GSAS 2019 Commencement
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Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences One Hundred Fifty-Eighth Commencement Monday, May 20, 2019 Order of Exercises commencement diploma ceremony Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Monday, May 20, 2019 Organ Prelude Estwing Hammer Prize Passacaglia, BWV 582 Janet Burke J.S. Bach zheng gong JaSmina Wiemann Sicilienne Maurice Durufle Excellence in Teaching Prize anWar mohiuddin Sonata IV niColaS mongiardino koCh Felix Mendelssohn Miguel Ferreyros Memorial Award Chase Loomer, Organist mike ChieCo Processional Harry Burr Ferris Prize Nun danket alle Gott Sarah hill Sigfrid Karg-Elert nikit kumar Please rise when the faculty and graduating mengxiao ma students enter the hall. William Ebenezer Ford Prize Sarah arveSon Recognition of Student Prize Recipients matteo FaBBri Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School Hans Gatzke Prize Marston Anderson Prize aner Barzilay Samuel maliSSa kate BraCkney Henry Prentiss Becton Prize Award for Academic Excellence in Global Affairs lili Wang Sophie BroaCh Frederick W. Beinecke Prize James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize JohnS graham david melnikoFF Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize Mary Ellen Jones Prize magdalene Breidenthal katherine Farley-BarneS kirSty dootSon Brady SummerS Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize Annie Le Fellowship Claire SChWartz gaBriela BoSque-ortiz veroniCa galvin George Washington Egleston Historical Prize Catherine maS Elias Loomis Prize Chhavi Jain English Department Dissertation Prize BoWen zhao Seo hee im James G. March Prize Theron Rockwell Field Prize nikhar gaikWad luiSa CorteSi elizaBeth Wellman Flynn Cratty John Spangler Nicholas Prize John Addison Porter Prize arun Chavan Catherine maS ann Feke alexandra morriSon ignaCio quintero adele riCCiardi JenniFer Sun Public Service Award for Community Service durga thakral Philip M. Orville Prize Jie deng Public Service Award for Disciplinary Outreach terry tang david Caianiello George Gaylord Simpson Prize Public Service Award as a Public Scholar daniel Smith-paredeS damian vergara BraCamonteS ChriStopher Whalen Prize Teaching Fellows JaSmina Wiemann alexander engler JoShua gailey Carolyn Slayman Prize etienne BeiJia greenlee edWard marSh kevin toBia parker SulkoWSki Graduate Mentor Award Edwin W. Small Prize inderpal greWal Catherine maS maureen long Ben zdenCanoviC JenniFer riCheSon George Trimis Prize taha Choukhmane FaBian eCkert Wayne gao JoaChim huBmer yukun liu Karl K. Turekian Prize yoShinori miyazaki Richard Wolfgang Prize daniel deroSha ChriStopher Shugrue zaChary vealey Arthur and Mary Wright Prize timothy lorek Santiago munoz arBelaez Presentation of Diplomas Degree recipients, their families, and friends Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School are cordially invited to a reception in Caulkins Courtyard at the McDougal Center, 135 Prospect Recessional Street, immediately following Commencement Exercises. Ride of the Valkyries Richard Wagner, transcribed by Edwin Lemar Academic Procession Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School Pamela Schirmeister, Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Strategic Initiatives Jasmina Besirevic Regan, Associate Dean Michelle Nearon, Associate Dean for Graduate Student Development and Diversity Richard Sleight, Associate Dean for Graduate Student Academic Support Lisa Brandes, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Robert Harper-Mangels, Assistant Dean Graduate School Banner Bearers Alexander Engler, Engineering & Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering Ben Zdencanovic, History phd Student Marshals Fabian Schrey, Economics Winnie Jiang, Management MA Student Marshal Virginia Leape, Global Affairs MS Student Marshal Mi (Paris) Li, Computer Science MPHIL Student Marshal Cera Smith, African American Studies and English Language and Literature degrees granted, december 2018 and may 2019 african american studies american studies Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Phoenix Alexander Susie An Voices with Vision: Writing Black, Feminist Futures in Sovereign Beauty and Biopower in Post-Cold War South Twentieth Century African America Korea, 1987–Present English Language and Literature Jorge Enrique Cuellar Lauren Tallevi Meyer Neoliberal Soils: Land, Society, and Everyday Life in Defending Black Womanhood: African American Postwar El Salvador Women Lawyers and the Emergence of a Black Feminist Molly Anderson Greene Jurisprudence Deluge: On the Female Animal American Studies Danya M. Pilgrim Devin McGeehan Muchmore The Business of Sex: A Queer History of Pornography and Gastronomic Alchemy: How Black Philadelphia Caterers Commercial Culture in 1970s America Transformed Taste into Capital, 1790–1925 American Studies Pedro Regalado Santos Claire Schwartz Where Angels Fear to Tread: Latinx Work and the Making A