Commencement College of Liberal Arts May 22, 2021 Celebrate PROGRAM GUIDE Page Number University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees 1 Platform Party 2 Commencement Program 3 Honorary Degree 5 Granite State Awards 6 Faculty Marshals 8 Class Marshals 8 Honors 10 College of Liberal Arts Bachelors 16 Academic Regalia 26 Alma Mater 28 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMENCEMENT MAY 22, 2021 WILDCAT STADIUM, 4 p.m. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joseoph G. Morone, Chair James P. Burnett, Vice Chair Kassandra Spanos Ardinger, Secretary The Honorable Christopher T. Sununu, Governor, Ex-Officio Amy Begg Donald L. Birx, President, Plymouth State University, Ex-Officio Todd R. Black James W. Dean Jr., President, University of New Hampshire, Ex-Officio M. Jacqueline Eastwood Frank Edelblut, Commissioner of Education, Ex-Officio James Gray, Designee for the President of the Senate, Ex-Officio Cathy J. Green George Hansel Shawn N. Jasper, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Ex-Officio Rick Ladd, Designee for the Speaker of the House, Ex-Officio Tyler Minnich Michael J. Pilot Christopher M. Pope Mark Rubinstein, President, Granite State College, Ex-Officio J. Morgan Rutman Wallace R. Stevens Gregg R. Tewksbury Melinda D. Treadwell, President, Keene State College, Ex-Officio Alexander J. Walker Jr. David Westover 1 PLATFORM PARTY James W. Dean Jr. President Wayne Jones Provost Nicholas Fitzgerald Student Body President Erin Sharp Chair, Faculty Senate Michele Dillon Dean, College of Liberal Arts Ken Holmes Senior Vice Provost for Student Life Kate Ziemer Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Jenni Cook Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts 2 COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM PROCESSIONAL Pomp and Circumstance University Wind Symphony Andrew A. Boysen Conductor and Professor of Music OPENING OF THE CEREMONY James W. Dean Jr. President of the University (Please stand and remain standing through the Words of Inspiration.) THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Aimee O’Meara ’21 WORDS OF INSPIRATION Timothy Hafner ’82 Intervarsity Campus Minister OPENING REMARKS James W. Dean Jr. President of the University GREETINGS FROM THE FACULTY SENATE Erin Sharp Chair of the Faculty Senate and Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies GREETINGS FROM THE DEAN Michele Dillon Dean, College of Liberal Arts INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Nicholas Fitzgerald ’21 President of the Student Body 3 MAY 22, 2021 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Wolf Blitzer Journalist HONORARY DEGREES Marty Klein Scientist, Engineer, Inventor, Entrepreneur – Founder and Former President of Klein Marine Systems, Salem, NH Conferred by President Dean Presented and Hooded by Wayne Jones Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs GRANITE STATE AWARD Yvonne P. Goldsberry, PhD, MPH, MSUP President, Endowment for Health Rogers J. Johnson ’99G (Posthumous) Civil Rights Leader and Diversity & Inclusion Activist Conferred by President Dean Presented by Provost Jones TRUMPET FANFARE Mark Zielinski, Senior Lecturer of Music CONFERRING OF DEGREES Conferred by President Dean Presented by the Dean Michele Dillon ALMA MATER UNH Chamber Singers WELCOME TO THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Heidi Dufour Ames ’02 President of the Alumni Association Board of Directors CHARGE TO THE GRADUATES AND CLOSING REMARKS President Dean RECESSIONAL March from Suite in F University Wind Symphony 4 HONORARY DEGREE Martin Klein Martin Klein was a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 when he first experimented with the technology that would result in him becoming known as “the father of side scan sonar” — technology that has been used in underwater searches to locate the USS Thresher, the first nuclear submarine to be lost to the ocean’s depths, the RMS Titanic shipwreck, whose location his expertise and side scan sonar design pinpointed, and the wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger, among others. In 1967, after working at defense contractor Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Klein founded Klein Associates (now Klein Marine Systems) in the basement of his rented cottage in Lexington, Massachusetts, before moving it to Salem, New Hampshire, the following year. Klein Marine Systems, the world’s leading supplier of side scan sonar equipment and waterside security and surveillance systems, is a founding member of the UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center. Klein has a long history of service to the UNH engineering technology department, once located on the Durham campus, UNH Sea Grant, and UNH’s early efforts in the fields of ocean engineering and autonomous underwater vehicles. GRANITE STATE AWARD Yvonne P. Goldsberry, President, Endowment for Health Yvonne P. Goldsberry