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MAY 2012 Introduction, 4 Honorary Awards, 5 Honor Societies and Awards, 12 Doctoral Degree Candidates, 16 University Council on Graduate Studies, 16 Doctor of Philosophy, 16 School of Nursing, 17 Doctor of Nursing Practice, 17 Eastman School of Music, 18 Doctor of Musical Arts, 18 Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, 18 Doctor of Education, 18 Degree Candidates, 19 School of Arts and Sciences, 19 Bachelor of Arts, 19 Bachelor of Science, 25 Master of Arts, 2 7 Master of Science, 28 Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 29 Bachelor of Arts, 29 Bachelor of Science, 29 M aster of Science, 30 Eastman School of Music, 32 Bachelor of Music, 32 Master of Arts, 33 Master of Music, 33 School of Medicine and Dentistry, 34 Master of Arts, 34 Master of Science, 34 Master of Public Health, 34 Doctor of M edicine and Doctor of Philosophy, 34 Doctor of M edicine and Doctor of Philosophy with Distinction in Research, 34 Doctor of M edicine with Distinction in Research and with Distinction in Community Service, 34 Doctor of M edicine with Distinction in Research, 35 Doctor of Medicine with Distinction in Community Service, 35 Doctor of M edicine, 35 William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 36 School of Nursing, 37 Bachelor of Science, 37 M aster of Science, 3 8 Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, 39 Master of Science, 39 The Genesee, 41 Campus Map, 42
Introduction
ARich Tradition at Rochester
The commencement season has always stood out as the of the University, and two silver bands are engraved with the "supreme festival" on Rochester's acauemic calendar, Arthur names of the University's presidents. The dandelion, the flo May notes in his history of the University. From the earliest ral symbol of the University, can be found in the decorative years, he writes, "Oratory flowed in full spate, the literary motif of the silverwork. The origmal mace is part of a pair of societies put on their finest performances, trustees con symbols created tu mark academic ceremonies. The other is vened for annual Jecision-making, and prizes and diplomas a smaller wooden baton, which also features dandelions and were handed out amidst a panoply of pomp and circum stars in its silverwork. stance." Though the size of the graduating class has grown In 2011, an additional baton was commissioned by Ronald from 10 men in 1851 to more than 3,000 men and women Hansen, senior associate dean in the William E. Simon Gradu now, and though many other developments have reshaped ate School of Business Administration, to be used in the the ceremonies, this year's program, like 18"i1's, m:~rks the school's graduation ceremony in Bern, Switzerland. Intended happy celebration of each graduate's academic preparation to complement the original mace and baton, the new b:.~ton is and the hopeful prospect of new ventures. also carried in University and academic ceremonies. Designed by Scott D. Sober and silversmith Alexis Romeo, the new The gowns have a long history baton features sterling silver pommels, dandelions, and stars. Some of the features in the mouern ceremony date back to The mace is carried by the University gr:md marshal, who medieval times, such as the academic attire, which recalls leads the processions alongside a marshal carrying the less the gowns that were requireu dress at many European uni imposing baton. versities. Yet, academic regalia did not figure into Roches ter's earliest commencements. For a number of years, only Words to live by the president and the person who carried the diplomas Commencement speakers have otrered inspiration to wore the gowns; the graduating class did not wear them Rochester graduates ever since Henry Ward Beecher gave until1892. a speech on "Character" at the 1851 ceremonies. Theo Many schools have adopted docto ral gowns that :~ l so dore Roosevelt, then governor of New York, spoke in 1900; reflect the institutions' colors. The University of Rochester New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey spoke in 1957; and doctoral candidates wear gowns in the official colors of blue another holder of the governor 's seat, Mario Cuomo, spoke with dandelion-yellow trim anu berets of soft black velvet. in 1985. Richard Nixon gave advice to 1966's graduates, Many of the faculty wear the gowns of their alma maters, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accepting including the maroon of Chicago, the scarlet of Stanforu, an honorary doctorate by transatlantic radio during 1941's the orange and black of Princeton, and the gray of M.I.T. , commencement, pleaded for Anglo-American unity in a among others. characteristically rousing speech.
The hood's color is the clue Happy at heart on this day The most colorful portion of the academic costume is the Perhaps the single feature that best links this year's ceremo hood. The color edging indicates the discipline to which llies to 18"i1's commencement is the audience. From 18)1 the degree pertains: white and yellow-gold for arts and sci onward, enthusiastic crowds have turned out to applaud ences; orange for engineering; apricot for nursing; green for Rochester graduates. Newspapers say thou~ands of specta medicine; pink for music; light blue for education; and drab tors witnessed the first commencement when Scutt's Br:~ss for business. Band led a parade toward Corinthian Hall . Following the band, "presumably in ascending order of dignity," Arthur Symbols of authority May notes, were the University janitor, Rochester schuol Originally a medieval weapon of defense, the mace has children, undergraduates, teachers at the common schools, become a symbol of authority and dignity in ac:~demic cere Board of Education representatives, the mayor and his monies. Rochester's mace was introduced during the 1935 top lieutenants, officials of state and county governments, induction of Alan Valentine as president and has been used University founders, courtroom judges, the 10 gradu:1ting in academic processions ever since. Designed by Philipp seniors, professors, trustees, the chancellor, and the high Merz, who also is responsible for many of the architectural sheriff of Monroe County. features of the early River Campus buildings, the mace is Among the thousands of spectators present this ye:~r, about four feet long and is crafted from mahogany and many are as distinguished and, no doubt, as full of pride as hand-wrought silver. The head of the mace features the seal the onlookers of 1851.
4 UN IVERS ITY OF ROCHESTER - Honorary Awards Honorary Doctor of Divinity Honorary Doctor of Bishop Matthew H. Clark Humane Letters and Most Reverend Matthew H. Commencement Speaker Clark, Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester, is spiritual leader Ruth J. Simmons to more than 300,000 Catholics Ruth ]. Simmons has been the in the Rochester diocese. He president of Brown University was ordained a bishop by for 11 years, during which time Pope John Paul II in May 1979 she has strengthened one of in Rome and installed as the America's premier universities eighth bishop of Rochester in by establishing need-blind June 1979. admission and strengthening Clark has developed a repu financial aid for undergradu tation as an inclusive leader in the Diocese and in the larger ate, graduate, and medical community, inviting women to participate mort> fully in studt>nts, enhancing Brown's chJrch leadership and increasing participation of lay people funding resources, increas- ic church administration, working with government leaders ing the size of its faculty, and substantially expanding its to improve the community, expanding the work of Catholic facilities. Charities, ministering to gay and lesbian worshippers, and Simmons is a prolific writer and speaker and in 2007 was reaching out to other Christians and people of otht>r faiths. named one of the nation's top leaders by US News & World Indeed, the Rochester Diocese has been a beacon of Report. Her breadth of experience and her command of hope for interfaitr. dialogue. In 1996, tht> Diocese became issues affecting science education, foreign language study, :he first anvwhere to enter into a formal agreement of diversity, and ins:itutional governance, among others, have cooperation and cmderstanding with the Board of Rabbis brought invitations from the White House, the World Eco .-1f a jewish community. Asimilar agreement was forged nomic Forum, tht> National Press Club, and the American later with Rochester's growing Muslim community, and a Council on Education covemnt was created with the local Episcopal Church. Early in her presidency, Simmons articulated a vision for During his more than three decades as bishop, Clark Brown to revitalize its essential activities of teaching and and area Catholics have shouldered many changes. To seek research. The Plan for Academic Enrichment, the map t(Jr grassroots involvement first, Clark's pastoral planning proc institutional growth and dt>velopment, has become the corner ess solicits solutions at the parish level. The approach has stone of her presidency. Simmons launched the Campaign for gained local support and also recognition by the National Academic Enrichment, which raised more than $1.6 billion. One Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Develop hundred new faculty members were hired, graduate programs ment. His emphasis on more programs for youth and young were expanded, a School of Engineeting was established, and adults has ignited parish activities and won praise from the strategic partnerships were formed with numt>rous national and National Cathohc Campus Ministry Association. international institutions and universities. A native of Waterford, ~.Y., Clark was ordained a priest in Ascho lar of comparative lit t> rature, Simmons previously 1962. Before he was named a bishop, ht> servt>d as spiritual held posts at several universities, including Smith College director at the North American College in Rome. wht>re she served as president from 1995 to 2001. She Chrk attendt>d Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. , became Brown's 18th president in 2001. She also holds MJter Christi Seminary in Albany, the former Sr. Bernard's appointments as professor in the Department of Compara Seminary in Rochester, and the Korth American College tive Literature and the Department of Africana Studies. in Rome. Ht> holds licentiates in theology and in canon A native ofTexas, Simmons earned her undergraduate law from the Gregorian University in Rome. In 2009, he degree from Dillard University in 1967. She received her authored Forward in Hope: A Bishop Says Amen to Lay doctorate in romanct> languages and literatures from Har Ecclesial Ministry, publisht>d by Ave Maria Press. vard University in 1973. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sci Presented at the Arts, Sciences & Engineering Ceremony. ences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. She recently was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.
Presented at the Arts, Sciences & Engineering Ceremony.
COMM ENCEM ENT 201 2 5 Honorary Awards
Honorary Doctor of Music Honorary Doctor of Science George Walker Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA George Walker's distinguished Dr. Regina M. Benjamin is career as a musician, com the 18th Surgeon General of 'I··• poser, pianist, and educator , ' the United States, nominateJ has won him international .-' .. -·~~ to the position by President - \·'~· ,'!(;~:: .. acclaim and numerous awards, (' y~..r. . Obama in 2009. commissions, and major i : .. ~ ~ . .t') ,, As '1\rnerica's Doctor," performances. ··~~M'C•lt,i' it is her job to provide the Walker began studying '\:. ~'~1~ public with the best scientific piano at age five, entered information available on how Oberlin College at 14, and ~ to improve their health and graduated at the top of his the health of the nation. Dr. conservatory class at 18. He was admitted to the Curtis Benjamin also oversees• the operational command of 6,500 Institute of Music to study piano with Rudolf Serkin and uniformed public health officers, who serve in locations composition with Rosario Scalera, teacher of Samuel Barber around the world. and Gian-Carlo Menotti. Early in her career, Dr. Benjamin founded a rural health In 1945, he made his acclaimed New York recital debut clinic in Alabama, which she kept in operation despite dam and performed the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with age and destruction inflicted by Hurricane Georges in 1998, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra two weeks Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and a devastating fire in 2006. later as the winner of the Philadelphia Youth Auditions. In 1995, Dr. Benjamin, a former associate dean for In 1953, he toured seven European countries under the rural health at the University of South Alabama College of auspices of the National Concert Artists. In 1956, he earned Medicine in Mobile and past chair of the Federation uf State the DMA and Artist's Diploma in piano from the Eastman Medical Boards of the United States, became the first physi School of Music. cian under age 40 and the first African-American woman Walker has published more than 90 works for almost to be elected to the American Medical Association Board every medium. He has received commissions from the New of Trustees. In 2002, she became the first African-American York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland woman to become president of a state medical society in Orchestra, the Eastman School of Music, the orchestras of the United States when she assumed leadership of the Medi New Jersey, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, and many cal Association State of Alabama. other ensembles. He has received awards from the Ful She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physi bright, John Hay Whitney, Rockefeller, and Koussevitzky cians and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Foundations and from the Kennedy Center for the Perform Dr. Benjamin, the 1998 United States recipient of the ing Arts. His music has been recorded by Columbia Records, Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights, was Sony, Naxos, BIS, Centaur, Albany Records, and many other awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for service to the labels. church by Pope Benedict XVl. In 2008, she was honored Walker's 1946 Lyric for Strings is perhaps the most with a MacArthur Genius Award Fellowship. Dr. Benjamin frequently performed work by a living American composer. also received the 2011 Chairman's Award during the world His Piano Sonata No. 2, written as his Eastman doctoral wide broadcast of the 42nd NAACP Image Awards. dissertation, has been deemed a masterpiece. In 1996, he Dr. Benjamin earned a BS degree in chemistry from received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Lilacs for Voice and Xavier University in New Orleans, an MD degree from the Orchestra. University of Alabama at Birmingham and an MBA from Walker has held faculty appointments at Smith, Rutgers, Tulane University. The honorary Doctor of Science degree and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, that will be conferred upon her today will mark Dr. Ben:a among others. He is a member of the American Academy min's 16th honorary degree. of Arts and Letters and the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of six honorary doctorate degrees. Presented at the School of Medicine and Dentistry Ceremony.
Presented at the Eastman School of Music Ceremony.
6 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Honorary Aw,uds
Eastman Medal Honorary Doctor of Science Eastman Medal The Eastman Medal rec ognizes individuals who, Robert H. Hurlbut Arthur j. Moss, MD through their outstanding Robert H. Hurlbut grew up Dr. Arthur]. Moss is a professor achievement and dedi among the frail and infirm who of medicine at the University of cated service, embody the high ideals for which were taken in and cared for Rochester School of Medicine the University stands. by his parents, and he learned and Dentistry and one of at a young age the delicate the nation's most influential balance between providing cardiologists. His discoveries dignified, respectful care for over the past five decades have the elderly and achieving saved hundreds of thousands of success in business. His vision lives and dramatically improved for elder care evolved from the standard of care for people managing and consulting with with heart disease. Rochester-area nursing homes to overseeing a multi-state Early in his career, he championed the use of rapid retirement community organization. chest compressions following cardiac arrest, leading to In 1964, Hurlbut became president of ROHM Services the widespread use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Dr. Corporation, rising to chair the organization that served Moss 's clinical and scientific research focuses on the treat nursing horr.es across western New York. His acumen was ment and prevention of cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heart recognized with his appointment in 1989 to the Board of beats), heart failure, and long QT syndrome, a rare, genetic Commissioners of the New York State Insurance Fund. He disorder that makes the heart particularly susceptible to was elected vice chair in 1995 and chair in 2006. arrhythmias. In 1968, Hurlbut founded Vari-Care, Inc., which oversaw He led the first large study proving implantable defibril 241ong-term health care facilities and retirement complexes lators saved the lives of patients who suffered a heart attack in several states. He joined the board of the Houston-based and were prone to arrhythmias. Worldwide use of defibrilla Living Centers of America, which purchased Vari-Care, Inc. tors grew rapidly, and medical guidelines changed as a result in 1993. The following year, he created The Hurlbut Trust, of his work. His follow-up research showed th::u cardiac which offers financial and consulting services for health care resynchronization therapy with defibrillators extends sur facilities and rental properties. vival for people with heart failure. AFe llow of the American College of Health Care Admin Dr. Moss is the world's authority on long QT syndrome. istrators and longtime supporter of the University of His discovery of three genes involved in the disease led to Rochester, Hurlbut chaired the Board of the University of creation of a diagnostic blood test. He also maintains an
