Commencement 2025: Graduate Degree Ceremony • 3 p.m. • December 11

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GRADUATE DEGREE CEREMONY

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025 • 3 P.M.

CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

DECEMBER 11 • 3 P .M.

Graduate Degree Ceremony

Graduate School

School of Law

School of Architecture

College of Arts and Sciences

Patti and Allan Herbert Business School

School of Communication

School of Education and Human Development

College of Engineering

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

School of Nursing and Health Studies

Grand Marshal Robert W. Keane, Ph.D.

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Centennial Banner Marshal

Helen M. Bramlett, M.S. ’97, Ph.D. ’98

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Alumni Banner Marshal Antonio Junior, B.A. ’79

Faculty Banner Marshal Brian Mapes, Ph.D. Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Academic Banner Marshals

Graduate School Karina Gattamorta, Ph.D.

School of Law Andrew Dawson, J.D.

School of Architecture Alex Morcate, M.S.F.

College of Arts and Sciences Lillian Manzor, B.A. ’77, Ph.D.

Patti and Allan Herbert Business School Michael Fuerst, Ph.D.

School of Communication Regina Ahn, Ph.D.

School of Education and Human Development Terilee Wunderman, M.S.Ed. ’79, Ph.D. ’87

College of Engineering Murat Erkoc, Ph.D.

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Elizabeth Babcock, Ph.D.

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Coleen Atkins, Ph.D.

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music Ana Ivanchenko, D.M.A. ’16

School of Nursing and Health Studies Carmen Presti, D.N.P

Hooders

William Carpenter, Ph.D. School of Education and Human Development

Jennifer Kahn, Ph.D. School of Education and Human Development

Christina Lane, Ph.D. School of Communication

Murat Erkoc, Ph.D. College of Engineering

George S. Georgiev, J.D. School of Law

Jessica Owley, Ph.D., J.D. School of Law

Greta Mitzova-Vladinov, D.N.P. School of Nursing and Health Studies

Mary Mckay, D.N.P. School of Nursing and Health Studies

Commencement Program

Academic Procession*

University of Miami Fanfare

David Lambert, D.M.A. ’05

Pomp and Circumstance

University of Miami Commencement Band

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

Robert M. Carnochan, D.M.A. (1963-2024)

Former Director of Wind Ensemble Activities

Tina DiMeglio, D.M.A. ’20

Edward Elgar Conductor

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

President’s Procession*

President’s Processional Fanfare Toward Our New Century

Brian Balmages, M.M. ’00

Pomp and Circumstance

Edward Elgar

Convocation Opening Joel Samuels, J.D.

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

The National Anthem* Nicole Ferretti

The Star-Spangled Banner Student, Music Education

Francis Scott Key

Invocation*

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

Rabbi Jason Cook Jewish Chaplain, University of Miami

Imam Abdul Hamid Samra, Ph.D. Muslim Chaplain, University of Miami Adjunct Professor, College of Engineering

Father Richard Vigoa Catholic Chaplain, University of Miami

Welcome Joseph J. Echevarria, B.B.A. ’78

President and Chief Executive Officer, University of Miami President, UHealth

Introduction of Speaker The Honorable Charles E. Cobb Jr., M.B.A. Member, Board of Trustees

Advice to Graduates

Vincent K. Omachonu, B.S.I.E. ’78, M.S.I.E. ’80, Ph.D. Interim Dean, College of Engineering

Conferral of Academic Degrees

Graduate School

School of Law

School of Architecture

College of Arts and Sciences

Patti and Allan Herbert Business School

School of Communication

School of Education and Human Development

College of Engineering

Nicole Leeper Piquero, Ph.D., Interim Dean

Patricia S. Abril, J.D., Interim Dean

Rodolphe el-Khoury, Ph.D., Dean

Leonidas G. Bachas, Ph.D., Dean

Paul A. Pavlou, Ph.D., Dean

Karin Wilkins, Ph.D., Dean

Laura Kohn-Wood, Ph.D., Dean

Vincent K. Omachonu, B.S.I.E. ’78, M.S.I.E. ’80, Ph.D. Interim Dean

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Benjamin Kirtman, Ph.D., Dean

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

School of Nursing and Health Studies

Alma Mater*

Latha Chandran, M.B.A. ’22, M.D., Executive Dean

Serona Elton, M.M. ’95, J.D., Interim Vice Dean

Hudson Santos, Ph.D., Dean

Nicole Ferretti

Lyrics by William S. Lampe Student, Music Education

Music by Christine Asdurian

Arranged by Henry Fillmore

Recessional*

Man of the Hour

Miami March

The Crosley March

The Noble Men March

Composed by Henry Fillmore

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

University of Miami Commencement Band

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

Note: Degrees with years denote University of Miami alumni.

* If possible, please stand for these portions of the program. At the conclusion of the program, the audience will remain standing until the platform party has left the Watsco Center. The band was recorded during the Fall 2020 Commencement exercises. The commencement set was designed by Leonardo Ramos, B.G.S. ’12.

Commencement Speaker

From common medical mistakes such as prescribing the incorrect medication or mislabeling blood and urine samples to more serious incidents like amputating the wrong leg during a surgical procedure, Vincent K. Omachonu has dedicated an industrial engineering career to preventing defects in and improving the operation of the health care industry.

Omachonu’s path to improving the industry brought him more than 5,500 miles from his homeland of Nigeria to Coral Gables, Florida, where he enrolled at the University of Miami and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College of Engineering, followed by a second master’s degree in operations research from Columbia University in New York.

More than four decades and a Ph.D. from New York University Tandon School of Engineering later, he has taught and conducted research at the University of Miami since, educating tomorrow’s industrial engineers while writing seminal texts in the field of health care quality management.

Interim dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering and professor and chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Omachonu is renowned for his contributions to health care quality and performance improvement, with his expertise having had a lasting impact on both academic curricula and industry standards.

His research and consulting expertise proved instrumental in the early adoption of Total Quality Management methodologies by hospitals across the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean, reinforcing his position as a pioneer in health care quality improvement.

Omachonu’s passion for higher education innovation is unparalleled, as he has developed and expanded academic programs that integrate health care systems engineering, business strategy, and data-driven decision-making. His ability to design and evaluate curricula has made him a much sought-after consultant for institutions looking to align their programs with industry needs and accreditation standards.

His extensive publication record runs the gamut. Omachonu has penned more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, books, and monographs in fields such as health care quality measurement, cost analysis, productivity management, and systems engineering for service organizations. His research has been published in internationally recognized journals, including Health Services Research, Journal of

Population Health, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, and Journal of Health Care Management Science.

His book, “Total Quality and Productivity Management in Health Care Organizations,” received the Institute of Industrial Engineers Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award in 1993 and has been adopted by more than 25 universities and colleges in the United States. Highlighting its real-world applicability in health care administration, the book also served as a critical reference guide for hospitals preparing for Joint Commission accreditation audits.

Omachonu has served as the principal investigator and investigator on several funded research grants, securing funding for interdisciplinary projects focused on health care efficiency, patient safety, HIV, and performance improvement.

He has held leadership positions on multiple health care and academic boards, influencing strategic decision-making, accreditation readiness, and research investment.

Omachonu is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers; a member of the American Society for Quality; and a recipient of multiple prestigious awards—including being honored with the IBM Faculty Award in 2012, which recognized his leadership in health care management and quality improvement. He is also a two-time recipient of the Alexander Orr Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching, presented by the College of Engineering Alumni Association.

A Master Black Belt in Six Sigma Quality Methodology, Omachonu has been featured on CNN discussing quality in health care organizations, and he has delivered keynote addresses and executive presentations to professional organizations and industry leaders across the U.S. and globally.

For his academic and research leadership in addressing and improving health care quality and the patient experience, health care data analytics, and service science, the University of Miami is proud to welcome Vincent K. Omachonu as commencement speaker.

Candidates for Degrees

The awarding of degrees and honors to the candidates named in this program is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of the appropriate requirements by each candidate. The listing of a student’s name in no way implies or ensures graduation, nor the award of honors. The information listed on the following pages was current as of October 10, 2025.

Graduate School

Established 1941

Presented by Nicole Leeper Piquero, Ph.D., Interim Dean

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

William C. Adams

Major: Exercise Physiology

Dissertation: The Relationship Between Gait Variability and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults With and Without Parkinson’s Disease

Nawaf Amgad M Almadani

Major: Industrial Engineering

Dissertation: Dynamic Physician Assignment Under Licensure Constraints in Emergency Telemedicine: Evaluating Predictive Policies Through Simulation

Laura Mary Lucy Vasquez Bass

Major: English

Dissertation: Austere Lives: Afro-Caribbean Geographies of Political Austerity

Mistoria Kristel Brown

Major: Teaching and Learning

Dissertation: The Wealth We Carry: Mapping Literate Identity Across Affinity Spaces

Michael Andrew Caballero

Major: Industrial Engineering

Dissertation: Design and Deployment

Co-Optimization Solar and Storage Microgrid With Endogenous Technology Selection

Lino F. Cappelli

Major: Exercise Physiology

Dissertation: Comparison of the Predictive Ability of Balance, as Assessed by Reach Testing and Jump Testing, on Non-Contact Ankle Injury Frequency in High School Athletes

Joely Anne Centracchio

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Prognosis Awareness and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer: Moderation by Anxiety, Age, and Cancer Type

Jiuyan Chen

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Cationic Carbon Dots and Their Application in Cancer Cells Inhibition As Well As Gene Delivery

Shawnus Chen

Major: Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering

Dissertation: Multi-Scale Magnetic Materials for Medical Devices From Magnetoelectric Nanoparticles to Macroscale Electromagnetic Devices

Shruti Choudhary

Major: Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering

Dissertation: Development of Next Generation Particulate Matter Sensors: Health and Safety in Indoor, Outdoor, and Space Environments

Josep Ramon Codina Garcia Andrade

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Accelerating Peptide Design for Diverse Molecular Targets Using Molecular Docking and Machine Learning

Hanjing Dai

Major: Applied Marine Physics

Dissertation: Spatial and Temporal Measurements of Short Wind Waves Using Shape From Polarization: Assumptions, Procedures, and Applications

Laura Pilar Doyle

Major: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Dissertation: An Adaptive Switch Controlling Polarized Cell Growth and Stress Response in Schizosaccharomyces Pombe

Anastasiia Evans

Major: Biology

Dissertation: Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Thermosensation in Drosophila Larva

Scott Ian Frank

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Unveiling the Holistic Pain Experience: Integrating Neural Correlates, Pain Drawings, and Pain Distribution in Spinal Cord Injury Patients With Neuropathic Pain

Isaac Thomas Furtney

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dissertation: Graph Neural Networks and Uncertainty Estimation in Health Care: Advancing Patient-Specific Clinical Predictions

Ehsan Harati Khalilabad

Major: Civil Engineering

Dissertation: Standardized Design Approaches and Strength Reliability for Lateral Torsional Buckling in Pultruded FRP Elements