has been president of the Endowment for Health (EFH), a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the health of New Hampshire residents, since September 2015. During the last 20 years, EFH has awarded more than 1,300 grants totaling more than $50 million to support a wide range of health-related programs and projects. Before joining EFH, Goldsberry served as vice president of population health and clinical integration for Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene. She is known as the architect of the nationally recognized Healthy Monadnock, a regional partnership of community leaders united in the goal of improving community health in the Monadnock region. Goldsberry has previously served at the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services, Keene’s Home Healthcare Hospice and Community Services, the Washington Business Group on Health and the George Washington University Center for Health Policy Research. She also is on the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy advisory board and the board of directors of Goodwill Northern New England, represents New Hampshire on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Community Development Advisory Council, and serves as a corporator of the New Hampshire Mutual Bankcorp. 6 GRANITE STATE AWARD Rogers J. Johnson ’99G, Civil Rights Leader (posthumous) Rogers J. Johnson entered public service in 2001, serving as a New Hampshire state representative from then until 2006. During that time, he became the state’s first Black House Majority Whip, was awarded the Black America’s Political Action Committee Leaders of Tomorrow Award (2004), the New Hampshire Healthcare Association award for Long Term Care Services (2003), and the New Hampshire Business Council recognition of support of small business (2003). He was then asked by former President George W. Bush to become director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary Margaret Spellings, a position he held until 2009. Returning to New Hampshire, he filled numerous roles, including policy advisor and speechwriter for various political campaigns. Most recently, he was treasurer of the New England Conference of the NAACP, working tirelessly on efforts that included passing key legislation for vulnerable populations and helping law enforcement authorities address systemic injustices experienced by minority-based populations. In 2014 he was awarded the Seacoast NAACP’s Freedom Fighter Award. 7 Faculty Marshals Faculty Marshals Class Marshals Sajay Arthanat Brad L. Kinsey Chief Class Marshal Professor and Interim Department Chair, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Kaylee Chouinard Occupational Therapy Materials Science B.S., College of Life Sciences and Agriculture Reagan Baughman Michael Kukenberger Class Marshal Associate Professor of Economics Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior Lilia Whitney Madden M.S.W, Graduate School Cristy Beemer Dain LaRoche Associate Professor of English and Director Professor and Department Chair of Kinesiology Muzaffar Ali Mohammed of Composition M.S., Graduate School Anne Lightbody Scott Berube Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Lilly R. Friedman Principal Lecturer of Accounting and Finance B.S., College of Life Sciences and Agriculture Matthew MacManes Ronald Boucher Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Kaylee Chouinard Lecturer of Hospitality Management Biomedical Sciences B.S., College of Life Sciences and Agriculture Daniel Bromberg Peter Masucci Sarah Marie Muhammed Jarrar Associate Professor of Public Administration and Principal Lecturer in Marketing B.A., College of Liberal Arts Director of Academic Programs, Carsey School of Public Policy William McDowell Abrita Kuthumi Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment B.A., College of Liberal Arts Martha Byam Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work Pamela McPhee Sawyer D. Cawthern Clinical Assistant Professor of Recreation B.S., College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Ileana Chirila Management and Policy Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures Charity C. Reed and Cultures Carolyn Mebert B.S., College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Associate Professor of Psychology Raymond A. Cook Dan Maurer Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Weiwei Mo B.S., Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics Engineering Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sadie Xi Rose Mazzola William DeVries B.S., Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Bruce E. Pfeiffer Engineering Associate Professor of Marketing Grayson Leichtman B.S., College of Health and Human Services Sherine Elsawa Catherine Plante Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, Associate Professor of Accounting Alexandra Toback and Biomedical Sciences B.S., College of Health and Human Services