Spring 2018 Commencement Program Book

Spring 2018 Fayetteville, Arkansas Schedule of Ceremonies & Locations Friday, May 11, 2018 Bud Walton Arena J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 12, 2018 Bud Walton Arena All University Commencement Ceremony 8:30 a.m. Sam M. Walton College of Business 1:00 p.m. College of Education and Health Professions 5:30 p.m.

Faulkner Perfoming Arts Center Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design 1:00 p.m. John Barnhill Arena College of Engineering 12:00 p.m. Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 19, 2018 Fayetteville Town Center School of Law 2:00 p.m. Contents: Commencement Program – 6 The Academic Procession – 7 The Official Party – 8 Notes on Ceremony – 9 Commencement Speaker – 10 Honorary Degree Recipients – 11 Degree Candidates – 13 Senior Scholars – 32 Past Honorary Degree Recipients – 108 Board of Trustees – 110 Colleges: Graduate School – 5 School of Law – 27 Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences – 35 Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design – 45 J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences – 49 College of Education and Health Professions – 65 College of Engineering – 77 Sam M. Walton College of Business – 91

GRADUATE SCHOOL

MAY 12, 2018 Bud Walton Arena • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 8:30 a.m. • Saturday, May 12, 2018

Pre-ceremony Concert (8:00 a.m.)...... University Wind Symphony Dr. Chris Knighten, Director of Bands, Conductor

Processional March...... University Wind Symphony

National Anthem...... Schola Cantorum Dr. Stephen Caldwell, Conductor “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Invocation...... Schola Cantorum “Blessings” by Peter de Mets & Mark A. Boyle

Introductions...... Dr. Joseph E. Steinmetz Chancellor

Greetings from the Board of Trustees...... Mr. Mark Waldrip Chair

Greetings from the University of Arkansas System...... Dr. Donald R. Bobbitt President

Awarding of Honorary Degrees...... Mr. Waldrip Jama M. Fowler Wallace W. Fowler Charles McColl Portis

Commencement Address...... Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury President and CEO Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

Conferring of the Degrees...... Dr. Steinmetz

Alma Mater...... Schola Cantorum

Recessional March...... University Wind Symphony

The University community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the 2018 University of Arkansas Commencement ceremony a success.

6 THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION

Chief Marshal and Bearer of the Mace Candidates for Specialist Degrees The Official Party Candidates for Master’s Degrees Faculty of the University Candidates for Juris Doctor Degrees Candidates for Doctoral Degrees Candidates for Baccalaureate Degrees

Chief Marshal and Bearer of the Mace Kathleen A. Lehman, Chair of the Campus Faculty Associate Professor, University Libraries

Marshals Adnan Ali Khalaf Alrubaye, Clinical Assistant Brinck Kerr, Professor, Professor, Political Science Biological Sciences Douglas D. Rhoads, University Professor, Gordon Beavers, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Computer Science and Computer Engineering Barbara B. Shadden, University Professor Emerita, Valerie H. Hunt-Whiteside, Associate Professor, Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Political Science Communication Disorders Douglas Karcher, Professor, Anna Zajicek, Professor, Horticulture Sociology and Criminal Justice Elizabeth Keiffer,Instructor, Information Systems

Banner Carriers Lori Birrell, Associate Professor, Miran Kang, Director, Special Collections Instructional Design and Support Services University Libraries Global Campus Lisa Bowers, Assistant Professor, Carl Matthews, Professor, Communication Disorders Interior Design College of Education and Health Professions E. Fay Jones School of Architecture Ed Clausen, Professor, and Design Chemical Engineering Lawton L. Nalley, Associate Professor, College of Engineering Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Kirstin Erickson, Associate Professor, Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Anthropology Life Sciences Honors College Curt R. Rom, University Professor, Will Foster, Associate Professor, Horticulture School of Law Graduate School and International Education Jeannie Hulen, Associate Professor, Art James L. Webster, Visiting Professor, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Finance Walton College of Business

7 THE OFFICIAL PARTY

Joseph E. Steinmetz Laura Jacobs John R. English Chancellor Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean, College of Engineering Chief of Staff Mark Waldrip Lynda L. Coon Chair, Board of Trustees Stacy L. Leeds Dean, Honors College Interim Vice Chancellor for Economic Donald R. Bobbitt Development and Dean, School of Law Carolyn Henderson Allen President, University of Arkansas System Dean, University Libraries Marcia Overby Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury Associate Vice Chancellor for Melissa Harwood-Rom Commencement Speaker Administration Dean of Students Jama M. Fowler Bill Kincaid Kathleen A. Lehman Honorary Degree Recipient Associate General Counsel Chief Marshal and Bearer of the Mace Wallace W. Fowler Ro Di Brezzo Marc E. Wolfe Honorary Degree Recipient Vice Provost for Faculty Development Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp Tommy Boyer and Enhancement Member, Board of Trustees Don Judges Chad Quayle Interim Vice Provost for Distance Lieutenant Colonel, Stephen A. Broughton, MD Army Reserve Officer Training Corp Member, Board of Trustees Education/Global Campus Diane Boles Steve Cox Terry Martin Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Interpreter for Persons with Deafness Member, Board of Trustees and Hearing Impairment Suzanne McCray Kelly Eichler Shannon Buccino Assistant Secretary, Board of Trustees Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Dean of Admissions Interpreter for Persons with Deafness Charles “Cliff” Gibson, III and Hearing Impairment Member, Board of Trustees Yvette Murphy-Erby Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Terri Harris John C. Goodson Interpreter for Persons with Deafness Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees Kim LaScola Needy and Hearing Impairment Interim Vice Provost for Research and Morril Harriman Innovation and Dean, Graduate School Jason Shifflett Secretary, Board of Trustees and International Education Interpreter for Persons with Deafness and Hearing Impairment Sheffield Nelson Kathy Van Laningham Member, Board of Trustees Vice Provost for Planning Mary Wenkus Interpreter for Persons with Deafness The Honorable David Pryor Brandy Cox and Hearing Impairment Member, Board of Trustees Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive James S. Coleman Director of Arkansas Alumni Association Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mark J. Cochran for Academic Affairs Vice President for Agriculture Randy Massanelli Lona Robertson Vice Chancellor for Interim Dean, Dale Bumpers College of Governmental Relations Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Timothy J. O’Donnell Peter B. MacKeith Vice Chancellor for Finance and Dean, Fay Jones Architecture and Design Administration Todd G. Shields Mark E. Power Dean, J. William Fulbright College of Arts Vice Chancellor for University and Sciences Advancement Matthew A. Waller Charles F. Robinson Dean, Sam M. Walton College of Business Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Michael T. Miller Hunter R. Yurachek Dean, College of Education and Health Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Professions

8 The University Mace and Batons The mace and batons are symbols of the authority and history of the University and are made from balusters from the original main staircase of Old Main, erected in 1875, the oldest University building now standing. The batons are carried by members of the faculty who are serving as marshals.

Marshals’ Gowns The gowns worn by the marshals are of the traditional University color, cardinal red.

Honor Stoles White or cardinal stoles denote students who are candidates for University Honors. Cardinal represents Honors (cum laude) and white represents High Honors (magna cum laude). White stoles with cardinal and white cords represent Highest Honors (summa cum laude).

The University Song In 1909 a prize of fifty dollars was offered for the best poem relating to the University of Arkansas that should be capable of being set to music and used as a college song. Out of many entries, that of Mr. Brodie Payne, 1906, of Hot Springs won the prize. The words were set to music by Professor H. D. Tovey, Director of the Conservatory of Music and Art at the University.

Academic Regalia The styles of gowns differentiate degree level. Trim of doctoral gowns indicates nature of degree (black or royal blue — Ph.D.; light blue — Ed.D.). Certain members of the faculty wear distinctive gowns and hoods authorized by their doctoral institutions. The lining of the hood denotes the color(s) of the institution awarding the degree. The official colors of the University of Arkansas are cardinal and white.

The color of the velvet band around the hood designates the academic degree of the wearer. Some examples are listed below:

Agriculture...... Maize Fine Arts ...... Dark Brown Medicine...... Green Public Health...... Salmon Pink Architecture...... Blue Violet Forestry...... Russett Music...... Pink Science...... Gold Arts And Letters...... White Human Envi. Sci...... Maroon Nursing...... Apricot Social Science...... Cream Business And Bus. Admin...... Drab Humanities...... Crimson Pharmacy...... Solid Green Social Work...... Citron Economics...... Copper Journalism...... Crimson Philosophy...... Royal Blue Speech...... Silvery Gray Education...... Light Blue Law...... Purple Physical Education...... Sage Green Theology...... Scarlet Engineering...... Orange Library Science...... Lemon Yellow Public Admin...... Peacock Blue Veterinary Science...... Gray

The University Seal The Seal of the University of Arkansas is affixed to each diploma and is stamped in gold on each diploma cover. The central element in the Seal is the front entrance to Old Main, the oldest building on campus.

9 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Dr.Sherece West-Scantlebury

Sherece West-Scantlebury has served for ten years as president and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, a private, independent foundation whose mission is to improve the lives of all Arkansans in three interrelated areas: economic development; education; and economic, racial, and social justice.

West-Scantlebury grew up in inner-city Baltimore and is the first in her family to attend college. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowie State University in Maryland; a master’s in public policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and a doctorate in public policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Her professional career includes nearly 30 years of experience in community development, public policy and advocacy, and public service. She has a 25 year career in philanthropy, including work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and service as CEO of the Foundation for Louisiana before joining the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. She has said her life experience drives her passion for work, such as philanthropy, that makes a meaningful difference and supports communities to thrive.

“Philanthropy chose me, for which I am grateful, because I did not have professional goals,” she said. “I have a mission and vision to use my time, talent and treasure to transform vulnerable communities into healthy, vibrant communities. I am willing to do that in any capacity. Philanthropy is my current path.”

Under West-Scantlebury’s leadership the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation has invested over 40 million dollars in Arkansas and its communities, including the University of Arkansas.

“The University of Arkansas’ eight guiding priorities are in full alignment with the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation’s mission and my own vision and service to Arkansas,” she said.

West-Scantlebury’s work has been recognized with a variety of honors including the 2013 Woman of Influence Award from the Arkansas Business Journal; the 2015 Humanitarian Award from Just Communities of Arkansas; and the 2017-2018 Rockwood Leadership Institute’s “National Leading from the Inside Out Yearlong Fellowship.”

10 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Wallace and Jama Fowler

Wallace and Jama Fowler have used their successful partnership to improve Arkansas communities and support the University of Arkansas, Arkansas State University, their hometown of Jonesboro and people in need across Arkansas.

The couple started out in separate parts of the state: Wallace Fowler grew up in Manila, in northeast Arkansas, the son of the local school superintendent; Jama Massey was born in Amity, in the southwest part of the state, and her father was in the timber business. They were introduced while Wallace was serving in the Army, stationed in Fort Smith: his brother suggested he meet Jama Massey. Fowler ranks it as the best advice he’s ever gotten.

The couple married in 1955 and have remained partners in life, family, business and community service. They have three sons, twelve grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.

Wallace Fowler built three successful business careers – in retail furniture, fast food franchises and banking -- each career based in Jonesboro, each more successful than the last and each with Jama very much involved. They capped these careers off by launching the Bank of Jonesboro, then growing and expanding it into the state-wide Liberty Bank system.

Fowler has said his success is the result of hiring the right people and having good partners – especially Jama.

The Fowlers made time for public service throughout their lives, Wallace serving on state and city commissions, Jama’s concern for public health issues leading to creation of the Wallace and Jama Fowler Charitable Foundation to support hospitals and health care facilities.

The Fowler’s other philanthropic efforts include a $5 million gift to Arkansas State University to complete the Fowler Center for the performing arts and a $5 million gift to the NEA Baptist Charitable Foundation to complete the Fowler Family Center for Cancer Care. They both served on the University of Arkansas Campaign for the Twenty-First Century steering committee, and they hold similar positions in Campaign Arkansas. They have donated a total of $4.68 million towards construction of the U of A chancellor’s residence, the Wallace and Jama Fowler House, Garden and Conservatory. Other major U of A gifts include $2.5 million for the Fowler Family Baseball and Track Training Center and $1 million to name the Don and Ellen Edmondson Legacy Studio in Vol Walker Hall to honor their long-time friends. In 2013 Wallace and Jama Fowler received Chancellor’s Medals for their outstanding leadership and commitment to higher education at the University of Arkansas.

11 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT

Charles McColl Portis

Charles Portis is an author, journalist and University of Arkansas graduate. He’s best known for his second novel, True Grit (1968), a best seller that has been made into popular movies twice. His other four novels, Norwood (1966), Dog of the South (1979), Masters of Atlantis (1985) and Gringos (1991) were not as commercially successful but have been praised by critics and loyal readers as “comic masterpieces.”

Portis was born in El Dorado and grew up in small south Arkansas towns, graduating from high school in Hamburg. He joined the Marines and served in the infantry during the Korean War, earning the rank of sergeant. After his discharge he enrolled at the University of Arkansas as a journalism major.

“You had to choose a major, so I put down journalism” he later explained. “I must have thought it would be fun and not very hard, something like barber college — not to offend the barbers. They probably provide a more useful service.”

Portis wrote for the Arkansas Traveler and the Northwest Arkansas Times while still a student. He worked briefly for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, then almost two years as a reporter at the Arkansas Gazette. He spent three years at the New York Herald Tribune, often covering the civil rights struggle in the South, then served one a year as the paper’s London bureau chief. In 1964 he returned to Little Rock to write novels.

Portis currently lives in Little Rock, although he spent much of his career traveling and writing in Mexico. He has gained a degree of fame for his ability to avoid being famous – primarily by politely declining to do interviews with reporters.

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany (2012) was published by Butler Center Books and includes memoirs, a stage play and an assortment of short fiction, nonfiction, and articles from his newspaper career.

In 2010, Portis received the Oxford American’s first Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature award. The Porter Prize, for outstanding Arkansas writers, awarded its 30th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award to Portis in 2014. He was inducted into the U of A’s Lemke Journalism Hall of Fame in 2016.

12 GRADUATE SCHOOL

Presented by Kim LaScola Needy, Dean of the Graduate School and International Education

Doctor of Philosophy in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Joseph Louis Denny Fantinel December 13, 1980 – July 31, 2017

Doctor of Education in Adult Education – Posthumously William E. Manning July 29, 1942 – November 24, 1993

DOCTOR OF EDUCATION Bryan R. Bronn Qingfang Chen EmmaLe Anne Davis Michael John Koonce Dissertation: Tapping the Voices of Dissertation: Title Not Available Dissertation: How College Campuses are Dissertation: Principal Engagement in the Learners for Authentic Student Directed by: Professor Carsten M. Using Social Media During Severe Professional Development Process: The Engagement Schmidtke Weather Events Identification of Barriers, Resources, Directed by: Professor John Pijanowski Directed by: Professor Leslie Jo Shelton and Supports Jason Michael Clemensen Directed by: Professor John Pijanowski Allison Louise Walker Byford Dissertation: The Perceived Effectiveness Rena Audrey Duewel Dissertation: Teacher and Administrator of One-to-One Technology in Small- Dissertation: Teacher Perception and DeVaughn G. Stephens Perceptions of the Teacher Excellence wood High School Understanding of Progress Monitoring Dissertation: Title Not Available and Support System (TESS) in Directed by: Professor Ed Bengtson Throughout a Longitudinal Assess- Directed by: Professor Claretha Hughes Arkansas ment System Directed by: Professor Kit Kacirek Robbie Scott Cornelius Directed by: Professor John Pijanowski Timothy Paul Wilson Dissertation: Adult Education Teachers’ Dissertation: A Case Study of the Umpqua Grant Christopher Carlson Perceptions of Professional Develop- Tionanatasha Kairecia Newell Community College Campus Shooting Dissertation: Characteristics of High- ment Harris Directed by: Professor Michael Hevel Performing Women Resident Assis- Directed by: Professor Kenda Grover Dissertation: Program Evaluation of tants at Private Liberal Arts Institutions Magnet Program Implementation Directed by: Professor Michael Hevel Directed by: Professor John Pijanowski

DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE Hope Ballentine Heather Kristin Dearing JoEllen Holt Jonathan David Miller Capstone: The Choline Program: Capstone: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Capstone: Minimizing Wait Times in the Capstone: Decreasing Heart Failure- Implementing Vital Nutrition Educa- (PTSD) Prevention and Serial Surveil- Emergency Department Related Hospital Readmissions Using tion in Pregnancy lance Program Directed by: Professor Anna Jarrett APRN Discharge Education and Tran- Directed by: Professor Marilou Shreve Directed by: Professor Thomas sitional Care Kippenbrock Staci Lynn Hopper Directed by: Professor Thomas Iris Louise Berry Capstone: Initiating a Daily Sedation Break Kippenbrock Capstone: A Pilot Study to Improve Melisa Renae DeLoach Protocol in the Mechanically Ventilat- Screening Procedures for Type 2 Capstone: Reducing Emergency ed Patient Alexandria Katelyn Mosbey Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Department Revisits: A Quality Directed by: Professor Angela Stewart Capstone: Quality Improvement Initiative Adolescents by Incorporating Current Improvement Project to Increase HPV Vaccination Rate Recommendations and Guidelines Directed by: Professor Lori Murray Rebecca J. Hulsey through Education and Decision Aids into Practice Capstone: Stop, Drop, and Roll: A New Directed by: Professor Martha Butler Directed by: Professor Marilou Shreve Angelia Diab Practice Standard Capstone: A Quality Improvement Initiative Directed by: Professor Angela Stewart Lindsey Rachel Sabatini Vilas Bhut to Increase HPV Vaccine Rates Utilizing Capstone: Standardizing Prescriber Insulin Capstone: Addressing Distress in Patients an Educational Strategy with Nursing Jennifer Jo Jennings Ordering to Improve Glycemic Control with Cancer Staff Within a Pediatric Clinical Setting Capstone: Improving Self-Efficacy in in Critically Ill Patients Directed by: Professor Susan Patton Directed by: Professor Audrey Weymiller Patients with Uncontrolled Diabetes Directed by: Professor Audrey Weymiller Mellitus Type 2 A Quality Improvement Kelli Michele Camp Kathryn Rae Dutton Project Rachel Wallis Capstone: Advanced Practice Registered Capstone: Increasing Core Measure Directed by: Professor Anna Jarrett Capstone: Evaluation of the Nurse - Led Transition of Care for Compliance in Patients with Sepsis Glucommander Software System for Congestive Heart Failure Patients at Directed by: Professor Angela Stewart Jennifer Jones Controlling Inpatient Hypoglycemia Time of Discharge Capstone: Improving Opiate Knowledge Directed by: Professor Jan Emory Directed by: Professor Thomas Laurel M. Fulgham of Advanced Practice Providers Kippenbrock Capstone: Enhancing Care for Patients Directed by: Professor Jan Emory with Dysphagia Post Ischemic Stroke Sarah Rose Castleman an Evidenced Based Practice Approach LeAnn W. Metheny Capstone: Team Based Approach to Directed by: Professor Susan Patton Capstone: Title Not Available Improving Type 2 Diabetes Education Directed by: Professor Thomas in the Primary Care Setting: A Process Kippenbrock Improvement Project Directed by: Professor Allison Scott

13 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

ANIMAL SCIENCE Joshua O’Donnell Sebastian Hunt Xiaofan Yu J. Justin Cook Dissertation: Predicting Changes in Earnings: Dissertation: Rapid and Sensitive Detection Dissertation: The Relationship between Jase Joseph Ball A Walk Through A Random Forest of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Using QCM Mental Health and Ultra-Running: A Dissertation: Zinc Injection as a Novel Directed by: Professors Vernon Richardson Sensors based on Aptamers selected Case Study Castration Method and Carry-Over by Whole-Bacterium SELEX and a Directed by: Professor Kristin Higgins Effects of Growth-Promoting Implants Mary Wangechi Macharia Multivalent Aptamer System in Beef Cattle Dissertation: The Role of Information Directed by: Professor Yanbin Li Anthony Louis Suarez Directed by: Professor Elizabeth Kegley Communication Technologies (ICTs) Dissertation: A Phenomenological Inquiry in Shaping Identity Threats and into the Shared Lived Experience CHEMISTRY ANTHROPOLOGY Responses of Married Male Doctoral Students Directed by: Professor Christina Serrano Julie Eberle in Counselor Education and Their Ethan William Morton-Jerome and Rajiv Sabherwal Dissertation: Title Not Available Non-Student Spouses Dissertation: Title Not Available Directed by: Professor Suresh Kumar Directed by: Professor Kristi Perryman Directed by: Professor Justin Nolan Dorothea Roumpi Thallapuranam Dissertation: Retaining Valued Human Rebecca van der Hagen Ashley E. Shidner Capital: Investigating the Demand Nandita Halder Dissertation: Exploring School Counselors’ Dissertation: Growing Up in Tell el-Amarna: Side of the Labor Market Dissertation: Construction of First Narratives of CACREP Accredited An Examination of Growth and Directed by: Professor John E. Delery Generation Amperometric Glucose Online Education Programs Non-specific Stress Indicators in New Sensor on Microelectrode Arrays; Directed by: Professor Kristi Perryman Kingdom Children Ha Ta The Effects of Oxygen on the Sensor Directed by: Professor Jerome C. Rose Dissertation: Assessing the Impacts of Performance CROP, SOIL AND Crowdsourcing in Logistics and Supply Directed by: Professor David Paul Chain Operations ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES BIOLOGY Directed by: Professor Terry Esper Benjamin Jesse Jones Marlovi Acuna Galindo Dissertation: Title Not Available Laura Allesa Berryman Weineng Xu Dissertation: Title Not Available Dissertation: It’s a Small World: Meiofauna Directed by: Professor Ingrid Fritsch Dissertation: Essays on Networks in Finance Directed by: Professor Not Available Responses in Ozark Gravel Bed Directed by: Professor Tomas Jandik Streams Md Foysal Zahid Khan Directed by: Professor Art Brown Dissertation: Optimization and CURRICULUM AND CELL AND MOLECULAR Modification of Conducting Poly- INSTRUCTION Isadora Lima Coelho mer-Modified, Redox-Magnetohydro- Dissertation: Microhabitat Distribution BIOLOGY dynamics (R-MHD) Pumping Approach Nawzar Muhammad Haji of Myxomycetes in the Amazon Tropi- Kamel Alkhatib for Microfluidics Applications Dissertation: The Perception of EFL cal Forest of Brazil Dissertation: Determining the Effect of Directed by: Professor Ingrid Fritsch Teachers About Their Pre-Service Directed by: Professor Steven Stephenson Locally Delivered Bioactive Modulators Preparation in Iraqi-Kurdistan on Macrophage Activation at the Dharma Theja Nannapaneni Directed by: Professor Felicia Lincoln Kapil Khadka Implantation Site of Different Bioma- Dissertation: Asymmetric Synthesis Dissertation: Habitat Ecology, Trophic terials in Rats towards Antascomicin B & Novel Azole Silvia Imanda Interactions, and Distribution of Directed by: Professor Julie A. Stenken Based Rearrangements Dissertation: The Nature of the Intended Endangered Himalayan musk deer in Directed by: Professor Matt McIntosh Curriculum of the Top-ranked Pre-li- the Nepal Himalaya Khaloud Alzahrani censure BSN Programs: An Exemplary Directed by: Professor Douglas A. James Dissertation: Genetic and Epigenetic Practice Study of Best Practice in Nurs- Investigations on Pulmonary COMMUNITY HEALTH ing Education Hypertension Syndrome in Meat PROMOTION Directed by: Professor William McComas BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Type-Chickens Mary Ellen Hunt Ibrahim Mostafa Hassan Mazen Kevin Mitchel Butler Directed by: Professor Douglas Duane Dissertation: Shifting Abortion Attitudes Rhoads Dissertation: The Role of Writing Center Dissertation: The Strategic Disclosure of Using an Empathy-based Media Inter- Tutorials of ESL Students: Exploring Currency Headwinds and Tailwinds vention: A Randomized Control Study Tutors’, Tutees’, and Instructors’ Directed by: Professor Cory Cassell Jacob Levi Brown Directed by: Professor Kristen Jozkowski Dissertation: Cancer-Induced Muscle Perceptions Directed by: Professor Felicia Lincoln Stuart Dearden Wasting Directed by: Professor Nicholas P. Greene Dissertation: Implications of Audit Office COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Turki Hussain Samargandi Resource Allocation Shocks: Evidence John A. Handley III AND CULTURAL STUDIES Dissertation: The Attitudes of Saudi from Late 10-K Filings Teachers toward Teaching Physical Directed by: Professor Cory Cassell Dissertation: Microbiome of Commercial Delilah Clark Broilers through Evisceration and Dissertation: The Nature of Influence: Education for Girls at Public Schools Immersion Chilling Fu’ad Rifqa’s Wilderness Poetry at the in Jeddah Kailing Deng Directed by: Professor Jennifer G. Beasley Dissertation: Three Empirical Studies on Directed by: Professor Steven C. Ricke Intersection of Nation and Modernity Directed by: Professor Adnan Haydar Digital Innovation Management: New Lara Elaine Searcy Organizing Logic of Antecedents and Ngoc Thien Lam Dissertation: The Role of Pathological Nicole Fares Dissertation: How do English Teacher Consequences of Innovation Educators in Oklahoma Utilize the Directed by: Professor Pankaj Setia Cell Shape and Stretch on Aortic Valve Dissertation: Queer Arab Writing Across Remodeling Borders: Sexual Citizenship and Acts Secondary English Methods Course to Prepare English Teacher Candidates Kenneth D. Ford Directed by: Professor Kartik Balachandran of Belonging Directed by: Professor Mohja Kahf for Today’s Classroom? Dissertation: Essays in Leveraged Capital Directed by: Professor Christian Z. Goering Markets Dennis Nicuh B. Lozada Directed by: Professor Wayne Y. Lee Dissertation: Association Mapping and Wawan Yulianto Genomic Selection for Grain Yield and Dissertation: Historicizing Muslim Leslie Sharp Agronomic Traits in Soft Winter Wheat American Literature: Studies on Liter- Dissertation: Teacher and Administrator Jodi Michelle Henley Perspectives from Experiences in the Dissertation: The Effect of Tax System Directed by: Professor Richard Esten Mason ature by African American and South Asian American Muslim Writers Teacher Leadership Initiative Characteristics on Cross-Border Merg- Directed by: Professor John Pijanowski ers and Acquisitions Sandeep Sharma Khatiwada Directed by: Professor Mohja Kahf Directed by: Professor T.J. Atwood Dissertation: Combining Translational and Functional Genomic Approaches Renee Speight to Augment Management Strategies COUNSELOR EDUCATION Dissertation: Impact of Class-Wide Emily Jimmerson Hunt Function-related Intervention Teams Dissertation: The Influence of Nonpublic of Plant Parasitic Nematodes Sandra M. Bullins Directed by: Professor Burt Bluhm on Adolescent Student Behavior Audit Concentration on Public Client Dissertation: An Investigation into the Directed by: Professor Peggy Schaefer- Audit Outcomes Relationship Between Spirituality and Whitby Directed by: Professor Cory Cassell Coping Responses Among Women with a Visual Impairment Directed by: Professor Brent Thomas Williams