Jiaming Hu

Major: Human Genetics and Genomics

Dissertation: Multimodal Data-Driven Computational Models for Kinase Inhibitor Discovery and Cellular Drug Sensitivity Prediction

Natasha K. Khatwani

Major: Cancer Biology

Dissertation: Enhancing Metabolic Fitness and CAR-T Cell Function Using MicroRNA-29a

Isha Ravindra Kowey

Major: Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering

Dissertation: Structure-Property Relationships in 6FCDA-Based Fluorinated Copolyimide Membranes for Energy-Efficient Light Olefin/ Paraffin Separation

Mayra J. Laverde Paz

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Elucidating Disease Markers and Mechanisms of Primary Lateral Sclerosis

Xuebing Leng

Major: Microbiology and Immunology

Dissertation: Regulating CD8 T Cell Exhaustion via miR-29a and Apd-1/PD-L1

Tiffany Shinyi Leung

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: The Story of Sickness: Improving Children’s Sick Face Perception

Ceewin Naomi Louder

Major: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation: Stress, Racism, and Resilience: The Influence of Racism-Related Stress and Coping on Cardiovascular Functioning in Young Black Women

Mercedes Lozano Garcia

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Drug Delivery and Development for Clinical Applications in Oncology, Hemostasis, and Viral Infection

Michele Serita Mayne

Major: Sociology

Dissertation: Understanding Barriers and Decision-Making Pathways in Drug Addiction Treatment: A Community-Based Study on Black/African Americans in Miami-Dade County

Brooks Mullen

Major: Economics

Dissertation: Corruption and Economic Growth: Evidence for the Existence of the Theory of Optimal Corruption

Austin Daniel Newsam

Major: Cancer Biology

Dissertation: RHOA Loss of Function Downregulates CD19 and Enhances Chronic IFNy Tolerance in CAR-T Resistant in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Samuel Abidemi Oluwole

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Multifunctional Ionic Liquid Hybrid Solvents: From Intermolecular Dynamics to Biological Applications

Corin O’Shea

Major: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Dissertation: Understanding and Extending the N-Degron

Ayush Bickram Rana

Major: Cancer Biology

Dissertation: Paracrine Polyamine Signaling in the Glioblastoma Tumor Immune Microenvironment

Amanda Holly Elizabeth Rawstern

Major: Biology

Dissertation: The Role of Intermicrobial Interactions and Host Genotype in Shaping Microbiome Community Assembly and Functioning

Arthur Rech Tondin

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Harnessing the Immunomodulatory Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Application in Transplantation and Type 1 Diabetes

Tamara Lynn Richardson

Major: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation: A Socioecological Model for Understanding Racial Inequities in Child Maltreatment Case Outcomes

Claire Alexandra Richie

Major: English

Dissertation: ‘This Printing Blood’: Reproductive Materialities in Early Modern English Literature

Shrita Sarkar

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Exploring the Influence of Peripheral Macronutrient Utilization in Regulating Metabolism-Fueled Tumorigenic Glioblastoma Stem Cells

Debasish Sarker

Major: Physics

Dissertation: Statistical Physics Approaches to Low-Speed Human Movement

Sophia Oommen Thomas

Major: Nursing Science

Dissertation: Factors Contributing to SARSCoV-2 Vaccine Uptake Among Black Women in Miami-Dade County, South Florida

Andrea Tomassini

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Illuminating Life at the Nanoscale: Rational Design of Green-Light Activatable Bodipy-Based Fluorophores for Live-Cell Super-Resolution Microscopy

William Jacob Villano

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Situating Emotion Within a Predictive Brain: Neural Dynamics Underlying a Naturalistic Emotional Experience

Yujie Wang

Major: Industrial Engineering

Dissertation: Advanced Heterogeneous Recurrence Analysis of Complex SpatialTemporal Dynamics With Biomedical Applications

Ruming Yang

Major: Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

Dissertation: Queered Orientalism in Cuba and Peru

Zhiliang Zhou

Major: Civil Engineering

Dissertation: Integrating Cathodic Protection and Energy Storage in Concrete: A Multifunctional Zn-Cement Anode for Durable and Electrochemically Active Infrastructure

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Arnaldo Alexis Aguero

Major: Physics

Dissertation: Time-Dependent Solutions for Solitons Embedded in AdS4

Salman Shaheen Ahmad

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: A Psychoeducational Workshop to Facilitate Help Seeking in Muslims Living in the United States by Applying an Islamic Lens on Mental Health

Ifedioranma Okechukwu Anikpo

Major: Epidemiology

Dissertation: Evaluation of Statin Use, Drug Interactions, and Their Associations With Lipid Changes in People With HIV

Danielle Antoine

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Role of the Gut Microbiome in Prolonged Pain Hypersensitivity Following Neonatal Morphine Exposure

Prajakta Badve

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Spectroscopic Investigation of Protein Dynamics and Small Molecule Binding in PGRMC1 and Fe-S Clusters Using Biomimetic Models

Brianna Bernard

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Engineering Functional Materials: Microwire Platforms and Carbon Dots for Versatile Biomedical Applications

Joseph A. Bonner

Major: Exercise Physiology

Dissertation: Predictors of Vascular Markers of Cardiac Risk in Collegiate Students

Hannah Claire Broos

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Intolerance of Uncertainty: Linking Computational Measures With Clinical Factors

Zikun Cao

Major: Physics

Dissertation: Fabrication of High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Brianna Nicole Carney

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Role of Astroglial TNFR2 Signaling in Synaptic and Cognitive Function in Multiple Sclerosis

Tericka Smith Cesar

Major: Nursing Science

Dissertation: Obesity: A Comprehensive Analysis Using a Family Health Framework

Nicholas Alexander Cisneros

Major: Philosophy

Dissertation: What Is ‘Veganism’? Making Progress on Vegan-Vegan Disagreements

Ashley Taylor Cook

Major: Marine Biology and Ecology

Dissertation: A Passive Acoustic Approach to Studying Rice’s Whales (Balaenoptera ricei) in the Gulf of Mexico: Detection, Sound Propagation, and Call Density Estimation

Matthew David Coppello

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: The Associations Between Ambient Environmental Factors and Sleep Parameters Among Black Adults in South Florida

Leah Verna Dodds

Major: Prevention Science and Community Health

Dissertation: Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in the United States: A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood, Interpersonal, and Individual Determinants

Shida Duan

Major: Mathematics

Dissertation: Extensions on Predictable Forward Performance Processes: Models and Analysis

Anthony El Kommos

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Dissertation: Hybrid Hydrogels Augmented via Additive Network Integration (HANI) for Meniscal Tissue Engineering Applications

Hope Elizabeth Elliott

Major: Ocean Sciences

Dissertation: Estimating Aerosol-Derived Phosphorus and Iron Fluxes to the Surface Ocean: Looking Beyond Mineral Dust To Understand the Aerosol Indirect Effect on Biogeochemical Cycles

Marcia Fanti Negri

Major: Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

Dissertation: WeMigration: Remapping Women’s Voices in Contemporary Brazilian Writing

Eukene Franco Landa

Major: Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

Dissertation: Variation in Nominal Ergative Marking and Its Social Meaning: A Linguistic and Ideological Comparative Study Between the US Basque Diaspora and the Basque Country

Luca Galli

Major: Civil Engineering

Dissertation: Enhancing Windstorm Resilience of Coastal Communities Through Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC)

Beck Eliot Graefe

Major: Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

Dissertation: Application of Finite Mixture Modeling in Meta-Analysis for Evaluating Between-Study Heterogeneity

Judith Greengold

Major: Nursing Science

Dissertation: Operationalizing Connectedness in Hybridized Health Care: Machine Learning Analysis of Blood Pressure Measurement and Diagnostic Gaps in Real-World Settings

Eric Michael Griffin

Major: History

Dissertation: The Soul of the Nation: Guarani Indigeneity and Nationalism in Paraguay and Corrientes, Argentina 1900-1955

Melissa Alexandra Gutierrez

Major: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation: Refinement and Evaluation of a Parenting Psycho-Educational Intervention for Latine Families

Elizabeth Rose Halliday

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: The Development and Evaluation of a Single-Session Intervention for Parent Distress Tolerance

Nathan Hanson

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Dissertation: Delta-Radiomic Analysis in the Prediction of Pancreatic Tumor Response During Magnetic Resonance Guided Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Elizabeth Haley Jacobs

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Mechanistic Insights and Exploration of a Mini-MTMR5 Therapeutic Approach to Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 4B3

Tashmay Jones

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Tail Wags Dog: Influence of ‘Solubilizing Tails’ on the Binding Affinities of Photoswitchable Kinase Inhibitors

Ariana Jose

Major: Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics

Dissertation: Downstream Effector Pathways of G-Protein Signaling in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Egg-Laying Circuit

Yahnell Judah

Major: Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics

Dissertation: Molecular Mechanisms and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Sensitivity of Cardiac Ion Channels

Nima Khodadadi

Major: Civil Engineering

Dissertation: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Concrete Technologies: Predictive Models and Applications

Jiye Lee

Major: Nursing Science

Dissertation: Effects of Neighborhood Environment on Child Behavioral Health

Tiffany Elaine Leesang

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Reprogramming the Epigenome of (Pre)malignant Hematopoietic Cells With Retinoic Acid and Ascorbate

Rafael Oliveira Leite

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Weight Discrimination and Its Association With Cardiometabolic Health

Kathleen Kiely Little

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Impact of Discriminatory LGBTQ+ Legislation on Sexual Minority Families: An Ecological Systems Analysis and Resilience Model

Kenji G. Lota

Major: Philosophy

Dissertation: Reasons for Asking: Beyond Journey’s End

Liang Luo

Major: Cancer Biology

Dissertation: Roles of FANCA in Breast Cancer Development and Cell Cycle Progression

Sean Meehan

Major: Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Dissertation: Phosphatidylserine Decarboxylase and Its Effects on Retinal Ganglion Cell Axonal Growth and Lipidomics

Michael Patrick Moraskie

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Illuminating Quorum: Engineering Quantitative Bioluminescent Biosensors for the Novel Quorum Sensing Molecule 3,5-dimethylpyrazine-2-ol and Revelations From the Quantified Presence of Quorum Sensing Molecules in Humans, Animals, and Bacteria

Samantha Nebylitsa

Major: Atmospheric Sciences

Dissertation: Modulation of Tropical Cyclone Intensification by Environmental Parameters and Microphysical Processes

Deepa Neupane

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Investigating the Interaction of Huntingtin Protein With Copper: Insights Into Huntingtin Protein Aggregation Pathways and Therapeutic Implications

Lukas Frederick Novak

Major: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation: A Critical Analysis of the Measurement of Flourishing

Subhashree Panda

Major: Civil Engineering

Dissertation: Relationships Between Composition, Structure, Reactivity, and CO2 Uptake in Calcium Aluminosilicate Glasses

Karen Nicole Papazian

Major: Atmospheric Sciences

Dissertation: An Idealized Study of Cold Air Outbreaks

Alexa Mercedes Parra

Major: Nursing Science

Dissertation: The Effects of Intersecting Identity and Social Determinants of Health on AfroLatina Maternal Morbidity and Infant Birth Outcomes in Florida

Patricia Beatriz Pedreira Abreu

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: The Influence of Vulnerability and Resilience Factors on Hispanic Prostate Cancer Survivors in a Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management Intervention

Dominique Alethea Joi Phillips

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Informant Discrepancies in the Treatment of Youth Internalizing Disorders: Implications for Clinical Outcomes and the Effect of Measurement-Based Care

Parth Rathee

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Computational Insights Into Factors Controlling Diverse Metal-Catalyzed Reactions

Rachelle Alicia Reid

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Trajectories of Religious Coping and Social Support Among Black Women Living With HIV in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Marie Valerie Roche

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: From an Epigenetic Study in Humans to a Mouse Model

Hwan Ryu

Major: Philosophy

Dissertation: Essays on Dispositional Realism

Dalton L. Scott

Major: Nursing Science

Dissertation: Intergenerational and Cultural Drivers of Depressive Symptoms in Hispanic Sexual Minority Youth

Naysha Naima Shahid

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Adverse Life Events and Mental Health on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Black Women Living With HIV: Does Resilience Mitigate CVD Risk?