Rochester rv:edical Center. He has served as a trustee Presented at the School of Nursing Ceremony. COMMENCEMENT 2012 7 Honorary Awards Hutchison Medal The Hutchison Medal Charles Force Hutchison and Rochester Distinguished Scholar is the highest honor given to an alumnus, Marjorie Smith Hutchison Glenn Watkins recognizing outstanding Medal One of the most distinguished achievements and service musicologists of our time, to community, state, and Roger B. Friedlander nation. Glenn Watkins is the Earl V Roger B. Friedlander, a 19'ib Moore Professor Emeritus of Rochester graduate of the University Music History and Musicology Distinguished of Rochester with an under at the University of Michigan. Scholar Award graduate degree in business His scholarly impact ranges The award recognizes from his pioneering studies alumni with doctoral administration, is a retired vice degree; frum the Univer president of Staples, Inc. and of Renaissance composer sity who have distin the cofounder of Spectrum Carlo Gesualdo to his influential guished themselves in Office Products, one of the books on musical modernism their professional fields. largest office supply businesses and its postmodern consequences and music in World War I. in the Northeast before it was Gesualdo's experimental, chromatic music impressed sold to Staples in 1991. He is a numerous 20th-century composers. In 1959, while work past president of Staples Business Advantage and a former ing on a complete edition of Gesualdo's works, Watkins corporate consultant for rhe national retailer. discovered two canonic motets with missing parts, which As an undergraduate, Friedlander excelled as a student Igor Stravinsky completed immediately before composing athlete, both as a member of the undefeated football team Monumentum pro Gesualdo. Watkins's book, Gesualdo: of 1952 and in track and field. He enlisted in the Naval The Man and His Music, carries a preface by Stravinsky, was ROTC program and served in the Navy from 195o to 19)8, translated into several languages, was a 1974 National Book before returning to Rochester to begin a lung and success Award nominee, and even served as an inspiration for an ful career in business. In 1970, he founded Spectrum Office opera by Alfred Schnittke. Last year, his The Gesualdo Hex: Products with his business partner, the late Henry Epstein. Music, Myth, and Memory appeared, followed by an essay Through the years, Friedlander remained connected to length appreciation in The New 'rbrker. his alma mater and after selling his company, shared his Watkins has also published an overview of 20th-century business acumen with the University, first serving on the music in Soundings; examined the concept of collage in board of the Children's Hospital, which he chaired from both musical Modernism and the rise of Postmodernism in 1996 to 2000. In 1997 he was named to the University of Pyramids at the Louvre; and looked at how music reflected Rochester Medical Center board, which he chaired from concerns of German hegemony in Proof Through the Night: 2000 to 2004. Since 1997, Friedlander has served as a trustee Music and the Great War. Critics praise his books for pav of the University, chairing the University's and the Medical ing new avenues for understanding music and its relation Center's facilities committees and the School of Nursing to other arts of the last century. Watkins has presented at National Council. He is vice chair of the Board's health numerous conferences in both late Renaissance and 20th affairs committee and a member of the investment commit century studies, collaborated with performance groups, and tee. He also serves on the executive advisory committee of worked on projects for such recording labels as Columbia, the Simon School and the Eastman Dental Center Founda Edition de L'Oiseau-Lyre, Harmonia Mundi, and Deutsche tion Board. Grammophone and for BBC, German, and Italian television. Outside the University, Friedlander has served as An honorary member of the American Musicological president and board chairman of American Office Products Society, Watkins has been the recipient of a Fulbright Schol Dealers, president of Harvard OPM XII, and chairman of arship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow the investment and audit committees of the National Office ship, and the Premio Internazionale Carlo Gesualdo. Products Association. Friedlander has served on the Hillsidl' Watkins earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music Family of Agencies Board of Governors since 2007. He and at the University of Michigan before coming to the Eastman his wife, Carolyn Friedlander, received the Outstanding School of Music, where he received his PhD in musicology Philanthropist Award from the Association of Fundraising in 19'i3. Professionals in November 2010. Presented at thf' Doctoral Degrees Ceremony. Presented at the Arts, Sciences & Engineering Ceremony. 8 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTE R Honor.uy Awards Lifetime Achievement Lifetime Achievement Award The William H. Riker University in Graduate Education The award commemo in Graduate Education Award for Excellence in rates the distinguished Gautam Mitra careers of faculty mem Graduate Teaching bers who hdve provided Gautam Mitra is a professor Robert W. Wason outstanding guidance and of geology at the University mentorship to doctoral Robert W. Wason is professor students who have made of Rochester. Known tix his of music theory and affiliate important contributions outstanding teaching and in their fields. research in the field of faculty in the department of structural geology, Mitra's jazz studies and contemporary William H. Riker work focuses on deformed media at the Eastman School University Award for of Music. rocks, ranging in scale from Excellence in Graduate Teaching field-based analysis to labora A noted musical scholar, The award recogn izes tory micro-structural studies. Wason is also a performing musician and composer across a faculty member who He coauthored a widely-used has excelled in grad uate a surprising breadth of genres. textbook, Basic Methods ofStructural Geology, and has instruction, particularly in published numerous scientific papers. His research focuses Early in his C3reer he worked the University's doctoral on the origin and evolution of mountain belts, which has as a jazz pianist. His book on Viennese harmonic theory programs. in the 19th and early 20th centuries remains an essential led him to undertake field expeditions to both modern and ancient mountain belts around the world. With his students, reference in that area. His compositions include vocal, solo Mitra has studied the Appalachian belt in the eastern USA, instrumental, and chamber works. the North American Cordillera in the western USA, the Scot Wason has written on the history of music theory, 20th tish Caledonides, the Spanish Pyrenees, the Swiss Alps, the century musit·, and jazz, on subjects ranging from 12-tone Atlas mountains in Morocco, the Himalayas in India, and the music to the songs of Alec Wilder. An advocate for turn-of Imjingang-Okcheon collision belt in Korea. the-century lieder, he has lectured on the topic and given recitals with soprano Valerie Errante. Wason was a University Born in India, Mitr3 earned his undergraduate and mas ter's degn:es from Presidency College at the University of Bridging Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages Calcutta (India). For his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, and Cultures. he undertook one of the early studies on the mechanisms Wason has received Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, by which continental crust is deformed. After spending a Paul Sacher Foundation and German Academic Exchange few years teaching at the University of Wyoming, he joined grants, and two AS CAP (American Society of Composers the faculty at the University of Rochester in 1981. and Publishers) Deems Taylor writing awards. He has served Described as both an excellent role model and a caring on several boards and committees for the Society for Music mentor, M:tra has had a profound impact on his students' Theory and on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spec cJreers. Seventy-five percent of Mitra's PhD students have trum and the journal ofthe Arnold Schoenberg Institute, entered tenure track positions at colleges or universities, and currently Theoria and Eastman Studies in Music with all of them receiving tenure. Appointed to the Eastman faculty in 1983, Wason has Mitra is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and advised students who now hold positions at institutions a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Interna in Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, and the United States. tionc.l Association of Structural and Tectonic Geologists, and Besides teaching doctoral courses in theory, keyboard skills, the executive council of the Structural and Tectonics Studies and advanced harmony and composition, he advised on Group (India) the design of the jazz DMA program and developed diverse seminars on the music of Bill Evans, Bela Bartok,]. S. Bach, Presented at the Doctoral Degrees Ceremony. and Anton Webern. Wason was on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, and has also taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Clark University, and the University of North Texas, and been a guest professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland, the University of British Columbia, and SUNY Buffalo. Presented at the Doctoral Degrees Ceremony- COMM ENCEMENT 2012 9 Honorary Awards Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence Edward Peck Curtis The G. Graydon '58 and in Undergraduate Teaching Award for Excellence in jane W Curtis Award for The teaching prize is Undergraduate Teaching Nontenured Faculty Teaching awarded to a faculty member who has a Lane A. Hemaspaandra Excellence proven record of class room excellence and Lane A. Hemaspaandra is a Karen DeAngelis who shows a willingness professor of computer science Karen DeAngelis, assistant to mentor other educa at the University of Rochester. tors. professor in educational lead In his computer theory courses, ership at the Warner School he is known for making dif of Education, is an emerging The C. Graydon '58 ficult, abstract material fun and and jane W. Curtis master teacher and scholar, accessible. He helped create Award for Nontenured admired for her commitment and frequently teaches-the Faculty Teaching to engaging students, both department's undergraduate Excellence inside and outside of the research-immersion course. The award is for a non classroom, through teaching, tenured facu lty mem- In that course, he helps teams research, and menroring. ber and is designed to of students attack open scientific questions whose answers encourage both interest DeAngelis's exemplary initially are as unknown to him and the field as they are to and excellence in instruc teaching extends across seven courses, each of which the students. tion at the undergraduate she created or revised, and her commitment to academic and graduate levels. Hemaspaam.lra, who is in his 24th year at the University, advising is demonstrated by her involvement on 26 duct•JrJI is a specialist in the theory of computation and its uses in dissertation committees over the past five years. protecting elections from manipulation. He and his research DeAngelis's research focuses on the recruitment, distri collaborators have determined the computational complex bution, and retention of teachers and administrators. She ity of Lewis Carroll's 1876 election system, have constructed recently was awarded a Spencer Foundation grant to study election systems that computationally resist all standard the academic skills and racial/ethnic diversity of teachers attacks, and have proven that in some settings quantum entering K-12 public schools in Illinois. Her research has computers are almost everywhere exponentially faster than been published in a number of academic journals such as classical computers. He is an author of two books and over journal ofEducation Finance, Educational Admiltistra 250 publications, and has coauthored works with more than tion Quarterly, Leadership and Policy in Schools, Educa 50 undergraduate and graduate students. tion and Urban Society, and Education Policy Analysis Hemaspaandra was named an NSF Presidential Young Archives. Investigator in 1989, was awarded a Bridging Fellowship DeAngelis has taken a lead role in redesigning the from the University of Rochester in 1994, won the Fried Warner School's offerings in quantitative research methods rich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von to include new courses and consulting support servi ce~ Humboldt Foundation in 2006, was made an Association consisting of monthly workshops and one-on-one consulta for Computing Machinery Distinguished Scientist in 2007, tions offered by advanced doctoral students. With Warner and currently serves on four editorial boards. He received a colleague Martin Lynch, three years ago DeAngelis estab BS in computer science and mathematics and physics from lished the Quantitative Consulting Services initiative, where Yale University in 1981, an MS in computer science from graduate students can receive extra support in this area. Stanford University in 1982, and a PhD in computer science Before joining the Warner facu lty, DeAngelis conducted from Cornell University in 1987. pre-kindergarten through postsecondary policy research for Presented at the Arts, Sciences & Engineering Ceremony. the Illinois Education Research Council. She has also done educational consulting and evaluation work for a number of organizations, including the American Institutes for Research, the Danforth Foundation, the St. Louis Desegre gation Task Force, and the St. Louis Public Sehoul District DeAngelis received her bachelor's degree in economics from Colby College and both her master's in economics and doctorate in economics of education/policy analysis irom Stanford University. Presented at the Warner School of Education Ceremony. 10 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMENCEMENT 201:.1 11 Honors Smielies and Awards Honors Societies and Awards Golden Key National Society of Ashley Nelson Kaufmann Ronald E. McNair DaHye Oh International Collegiate Scholars Entrepreneurial Post-Baccalaureate Cihangir Okuyan Derrick Acheampong Honour Society Caitlin Olfano Year Program Achievement EricAniag Christopher Botash Leah Peres David Bendes Program Graduates Xuechen Bao Gregory Bryman Benjamin Plummer Jason Birnbaum Nathaly Ceron Aaron Bentzel Xiaowei Cai Yichen Qiu Gao Xiang Chen Gao Chen Layne Berkley Valerie Craven Daniel Reynolds Lillian Dickerson Jessica Colorado Alexander Caghan Erin Gamoran Anna Richlin Joseph Gardella Meaghan DeWaters Heather Carella Katherine Garner Alex Sargent Bradley Halpern Vicky Baudin Douglas Clift Garrett Huang Rosemary Savage Colby Lennon Raffaela Fusco Elizabeth Coughlin Amy Jiravisitcul Brian Schwartz Kathleen Lewis Andrea Morrell Ruth Davis Sukriye Kara Jack Shamosh Andrew Moran Dayanna Davis Andrew Debbins Julie Koven Sara Shimmel Glenn Packard Sharese King Matthew Demars II Sudhir Kunchala Robert Siller Olga Pikul Sean Rodrigues Qianyi Deng Assel Kussainova Catherine Stevenson Andrew Polec Emilia Sola Gracia Colin Desrosiers Ethan Lobenstine Brian Street Aaron Roth Soaiful Islam Colleen Dolan Jeong Min Cho Jee Hee Suk Steven Solowsky Lorenzo Mendez Lorena Dore Emily McGraw Christopher Taddeo Nicole Rose Suchy Tyler Nicholas Douglas Eng Emily Nash Nika Tamashiro Miles Vaughn Raechel !sales Kristen Frantz Ashley Nelson Ellen Tran Ian Alexander Wilson Miss Fahmina Tanni Rachel Franz Leah Peres Carrie Trant Julia Frisk Timothy Pietras Matthew Volkov Colin Funai Benjamin Plummer Sophia Ward-Vetrano Rodrigo Gobitz Mengxin Qi Bradley Wasser Emilia Sola Gracia Jesse Rakoske George Weddington Olga Gritsevskaya Christine Rose Grace Weiss Jisi Guo Cheryl Seligman John Whiting Faye Gura Sara Shimmel Noah Wilson Hyo Dam Han Evan Smothers Choongnam Yoon Margaret Hill Clare Stumpf Jungyeon Youn Christina Horr Nika Tamashiro Jason Zayac Katherine Interlichia Sarah Taylor Qixuan Zhang NehaJain Justin Tu Sijia Zhang RajaJani Tianjiao Wang Nan Zhu Daniel Wolfanger AsimJaved Tian Ye ImranJaved Sijia Zhang Elizabeth Jennings Chengzhe Zhou Jinyoung Kim Nan Zhu Lily Kim Simon Kim Sungmin Kim Assel Kussainova Robert Lamberty Elizabeth Landzberg Camille Leong Amber Lockrow Caitlin Mack Hannah Meckler Julia Militar Ceylon Mitchell Meridith Mock joseph Monahan Joseph Morris 12 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Honors S Phi Beta Kappa Lisa Kaggen Brooke Ann Schmeltz Sigma Pi Sigma Sigma Theta Tau Ash1ey Alex Peter Wittmann Kalal Cheryl Jayne Seligman Steven Bandes Jenna R. Adamczyk Trevor Baisden David Melvin Kaphan Brian Michael Shafer Scott Barenfeld Linda Jane Andre essen Travis Lee Baratcan Shaina Karasin Danielle Shaked Xiaowei Cai Leslie E. Baker Scott A Barenfeld Katherine Ann Keifer Aaron Shakin Zhilin Cong Trevor Dolan Balstra Leah Helene Barish Julie Lynn Koven Joseph Pendle Shapiro Julieta Gruszka Phyllis Teabout Bazen Michael Beato Alexander Phillip Kuczala Sara Nicole Shimmel Imran Hasan Mary Lee Becker Aaron Stewart Bentzel Sudhir Kunchala Dustin Everett Singer Vladimir Lankevich Michele Marie Begemann Ella Leidy Beyer Elizabeth Isadora Landzberg Erin Marie Slocum Adam Lanman Katherine Marie Bernier Sebastian Rider Bezerra Matthew Lavigueur Evan Bradley Smothers Paul Kintner Carolanne Bianchi Jonathan S. W Bokser Lian Elizabeth Ekika Law Ian Stanley Matej Penciak Annie Nicole Boehm Clark Michael Riordan Mark Daniel Levin Peter Dong Tai Susan Pratt Laura Marie Bojko Bowman Rebecca Alice Levin Nika Arabella Tamashiro IanRemming Beth A. Brown Kaitlyn Marie Brady Raymond Liang Xiaoqing Tang Eric Schiesser Valerie Anne Cansdale Gregory Steven Bryman Seri Link Sarah E. Taylor John Schoeniger Jahaira Carolina Capellan Xiaowei Cai Ethan Geoffrey Lobenstine Steven David Trambert Nicholas Shirley Julie M. Capo!ino James Callahan Ryane Michele Logsdon Justin Xiang-Yuan Tu Robert Siller Virginia Frances Cartwright Alison Lai Chan Samuel Traxler Lopresti Matthew Vallone Chengzhe Zhou Brittany Lee Celeste Tiffany Wing Sze Chan Leigha Alexandra MacNeill Jay Voris Yansu Chen Nicholas Glenn Chisholm Catherine Marie Marando JingWang Raeshen Cione Christian Jeong Min Cho Elizabeth Haynes Martens Xu Wang Keri]. Cockman joseph Thomas Ciminelli Katharine Stephanie Martine Belinda Weinberg Katherine Eileen Conrad Douglas Arthur Clift Emily Laura McGraw David Wituszynski Stephanie Rachel Corretore Alyssa Rae Cohen EricM Meyer Franciscus L. H. Wolfs Alexis Elaine Croucher Sara Elizabt>th Cohen Beth Sarah Meyers Danique Celine Wortel Valerie Marie Davis Danie[Joseph Cohn Maryam Khadijah Mohammed Tian Ye Eric S. Dellerba Kathryn Cooper Lauren Marie Montemarano Jason Andrew Zayac Julie Ann Dewey Anna Chandra Helfeld David A Narrow Sijia Zhang Robin P. Drypolcher Coughlan Ashley Frances Nelson Chengzhe Zhou Carolyn Marie Dumar jesse Nathaniel Cramer Zachary Nussbaum Nan Zhu Holli Rose Wescott Edgley Ruth jennifer Davis Michael Travis O'Leary Rhonda Mae Farnbach Jessica Marie DeSanctis Taryn Ocko Sandy Ferri Andrew Debbins Halley Jocelyn Orshan Lisa Marie FitzGerald Matthew David DeMars II Craig Anthony Pais Patricia A. Forrester Meaghan De Waters Eleni Margaret Palis Caterine Garcia-Ruderman Lorena Dore Carley Marie Parsons Kristina Getman Maya Dukmasova Matej Penciak Julia Christine Glantz James Eles Meridel Murphy Phillips Stephen Goon jeanette Epstein Benjamin David Plummer Brian Thomas Graves Linda Ann Faber Brandon Michael Podyma Nicole Marie Hair Gregory Ryan Fedorchak jesse Andrew Rakoske Aaron Blake Harding Carlie Ann Fishgold jonathan Raybin Jennifer L. Hefley Emily Fogel Emily Katherine Redman Jessica May Danica Henneman Louisa Grace Gag Ian Schneider Remming Tzeitel Ellyce Hernandez Julia Dowd Gallogly Conor Dwyer Reynolds Naoko Hirakoshi-Crossland Meredith jane Gaylo Daniel Steven Reynolds jeremy Hollick Kathryn MHartmann- Dow Peter Richter Daniel Evan Hovey Jacob Paul Haske! Christopher Roll Jessika B. Hyde Layla Hatem Christine Marie Rose Rachel Jennifer Isabelle Michael Hua Amanda Ann Rosemore Ann Kalkbrenner Chad Hunter Jordan Rosenblum James Michael Klezmer NehaJain Adina Rubinoff Kathleen Liberty Kohl Elizabeth E. Jennings Eric Michael Schiesser Natalie P. Liebert COMMENCEMENT 201 2 13 Honors So< ieties