Commencement 2020 Program
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CLASS of 2020 COMMENCEMENT Sunday, the Twenty Fourth of May Two Tousand Twenty UNI V ER SIT Y-W IDE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TILTON HALL twelve o’clock in the afternoon PROCESSIONAL ross Gillman ’81, Chair of the Board of trustees; david P. Angel, President; Gino diiorio ’83, Chair of the Faculty; Betsy Huang, Associate Provost and Dean of the College; Yuko Aoyama, Associate Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies OPENING REMARKS ross Gillman ’81, Chair of the Board of trustees KEYNOTE ADDRESS David P. Angel, President RECOGNITION OF THE GRADUATES Gino diiorio ’83, Chair of the Faculty COMMENCEMENT PERFORMANCE* “A million dreams,” performed by miles tuttle, mPA ’22, and Aurianna tuttle PRESENTATION OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENTS AND INTRODUCTION OF THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SPEAKER Betsy Huang, Associate Provost and Dean of the College UNDERGRADUATE ADDRESS* maha Akbar ’20 PRESENTATION OF GRADUATE DEGREE RECIPIENTS AND INTRODUCTION OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT SPEAKER Yuko Aoyama, Associate Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Studies GRADUATE STUDENT ADDRESS* simran Achpal, msC ’20 MUSICAL PERFORMANCE* “show me Love,” performed by the Clark Keys PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES AND CONFERRING OF DEGREES President Angel CELEBRATION OF THE CLASS OF 2020* Commencement 2020 occurred virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ceremony featured a combination of presentations streaming live online from the University’s Tilton Hall; specially created video content (*); and recorded musical accompaniment from Joel Helander ’15, composer and pianist, and Aaron Lindo, piper, and George Caldow ’61, drummer. The entire presentation is available on the Clark University Commencement 2020 website, which also features samples of scholarly and creative work by members of the Class of 2020. Commencement 2020 was unlike any in the University’s history. We honor the members of this class for their extraordinary commitment to learning and their perseverance in completing their degrees. While this ceremony occurred on May 24, the offcial degree conferral date of May 17, 2020, will appear on diplomas and transcripts. DEGREES AWARDED THROUGH THE GRADUATE SCHOOL Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ashley Lorraine o’donoghue Valerie A. Ivancic * “Three Essays in Health Economics” “Biophysical and Biochemical Studies of the Sadia Priyanka Detection, Inhibition, and Degradation of “Effect of Female Political Representation Amyloid Assemblies” on Education and Employment” Biology Geography Allan Martin Carrillo Baltodano “Understanding the Evolution of Animal Elisa Manya Arond Body Plans by Looking at Annelid Neural “investing Natural Resource Revenues development” in Science, Technology and Innovation for Inclusive Regional Development in Alicia Grace Knudson Colombia: Politics of Scale, Politics of “The Morphological and Genetic Basis of Knowledge” Fruiting Body Development in Gomphales and Lentinus tigrinus” Yifan Cai “The Subaltern innovates: Shanzhai Abhinav Sur Mobile Phones, South-South Trade, and “Understanding Neurogenesis in the Counter-Narratives of Intellectual Annelid Capitella Teleta: Insights into Property Rights” Bilaterian Nervous System Evolution” Carlos Enrique Dobler Morales Chemistry “Smallholder dimensions of Rural Change in Modern Mexico” Jeffrey C. Monroe “The design, synthesis, and characterization Dylan Matthew Harris of low-dimensional antiferromagnetic “Telling the Story of Climate Change: materials” Geographies of Climate Consciousness” Qiuchen Zheng Catherine Elizabeth Jampel “Biophysical Chemistry of Amyloidogenic “Scales of inclusion: disability Employment Peptides and Proteins in the Absence and in the U.S. Federal Government and Presence of Polyphenols” Fortune 500 Companies” Son Ca Lam Economics “Shifting Grounds: Embodied Geographies Claudia SJ Chilundo * of Displacement and Home for Vietnamese “Three Essays on Financial development Women Across Generations” and Economic Growth” David A. Lukens Julio Emmerson da Conceicao Elias “Shifting Roles of the State and the “Essays on Regional Propagation of Evolution of Neighborhood Change in Economic Shocks” Seoul” George Gardner Alex Andre Moulton “Ensuring the Persistence of Salt Marsh “Plotting Maroonage: Mapping the Black Habitats” Socio-Spatial Struggles of the Jamaican Elizabeth Vera Hanke Maroons” “Essays on Pricing and Entry deterrence in Patrick Bright Mutegeki the Airline industry” “Household Livelihood Strategies: Yu Liao Analyzing Multi Local Livelihood “HuKou, Tenure Choice, and Household Strategies’ dynamics and Effects in Wealth in Urban China” Kabarole District, Uganda” Keenan Marchesi Scott Dennis Odell * “Three Essays on the