Jason Heath Sonners

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dissertation: Exploring the Hyperoxia-Hypoxia Paradox Impact of Various Po2 Exposures on Cognition, DNA Methylation, Cytokines, and Cell Regeneration

Jack Phillup Stahl

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Developing Oligonucleotide Combinations for Neurological Disorders

Anchen Sun

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dissertation: Deep Learning for Predicting Cancer Prognosis

Lei Sun

Major: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation: The Reciprocal Processes Between Inner and Outer Development Among Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapists

Mohammad Sadegh Tale Masoule

Major: Civil Engineering

Dissertation: Mechanisms of Air-Entraining of Biomolecules in Cementitious Materials

Ruby Rose Taylor

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Dissertation: Biomarkers of the Inflammatory Response Following Brain Injury

Valeria Turino

Major: Marine Geosciences

Dissertation: Thermal Structure and Exhumation During Time-Dependent Subduction: Insights From Numerical Modeling

Rachel Marisa Verhagen

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Inside the Black Box: Therapeutic Processes During Motivational Interviewing With Stimulant—Using Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men

Nicolas A. Vitari

Major: Microbiology and Immunology

Dissertation: The Intestinal Immunoglobulin Response During Morphine-Induced Microbial Dysbiosis

Emily Ann Walsh

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Engagement With a Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management Website: Assessment of a Waitlist-Controlled Trial Among Women With Breast Cancer

Geyi Wang

Major: Communication

Dissertation: How Loneliness and Misinformation Become Dual Epidemics in the Digital Age

Elliott Royal Weinstein

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Exploring the Role of Novel AgingFocused Syndemic Conditions on HIV Risk and Quality of Life Among HIV-Negative Older Sexual Minority Men

Stephanie Elizabeth Whitney

Major: Psychology

Dissertation: Stuck Between an Inflexible Heart and Mind: Examining Heart Rate Variability, Cognitive and Emotion Flexibility in Relation to Internalizing Symptoms

Erin Caitlin Williams

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Dissertation: Development of a Dynamic Next Generation Semicircular Canal Assessment Device

Katherine Aubry Wolcott

Major: Biology

Dissertation: Morphology 3.0 - 3D Pollination Biology of Cacao and Its Relatives (Malvaceae: Byttnerioideae) Using Micro-CT and Machine Learning

Jiawen Yang

Major: Chemistry

Dissertation: Effects of Distinct Chemical Factors on the Mechanism of Metallohydrolase and Its Synthetic Analogues

Zixiao Yang

Major: Communication

Dissertation: Navigating Caregiving Challenges: An Intersectional and Mixed-Methods Analysis of Resilience Among Family Cancer Caregivers

Elizabeth A. Yanuskiewicz

Major: Ocean Sciences

Dissertation: The Chemical Characterization of Particulate Organic Matter Under Contrasting Productivity Regimes

Daiwei Yao

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell’s Degradation Under Voltage Reversal and Innovation for Electrochemical Lithium Extraction

Abbey R. Yatsko

Major: Biology

Dissertation: Uncovering Unseen Elements of Termite Carbon Cycling in Australian Tropical Savannas: From Hollow Trees to Methane Emissions

Maria Fernanda Yepes Restrepo

Major: Neuroscience

Dissertation: Safety and Efficacy of a Pan-Caspase Inhibitor Combined With Therapeutic Hypothermia for Noise-Induced Inner Ear Injury

Vincentia W. Yuen

Major: Business

Dissertation: Two Essays on How Smartphone Versus Personal Computer Use Affects Consumer Decision-Making

Lili Zhou

Major: Biostatistics

Dissertation: Unsupervised Feature Selection With Variable Priority

DOCTOR OF EDUCATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Antwan Tyrone Allen

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Reimagining Asynchronous Teacher Preparation Coursework Design Using a Community of Inquiry

Lindsay Blume

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: From Waste to Worth: Building Smarter School Cafeteria Operations Through Problem-Based Learning

Christianna Louise Bobo

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: EduZen: Using MindfulnessBased Interventions to Combat Teacher Stress and Burnout

Victoria Danielle Brooks

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: EduZen: Using MindfulnessBased Interventions to Combat Teacher Stress and Burnout

Lauren Barbara Gonzalez

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: From Waste to Worth: Building Smarter School Cafeteria Operations Through Problem-Based Learning

Kaitlyn Grange

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: From Waste to Worth: Building Smarter School Cafeteria Operations Through Problem-Based Learning

Tia Simmone Harold

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: EduZen: Using MindfulnessBased Interventions to Combat Teacher Stress and Burnout

Russell Brock Hathcock II

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Cognitive Load Theory: Retention’s Perfect Pitch

Justin Houston

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Cognitive Load Theory: Retention’s Perfect Pitch

Ariel Lynann Junkin

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Build to Learn: Empowering First-Year Nursing Students

Gabriela McLeod

Major: Higher Education Leadership

Dissertation: Lived Experiences and Collaborative Learning Among Undocumented Immigrant College Students

Rachel Lee Mitchell

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Reimagining Asynchronous Teacher Preparation Coursework Design Using a Community of Inquiry

Kimberley Aisha Mitchell-James

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Cognitive Load Theory: Retention’s Perfect Pitch

Keriayn Reddick

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Build to Learn: Empowering First-Year Nursing Students

Loretta White Sheffield

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Build to Learn: Empowering First-Year Nursing Students

Yadira Suazo

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: EmPower EQ: Building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Marginalized High School Students Through Peer-Led Programs

Julie Ladawn Tart

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: EduZen: Using MindfulnessBased Interventions to Combat Teacher Stress and Burnout

Rujia Zhang

Major: Higher Education Leadership

Dissertation: Enhancing Student-Athletes’ Career Development: A Focus on Division I Football Players

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Ava Michelle Allen

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Transforming Workplace Dynamics: Addressing Social Practices and Networking Barriers for Diverse Employees

Maria Victoria Andrade Guimaraes

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Transformational Spiritual Learning: Implementing an Online Religious Education Program

Geovanna Patricia Batista

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Key Challenges and Strategies To Strengthen Alumni Band Engagement and Participation

Hannah Elisabeth Bodet

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: The Smart Giving Model: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Athlete Philanthropy

Sihang Chen

Major: Higher Education Leadership

Dissertation: Exploring Discrimination and Safe Spaces: A Narrative Inquiry of LGBTQ Student Experiences in Higher Education

Kathryn Ann Connors

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: A Transformative Approach to AI Literacy and Responsibility in Secondary Education

Juléa Roselita Eppinger

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: The Role of HBCU Athletes Participation in Academic Achievement and Personal Development Among Collegiate Student-Athletes

Jamey Evans

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: A Transformative Approach to AI Literacy and Responsibility in Secondary Education

Usa Giselle Grace

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Empowering the Haitian and Hispanic Golden Child: An Andragogical Approach to Sociocultural IEP Training for Parents

Thomas Clifford Henderson

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: The Role of HBCU Athletes Participation and Academic Achievement and Personal Development Among Collegiate Student-Athletes

Amanda Nicole Hendrickson

Major: Higher Education Leadership

Dissertation: Infusing Creative Thinking Into College Classrooms

Matthew Todd Henson

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: A Transformative Approach to AI Literacy and Responsibility in Secondary Education

Sephora Reynolde Jolicoeur

Major: Higher Education Leadership

Dissertation: Tackling Burnout Among Student Affairs Personnel in Higher Education

Jenna Helene Lanza

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Key Challenges and Strategies To Strengthen Alumni Band Engagement and Participation

Kalai Chelvan Many

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Transformational Spiritual Learning: Implementing an Online Religious Educational Program

Tikenya Yarnese McNeil

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Key Challenges and Strategies To Strengthen Alumni Band Engagement and Participation

Jessica Ashlee Miller

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: The Role of HBCU Athletes Participation in Academic Achievement and Personal Development Among Collegiate Student-Athletes

Danay Montesdeoca

Major: Higher Education Leadership

Dissertation: A Proposed Model for Translating Military Training Into Academic Credits

LaNishia Montae Moore-Munoz

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Developing a Digital Literacy Toolkit for Minority Students

Armica Nabaa

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: The Smart Giving Model: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Athlete Philanthropy

Gloria Guadalupe Navarro

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: A Situational Learning Approach to Research-Based Interview and Interrogation Training for Law Enforcement

Victoria Louise Nicholas

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Leveling the Playing Field: Digital Literacy as a Pathway to Workforce Equity

Pamela Puri

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: A Transformative Approach to AI Literacy and Responsibility in Secondary Education

Dannier Rafael Reyes

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: How to Conduct Interviews and Interrogations Effectively

Tomorris Robinson Jr.