and Award-. ------ Regina Marie LoMaglio Take Five Scholars Emily Kraus Tau Beta Pi Eastman School Kristieanna B. Maclagger NaomiAhsan Stacy Kravitz Kyle Arean-Raines of Music Nicole Marie Mahany NehaAhuja Jill Kulla Travis L. Baratcart Mary Dahl Maher Alykhan Alani Mallory Laboulaye Travis J. Bevington Catherine Filene Shouse Nomvuyo Mahlangu Birx Allen Daniel Lane Xiaowei Cai Arts leadership Pro- Melissa Erin Mandel justin Anderson Adam Lanman Nicholas G. Chisholm gram Certificates Danielle Mandig Steven Bandes Samuel LaRussa Douglas A. Clift Matthew Arnold Aprea Julie Eileen Many Lynn Benson Andrew Lee Anna C. H. Coughlan jacob Andrew Dalager Kathleen Bryant McCullough jenab Bhatia MinAh Lee Ruth]. Davis Matthew Dylan Evans Anne Elizabeth McDowell Lindsay Blanton Seri Link Gregory R. Fedorchal< Katherine Margaret Hagen Ashley Brier McGehee Boian Boianov Ethan Lobenstine Olga V Gritsevskaya Eun Mi Ko Alexis Andress McKinney Nikita Bourque Amber Lockrow Syed Habib Katherine Elise Lemmon Marcie Lynne McMahon Emily Breeding Caitlin Mack Garrett Huang Alison Kay Moritz Heather Leigh Menchel james Callahan Alexander Magill Chad A. Hunter Johnny Ting Kwong Ng Maureen judith Metzger Brian Castro Michelle Mammoser Philip Katz Amy Mengyang Wang joan C. Morse Justin Chan Chelsea Marsh Christopher R. Legocki David William Weygandt Beth Ann Mucci Mara Chinelli Eric Meinhardt Samuel T. LoPresti Deepti Nagpal Guang Yi Chua Erica Messner Catherine M. Marando Orchestral Studies Diploma in Strings Christina Ann Newton Samantha Coffey Samantha Miller Elizabeth H. Martens Man Yui Kitty Cheung Julie Elizabeth Oleksyn Kathryn Cooper Lauren Montemarano Zachary]. Milstone Youjin Na Adam james Oplinger Anna Coughlan Silvia Perucchio David A. Narrow Sophia Lee Park Debra Sue Paul Rachael Daum Meridel Phillips Daniel S. Reynolds Myoah Sea Adam Kent Peery Lindsey Davidge Timothy Pietras Christopher S. Schmitt Sunghee Shin Amanda Leigh Perlman Kevin Francis Delaney jonathan Pinto Brian L. Schwartz Ashley Lynn Pink Alexander Pozez Meaghan De Waters Aaron Shakin Performer's Certificates Sinath Prom Mara Pusateri Michelle Dick Steven D. Trambert Matthew Stephen Amedio, Kim Quach Francisco Ramirez Adrian justin DiMatteo Carrie L. Trant saxophone Melanie K. Roberts Adbel Reyes DoniasDoko Gabriel D. Unger Lauren Frances Becker, horn Christina Maria Schilling Kelly Rickert Christopher Driscoll Xu Wang Mark Boseman, percussion Linda A. Schmitt James Robbins Maya Dukmasova Garrett j. West Catherine Claiborne Broyles, Elizabeth Bernadette Shelley Megan Roberts james Eles David M. Wituszynski flute Pamela Singh Mary Abbe Roe Janeen Mazen Elhassan Franciscus L. H. Wolfs Janeen Mazen Elhassan, Lara Kristin Smiley Eloise Rogers Greg Fedorchal< Tony Ming Hung Yen clarinet Jeannie Braun Snyder Justin Rosati Emily Fogel Sijia Zhang Emily Caitlin Feeney, percussion Adam Michael Tatro Christine Rose Katherine Garner Zeyu Zhao Josinaldo Costa Filho. guitar Kayla jean Teal Garrett Michael Rubin Lindsey Garrison TingZheng Kristina Elizabeth Finch, !Ja(p Ashley N. Tiefel Adina Rubinoff Ian Gauger Andrew Michael Friedrichs. Kalin Alisa Tischer Meredith Gaylo Declan Ryan trombone jennifer Tsai Sarah Gerin Sam Sadder Natalie Elisabeth Fuller, trumpet Rebecca Gabrielle Tucker Rebekah Goldstein jungo Sasaki Katherine Margaret Hagen, Corinne Marie Ulrich jonathan joseph Gonzalez Andrea Sobolewski t•iola ,Jessica jean Vega Emma Sarah Grettenberger Andrea Stewart Gregory William Hammond, MollyR. Ward jonathan Grima Dorota Stobierska trombone lsa N. Weiser Susana Gutierrez Han Wool Sung jonathan Scott Heim, trumpet Pamela Ann White jacqueline Gutman Neil Chandra Suryadevara Diane Hunger, saxophone Sarah Jane Wicks Ashley Haluck-Kangas Greg Sutherland Lauren Elizabeth Jacobson, Kate Lynn Woodworth Kindred Harris YanlingTang clarinet Emily Jane Wright Lubaba Hasan Steven Trambert Katherine Elise Lemmon, flute Ashley Yamahata Kayleigh Hogan Carrie Trant Justis Buchanan Kleber Mina Yi Sarah Hulbert Alexander James Turpin MacKenzie, tuba Kathryn]. Yunker Maria Janda Jay Voris Markiyan Melnychenko, violin Amandajo Zittel Huanjiang Frances Wang Samuel Pang, viola Angelica Kanganis Cainaan Webb Margaret Francess Parks, Sukriye Damla Kara Robin Wilson l'ioloncello Olga Karlinskaya David Wituszynski Seth Orland Russell, l'iolono:dlu Sarah Karp JulietWu Corey Robert Sansolo, trombone Ben Kellman Jungyeon Youn Sunghee Shin, t•iolin SaminaKhan John Travis Upton, oboe Paul Kintner 14 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Honors Socielil's .md Awards School of Medicine Amgen Scholars Benjamin A. and Dentistry Theresa Kunz Gilman Mark Levin International Alpha Omega Alpha Scholars Lucy Amory Astronaut Amanda Barbara Carpenter- Priscilla Alabi Mendini Scholarship Sorcha Dundas Peter Dumbar Creigh Foundation Award Ashley Haluck-Kangas Debbit> Yen-Dao Dang Halley Orshan (aka Darcey Kindred Harris Adam Christopher Dziorny Riley) Kathryn Hanmann-Dow Jennifer Fichter Elaine Hernandez Roben A. Fulton David L. Boren/ Susana Ho Candace Dawn Gildner NSEP Scholar Kathleen Lewis Ilana Michal Jacobs JulietWu Andrea Morrell Leah Kammerdiener William Pellett Katherine Klingensmith Natalie Peterman Jeannit' Donahue Lochhead Critical language Megan Robens Rachel Jane Pokorney Scholar, U.S. Cecilia Scribner Bryan Stanistreet Dept. of State Kenisha Smith Manha Catherine Trimbur Leah Miller Emilia Sola-Gracia Melissa Tsuboyama Kelly Walsh Robin Esther Valpey DAAO-RISE (German Academic Barry M. Exchange Service Goldwater Scholar Scott Barenfeld Research Intern ships in Science Humanity in & Engineering) Action Foundation Scholars Fellow Ashley Haluck-Kangas Mara Chinelli Emily Hart Mark Levin David Narrow National Science Joseph Shapiro Foundation Graduate Emerson National Research Fellows Hunger Fellow David Kaphan Daniel Cohn Sharese King Mark Levin Fulbright Scholar Susan Pratt Emilia Sola-Gracia Sorcha Dundas Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar Maya Dukmasova Whitaker International Fellows Douglas Clift Catherine Marando CO MMENCEMENT 201 2 15 Dolloral Degree Candidates University Council on Graduate Studies Doctoral Degree Candidates Doctor of Nikita Rufino Cespedes Kelly Anne Francis EunJeong Heo Cindy Lee Kim Reynaga Music Theory (October 21 , 2011 ) Economics Musicology (O ctober 21, 201 1) Economics (O ctober 21, 2011) Philosophy Joseph Michael Frasca Susan Ames Hetherington Rodman Cedric King Azar Abizada John H. Chandler To xicology Education Philosophy Economics Engli sh (March 16, 2012) Benjamin James Frisch Elizabeth A. Hirshorn Natalie Marie Klein Orner Tugrul ApkgozB Zhuoxun Chen Pathology Brain and Cognitive Sciences Brain and Cognitive Sciences Economics (October 21 , 2011 ) Neuroscience (March 16, 201 2) (October c1 , 2011) Salim Benedict Furth Kathleen P. Allen Karen Patricia Chiang Ewn<>mics (October 21, 2011) Christine E. Hochmuth Sanghamithra Korukonda B1ology (March 16, 2012) Educat1on Chemistry (March 16, 2012) Alok Garg Electrical Engineenng Huseyin Oktay Altun Hyunjoo Cho Electrical engineering Claire Anne Hoffmire Michal Konrad Kuklik Electrical Engineering Mathematics (O ctober 21, 2011) Epidemiology Econo mics (Octobe• 21, 201 · Wesley Brian Asher Berkehan Ciftcioglu Lynn Astarita Gatto Dinah E. Holtzman Ming Hsien Kung Chemistry Electrica l Engineering Education Visual and Cultural Stud ies Toxicology (March 16, 2012) (O ctober 21, 2011 ) John M. Ashton Gozde <;:olak QiGe Miao Yan Kuttig Genetics (October 21 , 2011) Pharmacology (M arch 16, 201 2) Computer Science Jonathan D. Holz Ed ucation (March 16, 201 2) ToXIcology (October 21, 201 1) Nicole Suzanne Asmussen Jessamy Elise Comer Holly Amanda Kuzmiak-Ngiam Political Science Developmental Psychology George Michael Gehring Rabia Hos BiochemiStry (M arch 16, 2012) (October 21, 2011 ) Optics (M arch 16, 20121 Education Ryan Earl Cowley Mayukh Lahiri Saria Salah Awadalla Chemistry (March 16, 2012) Ytng Geng Jong-Wei Hsu Phy 16 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Doctoral Degree Candidates Justin Paul lundberg Douglas A. Orbaker Bradley Smith Nan Zheng Doctor of Music Theory Physics Genetics (October 21 , 2011 ) Health Services Research and Policy (October 21, 2011 ) Nursing Practice Pu luo Polykarpos Pavlidis Shannon Marie Smith Chemistry Business Administration Social Psychology Thomas P. Zielinski Linda Jane Andreessen (March 16, 2012) Optics (October 21 , 2011 ) !October 21 , 201 1: Kalyani Karin Madhu Yu Song M athematics Hsin-1 Peng Electrical Engineering Carolanne Bianchi (October 21,20111 Biomed ical Engineering (October 21 , 2011) (M arch 16, 20121 (October 21 , 2011 I Mary Dahl Maher David Thomas Stephenson David Scott Goede Health Practice Research Anita Roselyn Peoples Biochemistry (October 21, 2011) Julie Salo Biophysics Nomvuyo Mahlangu Tamara Sullivan Pamela Ann White Health Practice Resarch Jose G. Perillan Education Physics and History Gerald Francis Manbeck (October 21, 2011 I AmirTaslimi Chemistry (October 21, 2011 ) Biochemistry (March 16, 201 21 Scott Alan Peslak Alon Mantel Pathology Krystal Taylor Pharmacology (M arch 16, 2012) M athematics Allen Michael Plug Malisa Marijan Philosophy (October 21, 2011 ) Abbie Ellen Tippie Electrical Engineering Optics (March 16, 20121 Angelo Polydoro Economics (O ctober 21 , 2011) Adam D. Towsley Kathleen Megan McAvoy Mathematics Neuroscience (M arch 16, 2012) Rebecca lynn Porter Pathology (O ctober 21, 2011 ) Amy Tsurumi Kevin Ray McCain Jr. Genetics (October 21 , 2011) Philosophy Jing Qiao Chemistry (March 16, 20121 Rebecca Gabrielle Tucker Crystal Rose McClain H ealth Practice Research Neuroscience Michael]. Quinlan Chemistry (O ctober 21, 2011 I Michael Domenic Valentino Abbey Erlyn McGrew Microb iology and Immunology Bionedical Engineering Matthew H. Quinn (O ctober 21, 2011 ) Microbiology and Immunology KrystleJenelle Williams (October 21, 2011) Keith P. Van Nostrand Mclaughlin Biophysics (March 16, 2012) Biophysics (October 21, 2011) Sandra Quinones Rosado Education Kathryn D. Van Wert Matthew Paul Mclaughlin English Chemrstry (M arch 16, 2012) Jennifer Lee Rhinehart Chemistry (March 16, 201 21 Praveen Kumar Vudya Setu Ross Messing Physics (October 21, 2011 ) Computer Science Justin M. Rhinehart (M arch 16, 2012) Chemistry (M arch 16, 201 21 Andrew Virel Wake Philo>uphy (October 21, 2011 ) Diana M. Metz-Estrella Linda Morter Rick Pati10logy Health Practice Research Tianqi Wang (October 21, 2011 I Electrical Fngineering Maureen Judith Metzger (March 16, 20121 Health Practice Research Mustimbo E. Roberts Pathology (March 16, 2012) Simon Ku-Hsien Wei Daniel Carl Miner Chemical Engineering Physics (March 1 b, 20121 Supacharee Roddecha (October 21, 2011) Chemical Engineering Anirban Mitra XueWei Physics Derek M. Ryan C hemical Engineering Chemistry (October 21, 2011 I (October 2 I , 2011 ) Matthew Robert Morrow M usicology (M arch 16, 2012) Ramkumar Sabesan Joseph Michael Whipple Biochemistry (October 21, 2011 ) Walter Nicholaos Panagiotis O ptics (March 16, 20121 Moss Rajib lochan Saha Nathan Scott Williams Chemistry (M arch 16, 2012) Business Administration Physics (October 21, 2011 I Jose Mustre-del-Rio Felix W Santiago Maldonado Rui Yan Economics (October 21 , 20 11 I Microbiology and Immunology Mechanical Engineering (M arch 16, 2012) (M arch 16, 2012) Leila K. Norako English J. Burke Scarbrough Ou Yang Education (M arch 16, 2012) Electrical Engineering Suzanne Itinere O'Brien (October 21, 20'1 1) H ealth Practice Research Joshua Edward Schoenly (O ctober 21, 2011 ) Optics (March 16, 20121 Manahloh Belachew Yihun Geosciences Joanna Touger Olsen Matthew G. Seetin Microbiology and Immunology Biophysics (October 21, 201 1) Akira Yokotani (M arch 16, 201 2) Economrcs (October 21, 2011) Xi Shi Keith Curtis Oben Pharmacology (Oc-tober 21, 2011 I Yingrui Zhang Microbiology and Immuno logy Matenals Science (October 21, 2011 ) Ruja Shrestha Chem istry COMMENCEMENT 2012 17 Doctoral Degree Candidates Eastman School of Music Doctoral Degree Candidates Doctor of Andrew john Dunlop EunMiKo Haejin Park Anne jennings Stevens Performance and Literature Performance and Literature Performance and literature Performance and Literature Musical Arts (Piano) (October 21, 2011) (Pidno) (March 16, 2012) (Violin) (Percussion) Benjamin Alan Altman Ryan Peter Enright Hannah Lee Sophia Lee Park Tian Tian Performance and Literature Performance and Literature Performance and Literature Performdnce and Literature Performance and Literature !Guitar) (October 21, 2011 ) (Organ) (March 16, 2012) (Piano) (March 16, 2012) (Violin) (March 16, 2012) (Piano) (March 16, 2012) Adrian Eduardo Sandi Brenes Jonathan Richard Girard Sun Young Lee Michael John Pendowski Cherry Chit Lai Tsang Performance and Literature Conducting Performance and Literature Jazz Studies and Contemporary Performance and Literature (Clarinet) (Piano) Media (October 21 , 2011) Beata Elzbieta Golec (Piano) (March 16, 2012) Miles Christopher Brown Performance and Literature Andrew). Liebermann Christopher Thomas Petit Christopher Wilke lazz Studies and Contemporary (Piano) (Mdrch 16, 2012) Performance and Literature Pertormance and Literature Early Music (March 16, 2012) Media (March 16, 2012) (Saxophone) (March 1 6, 201 2) (Organ) john Michael Harley Lisa Rebecca Caravan Performance and Literature justin McClean Mason Dennis Christopher Repino Music Education (Bassoon) (October 21, 2011) Performance and literaturE> Performance and Literature (Trombone) (October 21, 201 'I ) (Guitar) (October 21, 2011 ) Man Yui Kitty Cheung Narae joo Performance and Literature Performance and Literature Douglas Hart O'Connor johnandrew Slominski (Violin) (Piano)/Piano Accompanying Performdnce and Literature Performante and Literature and Chamber Music (Saxophone) (March 16, 201 2) (Piano) Eun Young Choi Performance and Literature (Piano) (March 16, 2012) Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development Doctoral Degree Candidates Doctor of Jessica Katherine Germano Leman Kaniriirk Kbse Theodore joseph Pagano Brian Patrick Weller Fokin Educational Leadership with Higher Ed ucation Educatrona i Administratio n with Education (EdD) M ental Health Counseling and speCialization in K- 12 Schools specialization in K-12 Schools Supervision Gemma Christine Rinefierd (March 16, :>012) Charles Shepard Ackley jr, Kathryn M, Kendall Higher Education Higher Education janet Haggerty Gibbons Higher Education (October 21, 20 11 ) Nathan Michael Work Educational Administration w ith School District Leadership Donna R Berryman specialization in K- 12 Schools james W. Maddison joseph Anthony Siracuse with additional certification in Higher Education Higher Education Ed ucational Administration w ith School Building Leadership ]ody T Goodman specializatiun in 1-:--12 Schuuls John T Clifford Higher Education Andre Laurence Maillet School District Leadership School District Leadership Lillie Stone w ith add it1onal certification in Jeffrey M, Green with additional certification m Teaching and CLU riculum School Burldmg Leadership Teaching and Curriculum School Bu dding Leadership (March 16, 2012) Lora DeNero Alisa Pinney Hathaway Karen A McCarthy Karen Dyrbala Taylor Educational Administration with Counseling Higher Education Higher Education specialization rn K- 12 Schools Sandra Brindisi johnville Marguerite Martino McCarty Kate M, Tompkins Marie joanne Morin Fe12ner Educational Administration with Counseling Higher Ed uca tiCJn Higher Education specialization in K-1 2 Schools 18 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences School of Arts and Sciences Degree Candidates Bachelor of Arts Richard James Ashford Michael Walker Beato Jonathan S. W Bokser William Robert Campi EconomiLs Psychology-Major; Film and Politica l Science/ English History Cadence Aaker Media Studies/American Srgn (December 31 , 2011 I Komi Attitso Alison Elizabeth Canavan Pc, /itical Science Language- Minor john R. Slater Memorial Prize (December 31, 2011) Brology--Major; Art H istory-Major; Epidemiology-Minor Elizabeth Downey Beatriz David Alan Bono Music-Minor Matt A;tronson Epidemiology- Major; International Relations Mathematics : Statistics-- Majur; Joseph John Avanzato Mathematics- Minor Lijia Cao Bus1ness- N1inur Political Science/Phy1ics Christopher Robert Botash Financial Economics Xavier Jamarcus Beckwith Alvin Ivan Aviles Health, Behavior and Society Zimu Cao Aleksandr Abramov Philosophy- Major; Major; Biology-Minor Financial Economics-Major; Mathematics-Major; Lega l Studies-Minor Financial Economics/ Mathematics- Major; Business- ---.'v\inor Psychology as a Social De/no Sisson Prize Benjamin Jacob Bovarnick Science-Minor Chemistry/Political Science International Relations/ Hana Gayle Abrams David Laurence Bendes Japanese--Minor Jessica Luann Bagley Music-Major; Psychology Economics and Bu:,iness Jamie Kristin Bow English/ Political Science Heather Anne Carella Mmnr Strategie,_·M ajor; Music- Minor Psychology Psychology/American Srgn Award for Athletic Leadership justin Garrett Abruzzo Lining Bai Entrepreneurship Award Language Economics Financial Economics Sonya Bentovich Rashiana Twila Bowleg Jacob J. Cargill Health, Behavior and Society Derrick Opoku Acheampong Trevor William Baisden Economics/Psychology Archaeology, le.:hnology and Psychology Political Science- Major; Kaitlyn Marie Brady Historical Structures Sustainability-Minor Aaron Stewart Bentzel Laurie Vienne Aclub Film and Media Studies/ Film and Media Studies/ Lily Elena Carhart Percy Dutton Prize English- Major; Brain and Psychology- Major; German- Major; Archaeology, Technology Jnd Cognitive Sciences- M inor Biology-Minnr Dylan James Bakert Japanese-Minor Historical Structures- Major; Philosophy Emily Allyn Breeding Art History/Medieval and Early Emily Marie Pearl Adams Noah Michael Berg Modern Studies-Min•)r Archaeology, Technology Anthropology/Psychology Alison Elizabeth Ballantyne Music-M ajor; Bus1ness--Minor and Historica l Structures/ Psychology- M ajor; Kaitlin Elizabeth Carragher Layne Elizabeth Berkley International Relations/History Katelyn Elizabeth Agan Statistics- Minor Economics-Major; International Relations/French Financial Economics- Major; Dennis Briggs Business/Legal Studres- Minor Political Science/Bustness Emily Elizabeth Balzano Aaron Shook Berkowitz Economics Minur American Sign Language--Major; Michael Oliver Carson History English Darcy Shea Ahern Englbh: Theater- M inor Alissa Emily Brill Emily Rose Berkowitz Politrca l Scrence-- Major; Histnry- M ajor; Xuechen Bao Seamus P Cartmell Political Science/Fnglish Spanish/ International Relations Classical Civilization- Minor Psychology/ Financial Economics History Priscilla Oluwagbeminija Alabi Zachary Locke Barber Paula Bermel Adam James Brinkman Dominick joseph Caruso, Jr. Financial Economics- Major; Political Science- M ajor; Psycholob'Y Economics- Major; Philosophy Busi ness-M inor English: Theatre/International jason Stuart Betley Business/Lega l Studies---Minor Relations- Minor Leah Helene Barish Anthropology Corey Owen Brizzee History-Major; Hannah D. Cavallo Biology- Major; Katherine Grant Albert English: Theater- M inor Biology Ella Leidy Beyer Psychology-Minor French- Major; Art History- M aior; Art History-Minor Robert Michael Barnard Catherine Lynn Cebul Studio Arts- Minor Kristian Leigh Brooks Political Science/ Business Spanrsh/Afrrcan and Alrican \latalia Dominique Aldrich English-- M ajor; American Studies Brian Patrick Bezek Psyc hology-Minor Biology- M ajor; History-M inor Daniel Arthur Baroff Financial Economics- Major; Religion- Major; Cara M. Ceiorio