Economics of Food “Hydrosocial displacements: Climate Consumption and Beer Markets: Temporal Change and Community Relations in and Spatial Analyses” Chile’s Mining Regions” Ali Marcel Santacruz Delgado “Recent and Future Anthropogenic Transformation of the Colombian Llanos” Melishia I. Santiago Physics “Multi-year variations in Chromophoric Benjamin Mathias Allen Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) “depth Resolved Erosion Studies and Rod distribution in the Pacifc Arctic Region drag in a Sedimented Granular Bed” Using In-situ and Satellite Remote Bishnu Sharma Sensing Measurements” “interplay of Charge density Wave States Leslie Gross Wyrtzen and Strain at the Surface of the Rare- “Bordering Blackness: The Production of Earth Tellurides” Race in the Morocco-EU Immigration Manoj K. Singh Regime” “Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies Ashley Victoria York of 1T-Tantalum disulfde and Tin “The West Greenlandic Cryosphere in disulfde” a Changing Climate: Decadal Trends, Seasonal Variability, and Critical Psychology Thresholds” Kristen Caitlin Keefe “Examining the Role of Causal illness History Beliefs in Predicting Aftercare Intention Asya Darbinyan and Engagement” “Russian Empire’s Response to Armenian Justin P. Laplante Genocide: Humanitarian Assistance “The Couple that Sits Together Stays to Armenian Refugees at the Caucasus Together: The Effects of Meditation on Battlefront of the Great War (1914- Romantic Relationships” 1917)” Jessica L. o’Leary * David J. Naumec “The Role of Emotion Socialization “’Let Us Fight the devil with Fire’: People and Emotion Regulation in Protecting of Color and Military Service during the Community Violence-Exposed Urban Civil War Era, 1861-1866” Youth” Jason Ivan Tingler Julia Tran “Mosaic of destruction: The Holocaust, “What Makes an African American Mass Violence, and Interethnic Relations Activist? Integrating Respectability in Chelm, Poland: 1939-1947” Politics into the Dynamic Dual Pathway Model of Collective Action” Interdisciplinary Studies Carol L. Stimmel * “How Predictive Policing is Reshaping Law Enforcement: Three Essays” Candidates for Dual Master’s Degrees Master of Business Administration/ Master of Business Administration/ Master of Arts in Community Master of Science in Environmental Development and Planning Science and Policy Julia Klas Jesse Gubert, ΒΓΣ * Domenica Perrone Aswira Siraj Pasha Kortni Elizabeth Wroten, ΒΓΣ ΒΓΣ indicates membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, the national honor society for students of management. ΑΕΛ indicates membership in Alpha Epsilon Lambda, a national academic honor society for adult graduate students. * Degree to be awarded upon successful completion of requirements Candidates for the Degree of Master of Arts Community Development and Planning History Atia Ferdous Begh Casey Katharine Bush Susan Diane Breidenich Spencer James Cronin Maddy Swain Buchman Beth Eve Lilach Adina Rose Goldberg Cohen Adelaide Petrov-Yoo Shayna Jean Davis Benjamin Allen Ravel * Kevin Fagundo Ojeda Teide Mairead Riley-McNary Benjamin Logan Forman International Development Ariana Franklin and Social Change Isabella E. Frederick Marian Amonoo-Afari Halley Lauren Glier Katherine m. Anfnson Tyler Michael Godin Karen Liliana Canales Del Castillo * Hannah Dane Ingham Jenna N. DeFosse Kaiomi Jordan Michaela Inniss Carly Elizabeth Dillis * Tyler Maren Rachel Elizabeth Eisenberg Paul Gregory McCormick Emma Rosa Gregory Fintan Mooney Zahra Hussain Bakhsh * Nicole Sandal Yamaya T. Jean Rebecca Silver Benjamin Kagigi Alexis ShonDee Turgeon Keifala Fayiah Kanneh Economics Tinashe Jennifer Madzivanyika Nayantara Biswas Kathryn L. McNicholas Chao Fang Brandon James Mooney Hye Young Lee Victor Odhiambo Uhuru Lowell Miner Perkins Vo Van Nhat Han Ghamz E Ali Siyal Physics Yajie Sun Rausan Atik Jewel English Psychology Md Nurul Ahad Korine Cabrera Maral Askarisirchi Nicholas Knudsen Canby Jessica Lynn Bigelow Rachel Erin Lerner Laura Sawade Adriana B. Medina William Jacob Norton Whitehead Geography Roopa Krithivasan Dan Eleazar Santos Mara Gabrielle van den Bold Su Ye Yu Zhou Candidates for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching Tea Marie Bourdeau Kacey A. Legare Lauren B. Canoni Wyatt Lewis Aubrey McGrath Cornwell Tarun Kumar Malik Liliana Grace Costa-Smith Shawn Michael McGarry Cassandra Thien-An Feeney Eliza Jane Meltzer Joanna Georgette Hamilton Armely Massiel Pichardo Rosario Melanie Ann Jennings Nia M. Slater-Bookhart Gregory Evan Jones Emily Barbara Taylor Cheyenne Rae Lachapelle Jacob Meir Weiss Leilana Le Laurel Elizabeth White Candidates for the Degree of Master of Health Science Florence Chinonso Aniefok Faith M. Mbaabu Guleid Abdi Farah Carrie Elisabeth Peck Ashley Jean Jonah Raether Katherine Rose Larrivee Temperance L. Staples Myles F. Leo Willie Hugh Swift Anna Lu * Aran Patrick Valente Candidates for the Degree of Master of Science