Unless otherwise noted, students listed in the Commencement program are candidates for graduation. Appropriate degrees and honors will be awarded following Commencement to the candidates who successfully complete all requirements. This is not an official list of graduates. 14 EDUCATION POLICY Tyler Bowman Elvis Ishimwe Xiaoquan Sun Dissertation: Experimental and Model- Dissertation: Liquefaction-Induced Dissertation: Structure and Property of Kaitlin Anderson based Terahertz Imaging and Dragload and/or Downdrag on Deep Polymers and Biopolymers from Dissertation: Implementation Fidelity and Spectroscopy for Mice, Human, and Foundations within the New Madrid Molecular Dynamic Simulations Outcomes of School Discipline Policy: Phantom Breast Cancer Tissues Seismic Zone Directed by: Professor Xianghong Qian Three Studies from Arkansas Directed by: Professor Magda El-Shenawee Directed by: Professor Richard A. Coffman Directed by: Professor Gema Zamarro Anjana Thoroppady Kittu Rodriguez John D. Brady Ramchandra Kotecha Dissertation: Examining the Use of Dissertation: A Comprehensive Evaluation Dissertation: Compact Modeling of Gallium Idealized Granular Materials in DEM Charlie Belin Ruiz of NULL Convention Logic regarding Nitride Power Semiconductor Devices Validation Studies Dissertation: Formal Learning in an Power Consumption for Advanced Power Electronics Design Directed by: Professor Michelle Bernhardt Informal Setting: The Cognitive and Directed by: Professor Jia Di Directed by: Professor Alan Mantooth Affective Impacts of Visiting a Science Mahmut Tutam Center during a School Field Trip Vinith Bejugam Thao Le Dissertation: Configuring Traditional Multi- Directed by: Professors Jay Greene and Dissertation: Nanoparticle Self-Assembly Dissertation: Securing Soft IPs against Dock, Unit-Load Warehouses William F. McComas and Characterization of Resonant Hardware Trojan Insertion Directed by: Professor John A. White Optics in Sparse Plamonic Systems Directed by: Professor Jia Di Alexandra Merlyn Boyd Directed by: Professor Donald Roper Ramesh Vasan Dissertation: Who Teaches Where? A John Bishop Lee Dissertation: Design, Fabrication, and Descriptive Analysis of Similarities Jasmina Burek Dissertation: Fluid Vaporization via Characterization of All-Inorganic and Differences Between Teachers in Dissertation: Towards Environmentally Nanochannel Arrays Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes Traditional and Charter Schools in Sustainable and Cost-Effective Food Directed by: Professor Po-Hao Adam Directed by: Professor Omar Manasreh Pulaski County Distribution in the US Huang Directed by: Professor Gary Ritter Directed by: Professor Darin W. Nutter Pingjian Yu Bin Li Dissertation: Approximations and Heuristic Corey A. DeAngelis Joseph Matthew Carmack Dissertation: Quantitative Methods for Methods for the Optimization of Large Dissertation: The Societal Impacts of Dissertation: Mesoscale Simulation Studies Select Problems in Facility Location Scale Multi-Echelon (R, NG) Inventory Private School Choice Around the of Thin-film Bijels and Facility Logistics Systems World Directed by: Professor Paul C. Millet Directed by: Professor Ashlea Bennett Directed by: Professor Manuel Rossetti Directed by: Professor Patrick J. Wolf Milburn Liliana Delgado Hidalgo Xinsong Zhang Leesa M. Foreman Dissertation: Barge Prioritization, Nabeel Shaker Mahmood Dissertation: Synthesis and Characterization Dissertation: Localized Teacher Supply Assignment, and Scheduling Dissertation: The Intrinsic Properties of of Silver Pastes with Nanocomposites and Demand in Arkansas: An Explo- During Inland Waterway Disruption Reconstituted Soils Directed by: Professor Simon Ang ration of the Supply and Demand of Responses Directed by: Professor Richard A. Coffman Teachers in Arkansas School Districts Directed by: Professor Heather Nachtmann Directed by: Professor Gary Ritter Neda Mahmoudi ENGLISH Wei Dou Dissertation: Peptoid-Based Grafting to Dang Nguyen My Uyen Mohammad Danish Shakeel Dissertation: High-Sn-content Alloy towards Reduce Biofouling in Gas Exchange Dissertation: The Private School Advantage: Dissertation: Activating Schemata in ESL Room-Temperature Mid Infrared Laser Device Writing Evidence from School Vouchers and Directed by: Professor Fisher Yu Directed by: Professor Shannon Servoss Educational Leadership Directed by: Professor David Alton Jolliffe Directed by: Professor Robert Maranto Atanu Dutta Anishkumar Manoharan Jonathan Montgomery Green Dissertation: A Low Temperature Co-Fired Dissertation: Fabrication and Yujie Sude Dissertation: Best Practice: Bringing the Ceramic (LTCC) Interposer Based Three Characterization of Graphene Based Elements of Effective Practice to the Dissertation: Participation Patterns in Dimensional Stacked Wire Bondless 2D Materials for Supercapacitors Private School Choice Programs in the College Writing Classroom Power Module Directed by: Professor Simon Ang Directed by: Professor Patrick J. Slattery U.S.: States, Schools, Students Directed by: Professor Simon S. Ang Directed by: Professor Patrick J. Wolf Jessica M. Morris Garrett Chapman Jeter Negin Enayaty Ahangar Dissertation: Experimentation and Dissertation: Gothic Voids: Nineteenth- Dissertation: Modeling and Solution Modeling of the Effects of Along-Wind Century Reader Experience and EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS Approaches for Non-Traditional Net- Dispersion on Cloud Characteristics of AND RESEARCH METHODS Participation work Flow Problems with Complicat- Finite Duration Contaminant Releases Directed by: Professor Lissette L. Szwydky- Breanna Morrison ing Constraints in the Atmosphere Davis Dissertation: Title Not Available Directed by: Professor Kelly Sullivan Directed by: Professor Tom O. Spicer III Directed by: Professor Sean Mulvenon Yendountien Lare-Assogba Amirali Ghaharikermani Ahmad Ibrahim Nusir Dissertation: Redefining Southern Identity Lihua Yang Dissertation: Essays on Applications of Dissertation: Design, Fabrication, and Through the Child Figure Dissertation: Testing Measurement Transportation Network Design and Characterization of Novel Opto- Directed by: Professor Lisa Hinrichsen Invariance in Multilevel Data with Un- Optimization electronic Devices for Near-infrared equal Within-Level and Between-Level Directed by: Professor Ed Pohl Detection Sara Elyse West Factor Structures Directed by: Professor Omar Manasreh Dissertation: The Challenge of Anonymous Directed by: Professors Xinya Liang and Luke Benjamin Godfrey and Ephemeral Social Media: Wenjuo Lo Dissertation: Parameterizing and Thach N. Pham Reflective Research Methodologies & Aggregating Activation Functions in Dissertation: Si-based Germanium Tin Student-User Composing Practices Deep Neural Networks Photodetectors for Short-Wave and Directed by: Professor Adam R. Pope ENGINEERING Directed by: Professor Michael S. Gashler Mid-Wave Infrared Detections Directed by: Professor Shui-Qing Yu Khatereh Ahadi Sandra Patricia Gordon Prieto ENTOMOLOGY Dissertation: Optimization Methods for Dissertation: Quantitative Analysis Sanghamitra Mandal Maintaining Complex Systems of Morphological Changes in Murine Dissertation: Glucose Level Estimation Whitney Anne Fitzpatrick Nelson Directed by: Professor Kelly Sullivan Colorectal Epithelium Based on Invasive Electrochemical, Dissertation: Revision of the water mite Directed by: Professor Timothy J. Muldoon and Non-Invasive Optical Sensing genus Monatractides (Parasitengona, Israel Zairi Akingeneye Methods Torrenticolidae) of the United States Dissertation: Intrusion Detection in the Jon C. Hammer Directed by: Professor Omar Manasreh and Canada Smart Grid Dissertation: Improving the Efficacy of Directed by: Professor Ashley P. G. Dowling Directed by: Professor Jingxian Wu Context-Aware Applications Nasya Moriah Sturdivant Directed by: Professor Michael S. Gashler Dissertation: A Multi-Scale Approach for Kamel Almutairi Understanding the Secondary Effects ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS Dissertation: Assessment of Economic Mohammadhossein Heydari of a Traumatic Brain Injury Ayure-Inga Mark Anthony Agana and Environmental Impacts of Deploy- Dissertation: Optimal Allocation of Directed by: Professor Kartik Balachandran ing Renewable and Nuclear Energy in Dissertation: Climate Change Governance Resources in Reliability Growth and the Politics of Scale - Evaluating Saudi Arabia Directed by: Professor Kelly Sullivan Andrew Lloyd Suchanek Directed by: Professor Greg Thoma Sub-national Climate Protection Poli- Dissertation: Asynchronous Circuit Stacking cies and Practices in the United States for Simplified Power Management and Germany Directed by: Professor Jia Di Directed by: Professor Fiona Davidson

Unless otherwise noted, students listed in the Commencement program are candidates for graduation. Appropriate degrees and honors will be awarded following Commencement to the candidates who successfully complete all requirements. This is not an official list of graduates. 15 Diana Chen Michael Shane Powers MATHEMATICS Patrick Aaron Kells Dissertation: Got Breadfruit? Food and Dissertation: “The Commercial Union of Dissertation: Behavior Coding Strategies: Culture in the Marshallese Community the Three Americas:” Major Edward A. Kevser Erdem Population Coupling and the Func- in Springdale, Arkansas Burke and Transnational New South Dissertation: Closed Range Composition tional Role of Excitatory/Inhibitory Directed by: Professor Justin Nolan Visionaries, 1870-1928 Operators on BMOA and Qp Balance in Primary Motor Cortex Directed by: Professor Daniel Sutherland Directed by: Professor Maria Tjani Directed by: Professor Woodrow Shew Richie Donahou Dissertation: Evaluating Climate Change Geoffery L. Stark Ghadeer Jasim Mahdi Policy through the Endangered Species Dissertation: Saint and Confessor: A Dissertation: Hierarchical Bayesian PLANT SCIENCE Act Reappraisal of the Historical and Lit- Regression with Application in Spatial Modeling and Outlier Detection Daniel Sandor Directed by: Professor Song Feng erary Contextualization of Gerontius’s Dissertation: Water Conservation Practices Life of Melania the Younger Directed by: Professors Mark Arnold and Avishek Chakraborty for Irrigating Turfgrass Lawns Aaron Michael Shew Directed by: Professor Lynda L. Coon Directed by: Professor Douglas Karcher Dissertation: Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Opportunities and William Dixon Taylor Dissertation: Interpolating Between Challenges for Food Security and HEALTH, SPORT AND POULTRY SCIENCE Adaptation to Environmental Change EXERCISE SCIENCE Multiplicities and F-thresholds in Bangladesh Directed by: Professor Mark Johnson Mikayla Francis Ann Baxter Directed by: Professor Lawton Lanier Nalley Natasha LaShay Hill-McMickle Dissertation: Assessment of a Nutritional Dissertation: Sports for the Development Rehabilitation Model in Two Modern of Youth: Exploring the Value of Char- MICROELECTRONICS- Broiler Lines and their Jungle Fowl FOOD SCIENCE acter Development Programming on PHOTONICS Ancestor Youth Athletes Who Participate in the Directed by: Professor Billy Hargis Dylan Conrad Martinez School Sport of Basketball Salil Bapat Dissertation: To Understand the Evolution Dissertation: Risky Business: Media Content Directed by: Professor Merry Moiseichik Basanta Raj Wagle & Millennials’ Protection Motivation of Surface Texture under Boundary Lubrication Strategy Using Nano-Engi- Dissertation: Investigating the Potential Factors for Norovirus Outbreaks on Megan Renee Turk of Plant-derived Antimicrobials for College Campuses Dissertation: A Case Study: Inclusion of neered Lubricant Directed by: Professor Ajay Malshe Controlling Campylobacter Jejuni in Directed by: Professor Kelly Way Student-Athletes Who Identify as Poultry and Poultry Products Sexual Minority at an NCAA Division I Directed by: Professor Dan J. Donoghue Institution Perry C. Grant GEOSCIENCES Directed by: Professor Sarah Stokowski Dissertation: GeSn Thin Film Epitaxy and Quantum Wells for Optoelectronic PSYCHOLOGY Max P. Cooper Devices Dissertation: Speleogenesis in Turbulent KINESIOLOGY Directed by: Professor Fisher Yu Juventino Hernandez Rodriguez Flow Dissertation: Acculturation Status and Directed by: Professor Matthew Covington Tariq M. Alsoqairan Joel Kamwa Internalizing Problems Among Latino Dissertation: Comparison of Physical Dissertation: Characterization Of Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review Intensity between Interactive Video HISTORY Bacteriorhodopsin and Halorhodopsin Directed by: Professors Timothy A. Cavell Game Cycling and Conventional Suspended in lipid bilayer Membranes and Ana J. Bridges Edward N. Andrus Stationary Cycling in Self-Contained Directed by: Professor Jiali Li Dissertation: The Arkansas in Arkansas: Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Freddie Aníbal Pastrana Rivera Environmental Change and the Trans- Disorder Sabina Koukourinkova-Duncan Dissertation: Parametric Indices of Peer formation of Local Power Through Directed by: Professor Dean Richard Dissertation: Studies of Electron Transport Victimization as Predictors of Chil- Federal Intervention Gorman Phenomena in Quantum Well-Quan- dren’s Psychosocial Outcomes Directed by: Professor Jeannie Whayne tum Dot System at Low and High Directed by: Professor Timothy A. Cavell Cory L. Butts Electric Fields Nathaniel P. Conley Dissertation: Dehydration, Muscle Damage, Directed by: Professor Gregory J. Salamo Garrett Alan Pollert Dissertation: Frontier Capitalism and and Exercise in the Heat: Impacts on Dissertation: Long-Term Focus of Unfree Labor in Middle Appalachia: Renal Stress, Thermoregulation, and Chen Li Attentional Biases The Development of Western Pennsyl- Muscular Damage Recovery Dissertation: Polarization Engineering Directed by: Professor Jennifer Veilleux vania and Maryland, 1760-1840 Directed by: Professor Brendon McDermott in III-Nitride Heterostructures by Plas- Directed by: Professor Jim Gigantino ma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy David J. Sparkman Eric James Lange Directed by: Professor Gregory J. Salamo Dissertation: Multiculturalism, Chester Warren Cornell, Jr. Dissertation: Effect of a Skating Unit on Colorblindness, and Prejudice: Exam- Dissertation: History of African American Fitness in Fifth Grade Students Mohammed Marie ining How Diversity Ideologies Impact Islamic Evangelization in Southern Directed by: Professor Dean Richard Dissertation: Fabrication and Intergroup Attitudes Prisons Gorman Characterization of Electrochemical Directed by: Professor Scott Eidelman Directed by: Professor David L. Chappell Glucose Sensors David Edward Lee Directed by: Professor Omar Manasreh Daniel Stuart Elkin Dissertation: Mitochondrial mRNA PUBLIC POLICY Translation is Required for Mainte- Dissertation: Zona Libre: Conservatism, Tazima Nur Benton Miles Brown nance of Oxidative Capacity in the Dissertation: Combining Microdialysis Urban Growth, and the Rise of the New Dissertation: The Effect of Teacher Race Myocardium and Electrophysiology in Cerebral Economy on the San Diego-Tijuana on Student Perceptions in Low-Income Directed by: Professor Nicholas P. Greene Cortex to Delineate Functional Impli- Border Schools cations of Acetylcholine Gradients Directed by: Professor Michael Pierce Directed by: Professor Gary Ritter Maryann Mitts Directed by: Professor Woodrow Shew Dissertation: Effect of Sensory Stimulation Madeleine Claire Forrest Lance M. Cheramie Dissertation: The Cruel Consequences on Academic Achievement and Class- room Behavior in Elementary Students PHILOSOPHY Dissertation: Mixed Method Analysis of of War: Life in Fauquier County, Virgin- Apparel Corporations for Future Policy ia, 1861-1863 Directed by: Professor Dean Richard Gorman David Manuel Cajias Calvet Development Directed by: Professor Daniel Sutherland Dissertation: I, Myself, and Me, the Human Directed by: Professors John Gaber and Being Patrick Conge Louise Michelle Hancox Matthew Steven Stone Dissertation: Body Composition, Muscular Directed by: Professor Edward H. Minar Dissertation: Picturing a Nation Divided: Bettie Gale Miller Art, American Identity and the Crisis Performance, and Free Testosterone Following 12-Weeks of Protein Supple- Dissertation: Sex Differences in Spousal over Slavery PHYSICS Caregiving and Implications for Paid Directed by: Professor Beth Schweiger mentation and Resistance Training in Men Aged 35-55 Anindya Ambuj Care Directed by: Professor Michelle Gray Dissertation: Topics in the Diffraction of Directed by: Professors Timothy Killian and Anne Marie Martin Brinck Kerr Dissertation: Death Among the Palmettos: Laguerre Gaussian Vortex Beams Directed by: Professor Surendra Singh Southern Burial Practices and Society, Leslie May Yingling 1775 - 1850 Dissertation: Evaluating an Academic Directed by: Professor Beth Schweiger Bridge Program Using a Mixed Meth- ods Approach Directed by: Professor Tom Smith

EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST Erikka Johnson Rick R. Neal Amanda Susan Perry Tyler Daniel Tarver

MASTER OF ACCOUNTANCY Christopher Bakula Paige Nicole Fincher Xiaochi Ma Haley B. Rial Timothy Duncan Barnes Matthew Joseph Garcia Aaron Joseph May Anthony Michael Ricciardi Hayden Cecilia Bauer Christopher Andrew Gentry Austin Orion Miller Reed Rubey James Justin Blann Robert Allan Gooderl Kaylee Miller Andrew Jordan Santiago Adam Blosser Emily Christine Gorr Hayden Roy Mock Daniel Tu Alec David Boggs Adam Ross Greenberg Taylor Christine Moore Richard Lawson Vassar Hallie Burlew Cordell Griffin Jr. Kendal Bradford Murphy Luke Vera David William Caligur Morgan Harrod Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen Mitchell White Kimberly Marie Changose Zechariah Wesley Hilton Taylor David Oglesby Jordan B. Wilcox Sophie Jane Collins Morgan Alyse Hurley Helen Margaret Page Meghan Kimbley Zanone Caroline Elizabeth Dominick Benjamin Jebsen Katherine Papa Hattie B. Zelenak John Edward Drechny V Benjamin Pharr Jones Charles Wilson Partridge Xiaochen Zhang Ian Patrick Dugan Collins Garrett Knight David M. Pearson

MASTER OF ARTS

Farah Abu-Safe Charles Marc Colwin Logan Wayne Humphrey William P. Playford Political Science Sociology Philosophy Modern Languages Michael J. Anthony Kelly Conley Sait Ibiši Seth Price History Communication English Anthropology Sally Averitt-Hubbard Rojeana Ann Cooksey Marsh Kim Huh Guillermo Pupo Pernet Anthropology Journalism Sociology Spanish Boitshepo Monte Balozwi Benjamin F. Dardas Adrian Lopez Nathan James Anthony Riggs Journalism Philosophy Sociology English Garin Lee Bean Reagan Gresham Dye Zeyu Lu Isaac David Rippelmeyer Secondary Mathematics Political Science Communication Spanish Caroline Elisabeth Beringer Robert Christopher Edward Ellis Brittany Maddox Nicole Lynn Robinson Modern Languages English Communication Anthropology Frankc Berlanga Medina Jared Reed Endsley Kimberly Y. Marquez Febriany Sapulete History Journalism English Communication Huguette K. Bobda Nourhan M. Alaa El-Din El-Nagdy Natalie Mauchline David Silvia Modern Languages Comparative Literature and Cultural Political Science History Studies Madeline Brice Mariah Lauren Lee McElroy Alfonso Roca Suárez Sociology Xiaoti Fan Anthropology Spanish Communication Taliyah Lashaun Brooks Michelle Moody Ashly Noel Romero Communications Forrest Engram Follett Geography Anthropology Anthropology Jonathon Nugent Carlson David Brian Morledge Nichole Anne Russell Journalism Jeffrey Gately English Political Science Economics Luke Antony Carothers Jill Nicole Niemeier Hector E. Saavedra English Christopher Russell Gentry Sociology Spanish Sociology Elizabeth Ashley Clayborn Martha Alvarado Parker Jordan Lee Schaefer Communication Tiffany Elaine Hood Spanish Anthropology Sociology

17 Hannah Grace Showalter Elizabeth D. Tetley Kyte Jeffrey Vogan Allison Wise Anthropology Communication Sociology Journalism Mitchell Bryan Simpson Connor Adam Thompson Mary Katherine Voss Richard Woods English Sociology English Sociology Kimberly Kay Snow Keith Todd Colin Rush Walker Elizabeth Ashley Word Communication History History Sociology Ninette del Rosario Sosa Felipe Todescan Antonio Caleb David Ward Kyle Chandler Worley Journalism Spanish Anthropology Communication John Taylor Stout Allison Treese Amanda Dunaway White Ahmed Sadek Yousuf English English English Economics Claire Catherine Strutzenberg Magdalena Viktora-Jones Jessica Adach White Communication Modern Languages Economics Joseph Michael Suárez Liz Villamizar Caceres Abigale Grace Williams Geography Spanish Communication

MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING

Meredith Lillian Alexander Ashlyn Kayl Garton Eleanor Ann Jahant Candace Price Elementary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education William Wesley Axtell Kira Ann Geer Caroline Lee Jessen Ian J. Reynolds Secondary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Secondary Education Sydney Lane Baggett Sarah Gill Alexandra Lynn Johnson Regina Reynolds Elementary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Brianna Michelle Belote Anna Gromer Meagan Nicole Johnson Audrey Elise Rolins Secondary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Andrew W. Best Jr. Tara Melissa Grubbs Katilyn Elizabeth Jones Blake E. Rudolph Secondary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Secondary Education Sierra Nicole Bolinger Anna Claire Guinee Erin Morgan Kazanovicz Sarah Russ Elementary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Avery Elizabeth Byars Elizabeth Gwatney Diana Kendall-Huss Moriah Ann Santiago Elementary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Carly Amanda Campbell Jennifer Hackler Alix Ann Laws J. Will Saylor Elementary Education Elementary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Jacob Ethan Campbell Aaron Michael Handloser Mitchell Ward Lightfoot Luca R. Shameh Teacher Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Ashley Rachelle Dawson Haley Alexandria Harris Nicholas William Logan Madison Blaire Shapleigh Secondary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Bailey M. Deloney Elizabeth Anne Harrison Genevieve Lyons Brooke Shinneman Secondary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Kendall Paige Enneking Hannah M. Hinton Justin Taylor Martin Hannah L. Sitek Elementary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Mary Claire Farnan Bethani Hoelzeman Forrest Ellis Millard Kendall Elizabeth Snelling Elementary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Katherine Marie Fields Matthew Kyle Holden Helen Emily Musial Emily Trowbridge Elementary Education Secondary Education Elementary Education Elementary Education Kyle J. Frank Sara Grace Inman Meredith Olivia Palmer Jason Watt Secondary Education Elementary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education Ricardo Garcia Haley Maree Jackson Kayla Peterson Kenna Elizabeth Wood Secondary Education Elementary Education Secondary Education Secondary Education