Busine»/Lega l Studies- Minor Harry Hoffman Brookstein Safira Amazan jewish Studies-Minor Archaeology, Tech nology and History Spani; h- Major; Medical Edward Rider Bezerra Histoncal Structurr2s Anthropology- Minur Andrew Haag Baron Rob Rouzer Award for Linguistics-Major; International Excellence in Student Nathaly Ceron Philosophy Relations/Music- M inor Catherine Marie Anatra Government Leadership Psychology JapanesP Justin Tyler Bartzsch Sebastian Rider Bezerra Financial Economics-M ajor; David Lee Brown Kieran !fan Chacko History/English- Major; Eric Anthony Aniag Phr losophy- M inor Physics/M athematics Financial Econ:Jmics- Major; Medieval and Early M odern Linguistics/M athematics-Major; Chemistry- M 1nor Studies- Minor German/Chinese--Minor James Bassett-Cann Megan Ariel Brown Tiffany Wing Sze Chan Interdepartmental Stud res Maya Silliman Bhattacharjee Studio Arts/Mathematics Lara Antell (I nternational Entrepreneurship) Political Science/Russian English/Political Science--Major, Psychology- M aJor; Sean Patrick Burke Stud ies--M ajor; Economics- Minor Spanish- Minor Megan Battin Political Science Economics- M inor Health, Behavior and Christopher Dalton Bickford Meghana Rani Anugu Sudety-Major; American Sign Melika !sa Butcher Jack Chang, Jr. Archaeology, Technology and Health, Behavior and Society Language--Minor Engli>h- Major; Music/African Psychology Historical Structures-Major; and African-American ~tud i es A!iad Husain Arastu Vicky E. Baudin History-Minor Minor Wei-Chien Chang Economics-Major; Spanish Health, Behavror and Society/ Christine Augusta Biddlecombe Fi nancial Ecor omics Minor African and African-American Amanda Katherine Butler German/Econ om i cs~-Major ; joseph Sebastian Chapman Studies- Major; Economics--M ajor; Business---Minor Econom;cs- MJjor; Jacob Richard Ark Women's Studies- Minor Lega l Studies- M inor Political Science/H rstory jason Gregory Birnbaum Writing. Journalism--M inor Matthew Bauer Alexander Mark Caghan Economics Shianne Marrie Chatarjee Alexander Peter Armlovich Economics- Major; Business Financial Economics- M ajor; Economics and Business Economics/Political Science Minor jordan Michael Blades Bu siness/Legal Studies-M inor Major; Philusophy--Minor Strategies-Major; Allison Nicol Beardsley Political Science- · -M ajor; Xiaowei Cai International Relations--Minor Business/History- -M inor Zachary Theodore Armstrong H ealth Policy Physics- Major Pol itical Science--M ajor; Business- Minor Jarrett Ryan Campbell Japanese COMMENCEMENT 201 2 1':1 Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Chu Yi Chen Frank Anthony Colaruotolo Paul] ames Del Prato Timothy Allen Dozat Jan Michael-George Feurtado Brain and Cognitive Sciences Pol itical Science/ Linguistics Linguistics-Major; Biology Major; Clinical Psychology/ Interdepartmental Studies Classics: Latin/Computer Business-Minor (Italian Studies) Rachel Jean deLahunta Science- M inor Zev A. Fima Comparative Literature Economics Gaoxiang Chen Christina Franchesca Coley Maya Dukmasova Psychology Psychology Matthew David DeMars II Religion/Philosophy- Major; Carlie Ann Fishgold Chemistry French- Minor Art History- M aJur; Faith Nicole Childers Jessica Colorado Anthropok,gy- Minor Christopher Arthony Dende Geological Sciences Chemistry-Major; Sorcha Heather Dundas joseph O 'Connor Graduate Studio Arts- Minor Financial Economi cs Yanique Lychon Chin Anthropology Study Endowment Prize Political Science Zhilin Cong Qianyi Deng Jasmina Dzaferovic Michael Giovanni Fittoria Financial Economics- Major; Physics Psychology Political Science/Psychology Jessica Rae Chinelli Mathematics/International Engl ish Frank Conlon Relations---Minor Robert Maxwell Eberhardt J anine Odette Fleury Financial Economics Bi ology Mara Lynn Chinelli Allison Marie Denniston Psychology- Major; Brain and Cogniti ve Sciences- M inor Anthropology Charlene Yarvo Cooper Politica l Science- Major; Legal Joseph William Eckert Health, Behavior and Society/ Studies-M inor Jeong Min Cho Financial Economics- M ajor; Chelsea Flint English Business/Mathematics- Minor Film and Media Studies ~conomics Jessica M. DeSanctis Christina Michelle Cordell Psychology- Major; Brain and Luke M. Edson Seoungbean Cho Emily Anna Fogel Financial Economics/Brain and Cogn1tive Sciences-- Minor Econom1cs-Major; English- Major; Mathematics/Economics Cognitive Sciences- Major; Mathematics/ International Jeannine Adele DeSai Interdepartmental Studies Mathematics- Minor Relations- Minor (Medieval Stud ies);'Nriting: Jung Hyun Choi Psychology/Eng! ish Mathematics-Statistics/Economics Alicia Marie Cornelia Alysha Nicole Edwards Creative Writing-M inor (December 31, 2011 ) Mathematics- Major; American Meaghan Kathryn DeWaters Anthropology-Major; Kamen Fan Sign Language/History- Minor Comparative Literature Religion- Minor Jessica Marie Christiano Financial Economics- M ajor; Chemistry Elizabeth O'Hara Coughlin Randolf Jay Westfield Diamond Charles P. Edwards International ReiJtions- M inor History Guang Yi Chua Health, Behavior and Society Psychology/Brain and Cognitive David Elliot Frank Major; Clin1cal Psychology/ Sciences Environmental Studies Music- -Major; Music Brain and Cognitive Sciences Lauren Virginia DiBiccari Cognition- Minor M inor Brain and Cognitive Sciences Kyle A. Edwards Gillian Rebecca Friedman M ajor; Business/Psychology as a Mathematics M usic-M.1jor; Michael Sean Chudacoff Social Science-Minor Aaron Paul Craig Business-Minor Ecunumi c~-Ma j o r ; History Olivia Nicole Ehmann Business-M inor Michelle Helen Dick Brain and Cognitive Sciences Noah Joseph Friedman Valerie Rose Craven Health and Society- Major; Ji Sun Chung M ajor; Health, Behavior and English Spanish Spanish- - Minor Society- M inor Political Science- Major; Julia Constance Frisk Business- Mi nor Megharm Theresa Cunningham Juliaana Aili DiGesu Aaron Bloom Eisenberg Psychology/ Health, Behavior American Sign Language International Relations-Major; Joseph Michael Cicero History- Major; Italian/ and Society--Major; Brain and Legal Studies-Minor International Relations-Minor Econo mics- Major; Eric David Robert Cyffka Cognitive Sciences-Minor Business-Minor International Relations/Business- Nan Ding Maura Elise Emerson Lynn Beth Fryer Financial Economics/ Jordan Christine Cicoria Major; Russian-Minor Psychology- - Major; Biology/Psychology M athematics Business-M inor Archaeology, Technology and Suparna Dang SiyaniJames Fullerton Historica l ~tructu res Biology/ Health, Behavior and Anna Beth Dobrzynski Douglas Timothy Eng History History- Mdjur; Joseph Thomas Ciminelli Society Environmental Studies/Financial Classic Civilization - Minor Economics Raffaella Fusco Politica l Science-M ajor; April Augusta Daniels Economics/Interdepartmental Statistics/Lega l Studies - Minor English Daniel Peer Docherty Claire Marshall Ennist Studies (Italian Studies) Political Science Andrew Nicholas Cirillo English Nicholas Anthony DaPrano Louisa Grace Gag Religion-Major; International Psychology Colleen Elizabeth Dolan Linda A. Faber lntf'rdepartmental Stud1es Relations/Classic Civilization Brain and Cognitive Sciences Mathematics/Economics (Sustainable Development) Minor Karishma Anne Dara Major; Linguistics/Psychology Maj ar; Psychology as a Social Anthropology- M ajor; M inor Samantha Rae Fabricant Science- ·Minor Melissa Shaw Ciurzynski Biology/Hea lth, Behavior and Psychology Linguistics- Major; Brain and Society- M inor Dorjee Dolma Isaiah C. Gaines Cognitive Sciences- Minor Economics- M ajor; Erin Michelle Fairbank Psychulogy/Philosuphy Melanie Marissa Davidoff Art History- Minor Terence Willie Clark Political Science/Film and Psychology- Major; Media Studies Julia Dowd Gallogly English/ History-Major; Laura Dombrowski Comparative Literature- Minor History/International Writing: Journalism-Minor English Ahmed Munir Faisal Relations-Major, (December 31 , 2011 ) Adam Joseph Davis Biology French- M inor Econom1cs Matthew J. Domenick Ntcholas Albert Francis Clayton Transfer Studen t Award Psychology Brendan Galloway Philosophy Dayanna Rayelle Davis Haven Robert Falconer Anthropology- Major; Brett C. Donahue Musid Political Science Raechel Marie Coffey Japanese Spanish- Minor Psychology- Major; Erin Rachel Gamoran M athemat1 cs-M ajor; Writing: Music Cognition- Minor Clayton Falzone Creative Writing- Minor English- Major; Africa o and Matthew Jordan Dawidowicz Biology Political Science-M ajor; Rebecca Lynn Donnelly African·American Stucl l ~s Alyssa Rae Cohen Business-Minor Spanish Aleksandra Fazlipour Minor Biology- M ajor; Psychology as Logan Hazen Award for Linguistics-Major; Writing: a ~ocial Scienct---Minor Abigail Lakshmi Deacon Yuan Jerry Gao O utstanding Contribution to Creative W riting- Minor English--Major; Psychology/ Ph ilosophy Sara Elizabeth Cohen Residential Life International Relati ons-M inor Nicholas Paul Fedorka Iliana Garcia English- Major; History- Minor Lorena Dare Katherine Hannah Dean Political Science--Major; English- M ajor; English : Daniel Joseph Cohn Financial Economics- M ajor; History- Minor Theater/Legal Studies- M inor Political Science- M ajor; Mathematics/Business/ Health, Behavior and Society History- M inor Statistics----Minor Zhijing Feng Joseph Hiroyuki Gardella Rob Rouzer Award for Fi nancial Economics-M ajor; Psychology- M ajor; Excellence in Student Andrew M. Debbins Peter Held Downing Japdnese-Minor Li nguistics- M inor Government Leadership History/Political Science-Major; Financial Economics-M ajor; Music- M inor Paul Anthony Ferrari Olivia Jane Cohn Busine%- Minur Kelsey Ann Garlock Financial Economics/Pol itical H1story English- Major; Matthew Joseph Doyle Science Psychology- Minor Health, Behavior and Society 20 UN IVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Katherine Maria Loughridge Thane R. Green William James Hogan III ImranJaved Lily Kim Garner Psychology P;ycho l ogy~Major ; Economics-Major; Bio l ogy~Majo r; Chemistry~Major ; American English: The COMMENCEME NT 2012 21 Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Kelly Elizabeth Lannon Raymond Clement Liang Chelsea Rae Marsh Leah Glade Miller Ashley Frances Nelson Psychology Political Science Linguistics-Major; Linguistics--Major; Psychology/ Relig1on Philosophy-Minor International Relations/Classics: Kathryn Alexandra Lantuh William Liapis Arabic- Minor Jessica Marie Nemeth Psychology- Major; Environmental Studies Carolyn Jane Marthens Biology Musit:-Minor Art History-Major; Samantha]. Miller Donghee Lim Spanish-··-Minor Philosophy/English Laura Nichols Casey V Larsen Economics-Major; Psychology- Major; American Psychology- Major; Japanese/Business-Minor Michael Tyrone Martin, Jr. Spencer Miller Sign Language- Minor Studio Arts--Minor Financial Economics Political Science Kevin Lin Kathryn Mary Nixon Samuel Martin Larussa Mathematics/Financial Economics Katharine Stephanie Martine Meridith Louise Mock Psychology/ Bra in and Cogf'itJve International Relations/ Japanese International Relations/French Sciences Economics-Major; Seri Link french- Minor English Lecora Massamba Anne Florence Modica Palida Noor Psychology- Major; African Political Science Chemistry- Major; Studio Arts/ Matthew Daniel Lavigueur Alanna Marie Lippa and African-American Studies/ Biology- M 1nor Political Science Psychology Women's Studies- Minor Maryam Khadijah Mohammed Biology/Chemistry--M ajor; Thomas Charles Norman IV Lian Elizabeth Ekika Law Jonell Liriano Adam Edward Mattison Health, Behavior and Society M athematics Film and M edia Studies--Major; Health, Behavior and Society International Relations- Major; Minor Studio Arts/American Sign Communal Principles Award German--Minor Melissa Renie Northrup Language-Minor Joseph Adornetto Monahan Political Soence Julia Yarnell Liston John Anthony McAndrew Mathematics/Economics Adam Walter Lee Psychology- Major; Political Science Daniel Irwin Novograd Chemistry International Relat1ons-Minor Clay]. Monson History Katherine Li McCully English/Interdepartmental Studies Ho Kyun Lee Sarah Anne Litten Psychology/Brain and Cognitive (Language and Culture)-- Major; Nathan Edward Novosel Biology Political Science-Major; Sciences-Majo r; American Sign Language/ Political Science/ Econc.mics Chinese- Minor jessica Choy Lee Spanish- Minor Psychology- Minor Award for Athletic Leadership Health, Behavior and Society Zhejun Liu Emily Laura McGraw Annette Moosher Seth H. and Harriet S. Terry Prize Major; Psychology-Minor Economics-Major; Political Science/ History-Major; Psychology Katherine Nunez Studio Arts-·Minor Music-Minor JunAm Lee Neftali Morales Mathematics--Major; Business- M inor Economics Gabriella Logrono Suzanne Denise McKenzie Psychology- Major; English/ Biology English· - M ajor; Brain and Legal Studies-Minor Zachary Nussbaum MinAh Lee Cognitive SciencPs - Minor Financial Economics/Statistics· Michael Devin Anthony Andrew Shawn Moran Economics MaJor; Japanese-Minor Longley Katherine Elizabeth McLean Psychology Christopher Nyiri Political Science/English Linguistics --M ajor; American Chem istry Sang Hun Lee Sign Language- M inor Chandler Moran Statistics/Financial Economics Stephanie Lorenzo Anthropology Caitlin Marie O'Connell Psychology Conor Charles McMahon Archaeology, Technology and Soomin Lee Political Science Gabriella Morris Historical Structures Health Policy Alexander Scott Lounsbury Biology-·-Major; Heath, Behavior History Will Palmer McMunigal and Society/Spanish-Minor joseph O'Connor Graduate Yeo Kyung Lee Psychology- Major; (December 31, 201 1) Study Endowment Prize Psychology- M ajor; Jodie Elizabeth Luther Philosophy- Minor ChinPse-Minor Economics Jennifer L Matt Thomas Patrick O'Toole Dontae Mears Religion/ Political Science Biology Irina V Lerman Megan Jeanne Lyle French Chem1stry International Relations--M ajor; Emma Marie Mrowka Taryn Holly Ocko Italian/Legal Studies Hannah Faye Meckler Chemistry- Major; Classic English/ Fi lm and M edia Studies Katherine Nicole Lestrade Finam..ial Economics-Major; Civilization- Minor Health, Behavior and Mabel Lim Fang Yee Business----Minor Da Hye Oh Society- Major; American Sign Psychology/ Business Mariam Mull Biology (December 31 , 2011 ) Language- Minor Eric Meinhardt Women's Studies-Major; Caitlin Marie Mack Brain and Cognitive Sciences/ Political Science/ Psychology· Cihangir Okuyan Ho Wan Leung International Relations/English Linguistics--M ajor; Minor Linguistics/Chemistry- Major; M athematics Computer Science-Minor Japanese- M inor Leigha Alexandra MacNeill Caitlin Elizabeth Munro David Benjamin Levy Psychology/English- ·Major; Samantha Marie Melvin Art History/Film and M ed ia Caitlin Chelsey Olfano International Relations/History French- Minor Anthropology Studies Spanish/International Relations- M ajor; Paige Alexandra Levy Claire Adele Boyce Maggio Lorenzo Mendez Ryan Murphy Writing: Journalism- Minor English- M ajor; Psychology as a Political Science Financial Economics-Major; Economics/Mathematics Social Science-Minor (December 31 , 2011 ) Mathematics-Minor Katherine Elisabeth Olson Mengjie Na Brain and Cognitive Sciences Michael Lowenstein Award Brittany Marie Lewis Alexander Man Financial Economics/Art H istory Psychology- M ajor; American Economics-Major; Nadia Ericksen Menezes Janna Rochelle Orons Sign Language- Minor Chemistry- M inor Catherine Nadeau Philosophy/ English- M ajor; Psychology Simeon Cheatham Award Psychology Psychology as a Social Vanessa Mangione Alyson Elizabeth Meyer Science-M inor Psychology Benjamin Nager-Sadoff Kathleen Rebecca Lewis Chemistry- - M ajor; Psychology History- M ajor; Halley Jocelyn Orshan Music .lS a Social Science-Minor Brandon Manrique Fi lm and M edia Studies Linguistics/M athematic> Shmaryahu Moshe Lewis Economics/Philosophy- M ajor; Eric M. Meyer Statistics- Minor Elyse Sara Nagler Matilda Osei-Afriyie Philosophy/Economics--M ajor; Political Science Politica l Science-Minor Economics and Business Health, Behavior and Society Aleksey Marchenko Julia Chrystle Militar Strategies---M a1or; Fi nancial Economics WenOu Jintian Li English/Biology Organizational Psychology/ Film and M edia Studies--Major; Biology·-Minor Comparative Literature Business/Psychology-Minor Maggie Zeiner Margolis Adam Zachary Miller Health, Behavior and Society Glenn Matthew Packard Political Science Emily Nash Kaili Li M ajor; Film and M edia Psychology- M ajor; Economics Studies/Psychology as a Social Financial Economics/ Byron Rescia Miller Biology- M inor Craig Anthony Pais M athematics Science-Minor Anthropology Tamar Sara Negri Financial Economics-M ajor; WilliamWeiLi Allison Kenny Marsh Kelly Elizabeth Miller Interdepartmental Studies M athematics/Business-M inor Psychology- M ajor; Biology-Major; H ealth Psychology- -·Major; (Religion and Politics of the B1ology- Minor Policy- M inor Bioethic-;-Minor Middle East)-M ajor; Brain and Xuan Li Cognitive Sciences-Minor Financial l conomics 22 UNIVERSITY OF ROCH ESTER Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Eleni Margaret Palis Anthony William Petruccelli Bo Daniel Reynolds Brianna Curtin Rossettie Danielle Shaked Film and Media Studies/ Political Science Political Science History- Minor; Brain and Cognitive Sciences--- English- Major; Spanish-Minor Major; Economics/Organizational Psychology-·- Minor Benjamin Judah Phelps Emma Dwyer Reynolds Psychology-Minor Ewelina Roszkowska joseph O'Connor Graduate Political Science/History International Relations Economics Jonathan Shames Study Endowment Prize Adam Kalle Piacquad Brian D. Rice History Aasheesh Paliwal Economics/German Economics Stephen Lee Roth Psychology Jack Eliot Shamosh Economics Lucas Tanner Piazza Joshua Brett Richards Adina Elisheva Smudski Economics-Major; Endri Panariti Interdepartmental Studies Financial Economics- Major; History- Minor (Cultural Consumerism) Mathematics- Minor Rubinoff Psychology Linguistics FeiShan Award for Campus Angela Rodrigues Richeson Chung Sung Park Contributions Mathematics Psychology Corey Rudalavage Economia Economic and Business Strategies Claudia Small Shapiro Toniane Picozzo Anna Frances Richlin David Park Psychology- Major; Religion-Major; Psychology as Biology/Religion Benjamin]. Rueda Financial ELonomics-··Major; Linguistics-Minor a Social Science-Minor Chemistry Muse- Minor Daniel Piehler Peter Richter Jian Shi Mathematics Mark Anthony Rumph, Jr. Seong Eun Park English/Economics Mathematics Health, Behavior and Society Biology- Major; Psychology as Timothy Edward Pietras Kendra Elise Riddleberger Yenan Shi a Social Science-Minor Political Science- Major; Declan William Ryan Statistics/Music- Major; Financial Economics-Major; English Literature---Minor Political Scienct'--Major; Alex Dylan Parker Mathematics- Minor Computer Science---Minor Music- Minor Politic...al Science Marie Vanessa Plaisime Jonah Matthew Rifkin Sara Nicole Shimmel Political Science Emily Ruth Safian-Demers Anne Elise Parmentier Health, Behavior and Political Science/Spanish French/ Brain and Cognitive Economics Society- M ajor; American Sign Cameron Riley Sciences Denny Dongha Shin Language-Minor Bennett Parmington Russian- M ajor; Financial Economics--Major; Philosophy - Minor Byron A. Saggese Financial Economics Benjamin David Plummer Mathematics/Business- Minor Psychology Psychology-Major; Japanese/ Armando Olivieri Rivera Danielle Elana Shreck Rachel Katherine Parry Brain and Cognitive ~c i ences- Financial Economics- Major; Janelle Elizabeth Sandefur Political Science-Major; French/Brain and Cognitive Minor Business- Minor Studio Arts--Major; Psychology Studio Arts-Minor ~c i ences-MaJOr; Amencan as a Social Science-Minor S1gn Language- Minor Andrew