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: The Role of HBCU Athletes Participation in Academic Achievement and Personal Development Among Collegiate Student-Athletes

Ruth Elizabeth Stewart

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: A Transformative Approach to AI Literacy and Ethical Responsibility in Secondary Education

Adam Robert Thibeault

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Transforming Workplace Dynamics: Addressing Social Practices and Networking Barriers for Diverse Employees

Sophonie Gaspard Wright

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Empowering the Haitian and Hispanic Golden Child: An Andragogical Approach to Sociocultural IEP Training for Parents

Fabiana Karina Zorrilla

Major: Applied Learning Sciences

Final Project: Key Challenges and Strategies To Strengthen Alumni Band Engagement and Participation

DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Lingjian Ai

Major: Instrumental Performance

Final Project: A Feasibility Study on Applying the Thinking Logic of the Pyramid Principle to Musical Instrument Practice: Using the American-Style Oboe as an Example

Yi Mei Ciou

Major: Instrumental Performance

Final Project: ‘Complementary Percussion’ by Keith Aleo

Jacqueline Jove

Major: Instrumental Performance

Final Project: José Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte: Afro-Cuban-French Violin Virtuoso, Pedagogue, and Composer—An Argument for the Inclusion of Six Concert Pieces for Violin and Piano in the Performance and Teaching Canon

Meiquan Lian

Major: Keyboard Performance

Final Project: Application of Theodor Leschetizky’s Teaching Principles to Souvenirs D’Italie, Op.39: A Lecture Recital

Xiaotong Wang

Major: Keyboard Performance

Final Project: Nordic Romanticism: Sonic Scenery in Selected Piano Works by Niels W. Gade

Degree conferred August 1, 2025

Congcong Wang

Major: Vocal Performance

Final Project: The Selected Chinese Art Songs of Luo Zhongrong: A Performance and Pronunciation Guide

DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Natalie Karina Ali

Jhohanna Patricia Alvarez

Samantha Asher

Jonathan Camacho

Sabine Cayo-Saylor

Quianna Monique Chavis

Isabella Cortes

Savion Raphael Dickerson

Marina Drenovac

Aryeh Esterson

Anyer Garcia Amaro

Taina Marie Gonzalez-Ferrer

Emily Ann Halfaker

Irene Hu

Adrian Jimenez

Jessica Jorge

Shawn R. Kelly

Kellye Marie Koubek

Matthew Robert Kuhn

Yesenia Licor

Amanda Logsdon

Stefanie Macedonio

Amanda Marie Marrero

Ryan Mejia

Norma Rosa Mendoza

Aldrin Noces

Briana Nicole Padron

Greudy Michael Perez

Jessa Mae Perez

Jean M. Philiossaint

Claudia Rivero

Javier Rodriguez De La Flor

Gabriela Rojas

Maria Elena Ruffner

Karen Salazar

Yanessy Sanchez

Heidy Sanchez Rodriguez

Jaclyn Sequeiros

Analise Krisan Thomas

Jennifer Tsai

Roberto Andres Urquiza

Adrian Vichot

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Miracle Victoria Arceus

Shayla Marie Barrett

Courtney Lynne Caputo

Lianis Del Valle

Diana Marie Dhanraj

Brittney Lynn Garcie

Dhibo Kassim Hussein

Ana Maria Montana

Christina Salazar

School of Law

Established 1926

Presented by Patricia S. Abril, J.D., Interim Dean

MASTER OF LAWS IN ENTERTAINMENT, ARTS, AND SPORTS LAW

Degree conferred July 23, 2025

Emily G. Finch

MASTER OF LAWS IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Joao W. Arbildo Caro

Alejandro José Capellán Lopez

Estefanía Hernández

Javier Vicente-Arche Balbuena

MASTER OF LAWS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Lidisis Achang Rivas

Eduardo Clay Alcala Casasola

Yurany Arbelaez Franco

Mariana Bego

Mayle Castillo Alarcon

Javier Dario Coronado Diaz

Wilmy Dessalines

Elina Endemann

Alejandro Gonzalez

Liliam Hernandez Rivero

Natalia Lorena Morales Alvarez

Maria Fernanda Ponte Muricy

Nikiel Nesbeth

Yusbel Olivares

Elianne Perez Fernandez

Sara Ahmed Mostafa Rashed

Elizabeth Ruiz Navarro

Ahymed Socorro Rodriguez

Luz E. Valencia

Incegrid Rosa Vidal Ricourt

Laura Ines Zarama

Degrees conferred July 23, 2025

Luisana A. Albornoz De Salazar

Ríocard Jamil Marc-Vincent de Soúlouque

MASTER OF LAWS IN MARITIME LAW

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Andrew Iakomi

Clara Isabella Tomé

MASTER OF LAWS IN REAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Zakary S. Benjelloun

Suzanne K. Knibbs-Amaya

Olivia C. Polimeni

MASTER OF LAWS IN TAXATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Phillip Joseph Arencibia

Debora Ferreira Baptista

Ygnacio Garcia-Saladrigas

Benji Jultak

William T. Lowman

Saagar K. Patel

David A. Sosa

MASTER OF LAWS IN TAXATION OF CROSS BORDER INVESTMENT

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Marcia Buffara Mulinari

JURIS DOCTOR

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Eduardo Clay Alcala Casasola

Carolina G. Batista

Mariana Bego

Ryan David Brazner

Hannah H. Budd

Mayle Castillo Alarcon

Javier Dario Coronado Diaz (C)

Wilmy Dessalines

Alejandro Gonzalez

Gavriella Hardoon Hodge

Liliam Hernandez Rivero

Andrew Iakomi (C)

Kathleen Black Michaud

Anthony Montano III

Thomas S. Pudas (M)

Elizabeth Ruiz Navarro

Ethan Schwartz

Incegrid Rosa Vidal Ricourt

Laura Ines Zarama

School of Architecture

Established 1983

Presented by Rodolphe el-Khoury, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Ali Can Akkan

Wren Parkhill Ferris

Vassilios Georgakopoulos

Shannon Grace Maria

MASTER OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AND URBANISM

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Alexander Cermak Biber

Antonio Carlos Fraga

Wenceslao Jalife

Rafael Eduardo Martinez

Lucas Kristian Petersson

Valentina Saldarriaga Franco

Felipe Vilhena Silva

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Ali Can Akkan

Stephen Brunetti Jr.

Jake Ellwood Canepari

Cody Thomas Casserly

Mariemilia Cedeno

Christophe Chaumont

Caleb Douglas Crawley

Wren Parkhill Ferris

Anthony Fioravanti

Conor Gallagher

Vassilios Georgakopoulos

Sophia Ann Gorski

Sofia Henriquez

Giaffon Sebastian Lam Salinas

Shannon Grace Maria

Kevin Mendez

Brianna Xiomara Ponce

Ivo Rondinoni

Francisco Alejandro Sanabria Garcia

Kalea Amani Sanders

Estefania M. Woll

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Benedetto Rebecca

Mathilda Elizabeth Ron

Yuanxun Xia

MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Harrison Bluestein

Justin N. Burker

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Ali H Y H Alnejadah

Catherine Sue Calhoun (C)

Henry Matthew Lewiston

Deirdre Niamh Nash (M)

Kean Ferrel O’Connor

Sophia Kristina Tosti

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Ann Michelle Ceballo

Tyson Nicholas Hanning

Tomas Hudson

Matthew Jaramillo

Meghan Christina Mahoney

Malachi Elijah Matthews

Lares Monge

Nicholas Ryan Tournour (S)

Sara K. Tufail

Harry A. Zurcher Alice

College of Arts and Sciences

Established 1926

Presented by Leonidas G. Bachas, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Jonathan Ban

Yussif Minott Basa-Ama

Sandy Theresia Denis

Editha Gomez

Osvaldo Martinez Jr.

Jemima Mills

Mia Valente

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Olivia Grace Cole

Fabian Escalante

Randall Thomas Fitzgerald

Alejandra Nicole Grijak

Anne-Marie Esper Issa

Bailin Lu

MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Carlton Daniels Jr.

Akheem Nels Mesidor

Ryan R. Rodriguez

Deisiane Teixeira

Yessenia De Jesus Zamora

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Grace Bonnie Hurren

Lance Michael Ward

MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Sofia Catherine Bond

MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Arlene Marie Buckland

Rainey Briana Taylor

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Miguel Antonio Anez Salaverria

Brian C. Elliott

Beatrice Noel

Jeanine Carmen Ocon

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Joseph Nicholas Bretl

Madeline Natasha Collazo

Devoux Deysel

Jade Kyassa Muyambo

Luiza Torres Pardo-Evans

Sushmita Persaud

Pengxiang Zhang

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Frances Alonso

Daniella Amador

Haitao Ao

Emma Brianna Baskind

Amanda Nicole Belanger

Bharat Bharat

Robert Carroll

Michael Crawford

Madison Drye

Chabely Altagracia Figuereo

Sara Isabel Freire Blanco

Claudia Gutierrez

Melissa Maria Herran

Amanda Rose Jensen

Izabella Johannes

Maya Metser-Waldman

Maria Naffah Roldan

Shane Alan Stewart

Amaia Victoria Vargas

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Kimberly Sophia Adt

Ayhan Patricio Aksu

Abdulmajid M A S Alashwak

Alp Alkan

Melany Amaya

Audrey Angel

Zili Ao

Joao Marcos Purchio Arede

Gahmliel Artison

Rueben Ellis Bain Jr.

Deny Basulto

Christopher David Bedecs

Markel Shawn Bell

Nicole Marie Betancourt

Avery Madison Bethurum

Wesley Emmanuel Bissainthe Jr.

David L. Blay Jr.

Kyle Simon Bolton (S)

Alyssa Rose Boxer (C)

Charles Leonard Brantley

Joshua Scott Carlson

Alexandra Paola Carrillo Rametta

Jacqueline Marie Chason

Emiliana Chediak

Isabella Alezandra Childress

Tyler Lee Chin

Natalie Makala Cole

Luna Jade Contini

Giselle Olivia Crumbley

Carter Michael Davis

Antonia De Martino

Julianna M. Del Rey

Ashley Romayne Delisser

Owen Ryan Deruyter

Emily Ann Grace Devane

Ava Lyn Diamond

Nathaniel Ruben Diaz

Jayson Hunter Eisner (C)

Isabella Espinosa

Olivia Michelle Estoppey

Isabel Teresa Falcon

Isabella Catherine Freeman

Caitlyn Marie Freitas

Andria Jayne Galante (M)

Yicheng Gao

Olivia Maria Garcia

Adam Gery (M)

Naomi June Ghaliai

Rose Liyan Gladstone

Mikayla Elan Godbolt

Giovani Roskilde Gomez

Claudia Marie Gonzalez (S)

Yanesi Gonzalez (M)

Gabrielle Sophia Gottlieb

Noah James Grace (M)

Oceana Naya Gross

Paula Marianne Guersching (M)

Kylie Heller

Dallas Storm Jackson-Jordan

Simone Ella Janjua

Siyuan Jiao

Sean Russell Kaps (S)

Elaine Karabo (C)

Hanna Kassab

Jasmine Violeta Kennedy

Ezra Oliver Kies

Carson Stone King

Sophia Kouhail

Jakob Alexander Kroll

Victor Stefan Lam

Karrington Lee-Louise Lawson

Nathan Lederman

Sabrina Leon

Malaika Ballay Lewis

Zilin Li (C)

Spencer Lidov

Zixian Lin

Tristan Lippert

Jadon Shane Lonner

Olivia Kathleen Lopez

Emma Jeanne Losey (M)

Tracy Cui Lynn

Armelie Wa Ngoie Mande

Nalia Luisa Matias-Jacinto

Rebecca J. Maynard

Matthew McCoy (M)