MASTER OF ATHLETIC TRAINING Dominic Anthony Alejandre Alexander Lee Forehan Taylor Christine Lippert Damon Michael Reel Kailey Alexandra Baker Michelle Alicia Garcia Brandon Myers Raymond Anthony Rodriguez Ellen Linea Bucher Abbey Elizabeth Hess Taylor James Overton Eric Schwartz Tyler Michael Campbell Katie Louise Johnson Kristen Nicole Peterson Jordan Po’okela Sameshima Shimoda Grady Allen Finley Chase Ladd Eric Steven Polomis Mariellen Katherine Veach

MASTER OF EDUCATION Della Rae Adams Kimberly Sarah Collom Se He Hwang Mallory L. Nash Teaching English to Speakers of Other Teaching English to Speakers of Other Teaching English to Speakers of Other Higher Education Languages Languages Languages Jennifer Nicole O’Neal Mitchell Timothy Alters Victoria Copeland Sadie Jenkins Career and Technical Education Recreation and Sport Management Human Resource and Workforce Educational Leadership Development Education Matthew Alan Palmer Claire Elizabeth Andrews Carissa Kristelle Jones Recreation and Sport Management Higher Education Kiley Nicole Corbitt Physical Education Career and Technical Education Vincent D. Phillips Siamone Austin Wendy Marie Karcher Higher Education Teaching English to Speakers of Other Angelina Belinda Cummings Special Education Languages Physical Education Candace McKinley Philpott Kristy L. Knaggs Adult and Lifelong Learning Zachary Barnett Cristina Emberton Educational Technology Recreation and Sport Management Educational Technology Savannah Kaytrin Ping Brittany Lawrence-Cockrell Higher Education Jackson Cole Barnhart Amy Kaleen Mattox-Fischer Higher Education Recreation and Sport Management Career and Technical Education David Henry Preston, Jr. Bevin C. Lockeby Educational Leadership Kayla Elizabeth Bauman Elton Ford Jr. Special Education Teaching English to Speakers of Other Recreation and Sport Management Ryan Quintana Languages Lynne Marie Lukas Educational Leadership Ashton Elizabeth Frye Human Resource and Workforce Megan Elizabeth Belew Educational Leadership Development Education Madeline Jane Reese Special Education Recreation and Sport Management Madison Gardner Paulo Hadi Ernesto Manuel Azizah Abdulrahman Binhuwaimel Special Education Teaching English to Speakers of Other Felcia Rose Roberts Curriculum and Instruction Languages Adult and Lifelong Learning Rachael E. Gavin Christopher Mark Blaszka Physical Education Robert Edward Maples Clayton Saunders Recreation and Sport Management Higher Education Educational Technology Rachel Lynn Gerner Abby Renee Blumberg Teaching English to Speakers of Other Ryan Marsh Michelle Renee Schubach Higher Education Languages Recreation and Sport Management Special Education Ashton Elizabeth Braddock Riley Jordan Hall Michael Albert Marzelli Alexyss Adanna Scott Higher Education Recreation and Sport Management Educational Leadership Recreation and Sport Management Terri Renea Brumett Becky E. Harris Grayson Arthur Mays Ashlee René Seay Educational Technology Educational Technology Physical Education Special Education Adam Gregory Carter Meleah DanNelle Perry Hoskins Hannah Rebecca Menendez Darrell Wallie Shaw Physical Education Educational Leadership Educational Technology Educational Technology Jared Collins Nathan S. Hutchens Ann M. Morgan Anna Maria Smith-Garcia Recreation and Sport Management Recreation and Sport Management Educational Technology Educational Leadership

MASTER OF FINE ARTS

Jeremiah Dean Albers Melissa J. Hall Courtney Gardner Jensen Richard Frank Peterson Theatre Theatre Theatre Art Jessica Cheyenne Autry Zachary Don Harrod Alexis Kurtzman Cassaundra K. Sanderson Creative Writing Creative Writing Art Art Anthony Joseph Owens Blake Lindsey Ann Heiden John Thomas Mahany Cody Levi Shelton Creative Writing Art Creative Writing Theatre Kirsty L. Bleyl Zachary Hester Meghan Brianne McEnery Chris Tennison Creative Writing Creative Writing Theatre Theatre Collin Callahan Grant M. Hockenbrough Paul Randall McInnis Lauren Michele Whitmore Creative Writing Theatre Theatre Art Nicholas Aaron Cox Joshua Adam Idaszak Suzanne D. Monroe Jon Cole Wimpee Art Creative Writing Creative Writing Theatre Frisco Macae Edwards Sacha Michael Idell Esther Macy Nooner Creative Writing Creative Writing Art Erin Gardner Carlos Iruegas Julia Paganelli Marin Art Theatre Creative Writing

MASTER OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Solomon Adeyemi Nicklaus Philip Freyaldenhoven April R. Lovell Dominick Taylor David E. Baker Kaleb Futch Sokear Manithong Rigen Te Jennifer P. Bitondo Michelle Garcia Camberos Bryne Lamar McNeil Kathambari Venkataratinam Justin Lane Black Qamar Herd Hoang-Ngan Nguyen Sana Vrouqa Peiwen Duan Andrew Michael Hicks Rose Marie Paz De La Cruz Jose Isidro Flores Dennis Edward Kadera Timothy H. Rodriguez Anna Grace Franklin Neels Kulshrestha Wendell Matthew Scurlock

MASTER OF MUSIC Eric Dreggors Christopher Rhodes C. Ryan Tapp Brandon Luis Torres Soto Ammi Yared Lopez Rodriguez Ismaelena Serrano Kelby Morgan Taylor Florencia Mariel Zuloaga Siyu Lou

MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Adonis Bwashi Briana D. Hyman Elizabeth Lee Shoultz Kallie Michelle Tanner Monica N. Cooper Blake Sandridge

Mohamed Abdelkader Abba Bryce T. Daniels Brittany Danielle Mahaffey Graham Adam Malone Statistics and Analytics Kinesiology Poultry Science Rehabilitation Kerr James Adams Mary Margaret Katherine Davis Joshua M. Grant Sara Kathryn Maples Agricultural Economics Counseling Microelectronics-Photonics Agricultural Extension Education Rebecca Adams Caelan Marie Deavours Inah Gu Kathryn Maschino Communication Disorders Rehabilitation Food Science Community Health Promotion Bilal Alrubaye Eric John DeBoer Mary Elise Harpenau Craig William Maynard Cell and Molecular Biology Horticulture Communication Disorders Poultry Science Enaya Alhashim Andrew Donovan Melody K. Harris Maryanna Wells McClure Cell and Molecular Biology Counseling Communication Disorders Animal Science Brooke Danielle Anderson Lancina Doumbia Habibullah Hayat Mallory Kathleen McElroy Agricultural Economics Community Health Promotion Crop, Soil and Environmental Kinesiology Sciences Danielle Marie Ashley Michael Leo Ellis Marya McKee Food Science Statistics and Analytics Alicia Lynn Hayden Crop, Soil and Environmental Agricultural Extension Education Sciences Kenneth Dax Baker Heather Marie Elswick Geology Kinesology Melanie Anne Hays Renae Allison Merrill Animal Science Human Environmental Sciences Kajsa Johanna Bank Molly Felts Kinesiology Food Science Haley Michelle Hensley Samantha Ann Mohler Agricultural Extension Education Kinesiology Rachel Antoinette Bannert Kim B. Oliphant Ferguson Counseling Rehabilitation Carrie Danielle Hibbs Quinn Montana Communication Disorders Geography Abram Max Barker Marco A. Fielder Geology Microelectronics-Photonics Michael Colton Hickinbotham Katherine Moore Animal Science Cell and Molecular Biology Oyuntugs Bayaraa Joshua JF Flees Rehabilitation Poultry Science James Bradley Holliday Matthew Houston Moore Computer Science Crop, Soil and Environmental Temuujin Bayaraa Michael E. Fogleman Sciences Physics Crop, Soil and Environmental Berlin Somers Howell Sciences Animal Science Jesus Francisco Moreno Castillo Ellen Bennett Cell and Molecular Biology Counseling Sarah Victoria Foote Jovon T. James Animal Science Geology Willy Mulimbi Byamungu Brittney L. Beres Agricultural Economics Communication Disorders Hanna Leneé Ford Chantell Jernigan Geography Food Safety Jean Pierre Mutanguha Meredith Whyte Moore Blackwell Mathematics Counseling Janci Kay Fowkes Kelsi Beth Johnson Communication Disorders Communication Disorders David Nance Barry A. Boney Geology Plant Pathology Thomas Lee Fox Paula Laverne Johnson Agricultural Economics Poultry Science Yefan Nian Paige Elizabeth Boyle Agricultural Economics Horticulture Danielle Elizabeth Frachiseur Brenden Hunter Jones Animal Science Counseling Cameron Nikmard Melissa Dawn Bradt Geology Human Environmental Sciences Blend Frangu Patrick Aaron Kells Agricultural Economics Physics Jasmine N. Nile Natasha Brand Communication Disorders Kinesiology Brittany N. Frederick Ashley Elizabeth Kersey Food Science Counseling Noussayma Njeim Haley Brown Agricultural Economics Biology Michael Blaine French David Joseph Kilcoyne Animal Science Geology Anastasiia Onyshchenko Thanh Bui Cell and Molecular Biology Statistics and Analytics Julia Marie Fryer Daniel Kiser Crop, Soil and Environmental Statistics and Analytics Tyler O’Shaughnessy Leigh Ann Bullington Sciences Statistics and Analytics Agricultural Extension Education Josh Knapp Bannon Ross Gallaher Animal Science Elizabeth A. Palmer Bethany Brooke Cebuhar Biology Animal Science Communication Disorders Erzen Komoni Hailey Rae Gates Computer Science Qiuping Pan Deven Delenard Chambers Agricultural Extension Education Computer Science Counseling Wing Shun Lam Sharla Gilchrest Food Science Raymond McClain Patton Sarah Katherine Chewning Animal Science Communication Disorders Animal Science Alexandria LaNae Lance Daniel Nels Gilmour Counseling Cleeford Pavilus Kayla Stubbs Chinchilla Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics Rehabilitation Ariel Voskamp Lieghio Thomas Wayne Glascock Kinesiology Marcus Payne Tiffany Sheree Clark Animal Science Kinesiology Rehabilitation Rachel A. Linn Danielle Glenn Communication Disorders McKenzie Nicole Phillips Brooke Colvin Rehabilitation Communication Disorders Communication Disorders Kory Loftis Wesley Goodson Communication Disorders Lauren Post Jaron C. Condley Counseling Communication Disorders Geology Caroline Elizabeth Logan Jordyn Nichole Gragg Communication Disorders Ragita Cantika Pramudya Jeremy B. Croft Animal Science Food Science Geography Sidney Walker Mahanay Walker Allen Gragg Geology Joshua Dallas Thomas Price Tyler Crook Animal Science Statistics and Analytics Animal Science Michael Alexander Mahler Computer Science

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING Christian Heymsfield Vaishali Kandpal Jayendra Mishra Sakura Phansiri Jacob Allen Hickman

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Gabrielle Compton Jared William Greer Jessica Perez Eric Jamison Porter

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING Ethan Baker Doddridge Davis Maggie Langston Anh Tuan Tran Bryan Casillas Ashraf Kamal Himel Kenneth Pasley Folaseye Coker MohammadHossein Kashefizadeh Remington Gabriel Reed

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING Prashant Dinkar Borhade Saeed Mohammed A. Ibn Makkadh Alex Michael Shipman

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Maria Benavides Herrera Jonathan Keith Hays Khuong Vinh Nguyen Daniel Harrison Schwartz Guangyuan Cai K. M. Tahsanul Hoque Farah Nusrat Quasem Daniel A. Valdez Tanny Andrea Chavez Esparza Thouhidul Islam Aishwarya Raja Audrey Mae Dearien Dan Thomas Jarard Mirsaeid Sarollahi

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Walter Bryan Caldwell Zachery Lewis Hill

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Murthy Bhavaraju Adrian Fernandez de Luis Maldonado Cesar Alexander Ruiz Torres Zephan Wright Wade Steven Louis Brown Alexa Marie Koenigseder Colin Andrew Small Colby Taylor Weishaar McKenLee Mestas Coco

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Yucong Gu Nicholas Denson Holt Christopher Taylor Mikles Michael Brian Wise

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Shannon Brewer Posey Kristy K. Pullin

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Temitayo Adesina George L. Day II Rommel Isidro Langomez Paula Mae Ritchey Thomas Jarid Allen Mahawa Kaba Diakite Joshua R. Levine Amanda Roberts Lakshman Arunachalam Holly Dingle Eric Livesay Sarah Elaine Rodriguez Andrew Robert Bakewell Colin Patrick Doherty Pedro Mandez Charles Fleming Smith Morgan Baumgard Frederick G. Doody Jr. Thalita Maricone Colombo Philip Michael Smith Landon Blake Bettis Nino Ephremidze Felicia LaShawn Mason Matthew Macmillan Snyder Abraham Beyene Cole Reed Finnerty David Lee McKinney Robert Sonnenfeld Richard W. Black Neal Kumar Gupta Kerstin Moeller Sarah Emily Spiegel Kyle Sholder Blackman Stephanie K. Hackney Benjamin E. Mooney Robert Stephenson Brent David Bland Kerin Handal Jennifer A. Mosher Arey D. Surratt Adam T. Bragg William L. Harber Mohamed Mostafa Mary Ann Cappal Swendsen Austin A. Brown Justin Darrell Harris Michael Christopher Muskalla Ruben Medardo Tapia Sandra Carrasco Quezada Bradley Hartzell Nathaniel Lee Myers Justin Ward Taylor Wen Chen Heather Linton Hightower Kenneth Andrew Neal Reginald Thurman Jr. Liliana Isabela Ciuca Michael Thomas Hoefert Precious Chinonyererm Nwagboso Maria del Carmen Vaca Guerrero Aaron Daniel Clay Philip C. Holdsworth Henry Chuks Okoh Nicholas James Visconti Brigitte Nicole Cohoon Andrew Holley Bonnie Marie Oliver Grant Walker Javier J. Colon Demetrius Marshall Holt Tulasi Choudary Papineni James A. White IV Clark Hunter Condict S. Vincent Hotho Josh Timothy Pinkard Blake A. Whittaker Donald Hugh Copeland Brittany Waters Ikpechukwu Wipavinee Pleetissamuth Michael Jeffrey Williamson James Wesley Corning Edward F. Irick IV Eldon E. Pyburn Jr. Olivia Wood McKay Crandall Siao Jiao Walter James Quinn Daniel Keith Workman Jason Cuellar Richard H. Jundzil Santhosh Ram Ramaswamy James Earl Davis II Sean Edward Lake Jeremy W. Reid Joyce Binam Davis Vernon Joseph Landry Jasmine N. Webber

SCHOOL OF LAW

MAY 19, 2018 Fayetteville Town Center • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 2 p.m. • Saturday, May 19, 2018

Presiding...... Dean Stacy L. Leeds

Processional March...... Claudia Burson Trio

Welcome Remarks...... Dean Stacy L. Leeds

Academic Awards...... High Academic Achievement Award (3rd Highest Ranked Student) W.J. Arnold Memorial Award (2nd Highest Ranked Student) Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (Highest Ranked Student)

Graduates’ Greetings...... KenDrell Collins

Commencement Address...... Theresa Fette

Hooding and Awarding of Master of Laws...... Professor Susan Schneider Professor Christopher Kelley Professor Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile

Hooding and Awarding of Juris Doctor...... Professor Howard W. Brill Professor Steve Clowney

Recessional

The University community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the 2018 University of Arkansas Spring Commencement ceremony a success.

28 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Theresa Fette

Theresa Fette (B.S.B.A. ‘00, M.Acc. ‘00, J.D. ’03) is a founder and CEO of Provident Trust Group, a leading self-directed retirement plan administrator and alternative-asset custodian, which she grew into the largest independent trust company in Nevada. She has created exponential growth in Provident’s 10-year history, increasing its assets under custody from $300 million to more than $4.5 billion. She also owns and operates Keystone Acquisition, a licensed broker-dealer that specializes in trading and execution services and other financial management solutions.

Her strong, effective leadership and background in building relationships among fellow executives have been acknowledged by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which named her 2012 “Entrepreneur of the Year.” Her unique managerial and entrepreneurial style was recognized by Fortune magazine, which honored her among its “10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs” for 2012.

She is known as a leader who uses company culture to drive performance, success and delivery of customer commitments, as noted by The Trust Advisor, which named Provident “America’s Best IRA Custodian” for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The publication also listed the company among the Most Advisor-Friendly Trust Companies for five consecutive years. Provident was twice selected by the Southern Nevada HR Association among its Best Places to Work in Southern Nevada.

Fette motivates, leads and inspires teams to be customer-focused and performance-driven to achieve exceptional results, earning her honors such as M & A Advisors’ 2010 “Top 40 under 40 M & A Advisors” and Vegas Inc.’s 2015 “40 Under 40.”

She holds a Master of Laws in taxation from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and is a three-time graduate of the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Accountancy from the Sam M. Walton College of Business and a Juris Doctor from the School of Law.

Fette remains closely tied to her alma mater and was given the University of Arkansas “Young Alumni of the Year Award” in 2017 and the “Gayle Pettus Pontz Award” in 2015.

29 SCHOOL OF LAW

Presented by Stacy L. Leeds, Dean of the School of Law

MASTER OF LAWS Mary Susan Burns Erika Dunyak Daria Kotova Andrii Trapizonian BA, College of St. Benedict BA, University of Dayton LLB, National Research University LLM, Kyiv National Economic JD, Hamline School of Law JD, Case Western Reserve University Higher School of Economics, University Faculty of Law LLB, Economics & Law Institute, Cherkasy National University Jose Ernesto Colon-Villafene Katherine Zewas Graham Kelvin Stroud BS, Purdue University BA, Carleton College BSBA, University of Arkansas MBA, Universidad de Puerto Rico, JD, William Mitchell College of Law JD, University of Arkansas School Recinto de Rio Piedras of Law JD, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico

JURIS DOCTOR

Brittnee L. Albertson Luke Anthony Brasuell Asia Cruz Gene Allen Franco BS, Missouri Southern State University BA, University of Arkansas BA, University of Arkansas BA, University of Arkansas

Salama Douha Almahayni Pete A. Brunson Margaret Caroline Currier Kelsey Dawn Furr BSBA, University of Arkansas BS, Ouachita Baptist University BA, Texas Christian University BSW, University of Arkansas

Bryan D. Altman Kristen A. Callahan Ian Michael Downs Dustin B. Gaston BS, University of Central Arkansas BS, University of the Ozarks BA, University of Arkansas BA, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith

Philip R. Ausbrooks Rachel Marie Carney Lindsey Rose Drake Hunter Bryce Glenn Green BA, Arkansas Tech University BA, University of Arkansas BS, Missouri State University BA, Arkansas State University MPA, Missouri State University

Deborah Renee’ Autrey Kristen Ashley Castro Jordan Hairston BA, University of Arkansas BA, University of Arkansas Russell Mckinley Dye BBA, Georgia Gwinnett College BA, University of Georgia

Jeffrey D. Baker Alexander W. Chak Luke Mitchell Haller BA, Indiana University-Bloomington BA, University of California-Irvine Haley Grace Ethridge BA, University of Arkansas BA, University of Arkansas

Elizabeth Barnard Derly E. Chapa William Thomas Harris BA, Vanderbilt University BA, The University of Texas at Austin Leland McCullough Ferguson BS, University of Arkansas BSBA, University of Arkansas

Caitlin E. Bennett KenDrell Deon Collins Rilee D. Harrison BSBA, University of Arkansas BBA, University of Arkansas at Little Michael T. Ferguson BA, University of Central Oklahoma Rock BSBA, University of Arkansas

Kathryn Blair Bennett Chelsea Harter BSBA, University of Arkansas Samuel E. Cowherd Eric J. Fiszer BA, College of Charleston BS, University of Missouri BA, Arkansas State University

Christopher Brian Birch Erik Wayne Hawkins BS, American Public University Samuel Weston Cox Brittany Sidna Ford BA, University of Arkansas System BSA, University of Arkansas BBA, Millsaps College MACC, Millsaps College Joseph Andrew Hawkins Jessica L. Boykin James William Coyne BA, Arkansas State University BSE, University of Arkansas BS, University of Central Arkansas Bryan Z. Foster MJ, Quinnipiac University MBA, University of Arkansas at Little BA, Northern Arizona University Rock

Mark Arthur Haydel Megan Paige Leslie BS, Louisiana State University BSBA, University of Arkansas John F. Phillips Betty Suasnabar Lopez BA, University of Central Arkansas BA, The National University of San MS, University of Central Arkansas Marcos Emily Helmick John R. Lewis BS, The University of Louisiana at BBA, University of Central Arkansas Monroe MBA University of Central Arkansas Sarah Jane Phillips Russell H. Thomas BA, University of Arkansas BBA, Texas A&M University - College Station Peter James Hilton Megan Elizabeth Lombardi BSE, University of Arkansas BSBA, Oklahoma State University Marcus A. Priest BA, Arkansas Tech University Zachary Russell Trail BSA, University of Arkansas Zachary J. Hoffman Anthony Alden Marcon BS, University of Wisconsin - Stout BA, Trinity University Victor Ruben Rojas BA, University of Arkansas Phillip Glenn Treat BA, University of Arkansas Ryan Adam Hollis David C. Matlock BA, University of Arkansas BSBA, University of Arkansas Elizabeth P. Rystrom BA, Sewanee: The University of the Taylor Savannah Trippe South BA, Texas A&M University - College Jennifer Hosp Elizabeth Ruth McSpadden Station BSBA, Missouri Southern State BA, University of Arkansas University Clay Sapp BS, University of Florida Gentry C. Wahlmeier Richard Joseph Meyers BSBA, University of Arkansas Andrew Steel Hout BBA, Henderson State University BA, University of California-Santa Erik A. Schneider Barbara BA, John Brown University Brett Mitchell Waldrip Hanna Elizabeth Murphy- BS, Arkansas State University Foster Cathryn Johns BA, Arkansas Tech University Zachary T. Sellers BA, Hendrix College BA, Arkansas Tech University Celina Jacqueline Walker BA, University of Arkansas Zachary Adam Musgraves Lacey Alyssa Johnson BA, University of Arkansas Zachary Austin Shackelford BA, Ouachita Baptist University BA, University of Arkansas Caroline H. Walls BA, University of Arkansas Andrew Joseph Myers Elizabeth A. Kanopsic BA, University of Arkansas Holly Elizabeth Shattuck BA, University of Arkansas at Little BS, University of Arkansas Garrison M. White Rock BS, Mississippi State University Jacob T. Newcomb BA, University of Arkansas Seth A. Shaw Caitlin D. Kenner BS, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Joseph Vincent Williams BA, Vanderbilt University BA, Hendrix College Son T. Nguyen BA, The University of Texas at Lucas Tanner Sheets Luke Barton Kinder Arlington BS, Oklahoma State University- Justin Ray Williford BA, Lyon College Stillwater BA, University of Arkansas

Ricky Lee Nolen Benjamin Kyle Knuckles BA, University of Arkansas Ryan Smith Stephen Shaw Wilson BBA, University of Mississippi BS, Heidelberg University BSBA, University of Arkansas MA, Leeds Beckett University Jack Emmett O’Mara Andrew Lane Lawson BA, University of Arkansas BA, University of Arkansas Kathryn Nicole Stidham BSE, Arkansas State University

First-ranked Senior Scholars have maintained a 4.0 grade point average and completed all of their course work at the University of Arkansas.

DALE BUMPERS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, FOOD & LIFE SCIENCES Callan Amelia Lichtenwalter Emma Kathryn Martinez Colson Alexander Tester

J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Jake Perry Allison Joseph Anthony Chacko Addison Blaze Cornwell Elise Lauren Everly Jeffrey Randall Frerking Brianna Gabrielle Grimmett Alexander S. Kwok Collie Mason Shaw Regan Stauffer Tarahn Turner

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS Caroline Elizabeth Fortson Sarah C. Halford Lauren Mariah Phillips Anne Charlotte Schexnayder

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Ali K. Ezell Anna Danielle Hudgeons Luke Snyder David Wiles Wiggins Walker Lloyd Wiggins

SAM M. WALTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Kendell David Black Natalie Patricia Gene Counce Maggie Kaye Fancher Denise Ingabire Abby Nicole Rice Quinn S. Simkins Keiryn Sweson Anna Jean Tovar

Senior Scholars have maintained a 4.0 grade point average and completed at least half of their course work at the University of Arkansas.

