farm outside the town of Beaconsfield, Iowa, with her siblings and parents, who were farmers. She decided to become an astronaut after she watched the first moon landing on television as a child in 1969.
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The Rice University Board of Trustees
Trustees
Robert T. Ladd, Chair
Elle L. Anderson
Bart J. Broadman
D. Mark Durcan
Joshua R. Earnest
Michol L. Ecklund
Terrence Marlin Gee
George Y. Gonzalez
James T. Hackett
Jennifer R. Kneale
Holli Ladhani
Lynn A. Lednicky
Elle Moody
Brandy Hays Morrison
Asuka Nakahara
Vinay S. Pai
Brian D. Patterson
Byron K. Pope
Gloria Meckel Tarpley
Jeremy Thigpen
Claudia Gee Vassar
James Whitehurst
Lori R. Whitten
Randa Duncan Williams
Michael B. Yuen
Trustees Emeriti
Edward B. Adams Jr.
J.D. Bucky Allshouse
Keith T. Anderson
Doyle L. Arnold
Laura Arnold
James A. Baker III
Teveia Rose Barnes
E. William Barnett
Subha Viswanathan Barry
Suzanne Deal Booth
Donald Bowers
Alfredo Brener
Vicki Whamond Bretthauer
Nancy Packer Carlson
Albert Y. Chao
Robert L. Clarke
T. Jay Collins
James W. Crownover
Mark D. Dankberg
Ann Doerr
Edward A. Dominguez
Bruce W. Dunlevie
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Douglas L. Foshee
Wanda K. Gass
Karen Ostrum George
Susanne Morris Glasscock
Matt F. Gorges
Lawrence H. Guffey
Ben Hollingsworth
Tommy O. Huie
John V. Jaggers
Lawrence W. Kellner
Albert N. Kidd
K. Terry Koonce
Patricia Lipoma Kraft
L. Charles Landgraf
Cindy J. Lindsay
Michael R. Lynch
Robert R. Maxfield
University Administration
Reginald DesRoches President
Robert Bruce Jr.
Dean of the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies
Kathleen Canning Dean of the School of Humanities
Bridget Gorman
Dean of Undergraduates
Thomas C. Killian
Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences
Rachel Kimbro
Dean of the School of Social Sciences
Matthew Loden
Dean of the Shepherd School of Music
Igor Marjanovi´c
Dean of the School of Architecture
Seiichi P.T. Matsuda
Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Luay Nakhleh
Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering
Peter L. Rodriguez
Dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
Stephen Bayer Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations
Paul Cherukuri Vice President for Innovation
Amy Dittmar
Howard R. Hughes Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Ken Jett Vice President for Facilities and Capital Planning
Kelly Fox
Executive Vice President for Operations, Finance and Support
Caroline Levander Vice President for Global
Tommy McClelland
Vice President and Director of Athletics
Paul Padley
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Steven L. Miller
R. Ralph Parks
W. Bernard Pieper
Harry M. Reasoner
David Rhodes
Karen Hess Rogers
Jeffery O. Rose
Lee H. Rosenthal
Hector de J. Ruiz
Marc Shapiro
L.E. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons
Jeffery A. Smisek
Amy L. Sutton
Charles Szalkowski
Robert M. Taylor Jr.
Guillermo Treviño
Robert B. Tudor III
James S. Turley
Lewis T. Williams
Scott W. Wise
Huda Y. Zoghbi
Trustee Advisers
Judy Ley Allen
Stephen C. Cook
Thomas H. Cruikshank
J. Thomas Eubank
William S. Farish III
William P. Hobby
G. Walter McReynolds
Louisa Stude Sarofim
Stephen J. Shaper
Stephen B. Smith
Ramamoorthy Ramesh Executive Vice President for Research
Yvonne Romero da Silva Vice President for Enrollment
Melinda Spaulding Chevalier Vice President for Public Affairs
Omar Syed Vice President and General Counsel
Allison Thacker Vice President for Investments and Chief Investment Officer
David Satterfield Director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy
Cynthia L. Wilson Deputy Secretary for the Board of Trustees
Alexander Byrd Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
C. Fred Higgs III Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Sara A. Lowman Vice Provost and University Librarian
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