Joseph Polec Juan Carlos Robaina Daniei]acob Sieburth English Carley Marie Parsons Comparative Literature-Major; Christopher M. Sardella M athematics Spanish- Minor Politica l Science r nglish/ Film and Media Studies Melanie Jamileh Prasad Elizabeth Sieverding Political Science/ French joseph O'Connor Graduate Megan Louise Roberts Alex Gregory Sargent Brain and Cognitive Sciences- Study Endowment Prize Susan E. Pratt Health and Society History M ajor; Clinical Psychology- Erin Allison Partin Mathematics Taylor Nicole Robertson Natalee Dawn Sassaman Minor Eccnomics/French Fabio Junior Puello Political Science-Major; Health, Behavior and Society Ryan Alexander Sigurdson Legal Studies- Minor Vimal Patel Economics/ Film and Media Sean David Savett Economics/Mathematics Economics/History Studies-M ajor; Sara Starr Rodgers Political Science-Major; Jocelin Arnie Silva Legal Studies--Minor H istory- M ajor; History/International Financial Economics- Major; Tejas Pathak lnternJtional Relations- Minor Relations- M inor M athematics- M inor Economics/International Mara Elizabeth Pusateri Archaeology, Technology and Re l ation ~ Jennifer Albania Rodriguez Brianna Elayne Sayers Hannah Tess Silver Historical Structures Psychology- Major; International Relations Health, Behavior and Society/ Julie Pearlman Spanish- Minor Philosophy Political ~uencl'--Major ; Mengxin Qi Brian Schmeer Financial Economics/ Legal St~dieG-Minor Brian Daniel Rook Financial Economics--Major; Andrew David Silverberg Mathematics Political Science/History Business- Minor Political Science-Major; Wtlliam Cary Pellett Business-M iror Po itical Science-Major; Ytchen Qiu Justin F. Rosati Brooke Ann Schmeltz History- Minor Economic and Business Statistics Psychology/American Sign Rachel Elizabeth Simeone Strategies/Psychology- Major; Language Psychology Matej Penciak Japanese- Minor Christine Marie Rose Joseph Paulin Schuman Mathematics Julia Josephina Radovani Anthropology/Studio Arts-Major; Robert Dean Simeral Spanish/English: Theatre-Minor F-inancial Economics/ Economics- Major: Economics- Major; Gillian Harte Pennington Mathematics--Major; Music- M inor English--Major; Business--Minor Legal Studies- Minor John Russell Rose Philosophy- Minor Jesse Andrew Rakoske Statistics-Major; Amanda L. Simon Leah Rose Peres Economics- M inor Eric Henry Schunck Economics E:conomirs Political Science- M ajor; Psychology History/Comparative Amanda Ann Rosemore Lindsay Danielle Simon Wanda Liz Perez-Diaz Literature--Minor Economics Hannah Schwager English- M ajor; Social and Health, Behavior a11d Society Political Science Francisco Hernan Ramirez Gregory Nathan Rosen Emotional Development- Minor Clarissa Evelyn Perkins Biology/Spanish Religion Samantha Leigh Schwartz Dustin Everett Singer International Relations-Majur; Politica l Science/Psychology Economics/Biology Economics/FrenLh- Minor Primi-Ashley Rigonan Ranola Rebecca Sara Rosenberg Bioethic; English- M ajor; Elizabeth Marie Sciavolino Preetjot Singh Sarah Ruth Perimeter Film and M edia Stodies- ·Minor Psychology/Interdepartmental Economics Psychology--- M ajor; Jewish jonathan Raybin Studies (Stage and Screen Culture) Studies-Minor Physics Jordan Mark Rosenblum Shermaine Singh Emily Marie Scott Emily Katherine Redman Financial Economics/ International Relations- Major; Gregory Joseph Perrin Mathematics- Major; Political Science/ History Legal Studies-- Minor Psychology Chemistry/Biology Busi ness- Minor Steven Ross Seigart Patrick Michael Single Caitlin Louise Redmond Natalie Kate Peterman Hilary Fran Rosenthal Music Business Spanish- Major; Chinese-Minor English- Major; Health, International Relations- Major; Behavior and Society- Minor Writing: journdlisrn- Minor Cheryl Jayne Seligman Matthew Siper Daniel Jonathon Peterson Spanish/M athematics/ History Psychology Nicholas Kyle Reese Callen Erik Ross Fconomics---M ajor; Russian Studies/International Economics- M ajor; Musi t - Minor Seth Henry Skolnik Luke Harrison Petrinovic Relations Computer SLience-Minor International Relations- Major; Political Science-Major; Allison Guggenheim Shaber Spanish- M inor Spanish/History- Minor Ian Schneider Remming Chemistry M athematics COMMENCEMENT 201 2 23 Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Casey Johnathan Slone Dorota Marta Stobierska Jacob Isaiah Taylor LisahJayne Walden David Joseph Wien Film and Media Studies/Political Political Science Biology--Major; Health, English/History Financial Economics Science Behavior and Society - Minor Benjamin Raphael Strake Lyndia Aimi Walker Joseph Nicholas Wtlliams Grace Ellen Smisloff Financial Economics Sarah Elizabeth Taylor Psychology- Major; History Psychology- Major; Psychology Biology·- Minor Business-Minor Brian Peter Street Marcus Jerome Wtlliams Classics--Major; Micah Isidore Telegen Brien Patrick Walsh Financial Economics Kenisha Nicole Smith Mathematics-Minor International Relations/History American Sign Language Economics--Major; Ian Alexander Wilson English Literature--Minor Scott Elan Strenger Jordan Territo Kelly Marie Walsh Music lnterdepartmenl: 24 UNIVERSI1Y O F ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences YanZhang Bachelor Clark Michael Riordan Bowman Danielle Crean Yelaine Fernandez Economics/Mathematics Mathematics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Bioloical Sciences: Molecular ;December 31, 2011 ) of Science Major; Clinica l Psychology Genetics Ryan Taylor Brown Minor '!uru Zheng Kaily Marie Abbott Brain and Cognitive Sciences Bridget Elizabeth Festa English/Statistrcs Chemistry Christopher Michael Cummings Brain and Cognitive Sciences Gregory Steven Bryman l>rain and Cognitive Sciences Major; Econo mics- M inor Shijie Zhong Patrick Albert Abbott Biological ~c i ences: Financial Economics/ Biological Sciences: Neu ro~ci ence-M a j or; Meredith Anne Cusick Jessica Finkielsztein Math e·nati c~ Biochemistry-Major; Psychology/Chemistcy- Minor Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Biological Sciences: Cell Chemistry-Minor and Development- Major; Simin Zhou Liana Chrystyna Buniak Chanise Kenika Cyrus Spanish-Minor Financial Economics/Statistics Naomi Ibtihaj Ahsan Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Biological Sciences: AndrewS. Fleisher Cuiwen Zhu Neuroscience- Major; Lucie Wells Cabrera Nicholas Anthony DaPrano Applied Mathematics- Major; International Relations Span ish/Clinical Psychology Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Economics- Minor Major; Clinical Psychology HuaZhu NehaAhuja M ino r Sthuthi David Conor Thomas Flynn Financial Economics Biological Sciences: Biological Sciences: Biological Sciences: Cell and Antonio Amedeo Calascibetta Biochemistry-Major; Nan Zhu Neuroscience-Major; Development- M ajor; Lega l Psychology/Spanish-Minor Biological Sciences: Cell and Psychology as a Social Science/ Studies- Minor Studio Arts Development Business-Minor Ashley Alex Matthew Foley Yiyun Zhu (December 31 , 20n ) Biological Sciences: Paul james Del Prato Biological Sciences: M icrobiology Mathematics/Econorl'ics Neuroscience-Major; james Patrick Callahan Bram and Cognitive Sciences Psychology- M inor Brain and Cognitive Sciences-· Major; Philosophy-Minor Lauren Tate Forbes Justine Salome Zimiles Major; Economics/Philosophy Biological Sciences: P COMMENCEMENT 2012 25 Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Rachel Danielle Harney HyeinJeon MeiraJohanna Kruskal Jodie Elizabeth Luther Emily Sarah Pape Biological Sciences: Molecular B1ological Sciences: Cell and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biologica l Sciences: Molecular Biologica l Sc,ences: lv\olecula• Genetics Development Major; Clinical Psychology Genetics Genetics- Majo r; American M inor Sign Language-Minor Andrew Jon Harrison Liyi Hayley Jiang Colin Rhodes Marcus Physico Bi ological Sciences: Alexander Phillip Kuczala Physics Kyung Bae Park Bi ochemistry-Major; Physics Biological Sc1ences: Emily Florence Hart Psychology as a Social Maksym Stanislaw Marek Neuroscience Chemistry- M ajor; Science--Minor Alexander Phillip Kuczala Biological Sciences: M icrobiology Psychology-Minor Mathematics Joshua David Pawlicki Jordan Edward Johnson Gabrielle Emily Mariano Geoiog1cal SciPnces Presidential Award for Sudhir Kunchala Community Service Mathema tics-~Major; Chemistry -Major; Chemistry-Minor Biolog1ca l Sc1ences: Anthropology--Minor Matej Penciak Irene Bush Steinbock Award Neuroscience-Major; Michael Benjamin Marton Physics lmran Syed Hasan Magda Jordi Cruzval Classic Civilization- M inor Brain and Cognitive Sciences Rollins Tess Petersen Physics and Astronomy Theresa Rose Kurtz Brain and Cognitive Sciences Brain and Cognitive ~c i en•:ts Lubaba Hasan Laura Elizabeth Junig Biological Sciences : Neuroscience Major; Psychology- M inor Brai n and Cognitive Sciences Lucia Catherine Petito Biologk.al SCiences: Major; Clinical Psychology Stephanie Kwakye Marcus James Mazurowski Mathematics M icrobiology Biolugiwl Sciences: Microbiology Biological Sciences: Ecology and Minor Ei The Phyu LaylaHatem Evolutionary Biology- -Major; Lisa Brooke Kaggen James Nelson Lagas Clinical Psychology-Minor Biological Sc1ences: Cel• Biological Sciences: Brain and Cognitive Sciences-~ Biological Sciences: Neuroscier1ce and Development--Major; Biochemistry- Major; French/ M ajor; Studio Arts-Minor Karen L McGavern History-Minor Psychology a> a Social Ya Lai Applied Mathemdtics- Major; Science- M1n0r Amanda Sue Kamarck Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Biomedical Engineering/ Olga Pavlovna Pikul Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Spanish- M inor Biological Sciences: Cailin Rose Henley Mark Steven LaMagna Neuroscience-M ajor; Biological ~c i en ces. Cell Hyun-Uk Kang Mathematics Nadia Ericksen Menezes Studio Arts-Mino,· and Development- Major; Chemistry Applied M athematics Spanish- Minor Elizabeth Isadora Landzberg Jonathan Pinto Ta-ChunKao Biological Sciences: Ecology Beth Sarah Meyers Biological Scrences: John Herbst Chemistry and Evolutionary Biology Geological Sciences Biochemistry-Major; Biological Sciences: Major; Chemi.;;try---Mir1or Chemistry/M usic- M inor Neuroscience-Major; David Melvin Kaphan janet Howell Clark Prize Deborah Joan Miller Russian Studies---Minor Chemistry Biological Science<: M oleculdr Brandon Michael Podyma Vladimir Nikolaevich Lankevich Genetics-Major; Biolog1cal Sc1ences: Elaine Michelle Hernandez Shaina Melissa Karasin Physics Studio Arts-M inor Biochemistry- Major; M athematics- M ajor; Brain and Cognitive Sciences Chemistry-Minur Business-M 1nor Andy Yan Ting Lee James Ryan Miller Olga Karlinskaya Biological Sciences: Microbio•ogy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Samuel Burns Potter Margaret Ann Hill Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Biological Sc1ences: Biological Sciences: Molecular Nam K. Lee Jeremy Richard Mongiovi Sophie Emma Kaye r-...leu roscience·-Major, Genetics Biological Sciences : Molecular Biological Sciences: Ecology and International Relations- Minor Brain and Cognitive Sciences Genetics- Major; Evolutionary Biology--Major; Susana Ho M ajor; Psychology- Minor Economics- Minor History- Minor Alexander Pozez Brain and Cognitive Science< B1ain and Cognitive Sr:iences Audrey Kelly Camille Amber Leong Zachary Orrin Moore Amanda Holmes Biological Sciences: Ecology Biological Sciences: Cell Bram and Cognitive Sc 1 e n ce~ Susan E. Pratt Brain and Cognitive Sciences and ~vol utio nary Biology and Development- Major; Physics Major; M usic---Minor Wendy jill Fread Prize Span ish- Minor Jennifer Rose Morey Chemistry- Major; Eugenia Prezhdo Christina Marie Horr David]. Kim Irina V. Lerman Environmental Geo l ogy-~ Minor Applied Mathematics Mathematics-Major; Biology/ Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences: Molecular Art History-Minor Major; America n Sign Genetics Anil Sankar Nair Chiranjeevi Raghunath Applied Mathematics -- Major; Mathematics Andrew T. Huang Language/Psychology as d Suual Science- M inor Mark Daniel Levin M echanical lngineering/ Brain and Cognitive Sciences Chemistry-Major; Biomedical Engineering-Minor Sneha Prakash Rath Daniel Mark Hutchinson Julie Young Yun Kim M athemdtics--Minor Bit:,logical Scit:nce<;: Mr)IPO Jiar Biological Sciences: Cell and (December 31 , 201 1 J Christopher Shaun Nelson Genetics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences: Ecology Development- Major; Music/ Jonathan Raybin Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson Organizational Psychology Rebecca Alice Levin and Evolutionary Biology Che mistry~ --MaJ O r ; Chemistry Brain and Cognitive Sciences M inor Spanish - Minor Tyler Nicholas Major; Psychology/Linguistics/ Kyung Mi Fiona Kim Environmental Sciences Christine Baker Reinhardt American Sign Language-Minor Biological Sciences: Ecology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Megan Lynn Leyrer Michael Travis O'Leary Evolutionary Biology- M ajor; Jacob Travis Hyer Major; Japanese-Minor Biological Sciences: N euroscience- Major; Applied M athematics-M ajo1; French/H istory-Minor BiologiLal s, iences: Sungmin Kim Psychology- Minor Chemistry/Biology- M inor Biochemistry- M ajor; Ian Schneider Remming Biological Suences: Cell and Ph ilosophy-Minor Kaitlin Alyse Organisciak Physics and Astronomy Development Xuan Li Christopher Joseph Indovina Mathematics Brain and Cognitive Sciences- Yunseop Kim M ajor; Psychology- M inor Erin Emily Ricci Biological SCiences: M icrobiology Diana Zhi-Hong Lien Biological Sciences: NeuroscitnLI:! Biological Sciences: Microbiology Alanna Brie Orr Dana Michelle Isaacs !December 31, 2011 ) Biologica l Sciences: Cell and Peter Richter D eve lopment Biological Sciences: Biochemistry Biological Sciences: Ecology Andrew G. Kirkley Chemistry and Evolutionary Biology Cameron Ovandipour Biological Sciences: Cell Seri Link Biolog,cal Soences: M icrob1ology Justin F. Rosati and Development- Major; M athematics Nicholas Charles Jacobs Biolog1ca l Sciem ..e::.: M olecular Psychology - M inor Biological Sciences: M olecular Celia Paula Litovsky Chia Hua Pai Ce n eti c~ Genetics--M ajor; Computer Ilya Kostyukovskiy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences: Science--M inor Microbiology- Major; Brittany An Ross Biological Sciences: Molecular Psychology as a Social Biological Sciences: M olec:Jiar Genetics-Major; Ryane Michele Logsdon NehaJain Biological Science;; Ecology Science-Minor Genetics Biological Science:;: Economico;- M inor and Evolutionary Biology NeurosCience- M ajor; Aaron Roth Shane Michael Kravec Maj\11 ; Studio Art'i- M inor Adriana Palacio Studio ArL'-Minor Hiological Sdence>: Cell Brain and Cogn1t1ve Sciences Physics- M aJOr; Biomedical Keith Allen Lumbard, Jr. and Development- Major; Maria Janda Engineering- M inor Stephen Lee Roth Mathematics-M d.jur; Psychology as a Social Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Applied Mathemcttics Shane Michael Kravec English Literature-Minor Science- Minor Joshua Brand an Jensen M athematics Biological Sciences: Neuroscience 26 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Sciences Nicholas M. Runeare Emilia Sola Gracia Katherine Nicole Vermilye Shijie Zhong Master of Arts Biological Sciences: Cell Biological Sciences: Ecology Biological Sciences: Cell and Physics and Development- Major; and Evolutionary Biology D evelopment--Major; Audrey Amir Philosophy~~Minor Spanish/American Sign Chengzhe Zhou English (October 21, 2011) Sempian P. Sooriakumar Language---~Minor Physics Zachary David Sabbah Biological Sciences: Jeffrey B. Arnold Biological Sciences: Molecular Microbiology Brien Patrick Walsh Chengzhe Zhou Political Science (March 16, 2012) Ge.,etics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Mathematics Annamarie Elizabeth Spielmann Catherine E. Bailey Alex Gregory Sargent Brain and Cognitive Sciences---- Joseph Shihao Wang MoxiZhou English (October 21, 2011 I Biological Scief'lces: Neuroscience Major; American Sign Brain and Cognitive Sciences Brain and Cognitive Sciences Language/Psychology-Minor Andrew William Barrett Rosemary Ann Savage Bennett Lawrence Washburn HuaZhu Literary Translation Studies Biological Sciences: Cell and Kayla Christine Spring Mathematics Mathematics (March 16, 2012) Development Biological Sciences: Microbiology-Major; Bradley Mitchell Wasser Nan Zhu Matthew William Bayne Eric Michael Schiesser Medical Anthropology- Minor Biological Sciences: Biological Sciences: Molecular English (March 16, 1012) Physics Biochemistry-Major; Genetics Hannah Heininger Spungen Music-Minor John Andrew Baynes Owen Schochrt Biological Sciences: Economics (March 16, 2012) Brain and Cognitive Sciences Matthew Jacob Watman Neuroscience--Major; Arijit Bose Mathematics-Minor Brain and Cognitive Sciences john Alexander Schoeniger Physics (March 16, 1012) Rebecca Anne Watro Physics and Astronomy- Major; Tara jean Stanley Sarah Joyce Bunker Mathematics- Minor Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology English (March 16, 2012) Cecilia Anne Scribner Catherine Helen Stevenson Lauren jessie Campbell Geological Sciences-Major; Biologica l Sciences: Microbiology Alexander Zu-Hao Wei Pol itical Science--Minor Biological Sciences: English (October 21, 2011 ) Dorota Marta Stobierska Microbiology Justin Christopher Coyne Brian Michael Shafer Biological Sciences: Microbiology Biologica l Sciences: Molecular Sarah Ruth Werner English (October 21, 2011) Genetics Lindsay Ruth Stolzenburg Brain and Cognitive Sciences Annika-Lena Cramer Biological Sciences: Molecular Comparative Literature Joseph Pendle Shapiro Genetics- M ajor; Psyc hology as Erica Ann Wilson (May 20, 20121 Biological Sciences: a Social Science-Minor Biological Science;: Molecular BioLhemistry Genetics Casey Kenneth Storme David Cornelius de Jong Psychology (October 21, 2011) Priyanka Jay Shrtty Biological Sciences: Cell Elizabeth Wojakowski Biological Sciences: Cell and Development- Major; Biologica l Sciences: Microbiology Judith Margrit Degen and Development- M ajor; Economics- Minor Brain and Cognitive Sciences Chemistry- Minor Daniel Ryan Wolfanger Shufan Sun Brdin and Cognitive Sciences (March 16, 2012) Molin Shi Biological Sciences· Martina Domnick Biological Sciences: Taylor Charlotte Wolfgang Microbiology-Major; Comparative Literature (May Neu roscience-Major; Biologica l Sciences: Neuroscience Philosophy-Minor 20, 2012) Psychology- Minor Han Wool]ohn Sung Lucas Lennon Wong Brain and Cognitive Sciences Christopher Thomas Edison Yenan Shi Biolog1cal Sciences: Cell and Major; Clinical Psychology English (October 21, 2011) Applied Mathematics Development Minor Nicholas David Shirley Dillon Denis Ethier Peter Dong Tai Mathematics (May 20, 2012) Physics-Major; Music/ Biologica l Sciences: Molecular CindyQ. Wu Chtomistry Electrical Engineering- Mmor Genetics Dianne Margaret Evanochko Rachel Elise Shiver Kailai Tan Jiangxin Wu English (May 20, 2U12) Biological Sciences: Neuroscie!lce Appl1ed Mathematics Applied Mathematic' Russell Kurt Follett Robert Matthew Siller Sarah Elizabeth Taylor Man Xu Physics (March 16, 2012) Physics Biological Sciences: Physics Kenneth jason Fox Robert Matthew Siller Neuroscience Man Xu English (October 21, 2011 I Mathematics Vinh Kenny Thai Applied Mathematics Denitza Ivanova Gintcheva Biological Sciences: Alex Scott Yanai Mathematics (May 20, 2012) Cristina Silva Hoyos Microbiology i3rain and Cognitive Sciences Biological Sciences: Ecology Davis Milton Glasser and Evolutionary Biology Major; Clmical Psychology Peter G. Ting Brain and Cognitive Sc'1ences Minor Chemistry Roslyn N. Yi (May 20, 