DALE BUMPERS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, FOOD & LIFE SCIENCES Rachel Marie Browder Robert Jackson Hudgens Taylor N. Peck Zena Mariah Hicks Hannah Elizabeth Maxwell Timothy Lee Steen

J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Dylan Hunter Adkins Julie Anne Ellenbarger Katherine Rose Morton Monica N. Armstrong Nanci Guadalupe Flores Evan T. Mudgett Tatianna Lyn Balis Jacob Andrew Fluech Katherine Marie Naeger Mitchell Thomas Benton Suzanna Marie Gibbs Gray Matthew Orman Garrett Chase Bethel Casey Ann Gibson Paulie Louise Phillips Austin James Boice Hunter Bryce Glenn Green Emily A. Ray Colette N. Brashears Harper Rex Grimsley Abigale L. Tatum Jordan Shae Burkdoll Catherine Lynne Hagemeier Sydney Lynn Tobin Madison Gale Caldwell Rebecca Elise Hardcastle Alaina Christine Tuberville Cody Andrew Canote Abigail E. Herzog Sydne Claire Tursky Catherine Bethany Chandler Jennifer Linn Isaacs Jackson W. Weaver Kylie Amber Cleavenger Stephen Alexander Komar Elizabeth Inez Wilson Zachary Evan Coleman Pooja Govind Lukhi Anne Elise Crafton Cari Alena Moll

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Bethany Ruth Adams Haley O. Hicks Samantha L. Thomas Tatianna Lyn Balis Taylor G. Jones Chelsea Renee Walker Natalie Marie Braithwaite Emily A. Merten Paige Elizabeth Whitlock Aubrey Ann Burton Allison Maria Overdorf Courtney Leigh Woody

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Molly Jean Churchwell Rachel E. Holmer Dakota Aaron Rusk Lauren Nicole Clark Suzana Ivandic Noah Phillip Spear Brandon Kyle Dyer Justin Tamico Jack Evin Spears Ethan Joseph Echols Wassim Ramy Mounir Aziz Khalil Anthony Paul Woods Zachary James Fletcher John E. Mills Castro Maria Alejandra Zeballos Casey Ann Gibson Jackson Lide Mosley Olivia Goss Will Pape Richardson

SAM M. WALTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Carly Marie Cassidy Landri Nicole McGregor Scott Tyler Sims Lane Frances Criss Katherine A. Papa William Emerson Watkins Catherine Lynne Hagemeier Hunter Eric Rhea Qinyi Zhang William Christian Martens Caroline Suzanne Sage

DALE BUMPERS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND LIFE SCIENCES

MAY 12, 2018 Barnhill Arena • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences 3:30 p.m • May 12, 2018

Processional...... Arkansas Winds Michael Ferguson, Musical Director “Processional” – Edward Elgar

National Anthem...... Members of the Schola Cantorum

Welcome and Introduction...... Dr. Lona J. Robertson, Interim Dean

Greetings...... Dr. Joseph E. Steinmetz, Chancellor

Student Address...... Emma Kathryn Martinez First-Ranked Senior Scholar

Commencement Address...... Corrin Troutman 2018 Outstanding Alumna

Presentation of Degree Candidates...... Dr. George Wardlow Professor, Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology Dr. John R. Clark Distinguished Professor, Department of Horticulture

Induction of Graduates into Alumni Association...... Olivera Jankovska 2018 Bumpers College Alumni Society Outstanding Young Alumna

Alma Mater...... Arkansas Winds Henry Tovey

Recessional...... Arkansas Winds “Recessional” – James D. Ployhar

The University community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the 2018 University of Arkansas Spring Commencement ceremony a success.

36 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD

Corrin Troutman 2018 Outstanding Alumna Award

Corrin Troutman grew up playing in her grandfather’s apple orchard, and learning about gardening and native plants from him. That interest eventually led to a bachelor’s degree in horticulture, landscape and turf sciences from Bumpers College in 2001.

She began her professional career as a garden sales representative at Home Depot in Garland, Texas, and moved to Color Spot Nursery as the North East Texas sales representative where she improved sales 60 percent in a year. She returned to Northwest Arkansas soon after as a horticulturalist with the Peel Compton Foundation, and quickly moved up the ranks to foundation horticulturalist, site manager and leader of the organization as executive director.

At Peel Compton, Troutman developed garden maintenance programs, expanded plant collections, managed garden crew and master gardener volunteers, and developed native plant training programs for Master Gardeners. She also trained volunteer tour guides at both Compton Gardens and the Peel Mansion gardens, and grew the annual native plant sale fundraiser.

Troutman helped open Compton Gardens to the public and created a yearly program designed to expand Compton Gardens’ native plant collection by adding three new specimens each year, eventually augmenting the Garden’s collection by more than 30 species. In 2009, she initiated an advanced volunteer program, Neil’s Naturals, to produce free educational brochures for Compton Gardens, and produced six native plant guides for the public still in use today.

Troutman is an Arkansas Certified Nursery and Landscape Professional, graduate of Leadership Benton County (Class of 2012), graduate of Inseitz Group Women’s Personal Leadership Effectiveness Program (2017), and a member of the American Public Gardens Association and the American Association for State and Local History.

In 2010, Troutman began serving on the Benton County Extension Council and has served as horticulture chair. A member of the Bentonville Garden Club since 2007, she has served as chair for the horticulture and scholarship committees since 2008. She has also served as first vice president and is currently second vice president.

She has volunteered with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), is a founding board member of Using Art to Create a Better World and is a mentor volunteer for the Benton County Boys & Girls Club Teen Mentorship Program.

Troutman, who is currently pursuing independent consulting, is married to Ron, is step-mom to two daughters and mom to Albert and Willow, two rescued Weimaraners. She enjoys hiking, floating the Buffalo River, camping and other outdoor pursuits.

37 YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD

Olivera Jankovska 2018 Young Alumna Award

Since earning her bachelor’s degree from Bumpers College in agricultural business in 2009, Olivera Jankovska has continued to pursue education and service to others around the world through management and development opportunities.

Jankovska serves the world’s largest humanitarian organization for children, UNICEF, as a UNICEF Global Citizenship Fellow. She uses community engagement to encourage transformational change in the lives of children around the world.

Jankovska works with faith-based organizations, academic communities, independent volunteers, political appointees and other advocates in providing education and resources on topics such as public health, immunizations and child-equality. She encourages local communities to take action for children, all in support of worldwide efforts for child empowerment.

She was inspired to serve UNICEF after benefitting from the organization as a child. Her father earned $3 a day in the years immediately following Macedonia’s independence, and UNICEF provided school supplies to underprivileged children. By the age of seven, Jankovska was bailing hay, plowing fields, milking goats, weaving wool and selling milk. Those experiences turned into her passion to help others. Years later, a Peace Corps volunteer guided her toward scholarship opportunities, which led to her professional career of service and allowed her to put her younger brother and sister through college.

Jankovska has been recognized for her dedication as a Global Citizenship Fellow as well as additional efforts to further child education and empowerment in her community and worldwide. She received the UNICEF 2017 President’s Volunteer Service Award, a national award recognizing outstanding volunteer service, for her contributions above and beyond contractual commitments and expectations.

Jankovska is also a nonresident scholar at Rice University where she contributes analysis on electricity and gas markets at the Baker Institute for Public Policy – Center for Energy Studies. She is also a manager at Essentia Advisory Partners where she conducts research and serves as a consultant on questions regarding energy policy, environmental regulations, and international trade and development. She uses her agricultural economics and agribusiness background to help inform others about international energy markets.

Jankovska is proficient in seven languages and is an avid traveler. She has more than 10 years of nonprofit experience, and her volunteer work extends to several cultural, educational and business organizations.

She has been named to the United Macedonian’s Diaspora “40 under 40” list, is active in the Houston Arkansas Alumni Chapter, participates in “Helping Like a Hog” community service events, and earned a master’s degree in agricultural and applied economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

38 Bumpers College Administration

Interim Dean Lona J. Robertson Coordinator of Distance Education and Facilities Kristin Seals Coordinator of Undergraduate Student Recruitment Michelle Pribbernow Director of Advising and Student Records Jody Davis Director of Communications Robby Edwards Director of Development and External Relations Terry Bumgardner Director of Employer Relations Donna K. Graham Executive Assistant to the Dean Carmen Alessi Finance Officer Deena Coston Retention and Curriculum Coordinator Vicky Watkins Project Director for Scholarships and External Relations Kaitlin Gragnano

Department Heads

Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Robert Bacon, Interim Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology George Wardlow Agricultural Statistics Ed Gbur Animal Science Michael Looper Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Robert Bacon Entomology Terry Kirkpatrick, Interim Food Science Wayne Mackay, Interim Horticulture Wayne Mackay Plant Pathology Terry Kirkpatrick, Interim Poultry Science Michael Kidd School of Human Environmental Sciences Betsy Garrison, Director

SPECIAL THANKS

Bumpers College wishes to express appreciation to all who participated in making this event possible.

39 DEGREE AND MAJOR PROGRAM KEY

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences AGBS Agricultural Business AECT Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology ANSC Animal Science CPSC Crop Science ESWS Environmental, Soil, and Water Science FDSC Food Science HLTS Horticulture, Landscape and Turf Sciences POSC Poultry Science

Bachelor of Science Human Environmental Sciences

AMPD Apparel Merchandising and Product Development BRKD Birth Through Kindergarten GHES General Human Environmental Sciences HDFS Human Development and Family Sciences HNHI Human Nutrition and Hospitality Innovation

Honors Recognitions

Summa Cum Laude 3.90 to 4.00 GPA with Highest Distinction Magna Cum Laude 3.75 to 3.89 GPA with High Distinction Cum Laude 3.50 to 3.74 GPA with Distinction

• Gold hood represents Bumpers College Honors Program graduates • White stole with red and white braid worn on left shoulder represents a student graduating Summa Cum Laude or with Highest Distinction • White stole represents a student graduating Magna Cum Laude or with High Distinction • Red stole represents a student graduating Cum Laude or with Distinction • Purple and gold cords represent members of Phi Upsilon Omicron, the professional honor society of Human Environmental Sciences • Royal blue and gold cords represent member of Alpha Zeta, the professional honor fraternity for agriculture • Forest green and parchment cords represent member of Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture • Orange and brown cords represent member of Alpha Tau Alpha, the National Professional Honorary Agricultural Education Organization

40 DALE BUMPERS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND LIFE SCIENCES

Presented by Lona Robertson, Interim Dean of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND LIFE SCIENCES Robert E. Albertson Matthew Joel Hansen Distinction Darryl Allen Nichols Matthew Thomas Allen Marley Lynn Harmon Chase Austin Norman Erik Leon Archer Aurora Ashley Harris Distinction Jonathan Lomax Pagan Demetrius Keveun’ Tay Arnold Sam E. Harris Magna Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Steele Timothy Parks Aaron M. Ashcraft Derrick Jerome Harrison Distinction Zachary Kenneth Pearson Julie A. Atchley Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Justin Allan Hawkins Elizabeth Grace Philpot Distinction Lauren Elizabeth Backus Travis Scott Hefley Stephen A. Pickens Jennifer Katelyn Barnett Highest Distinction Colton G. Henderson Josephine Juneanne Pigeon Alexander Sutton Bartlett Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Breanna Mae Post Distinction Cheyenne Rachelle Battles Ashley Suzanne Henry Christopher J. Post Len Allen Belanger Nicholas Patrick Henry Raymond Patrick Pottios Avrie Nicole Bloodworth High Distinction Carlee D. Hensley Distinction Harry Lee Pringle III Dustin Thomas Bolton Jose Antonio Hernandez Tyler Ray Proctor Amanda Bromley Cole Hunter Hicks Distinction Bailey Caitlyn Ratliff Rachel Marie Browder Zena Mariah Hicks Abby Elizabeth Ratton Summa Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Summa Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Summa Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Kenneth David Buck Cameron Allen Hilgenberg Hannah Ruth Rea High Distinction Carlee JoAnna Buckner Joshua David Hodges Chandler Dean Riley Sarah A. Caldwell Gerrit Shay Hoover Chase Thomas Riley Anneke Carr Distinction Madeline Jane Hopson Harrison Alden Robb Anna Catherine Castleberry Distinction Robert Jackson Hudgens Highest Distinction Zachariah Jacob Rose Distinction Michael Austin Cates Hayley Summer Hunt Sara Stephanie Ross (Fall 2017) Tanner G. Chapman Katelin Susanne Hyman Brayan Martin Saldana Rios Tristen Brooke Clanton High Distinction Brinkley Nicole Israel Samuel M. Scalise Distinction Ben Chandler Clapp Hannah O. Johnson Distinction John Ellis Schneider Steppen Fontayne Clark Nicholas G. Johnson Alexis B. Selman Kelsey Lynn Cline Kyle L. Kennedy Matthew G. Sena Distinction Payton Tyler Coil Lainyn Elise Kerley Carson Haynes Shaddy Makenly Elise Coles William Lane Chandler Kidd Morgan H. Sharum Courtney Fay Cooper James C. Kirkpatrick High Distinction Magna Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Jordan Brianna Kirkpatrick Hunter William Sherrill Kimberly Anne Croson Distinction Claire Elizabeth Krofft Distinction Clayton H. Smith Lewis Edward Crow III Taylor Ann LaCour Highest Distinction Eric Scott Smith Distinction Daniel Andrew Curtis Shelby Lebeau High Distinction Glynn Gregory Smith Sarah-Beth Delay Aubrey Jordan Lee Magna Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Summa Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Nicholas Philip Liacouras Jacob Anthony Smith Diego Della Lunga Highest Distinction Callan Amelia Lichtenwalter Ryan Preston Smith Brooke Shelby Dennis Summa Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Kaninikaa Srivats Zachary Dennis DeVore James Benten Lindsey Rebecca Eddlene Sterner Distinction Jackson Lloyd Diebold Kyle D. Livesay High Distinction Sophia Sundara Samantha Tracy Dillahunty Distinction Shelby Lane Lowery Distinction Jay M. Surber Drew Erin Dillion High Distinction Hall Andrew Lyons Travis Wyatt Tabler Haley Brooke Donald Mary Jane Lytle Brooke Lauren Taylor Distinction Nathan Edward Dunn Elizabeth E. Martin Zachary Lawrence Tipton Marisol M. Escamilla Mallory Whitson Martin Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Ashley Marie Finney Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Hannah Elizabeth Maxwell Highest Distinction John D. Trimble VI Robin Arlene Fletcher Distinction Shawn Austin Mayfield Samantha Beatriz Varela Jordan Kyle Forbis Taylor Nicole McKinney Distinction Martin Lee Walt IV Kelly Karene Fowler Distinction William Palmer McNair III Tristen C. Watson Rebekah Leah Jewell Fritschie Abigail Rae McVay Quincy Gene Wheeler Trent David Frizzell Blake Shailer Meldrum Jessica Ryley Whitaker Luke Markham Frogge Distinction Kenia Isabel Mitre Herrera Bradley Dylan Williams Manuel Efren Gamboa Magna Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Quentin Darnell Williams Cecilia Mae Gasca Joel Raymond Montgomery Distinction Samantha Ann Wilson Distinction McKenna Kathleen George Megan Gabrielle Morales Augustus R. Wisdom Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Brooke Afton Mosley Brandon Michael Wodka Angela Gonzalez Carson Andrew Mulholland Addison A. Woker Vanessa Leigh Goodwin Robyn Brittlee Mulloy Cannon Crockett Wright Madeline Graham Jack Anthony Murphy Emily Ann Wright Morgan Rose Gramlich Trent R. Neathery Ruth Julie Guerra Marin Nickolas Bennett Newton Justin Michael Hamm Alexander V. Nichols Magna Cum Laude with Honors Distinction Dalton S. Nichols

Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Colson Alexander Tester, Senior Yefan Nian, M.S.

Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology Tristen Brooke Clanton, Senior Isabel M. Whitehead, M.S.

Animal Science Morgan Stanley, Senior Elizabeth Palmer, M.S. Jase Ball, Ph.D.

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Matthew Sena, Senior Lawrence Gordon Berry M.S. Christopher J. Meyer, Ph.D.

Entomology Mary-Kate Williams, M.S. Aaron Cato, Ph.D.

Food Science Rachel Browder, Senior Ragita Cantika Pramudya, M.S. Shantae A. Wilson, Ph.D.

Human Environmental Sciences Barbara “Beau” Broyles, Senior India Semone Callahan, M.S. Dylan C. Martinez, Ph.D.

Horticulture Kyle Livesay, Senior Paige Boyle, M.S. Waltram Ravelombola, Ph.D.

Plant Pathology Wagner Calegari Fagundes, M.S. John Ridenour, Ph.D.

Poultry Science Zachariah Rose, Senior Joshua Flees, M.S. Basanta Raj Wagle, Ph.D.

FAY JONES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

MAY 12, 2018 Faulkner Performing Arts Center Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 1:00 p.m. • Saturday, May 12, 2018

Processional March......

Welcome...... Peter MacKeith Dean and Professor

Special Departmental Recognitions

Introduction of Student Address...... Jeff Shannon, Interim Department Head, Architecture

Student Address...... Callie Jo Fleetwood First Ranked Senior Scholar Bachelor of Architecture

Awarding of Degrees...... Peter MacKeith Ethel Goodstein-Murphree Associate Dean and Professor Jeff Shannon Ken McCown Department Head, Landscape Architecture Carl Matthews Department Head, Interior Design

Introduction of Speaker...... Peter MacKeith

Commencement Address......

Closing Remarks...... Peter MacKeith

Recessional March......

Reception immediately following in Vol Walker Hall/Steven L. Anderson Design Center

The University community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the 2018 University of Arkansas Spring Commencement ceremony a success.

46 FAY JONES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Presented by Peter MacKeith, Dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE Joseph Matthew Aguilar Terrel G. Gordon Tamara N. Stuart David Alvarez Sydney Elizabeth Hall Dylan Michael Sylvester Ashlie Barnard Brian Hernandez Dimas Daniel Abraham Tenorio Gabriella Maria Bermea Victor Nikechukwu Iwunwa Tramaine Maquelle Thompson Erik Daniel Betancourt Amy Nicole Larson Marcelo Tinajero Hayden Lloyd Bramel Meagan Elizabeth Leeth Cum Laude Audrey Banewicz Ward Junxin Chen Omar Martinez Joseph Cameron Willems Callie Jo Fleetwood Summa Cum Laude Henry Wesley Millard Cum Laude Sarah Peil Winstead Cum Laude Graham Mitchell Stephens Fuller Phoebe Marre Norcross Britney Dawn Wollmeringer Julia Caroline Gairhan Shadia Rassoul Jaramillo Distinction Michael Edward Lewis Young Maranda Nicole Gerga Su Su Soe San

BACHELOR OF INTERIOR DESIGN

Khai Reyn L. R. Adderley Jumin Kim Distinction Elizabeth Everett Phillips Ericka Vawn Brown Sara Katherine Elizabeth Lamont McKenzie Danielle Short Corinne Elizabeth Burns Janie Blair Luft Gretchen Catherine Stocker Amanda N. Collen Heidi Shea Matthews-Couch Samantha Marie VanHart Sydney Lynn Davis Hunter Katelyn McCalla Gabriela C. Villalobos Sarah Paige Kardell Distinction Paige Marie Park Marian N. Wood

BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Alexis Pacheco Addison Grant Warren Magna Cum Laude

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jacob Garrett Boatman Malak Rogers Mollie Joanna Waldon Magnin Kodjo Katelynn A. Santiago Cassidy Michelle Walsh

J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

MAY 11, 2018 Bud Walton Arena • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 3:00 p.m. • Friday, May 11, 2018

Pre-ceremony Concert ...... University Wind Symphony Professor Chris Knighten, Director of Bands, Conductor

Processional March...... University Wind Symphony

National Anthem...... Schola Cantorum Dr. Stephen Caldwell, Conductor “The National Anthem” - Caldwell

Invocation...... Schola Cantorum “Blessings” by Peter de Mets & Mark A. Boyle

Welcome and Introductions...... Dr. Todd Shields

Fulbright College Student Speaker From The Class Of 2018...... Kassidy Joyner

Presentation of Honorary Posthumous Degree...... Tyler A. Cullum Family Tanna Marie Eiland Family Molly Matheson Family Joseph Pollock Family Chloe Sanders Family

Awarding of Diplomas...... Dr. Todd Shields

Shifting The Tassel...... Dr. Todd Shields

Recessional March...... Schola Cantorum March from “A Little Suite”- Malcolm Arnold

Guests please remain seated until all have withdrawn

50 FULBRIGHT STUDENT SPEAKER

Kassidy Joyner Fulbright College Student Speaker

Kassidy Joyner is a senior majoring in economics and minoring in Japanese. She began her studies at the University of Arkansas after graduating from Rogers Heritage High School in Rogers, Arkansas. She enrolled as a four-year honor student after becoming a recipient of the prestigious Sturgis Fellowship. She was also a National Merit Scholar and Governor’s Distinguished Scholar.

Kassidy has shown a keen interest in the Japanese language during her studies at the U of A. She spent an entire year studying Japanese language and culture with the Shimane University’s exchange program where she was completely immersed in the environment. As a result of her efforts she reached the highest proficiency level in the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test.

Kassidy has been actively involved as an interpreter and a conversation partner for international students at the U of A. She has also worked as a bilingual international recruiting intern for Activ8 Recruitment and Solutions in Atlanta, Georgia where she searched for qualified candidates and conducted interviews with the candidates. She also worked as a private English tutor for middle school students while in Matsue, Japan.

She plans to pursue a career in business analytics and business development while utilizing her language skills.

51 PLATFORM PERSONNEL

Todd Shields Dean Joseph E. Steinmetz Chancellor Jim Coleman Provost Kelly Eichler Assistant Secretary, Board of Trustees Steve Beaupre Associate Dean Jeannine Durdik Associate Dean Jeannie Hulen Associate Dean Kathy Sloan Associate Dean Doug Rhoads Chair, College Cabinet Kassidy Joyner Representative, Class of 2018

Chairs of Department

Justin Nolan Anthropology Tom Hapgood Representative, School of Art David McNabb Biological Sciences Wesley Stites Chemistry and Biochemistry Robert Brady Communication Bill Curington Economics Dorothy Stephens English Chris Liner Geosciences Calvin White History Laurence Hare International Relations Larry Foley Journalism Mark Johnson Mathematical Sciences Ronda Mains Music Edward Minor Philosophy Lin Oliver Physics Pearl Dowe Political Science Doug Behrend Psychology Ana Ziacek Sociology and Criminal Justice Kim Stauss School of Social Work Michael Riha Theatre Steve Bell World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

52 MASTER TEACHING AWARD

In 1979 the College of Arts and Sciences established the Master Teaching Award to recognize the many talented and dedicated teachers in the College. The Fulbright College Cabinet makes selection, and each Master Teacher receives a permanent $500 salary increment in addition to a certificate.

Recipients in the last ten years:

2008- James Greeson Music Mindy Bradley Sociology and Criminal Justice 2009- Kathleen A. Comfort Foreign Languages Claud Lacy Physics Kameri Christy-McMullin Social Work 2010- Louise Rozier World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Greig Roberts Biological Sciences Daniel Sutherland History 2011- Jennifer M. Hoyer World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Julio Gea-Banacloche Physics Beth B. Schweiger History 2012- David S. McNabb Biological Sciences Ben Grob-Fitzbiggon History 2013- Amy Herzberg Drama Mark Arnold Mathematical Sciences Michael Pierce History 2014- Suresh Thallapuranam Chemistry and Biochemistry Laurence Hare History William Schreckhise Political Science 2015- Ron Warren Communication Shannon Dingman Mathematical Sciences James Gigantino History 2016- Daniel Kennefick Physics Brinck Kerr Political Science 2017- Yuchun Du Biological Sciences Linda Jones World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Calvin White, Jr. History 2018- Lissette Szwydky-Davis English Susanne Striegler Chemistry and Biochemistry Barry Ward Philosophy

FULBRIGHT COLLEGE NON-TENURE TRACK FACULTY TEACHING AWARD

The Fulbright College Non-Tenure Track Faculty Teaching Award honors one outstanding teacher. The award carries a one-time $500 award.

2017- Marcella Thompson Sociology & Criminal Justice 2018- Kate Chapman Psychology

53 MASTER RESEARCHER AWARD

In 1997 the College of Arts and Sciences established the master Researcher Award to recognize the many talented and dedicated scholars and researchers in the College. The Fulbright College Cabinet makes selection, and each Master Researcher receives a permanent $500 salary increment in addition to a certificate.