Jamie Elise McDermott

Fangyi Meng

Ramon De Jesus Moncayo Escalona

Philip Carr Moody

Ahmad Moten

Sean Patrick Murphree

Jack Andrew Nickel

Ava Renee Oakes

Jasmine Aria Parchment

Hunter Franklin Parks

Martin Jerry Peeples

Chiara Pellacani

Miranda Celeste Perez

Shawn Sebastian Perez

Abbigale Prieto

Matthew Jon Ramstrom

Isabella Grace Ribeiro Da Cunha Pereira

Martina Rinaldi

Ella Gwynn Rivers

Jocelyn Grace Robles (C)

Kenneth Michael Romeu

Holly E. Russell

Camila Sanchez-Perez

Connor Matthew Schinski

Jeremy Alan Grant Schoeneborn

Mariana Mai Sommer

Lily Caroline Sternlicht

Carlos Daniel Suarez-Cabal

Biandie Trente Et Un

Adrianna Fatima Trinidad

Marina Velis

Gregory W. Veliz

Valentina Villar

Aidan Wade

Branden M. Walsh

Warren Alexander Wang

Tiffany Anna Wilen

Anita Olivia Wright

Ashton Yadegar

Chaoyu Yang

Melanie Andrea Zamora

Alejandro Zapata

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Awrad Alsubaiai

Lia Nicole Aslanian

Sophia Anita Barry

Skyler Ann Brotherton-Julien

Joshua Nathan Buxbaum

Kennedy Mariah Cameron

Julia Canseco Roter

Clay Deming Canterbury II

Athena Anastacia Caralis

Rachael Chandley

Lokesh Chintapalli

Maria Victoria Coburn

Nicholas Constantine Darras III

Juana Davin

Manxi Dong

Devin Dorame

Cole Dupee

Lujain M. Elbanna

Emma Faria Proud

Shyanne Friday

Garrett Hunter Fuhrer

Christopher William Gepfert

Jacqueline Trinity Gilmore

Isabelle Marie Gomez

Jacob Goralnik

Gabriella Alexis Guevara

Eduardo Gutierrez

Cameron James Hackett

Conor Patrick Harkins

Allison Charlotte Harrison

Emmanuel Heliou Le Heux

Edwin M. Hernandez

Zhengtao Huang

Kiree Samir Huie

William Thomas Hunnewell

Defne Ilaldi

Cheyaan Hannah Jamal

Emily Anju Jana

Isabella Jordan Kane

Guemara Marcelin

Eric Oswaldo Mena

Brian Edward Miller

Jackson Lee Morris

Nalea Chandra Naraine

Jael Noel

Samson Adeyemi Okunlola

Evan David Nikola Paldrmic

Sebastian Mauricio Parada

Alexander James Photakis

Bryce Kristian Pickett

MacKenzie Lobbe Pierce

Melanie Ling Pohl

Darrione Rogers

Emma Marie Santos

Shayla Nicole Smith

Mary Katherine Stose

Isaiah Paul Taylor

Julia Tedesco Berzosa

Ashley Toscano Vasquez

Katherine Emily Welling

Emory Daniel Williams

Broderick Fletcher Young

Dominique J. Young

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Catalina Char Piedrahita

Julia Walker

BACHELOR OF GENERAL STUDIES

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Christhal D. Cannon

Andre Carty

Haydee Carvalho

Cristina Araminta Fonseca

Steven Frometa

Alina Areas Gonzalez

Julia L. Lemus

Monica Martinez

Caden Dewayne Nall

Luis O. Rivera

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Miguel Angel

Michael McCann Cody

Lizett Corral

Kalani Alfonso Duran

Alessandra V. Fusco

Sean T. O’Brien

Gregory Clayton Phifer

BACHELOR OF LIBERAL ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Anez J. Cooper

Asher Foonberg

Sixuan Pu

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Alexandra Maria Alexandrescu

Fahad Y H B R Almutairi

Nitya Anne

Dario Ayala

Diviana Azuaje

Olivia Marcelle Biggs

Aliane Castillo-Diaz

Ivy Yuting Chen

Seth Ryan Cox

Natalia Isabel De La Fuente

Adrian Diaz

David Samuel Erulker

Jose Fernando Fernandez Finale

Laura Mae Gale

Alexandra Elizabeth Gallagher (M)

Michelle Paulyn Gitman

Jonathan Parker Gleason

Nickolas Charles Goodis

Nicole Gorbatov

Paige Arden Gusek

Alexander Robert Hammel

Ryan Edward Hunt

Joia Intrator

Lianet Belinda Jimenez

Claire Keebaugh

Peter Jorge Kellogg

Sophia Nadia Knutson (S)

Ethan Michael Lamka

Polina Lastovskaya

Emily Catherine May Lavin

Elijah Scot Lehman

Leo Irving Levine

Hanyu Li

Qingchun Li

Victoria Loredan

Kevin Wenjian Ma (M)

Selena Alecia-Marie MacDonald

Sophia Allena Mantegari

Michael Christopher Maron

Ashley Rose Millilo

Elliana Grace Mohrhardt

Anthony Navarro

Joshua Jensen Ostler (S)

Alexa Genovaite Paulaitis

Kyle Romero

Luis Alfredo Rosales

Julia Ann Ruggieri

Faisal Sayed

Samuel David Schell Jr.

Clara Rose Schwind (S)

Carolina Senhorini Seixas (C)

Katherine Victoria Shalyaev

Sofia Sherzoy

Mallory Sims

Donald John Siudmak Jr.

Isabella Marie Soto

George Stedronsky (M)

Kassidy Angeline Tapia

Jack Ryan Taylor-Ebersole

Mackenzy Marie Twogood

Lea Marie Vaydie Silveiro

Andrea Arturo Venti Fuentes

Ryan Joseph Waite

Maya Jane Walcott

Shalyssa Anna-Lee Noelle Watler

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Sofia Ann Bolger

Jaden Cavazos

Caroline I. Diaz-Silveira

Stephanie Oliveros-Diaz

Hannah Sydney Scherer

Nicholas Olivier Solages

Sophia Pauline Soli

Benjamin Zachary Steckel

Angelica Tacoronte

Roberto Vazquez

Patti and Allan Herbert Business School

Established 1929

Presented by Paul A. Pavlou, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Celine Agocha

Alanoud Khaled M Alkahtani

Harish Anantharamakrishnan

Gisele Maria Krystel Armand

Jenny Gabriel Aslan

Danny Juan Avalos

Blandine Valerie Marie Azais

Alena Bailey

Ingrid G. Barrera Wahlestedt

Bianca Marie Beato

Thomas Blackshear IV

Isabella Boet

Olena R. Bracho

Dorian Lamont Brown II

Elena Pass Brown

Gerald Anthony Calixte

Maria Karla Casals

Pilar Charrada

Ivet T. Cordoba Torres

Carlos A. Correa

Santiago J. Cruz

Tanya-Gay Nicole Dacosta-Hills

Alfred De St. Croix Von Seidlitz

Ted Densmore

Nicole Diaz

Ricardo Andres Diaz Peraza

Anna Maria Douglas

Marc Edun

Bernard Fils Leon Etienne

Caitlin Farrell

Luanne Force

Alexis Madison Gerchak

Guillermo T. Gonzalez

Myles Grantham

Kallie Green

Maria Paz Grijalba

Andres Grisales

Erick David Guerra

Joshua Bradley Hammons

Jeremy Michael Harper

Jose Andres Hernandez

Nicholas Hessing

Pierre Michael Hilario

Bailey Kirsten Hugh

Tor Wentworth Jarrett

Jerome Johnson

Robert Kamil

Maximilien Henri Kern

Avi Menashe Yaakov Krinsky

James Landis

Maria Angeles Lawson

Desiree M M S Machado

Owen Margeson

Husain Mazher Master

Ana Maria Medina

Aesha Mehta

Michael Mitchell

John Carlos M. Mouw

Alexis Mustelier

Madison Barbara O’Reilly

Sophia Pace

Lauren Paneyko

Schadrac Pierre

Andy Pinto-Castillo

Sanoj Punnen

Thurayya Firyal Ravelo

Brady Andrew Repasky

Thierry Trevor Ritfeld

Jose Carlos Rivera

Nicole Marie Rivera

Dominique N. Rolle

Julio Romero

Alberto Romo

Tucker James Russ

Raymond Sardiña

Rashard Lamar Scippio

Fred Shelton III

Sara Maria Sidaoui

David Benjamin Solares

Katharina Elizabeth Staecker

Timothy M. Sullivan

Nikil Swaroop

Paloma Trejos

Jessica Paula Trochiano

Alfredo Valdes Gonzalez

Mark Younger

Joseph Paul Zeminski

Sophia Angelina Zulich

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Veronica Ballester

Conor Barry

Maria Cole Battershall

Carlo Alfredo Bidone Jr.

Sebastian Camacho

Brandon Carver

Jordan Chatman

Christina Dean

Sean Dixon

Nury Enamorado

Kamal Said Farha

Hunter Fieri

Cody Ford

Lavoy Ulyses Golden

Juan Jose Gomez

Dominique C. Gray

Shaylin Alexsaundria Horner

Yasmin Humes

Eli Johnson

Jonathan Jokhai

Ciara Major

Donovan Patrick Malone

Yaylim Martinez

Richard Brennon McDonald

Samuel Alexander Morales

John Owens

Stephen Phillips

Taishah Pierre

Gabrielle Polo

Samara Rabassa Rodriguez

Yusef Rush

Aryel Sanborn

Emilia Shermeta

Christian Andrew Toucey

MASTER OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Ivette Aguilar

Jonathan Bolivar

Lyvette Charity Carrasquillo

Destyni Chism-Lewis

Irene Maria Collado

Dania Cruz

Sayelle Amelie Denis

Natalie Grace Fuhr

Beatriz Megumi Garces

Ernesto J. Gonzalez

Tahlia A. Harrison

Thomas R. Labelle

Charles Anthony Labrador

Alyssa Marie Masternick

Orisa Patel

Anasophia Perez-Blanco

Adriana Saravia

Quinn Kelly Schaedler

Megan Nicole Schwarte

Gabriel Joseph Shore

Isabela G. Silva

Jordon John Anthony Thomas

Florence Vandenbulcke

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Saman Haroon

Xari Demetria Mathis

Samuel Sanantonio

MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Rana Saba Azad

Khadijah Muhammad

Camila Fernanda Perez

John James Roberts

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Jonathan Daahoud Kaslow

Jonathan B. Moore

Carlos Augusto Silva Jr.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ACCOUNTANCY

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Nicole O’Brien Brinkmann

Pierson Wyatt Chan

Ashley Auxiliadora Chavarria

Kevin Felipe Cruz

Patrick Lloyd Glynn

Zachary Leb Klein

Hayden Matthew Mangru

Syon Singh Sandhu

Jake Daniel Spiryda

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Sabrina Arevalo

Andrew Joseph Cohen

Casiana Fernandez-Bango

Mavrick Judah Komasinski

Xavier Rigby Schore

Ernesto Ryan Suarez

Alex Taraszka

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Salem Alibrahim

Thamer S M TH Alqhisan

Vincent Anthony Barbaro Jr.