2012) Jonathan Simon Ellen Amy Tran Biological Sciences: Microbiology Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares M athematics Biological Sciences: Chih-Juo Yin Economics (May 20, 2U12) Neuroscience-Major; Chemistry Emily Slack Studio Arts- Minor Joshua Alan Haidet Bi ological Sciences: Choongnam Yoon English (October 21, 2011) Neu rosc ience-Maj;Jr; Morgan Nees Van Baalen Biological Sciences: Ecology and Chinese- Minor Brain and Cognitive Sciences Sommer Leigh Hodson Evolutionary Biology- Major; Philosophy (October 21, 2011 I Erin Marie Slocum Elise Marie Van Pelt Psychology as a Sociai Science Brain and Cogn itive Suences Biological Sciences: Cell Minor Liquan Huang and Development-Major; Michelle josephine Zaso Economics (March 16, 2012) Michael D. Smith Philosophy/Psychology as " Biological ~ciences . Brain and Cognitive St 1ences Social Science- Minur Simon Huff Neuroscience- M.:tjor; Hea lth, Linguistics (May 20, 20 12) Evan B. Smothers Carly Judith Vandegrift Behavior and Society/Clinical Psychology-- Minor Mathematics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Ozgur !nee Benjamin Edward Reiner Major; Linguistics-Minor Weisi Zeng Mathematics (May 20, 2012) Snyder Steven Craig Vandewalle Biological Sciences: Cell and Martha Margarete Johnson-Olin Development- Major; Chemisry Brain and Cognitive Sciences English (October 21, 2011) (December 31, 2011) Studio Art~Minor Brenton jacob Kenkel Alexis Erica Vangellow Howard M. Zhang Hillary E. Snyder Biological Sciences: Political Science Biological Sciences: Neuroscience Brain and Cognitive Sciences Neuroscience-Major; (October 21, 2011) Psychology as a Social Science-Minor COMMENCEMENT 2012 27 Degree Candidates • School of Arts and Stit>ntt•s Umair Mustafa Khalil Wt.lliam David Rowley Master of Science Economics (March 16, 2012) Philosophy (March 16, 2012) Laura Keiko Ackerman Hyung Goo Kim Miguel Ricardo Rueda Robayo Chemistry (May 20, 2012) Brain and Cognitive Sciences Political Science (October 21, 2011) (October 21, 2011) Lukiana Anka-Lufford Chemistry (May 20, 20121 joseph DeFalco Lamperez Magnolia Sanati English (March 16, 2012) English (October 21, 2011) Kyle Francis Biegasiewicz Chemistry (May 20, 2012) Amanda E. Lang Erin Lee Scott English (October 21, 2011) Physics (March 16, 2012) Richard Bono Geologica l Sciences Rachael Elizabeth Lax Louis Alexander Seward (October 21, 2011) Psychology (M ay 20, 20121 English (October 21, 2011) Chi Chen Soh! Catherine Lee Curtis Thorburn Sharp Chemistry (M ay 20, 20121 Visual and Cultural Studies Philosophy (October 21, 20111 (March 16, 2012) Ritika Das jordan Silberman Biology (October 21 , 2011' Henrik Henrique Albert Lemos Psychology (March 16, 2012) Philosophy (March 16, 2012) Mialy Murie DeFelice Audra Beth Sorman Biology (October 21, 2011' Katherine Stoller Ludwig English (October 21, 2011) History (October 21, 2011) Anthony joseph Geneva Kaija Marisandra Straumanis Biology (October 21, 2011) Alexandra Lynne Mairs-Kessler Literary Translation Studies History (October 21, 2011) (M arch 16, 20121 Nilotpal Ghosh Geological Sciences Liviah Gwyn Manning Xiaoqing Tang (October 21, 20111 Psychology (March 16, 2012) M athematics (May 20, 2012) Matthew A. Goodman Christopher Moncure Marshall Gabrielle Marie Tepp Chemistry (March 16, 2012) Physi cs (March 16, 2012) Physics (March 16, 2012) Benjamin Isaiah Hmiel julian Rodrigo Martinez Rincon Matthew Allen Testerman Chemistry (March 16, 2012) Physics (M arch 16, 2012) Politica l Science (October 21, 2011) Lisa H. Imamura Benjamin Kyle Morrison Geological Sciences English (October 21, 2011 ) justin Tian (October 21, 20111 Physics (March 16, 2012) Brendan Michael Murphy jeffrey Pratap joseph Xavier Mathematics (May 20, 20121 Ryan Edward Tierney Vedanayagam Economics (May 20, 2012) Sheth Ochieng Nyibule Biology (October 21, 2011) Physics (M arch 16, 201 2) Margaret Fallon Van Brunt Joshua Nicholas Kolev History (March 16, 2012) Acacia Marie O'Connor Chemistry (Mdrch 16, 2012) Literary Translation Kathryn Dolores Van Wert Rebekail Alyse Landfried (October 21, 2011) English (March 16, 20121 Biology (May 20, 2012) Ahmed Emin Orban Andrew Maxwell Vigoren Joohyun Lee Brain and Cognitive Sciences Ph ys ics (March 16, 2012) Chemistry (May 20, 2012) (October 21, 2011) Meg Gillette Walters Kimberly Ann Manbeck Patrick George Papadopulos Mathematics (May 20, 2012) Chemistry (May 20, 2012) Mathematics (May 20, 2012) Yicheng Wang Gregory Arthur Pilgrim Choonsung Park Economics (March 16, 2012) Chemistry (March 16, 2012) Economics (March 16, 2012) Nikolaus Wasmoen Amanda Preske Adam David Pazda English (October 21, 2011) Chemistry (March 16, 2012) Psychology (May 20, 2012) Danielle N. White Shaun Thomas Shahan William Nguyen Phan English (October 21, 2011) Chemistry (March 16, 201 2) Economics (May 20, 20121 Elizabeth Anne Woerner Alexis Ivana Stein TingQian English (March 16, 2012) Biology (October 21, 2011 ) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (March 16, 20121 jordan C. Wood Douglas Johnston Tusch English (October 21, 2011) Chemistry (March 16, 20121 Shayne Noelle Ragbeer Psychology (May 20, 2012) Ilker Yildirim Michael Van Meter Brain and Cognitive Sciences Biulogy (October 21, ~011 ) Ryan Patrick Randall (October 21, 2011) Visual and Cultural Studies Diego Alberto Vasquez (March 16, 2012) Kristof Zsigmond Zetenyi Geological Sciences Economics (May 20, 2012) (October 21, 2011 ) Sara]. Reu bens History (March 16, 20121 Lauren Ashley Zingre Aaron Patrick Walsh English (October 21, 20111 Chemistry (October 21, 2011 ) Andrew Gerard Rhoades English (March 16, 201 2) Talor Berek Walsh Geological Sciences jonail Kent Richards (March 16, 2012) English (October 21, 20111 Alexander Clayton Wotal Wendy Meredith Rote Chemistry (October 21, 2011) Psychology (March 16, 2012) WenwenYao Zachary David Rottman Chemistry (March 1 b, 2012) Visual and Cultural Studies (May 20, 2012) fuan Zhang Biology (October 21, 2011 : Terry Louise Rowley English (March 16, 2012) 28 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • Hajim S<;hool of Engineering and Applied Sciences Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Degree Candidates Bachelor of Arts Bachelor Xiaowei Cai Nicholas Gary Fillion Wesley B. Hood Optical Engineering- Major; Mechanical Engineering-Major; Electrical and Computer k~ron Shook Berkowitz of Science Mathematics-Minor History- Minor Engineering.··-Major; Compu:er Science Physics-Minor Orkhan Abdullayev Justin Yen Chan William Harrison Finnie Kevin Andrew Brice Chemical Engineenng Biomedical Engineering Electrical and Computer Shyue Li Horng Conipu~er SLi~n..:.~-Major ; Engineering Chemical Engineering- Major; En~li sh: Theater---Minor Susana Elizabeth Acosta Taylor Kristen Chartier Psychology-- M inor Mechanical Engineering Chemical Engineering Zachary Ryan Fletcher Kyle A. Edwards M ajor; Spanish- Minor Electrical and Computer Michael Hua Computer Science Laura Helene Chess Engineering Mechanical Engmee·ing-Major; Ivan Borisovich Akhremitchev Biomedical Engineering Music-Minor Zhijing Feng Zachary Ryan Fletcher Chemical Engineering--Major; American Society of Mechanical Comput~r SciE-nce Mathematics-Minor Nicholas Glenn Chisholm Computer Science Chemical Engineering Engineers Scholarship Chelsea Flint David Joel Alvarado Aguirr Albert K. Ackoff Award Colin Fumito Funai Garrett Huang Computer Science Chemical Engineering- Major; Electrical and Computer Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Chemical Engineerrng-Major; Environmental Engineering Engineering--Major; Academic Excellence Award Materials Science-Minor Genevive T. Gagne Minor japanese- Minor Engineering ScienLe Robert L. Wells Prize Kyle Arean-Raines Lilu Tian Funkenbusch Chad Andrew Hunter Shelby A. Miller Prize in Chemical fngineering- M ajor; Edith Ruth Hanson Chemica l Engineenng Chemica l Engineering-Major; ComputP.r Scence- Majur; Design Mathematics-Minor Shelby A. Miller Prize in Environmental Engineering/ Hbtory----Minor Albert K. Ackoff Award Design Christopher Anthony Cistrone Chinese-M inor Jason C. He Biomedical Engineering- Major; American Chemical Society Samuel Richard Atlas Econornic::.-Minor Mayra Lizbeth Garcia Chemical Achievement Award Computer sc:ence Mechanical Engineering-Major; Computer Science-Majur; Robert L. Wells Prize Brian Ho Film and Media Studie>-Minor Douglas A. Clift Spanish- Mrnor Biomedical Engineering Sara Elizabeth Hutchinson Computer Science--Major; Travis Lee Baratcart Miguel Angel Garcia Studio Arts-- Minor Biomedical Engineeri ng Electrical and Computer Ellen Marie Coleman Mechanical Engineering Adam Benjamin Horowitz Engineering Biomedical Engineering- Major; Jayne Elizabeth Gavrity Erica Kim Hyman Chemical Engineenr1g- Minor Computer Science-Major; Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Hilary M. Barr History- Minor Angela Deborah Ketterer Mechanical Engineering Greta Jan Collins Biomedical Engineering-- -Major; David Cowan Sharp Goldfarb Eng1neer ing SciencE'-Majur; Jonathan Donnell Isaacs Manoram Basnyat Business-Minor Flectrical and Computer Li ngui ::. ti ~_s-Minor Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Zhilin Cong Benjamin William Nicholson Adrian Edmond Goodwin Jeffrey M. Kabel Michael Justin Beckley Optics Electrical and Computer Computer Science Mechanica l Engineering Chemical Engineering Engineering- Major; AlexWOsuch Anna Chandra Helfeld Coughlan Music- M inor Travis John Bevington Chemical Engineering Cassandra Grace Gorman Engineering Science Biomedical Engineering Biomedica l Engineering Richard Eisenberg Engineering Philip Katz Daniel Panzarella Biomedical Engineering Award Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Cumputer Science Faculty Award for Teaching Faculty Award for (December 31, 2011 I Assistant Jesse Nathaniel Cramer Undergraduate Service Jinyoung Kim Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Garrett Marshall Goss Michael Gatchalian Rodriguez Jenab Lindsay Bhatia Emil L. Kuichling Prize Engineering Science Chemical Engineering-Major; Biomed ical Engineering- Major; Simon Young Kim Environmental Engineering Ruth Jennifer Davis Cl inical Psychology- Minor Biomedical Engineering Jungo Sasaki Minor Biomedical Engineering Computer Science-Major; Ewing Coleman Green, Jr. Sarah Yumie Ko O utstanding Biomedical Legal Studies-Minor Travis Jackson Block Mechanica l Engineering Biomedical Engineering- Major; Engineering Senior Award Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering- Miner Preetjot Singh Robert L. Wells PrizP Max Engbar Greenberg c,)mputer Science Donato Epifanio Borrello MechaniLal Engineering Roman Igorevich Korobov Altagracia Maria De La Rosa Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Olga V. Gritsevskaya Jason Zhu Chemical Engineering Computer Science John R. Boule III B>omedical Engineering-Major; Alexander Kotelsky Optical Engineering Megan Ann Dewitt Business/M athematiCs- - Minor Biomedical Engineering Institute of Optics Faculty Chemical Engineering Matthew Ross Guisbond Michael Dean Krestos Prize Brian William Dixon Mechanical Engineering M echanical Engineering Meredith Kathryn Boyd Biomedical Engineering Syed Tasnim Habib Rintaro Kuroiwa Chemical Engineering- Major; Christopher Peter Dwight Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Spanish-Minor Mechanical Engineering Andrew Daniels Hagar Jennifer Theresa Landry Dmitriy Bayuk Gregory Ryan Fedorchak Biomedica l Engineering Biomedica l Engineering Chemical Engineering Biomedica l Engineering- - Major; Chemrcal Engineering-- --Minor Gregory Mark Hartnett Harry Ledley Andrew Frederick Breidigam Biomedical Engineering-Major; Computer Sc ience--Mdjor; M echdnical E. ngineeri ng Benjamin Mcculloch Feinberg Spanish ----Minor Film and Media Studies-Minor Dennis Briggs Electrical and Computer Michael Maximilien Henkart Seung Min David Lee Engineering M echanical Engineering Optical Engineering Biomedical Engineering- M ajor; Mathias Robert Arnold Ferber Chemical Engineering- M inor William Barclay Buchanan III Michael Shaw Her Chemiwl fngineering Mechanical Engineenng Optica l Engineering Christopher Roman Legocki Joseph Bucukovski Margaret Mary Fettis Mechanicdl Eng i ne~ ri rg Biomedicc:ll Engineering-·M ajor; Yennifer Altagracia Hernandez Biomedica l Engineering- Electrical and Computer Paul Leung Biology/Chemical Engineering-· M ajor; Spanish- Minor Engineering Optical Engineering Minor COMM ENCEMENT 201 2 29 ' Dq~n·t• <,mdidalt·~ • Hajim St hool ol EnginPPring .md <\pplil'd St it·m t•s ------ Ricky Li Gavin Camillo Perrella Eric]. So David Michael Wituszynski Master of Science Mechanical Engineering Optical Engineering Biomedical fngineering Chemical Engineering-Major; Mathematics-Minor Daniel Rodrigo Abud Samuel Traxler LoPresti Elizabeth Megan Perry Trey Joseph Socash Albert K. Ackoff Award Technology Entrepreneurship Biomedical Engineering-Major; Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engin ~er ing and Management Chemical Engineering-Minor Donald F. Othmer Sophomore (March 16, 2012) Silvia Perucchio Kyle Joseph Sreniawski Academic Excellence Award Timothy Philip Lynch Chemical Engineering- M ajor; Biomedica l Engineering Franciscus Laurentius Charu Banga Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering- Minor Electrical Engineering Kelsey Haley St. Clair Hubertus Wolfs (May 20, 2012) Jakob Maag-Tanchak Rachel Nicole Pollock Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering-M ajor; Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Major; American Sign Mathematics-Minor Zhipu Bao Languag<'--Minor Brian Ragan MacDonald American Society of Helmut Weymann Prize Materials Science Mechanical Engineers (March 16, 2012) Mechanical Engineering-Major; Scholarship Courtney Jayne Stewart Natthasit Wongsirikul History--Minor Chemical Engineering Biomedical Engineering joel Bentley William Alexander Mansfield Alexander Charles Praet Will Johnston Surdyka Optics (May 20, 201 2) Chemical Engineering-Major; Geoffrey W Yee M echanical Engineering Chemical Engineering- Major; Political Scienc<'--Minor Biomedical Engineering Rebecca Elizabeth Berman Psychology--Minor Optics (M ay 20, 2012) Catherine Marie Marando Tonima Rumman Quabili Eric Yeh Biomedical Engineering Martin Wing-Hoo Szeto Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Rebecca Elizabeth Berman Major; Economics/Chemical Biomedical Engineering- M ajor; Technology Entrepreneurship ,,nd Engineering-Minor Daniel S. Reynolds Classic Civilization- Minor Tony Minghung Yen Management (May 20, ~012 1 Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Xiaoqing Tang Faculty Award for Major; M~ch a ni ca l Joshua Brian Blaine Computer Science Robert H. Yoon Undergraduate Service Engineering-Minor Electrical and Computer Robert L. Wells Prize Computer Science Engineering (M ay 20. 2012) Dominic Vincenzo Marino Biomedical Engineering Faculty Award for Biomedical Engineering Yvonne !wan Teng Teresa Yung Adam Kevin Bosen Undergraduate Research Biomedica l Engineering Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Elizabeth Haynes Martens Sean Phillip Rodrigues (May 20, 2012) Mechanical Engineering-Major Steven David Trambert Sijia Zhang Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering-Major; Echoe Marie Bouta Andrew Poe Matsushima Christopher D. Roll Economics-Minor Biomed ical Fngmeenng Biomedica l Engineering Gabriel David Unger (May 20, 2012) · M echanica l Engineering Outstanding Biomedical Electrica l and Computer Engineering Senior Award Kevin Michael McCarthy Mechanical Engineering Engineering Erin Lee Brady Biomedical Engineering Department Award for the Electrical and Computer Xuxin Zhang Computer Scrence Outstanding Senior (October 21 , 201 I ' Jonathan Sky Corey McLinn Engineering Faculty Prize Biomedical Engineering M echanical Engineering Alexander Calhoun Rosenthal Matthew Vallone Zeyu Zhao Eric Edward Brost M echanical Engineering Optics (M ay 20, 2012) James Daniel Meyers Mechanical Engineering Optical Engineering Major; Spanish- Minor Electrical and Computer Adina Elisheva Smudski Harry De Leon Polster Michael John Brown Memorial Prize Engineering Rubinoff Andrew Edward Vander Horst Technology Entrepreneur 30 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER De~n·p ( ,mdidalt·~ • H.1jim Slhoolof En~int•t•rin~ ,wd Applit·d St it·m t•s Aaron G. Fidoten Shuo Mao Carlos Eduardo Rodriguez Pardo Sophia A. Zabaras Technology Entrepreneurship and Technology Entrepreneurship Electrical Engineering Chemical Engineering Management (March 16, 201 2) and M anagemPnt (M ay 20, 2012) (May 20, 2012) (March 16, 2012) Andrew S. Fisher Orner Salman Ropri Paul F. Zavattero C pt1c' (M ay 20, 2012) lain Campbell Marcuson Technology Entrepreneurship and O pt ics (M ay 20, 2012) Electrical EnginePring M anagement (October 21 , 2011 ) CongFu (March 16, 2012) Cheng Bin Zhang Materials Science (May 20, 201 2) Amos George Rosenstein Biomedical Engineering Daniel joseph Marnell Electrical Engineering (O ctober 21, 2011 ) Shen Ge Biomedical Engineering (March 16, 201 2) Electrical Engineering (May 20, 2012) Yuhan Zhang (M ay 20, 201 2) Laurana Kaitlyn Ryback Technology Entrepreneurship Karen Leigh Martuscello Technology Entrepreneurship and and M anagement QingGuo Optics (M ay 20, 201 2) Management (May 20, 201 2) (M arch 16, 201 2) Computer Science (Morch 16, 2012) Curtis Glen Mt:nton Keith David Savino Brandon Gregory Zimmerman Computer Science Chemical Engineering Optics (M ay 20, 2012) Shuyuan Han (October 21, 2011 ) (October 21, 2011 ) Optics (May 20, 2012) Daniel Mints Pingyue Song Jason lnzana Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering Biomedical Engineering (May 20, 2012) (M ay 20, 201 2) (Oct ober 21 , 201 1) Raghav Mohan Luis Eddy Soto Samreen jatana Technology Entrepreneurship Technology Entrepreneurship and Biumedical Engineering and M anagement Management (May 20, 201 2) fM av 20, 201 2) (M arch 16, 2012) Michael A. Spilatro Meghan Caroline jones Syed Ashker Ibne Mujib Optics (May 20, 201 2) Biomedical Engineering Computer Science (M ay 20, 2012) (March 16, 20 12) Aditya Srinivas Electrical Engineering Tom Karo Andrew L. Nadeau (October 21, 2011 ) Technology Entrepreneurship and Electrica l Engineering M anagement !May 20. 