Recipients in the last ten years: 2009- Steven J. Beaupre Biological Sciences Robert G. Finlay History 2010- James Lampinen Psychology John Ryan Mathematical Sciences 2011- Jak Tchakhalian Physics J. Michael Plavcan Anthropology 2012- Lynne Webb Communication teven L. Stephenson Biological Sciences Alessandro Brogi History 2013- Julie Stenken Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeannie Whayne History 2014- Kay PritchettWorld Languages, Literatures and Cultures Paul Thibado Physics Elizabeth Markham History 2015- Sergio Villalobos World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Jack C. Lyons Philosophy 2016- Andrew Raich Mathematical Sciences Patricia Herzog Sociology and Criminal Justice 2017- Myria Allen Communication Jinavi Chen Chemistry and Biochemistry Tricia Starks History 2018- Rob Wicks Communication Yo’av Rieck Mathematical Sciences

OUTSTANDING ADVISOR AWARD

The Fulbright College Outstanding Advisor Award is presented to an individual who has made significant contributions to the improvement of a departmental advising program or the College advising program. The Fulbright College Cabinet makes selection, and the awardees receive a permanent $500 salary increment in addition to a certificate. Recipients in the last ten years: 2007- Steven M. Bell Foreign Languages 2009- Jerome C. Rose Anthropology 2010- Patricia Amason Communication 2011- D. Mack Ivey Biological Sciences 2012- Kathryn A. Sloan History 2013- Calvin White History 2014- Beth Schweiger History 2015- Lori Holyfield Sociology and Criminal Justice 2016- Laurence Hare History 2017- William D. Schreckhise Political Science 2018- James Gigantino History

54 THE ROBERT C. AND SANDRA CONNOR FACULTY FELLOWSHIP

The Robert C. and Sandra Connor Faculty Fellowship is used to support junior level faculty who provide the highest quality teaching, research and service in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

2016- April Rand Social Work Brandon Jackson Sociology and Criminal Justice Brett Sterling World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Caree Banton History Freddy Dominguez History Hugh Churchill Physics Jeffrey Murdock Music Joshua Mitchell Political Science Matthew Day Mathematical Sciences Matthew McDonnell Art Timothy Evans Biological Sciences Violeta Lorenzo-Feliciano World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Wesley Stoner Anthropology

2017- Lindsey Aloia Communication Grant Drawve Sociology & Criminal Justice Todd Cleveland History Joseph Herzog Physics Kusum Naithani Biological Sciences Marc Mitchell Art Nathan Parks Psychological Science

J. HILLMAN YOWELL AWARD

With a generous endowment from former University student J. Hillman Yowell, the Yowell Award was established in 1989 in recognition of outstanding teaching by a Fulbright college graduate assistant. The College Cabinet makes selection, and the recipient is given a certificate and a $500 cash award. Recipients in the last ten years: 2007- Matthew A. Byron History 2008- Derek Everett History 2009- Michael D. Hammond History 2010- Amy Schmidt English 2011- Ethan Morton-Jerome Anthropology 2012- Jeffrey Grooms History 2014- Demma Clymer History 2015- Elizabeth Kiszonas History 2016- Nicole Brandon Psychology 2017- Jama Grove History 2018- Arley Ward History

55 J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Presented by Todd G. Shields, Dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Science and Arts in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Tyler A. Cullum December 5, 1990 – May 22, 2017

Bachelor of Science and Arts in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Tanna Marie Eiland October 2, 1995 – March 26, 2017

Bachelor of Science and Arts in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Molly Jane Matheson May 18, 1994 – April 10, 2017

Bachelor of Science and Arts in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Joseph Pollock March 15, 1997 – January 29, 2018

Bachelor of Science and Arts in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Chloe Michelle Sanders July 25, 1995 – May 14, 2017

56 BACHELOR OF ARTS Alexis Rayne Acello Brooke E. Borgognoni Morgan Nicole Coleman Jacob Stephen Aldama Hosea Jacob Born Tyler Mattson Coleman Shellie Elizabeth Aldrich Jarred William Boyer High Distinction Carly Fornof Collins High Distinction Erik Alejandre MaryColleen Lenahan Boyle Stephanie Layne Collins Audrey Anne Alexander Honors Christian Lee Bradley Alan Edward Coney Brittany S. Allen AshLee Bradshaw Sydney Michelle Conley Jamie Lee Allen Price Andrew Branson Grant Robert Conner High Distinction Jake Perry Allison Honors Stanley J. Branson Arlando Cook Michael J. Allred Colette N. Brashears Honors Bryson Reid Cook William A. Allred Honors Melanie Carole Brecht Kerrigan T. Cook Graham Douglas Almond Andrea Cameron Breckenridge Addison Blaze Cornwell Honors Jarrod Aidan Almond High Distinction Taylor Nicole Breckenridge Alexandra Elaine Cosgrove Ryann Alexandra Alonso Honors Jake Alexander Breslau Collin Christopher Cottrell Breybinda Zurisaday Alvarez Erica Paige Brewer Honors Kennedy Lauren Cottrell Michelle Evelyn Amos Krista Mikelle Brewington Honors Andrew R. Counce Gabrielle Lee Anderson Afton AnnLynn Brickman Jennifer Cherie Couston Austin Araujo Honors Taylor Lauren Bridges Austin R. Cowart Jacob Wesley Arledge Mary Helen Brighton Rachel Nicole Cox Jackson Fredrick Armstrong Jared W. Briley Brandon Michael Crabtree Tiara A. Armstrong Madison Elizabeth Briscoe Anne Elise Crafton Honors James Ryland Arnold Connor Brian-Lee Brooke Christie Gail Craig Madison C. Arnold Braden T. Brown Honors Haley Danielle Craig High Distinction Joseph Alexander Bacquet Carly Lynn Brown Alyson Janiece Cramer Skyler W. Bagby Grayson D. Brown Catherine A. Crawford Riley Jo Bailey Jalena Shae Brown Emily Kaylyn Crawford Austin Ryan Baker Madison B. Brown Joshua David Creek Tatianna Lyn Balis Joshua Max Brudi Tanner M. Crigler Madison Amanda Balmat Madeline Lee Bryant Honors Joseph L. Crockett Alyson Lindsey Baltz Bradley Pierce Bullock James Latimer Crone Emily Kathleen Baniak Katherine Marie Burkhart High Distinction Lauren N. Cullison Ada Mariel Banks Alexa B. Bussell Sarah Elizabeth Cumming Tyler Joseph Banks Tyler Quinn Bussell Gabriella Guadalupe Cunningham Juan Gerardo Barcenas Clarissa Bustamante Caroline Elizabeth Curran Jaylen Maurice Barford Shelby Anne Butler Jacob Allen Curry Logan John Barker Brandee McKee Byrd Ryan Mark Danielson Kristopher C. Barlow Colin W. Byrd Honors Lexi Taylor Danos Jared Kyle Barnett Nicholas Ryland Caffrey Brooke Lauren Darling Shelby Lynn Barron Breeanne E. Cambron Ryan A. Dauenhauer Emily C. Bart Ashley Marie Cameron Rebecca K. Davidson Reid C. Barton Darby Lauranne Campbell Kaitlin E. Davila Kierra Joy Batemon Alejandra Campos Caroline Eliabeth Davis Hadison Savannah Bates Sara Maria Cano Hannah Laurice Davis Honors James Kennedy Baxendale Alessandra R. Capasso Rachel E. Davis Honors Blair N. Beasley Shelby Jo Carden Steven Donald Davis Virginia Claire Beasley Grace Lois Carey Jason Taylor Dawson Sarah M. Beckham Daniel Jose Carmona Jamie Lauren Deen Miranda Nicole Beeson Jacob Dale Carpenter Cortlyn H. Dees High Distinction Madison Elise Bell High Distinction Kellie-Laine Christine Carpenter Mary Abigail Dellinger Nicole Lee Benedict Madeliene Claire Carranza Gabrielle Devero Ryan Joseph Benham Shelby Elise Carson Jared W. Devore Mitchell Jay Benson Damani Reid Carter Honors Melissa Jean Dexter Sydney Benz Daniel Harrison Caruth Justin Japneet Singh Dhaliwal Jack Adam Berger Mackenzie Lee Casten Mauricellis Aymara Diaz Garcia Michael Andrew Bernal Brinkley MIchelle Castro Devynne Irene Diaz Honors Jack A. Berry Austin Lee Catron Hannah Elizabeth Dickinson Lindsey Nichole Bertrand William Sean Cauthron Diana Marie Dilday Andrew C. Best Madeline Elizabeth Cewe Rosario Joseph Dispensa Rachel Ann Bevill Catherine Bethany Chandler Highest Distinction Sean Dylan Dixon Brianna S. Biehl William D. Chappell Darsha Ann Dodge Madison K. Bigelow Aymee Louise Chauvin Colin Albert Doege Honors Jordan Thomas Blackwood Sierra Adrianna Chavez Laura Drew Dorsey Emma Q. Blair Anna Marie Chesterton Bryce James Drachenberg High Distinction Dominique Lashond Blake Tiffanee Alaina Childers Blake Garrett Duca Mary Kathleen Blanchard Riley A. Christoph Breyanna Michelle Dulaney Danielle Marie Blossom Elizabeth Louise Clark High Distinction Bethany Lea Dunlap Bradley Martin Vincent Board Owen Christopher Clinton Austen Dunn Diamond Dezira Dawn Bogle Michael Andrew Cobb Madison Lee Duran Austin James Boice Highest Distinction Rachel Coffey Cassidy M. Dutton Tyler David Bolton Tommy Pierce Coker Highest Distinction Mackennzie Lynn Dutton Lauren Bernice Bonham Devon Blakke Colclough Thea Marie Eberlein Highest Distinction Abigail Kegley Boone Emily Josephine Cole Honors Erin Shouse Edmisten

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Xiang Geng Alexandra Renee Lemp Honors Cory David Perry Dylan Newton Hale Sarah Elizabeth Martin Sabrina Linzy Rivas Courtney Anne Kiersznowski High Distinction Shelby Cathleen Nelson Rylee Stovern Angela Roseanne Korbe Lena M. Nguyen

BACHELOR OF MUSIC Dylan Hunter Adkins Highest Distinction Aaron Joshua Carson Cari Alena Moll Highest Distinction Prashant Anand Honors Megan Nicole Dobbs Van Mitchell Powell Brandon Craig Bahara Ruby Celeste Espinoza Kelly Katherine Sharpe Lindsay Joellen Barnhill Alexandria Marie Franco Highest Distinction Lauren Kathleen Suchy High Distinction Ashley Nicole Baty Laura Frederickson Honors Alaina Christine Tuberville Highest Distinction Donald Lamar Bohanon-Gauthier Joshua Michael Hannon Donna Ruth Vickers Sarah Mae Bryant Alisha Nicole Jones Brandon L. Wade Honors

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Travis Charles Alkire Katie Deanne Cloud Honors Harper Rex Grimsley Muhammad Omer Almahayni Honors Ryan Alexander Coleman Honors Jess Curran Groh Chelsea Morgan Amaral Zachary Evan Coleman Jack Peng Guo Honors Jean Bernard Amargos Honors Hadley Melissa Cook Katherine Reyes Hadden Kalee Elizabeth Anderson Honors Davis Tate Couch John Conrad Hagen Monica N. Armstrong Honors Kaitlyn Maranda Coulter Hayden Carl Hairston High Distinction Christian Austin Briana Michele Craig Malachi Dean Hale Honors Kelyn Rolan Baker Alexis Elise Cunningham High Distinction Sara Elizabeth Hanna Highest Distinction Heather Alyssa Becker Honors Andrew Chase Daugherty James W. Hardgraves High Distinction Mitchell Thomas Benton Honors Nathan Alan Declue Honors Thomas Jarrott Harkey Honors Allison Elizabeth Beshears Daniela Dehaghani Lindsey Meredith Harrison Garrett Chase Bethel Honors Courtney J. Dodd Wayne Daniel Hawkins Honors Anna C. Blackshare Honors Anna C. Doner Honors Kate Lynn Helfrich Honors Hannah Alexandria Blair Tre Donson Abigail E. Herzog Highest Distinction Karime Nazareth Bolivar Devin Alan Dupree Jessica Ray Hesler Brett Bonine Honors Jordan Lee Earp Phylicia Kay Hill Anna Nacole Brickell Mitchell Knight Edwards Regan Janae Hime Dominic Frazier Brooks Eric Dayton Emmons Regan Janae Hime Honors George Austin Brown Willie James Evans Coleman Frank Jarvis Blythe Emily Bunkers Hannah Bell Evans Sara Ashton Jeffress Cody H. Burch Sherwin R. Fakhimi Keaton Cade Jenkins Joyce Regan Kahleah Burgess Honors Anna Nicole Faulkner Honors Bryn Elise Jensen Jordan Shae Burkdoll Honors Brett Daniel Faulkner Meghan Denae Jones Honors Katelin Alexandria Byrd Haley Elizabeth Feezell Honors Nicholas Carl Jordan Katelyn A. Caldwell Kimberly Alexa Figueroa Christina Catherine Lee Joshua Madison Gale Caldwell Honors William James Fisher Pelagie N. Kadia Cody Andrew Canote Honors Matthew Christopher Ford Honors Aubrye Alexandra Keeling (Fall 2017) Chloe Brooke Cantrell Zackary Clay Freeman Jenna Rose Kenney Honors Enelia Mercedez Carrero Jeffrey Randall Frerking Honors John Rutledge Kirchner Madison Colby Carter Mason Norman Frucci Honors Madison Rylee Kitchens Lauren Patience Castans Lydia Kalen Ganaden Highest Distinction Rebecca Christine Klee Savanna Grace Cathey Trent L. Gattis Madison Paige Kolb Honors Joseph Anthony Chacko Honors Branden James Giertz Colin Edward Kraus High Distinction Oscar Chavez John Christian Gilbert Alexander S. Kwok Honors Madison Avery Cheeves Seth C. Gilchrist Honors Lauren Elizabeth Landwehr Honors Rachel Marie Claunts Honors Avery Alexander Green Lauren M. Lay Kylie Amber Cleavenger Honors Caroline Elizabeth Gregory Honors Tanner Jackson Lazarus Honors Sebastian E. Clemmons Bryce A. Griffin Honors Caleb O’Connor Lenington Bauman

BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK Crystal Albarran Tim Drew Henderson Abigail Lynn Pruitt Hayley F. Boles Lauren Elizabeth Huffman Chelsea Rae Robinson Carley Jane Brown Hannah Marie Joeckel Hannah K. Scherer Honors Amanda Page Cherry Alexandria Alyssa Jones Mary Scarlett Sherwood Victoria Ann Covert Taylor Anne Kennedy Khadijah Domonique Simmons Mallory Lynn Deets Hannah Lancaster Lyndall Robyn Sloan Gabriella Tanya Duchesne Allison May Luebke Ashlyn Mary Smith Highest Distinction Madison Nicole Edwards High Distinction Sarah LeighAnn Malmo Chelsea Rose Tatlow Highest Distinction Lillian F. Fink Brook Taylor Mattison Mandy Jane Thomas Mary Gayle Frans Lauren Lea Brooke McClure Alex Jan Thorp Brittany Taylor Furr Daniel Joseph McWilliams Melissa Vega Jessica Garcia Sheyla A. Mireles Kylie Marissa Watkins Laurel Elise Glover Ashley Lynn Nachtweh Sara Anne Wolfe Haley Ellen Guay Whitney Lynne Nelson Mary Elizabeth York Christopher Harrison Hamby Reina Alejandra Olivo Lexi Rae Hamling Adam Nathaniel Persenaire

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS

MAY 12, 2018 Bud Walton Arena • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 5:30 p.m. • May 12, 2018

Prelude...... Fayetteville Jazz Collective

Processional March...... Fayetteville Jazz Collective

National Anthem...... Christopher Senty

Introductions...... Michael T. Miller Dean

Greetings from the Faculty...... Christian Goering College Council Chair

Introduction of the Speaker...... Michael T. Miller Dean

Commencement Address...... Yvette Murphy-Erby Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion

Presentation of Alumni Awards...... Michael T. Miller Dean

Gi-Yong Koo Martha Sandven Patti Freemyer Martin

Awarding of Diplomas...... Michael T. Miller Dean

Alma Mater...... Christopher Senty

Recessional March...... Fayetteville Jazz Collective

66 OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD

Gi-Yong (Win) Koo, an associate professor at Troy University who earned his doctoral degree from the University of Arkansas in Recreation and Sport Management with an emphasis in Sport Marketing and Statistics in 2013. While at Arkansas, he was awarded the Luther W. and Edna L. Estelle Scholarship, the Troy Hendricks Scholarship, the NCAA Graduate Student Research Grant, and the Doctoral Student of the Year from the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation. He also served as a senior graduate teaching assistant in the department. His academic career has focused on being an effective educator, providing services to the field of Sport Management, and being a productive scholar.

He has published 33 research articles, had a number of international academic presentations, and served as the Ph.D. in Sport Management program coordinator at Troy University. His effort and commitment to the program has resulted in an implementation of the hybrid Ph.D. program to align with the international focus of the university and recently produced the first graduate in the University’s history to receive a doctor of philosophy degree.

OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD IN EDUCATION

Martha Louise Sandven, B.S., M.A., M.A.T., NBCT, dedicated her life to youth development and education after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in Speech. She completed her first middle school internship at Haven Middle School in Evanston, Illinois. In 1995, she co-founded Chameleon Theatre Company, a non-profit arts and youth development agency in Kansas City Missouri with the mission to “teach skills for life, school, and work” through the visual and performing arts. For a decade, she worked with students of all ages, trained artist/educators, and implemented programs in schools and youth facilities throughout the Kansas City area. She lectured at the Kansas City Art Institute, teaching undergraduates how to collaborate with teachers and schools. She completed a Master’s Degree at the University of Kansas, where her thesis focused on how to use educational theatre to affect positive social change among teenagers. In order to focus on literacy among middle school students specifically, she pursued her M.A.T. in Secondary English at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, studying effective use of readers’ theatre in the classroom. Since 2008, Ms. Sandven has worked in and among the schools of Northwest Arkansas, starting programs like Page to Stage, to help students write and perform their own creations; she founded The Breakfast Club after-school art and drama program for youth at Ramay Junior High; she started the WONDERS of Reading! initiative to “create a culture of kindness, empathy, and literacy” among junior high students; and, most recently, she collaborated with the University of Arkansas to secure a federal grant implementing the National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community-Ready Writer’s Program for High Need Schools at Ramay Junior High. In addition, and with the support of authors like Dorothy Pattison and Anna Myers, Ms. Sandven adapts children’s books for junior high students to present at area elementary schools, where teenage cast members mentor young audiences. Sandven volunteers as a grant-writer to help other teachers raise funds and write grants. She has served as a mentor for first year teachers and pre-service teachers in the University of Arkansas’ M.A.T. program. Recently, she earned her National Board Certification in Adolescent Literacy. Her recognitions include a Point of Light Award from President Bill Clinton, a Walton Family Foundation Quality of Life grant through the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, a Secondary Mentor Teacher of the Year award from the University of Arkansas, an Above and Beyond Award from the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce and the Fayetteville Public Schools Board of Education, and Teacher of the Year Award by Ramay Junior High School.

67 OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD IN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Patti Freemyer Martin, Ph.D., has been a champion for children at Arkansas Children’s Hospital for over thirty years. In her current role as Director, Ambulatory Care Services, she provides leadership and programmatic direction for Audiology, Speech Pathology, Primary Care Services, Otolaryngology and Dermatology. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Audiology in the College of Health Professions at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a Consultant for the National Center on Hearing Assessment and Management.

Dr. Martin’s areas of interest include newborn screening, pediatric assessment and the influence of social determi- nants on health outcomes. Her passion about the many ways that families impact outcomes of children is reflected by ongoing grant-funded projects, frequent invited national presentations and multiple peer-reviewed publications. She is actively involved in Arkansas Children’s focus on improving the patient and family experience, as well as initiatives to mentor and develop leaders across the organization.

Dr. Martin, originally from Helena, Arkansas, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Disorders from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (1981) and a Master of Science in Audiology (1983) from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/University of Arkansas-Little Rock. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (2006) in Public Policy with an emphasis on children with special health care needs.

68 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Yvette Murphy-Erby Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion

Dr. Yvette Murphy-Erby, a Professor of Social Work, is the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Arkansas. She has held other leadership roles within the university including Associate Dean in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Director of the School of Social Work (twice), and Interim Director for the African and African American Studies Program.

Dr. Murphy-Erby is an accomplished scholar and leader/administrator and has extensive expertise in leading positive change in organizations, particularly in relation to addressing structural, institutional and systemic challenges to fostering diversity and inclusion and social and economic justice. Dr. Murphy-Erby has 15 years of scholarship focusing on marginalized and underserved populations.

Dr. Murphy-Erby received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte (1985), M.S.W. from UNC-Chapel Hill (1991) and Ph.D. from UNC-Greensboro (2004). She joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 2004 and worked for one year in 2008 as the senior program officer for the Duke Endowment, the 11th largest foundation in the world at the time.

In collaboration with colleagues, Dr. Murphy-Erby has received over $14 million in external funding awards. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored the first book on the intersectionality of race, class and gender published in her discipline. She has expertise in building teams and engaging communities. Dr. Murphy-Erby served six years on the Board of Directors for the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. She has received numerous awards for her leadership, commitment to mentoring and her support of excellence. Recognizing the centrality and value of diversity and inclusion to the learning experiences, successful preparation, productivity and marketability of all students, Dr. Murphy-Erby has a passion for inclusive excellence and a long- standing and firm commitment to facilitating inclusion and diversity on our campus, across our state and beyond.

69 FACULTY AWARD WINNERS

Superior Service Award Rising STAR Award, for Outstanding All-around New Faculty Peggy Schaefer-Whitby, Associate Professor, Special Education Member Erin Kern Popejoy, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education Innovative Teaching Award Sarah Stokowski, Assistant Professor, Recreation and Sport George Denny STAR Award, for Outstanding Service, Management Teaching, Advising, and Research Sean Connors, Associate Professor, English Education Outstanding Mentoring and Advising Award Leslie Jo Shelton, Assistant Professor, Higher Education Career Faculty Award, in Recognition of a Career that Exemplifies Outstanding Performance Significant Research Award Gary Ritter, Endowed Chair, Education Policy Nicholas Greene, Assistant Professor, Exercise Science

PLATFORM PARTY

Jim Coleman Provost Ro Di Brezzo Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Michael T. Miller Dean Kate Mamiseishvili Associate Dean Jeremy Battjes Assistant Dean Stephen Dittmore Assistant Dean Fran Hagstrom Assistant Dean Cheryl Murphy Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction Jay P. Greene Department Head, Education Reform Matt Ganio Department Head, Health, Human Performance & Recreation Susan Patton Director, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Michael Hevel Dept. Head, Rehabilitation, Human Resources, & Communication Disorders Sherry Muir Program Director, Occupational Therapy Christian Goering College Council Chair Yvette Murphy-Erby Commencement Speaker Gi-Yong Koo Outstanding Young Alumni Award Martha Sandven Outstanding Alumni Award in Education Patti Martin Outstanding Alumni Award in Health and Human Services Tatianna Balis First-Ranked Senior Scholar Natalie Braitwaite First-Ranked Senior Scholar Aubrey Burton First-Ranked Senior Scholar Caroline Fortson First-Ranked Senior Scholar Sarah Halford First-Ranked Senior Scholar Emily Merten First-Ranked Senior Scholar Allison Overdorf First-Ranked Senior Scholar Lauren Phillips First-Ranked Senior Scholar Anne Schexnayder First-Ranked Senior Scholar Samantha Thomas First-Ranked Senior Scholar Chelsea Walker First-Ranked Senior Scholar Paige Whitlock First-Ranked Senior Scholar Bethany Adams Senior Scholar Haley Hicks Senior Scholar Taylor Jones Senior Scholar Courtney Woody Senior Scholar

70 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Marshals Daniel Barth Clinical Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction Janet Forbess Instructor, Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation Angela Smith-Nix Clinical Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction Angela Stewart Instructor, Nursing

Commencement Committee

Danielle Sexton Event Coordinator and Assistant to the Dean Jeremy Battjes Assistant Dean for Administration CT Erickson Assistant to the Assistant Dean for Administration Kristin DeAngelo Associate Director, University Recreation Denise Bignar Director, Student Services

Event Volunteers Liz Lee, Undergraduate Student Recruitment Jeana Carow, University Recreation Matthew Fey, Honors Program Brooke Cochran, University Recreation Ana Ayala Barker, Academic Advisor Kristin DeAngelo, University Recreation Cindy Folsom, Academic Advisor Jonathan Elliott, University Recreation Madelyn Jones, Academic Advisor Kelsey Harelson, University Recreation Elizabeth McKinley, Academic Advisor Kyle Shunkey, University Recreation Doug Talbott, Academic Advisor Becky Todd, University Recreation Katie Winkler, Academic Advisor Kenny Williams, University Recreation Jeremy Battjes, University Recreation Craig Edmonston, Recreation and Sport Erin Butler, University Recreation Management

Fayetteville Jazz Collective

The Fayetteville Jazz Collective was founded in May, 2009, as a professional jazz orchestra comprised of musicians active in the Northwest Arkansas area. The FJC is an 18-piece group that seeks to preserve and enhance the big band tradition through education of young audiences, aspiring musicians, and the general public. It has performed the works of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Thad Jones, Gil Evans, Oliver Nelson, Sammy Nestico, Frank Foster, Tito Puente, Gordon Goodwin, and many others. The FJC also provides an outlet for local composers and arrangers, such as James Greeson, Ben Harris, and Rick Salonen, the band’s baritone saxophonist and “composer in residence.” The FJC hopes to continue to enrich the cultural life of the greater Northwest Arkansas community through performances and outreach. Contact information is available on their website at www.fayettevillejazzcollective.org

Soloist Christopher Senty

Chris Senty is a Senior pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and is currently the worship pastor at Bella Vista Community Church.