Luca Vittorio Bezada Schenone

Ryan Paige Cameron

Gavin Steele Casas

Ashley Tracey Cledanord

Nicole Costa

Nathan Cotroneo

Yasar Kayra Demirbulak

Diego Gonzalez

Santiago Martin Kestler

Andrea Labruna

Jessica Mijares Feijoo

Virginia Montero

Andres Otero

Flavia Eliza Padoveze Goncalves

Xabier Ignacio Palacios Eguidazu

Jose Guillermo Perez Rosario

Faran Qureshi

Paulo Segundo Soares De Mello Wong

Angela Maria Soler Rojas

Juan Manuel Zaragoza Fernandez

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Joshua Danson

Diana Carolina Montalvo

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN TAXATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Ali H. Jafri

Valerie Jean Lehner

Jimmy Marzouka

Matthew Faustino Roche

Ryan Samarel

Jonathan Michael Serna

Emily Suarez

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Camille Alexa Acevedo

Kyle Franklin Albertson (M)

Simon Alvarez

Sasha Anand

Joseph Athanasio

Cristian Juan Azcona (C)

Gianluca Antonio Bellomo

Andre Luiz Benicio

Tyler Peter Bergendahl

Lewis Walton Black III

Max Jakob Bogensberger

Xavier G. Bombaro

Jacob Cw Brown

Riley Butters

Gabriel Castro

Kerong Chen

Andrew Kooyoung Chung

Sara Pazos Conroy

Matthew Cook

Will Thomas Cooper

Gregory Kent Copeland Jr.

Nicholas William D’Iorio

George T. Dowdle

MacKenzie Layne Dryden

Kyle Eldridge

Catalina Escobar

Kassandra Marie Ferreira

Thomas Riker Ferry

Colin Neil Forster

Alec Gordon Gatcliffe

Julia Gill

Simon Greenstein

Richard Gubin

Martina Carola Gutierrez

Alec Reed Hall

Qais Ibraheem Hijazi

Laura Hilgemberg Merlin

Anthony Adrian Hobkirk

Andrew Hromada (C)

Nicole Eugena Kalagin

Martin

Simon J. Katz (M)

Michael Stephen Kirchner

Celia Ann Kostopoulos

Antonio Kozhaya Ward (C)

Jesus Labrador

James Anthony LaReddola (S)

Madeline Grace Leber

Madeleine Nicole LeCloux

Grace Liu

Matthew Malhotra

Maxwell Benjamin Marko

Caetano Maydana Britto

Ian McAllister

John Michael Munitz (M)

Max Joseph Nathan

Kian Nesari

William Joseph Nessim

Robert Winthrop Newton III

Khang Phuong Nguyen

Kailey Nunez

Mark Pekic

Nathalie Perez

Emma Rose Pidding (C)

Natasha Nascimento Pokrajac

Megan Patricia Pulice

Ryan Chase Raiter (M)

Christopher Silas Rhoades

Jensen Ring (M)

Farah Ayn Rizvi

Nicolas Saenz (M)

Maxwell Walter Shafran

John Forrest Siegler

Nitsa Sigua

Aethan Soifer

Aliza Sovie

Dylan Scott Spain

Nathaniel Blake Steinmann

Max Irvin Strohecker

Jaren David Thimons

Victoria Isabella Vaca

Mauricio Valenzuela Anan

Jason Vance

William Christopher Webb

Brady N. Wisdom

Adam Thomas Wise

Henry West Witiw

Bryan Lucas Wong

Juan Pablo Yanez

Zixuan Zhou

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Luis A. Aparicio

Aidan George Bailey

William Isaiah Brodsky

Ryan Paige Cameron

William Murphy Cassini

Aden Leigh Cohen

Mateo Philippe Coles

Lynette Fernandez

Brett Engel Fisher

Kiana M. Gaviria

Gabriella Daquis Grissom

Carolyn Hazard

Matthew Juan Jimenez

Anthony M. Kennedy

Maximilian Karl Christian Kolb

Julia Rose Korb

Arina Krylova

Peter Apollo Mauthe

Michael A. Murphy

Sebastian Perez

Sade Vanessa Piggott

James Marco Rampi

Jia Marie Romero

Braden James Sweeney

Chase Arthur Townsend

Kevin Che Tran

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Nayden Harris Fromberg (M)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Aidan Maxwell Aronin (C)

Juan Carlos Bosacoma (M)

Sathvik Reddy Chadive

Raina Lee Damodaran

David Del Valle

Sunmisola Sesi Dosu

Lilly Jane Dreyer (S)

Emely Mary Gonzalez (C)

Frederick James Green IV (C)

Ethan Zachary Ephraim Hartman (C)

Drake Alexander Johnson (C)

Mikheil Kirvalidze

Joao Pedro Lebrao Mesquita

Isabel Damini Yi Ping Lie Pauw Sam (C)

Joseph Daniel McDevitt (C)

Max Steely Mencimer

Samuel Robert Mitchel (S)

Nicolas Paredero Quiros

Ben Julian Reinhardt

Eric Sebastian Safavi

Jack Tyler Strauss

Andor R. Szekeres

Stefaniya Zhalkovskaya

Degree conferred August 1, 2025

Mark Edward Carbone Jr.

School of Communication

Established 1985

Presented by Karin Wilkins, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Alba Nydia Bonko

Daniel Braz

Noah Gulley

Honor Jackson

Dara Karadsheh

Chenxi Zhao

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Cyro Asseo De Choch

Alexis Rae Litzinger

Isabella Rose Popadiuk

Jaya Araye-Pal Williams

MASTER OF FINE ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Jonathan Baptiste

Mavrick Judah Komasinski

Denis S. Rovinskiy

Xiaopei Wang

Adina Weiss

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Liana Barros

Ashlynn Kay Helms

Camila Ortiz Londono

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Brooke Bonynge

Wenxin Cao

Camilo Duran Scarpetta

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Luis Eduardo Alvarado Jimenez

Kaia Bonner

Isadora Gasparini Tavares

Oscar Gutierrez

Oliver E. Hernandez Jr.

Madison Justine Hurtado

Javiera Ignacia Irarrazaval Irarrazaval

Kendall Leilani Nelson

Alexandra Sofia Roiz

Ngoc Hong Nguyen Than

Cameron Williams

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMMUNICATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Gabriella Lucia Abudoj Rey (C)

Rukayat Animashaun

Patricia Elena Barthle

Jake Christopher Bevis

Julia Renee Bober

Jessica Lillian Boyd (M)

Aidan Johannes Brown (S)

James Avery, Micheal Connors (M)

Katherine Margaret Cruciano

Sebastian M. Gonzalez

Gracie Xiu Ge Herberholt

Jade Caryia Hidalgo (C)

Kayli Madison Higgins

Victoria Elizabeth Howell (S)

Joshua Tsai Hubbard

Idara E. Ibanga

Isabella Jardim Rodrigues

Alexa Katherine Juehring

Wyatt Kraft

Margaret Lee Loggins

Nicholas Alfred Marshall

Ramiro Ernesto Martinez

Francis F. Mauigoa

Layla Clarise McGrady

Daniele Montefiori (M)

Semrit Kaur Nijjar (S)

Cooper Evan Ohlsson

Valeria Grazia Palladino Rodriguez

Vittoria Papa

Carolina Sofia Parr

Ivana Zoe Perez Rivera

Andrea Victoria Perez-Ramirez

Ava Peyton Prinzo (S)

Aidan Andrew Reidy (C)

Angie May Reyes

Alyssa Nicole Rivero

Manuel Rodriguez Rubio

Camila Francesca Salinas Cuba

Ana Victoria Santana (C)

Mimi Stobbart Shapiro

Samuel Scott Soltankashefi

Taylor Stocks

Anna Katherine Sutton

Ainara Vadillo

Ranran Wang

Catarina Whitaker

Marie Tsudae Wilkins

Nathaniel John Williams

Dalia Wilson JR

Cooper Wyler

Lillian Adair Wytrzes

Royed Roy Yakub

Michael Zelenov

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Emma Bampton Bosacki

Jack Paul Butler

Dawson Robert Cunningham

Felipe Franco

Alejandro Manuel Galego (C)

Sofia Maria Gasparo

Samantha Mary Gautier Ayala (S)

Allison Kyla Haber

Elle J. Haymond

Kay-Ann Kadeja Henry

Mariama Michele Hilliard

Jacey Lane Hinton

Hunter Lucille Holstein (M)

Matthew Alexander Klosek

Chloe E. Lamas

Gabriel Lovell

Maria Alejandra Luengo Gimenez

Laura Lynne Martella

Isabella Alisa Matos

Sydney Alton Odiorne

Sophie Ann Okray (C)

Sebastian Pakciarz

Jasmyne Roberts

Christofer Edward Saldarriaga

Camila Schwarz

Logan Seelig

Nicole Smittcamp

Caroline Rose Sorrentino

Scarlet Rose Stallone

Benjamin Ryan Treacy

Joshua Joseph Valencia

Daniel Isaac Vaughn

Anthony John-Rafael Vazquez-Romeo

Mckayla Reese Vincent

Alexis Waserstein

School of Education and Human Development

Established 1929

Presented by Laura Kohn-Wood, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Stephanie Reynoso

Madison Lindsey Sharpless

Elizabeth Soethe

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Amanda Renee Capo

Devon Falco

Laquetta Monique Hairston

Kerrington Harvey

Sabrina Heredia

Matt Klepper

Marisa Marie Modjeski

Jake Joseph Nord

Alejandra Scheuren

Joseph Wachtel

Matthew Weiske

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Julianna M. Aviles

Kyasia Aytch

Domenic Michael Boccalupo

Jose Carlos Fernandez

Carson G. Fischer

Tori Grambo

Ryan Gutstein

John F. Howard

Vincent Lee Jackson

Yaolin Jiang

Kamir Larin

Hansheng Li

Miguel Martinez-Urrutia

Jalen Maurice Mathis

Brody Moazzeni

Yanelly Pavon

Veronica Saiki

Valentina Salinas Cafferata

Inaki Sardina Riviello

Reebha Sharma

Solomon Charles Strader

Rachel A. Stratton

Rey Antonio Suarez

Leonardo F. Tauzard

Chao Wang

Jihao Wang

Jamison Washington

Lonzell Jamaar Wilson

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Jacob Yeshua Abrahamson

Brianna Gavriella Aguasvivas

Steven Angel Aportela

Alanna Rayjean Ardoin

Ronald Simeon Bantang

Adam Zachary Baranovsky

Arash Barmaan

Ethan Robert Billings

Sammy Bitchatchi

Harrison Blech

Bridgette Bluitt

Charles Boyd

Daija Donique Boyd

Camryn A’jea Brown

Eric David Buring

Adrianna Elizabeth Cera

Lily Decker

James Patrick Delaney

Francisco Duenas

Kniqua Fredericks

Jillian Hadder

Mekhi Hayes

Kenan Jean

Brandon Isaiah Kissinger

Skylah Beth Klein

Taylor Lapage

Mark Lemke

Janie Rose Lobel

Annie-Grace Louthan

Raul Andres Maristany

Natalija Lju Marshall

Francesco Keanu Mastriana

Lindsay Merenda

Eduardo Adrian Meurinne Redondo

Hanna Jo Moore

Michael Muscala

Dieynaba Joana Ndaw

Abigail Davis Neff

Mikayla Amelia Oliveira

Leira Sofia Padron

Erica Janay Plant

Owen Andrew Simon

Alex Marie Solomon

Heather Stevens

Frankie Dion Stige Ii

Timothy John Sullivan

Manasa Tirupathi

Lucero Trejo

Adrian Torrell Williams

Patrick Joseph Wixted

Madelon Belle Wood

Shengru Wu

Yuchang Xing

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Brittany Michelle Andres

Patrick Quay DiPietro

Kaley Pearson Dye

Bailey Rhianne Eichelbaum (S)