2012) (M ay 20, 2012) Brian Edward Thomson Tet:hnulogy Entrepreneurship and Mark Stanley Kasperczyk QiupingNie Management (M ay 20, 2012) Ootics (May 20, 201 2) Chemical Engineering (M ay 20, 201 2) Szu-Ting Tseng Fanny Keller Technology Entrepreneurship and O otics (May 20, 201 2) Je Sun Oh Management (M arch 16, 201 2) Technology Entrepreneurship Matthew Kinzler and Management lnna Vaisband Chemica l Engineering (May 20, 201 2) Electrical Engineering (M ay 20, 2012) (M ay 20, 201 2) William Okech Aleksandra Elizabeth Klimas Biomedical Engineering Amy HaUer Van Hove Optics (M arch 1 6, 201 2) tMay 20, 201 2) Biomedical Engineering (October 21, 201 I ) Francis john La Rosa II Halley jocelyn Orshan Chemical Engineering Computer Science Yuhan Wang (May 20, 2012) (May 20, 201 2) M aterials Science (M ay 20, 201 2) Zachary Jordan Lapin jansen Robert Kennedy Orfan Andrea Redding Welles O ptics (M ay 20, 201 2) Computer Science Chemical Engineering Walter Stephen Lasecki III (M arch 16, 201 2) (M ay 20, 2012) Computer Sc.ience Eun H. Park Daniel james Lawler Wtlliams (October 21, 2011 ) Chemical Engineering Technology Entrepreneurship (M arch 16, 201 2) and M anagement Yiu Hin Lau (March 16, 201 2) Chemicdl Engineering David Parker (May 20, 201 2) Biomedical Engineering Jianbo Wu !October 21, 2011 ) Chemical Engineering Joseph Lindley Lawson (October 21, 2011 ) M echanica l Engineering Michael Herbert Peritz (October 21 , 2011 ) Chem ical Engineering Lingxiang Xiang (May 20, 2012) Computer Science Yan Li (March 16, 2012) Mecha1: ica l Engineering Adam Lee Purtee (May 20, 201 2) Computer Science Yuzhe Xiao James joseph Lindner (March 16, 201 2) O ptics (May 20, 201 2) Electrical Engineering Chengzhu Qi Yan Yan (October 21, 201 1) Materials Science (May 20, 201 2) Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (May 20, 201 2) Yanju Liu Rajinder Singh Mechanical Engineering Chemica l Engineering Shuo Yang (October 21, 2011 ) (October 21, 201 I ) Technology Entrepreneurship and M anagement Anna Markovna Loparev Pavithra Ramanarayanan (March 16, 201 2) Cumputer Science Chemical Engineering (October 21, 2011 ) (M arch 16, 201 2) Christine Yen Chemical Engineering Omar Santiago Magana Loaiza Roshita Devi Ramkhalawon (March 16, 201 2) Materials Science (May 20, 201 2) Optics !May 20, 201 2) Xi Yin Nahal Maleki Tabriz Mohammad Razeghi Jahromi M aJerials Science (May 20, 201 2) Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering (May 2J, 201 2) (M ay 20, 201 2) Elliot L. Yu Chem ical Engineering Saeed Manaffam Andrew Henry Reinders (M ay 20, 201 2) Electrical Engineering Computer Science (May 20, 2012) (March 16, 201 2) COMM ENCEMENT 2012 31 Degree Candidates • Eastm,tn School of Music Eastman School of Music Degree Candidates Bachelor of Music William Robert Dietz Katherine Elizabeth Jarvis Marilyn Dudley Marks joshua Theodore Rosenberg Applied Music l fuba) Applied Music (Violin)/Music Applied Music (Violin), with Applied M usic (Voice)/Music Marc Laurent Abrate Education-Instrumental, with Distinction Education-Vocal, with High jazz Studies and Contemporary Christina Carmen Dioguardi High Distinction Distinction Media Applied Music (Bassoon)/ Damon Christopher Martinez Musical Arts, w ith Distinction Alina YeajinJeon Applied Music (Percus.ion) Krzysztof Piotv Rucinski Michael Sterling Alexander Applied Music iOboe)/Musi<: Applied Music (Violin) Applied MUSIC (Horn) Kevin Raymond Dombrowski Education-! n~trumenta l Jubin Eghbali Matloubieh Applied Music (Trombone) Applied Music (Double Bass)/ Seth Orland Russell Matthew Stephen Amedio Xinjia Music Theory Applied Music (Violoncello), Applied Music (Saxophone)/ jonathan Dozois Applied Music (Piano) with H igh Distinction Music Education-Instrumental Applied Music (Horn)/Music Lauren Marie McAllister Education-Instrumental, with Peter Wittmann Kalal Applied Music (Voice), with Michael Salmirs Matthew Arnold Aprea Distinction Musical Arts, with Di'itinction Distinction Applied Music (Piano) Applied Music (Violin)/Music tducation-lnstrumental, with Anthony Ruiz Duarte Minji Kim William Harrison Mckenna Manuel Alejandro LOpez Distinction Music Composition Applied Music (Pian<>) jazz Studies and Contemporary Samame Media Applied Music (Trumpet) Graciela Arguedas Alex Dugdale Yueun Kim Applied Mu>ic (Piano) Jazz Studies and Contemporary Applied Mu>ic (Piano), w ith Markiyan Melnychenko Corey Robert Sansolo M edia High Distinction Applied Music (Violin), with Applied Music (Trombone) Sasami Ashworth High Distinction Applied Music (Horn)/Music John Fonseca Fatum Erin Copeland Kirby Allyson Schuler Education-Instrumental jazz Studies and Contemporary Applied Music (Viola) Brett Christopher Miller' Applied Music (Horn) Media Applied Music (Tuba) Noah Michael Berman John Francis Klaess (December 31 , 2011 ) Frank Samuel Shary jazz Studies and Contemporary Emily Caitlin Feeney Applied Music !Trumpet) Music Ed ucation-General Mtdia Applied Music (Percussion) Rachel Seah Shu Min Peter Pal Klima Music Composition Patrick Michael Shelc Benton James Blasingame Austin Barker Fisher Applied Music (Piano), w ith Applied Mus1c IV1ola) Applied Music (Organ), with Applied Music (Violoncello) High Distinction Jamal Michael Moore Distinction Applied Music (Voice) Evelynjieun Shin Edo Frenkel Chieh Monica Lee Applied M usic (Violir) Rachel Elizabeth Bonner Music Composition Applied Music (Piano), with Rachel Anne Neece Applied Mus1c (Violoncello) Distinction Applied Music (Guitar), with Conrad Paul Smith Andrew Michael Friedrichs Distinction Applied M usic IOrgar) Owen joseph Broder Applied Music (Trombone) Dongryul Lee jazz Studies and Contemporary M usic Composition Julia Nilsen Aaron Fox Sperber Media David Alexander Gonzalez Applied Music (Violoncello), Applied M usic (Voi ce I Applied Music (Violi n) Hongsup Lee with Distinction Catherine Claiborne Broyles Applied Music (Piano) Theodore Thomas Taforo Applied Music (Flute) Rachel Maria Greene Chad Steven O'Brien jazz Studies and Contemporary Applied Music (Bassoon) Isaac Lee Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media, w ith Distinction Jazmine Byas Applied Music (Organ), w ith Media/Music Education- Applied Music (Oboe) Emma Sarah Grettenberger D istinction Instrumental, with D istinction John Travis Upton Applied Music (Voice), with Applied M usic (Oboe), with Alexandra Haile Calvert High Distinction jeong-Eun Lee Eric Matthew Orwoll High Distinction ApplieJ Music (Harp) Applied Music (Piano) Natalie Fauncine Ham Applied Music (Horn) Antonio Rudolph Valentin Jorgeandres Camargo Applied Music (Flute! joungbum Lee Samuel Pang Applied M usic !Piano! Applied Music (Voice) M usic Composition Gregory William Hammond Applied Music (Viola) Amy Mengyang Wang Catherine Lindsay Canale Applied Music (Trombone)/ Kenneth Seung-Beom Lee Ashley Rene Parham Applied Music (Clan net: Applied Music (Harp) Music lducation-lnstrumental Applied Music (Vio loncello) Applied Music (Violin) Hannah Christine Weaver Lauren Marie Cauley Jonathan Scott Heim Katherine Elise Lemmon Gregory Joseph Perrin Applied M usic (Percussion), Applied Music (Violin), with Applied Music I frumpet), with Applied Music (Flute), with Applied Music (Violin) with H igh Distinction Distinction Distinction Distinction Lucia Catherine Petito Angelina Marie Weber HeeChan Chang Ethan Joseph Helm Linda Muise Student Life Award Applied Music (Violin) Applied Mu>iC (Violin), with Applied Music (Violin) jazz Studies and Contemporary Distinction Media, with High Distinction Matthew Weisser Jensen Elza Kathleen Picasso-Hobin Yi-Yang Chen Len gas Applied Music (Voice) David William Weygandt Applied Music (Piano), with Matthew David Honor Applied M usic (Oboe), with Applied Mus1c (Voice)-M ajur; Distinction jazz Studies and Contemporary Charles Andrew Pokorny High Distinction Music Cognition-MinL'r M edia, with Distinction Applied Music (Double Bass)/ Kristen Cho Richard Shengdi Li Music Education-Instrumental Margaret Louise Womack Applied Music (Organ) Stephen James Houck Applied M usic (Vi oloncello) Applied Music !Clarinet) Applied Music (Trombone) Nora Joan Prener Jamie Alayne Clark Georgina McKay Lodge Applied Music (Oboe) Natalie Rose Zemba Applied Music (Violoncello), Zhibing Huang Applied Music (V1o la) Applied M usic (Bassoor)-Maje>r; w1th Highest Distinction Applied Music (Voice) Kyle Cooper Quarles Brain af'ld Cognitive Sciences-- Justis Buchanan Kleber Applied Music (Guitar)/Music M inor Kathleen Leigh Crabtree Emma Catherine Hughey MacKenzie Composition, with D istinction Applied Music (Viola) Applied Music (Viola), with Shichao Zhang Applied Music !Tuba) Distinction David Richardson Applied Music (P;ano), with Kevin Francis Delaney Benjamin Scott Magruder Applied Music (Saxophone) H ighest Distinction Applied Music !Vo1ce), with Bokyung Hwang Applied Music iVio la)/Music Applied Music (Violin) Highest Distinction Ed ucation-Instrumental Erin Leigh Robertson MengZhou Applied Music (Bassoon)/Music Applied Music (Piano) Lauren Kelly Densinger Erik Paul Jacobs Michelle Mammoser Education-Instrumental Applied Music (Trombone)/ Applied Music (Violin), with Applied Music (Horn)/Music Daniel Kenneth Ziemann Distinction Music Education-Instrumental Ed ucation-Instrumental Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media/Music Education- Instrumental, with D istinction "' Deceased 32 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • Eastman School of Music Master of Arts Master of Music Adam Nicholas Gandolfo Justin Taylor Maxey Elizabeth Anne Smith Performance and Literature Performance and Literature Pe rformance and l iterature Robert Hamilton Bickford Lucy Amelia Abrams (Trumpet) (Organ) (Voice) Music Educatio!l Performance and Literature (October 21, 2011\ (Clarinet) Sophie Elizabeth Gledhill Noelle Therese McMurtry Benjamin James Thomas Performance and Literature Performance and Literature jazz Studies and Contemporary Elizabeth Marie Hanan Allison Marie Akins (Violoncello) (Voiue) Media M J SJC ;::duc.ation Performance and Literature (October 21, 2011 ,: (Horn) Lisa Marie Gonnella Aristea Mellos Sarah Elizabeth Toea Piano Accompanying and Music Composition Music Education Kimberly S. Harrison Min Kyung Baek Chdmber Music Ethnomt;sicology Performance and Literature Matthew John Michaud Edward Matthew Valverde (Violin) Colin Michael Gordon Jazz Studies and Contemporary Performance and Literature Joanna Elena Herrero Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media (Voice) Music Educat1on Robert Thomas Bennett Media (October 21, 2011 ) Jazz Studies and Contemporary Caroline Bassett Miller Joshua D. Wagner Media Shaya Rae Greathouse Performance and Literature Performance and Literature Joshua Andrew Hey Performance and Literature (Voice) (Guitar) Mus.JC Com position Kendra Irene Berentsen (Voice) Performance and Liter Jtu re Hyojin Min Yuan Wang Rohan Krishnamurthy (Voice) Tamar-Tafari Greene Performance and Literature M usic Education Musicology (March 16, 2012) Performance and Literature (Violin) James Eugene Bobb (Voice) Hyun Jung Won Leona Nawahineokala'i Performance and Literature Matthew Miraglia Performance and Literature Lanzilotti (Harpsichord) (March 16, 201 2) Matthew]. Grills Music Education (Piano) Hhnomusicology Performd.nce and Literature (October 21 , 2011 ) Andrew Lawrence Bobka (Voice) Caleb Wing Ching Woo fmma Rebecca McConnell Performance and Literature Alison Kay Moritz Performance and Literature Music Theory (M arch 16, 2012) (Trombone)/M usic tducation Katherine Margaret Hagen Opera-Stage Dirt'cling (Voice) Performance and l iteratun... Jenmfer Lee McKenzie Joshua Alain Bouillon (Viola) Youjin Na E•hnomusicology Performance and Literature Performance and LitPrature (Voice) Matthew David Halbert (Violin) A.lison W Payne Performance and Literature Mu ~1C Education Timothy James Briones (Trombone) Johnny Ting Kwong Ng (October 21, 201 I) Performance and Literature Performance and Literature (Percussion) Shi Shi He (Viola) Geoffrey Nicholas Gardiner Pope Performance and literature Music Com posit1on Stacy Neal Alexander Carolan (Piano) Geoffrey Nicholas Gardiner Pope Performance and I iteratu re Conducting Stephanie Probst (Trumpet) Elana Herman Music Theory Mus1c Education Melanie Ann Pozdol Elizabeth Reeing Chang Performance and Literature Igor Seiti de Araujo Santos Piano Accompanying and Gayoung Hong (O boe) Composition Mus1c C hamber Music Performance and literature (Violm) (O ctober 21, 2011 ) Samuel Turner Reich Koryn Ann Soboleski Tze Kbian Chin Performance and Literature Music Education Conducting Ada Arumeh]eon (Piano) (Octob~r 21, 2011 ) Performance and Literature Mark Anthony Collins (Piano) (March 16, 2012) Caroline Rose Reyes Ashlea Lyn Strouse jazz Studies and Contemporary Performance and Literature Music Education Media/Music Education XingJin (Harp) Music Education Stephanie Marie Titus Conner Gray Covington Kayleen Suzanne Sanchez Pedagogy of Mus1c Theory Conducting Sean Ross Joseph Performance and Literdture (October 21, 2011) Music ~duca ti o n (Voice) Caitlin Grace Cribbs (October 21, 2011 ) Ma~ee Marie VanSpeybroeck Performance and Literature Kahlil Philip Sarikey Musicology/Ethnomusicology (Viola) Kaeul Kim Performance and Literature Martina Vasil Performance and Literature (Guitar) Jacob Andrew Dalager (Piano) Music Education Performance and Literature Miki Sawada (October 21, 2011 ) (Trumpet) Yunjin Kim Performance and Literature Emeric Ael Zinty Viani Performance and Literature (Piano) (M arch 16, 2012) Micaela Nichole Davila (Voice) Music Education/Ethnomusicology Performd.nce and Literature Michael Stephen Sawzin Chun Fung Kong Performance and Literature Robert Layton Wells (Voice) Performance and Literature (Saxophone) Music Theory !M arch 16, 2012) Shawn Robert Dawson (Piano) Performance and Literature Callie Schlegel (Organ) Ji Won Lee Performance and Literature Performance and Literature (Voice) Bryan John Duffy (Oboe)/Music Education Performance and Literature Myo ah Seo (Guitar) Thomas Edward Lehman IV Performance and Literature Performance and Literature (Violoncello) Matthew Dylan Evans (Voice) Performance and Literature Sunghee Shin (Percussion) Lo-An Lin Performance and Literature Performance and Literature (Violin) Christopher Wayne Gage (Piano) Performance and Literature Tsi Shing Felix Shuen (Organ) Tiffany Valvo Lopez Conducting Performance and Literature (Clarinet) COMM ENCEMENT 2012 33 I [)e~H'l' ( ,mdi d,Jt e~ • S< hool of Medi< ine .:1nd Ot'nlislry School of Medicine and Dentistry Degree Candidates Master of Arts Maisha Tulani Enaimo, MPH John Munderu Muchiri Yuexin Xu Doctor of Medicine Marriage and Family Therapy M icrobiology (March 16, 2012) Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Tian Chen (October 21 , 2011) and Doctor of Statistics (October 21 , 2011 ) Lisa Madalen Niswander Erika K. Young He Fang Pathology Marriage and Family Therapy Philosophy with Jason Leonard Morrissette Biophysics (March 16, 201 2) (March 16, 2012) Statistics (October 21, 2011) Adam Christopher Pallus Distinction in Christopher]. Folts Neurobiology and Anatomy Thanh Van Tran Genetics (October 21 , 201 1) Research Statistics (October 21 , 2011) Nicole Danielle Paris Master of Name followed by location of Alexander F. Fricke Genetics (March 16, 2012) Changming Xia Pharmacology (March 16, 2012) Public Health residency and s pec~alty. Statistics (October 21 , 2011) Hen Prizant Adam Christopher Dziorny Yinghan Fu Pharmacology (March 16, 2012) Kaja Moinudeen Abbas Children's Hospital uf ZijiYu Biophysics (March 16, 2012) Liana M. Baker Statistics David Herzl Rabayev Philadelphia-PA-Ped:at,ics (October 21 , 2011 ) Alessandro Geminiani, DDS Biochemistry !October 21 , 2011) The Robert E. Kates Award Dental Sciences Phillip Michael Rappold Ethan Menasha Bernstein Master of Science Sadie Grayce Gorman Neuroscience (March 16, 2012) Lisa Lynn Boyle, MD Toxicology (March 16, 20 12) (October 21, 2011) Doctor of Anant Akash Agrawal Kirsten Rindal, MD Biophysics (October 21, 2011) Allison Rose Greminger Clinical Investigation Heather L. Cronrniller, RN Medicine with Toxicology (March 16, 2012) Alina Ainbinder Katherine A. Ringo (March 16, 2012) Distinction in Pharmacology (March 16, 2012) Katie Lynn Grimshaw Toxicology (March 1G , 2012) Sara Beth Eleoff Microbiology (March 16, 2012) (March 16, 2012) Research and Alicia H. Augustine, PhD Timothy Paul Rutkowski Clinical Investigation Steven M. Hupcher Genetics (March 16, 20'12) Mundeep K. Kainth, DO with Distinction (March 16, 2012) Biophysics (March 16, 2012) Michele Lavinia-Ann Saul Sirish K. Kondabolu in Community Julie A. Babulski Vaughan Steven James Neurobiology and Anatomy ToddM. Miller Genetics Microbiology (March 16, 2012) (Octo her 21, 2011) (March 16, 201 2) Service Brittany Lynn Baisch Jessica M. Katolik CongShen Name followed by locatioc ol residency and specialty. Toxicology !October 21 , 201 1) Pharmacology Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Steven Frederick Baker Eric Joseph Kelly Jharon N. Silva Doctor of Patrick J. Milord New York Hospital Queen; Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Marriage and Family Therapy M icrobiology (March 16, 2C12 \ Medicine and NY- Surgery-Preliminalv (March 16, 2012) Revathi Balasubramanian Matthew R. Skerritt, PhD Doctor of New York University Schuol of Neurobiology and Anatomy Walter Eric Knight Clinical Translational Research M edici ne- NY- Anesthesiulogv (March 16, 2012) Pharmacology (March 16, 2012) (October 21 , 2011 ) Philosophy John Allen Bennett Sara Ann Knowlden Joanne Soong Name followed by location of Toxicology Microbiology !October 21, 2011 ) Pathology (March 16, 2012) residency and specialty. Seema Bhatt, MD Zackery A. G. Knowlden Wei Sun Debbie Yen-Dao Dang Clinical Investigation Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Neuroscience (March ·16, 2012) University of California, San (October 21, 2011) Francisco--( :A- Orthopaedir ShuyaKyu Nicholas M. Tefft Surgery/Research Alison C. Billroth-MacLurg Microbiology (October 21, 2011 ) Microhiology (March 16, 201 2) The Dean's Award Microbiology (March 16, 2012) John D. Lapek, Jr. Shweta Tiwary Candace Dawn Gildner Lisbeth A. Boule Toxicology (March 16, 2012) Genetics (March 16, 2012) Children's Hospital of Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Rialnat AdeBisi Lawai John Joseph Perry Varrone Philadelphia- PA- Pediatri cs Amy Lee Bredlau, MD Pathology (March 16, 2012) Pathology (March 16, 2012) The jules Cohen Award for Clinical Investigation Advancing Medical Education Nicholas Blaine Leioatts Stephanie Veale Dobbin The Glasgow-Rubin Irina Bromberg Biophysics (March 16, 2012) Marriage and Family Therapy Achievement Citation Microbiology (March 16, 201 2) Yelena V Lerman Kelly L. Vore Ana Tablante Nunes Lauren Rae Brooks Pharmacology (October 21, 201 1) Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Scripps Clinic-Green Hospitai Microbiology (March 16, 201 2) Xuan Li JiashiWang CA- Internal M edicine Pedro M. Calderon Artero Genetics (March 16, 2012) Biochemistry (March 16, 2012) The Charles D. Kochakian Clinical Translational Research Award in Endocrinology and (October 21, 2011) Joseph Arthur Liberman WenliWang Nutrition Biochemistry (March 16, 2012) Biochemistry (October 21, 2011 ) Garry Louis Coles Genetics \March 16, 201 2) Laura Elizabeth Lynch Wenzhuo Yin-Yin Wang Marriage and Family Therapy Microbiology (October 21 , 2011) Waaqo B. Daddacha (October 21, 2011) Microbiology (March 16, 2012) Saintedym R. Wills Matthew Edward MacGilvray M icrobiology Danielle Marie DeCampo Microbiology (October 21 , 2011 ) Neurobiology and Anatomy Ethan A. Winkler (October 21, 2011 ) Colleen Elizabeth Markevicz Neurobiology and Anatomy Clinical Investigation (March 16, 2012) Laura Nicole DiChiacchio (March 16, 201 2) Biophysics (March 16, 2012) Lily Wolf Daniel Joseph Martinelli M arriage and Family Therapy Marta H. Ekstrom Microbiology (March 16, 201 2) (October 21, 2011) Toxicology (October 21, 2011) 34 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Dq;ree Candidates • Slhool of Medi(ine and Dentistry - - --- Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Medicine Robin Esther Valpey Doctor Adebola Falae University of Pittsburgh Medical Tulane University School of with Distinction in with Distinction Center Medical Education of Medicine Medicine-LA-Obstetrics PA- Psychiatry Name lollowed by location of Gynecology Research in Community The Glasgow-Rubin residency and specialty. Robert Allen Fargione Name followed by location of Achievement Award Frank Bauer University of Rochester/Strong residency and specialty. Service The Benjamin Rush Prize in Name followed by location of Exempla St. Joseph Hospital- Memorial Hospitai-NY Psychiatry Jennifer Anne Cialone residency and specialty. CO- General Surgery M ed icine-Preliminary University of Rochester/Strong Albert Einstein College Memorial Hospital---- NY- Child Lucy Amory David Benavidez