71 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Presented by Michael T. Miller, Dean of the College of Education and Health Professions

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Briana Michelle Adkins Meghan Renee Gadbury Nicholas R. Lane Shelby Marie Alayon Shannon Marie Garrison Naomi N. Larson Kelly Marie Allen Magna Cum Laude Meredith Ann Gatlin Katherine Marie Latta Malik Ishmael Allen Taylor Ryan Genz Sadie Schulze Laughlin Highest Distinction Stephen Alexander Alter Samuel Marcelo Gilbert Nina Lee Jay Joseph Anderson (Fall 2017) Derek James Gililland Madison Kennedy Lewis Alissa Nichole Andi Meredith D. Gill Brennen Michael Long Alexander Thomas Andreadis Aimee Nicole Gillis Madison Caroline Lovaas Taryn Nicole Arel Jake Austin Gingrich Jessie Amanda Ludwig Cum Laude Charles Clinton Arnold Katie Marie Glover Reagan M. Maddox Arlette Abigail Askar Samantha Lee Golway Christin D. Mahone Tatianna Lyn Balis Summa Cum Laude Laura LeBaron Goodwin Terrance Deion Malone Katie Elizabeth Ballard Nicholas Todd Gookin Allie O’Neill Marcouiller Mia Kathryn Bargiacchi Jordan Hailey Grainger Callie Anne Margiotta Andrew Allen Barry Sydney Brooke Gramling Rachel Dee Mass Anthony Jericho Blakely Drew Madison Greene James Kaplan Maurer Michael James Blevins Sedre’Auna S. Griddine Chad Bryant McCone Serena Alexis Bolden Stephen Mitchell Griffith Geoffery Alexander McKay Kyle M. Brende Kayla R. Grigsby Oakley Dawn Meadows Jacob Nolan Brown Nicole Joan Grue Hayden J. Meredith Katelyn Kennedy Burt Taylor Nicole Guzman Bri’Ana Alisha Meriweather Iyana M. Butler Hunter Shianne Hamblin Braylin Renee Miesner William James Butler Elika Yamazaki Hamer Cum Laude Alexandra Bailey Miller Chase Steven Boyles Jackson Todd Hannah Melissa Alejandra Miranda Jennifer C. Camacho Elizabeth Ann Happy Halie Mae Neubaum Alissa C. Canon Caleb J. Hardin Daniel Anderson Newton Christina Lucile Caples Madyson Dawn Harmon Steven Brent Noskin Malorie Paige Catlett Jordan Michele Harris Brandon S. Nunley Sydney Olivia Chizk High Distinction Zane O. Harris Avery A. Oberg Alyson B. Coffman Christopher Austin Hart Thomas Merritt Osment Carli Mckenzie Congdon Jessica LaRita Hartzler Daniel Luis Patino Brendan I. Cook Abbygayl Grace Helmert Brooklyn Patrick Trenton Levi Cook Kailey Lynn Hendrix Emily Paige Patterson Kenzo M. Cotton Christopher James Henry Highest Distinction Heather Mackenzie Pearson Mariela Cruz Christopher Darrell Hickey Erick Albarran Perea Addison L. Davis Mallory Jane Hickey Alexandra Lyn Perreault Jonathan De Fex Blake Ryan Hockaday Alexandra Politz Jesus De La Sancha Morgan Elizabeth Hodges High Distinction Payton Murphy Poole Andrea Grace De Sanctis Ellen Grace Hoelscher Merritt Prince Alexander Drews Dellett Tanner Winston Holt Taylor Ann Ready Hasset Tsegaye Demissie Brianna Kristen Horan Alexandria G. Richey Summa Cum Laude Zackery Ryan DeVine Brittany Suzanne Hoskins Marissa Erin Robinson Meghan F. Dillard Payton R. Hulse Ashley Elizabeth Rogans John Alexander Duke Devon N. Hunter Emily Elizabeth Rolling Brittany Lorraine Dupchak Lydia Marie Hunter Kennedy Alliyah Root Anna Olivia Dyer Hailey Kathryn Hurst Christopher Taylor Scandrett Clark David Eagan Michaela Kathleen Ison Madison Hope Schoenekase Kelsey Annette Ellis-Lepard Cum Laude Jessica Janelle Jackson Evan Michael Sears Ryan Ray Elswick Zachary Garrett Jackson Zachary John Sebghati Summa Cum Laude Jared N. Emberson Derek Jacobus Keyanna Shawonn Smith Emily Ann Fannin Lauren Jamison Michael Joseph Smith Garrett Kyle Farren Kyle Aaron Jessie Emily E. Smock Jack Reid Fawcett Summa Cum Laude Mikayla Erin Jester Alex Kennedy Snodgrass Rosy Marisa Fernandez Jordan Christian Johnson Natalee Raye Soo Lane Alan Ferrell Rachel Lea Johnson Brett Austin Sooter Meredith L. Fick Hailey Rose Kachmarchik Carrie Arnesha Spencer Hannah Nicole Field Blakeley Alexandra Kepesky Haylie D. Stanley Elizabeth Ann Fisher Joseph Keith Kestner Paige Renee Steiner Summa Cum Laude Johnathon L. Ford Dylan J. Kilgore Alexis S. Stephens Caroline M. Fox Krista Brianna Kolbinskie Summa Cum Laude Kyle D. Stephens Kori Renee Freeman Jordan L. Labarbera Callie J. Stigall

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION Alexia Morgan Allen Katherine Riley Dabbs Tina R. Hopkins Drue E. Allen Anna C. Dahms Denoka Danielle Houston Emma Bryles Allen Magna Cum Laude Rachel Elizabeth Dawson Magna Cum Laude Zoe Elizabeth Huizenga Troy James Allison Gabriella Rebecca Deleon Shannen Marie Hulsey Tori Alan Allred Trevor L. Deloney Victoria Lynn Hunt David Shy Anderson Sydney Ivana Marie Deshay Dory D. Ingram Amanda J. Arling Highest Distinction Angela Lee Dick Bailey J. Irwin Angus Christian Armendariz Andrea Dominguez Garcia Jaycie Caroline James Donald Cullen Arrick Emily Nichole Downs Russell Lee Johnson Abigail Kathryn Arterbury Anna Karen Duran Trinity Dawn Johnson Dylan Douglas Ator Aubrey D. Edwards High Distinction Anna Elizabeth Jones Karsen Leigh Baer Rachael Mary-Elizabeth Edwards Taylor G. Jones Highest Distinction Casey Lyn Baldwin Summa Cum Laude Mary E. Engledowl Jane Ellen Justus Summa Cum Laude Shawna Maureen Bateson Brooke Conway Ervin Heather Anne Keene Leah Valley Bayles Miranda Escamilla Shirin Khan Anton Lamont Beard Kayla M. Eskridge High Distinction Josephine Elizabeth Kilburn Machen R. Beard Claire Fassett Shelby N. King High Distinction Stephanie Jane Beasley Jessica G. Ferguson Andrea Dawn Konert Erin Denise Beckman High Distinction Sara Mae Filler Meredith Elena Kressen Kimberly Ann Berke Baylee Nicole Flenniken Hayley Elizabeth Krier High Distinction Brittany Nicole Beshears High Distinction Rigoberto Flores Carpintero Lisa Emiko Kwon Caroline Mary Bestard Emily Elizabeth Floyd Ashley Danielle Lane Hannah Renee Bigger Lauren Elisa Fowler Highest Distinction Landie Allison Lee Eleanor M. Bilger Nancy A. France Carly Ann Liggett Shannon Elizabeth Birkhoff Kristen Nicole Franklin Alexandra Dawn Little Lauren Elizabeth Blackburn Jenna Grace Fritz Sara Casiday Long Jake Edward Blalock Ebony Jocelyn Garcia Joanna Elizabeth Lovern Alexandra V. Boggs Cassidy Marie Gardner Ryder Matthew Lucas Alexandra Rayanne Bolton Taylor Joseph Geringer High Distinction Shannon Marie Lydon Sara Rose Bradley Abby Danielle Gibson Leah Virginia MacMoyle Natalie Marie Braithwaite Summa Cum Laude Emma C. Giezentanner Allen Thomas Mangan Taylor Lane Branham Avery Alexandra Goode Cami Rachelle Martin Katherine Elizabeth Branum Summa Cum Laude Shannon W. Gragg Karonia Martin Lauren C. Brown Mary Hollis H. Graham Highest Distinction Rachael Danielle Martin Shayne Michelle Brown Coby L. Graves Samantha Marie Massara Meghan Trinh Bui Clair Alanis Green Nathan Robert Max Magna Cum Laude Keri Grace Burnett Jazmine TreSha Griswold Ashley Taylor McAuley Jeremy Nicholos Butler Luke Stephen Gromer High Distinction Patricia Sue McConnell Molly Ruth Cagle High Distinction Mackenzie Rae Gross Magna Cum Laude Madison Michele McCrary Catherine Elizabeth Cain Elizabeth L. Gschwend Magna Cum Laude Sarah Brianne McCrary Danielle Diana Campbell Sarah C. Halford Summa Cum Laude Shannon R. McCuin Madison Canterbury Kaylee Brooke Hamilton Highest Distinction Kimberly Lane McGaughey Bradley Lewis Chambliss Sydney Anne Hammit Paige Amanda McKay Makenzi Rae Chance Chloe Louise Hannam Jackson Rafe McKinney Bailey Ann Chenier Grace Catherine Hannon Elizabeth Coreene McLaughlan Alexis J. Childers High Distinction Samantha R. Harp Madelyn D. McSwain Rachel Ann Clayton Lisa Marie Harvill Mary Lottie McWha Hannah Reiss Clemons Haley Christine Hawkins Alyssa Jade Mears High Distinction Michelle Lee Cobb Caroline P. Hecker High Distinction Grant Albert Mears Libby Anne Colston High Distinction Kelsey Cantrece Herman Emily A. Merten Highest Distinction Carly Faith Cox Arllyn Hernandez Megan Elizabeth Mikkelsen Magna Cum Laude Jacob Ryan Crain Hugo B. Herrera Adysun H. Miller Teila Shae Creekmore Steve Herring Jordan Ann Milz Stacy Diane Crotser Rachel Kaitlyn Holland High Distinction Kiana Alexandra Moffett Amanda C. Cummings Clay C. Holt Kylie Nichelle Mohler

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

Jennifer Elaine Abbott Jordan Nicole Davidson Gay M. Gragg Bethany Ruth Adams Summa Cum Laude Anna E. Davis Laura Temple Graham Kinsee R. Bailey Caroline Addison Davis Stephanie J. Grant-Doran Kayla Marinta Bakker Magna Cum Laude Grace Anne Davis High Distinction Gabrielle Grace Green Jessi Elanah Balagtas Cum Laude Meghan Elizabeth DeRuyter Kylie Green Isabel Mae Bannister High Distinction Abigail Kathryn Dillon Kayla Breanne Gruenhaupt Tyler Keith Barb Laurie Elizabeth Doerflinger High Distinction Rachel Erin Gurley Sydney Nicole Barnes Katherine Patricia Dougherty High Distinction Alicia Diane Hankins Lindsey Allison Blackburn Highest Distinction Madison Dudley Ashley Katherine Harmond Cum Laude Jeanne Rae Brown McKenzie Kaitlyn Duff Christy D. Harris Jessica C. Brown Emily Paige Dye Whitney Lauren Harris Aubrey Ann Burton Highest Distinction Marisa Michelle Eller Lauren E. Hart Highest Distinction Allyson Brooke Cafferty Emilee L. Emery Cum Laude Caleb Aaron Heatherly Madeline Rose Caldwell London Olivia Farrar Cum Laude Kelly Maxine Hepper Erin Elizabeth Campbell Joseline Tamara Fields Marlee Erin Herman Maria Ines Cardiel Katie Lynn Filewood Marcie Ellen Hermann Caroline D. Clark Elena Marie Ayala Flores Chasity Ann-Marie Hernandez Sarah Clark Maggie Nicole Ford Haley O. Hicks Highest Distinction Cheryl Lynne Clayborn Caroline Elizabeth Fortson Summa Cum Laude Greta Fay Hight Lauren Marie Coble Diana Florine Franklin Mark Allen Holland Kasey Landry Cole Kristi Lynn Freeman Daniel Gene Holtz Ash-Leigh Coleman Amanda Lea Fricks Mary A. Hurley Macy Michele Collins Mary A. Gadberry Magna Cum Laude MariNicole Infranca Elizabeth Paige Cooper Aubrey A. Gahagan Cum Laude Brecken P. Ingram Elizabeth Rose Corey James Eric Garner Dana Christine Johnson Victoria Lynn Correll Erin Patricia Geller Kristin Gail Johnson Janna Alexander Corsini Caroline E. George Madison Claire Jones Olivia Covington High Distinction Madison N. Gifford Boyd Benjamin Kennemer Tiffany Dawn Cox Sidney Elizabeth Gill Cum Laude Natalie Paige Kersey Cortland Caroline Cravey High Distinction Lainey Rae Godwin Molly C. Kruse Highest Distinction Jennifer Diane Culbertson Natalie Joyce Gohman Summa Cum Laude Courtney Leigh Lackey

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

MAY 12, 2018 Barnhill Arena • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 12:00 p.m. • Saturday, May 12, 2018

Processional March...... Marshals

Welcome...... Dr. John English Dean of the College of Engineering

National Anthem...... Ms. Maja Sevo

Introduction of Senior Scholars...... Dr. John English

Greetings from the Undergraduates...... Ms. Rachel Holmer

Commencement Address...... Mr. Stuart Scott Executive Vice President and CIO J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

Conferring of Degrees...... Dr. John English

Announcers...... Dr. Robert Beitle Professor, Chemical Engineering Dr. Richard Cassady Professor, Industrial Engineering

*Alma Mater...... Ms. Maja Sevo

Recessional March...... Marshals

Marshals

Gordon Beavers Ed Clausen Magda El-Shenawee Steve Tung Clinical Associate Professor Professor Professor Professor Computer Science and Computer Chemical Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Banner Carrier Mace Bearer

Music provided by the Northwest Arkansas Brass Quintet

The University community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the 2018 University of Arkansas Spring Commencement ceremony a success.

78 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Stuart Scott BSCompE 1988 MSCompE 1990 MBA 1994 Executive Vice President and CIO, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

Stuart Scott is the executive vice president and chief information officer at J.B Hunt Transport Services, Inc. and is responsible for engineering and technology for the company. Stuart leads the ongoing transformation of J.B Hunt into a technology-driven supply chain solutions company.

Stuart came to J.B Hunt from Tempur Sealy, where he served as chief information officer and led the upgrade of all business processes and information technologies across 26 countries with a single global platform, including the acquisition integration of Tempur’s largest competitor. Prior to Tempur Sealy, Stuart served as the chief operating officer for TB&W financial services, including P&L and shared services responsibilities, managing $83 billion in assets. Stuart served as chief information officer, corporate vice president, and enterprise risk management leader at Microsoft Corporation, where he led all internal technologies and participated in new product development. Stuart started his career with General Electric in 1986 and held domestic and international engineering and technology leadership roles, including chief information officer for GE’s consumer products, industrial and healthcare divisions. In addition, Stuart has led business development for a Silicon Valley startup and Initial Public Offering.

Stuart holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering, mathematics and computer science from the University of Louisville, as well as an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Stuart worked with the University of Arkansas to establish the J.B. Hunt Innovation Center of Excellence in 2017. The center is a catalyst for research and development business models and new technologies that will disrupt the supply chain industry. Stuart currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Arkansas and University of Louisville engineering colleges. He has been recognized with the distinguished Alumni Fellow award at University of Louisville and as Top CIO by numerous industry organizations and publications.

Stuart and his wife, Melanie, are active organizers and supporters for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and make their home in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

79 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Presented by John English, Dean of the College of Engineering

BACHELOR OF ARTS Kaelin A. Bullock Lily Grace Garton Clive William Charles Pullen Trae Deon Carey Brandon Scott Heiss Zachary John Hayes Sparks Marco Antonio Cruz Benjamin Daniel Jessup Spencer Alan Vaughn Dustin Roy Frank Christopher Lawrence Malone Nathanial Vogel

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

Adrian Michael Adams Distinction Elizabeth Kathleen Harris Jonathon Paul Raney Orlando Aguirre-Martinez High Distinction Foster Lamoin Hines Blake W. Reed Shelby Lance Anderson Michael William Hinkley Highest Distinction Ashley Mae Ritchey Trevor Dean Bartlett Zachary Ryan Kovach Adam Richard Schoelz Cum Laude Zachary David Bray James Keifer Laverty David A. Smith Summa Cum Laude Jared Carter Bronnenberg Shen Lin Luke Snyder Summa Cum Laude Diego Andres Calderon Rivera Magna Cum Laude Russell Brennon Lowry Brokan Jae Stafford Magna Cum Laude Alexander Scott Chitwood Simon Luangsisombath Ryan Timothy Stewart Rachel Marie Constien Distinction Jonathan Deng Ma Distinction Reid David Sutherland Nicholas Edward Davies Jace J. McPherson Summa Cum Laude Jan Niklas Timpe Daniel Andrew Decipulo Perry W. Mills Summa Cum Laude Kurt A. Westerman Nadine Nicole Devich Tara S. Moses High Distinction Tanner Gatlin Wilson Highest Distinction Mitchum Chase Dillard Teja Nakka Alec Nathaniel Winebrenner Gage Alexander Evans Ian Robert Perkins Cum Laude Timothy Michael Yarbrough Zachary James Fletcher Highest Distinction Alan Patrick Pinter Daniel Hader Lauren Alexa Rainbolt

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING Mckenna L. Belcher Highest Distinction Kendrick Clay Hardaway Summa Cum Laude Pablo Andres Pena Cabezas Brooke Anne Benham Summa Cum Laude Thomas Helvick Mason Christopher Puckett Magna Cum Laude Seth Edward Boles Magna Cum Laude Merrisa Kendrick Jennings Magna Cum Laude Will Pape Richardson Summa Cum Laude Colton E. Bryant Samuel Stone Lahodny High Distinction Rachel Christine Schlais Linden Kay Cheek Cum Laude Madeline Jane Ludwig Cum Laude Allison A. Sites Ryan James Clark Magna Cum Laude Madison Taylor Rain McMillen Jacob Alan Stanosheck Ali K. Ezell Summa Cum Laude Kami A. Parmenter Terrian Q. Tyler Casey Ann Gibson Summa Cum Laude Alexander Wayne Parr Magna Cum Laude Megan Faith Woodworth High Distinction

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Sandra Carolina Amador Sanchez Cum Laude James D. Hughes Cum Laude Sophia Christina Scalise Cum Laude Kayla Raquel Arkangel Renee A. Jennings Highest Distinction Robert William Slack Christofer Stuckey Baldwin April Faith Elizabeth Jules Highest Distinction Chance Logan Smith High Distinction Kaitlyn Paige Brickey Cum Laude Piengfa Kamolrath Caroline Rae Spainhour Summa Cum Laude Vinh Bui Ana Micula High Distinction Sarah E. Spears Victoria Crystal Carey Raygan Ellis Mills Sydney Spradlin Cum Laude Hayley Ashcraft Chandler Summa Cum Laude Brandon William Moritz High Distinction Bailey Anne Stinnett Cum Laude Jordan Michael Clarke Jackson Lide Mosley Summa Cum Laude Conner Douglas Veit C. Denisho Coleman Nicholas Eamon Mulcahy William M. Weidman Victoria Elizabeth Cooper John Stiven Navarro Gonzalez David Wiles Wiggins Summa Cum Laude Anna M. Davis Caleb James Nissen Magna Cum Laude Walker Lloyd Wiggins Summa Cum Laude Grady Patrick Dunlap Summa Cum Laude Mugisha Abiola Nitunga Nicholas Anthony Wolpert Ethan Joseph Echols Summa Cum Laude Genna Cristyn Nunley Danielle Marie Zapata Paolo Miquel Garcia Magna Cum Laude Laura Elizabeth Peck Magna Cum Laude Yuanfei Zhang

Kayvan J. Afrasiabi Magna Cum Laude Bryce Clay Colford SanJuana Esmeralda Mota Conley Malone Allen Distinction Gracy Jacinda Cook Jessica Thi Nguyen Ahmed Nasser A. Alqahtani Perry Elijah Doles Cum Laude Hunter B. Norris Ahmad Hussain A. Alrumaih Katelynn Frances Downey Kaylie Michelle Owens Logan McLean Ashe Justin Scott Estes Elio Andres Reyes Gonzalez Justen Andrew Benshoof Taylor R. France Derek M. Richard Cum Laude Boyce Reed Bethel Magna Cum Laude Jordan A. Gadberry Magna Cum Laude Reagan Richardson Gram Lynn Booth Cum Laude Aaron Cullen Henry Magna Cum Laude Austin Bradley Roark High Distinction Cody Bossio Iliana L. Hernandez Francisco Javier Rodriguez Benjamin Lee Bracken Benjamin Thomas Houston Dakota Aaron Rusk Summa Cum Laude Phillip Demarius Braden Suzana Ivandic Summa Cum Laude Luis Esteban Sagarnaga Hinojosa Cum Laude Davinder Singh Braich Trent J. Jones High Distinction Davar Chrisnagraha Sasongko Perry Edward Brown Samuel Lee Keeter Tyler Wayne Shock Magna Cum Laude Alexander Ryan Brown Samuel Robert Kempka Sowmitran Sivakumar George Austin Brown High Distinction Chandler Carr Kline Margaret Katherine Treece Serunno D’Amato Browning Distinction Julia Marie Little Eathon Colby Vestal James Norman Burrow Summa Cum Laude Dan Xuan Mai Marquis DeShawn Wagner Christian Brent Killion Carnahan High Distinction Pietro Nicolas Malky Sandoval Matthew Kemp Whitsell Sabrina Denise Castle Magna Cum Laude Madison Mae Mann Magna Cum Laude Zachary Scott Wiese Cum Laude Molly Jean Churchwell Summa Cum Laude Paola Marrero-Rivera Cum Laude Johnny Fue Yang Lauren Nicole Clark Summa Cum Laude Michael Thomas Melcher Benjamin Adrian Yeldell Distinction Alexandra Lee Colavecchia Distinction Taylor Moore Distinction Tristan Alex Cole High Distinction Joel Kenneth Morgan Distinction

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING Husam Fawzi Barakat Nichole Rene Elliott Thai Dong Nguyen Distinction Trevor Nathaniel Baugh Garrett Zachary Evans High Distinction Ben R. Peterson Jordan Michael Bennett Kristopher Lee Gifford Aaron Pinedo Joshua Michael Boccaccio James Michael Haddock Shantel Raquel Romer Gabriel James Bogdanoff Distinction John Thomas Hale Santiago Romero Stephane Bossio Kevin Todd Harley Mary Renee Salmonsen Bailey Lauren Carr Addison L. Heim Distinction Yancy D. Schrader Alan Scott Caster Colton Todd Horn Nicole Catharine Smale Jake T. Chatman Connor Allen Johnson Mason Kyser Taylor Distinction King Man Chow Dakota Don Kendrick Gregory Joseph Thomas Magna Cum Laude Gabrielle Alyse Collins Logan P. Kiihnl High Distinction Jacob VanderBaan Sarah Elizabeth Connell Vanessa Ane Lebow Magna Cum Laude Johnique LeeDa Williams Jared Thomas Cox Thomas Arthur Leis Landon Joel Woodfield Tyler Brennan Cyr Serge Manzi Dennis N. Zimmerman Ryan C. Davis Kelsey Reann Morgan Ignacio Rafael Del Valle Betancourt Ryant D. Mosby

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING

April Ciera Abiera Mark Andrew Howard Summa Cum Laude Samuel Joseph Riester Eli James Barton Eric Andrew Jones Pedro Rodriguez Richard Kim Becker Summa Cum Laude Sangyun Kim Zachary Taylor Roth Magna Cum Laude Andrew Phillip Beers Aaron Engelbert Koch Summa Cum Laude Keaten Nicholas Stokke Osvaldo Bobadilla Jacob Paul Krusz Mason Alexander Tyndall Zackary Pearce Fravel Shawn Nathan McKay Garrett Reid VanBuskirk Joel Garay Devan MacKay Moses Pearson C. Wade Cum Laude Garrett Wade Graham Henrik A. Mouritsen Dylan Thomas Walker Marty Lee Hamilton Jacob Daniel Oldham Magna Cum Laude Jeremy Douglas Willbern Greg Louis Harms Derek Thomas Paschal High Distinction Kit Carson Cole Woods Kelby Wayne Haulmark Highest Distinction Cody Wayne Phillips Danielle Ho Kaylee R. Rauso Summa Cum Laude

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Arman Ahmed Cum Laude Lauren Ashley Archuleta High Distinction Jarod M. Cole Enoule Kodjovi Florentin Mar A Akibode Ahmed Mofarih A. Assiri Distinction Kaleb Matthew Crow Summa Cum Laude Abdullah Khalid A. Alhamdan Nicholas Paul Blair Kelly M. Cumiskey Abdulaziz Omar A. Alkatheer Rachel Elizabeth Boudreaux Alex Cutsinger Pablo Alvarez Arellano Tyler Scott Coatney Jose Pablo Diaz Romero Torres