Darryn Josephine Groves (M)

Sebastian Jesus Gutierrez

Luckie T. He

Maurice Antoine Manswell

Rodrigo Maza

Isaac Jay Robbins

Nakiiyah Adrianna Sairsingh

Blake Stern

Pablo Daniel Tannenbaum

Lev Vaynberg-Movchan

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Claydon Douglas Dunn

Benjamin Tyler Gallinson

Gianna Nicole Ortega

Brian Kyle Walters

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Marvin Kit Cheng

Bennett Rae Handrich

Julia Howe

Kyle Joseph Jordan

Maria De Lourdes Lorenzo

Casey Anne Scharoff

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Syed Humzah Ali

Olivia Rose Carfagno

Zuri Keyonna Greenlee

College of Engineering

Established 1947

Presented by Vincent K. Omachonu, Ph.D.,

Interim Dean

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Sebastian Buenano

Richmond Scott Carlton

Ricardo Gonzalez Rea

Cesar Martin

Destini E. Okoro

Jose Miguel Tovar

Gabriela Vega

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Patrick Balters

Amr Ashraf Elsayed Mahrous Elhendawy

David Lombrozo

Shilo Mazepa

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Alexander John Carrieri

Sofia Andrea Franciosa

Alexa Gonzalez

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Phub Dorji

Degree conferred August 1, 2025

Nicholas Morgan Fujimoto

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Adriana Maria Diazgranados Monroy

Andrew Marete Kimathi

Zhikun Su

Chengqian Zhang

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Omer Erkam Erkoc

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Anthony Manuel Diaz

Audivon Bautista Galliguez

Kepei Miao

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL PHYSICS

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Yuntao Wang

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NEURAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Julia Vanessa McDevitt

Emmanuel Jose Millan

Kevin Morales

Olivera Nikolich

Jake Alan Nixon

Esmie Nichole Otter

Xinyu Qian

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN OCEAN ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

John Sheridan Lee

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Haorui Jiang

Hotsuyuki Kawanishi

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Oscar Sosa

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Sofia Andrea Franciosa (M)

Alexa Gonzalez

Laura Marcela Mejia Rosales

Olivera Nikolich

Ricardo Ignacio Reina-Martinez

Joshua Torres

Devin Verity

Gabriel Vianna

Emmanuella Samantha Yaffa-Kremen

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Santiago Lavarreda Sanzogni

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Christopher Peter Papa

Ella Sokolowski

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Mikael Tomas Figueroa

Bana Bassel George Zoumot (C)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Michael William Denis

Hannah Clarisse Matias Penano

Aidan James Puskas

Nicolas M. Ramos

Abdulaziz KH B A Salman

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Allison Elizabeth Plante

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Gohar Ali

Blake Aidan Austerlade

Omer Erkam Erkoc

Umut Gural

Riley Christopher Gutmann

Maria Fernanda Terceros

Degree conferred August 1, 2025

Arianne Sequeiros Joffre

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Jin Rain Chung

Audivon Bautista Galliguez

Sadana Devi Ramadhar

Nathan Jacob Reservitz

Jiangshuo Zeng

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Jenna Issabel Viard

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Established 1969

Presented by Benjamin Kirtman, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Sienna Marie Aguiar

Kevin Brian Archambeault

Soline Baly

Flora Beleznay

Baileigh Dawn Bishop

Grace Brown

Zachery Brown

Lia Alexa Caldwell

Belen Anais Carrasco

Caitlynn De Los Santos

Liam Patrick Downey

Tyler Ryan Druck

Douglas Flessner

Mya Gabrielle Garrison

Ianna Gilbert

Emma Lauren Hickey

Caviana Lenise Hill

Rachel Holic

Andrea J. Ippen

David Gibson Kinniburgh

Vanessa Martinez

Dayna Simone McKenzie

Sade Cierra Montgomery

Vanessa Dominique Gabrielle Nelson

Genna Marie Nordling

Anton Dinh Pham

Serena Grace Pritchard

Tanner Cole Reese

Allison Joy Halpern Reish

Jeanarry Rosa Rodriguez Hernandez

Anne Marie Ryan

Natalya Skye Sarkari

Evan Sawan

Savannah Lee Schiebel

Celeste Schonberg

Lauren N. Schur

Ryan Nielsen Sedagat

Marius Nobleza Siscar

Tara Stevenson

Kimberlly Tapia

Sara Mackenzie Teague

Emily Elizabeth Timberman

Sierra Amber Tompkins

Nathaniel Dyer Weiss

Rheanna Mae Wilder

Leora Jane Wilson

Alyssa Yost

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Cayman Christ

Gavin Gusler

Lauren Jacqueline Hayes

Hannah Elizabeth Jacobs

Anabella Madrid

Alexandra Danielle Polk

James Huddleston Secor

Harrison A. Smith

Victoria Michelle Spadaro

Danielle Jean Tenberg

Svetlana Vikhlyantseva

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Ivonne Batan

Katherine R. Eaton

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Mason Nicole Fitzgerald

Cristin Mayes

Jennifer Norcross

Carolyn Pope

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Reagan Noelle Burman

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN MARINE AFFAIRS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Isabella Emma Blechner

Jasmine Amelia Bohannon

Ariella Pauline Duvel (S)

Isabela Puente

Aubriana Babe Rhodes

Denzi Alexander Wroy Jr.

Degree conferred August 1, 2025

Elise Marie Roman

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Allyson Adams

J’nesse Alexandria Balkman

Melissa Nascentes Borges

William Garrett Bouza

Marina Claire Deane-Gonzalez (S)

Faith Kylie Erickson

Teilil Garcia-Gonzalez

Max Solomon Graivier

Brendan James Janasiewicz

Katherine Flora Johnston

Harley Anne Jones

Brayden Thomas King (M)

Emma Sophie Teresa Masetti

Gio Gabriel Ramirez

Roxanne Elizabeth Reed

Morgan Elizabeth Scola

Dakota Fitzgerald Williams

John Henry Yudt (S)

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Mia Alejandra Brelsford

Alexis Bianca Carrasquillo

Darius Todd Eggleston

Caitlin Elizabeth Hayes

Elizabeth Gabrielle Mazzie

Charles James Ogle

Jeremiah Michael Wright

Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Established 1952

Presented by Latha Chandran, M.D., Executive Dean

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Farouq Y Y Y Alsarawi

Anna Victoria Hernandez

Sophia Marie Poslock

Matthew Hoyt Weeks

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Carla Sofia Casana

Eduardo L. Hernandez

Jasmine Looi

Gianna Irene Macones

Suraiya Matin

Isis Nelson

Rutvija Rabari

Anuradha Ramdas

Ashima Singh

Maxwell Carl Wray

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Omolade Adeyemi

Jennifer Nicole Biondo

Genesis Aaliyah Campbell

Carlos Augusto Canales

Jesse Hall

Maria Alejandra Idarraga Parra

Ali Kamiar

Laura Alexandra Melo Escobar

Lena Oshana

Daniela Alexandra Ramos

Melanie Aprah Taylor-John

Alexandra Mary Vanderkley

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Frederick Michael Ackerman III

Sierra Jade Bagwell

Paola Beato Fernandez

Arianna Emperatriz Brito

Ying Cen

Kathryn Mary Conway

Cassandra Fernande Coriolan

Yefei Cui

Angela Michelle Dawson

Kelly Falcon Paris

Alonzo Arsene Frederic

Lily Moffet Friedman

Laurent G. Garchitorena Gomez

Daniela R. Gayol

Sanamnaz Imani Oroumieh

Isabella Rachel Kamholtz

Claudia M. Kersting

Heaven Antonette Laster-Torres

Ariane Leconte

Isabella Marconi

Mary Markaryan

Sabrina Maria Mas

Anthony Monsalve

Madisyn Taylor Opstal

Arianna Patel

Arthur Perez

Sammya Salomao Antonio Mufarrej

Eva Isabel Sanchez

Mary Ann Sanchez Bautista

Isha Shailesh Shirvaikar

Victoria Soto Rincon

Clark Junior Viexama

Aidan Wells

Ana Xu

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Degree candidate December 11, 2025

Roger Cassagnol

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Yi Huang

Sarah Elizabeth Schuyler

Yifan Wang

Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music

Established 1926

Presented by Serona Elton, M.M., J.D.,

Interim Vice Dean

MASTER OF ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Jared Baly

Ana Manuela Baraya Llana

Rose Aliyah Blumenfeld

Melissa Ruth Brown

Daniel Timothy Cockerill

Lesley Ann Gent

Samantha Gonzalez

Pei Chi Li

David Edward Lopour

Huy Tien Luu

Alexa Perry

Anabella Torres Alvarado

Bryce Edward Ungerman

Chloe’ Victoria Washington

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Hailee M. Andrews

Jolie Blecker

Lindsey Caitlin Dobson

Amelia Isabel Gil-Figueroa

Joshua David Levi

Javier Eduardo Logreira

Deiondria Kyara Moore

Markas Morton

Emily Pawluk

Cristala Janelle Poole Dorsey

Calli Susan Ross

Rickie Singerman

Andrew Timothy Switaj

Jordyn M. Whitaker

MASTER OF MUSIC

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Jaden Aguinaldo De Guzman

Nicole Rose Mangione

Kiana Marie Ratay

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Devaury Beverly

David Laurent Cote

Cheyanna Slack

Gregory Thomas Stepanich

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Valentina Ochoa

Madison Ryan Serletic

BACHELOR

OF MUSIC

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Melika Borujerdi

Leo Isaac Brandt

Christjian Blaythorne Brown

Madison Jean Grant

Angela Marie Hernandez

Russell James Hornung

Maxwell Ian Levy

Melissa Aguila Machado

Kodi Isaac McKean

Tyler Murphy Pons

August Miller Vesilind

Aidan Wahlmann (M)