of M ed icine-NY Neurology Oregon Health and Science University at Rochester/Strong Ophthalmology The Robert}. Joynt, M.D., University- OR- Ped iatrics Memorial Hospitai-NY Ph.D. Prize for Excellence in The Glasgow-Rubin Psychiatry Research Mary Celia Fraga Clinical Neurology Achievement Citation Einstein/M ontefiore Medica l Craig Findlay Betchart Center- NY- Pediacrics The Doran}. Stephens Prize The Medical Society of the U niversity of Rochester/Strong State of New York Community M emorial Hospitai- NY Robert A. Fulton Thomas C. Fugate II Service Award Family Medicine/Urban Oregon Health and Science University of Rochester/ Strong University-OR-In:err.a l M emorial Hospitai- NY William McCormick Bowen Karen Alicia Boston M edicine Anesthesiology Taco ma Family Medical Ka iser Permanente Los Angeles The Class of 1996 Community Center- WA-Family Medicine Medica l Center- CA-Family Service Award Havalee Tamilya Henry Medicine Yale-New Haven Hospitai Mary Bethany Carpenter The Bryce Collier Prize Class of 1996 Community CT- -Orthopaedic Surgery University ol Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospiwi-NY-· Service Award Emily Elisabeth Gaukler Jing Li Huang Internal M edicine Department of Family Medicine Christiana Care Heaith University of Minnesota M edical The Rudolph Angell Award Commencement Award System-DE- Medicine Schooi- MN- General Surgery The Dean Brenda D. Lee Award Pediatrics Erin Elizabeth Casey The Edwin A. Robinson Rotary Ilana Michal Jacobs St. Louis Children's Hospitai Andrew Grabovich Award University ot Texas Southwestern MO- Child Neurology Karla Christine Haag Medical School-TX-Surgery Amanda Barbara Carpenter University of Rochester/Strong Preliminary/Ur:ology Jennifer Fichter Mendini M emorial Hospitai-NY University of Rochester/Strong The Glasgow-Rubin University of Rochester/Strong Pediatrics Memorial Hospitai- NY- Achievement Citation Memoridl Ho COMME NCEMENT 2012 35 Degree Candidates • School of Medicine and Dt>nlislry and Simon Graduate School of Business Kendra Klein Kurt Allen Mildenstein Arnit Sangave Theophilus l!gheghe Memorial Sloan-Kettering Lom a Linda University University of Pittsburgh Medical Banner Good Samaritan Cancer Center-NY CA-Physical Medicine and Center/Mercy Hospitai- PA Medical (enter-Al-Surgery Transitional Rehabilitation Transitiondl Preliminary Tufts New England Eye Alejandro Mones University of Rochester/Str-)ng Emily A. Van Kouwenberg Center-MA-Ophthalmology Memorial Hospitai-NY-- Baystate Medical Center Albany Medical Center- ··NY Ophthalmology Katherine Klingensmith MA---Pediatrics Piastic Surgery (Integrated) Yale-New Haven Hospitai Michele Ann Nelson Arie Ce'Ville Shaw Brittany Michelle Walker CT - Psychiatry University uf Tennessee College University of California, I NOVA l·a irfax Hospitai----VA of Medicine, Memphis-T" The Glasgow-Rubin Irvine Medical Center- CA Pediatrics Obstetrics-Gynecology Achievement Citation Psychiatry The Department of The Robert}. Haggerty Prize in Pediatrics John Joseph Kowalczyk Cesar Raudel Padilla Obstetrics and Gynecology Case Western University Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Commencement Award The Kenneth Woodward Hosprtals/Case Medical CA-Anesthesiology Memorial Award Center--OH- Anesthesiology James Gregory Shaw Leslie Ann Park University of Ruchest~r/Str ong XuanJulia Wang Daniel Kroening New York University School Memoriall loopitai-NY Vanderbilt UnivPrsity Medical University of Rochester/Strong of Medicine--NY- Internal Inlernal Medicine Center-TN -Pathology Memorial Hospitai-NY Medicine The William B. Hawkins Award Internal Medicine Sandeep Paul Soin Ellegant Symeon Pearson University of Rochester/Strung Ron Wexler Ariel Elizabeth Lee Lankenau Hospitai- PA Memorial Hospitai-NY. Tufts Medical Center- MA Tulane University School of Internal Medicine O rthopa~di c Surgery/Research Internal Medicine M ed i c i ne-LA-Obstetric~ Gynecology Meredith Jenny Pensak Kathryn Elizabeth Somers Aaron David Wiener Pennsylvania Hospitai----PA Univcr William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration Doctoral Degree Candidates Candidates for degrees from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration will be listed in the Com mencement Program for ceremonies to be held on Sunday, June 10, 2012. 36 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • Sthool of Nursing School of Nursing Degree Candidates Bachelor Meagan E. Diez Danielle Lynn Lazzaro Estere D. Picazo Joseph Wlostowski Kaitlin E. Donais Dorothea Lynde Dix Prize (December 31 , 2011 ) (December 31, 2011 ) of Science (December 31, 2011 ) Natalie P. Liebert Ashley Lynn Pink Registered Nurse Award Jenna R. Adamczyk Tara DuffY Kristin Marcy Lipka (December 31, 2011 ) Kate Lynn Woodworth (December 31, 2011 ) Deborah Odeiba Ashley Misty Dawne Dunham (December 31, 2011 ) Marina Podbereschi Jeffrey Coleman Atwood Holli Rose Wescott Edgley Adam Timothy Lobato Sinath Prom Emily Jane Wright Mary Reding Eckl Award (December 31, 201 1) Cynthia Jean Endza Jessica Marie Lumley Shelby Irene Przybylek Brenda Marie Bagnato (December 31, 2011) (December 31, 2011 ) (December 31, 20 11 ) Lydia Manying Wykoff Ashley Yamahata Leslie E. Baker Rhonda Mae Farnbach Cynthia Ann MacDonald Kim Quach (Decerr her 31, ~0 1 I) Sandy Ferri Andrea Elizabeth Maguire Michelle R. Rector Mina Yi (December 31, 2011 ) Sarah Quinn Balderston (December 31, 2011) Nicole Marie Mahany Judi Anne Rizzo Kathryn]. Yunker Patricia Elaine Baldwin Patricia A. Forrester (December 31, 2011 ) Melanie K. Roberts (Decerr ber 31, 201 I) (December 31, 2011 ) Mark Scott Frail Melissa Erin Mandel Sarah Jayne Rotella AmandaJo Zittel Trevor Dolan Balstra (December 3 I, 2011 ) Danielle Mandig (Decem ber 31, 2011 ) SaraKate Ruddick (Dece mber 31, 2011 ) Clare Dennison Prize Brittany France Janet Ann Schlageter Mabel Sine Wadsworth Award (December 31, 2011 ) Samantha Lee Schmid J ordanne D. Barnhart Julie Eileen Many Emily C. Froehlich Elizabeth Bernadette Shelley Michele Marie Begemann (December 31, ~ 0 11 ) ,December 31, 2011 ) Katherine Anne Gallagher (December 31, 2011 ) LeAnn Marsherall Joshua Stephen Belokur Kristina Getman Pamela Singh (December 31 , 2011 ) Molly Beth Marucheck (December J 1, 2011 ) Alexandra I. Benitez Julia Christine Glantz Michael M. Maslanik Lara Kristin Smiley Katherine Marie Bernier Marcy Jean Mason (Decem ber 31 , 2011 ) Stephen Goon Elizabeth Rose Smith (December 31, 2011 ) (December 31, 2011 ) Annie Nicole Boehm Shannon Victoria Gorman (December 31, 2011 ) Amy Marie McBride (Decem ber 31 , 2011 ) Lindsay Erin Smith (December 31 , 2011 ) Laura Ma:-ie Bojko Jevell M. Graham Stacy Renee Smith Frances Ann McCarthy (December 31, 2011 ) Sbaron Odunola Bolaji· Kathleen M. Haines Thomas (December 31, 2011 ) Tammy Marie McClung Samantha Jo Stansbury Rvan Michele Boulas Nicole Marie Hair Ashley Brier McGehee Donna Wendy Steidle (December 31 , 2011 ) Catherine Adelia Brodie Mary Emma Gray Hart (December 31, 2011 ) (December 31, 20 11 ) Alexis Andress McKinney Jeannie Braun Snyder Beth A. Brown (December 31, 2011 ) (December 31, 2011) Jessica May Danica Henneman Mary Beth M. Summers (December 31, 2011 ) Lisa D. McLaughlin (December 31, 2011 ) Sarah E. Brown (December 31, 2011 ) Curtis Nelson Burtner Tzeitel Ellyce Hernandez Sandra A. Tarantino (December 3 I, 2011 ) Marcie Lynne McMahon Cristina Campos (December 31 , 2011 ) Kay Ia Jean Teal (December 31 , 2011 ) David Grant Hewitt Kasey Lynne Telfer (December 31 , 2011 ) Matthew Harris Messinger Valerie Anne Cansdale (December 31 , 2011 ) Alicia Jennifer Terenzi (December 31 , 2011 ) Clara Shaun Ho (December 3 1, 2011 ) Denise Ann Morrison Laura Marie Testa Brittany Lee Celeste Joan C. Morse Ashley N. Tiefel (December 31, 201 I) Jeremy Hollick (Dece mber 31, 2011 ) AmyMui Jennifer Tsai John Patrick Cleghorn Corinne Marie Ulrich (Decew ber 31, 201 I) Daniel Evan Hovey Susan T. Murray Sarah Elizabeth Hunt (December 31, 201 I) Natalia Vaizova-Maron Ashley E. Colarocco (December 31, 2011 ) Jessika B. Hyde Deepti Nagpal Katherine Eileen Conrad (December 31, 2011 ) Suzanne Marie Van Deursen (December 31, 2lJ I I) AmyL. Johnson Lisa Ann Newell Volodymyr Vanzyak Stephanie Rachel Corretore Travis Evan Jolly (De•.err ber 31, 20 11 ) (December 31, 2011 ) Nicole]. Newhouse Jessica Jean Vega Kimberly Anne Vie! Alexis Elaine Croucher Susan Bridget Karalia Stephen G. Ognibene Elizabeth Bernadette (December 31, 2011 ) Adam James Oplinger MollyRWard D'Angelo Robin A. Kiggins Lauren Grace Parkhurst !sa N. Weiser (December 31, 2U11) James Michael Klezmer Tina M. Parmenter (December 31, 2011 ) (December 31 , 2011 ) Margery Fancher Daly And •ea N. DeCesaris Sarah B. Perino Memorial Prize Thomasina Dean Elise House Kogut Amanda Leigh Perlman (Dece mber 31, 2011 ) Sarah Jane Wicks Doreen DeGray (Decembe r 31, 2011 ) (Decem ber 31, 2011) (December 31 , ~0 11 ) Kathleen Liberty Kohl Stacey Mae Perrotta Mario P. Williams-Mack Julie Ann Dewey Cory Allan Kraft (December 31, 2011 ) COMMENCEMENT 2012 37 Degree Candidates • S1-hool of NursinuM Master of Science Channa Schlagman Stephanie Dyann Allen Linda A. Schmitt Rhoda Meana Amante jerome Shitteh Nicholas jared Arcieri Sarah H. Siegfried Mary Lee Becker Tonya Raquel Smith Melody Martindale Bogdon Desiree Marie Stockholm ]ahaira Carolina Capell an Ann Quinn Syrett julie M. Capolino Adam Michael Tatro Brenda Lee Carlson Kalin Alisa Tischer Virginia Frances Cartwright Svetlana White Michael]. Cerasoli Vemiece Altrecia Wilson Yansu Chen Raeshen Cione Christian Lorraine Cleary Keri ]. Cockman Patricia Lynn Coia (October 21, 2011) Valerie Marie Davis Eric S. Dellerba Paul Burgett Nursing Student Life Award Robin P. Drypolcher Carolyn Marie Dumar Elisa Jeanelle Elliott Lisa Marie FitzGerald Caterine Garcia-Ruderman Aaron Blake Harding jennifer L. Hefley Naoko Hirakoshi-Crossland jenine Renee Hoefler (March 16, 2012) Patricia Ann Hogue Rebekah jeanne Huff Rachel jennifer Isabelle Ann Kalkbrenner David H. Lent Regina Marie LoMaglio Kristieanna B. MacLagger Kathleen Bryant McCullough Anne Elizabeth McDowell Heather Leigh Menchel Leadership Award for Excellence in Leadership Michelle Marie Miller Elizabeth Clinger Young Award Beth Ann Mucci Florence Ndikum Ndongwa Christina Ann Newton Sarah and Ernest Taylor Memorial Nursing Award Julie Elizabeth Oleksyn Michelle L. Ortwein Debra Sue Paul (M arch 16, 201 2) Adam Kent Peery Louise Wilson Haller Memorial Prize Walter]. Poteat julie Diane Pum (October 21 , 2011) Elspeth Kate Ronnander Christina Maria Schilling 38 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Degree Candidates • Marg.uet Warnl'r Graduate School of Education and Human Development Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development Degree Candidates Master of Science Elizabeth Carla Cullum Elizabeth L. Ewell Kiersten Sarah Joesten Faeeza M. Masood Early Child hood Education Higher Education Student Affairs Teaching English to Speakers oi Childhood Education and Julie Ann Adams (October 21 , 2011 ) Other Languages and Advanced Advanced Certificate in Human Development Meghan Elizabeth Fatzinger Certificate in Adolescence Inclusion Childhood Education Krystina Marie Danizio Teaching English to Speakers of Education in Spanish (October 21 , 2011) Michelle Elizabeth Almeida School Counseling O ther Languages and Advanced (October 2 1, 2011 ) Community Mental Hea lth Certificate in Adolescence Emily McCarter Counselmg (October 21, 201 1) Christine Daves Education in German Stephen johnson School District Leadership Community Mental Health (October 21, 201 1) Adolescence Education in Earth with additional certification in St3.cey Marie Arena Counseling Science (October 21 , 2011 ) School Building Leadership M iddle Childhood and Juan Sebastian Figueroa Adolescence Education in Devon jane Davidson Adolescence Education in Social Kelly johnston Abigail Rebecca McHugh-Grifa English, with dual certification Middle Childhood and Studies (October 21, 201 1) School Counseling Human Development for Teaching Students w ith Adolescence Education in Disabilit;es (October 21, 201 1) Social Studies, w ith dual Ashley Rose Foster Meghan Elizabeth Kazer Kate R. McConologue certification for Teaching School Counseling Adolescence Education in Higher Education Christine Elizabeth Arnold Students w ith Disabilities English (October 21, 2011) (October 21, 2011) Health Professions Education (October 21, 201 1) Meghan E. Francis Reading and Literacies, birth- Lee A. Kehoe Lauren Anne Mercendetti Linda Pazral Baldeck Angelica Louise Davis grade 6 (October 21, 2011) Community M ental Health Higher Education Student Adolescence Education in School Counseling Counseling Affairs (March 16, 2012) Mathematics (October 21, 2011 ) (October 21 , 2011 ) Katrina Ann Gauder Childhood Education Steven Michael Kessler jessica Lea Metras Carmela Marie Barbagallo Dana Elise Day (October 21, 2011) H igher Education Teaching and Curriculum Higher Education Student Adolescence Ed ucation in (October 21, 2011 ) (October 21 , 2011 ) Affa irs English (October 21, 201 1) Richa K. Gandhi Human Development Patrick Charles Kiefer Sean M. Meyers Kimberly M. Bardeschewski Elizabeth Lois Snyder Day (March 1b , 2012) Inclusion Adolescence Education Adolescence Education in Social School Counseling and Teaching English to Speakers of in English (March 16, 2012) Studies (October 21, 201 1) additional col"centration in Other Languages and Advanced April D. Gibson Disability (October 21 , 2011) Certificate in Teaching Literacy, Inclusion Childhood Education Kristen Michelle Klein Theresa Milano birth-grade 6 (October 21, 2011) !October 21, 2011 ) Early Childhood and Childhood Adolescence Education Kelly McDaniels Barnes Education: Professional Study in Biology and Advanced Reading and Literacies, birth- joshua A. Dentley Benjamin Richard Giesselman (O ctober 21 , 2011 ) Certificates in Adolescence grade 6 (October 21, 201 1) Community Mental Health Adolescence Education in Education in Chemistry and Counseling (October 21 , 2011) Biology (October 21 , 2011 ) Rebecca Mary Susan Knauff Inclusion Adolescence Education Amy Pearl Baum Adolescence Education in in Biology (October 21, 2011) Community Mental Hea lth Cassie Lynn Dobbins Molly Cobleigh Gildea Mathematics Counseling (October 21, 2011 ) Middle Childhood and Adolescence Education in (October 21 , 2011) Charlotte D. Miller Adolescence Education in Biology (O ctober 21 , 201 1) Reading and Literacies, grades Christina Marie Bochiechio Julia Margaret Stokes Lange 5-1 2 (October 21, 20 11 ) Social Studies, with dual L. School Counseling and certification for Teaching Hannah Good Childhood Education Community M ental Health additional concentration Students with Disabilities !October 21 , 2011 ) Allison Ann Maese! in Community Counseling (October 21, 2011) Counseling Community M ental Health (O ctober 21, 2011 ) Ashleah Litchenstein Counseling (O ctober 21, 201 1) Marjorie Dobra Heather-Lyn Marie Good Ch ildhood Education Elaabeth A. Bremer Teaching and Curriculum Inclusion Adolescence (October 21 , 2011 ) Korrie M. Murphy Higher Education Education in Mathe matics Inclusion Adolescence (March 16, 201 2) Arianna Dorschel (October 21, 201 1) l}'ler Colt Lucero Education in Mathematics Higher Edu cation Adolescence Education in Earth (October 21, 2011 ) Miranda MacKay Cairns Rachel E. Goodman Science (October 21, 2011 ) Education Policy Galina Dzivulsky School Counseling and David Nager-Sadoff Adolescence Educatio n in additional concentration Kelly Erin Ludovici Adolescence Education in Linda Ann Spillett Cassidy Chemistry (October 21, 2011) in Community Counseling School Counseling and Biology (October 21 , 2011 ) Higher Education Student (October 21, 2011) additional concentration Affairs (October 21, 201 ·1) Michael john Edelman in Community Counseling Alyse M. O'Brien Higher Education Student Stephanie R. Gosson (October 21, 2011 ) School Counsel ing w ith Maria Chang Affairs (October 21, 2011) Higher Education Student Affairs additional concentration in Higher Education Student Affairs Elizabeth A. Luebbe Leadership Noa Elimelech Amy J. Guiffrida Community M ental Health Jose Elisaul Ch:ivez Martinez H uman Development with Childhood Educotion Counseling Alicia Lena Oddo Teaching and Curriculum specialization in Developmental Adolescence Education in Differences (March 16, 201 2) Kierstin E. Hakes Alexander Macaluso English (October 21, 2011) A.1.gela Clark-Taylor Teaching and Curriculum Adolescence Education in H igher oducation Martha End Biology (October 21, 20 11 ) Ryan O'Leary Teaching and Curriculum FreddieMae Janai Hawkins Adolescence Educatior in Nichole M. Clement Higher Education Student Affairs Rachel Manchester Chemistry (O ctober 21, 201 1) School Counseling and Khushnama Pheroze Engineer Community Mental Health Marshall E. Hunter II additional concentration Reading and Literacies, birth- Counseling (October 21, 201 1) Yelena Ovcharov in Com'11unity Counseling grade 6 (October 21, 20 11) Adolescence Ed ucation in Higher Education Student Affairs (October 21, 2011 ) Physics (October 21, 20 11 ) Taimi S. Marple Alexis Susan Everson Higher Education Christopher Peters Benjamin Scott Corwin Inclusion Adolescence joseph Thomas Irizarry (October 21, 20 11 ) Community M ental Health Adolescence Education in Higher Education Counseling (O ctober 21, 201 1) Ed ucation in Social Studies and Jessie Lynn Marullo M ;,thematics !October 21, 2011) Advanced Certificate in Middle Sha'Ronda Lynette Jackson Childhood 5- 6 Extension in Higher Education Student Affairs Mariya Petrova Vanessa G. Crans School Counseling Social Studies Community M ental Health School Counseling w ith Counseling (M arch 16, 2012) additional concentration in Community Counseling COMMENCEMENT 201 2 39 Lisa M. Pfenninger Evan Howard Siegel Health Professions Education Adolescence Education in Spanish (October 21, 2011) Ashley Parker Pierce School Distnct Leadership, Kyle Jennifer Simon with additional certification School Counseling in School Building Leadership (October 21, 2011) Kathleen Nicole Smith Higher Education Student Affairs David J Pinto Adolescence Education in Stephanie L. Smith Mathematics and Advanced Middle Childhood and Certificate in lndusinn Adolescence Education in Adolescence Education in Mathematics: ProfesSional Mathematics (October 21, 2011 I Study (October 21, 2011) Evangeline Dynski Polan Natasha Katherine Snyder Inclusion Early Childhood Adolescence Education in Educ. 40 UNIVERSITY O F ROCHESTER The Genesee The Genesee The Alma Mater T. T. Swinburne, Class of 1892 Herve D. Wilkins, Class of 1866 j j) J J J J oij i]l ~ ·V t IJ r I r· D I J 1. Full man-y fair and fam - ous streams Be - neath the sun there 2. No cas - tied crags a - long her way Ro - man - tic splen-dors 3. As flows the riv - er, gath-ering force, A - long her stead - fast r 1 r· p J r 1r n J JIJ J! be, Yet more to us than an - y seems Our own dear Gen-e - see We cast, No fa - bled or his - tor - ic lay re - calls the gold-en past, But way, May we a - long life's dev - ious course Grow strong - er day by day And JJ 1J J r g ldJ J: love thy banks and state - ly falls, For to our minds they bring Our more than bat - tie - ment - ed walls or leg - end they may bear, Are may our hearts wheree'er we roam For - ev - er loy - al be To J r IJ :nJ J I J II dear old AI - rna Ma - ter's halls, Where sweet - est mem-ories cling. dear old AI - rna Ma - ter's halls and mem - ories ling - ring there. our be - lov - ed col - lege home Be - side the Gen - e - see. 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