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Nour Husam Abu-Safe Rachel E. Holmer Summa Cum Laude Bryce Anthony Rohr Celia Aguilar Anna Danielle Hudgeons Summa Cum Laude Nicolas Alexander Socrates Rork Carson Daniel Alsup Mireille Ineza Maria Camila Ruiz Martinez Amanda Marie Beard Terecia Anginay Jones Ryan Parker Sanders Summa Cum Laude William Thomas Beckman Darius Kajuan Jordan Peter Gregory Scheele Sarah Anna Belcher Chase T. Kilty High Distinction Brian Joseph Sloan Cynthia Bocanegra Savanna Kis Barbara Stanziola Ogazon Jose Daniel Bracamonte Prado Elizabeth Anne Laster Austin Forest Talley Monica A. Briselden Cody Ray Lawrence Garrett Bertram Tallman Shay Lynn Brown Highest Distinction Ali Nicole Madere Nicholas Jackson Taulbee Trenton James Cason High Distinction Christopher Manjarrez Deondre Demetrius Taylor Karla B. Castro Juan Sebastian Marino Justin L. Taylor Cum Laude Emerald Imani Cole Grace Watters McGee Magna Cum Laude John R. Tlapek Aliyah Conley Thompson Robert Caine McLeod Matthew Thomas Turner Blake A. Dougan Highest Distinction Reagan P. Villarreal Christopher Ross Fulmer Brian Anthon Meyer Jacob Michael Washkowiak High Distinction Harrison Luke Gilker Brittany Monique Miller Jennifer Anne Watson Victoria Elizabeth Goethel Allison L. Morast Highest Distinction Brittany Michelle Watts Distinction Jackson Cole Goodman Man Ho Ng Olivia Hurst Weekley Olivia Goss Summa Cum Laude Teresa Trinh Nguyen Magna Cum Laude Tyler A. Wiggins Kelly Ryan Green High Distinction Daniel Ray Ostrand Samuel Robert Williams Fallon Dawn Haaser Domenic Collin Pacitti Anthony Paul Woods Summa Cum Laude Royal Tyne Hart Clarence Foster Pollock

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Adedoyin Ayomide Abe Summa Cum Laude Adam Parker Gober James Franklin Masters High Distinction Sterling Kert Acree Ashley Renee Green Summa Cum Laude Rebecca Lynn McCann Cum Laude Abdurraheem Faisal A. Al Mudhi Andrew Michael Grubb Evan B. Mertes Michael Alexander Bailey Nathan W. Haile Jeremy William Meyer High Distinction Chandler Joseph Bair Nathaniel Quinn Harris Tyler James Mikles Jazmin Renee Bennett Jared T. Harter John E. Mills Highest Distinction Abigail Marie Bishop Highest Distinction Nicholas Ryan Hauch Bailey Owen Mitchell Macario Godwin Blyden Keegan Joshua Heller Ashraf M. Moursi Zachary Andrew Bolen Cristian Gabriel Hernandez Samuel Albert Nastri Alexandria N. Bolinger Nick Paul Hiatt Distinction Brandon Lee Norvell Brendyn D. Brakefield Benjamin Michael Higgs David Pacheco Colby Ridge Breithaupt Kyle Alan Hosting Harold D. Parsons High Distinction Jacob Austin Brown Summa Cum Laude Seth M. Hutton Drew Jeremy Pianalto Thomas Tucker Brown Justin Tamico Jack Highest Distinction Kaleb Keith Porter Highest Distinction Jacob Patrick Bushnell Austin Howard Johnson Luke S. Reher Justin Rigdon Caylor Brandon James Johnston Christian A. Repsher Henderson Keith Clement High Distinction Bryce Gagui Katon Reihle Noel Saldana Distinction Sean Matthew Connelly William Patrick Keen Caleb Andrew Sebo Conner C. Dayton Joel L. Kirkland Ty Conner Seiwert Magna Cum Laude Brock James Dorothy Distinction Akshay S. Kumar Vantrice Tre’Maine Skillern Nicholas Patrick Dunaway Jonathan Jacob Laks Forrest W. Smith Craig Bradley Ferguson Randy Lemus Noah Phillip Spear Highest Distinction Mitch Thomas Foley Distinction John Wayne Lenderman Jason Grant Steck Summa Cum Laude Austin Wayne Foshee Kenneth Logan Long James Coy Stevens Aris Jo Gee Distinction Neil Edwin Luck Andrew Russell Tanner Hans Korff Gilbert Maxwell Levi Martin Cum Laude Cristian Eduardo Tejada

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Thomas A. Costello, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Marty D. Matlock, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Brian E. Haggard, Professor, Ph.D. G. Scott Osborn, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Christopher G. Henry, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Benjamin R. K. Runkle, Assistant Professor, PhD. Jin-Woo Kim, Professor, Ph.D. Samy Sadaka, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Kieu Ngoc Le, Instructor, Ph.D. Karl Vandevender, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Yanbin Li, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Lalit R. Verma, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., P.E. Yi Liang, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Jun Zhu, Professor, Ph.D. Otto J. Loewer Jr., Professor, Ph.D., P.E.

Biomedical Engineering Qusay Alfaori, Instructor, M.S. Xianghong Qian, Professor, Ph.D. Kartik Balachandran, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Kyle Quinn, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Hanna Jensen, Research Assistant Professor, M.D., Ph.D. Narasimhan Rajaram, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Morton Jensen, Associate Professor, M.D., Ph.D. Raj R. Rao, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D. Myunghee M. Kim, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Jeffrey C. Wolchok, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Timothy J. Muldoon, Assistant Professor, M.D., Ph.D.

Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering Michael D. Ackerson, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Christa Hestekin, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Robert E. Babcock, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Jamie Hestekin, Professor, Ph.D. Robert Beitle, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Donald K. Roper, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Edgar C. Clausen, Professor and Shannon Servoss, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Associate Department Head, Ph.D., P.E. Tom O. Spicer III, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. David M. Ford, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D. Greg Thoma, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Lauren F. Greenlee, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Heather Walker, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Jerry A. Havens, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., P.E. S. Ranil Wickramasinghe, Professor, Ph.D. Jeremy J. Herman, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Civil Engineering Natalie Becknell, Instructor, MSCE, P.E. Ernest Heymsfield, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Michelle Bernhardt-Barry, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Michael Johnson, Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Andrew Braham, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Management, P.E., NAE Richard Coffman, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E., P.L.S Cameron D. Murray, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Norman D. Dennis Jr., University Professor and Senior Gary Prinz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Dean, Ph.D., P.E R. Panneer Selvam, University Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Findlay G. Edwards, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Richard M. Welcher, Instructor, MSCE, P.E. Julian Fairey, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Rodney D. Williams, Clinical Assistant Eric Fernstrom, Instructor, Ph.D., P.E. Professor, Ph.D., P.E., P.L.S William M. Hale, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., P.E. Clinton Wood, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Kevin D. Hall, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Wen Zhang, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Sarah Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Computer Science & Computer Engineering David Andrews, Professor, Ph.D. Wing Ning Li, Professor, Ph.D. Gordon Beavers, Clinical Associate Professor, Ph.D. Xiaoqing “Frank” Liu, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D. Christophe Bobda, Professor, Ph.D. Alexander Nelson, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Jia Di, Professor, Ph.D. Brajendra Panda, Professor, Ph.D. Mike Gashler, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Pat Parkerson, Associate Professor, Ph.D. John Gauch, Professor, Ph.D. Matt Patitz, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Susan Gauch, Professor, Ph.D. Yarui Peng, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Miaoqing Huang, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Dale R. Thompson, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Qinghua Li, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Xintao Wu, Professor, Ph.D. 84 ENGINEERING FACULTY

Electrical Engineering Simon S. Ang, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Roy A. McCann, Professor, Ph.D. Juan C. Balda, University Professor Hameed A. Naseem, University Professor, Ph.D., P.E. and Department Head, Ph.D., P.E. Robert Saunders, Instructor and Assistant Zhong Chen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Department Head, MSEE, P. E . Samir El-Ghazaly, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Silke Spiesshoefer, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Magda O. El-Shenawee, Professor, Ph.D. Jingxian Wu, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Fang Luo, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Fisher Yu, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Omar Manasreh, Professor, Ph.D. Morgan Ware, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. H. Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Yue Zhao, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Terry W. Martin, Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Ph.D., P.E.

Freshman Engineering Program C. Richard Cassady, Professor and Director, Ph.D. Leslie Massey, Instructor, MSEnE Brandon Crisel, Instructor, M.S. Candace Rainwater, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Aysa Galbraith, Instructor, Ph.D. Heath Schluterman, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Industrial Engineering Caroline M. Beam, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Leonard Nethercutt, Instructor, Ph.D. C. Richard Cassady, Professor, Ph.D. Sarah G. Nurre, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Professor, Ph.D. Gregory S. Parnell, Research Professor, Ph.D. Justin R. Chimka, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Harry A. Pierson, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. John R. English, Professor and Dean of Engineering, Edward A. Pohl, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D. Ph.D., P.E. Letitia Pohl, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Joseph Geunes, Professor, Ph.D. Chase E. Rainwater, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Haitao Liao, Professor, Ph.D. Manuel D. Rossetti, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Xiao Liao, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Kelly M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Ashlea Bennett Milburn, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. John A. White, Jr., Distinguished Professor and Chancellor Heather Nachtmann, Professor and Associate Dean for Emeritus, Ph.D., P.E., NAE Research, Ph.D. Shengfan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Kim LaScola Needy, Professor and Dean of Graduate School and International Education, Ph.D., P.E.

Mechanical Engineering David G. Albers, Instructor, MSME, P.E. Paul C. Millett, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Rick J. Couvillion, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Arun K. Nair, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. James A. Davis, Instructor, Ph.D., P.E. Darin W. Nutter, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., P.E. David Huitink, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. T. Montgomery Roberts, Instructor, MSME John H. Hamilton, Instructor, MSME, P.E. Larry A. Roe, Associate Professor, Ph.D., P.E Po-Hao Adam Huang, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Ashok Saxena, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. David C. Jensen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Zhenghui Sha, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Ing-Chang Jong, Professor, Ph.D., P.E. Steve Tung, Professor, Ph.D. James Leylek, Professor, Ph.D. Uchechukwu Wejinya, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Ajay P. Malshe, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Wenchao Zhou, Assistant Professor, Ph. D. Xiangbo Meng, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Min Zou, Professor, Ph. D.

85 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HALL OF FAME

Established in 1965, the Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed by the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. The award recognizes prominent graduates and leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession and to society as a whole. Members of the Hall of Fame have, throughout their careers, made a difference to the engineering profession and demonstrated concern for improving their communities. Their achievements have brought favorable attention to the College of Engineering, to the University of Arkansas and to the state of Arkansas.

The Hall of Fame is located on the third floor of Bell Engineering Center.

1965 Carroll H. Walsh (BSEE ’27) John H. Oltmann (BSME ‘49) Samuel T. Blair (BSCE ’10) Vice President in Charge of Engineering (Retired) Senior Vice President Manager, Foundry Department (Retired) Arkansas Power & Light Company Cities Service Company The Anaconda Company 1971 1984 James H. Goss (BSME ’30) Robert W. Dodson (BSME ’33) James A. Dunlop (BSIE ‘57) Vice President and Group Executive Vice President President, Halliburton Services General Electric Company Southwestern Electric Power Company16 1985 Philip C. Huntly (BSCE ’10) 1972 R.R. Baxter (BSChE ‘48) Professor and Director of Civil Engineering (Retired) Bramlette McClelland (BSCE ‘40) President and CEO, C.F. Industries Inc. Illinois Institute of Technology President, McClelland Engineers Inc. 1988 1966 James E. White (BSChE ‘41) James E. Worsham (MSME ‘50) Robert A. Bowman (BSME ’29) Senior Specialties (Petroleum) Advisor Aerospace Group Executive & Corp. Vice President Vice President, Power and Industrial Division Bechtel Esso Europe Inc. McDonnell Douglas Corporation Corporation 1973 1989 Edmundson Parkes (BSME ’25) Delbert A. Schmand (BSEE ‘37) Robert N. Maddox (BSChE ‘48) President, United Gas Corporation Chief, Construction-Operations Division Emeritus Professor U.S. Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District Oklahoma State University William Oakley Turner (BSEE ’19) Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, 1974 1992 Louisiana Power & Light Company Alex A. Diffey (BSME ‘32) Glenn C. Bandy (MSEE ‘54) Manager of Specialty Products Operations 1967 Chief Engineer, Advanced Technology (Retired) Exxon Company Texas Instruments Inc. Ray C. Adam (BSChE ’46) Chairman, President and CEO NL Industries 1975 1995 James F. Bourland Jr. (BSChE ‘36) Tommy W. Holloway (BSME ‘63) Loy E. Barton (BEE ’21, EE ’25) Senior Vice President Manager, Space Shuttle Program RCA Research Laboratories American Cyanamid Company NASA Charles M. Kittrell II (BSIE ’50) William R. Thomas (BSEE ‘44) 1998 Executive Vice President, Vice President of Employee Relations Melvyn L. Bell (BSEE ’60) Phillips Petroleum Company Phillips Petroleum Company Chairman and CEO Environmental Systems Company (Ensco) 1968 1977 Harry S. Arendt (BSChE ’40) William Buck Johns (BSIE ‘64) George D. Combs (BSChE ’59, PhD ’64) Manager of Economics & Planning, Gas Coordination, Founder and General Manager Owner and Manager Standard Oil of New Jersey Trane Co. Home Comfort Centers of California Combs Equity Management Inc. Ira Grant Hedrick (BSCE ’36) 1978 Ansel L. Condray (BSChE ’64) Vice President of Engineering Russell B. Newman (BSEE ‘46) President and Member of the Management Committee, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Vice President, Operations Services Exxon Company, U.S.A. Reynolds Metals Company Brice R. Smith (BSCE ’23) 1999 Director and Manager 1979 Kirk P. Pond (BSEE ’66) Sverdup & Parcel and Associates Truman D. Williamson Sr. (BS ‘09, MSEE ‘28) President, CEO and Chairman of the Board 1969 Chairman, Executive Committee of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation Board of Directors George F. Douglas (BSCE ’40) 2000 Senior Vice President-Administration T.D. Williamson Inc. Eric M. Malstrom Northrup Corporation 1980 Professor and Head, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Tell T. White (BSCE ’15) Joe C. Culp (BSEE ‘55) University of Arkansas Supervisory Petroleum Engineer (Retired) Vice President and General Manager Gus M. Vratsinas (BSCE ’67, MSCE ’68) Securities and Exchange Commission Collins Transmission Systems Division Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Vratsinas 1970 James L. Fischer (BSChE ‘48) Construction Company Ward Goodman (BSCE ’30) Executive Vice President 2001 Director of Highways Texas Instruments Arkansas State Highway Department J. Cliff Eason, (BSEE ’70) 1982 President and CEO (retired) Max A. Mehlburger (BSCE ’27) William H. Banks (BSCE ‘41) Southwest Bell Telephone Company President, Mehlburger Engineers Inc. President, Chevron Shipping Company

86 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HALL OF FAME

2002 2014 William E. Clark (BSEE ’65) Robert A. Davidson (BSIE ‘70) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer President and CEO (retired), Arkansas Best Corporation CDI Contractors, LLC Neil M. Schmitt (BSEE ‘63, MSEE ‘64) 2003 Dean Emeritus, University of Arkansas College of Rodger S. Kline (BSEE ’66) Engineering Chief Operating Officer, Company Operations Leader and 2015 Director, Acxiom Corporation Hugh H. Brewer (BSEE ‘59) Ralph E. Martin, (BSChE ’58, MSChE ’60) Owner and President (retired), Chief Executive Officer Upchurch Electrical Supply Petrofac Inc. James M. Hefley (BSIE ‘61) 2005 Executive Vice President (retired), Edward M. Harvey (BSME ’54) Gemini Consulting Founder, President and CEO 2016 Harvey Industries, Inc. Troy C. Alley, Jr. (BSEE ’69) Charles D. Morgan (BSME ’66) Executive Vice President and Company Leader Chief Operating Officer, Con-Real, Inc. Acxiom Corporation James T. Womble (BSME ’66) David D. Foust (BSIE ’64) Global Development Leader Vice President and Acxiom Corporation General Manager of the Americas (retired), Bekaert 2006 Standley Reed (BSAGE ’73, JD ’76) William L. Craven (BSIE ’56) Owner, Reed Family Farm Chairman, Retired Alltel Information Technology, Inc. 2017 2007 Bob H. Crafton (BSCE ‘57) Tom Stephens (BSIE ’65, MSIE ’66) Co-founder (Retired) Crafton Tull Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Boise Cascade Larry G. Stephens (BSIE, ’58) 2008 Chairman of the Board (Retired) John Walter Keller Jr. (BSEE ’46) Mid-South Engineering Vice President ESB-Medcor 2009 Jack E. Buffington (BSCE ’61; MSCE ’68) Research Professor (Retired), College of Engineering, Associate Director (Retired), Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center, Chief of Engineers and Commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (Retired), United States Navy 2010 Julian C. Stewart (BSCE ’57) Sales and Marketing (Retired) IBM 2011 Robert T. Mitchell (MS ’64; MSEE ’65) Program Manager, Cassini-Huygens Mission NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2012 Ron Morris (BSIE ’58) President and CEO (retired) Lyons Manufacturing, Inc. 2013 Jack King (BSEE ‘62, MSEE ‘63) President and CEO (retired), Oglethorpe Power Corporation Senior Vice-President (retired), Entergy Corporation

87 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1871 The University of Arkansas was established 1873 The first courses in civil engineering were offered 1888 The first civil engineering degree was awarded 1893 The College of Engineering was organized as a college of the university 1897 A separate civil engineering department was established The Department of Electrical Engineering was established 1903 The Department of Mechanical Engineering was established A chemical engineering curriculum was established in the Department of Chemistry 1920 The Engineering Experiment Station was established by the state legislature to investigate and study engineering problems of general interest to Arkansas 1925 The first master’s degree in engineering was awarded 1945 Chemical engineering became part of the College of Engineering 1948 The Department of Agricultural Engineering was established The Department of Industrial Engineering was established 1959 The Doctor of Philosophy degree was approved 1975 The Engineering Extension Center was formed to provide continuing education opportunities to practicing engineers 1976 A computer science engineering program was initiated within the industrial engineering department 1982 The college took possession of a deserted manufacturing plant that evolved into the Engineering Research Center 1985 Computer science engineering became a separate department The Arkansas Center for Technology Transfer was established 1986 The Engineering Distance Education Center was created to offer off-campus engineering education The GENESIS Technology Incubator was established 1989 Agricultural engineering became the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering 1991 The computer science engineering department became the Department of Computer System Engineering 1998 Computer systems engineering merged with the computer science department housed in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, creating the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering 2005 The chemical engineering department was named the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering 2012 Historic Engineering Hall, built in 1927, was renamed the John A. White Jr. Engineering Hall, in honor of the former chancellor. 2012 The Department of Biomedical Engineering was established

SAM M. WALTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

MAY 12, 2018 Bud Walton Arena • Fayetteville, Arkansas COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

University of Arkansas • 1:00 p.m. • Saturday, May 12, 2018

Post Ceremony...... Leah and the Mojo Doctors

Processional...... Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos. 1 & 2, Sir Edward Elgar*

America the Beautiful...... Leah Spears-Blackmon

Welcome...... Dean Matthew Waller

Special Recognition of Faculty and Students...... Dean Matthew Waller

Reflections from the Class of 2018...... Tristan Locke

Introduction of Speaker...... Dean Matthew Waller

Address...... John Furner

Awarding of Diplomas...... Dean Matthew Waller Department Chairs

Concluding Remarks...... Dean Matthew Waller

Alma Mater...... McKenzi Puzin

Postlude...... Rondeau, Mouret March, Bach Almand, Brade

*Please Stand

Special Thanks –

• Leah and the Mojo Doctors for providing music for today’s ceremony • Sign Language Interpreting Network for providing signing for today’s ceremony • TES Productions for providing sound for today’s ceremony

The Sam M. Walton College of Business community wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance of all people who helped make the 2018 University of Arkansas Spring Commencement a success.

92 THE OFFICIAL PARTY

Matthew Waller Dean Anne O’Leary-Kelly Senior Associate Dean Alan Ellstrand Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Research Brent Williams Associate Dean for Education and Outreach

Commencement Speaker John Furner

Alan Sugg Past President, University of Arkansas System Mark Waldrip Chairman, Board of Trustees John C. Goodson Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees Morril Harriman Secretary, Board of Trustees Kelly Eichler Assistant Secretary, Board of Trustees Tommy Boyer Member, Board of Trustees Stephen A. Broughton, MD Member, Board of Trustees Steve Cox Member, Board of Trustees Charles “Cliff” Gibson, III Member, Board of Trustees The Honorable David Pryor Member, Board of Trustees Sheffield Nelson Member, Board of Trustees

Gary Peters Chair, Department of Accounting Bill Curington Chair, Department of Economics Pu Liu Chair, Department of Finance Rajiv Sabherwal Chair, Department of Information Systems Vikas Anand Chair, Department of Management Jeff Murray Chair, Department of Marketing Brian Fugate Chair, Department of Supply Chain Management

93 GUEST SPEAKER

John Furner BSBA ‘86 CEO/President, Sam’s Club John Furner serves as president and chief executive officer of Sam’s Club, a members-only warehouse club with over 100,000 associates and nearly 600 clubs throughout the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. Sam’s Club is a division of Walmart, Inc., headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Since becoming president and CEO in 2017, Furner has implemented a transformation plan based on the three priorities of People, Product and Digital that is producing momentum throughout the business.

Furner started with Walmart as an hourly associate in 1993 and has held numerous roles in Walmart U.S., Sam’s Club and Walmart International.

He most recently served as executive vice president and chief merchandising officer at Sam’s Club. Prior to that, he served as chief merchandising and chief marketing officer of Walmart China, where he was over merchandising, procurement, marketing, supply chain, financial services and mobile commerce for the Hypermarket division.

Furner earned a bachelor of science in business administration in marketing from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in 1996 and completed the High Potentials Leadership program.

A native Arkansan, Furner and his wife Brandy are active members of the northwest Arkansas community and the proud parents of four children.

94 SAM M. WALTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Presented by Matthew Waller, Dean of the Walton College of Business

Bachelor of Science and Arts in University Studies Posthumous Honoris Causa Anna Nicole Gadison January 13, 1998 – December 13, 2017

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Reid Edward Abernathy Lonnie Gene Bassett Jacob Scott Burford Ana Katina Aceves Cassandra L. Batchelor Bryson Scott Burger Andrew Harrison Adamiak Reece Riggs Batterton Sarah Burger Cum Laude Miles Mason Adams Marc Andrew Bawcum Christopher Blake Burgess Zoey Elizabeth Adkins Colson William Bayles Caitlin Burkhart Arian Ryan Afsheen Brett Darren Beavers Sarah Helen Burkhart Tessa Michele Agne Mason Dean Beck Hallie Michele Burlew Christian A. Aguilar Brianna Dee Beede Brock Alexander Burnett Justin Aguilar Taylor Mark Behrens Austin Bradley Burns James Samuel Alexander Benjamin Stuart Behrman Courtney Burns Nichole Paige Allen Noah Behrman Mackenzie Erin Bush Sidonie Rayne Allen Brianna Rae Bell Brittany Alexandra Butler Magna Cum Laude Byron Gerald Jordan Alley William Brock Bell Ahmed Siddique Butt Rachel Caroline Amos Amine Benazzouz Calen Nathaniel Blackston Byrd Ralph Anand John Daniel Benninghoff Tiffany Joan Caceres Romero Kyle Kenneth Anders Scarlett Liliana Bentley Mason James Cain Macy Lanae Anderson Christian Thompson Berteau Hunter Chance Caldwell Nicholas Jay Andrews Nicholas Robert Beyer David William Caligur Martina Aranda Rivera Roshan Bhandari Emily Jane Calvert Delia Ruth Arauz Gonzalez Ryan M. Bishop Rene Guadalupe Caraveo Macarena Alicia Arce Vega Magna Cum Laude Brady Scott Blackwell Madison N. Carbrey Kayla Nicole Armstrong Jacob Rogers Blair Luis Fernando Careaga Ossio Kimberly Armstrong Gerrit C. Blankers Jacob Tyler Carlton Erick Arrizon Adam Thomas Blosser Chase Timothy Carpenter Samantha Faith Arroyos Cum Laude Alec David Boggs Colton Neal Carter Alexander Stell Arsenis Callie Joy Bolain Mariana Paola Carvajal Anna Gabrielle Asaff Rachel LeeAnne Bolls Cody Roscelle Carver Amanda Leigh Atchison Cum Laude Cheyonna Marie Boone Dallas Nicole Casavechia Avery Mae Atterstrom Jacob Ian Boone Jack William Casey Magna Cum Laude Grant Toller Augustini Sawyer Gray Boone Carly Marie Cassidy Summa Cum Laude Spencer D. Avenia Alexandria Rae Booterbaugh Colin Wayne Castleberry MiKayla Nichole Avery Jason Boswell Jeffrey Aaron Castleberry Porter R. Avise Max Chandler Boswell Ricardo Castro John David Babcock Taylor Marie Bowersock Alexandra Cali Catsavis Matthew James Babione Kristin Elise Bradley Corey C. Causey Magna Cum Laude Reid William Backhouse Jessica Nicole Bradshaw Blake Alexander Caussin Alexandra Rose Baden Robert Early Branham Tyler Joseph Cerko Julia Louise Baird Taylor Mackenzie Branum Taylor McKenzie Chaffin (Fall 2017) Jeffrey Cole Bakalar Magna Cum Laude Rachel Elizabeth Braun Magna Cum Laude Jacob Schuyler Chambers Elizabeth Ellen Baker Blair Alexandra Breazeale Isabel C. Chapa Chris Robert Bakula Sarah Jane Breeding Travis Quinn Chapman Evelyn Ballesteros Cum Laude Kelsey N. Brinker Elena Rose Chavez Cum Laude Brandon M. Banchero-Prince Armando Briseno Shiwei Chen Alexander Charles Banks Emily Virginia Brittain Qiuhao Chengyong Zhuoqing Bao Mason Ryan Brodie Robert Andrew Childers Brett Jonathon Barbeck Lauren Elizabeth Brooks Pranav Chopra Remington Carlo Barbo Anthony Cole Brothers Cum Laude Franklin Nectali Cierra Briana Kathlyn Barganier Gregory Shane Brown Morgan Bret Clark Alan Vinson Barker Cosette Marie Brown Jaclyn Nicole Clarke Timothy Duncan Barnes Lindsay M. Brown Joshua Thomas Cleek Sydney Marie Barre Daniel Robert Broyles Cody Dalton Clements Andrew B. Barron Jack Lindsay Liddell Bruce Trent Levi Cloud Nicole Kristine Bartlett Chase Kekoanui Brumback Jacob Cash Coffman Jenna Elizabeth Bartok Landon Holt Brune Meina Cogan Reed McKenzie Bartz Xuefei Bu Garrison Lee Coker Collin Basinger Bailey Alan Burford Mario Coleman

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Jamie Lee Allen Cum Laude Luke Bradley Garner Cum Laude Gabriela Johana Molina Magna Cum Laude Karina Amend John G. Hankes Osmara Moreno Yulia Nikolaevna Batalina Cum Laude Carolina Isela Heredia Brandt Morgan Ann Mutti Magna Cum Laude Jacqueline Anne Benz Julio A. Ibarra Madison E. Newton Cum Laude Jeffrey Carter Bishop Cum Laude Mitchell Lee Johnson Samantha R. Powell Kendell David Black Summa Cum Laude Samuel Douglas Keith Harper Rose Ramsey Taylor Miles Carrigan Genevieve Lind John Patrick Ray Thomas Hal Dickson William Christian Martens Summa Cum Laude Rebecca Ann Roberts Mitchell Thomas Dodd Anita A. Maya Kassandra Salazar Magna Cum Laude Jose Luis Estrada James Mayer Anna Jean Tovar Summa Cum Laude Nathasha Ambrosio Farah Corissa Brooks McCleskey Paige Nicole Fincher Cole Benjamin McQuirk Summa Cum Laude

INTEGRATED MASTER OF ACCOUNTANCY Katherine Lynn Anibas Magna Cum Laude John Michael Fly Summa Cum Laude Daniel Anthony Smith Cum Laude Dakota J. Aplanalp Ryan M. Heidrick Matthew David Spellman Kristin Michele Bean Magna Cum Laude Olivia D. Lange Cum Laude Quinn M. Stangeland Elynnor Dawson Burress Magna Cum Laude Jakob Andrew Lorsbach Samantha R. Stout Summa Cum Laude Brittany Alexandra Butler Magna Cum Laude Alexandria Michelle Mcconnell Adia Suzanne Threatt Magna Cum Laude Diajha Laroya Cox Jackson Attwood Morgan McKenzie Kristene Wages Summa Cum Laude Malik Deshaun Dedner Samantha Mary Nicodemus Danielle M. Wasser Dylan W. Deeds Blake Wesley Palmer Courtney Lauren Wilson Summa Cum Laude John Connor Dickerson Samuel Tyler Phan Magna Cum Laude Allison Caroline Wotruba Henry Hunter Dunn Connor Jeffrey Phillips Jake Edward Ellis Erin Teresa Rheinberger • These students have completed all Baccalaureate requirements with a major in Accounting for 2018 and will graduate with a Master of Accountancy degree in 2019.