School of Nursing and Health Studies

Established 1968

Presented by Hudson Santos, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Nida Sami Abdel Jabbar

Elina Abla

Reinier Acosta Perez

Amalia D Adames

Leandro Aguila

Kimberly Tamara Aldas

Aaliyah Alicia Allen

Marlon Arias

Hensley Starr Babb

Matthew Joseph Bainter

Geraldine Barranco

Brenda Marie Bernal

Natalie K. Bernard

Precilla Bernard

Morgan Blackman

Kristina Samone Bourne

Nadejda Brihunet

Viviana Mabel Brito

Yisroel Eliyahu Bryski

Isabella Maria Cabarrocas

Paulina Carracedo

Gabriela Cedeno Hernandez

Sophia Alexandra Celaya

Arancha Crespo

Caroline Bathurst Cronin

Michelle Delgado

Addie Maureen Deppa

Dara Marie Diamond

Claudia Diaz

Carlos Echevarria

Jennifer Farrell

Dayami Farres

Aury Fernandez

Carolina Fernandez

Alexis Folgueira

Emily Forero

Arden Freedman

Hallie Fuchs

Amily Garcia

Cecilia Catalina Garcia

Frank John Golembeski IV

Jenny Guerrier

Lissette Gutierrez

Tania Guzman

Irmary Hernandez

Tiffany Chantall Hernandez

Jemely Herr

Amaia Irusta

Karen Izquierdo

Alexis Sara Jackson

Jennifer Cassie Jean

Irina Kalvarskaya

Jamie Nicole Karlin

Alena Karotkina

Melinda Asli Kayku

Sabrina Llanes-Hill

Madeline Lopez

Lisa Maclachlan

Joseph Malo

Alana Mandrick

Priscilla Marzouka

Cristina Beatriz Mastache

Marimar Mateo

Amanda Summer McGiboney

Janelle Alexandra Menendez

Darin Gutierrez Mestres

Cristina Montalenti

Isabel D. Neyra Contador

Grisselle Marie Nieves-Arzuaga

Jonni Nigro

Christina Noskova

Tiffany Mireille Obregon

Stephanie Ordonez Levasseur

Lizzania Veronica Orozco

Gabriel Padin

Kristen Palmer

Monica Maria Parrilla

Alyssa Michelle Pena

Lorena Beatriz Pena

Isabella Perez Pombo

Samantha Petrillo

Brianna Grace Pumariega

Antonio Quinones

Chelsea Liannet Quinonez

Rachelle Denise Ragoo

Gabriella Marie Ricciulli

Isabelle Rivas

Marilyn Rivero

Valentina Rodriguez

Elizabeth Rodriguez Pestana

Paula Romero

Emmy Rueda

Monique Esmeralda Sanchez

Evelyn L. Santos Guerrero

Talia Lillian Etanah Sessel

Michelle Shandez Shaffer

Elana Shpunt

Katia Marie Sierra

Phillipe Silva

Natalia Useche Smiarowski

Ventasia Adriana Smith

Melanie Ann Sosa

Elyssa Nicole Stuart

Sofia Kelly Terry

Tracey Jerona Thurston

Valeriia Tiertyshnikova

Shane Alex Torrico

Lauren Frances Trentacoste

Giulia Trippetti

Lizbeth Valdes

Melissa Varela

Digna E. Vargas

Sarahi Velazquez

Juaurin Lourdes Viloria

Genesis Sarahi Vindell

Claudia Vivas

Nia Washington

Laura Williams-Kunnen

Logan Riley Winchester

Andrea Zdrnja

Yu Zhang

Emilia Zumaita Hilario

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HEALTH SCIENCE

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Cameron Paige Araujo (M)

Khushi Hemen Bajaria

Luke Todd Brunn (S)

Andrea H. Caldera

Isabella Josephine Martins Caridade (M)

Chloe Celler (S)

Gianna Bella Dandino

Audlyn Yerah Emmanuel (M)

Norah Katherine Feldman

Alexandra Elizabeth Gallagher (M)

Shayanah Lynn Garcia

Jasmin K. Grewal (C)

Hanna Leigh Hooper (M)

Julia Hroncich

Marissa Nicole Hurle (C)

Joseph Jude Jorge

Lauren Elizabeth Krieger (S)

Sydney Randall Litten (S)

Jake Alexander Marin

Zoe McCrae (C)

Kylie Erin McWilliams

Christopher Joseph Michelini (M)

Lara Sophia Montalbano

Ashley Nicole Parrish (S)

Sara Elizabeth Parrott

Xema Quirino

Andjelija Radevic

Leslie Anne Rodriguez

Piper Jaylinn Santana

Alexa Angela Scaravilli (M)

Abby Jessica Schyman

Shawn Sunil Shiwnath

Sofia Pilar Tapanes (C)

Michaela Torres

Chase Elizabeth Keyu Winston

Degrees conferred August 1, 2025

Ryan Oneil Brooks

Ziana Adaya Capellan

Gabriela Gloria Cardona

Gabriel Enrique Cobas

Faris Mazen Daoud

William Enrique Hernandez

Angelina Bella Miller

Megan Taylor Morgan

Joshua Alexander Orange

Brenda Prophete

Isabel Rovinsky

Julianna Antoinette Sweitzer

Jennyca Ulyse

Anthony Vaka

Sebastian Robert Vergara

(S) Summa Cum Laude
(M) Magna Cum Laude
(C) Cum Laude

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

Degree candidates December 11, 2025

Justine Therese Abriam

Lena R. Agnew

Liliana Almeida

Jennifer Alvarez

Andrea Amaya

Austin Artaza

Stephanie Azor

Kelly Kathleen Bargowski

Bridgette Laura Bayate

Lauren B. Bejar

Maria Fernanda Blanco

Ariel Boganim

Chloe Bresnick

Alexandra Aida Brito

Morgan Elizabeth Burger

Drew Chinigo

Brittney Nicole Colon

Lyana Ashlyn Corvea (C)

Taysha Nahiomy Cotto Gonzalez

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The Mace

The academic mace, an enduring symbol of institutional authority and prestige, is a vestige from prehistoric times. First used as a battle weapon, the mace evolved into a ceremonial staff carried in processions of royalty, magistrates, and church or university officials.

The University of Miami’s current mace, which dates back to 1986, was sculpted by former art professor William Ward. He chose a contemporary design, one that reflects the University’s timelessness and perpetual growth from a young institution to one of national prominence. The clean lines and polished silver surface are elegant; dignified; and reflective of colors, textures, and forms in the everchanging environment. Ward indicated that timelessness is further represented by the mace’s geometric design. Rather than employing symbols like books, candles, or globes, he noted that these geometric shapes are not tied to fad or style but are an integral part of our world.

“There are obvious relationships to mathematics and the sciences, and as the mace is rotated, some of the planes at the top resemble letters. Its complexity is like the unfolding plot of a good story,” Ward said.

The University of Miami’s mace serves as a symbolic weapon to protect the ideals of truth, justice, and learning. During the commencement ceremony, it is carried at the head of the academic procession by the grand marshal, whose symbolic duty is the protection of the University, its people, and its processes.

In 2019, staff and faculty members in the Department of Theatre Arts performed preservation and restoration work on the mace, crafting a new base and reviving the original sheen so that, after decades of use, the mace continues to play its role in the University’s commencement ceremonies.

Academic Honors and Regalia

The ceremonies of commencement immerse us in the rich tradition of academic honors and dress that reaches back to the early days of the world’s oldest universities.

The University of Miami awards degrees in three basic divisions— the doctorate, master’s, and baccalaureate—which can be traced to medieval times. The student receiving a “first degree in arts” was crowned with a wreath of laurel berries, hence “baccalaureate” and “bachelor.” The master’s degree was a license to teach (Licentia docendi), so the “master” was an appropriate title. The doctor was even better qualified to teach, for this degree required advanced study, independent research, and defense of a dissertation. These standards still apply to the doctorate, except for those conferred honoris causa (as honorary degrees) for meritorious service in public or private endeavor.

Some degrees are awarded with special recognition. For those who have achieved appropriate standards in their work, the words cum laude (with praise), magna cum laude (with high praise), and summa cum laude (with highest praise) are used. Students who have met formal scholarly demands, including both specified courses and high overall grade averages, may graduate with “General Honors.” These achievements are recorded on diplomas and in official transcripts.

From medieval practice, academic dress has three items: cap, gown, and hood. In reviving the use of these items for the United States, an intercollegiate commission in 1895 drafted a code that most universities, including the University of Miami, follow.

For all degrees, the mortarboard is the traditional cap. The tassel may be gold for a doctor or may indicate the field of study.

The bachelor’s gown is black with long, pointed, open sleeves. The master’s gown is black with a long, closed sleeve hanging below the elbow. The doctor’s gown is black and is distinguished by three bars of velvet on a full sleeve.

The academic hood is the identifying symbol of the degree. Its length indicates which degree it represents: three feet for the baccalaureate, three-and-a-half for the master’s, and four for the doctorate. The lining indicates the college or university that awarded the degree. University of Miami hoods are lined in orange, green, and white. The color of the velvet band represents the academic discipline. The most frequently seen colors are white for arts, yellow for science, pink for music, sapphire blue for philosophy, purple for law, scarlet for divinity, green for medicine, light blue for education, drab for business, orange for engineering, violet for architecture, gray for general studies, and apricot for nursing.

President Joseph J. Echevarria wears a black robe with four black velvet bars. The fourth chevron indicates this is the presidential regalia. The gown features orange and green piping as well as a doctoral hood lined in orange, green, and white—reflecting the official University of Miami school colors.

The Music of the Ceremony

University of Miami Fanfare

Great universities throughout the country begin their halftime performances with a special fanfare consisting of small portions of their school fight songs and alma mater. The fanfare signals the start of halftime festivities, exciting the crowd and encouraging loyal fans to remain in their seats during the band’s performance.

Following the Miami Hurricane’s National Championship season in 2001-2002, David Lambert, D.M.A. ’05, wrote a similar fanfare for

the University of Miami. “University of Miami Fanfare” was premiered by the University of Miami Band of the Hour during the 2004 Miami Hurricane home football opener versus Florida State University. It has since been performed as a prelude to all Band of the Hour performances and has become a part of the University of Miami’s commencement to announce the opening of the ceremony.

President’s Processional Fanfare

Commencement ceremonies are rich in history, tradition, and ritual. Over the years, the University of Miami has had a number of talented musicians and composers contribute to that history and tradition.

The “President’s Processional Fanfare—Toward Our New Century” was commissioned by the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music and written by Brian Balmages, M.M. ’00, in 2016.

Alma Mater

Southern suns and sky blue water, Smile upon you, Alma Mater; Mistress of this fruitful land, With all knowledge at your hand, Always just, to honor true All our love we pledge to you.

Alma Mater, Stand forever,

On Biscayne’s wondrous shore.

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