Sidelong Glance: Art, Archives, and Visions of of Postindustrial New York Blackness in the Postmodern City Ila Rajiv Tyagi American Studies Extending the Eye: The American Oil Industry in Master of Philosophy Moving Images Film and Media Studies Anna Faith Duensing History Master of Philosophy Clara Wilson Hawken Emily Carson Coates American Studies Maria Angelina Diaz Master of Arts Master of Arts Camille Serafina Owens Kristin Ann Hankins American Studies Master of Arts Master of Arts Maryam Ivette Parhizkar Master of Arts African American Studies Stephane Daniel Andrade Master of Arts Sociology Sasha Sabherwal Demar Francis Lewis IV Master of Arts Sociology Maile J. Speakman Master of Arts african studies Yuhe Faye Wang Master of Arts Master of Arts Master of Arts Catherine Labiran Seunghwa Madeleine Han Ololade Siyonbola Joseph Buchanan Landman Daniella Posy George Charles Linderman Efficient Methods for Imputation, Dimensionality Jacinda Spring Tran Reduction, and Visualization of Biomedical Datasets Cooper Weissman MD/PhD Program Master of Philosophy anthropology Nicholas Fox Marshall Harmonic Analysis in Discrete Geometries Doctor of Philosophy Luisa Cortesi applied physics Living in Unquiet Waters: Knowledge and Technology in North Bihar Doctor of Philosophy Forestry & Environmental Studies Christopher James Axline Elaine Elizabeth Gomez Guevara Building Blocks for Modular Circuit QED Quantum Genomics of Primate Longevity Computing Tanambelo Vassili Reinaldo Rasolondrainy Eric Andrew Kittlaus Decision-Making in the Face of Unpredictable Climate Harnessing Traveling-Wave Photon-Phonon Interactions and Intergroup Conflicts in Southwest Madagascar, in Integrated Waveguides Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries CE Sonya Dawn Sawtelle Amelia Elizabeth M Sancilio Electromigration and Electrothermal Properties in Gold Is Accelerated Senescence a Cost of Reproduction? An Nanostructures Analysis of Life History Trade-offs in Master of Philosophy Post-menopausal Polish Women Mary Lou Padlan Bailey Master of Philosophy Master of Science Sophia Zehra Abbas Nicholas Bender Nicholas Edward Brown Master of Science Rachel J. Farell Nicholas Ernest Frattini Master of Science Rundong Ning Shai Gertler Matthew O’Malley Sumita Ghosh Shivangi Pareek Master of Science Theodore Alexander Callea Park Nils Thomas Otterstrom Zhixin Wang applied mathematics Master of Science Doctor of Philosophy Master of Science Sahil Agarwal Elizabeth Megan Bell Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Processes with Astro- & Geophysical Applications archaeological studies Andrei Florin Deneanu Normality and Gaussian Perturbation Master of Arts Philip Greengard Jordan Lizbeth Boggan On Generalized Prolate Spheroidal Functions Rachel Marie Rose Logan Master of Philosophy Alexandra Elizabeth McKay Kanak Somani Michael William Grome Vesicle Tubulation with Self-Assembling DNA Patrick Clinton Wiley Nanosprings: Biomimetic Nanotechnology toward the Re-Capitulation & Re-Purposing of Sub-Cellular architecture Functions within an Artificial Framework Doctor of Philosophy Sarah Elizabeth Hill Autophagy at the Synapse: from Biogenesis to Breakdown Eugene Han A Theory of Common Form in Aesthetic Perception Yuhan Hu Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics via Abl2 Binding Master of Philosophy Jessica Faith Johnston David Timothy Turturo The Effects of Chromatin Organization on Nuclear Mechanics and Chromatin Dynamics astronomy MD/PhD Program Nikit Kumar Doctor of Philosophy Structural and Functional Investigation of Vps13 and Rosemary Anne Abramson Pikfyve Complex Proteins in the Regulation of Organelle Case Studies of Virgo Cluster Spiral Galaxies Membrane Homeostasis Experiencing Ram Pressure Stripping Mengxiao Ma Maria Jose Maureira SNX-BAR Proteins in Endosomal Sorting, Autophagy, Probing the Earliest Phases of Star Formation: and Lipid Homeostasis Characterization of First Core Candidates María Jesús Olarte Carhuaz Master of Philosophy Mechanism of Protein Targeting from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Lipid Droplets Urmila Chadayammuri Nur-Taz Rahman Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury SRF/MRTFA Regulatory Axis: Its Role in Master of Science Megakaryopoiesis & De-Regulation in Acute Sarah Catherine Millholland Megakaryoblastic Leukemia Master of Science Alexander N Scherer Joel Jia Mian Ong Actin Filament Stabilization by Cortactin-Actin Master of Science Interactions Darryl Zachary Seligman MD/PhD Program Michael Jacob Warrener Levi Merlin Smith Master of Science Receptors for Amyloid Beta and Pharmacologic Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease Lily Ling Zhao Master of Science Elizabeth Wen Sun The Lipid Transporter TMEM24/C2CD2L in a Ca2+- Master of Science Regulated Component of ER-Plasma Membrane Contact Yotam Cohen Sites in Mammalian Pancreatic Beta Cells and Neurons Ke Zhang cell biology The Abl2 Non-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase and Cortactin