MASTER OF ACCOUNTANCY Chris Bakula Kimberly Changose Robert Gooderl Timothy Barnes Sophie Collins Emily Gorr Hayden Bauer Caroline Dominick Adam Greenberg James Blann John Drechny Cordell Griffin Adam Blosser Ian Dugan Morgan Harrod Alec Boggs Paige Fincher Zechariah Hilton Hallie Burlew Matthew Garcia Morgan Hurley David Caligur Chris Gentry Benjamin Jebsen

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Ana Aguayo Nick Kennedy Tyler Scantlan Tsiry Andriamampianina Jerry Kitterman Karen Schaefer Elizabeth Arredondo Alla Kokorina Kirby Schoenthaler Larry Atkinson Richard Lange Jr Jonathan Schultz Helio Barbosa Robert Larson Brett Selly Austin Berry Kevin Ledford Jared Shepard Paul Biondolillo Gregoire Michel Lehmann Flavio Henrique Silva Michael Black Douglas Luetjen Steven Simmons Russell Boyle Matthew Maciag Billy Smith Jr Charles Brown Daniel Maldonado Soria Galvarro Juheon Song Chase Bryant Joseph Maliszewski Robert Staten Gabriela Caceres James Maus Nathan Steckel Anna Carie Gordon McCain III Andrew Stieren Lizette Castillo Robert McCauley Tsanko Stoev Ciera Chancellor Matt McClanahan Samuel Stovall William Clark Benjamin McGuire Clent Stracner Nicholas Cogan Connor McPherson Sean Street Nora Cooper Blake Meier Alison Thoma Anna Cunningham Gregory Mercer Alison Van Hook Araujo Dechandt Araujo Ty Mitchell Larry Vearrier Lauren DeLeon Douglas Moye Evan Verucchi Vikram Desai Rachel Muckel Melissa Wagner Michael Dunavant Zachary Mullen Skylar Wallace Phillip Foster Anthony Neal Dana Watts Cameron Garcia Chi Ngo Brandon Wayerski William Gillespie Mackenzie Owens Bryan Weingart II Leslie Godwin Beaumont Papan Tanya Welihindha Erica Grundish Patrick Pristas Haley Wheelis Joel Harris Jacob Raulerson Connor Whelan Abbigail Hawthorne Michael Reed Thomas Whitehead Kristefer Hobbs Chante Roberts John Whitmore Philip Hoelzeman William Rockefeller Tyler Williams Thomas Hoffman Iyali Ruiz Tina Winham Rebecca Holgate Brandon Rush Megan Zimlich Charles Hurt III Kaitlin Russ Murray Jenkins Andrew Sanders

MASTER OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Solomon Adeyemi Kaleb Futch Michael McWilliams David Baker Michelle Garcia Camberos Hoang-Ngan Nguyen Gaurav Bhandari Qamar Herd Rose Paz Aditi Bhosale Hicks Andrew Timothy Rodriguez Justin Black Dennis Kadera Wendell Scurlock Peiwen Duan Neels Kulshrestha Dominick Taylor Jose Flores April Lovell Kathambari Venkataratinam Anna Franklin Sokear Manithong Sana Vrouqa Nick Freyaldenhoven Bryne McNeil

Accounting Marketing Brittany Butler Kalyn Carroll John Fly Maggie Fancher Samantha Stout Hannah Hungate Keiryn Swenson Vincent Iannazzo McKenzie Wages Denise Ingabire Jessica Loechler Caroline Sage Economics Brittany Stettmeier Stephen Komar Macarena Arce Vega Retail Morgan Long Finance Taylor Hasley Tristan Locke Supply Chain Management Ayesha Patel Rachel Braun McKenzi Puzin Qiuhao Chengyong Hunter Rhea Emma Fields Trent Scaccia Maggie Mackey Quinn Simkins Landri McGregor Scott Sims Cristina Perez-Espinoza Matthew Stewart Qinyi Zhang

General Business Graduate Programs Kimberly Armstrong Master of Business Administration Larry Vearrier Information Systems Nathan Steckel Julianna Holtzman Tsanko Stoev Hannah Ward

Master of Accountancy International Business Caroline Dominick Jessica Garross Kimber Changose

Management Master of Information Systems Rachel Amos Rose Paz Corey Thorpe Anna Grace Franklin Rebecca Trippe Hoang Vo

102 OUTSTANDING STUDENTS AND AWARDS 2017-2018

University and College Awards First Ranked Senior Scholars* Kendell Black Beta Gamma Sigma Award Natalie Counce Natalie Counce Maggie Fancher Denise Ingabire Abby Rice Outstanding Graduating Senior Quinn Simkins Landri McGregor Keiryn Swenson Anna Tovar

Ralph Treat Outstanding Cooperative Education Student Award Senior Scholars* Regina Villines Carly Cassidy Lane Criss Catherine Hagemeier Sam M. Walton College of Business Student William Martens Leadership Award Landri McGregor Adia Threatt Katherine Papa Hunter Rhea Caroline Sage Scott Sims William Watkins Qinyi Zhang

*First Ranked Senior Scholars and Senior Scholars are identified with a red and white tassel.

103 BETA GAMMA SIGMA

The Academic Honor Society for Collegiate Schools of Business

Bachelors: Cole Armando Moreano Masters: Doctoral: Morgan Ann Mutti Jillian Kay Anderson Elizabeth Arredondo Ruba Aljafari Marianne Omulombi Muyia Katherine Lynn Anibas Hayden Bauer Christopher Berry Samantha Nicodemus Macarena Arce Vega James Blann Hansin Bilgili Emma Lee O’Donnell Jeffrey Cole Bakalar Michelle Garcia Camberos Andres Felipe Cuadros Ryan Walker Panyard Alan Vinson Barker Kimberly Changose Menaca Ayesha Patel Andrew B. Barron Caroline Dominick Life Huang Cristina Perez-Espinoza Bingyu Belfiore Michael S. Dunavant Yongjia Li Samuel Tyler Phan Nicholas Robert Beyer Paige Nicole Fincher Siqi Ma Phoebe Mackay Presley Kendell David Black Anna Grace Franklin Saif Mir Tyler Dale Reagan Rachel Elizabeth Braun Erica Grundish Issam Moussaoui Claudia Manning Reeves Sarah Burger Morgan Hurley Hunter Eric Rhea Elynnor Burress Dennis Kadera Kathryn Christine Brittany Butler Nicholas Holland Kennedy Rhomberg Kalyn Ann Carroll Meels Kulshrestha Abby Nicole Rice Jack William Casey Gregoire Lehmann Sarah Elizabeth Rickman Carly Marie Cassidy Douglas Luetjen Lancaster Richmond Corey Chance Causey Matthew Maciag Taylor Ann Robertson Thomas E. Corr Blake Meier McKenzie Leigh Rogers Nicholas John Costanza Kaylee Miller Jacqueline Sade Natalie Patricia Gene Douglas Moye Caroline Suzanne Sage Counce Rachel Muckel Kassandra Salazar Connor Noah Davey Kendal Bradford Murphy Trent Jackson Scaccia Dylan W. Deeds Chi Lan Ngo William Carter Scott Maggie Kaye Fancher Hoang-Ngan Nguyen Daniel P. Shimer Emma Renee Fields Helen Page Quinn Scott Simkins Spencer M. Finney Katherine Papa Scott Tyler Sims John Michael Fly Jonathan Schultz Allison Paige Stewart Alexandra Marion Gadbois Jared Philip Shepard Ross M. Stewart Alec Lane Goswick Juheon Song Samantha Reed Stout Grayson Scott Greer Nathan Steckel Keiryn N. Swenson Catherine Lynne Hagemeier Tsanko Stoev Scottie Sara Taylor James Edward Harrington Clent Alec Stracner Branch Alexander Terrell Lance Anthony Hartman Alison Thoma Adia Suzanne Threatt Hannah Lucile Hungate Richard Vassar Corey Robert Thorpe Vincent A. Iannazzo Larry Jay Vearrier, II Anna Jean Tovar Sloan Elizabeth Jenkins Kathambari Venkataratinam Rebecca Elizabeth Trippe Macklin Reid Jenkins Joyce Shibin Wang Claire E. Viquet Joseph Henry Kiran Porter Lee Williams Chloe Dianna Wade Lucas Kent Leighton Yang Zhao McKenzie Kristene Wages Tristan Daniel Locke Ryan W. Walter Jessica L. Loechler William Emerson Watkins Jennifer Diane Love Jeremy Brett Williams Howard Tran Ly Courtney Lauren Wilson William Christian Martens Landri Nicole McGregor Cole Benjamin McQuirk Jeffrey Davis Mills Gabriela Johana Molina

*Beta Gamma Sigma members are identified by a white bib with the blue BGS logo.

Nichole Allen Alec Goswick Lauren Porter Karina Amend Grayson Greer Bailey Pratt Rachel Amos Tanner Hale McKenzi Puzin Macarena Arce Vega Drew Hammons Blakely Roberts Alexander Arsenis John Hankes Taylor Robertson Jeffrey Bakalar Spencer Harris Caroline Sage Elizabeth Baker Zachary Hartnedy Erik Salazar Jenna Bartok Kaleb Harvey Trent Scaccia Yulia Batalina Christopher Havener Barton Schulz Cassandra Batchelor Grant Heyman Rachel Simpson Christian Berteau Brandon Hickam Scott Sims Nicholas Beyer Abigail Hill Pratiksha Singh Kendell Black Taylor Hill Nathan Smith Jacob Boone John Howard Emily Sontag Jason Boswell Tiffany Hulkowich Matthew Spellman Rachel Braun Hannah Hungate Brittany Stettmeier Cosette Brown Megan Ketcher Matthew Stewart Brittany Butler Rachel Landoll Ian Stone Jack Casey Olivia Lange Andrew Tarwater Carly Cassidy Tristan Locke Scottie Taylor Pranav Chopra Sandra Ma Ryan Thompson Garrison Coker Alexander Martin Kyle Veit Brent Collins Rachel McCarrick Trey Vinzant Callie Conway Bethany McClain Tuan Vo Emily Cook Abbie McGittigan Ryan Walter Connor Dickens Hayden Mock Will Watkins Ian Dugan Austin Moore Taylor Weiss Sofia Escalante Morgan Mutti Mitchell White Maggie Fancher Morgan Myers Tyler Wilford Nathasha Farah Emma O’donnell Eric Williams Emma Fields John Otwell Justin Wojtowicz Keith Fox Ayesha Patel Aaron Yip Conor Golden Stewart Pemble Benjamin Zill Zachary Gorman Raka’ Pinkerton

*Leadership Walton members are identified by a brown stole.

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Spring 2018 Fayetteville, Arkansas PAST HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

1878 1918 1941 1954 R.W. Trimble...... LLD Albert Ross Hill...... LLD Thomas H. Barton...... LLD Stanley Andrews...... LLD William Frank McCombs...... LLD James E. Gibson...... ScD O.C. Bailey...... LLD 1880 Edwin J. Kyle...... ScD K. August Engel...... LLD W.A. Clark...... DD 1922 R.B. Vance...... LLD C.F. Evans...... DD Marcus Lafayette Bell...... LLD 1942 W.R. Miller...... LLD Alexander C. Millar...... LLD J. Carroll Cone...... LLD 1955 Joseph T. Robinson...... LLD Eugene Reybold...... ScD Roscoe Conklin Hobbs...... LLD 1882 Burr W. Torreyson...... LLD Albert Carroll Wood...... ScD William Casper Lassetter...... LLD Daniel Harvey Hill...... LLD J. Manuel Whitham...... ScD J.K. Mahony...... LLD 1943 Herbert L. Thomas...... LLD 1884 1923 Thomas B. Freeman...... LLD W.P. Paxson...... DD Samuel A. Hoover...... LLD J. Edgar Hoover...... LLD 1956 Tullius C. Tupper...... DD Walter G. Riddick...... LLD Norman Burns...... LLD 1925 Brehon Somervell...... LLD Samuel L. Nevins...... LLD 1885 W.A. Falconer...... LLD T. Roy Reid...... LLD John H. Dye...... DD Alfred W. Wasson...... LLD 1944 J. Louis Reynolds...... LLD James L. Martin...... DD Carroll D. Wood...... LLD Virgil L. JonesLLD J.C. Hardin...... LLD William Ross McCain...... LLD H.H. Strauss...... LLD 1886 1926 C. Hamilton Moses...... LLD J.C. White...... PhD George Vaughan...... LLD 1957 1945 Loy W. Henderson...... LLD 1887 1927 Levin H. Campbell, Jr...... LLD Winthrop Rockefeller...... LLD J.G. Fuqua...... LLD James Ralph Jewell...... LLD Martin NelsonLLD Horace E. Thompson...... LLD C.E. Taylor...... LLD John E. Martineau...... LLD Thomas C. Trimble, Jr...... LLD Orval E. Faubus...... LLD J. Vol Walker...... LLD Alma Futrall...... LLD 1890 1946 James H. Penick...... LLD Francis L. Harvey...... PhD 1928 Sterling B. Hendricks...... LLD Paul B. Sears...... LLD Herbert E. Buchanan...... LLD Harry Jacob Lemley...... LLD Wilbur Mills...... LLD 1891 John Shirley Wood...... LLD Howard Edwards...... LLD 1929 1958 George Wesley Droke...... LLD 1947 James H. Goss...... LLD 1892 Carl Raymond Gray...... LLD Albert F. Blakeslee...... LLD Roy M. Milum...... LLD Frederic W. Simonds...... ScD Frank Vinsonhaler...... LLD Clarence F. Byrns...... LLD Lyle T. Alexander...... LLD J. William Fulbright...... LLD Harrison Hale...... LLD 1897 1930 Jobelle Holcombe...... LLD W.R. Stephens...... LLD John Caspar Branner...... LLD Harvey D. Couch...... LLD John Wesley Snyder...... LLD Junius Jordan...... LLD Charles Wallace Webb...... LLD 1959 1948 Edgar Wertheim...... LLD 1900 1931 Chester C. Davis...... LLD Fred I. Brown...... LLD Thomas A. Futrall...... LLD Joseph M. Hill...... LLD Dudley Dowell...... LLD Russell I. Thackery...... LLD Daniel Webster Jones...... LLD Robert J. Wilson...... LLD Neal B. Garver...... LLD Eugene Robert Black...... LLD Frederick L. Liebolt...... LLD Louis Edward Hurley...... LLD 1905 1932 Bessie Boehm Moore...... LLD William Seneca Sutton...... LLD Charles J. Finger...... LLD 1949 John Dale Russell...... LLD John E. Miller...... LLD 1907 1933 Jewell Hughes Bushey...... LLD 1960 James A. Anderson...... LLD John Gould Fletcher...... LLD W.W. Campbell...... LLD Paul Day...... LLD James B. Aswell...... LLD Coulter W. Jones...... LLD Hugh Dinsmore Miser...... LLD Beloit Taylor...... LLD William D. Buckner...... LLD Herbert Sedwick...... LLD A.A. Kincannon...... LLD 1934 1950 Charlie May Simon...... LLD George Gordon Smeade...... LLD John S. Parks...... LLD Clark Hungerford...... LLD Henry S. Yocum...... LLD E.F. Ellis...... LLD John L. McClellan...... LLD 1909 Peter F. Watsek...... LLD 1961 U.M. Rose...... LLD 1935 Benjamin H. Wooten...... LLD Michael Kirwan...... LLD George W. Mullins...... LLD Frank G. Smith...... LLD Reginald Painter...... LLD 1910 Edward Joseph White...... LLD John D. Freeman...... LLD C. Vann Woodward...... LLD Charles Foster Smith...... LLD 1937 1951 1962 1912 Ivan Lee Holt...... LLD Bernie Babcock...... LLD Nils Florentz...... LLD Albert H. Purdue...... LLD Vance Randolph...... LLD Paul Mardis...... LLD 1938 Edward Durrell Stone...... DFA Thomas Reid...... LLD 1913 William N. Gladson...... DEng Leslie Biffle...... LLD John Hugh Reynolds...... LLD J.N. Heiskell...... LLD Frank Pace, Jr...... LLD 1963 George B. Rose...... LLD Harry L. Hopkins...... LLD Romeo Short...... LLD W. Ray Forrester...... LLD Ira Eugene Sanders...... LLD Harold F. Ohlendorf...... LLD 1916 1939 George B. Cook...... LLD Daniel T. Gray...... ScD 1953 1964 Walter Miller...... LLD John G. Lonsdale...... LLD Joe C. Barrett...... LLD William E. Darby...... LLD M.R. Owens...... LLD Charles E. Palm...... LLD 1917 Donald A. Quarles...... LLD Charles Hillman Brough...... LLD

108 PAST HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

1965 1982 2001 2015, May Arthur S. Adams...... LLD Ray C. Adam...... LLD Her Majesty Queen Noor of J. Frank Broyles...... DHL J.S. McDonnell...... LLD Jordan...... DAH James E. K. Hildreth...... ScD G.A. Stubblefield...... LLD 1983 David W. Mullins...... LLD 2002 2015, December 1966 R.E.L. Wilson III...... LLD John Harold Johnson...... LLD James Patterson...... DHL John Paul McConnell...... LLD Wesley K. Clark...... LLD J. Donald Rice, Jr...... DAH Charles H. Murphy...... LLD 1984 Daisy L. Bates...... LLD 2003 2016, May 1967 James Dickey...... LLD George Williford Boyce Haley...... LLD Richard Davies...... DAH John W. Gardner...... LLD Harry Dickson Patton...... LLD Fred W. Smith...... DAH William Giles...... LLD 2017, May Alexander E. Jones...... LLD 1985 2004 L. Clifford Davis...... LLD William Thomas Dillard...... LLD William R. Ferris...... LHD William T. Dillard II...... DB 1968 Jackson T. Stephens...... LLD Richard S. Barnett, Jr...... LLD 2005 Sarah Caldwell...... LLD 1986 Dan Ferritor...... DArSc Hubert H. Humphrey...... LLD Barbara Jordan...... LLD Mike Huckabee...... LLD Neil E. Compton...... LLD Pat Walker...... LHD 1969 L. Clyde Carter...... LLD 1987 2006 Neil Eugene Harlan...... LLD Irma Fitch Giffels...... LLD Jo Luck...... DAH James Gordon Horsfall...... LLD Rodney E. Slater...... LLD 1988 1970 Claude D. Pepper...... LLD 2007 Samuel P. Massie, Jr...... LLD Louis L. Ramsay...... LLD H. Lee Scott...... DAH Logan Wilson...... LLD Johnnetta B. Cole...... DASc Mrs. David D. Terry, Sr...... LLD 1989 Wiley A. Branton...... LLD 2008 1971 Sidney Sanders McMath...... LLD Terrence J. Roberts...... DAH Jeannette E. Rockefeller...... LLD Edward L. Wright...... LLD 1990 2009 William Grant Still...... LLD E. Fay Jones...... DAH Johnelle DeBusk Hunt...... DAH Robert D. Havener...... LLD Morris S. Arnold...... LLD 1972 Harry Scott Ashmore...... LLD 1991 2010 William Caesar Warfield...... LLD Robert N. Maddox...... ScD Isaac J. Crumbly...... ScD Robert A. Young, Jr...... LLD Don Tyson...... DAH 1992 1973 Richard Sheppard Arnold...... LLD 2011 Roy Kumpe...... LLD Charles W. Oxford...... LLD Lewis E. Epley, Jr...... LLD Hugh B. Patterson, Jr...... LLD Tenzin Gyatso His Holiness the 1993 Fourteenth Dalai Lama...... DAH 1974 President William Jefferson Clinton.LLD Christopher C. Mercer...... LLD Samuel Lee Kountz...... LLD Dr. Robert Allen Leflar...... LLD B. Alan Sugg...... DAH Raymond Rebsamen...... LLD Harold Edgar Sells...... LLD 2011, December 1975 1994 Earnest G. Green Jr...... LHD Lily Peter...... LLD Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders...... LLD John Paul Hammerschmidt...... LLD T.M. Stinnett...... LLD Dame Anne Warburton...... LLD 2012 1976 1995 Alice L. Walton...... DAH Sharon Raney Pallone...... DH Helen Robson Walton...... LLD John Tyler Caldwell...... LLD 2012, December Brooks Hays...... LLD 1996 Vincent G. Harding...... LHD Hillary Rodham Clinton...... DAH W. Stephen Smith...... DAH 1977 Bernice Young Jones...... DHH Fred M. Pickens, Jr...... LLD 2013 1997 His Excellency Ricardo Martinelli..LHD 1978 David H. Pryor...... LLD Lee BodenhamerDAH A.M. Feland III...... LLD Perry L. Adkisson...... ScD 2013, December 1979 1998 Sister Helen Prejean...... LHD Mary Lowe Good...... LLD John Gilbert Williams...... DAH Frances C. James...... DAH William McMillan...... LLD 1999 2014 1980 Dale Bumpers...... LLD Anita Huffington...... DFA Robert D. Maurer...... LLD Frederick W. Smith...... LLD Sam Moore Walton...... LLD 2014, December 2000 Michael T. Duke...... DEng 1981 Diane Divers Blair...... LLD Andrew D. Hamilton...... DArSc Charles M. Kittrell II...... LLD Ellen Louise Gilchrist...... DAH Governor Mike Beebe...... LLD Robert Shults...... LLD Thomas Franklin McLarty III...... LLD

109 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Waldrip Goodson Harriman Eichler Pryor

Boyer Broughton Cox Gibson Nelson

Mark Waldrip, Chair Tommy Boyer John C. Goodson, Vice Chair Stephen A. Broughton, MD Morril Harriman, Secretary Steve Cox Kelly Eichler, Assistant Secretary Charles “Cliff” Gibson, III The Honorable David Pryor Sheffield Nelson

Joseph E. Steinmetz, James S. Coleman, Chancellor Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

SENIOR WALK

The University of Arkansas will honor you and your classmates by engraving your name on Senior Walk. Students who graduated in the fall of 2017 as well as graduates of spring and summer 2018 terms, will be on the 2018 Senior Walk.

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