COMMENCEMENT WINTER 2021 Congratulations, to the University of New Haven Graduates!
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COMMENCEMENT WINTER 2021 Congratulations, to the University of New Haven Graduates! The University of New Haven’s focus on experiential learning — hands-on experience artfully combined with classroom instruction — enables graduates to move effortlessly into professional careers. Our time-honored embrace of this philosophy has paved a path for thousands of graduates to successfully navigate lives in the arts, engineering, business, music, healthcare, public safety, and more, at the same time contributing to the greater good in innumerable ways. The writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn,” and that concept, that the smallest idea can grow exponentially, is embodied in a University of New Haven education, which cultivates in equal parts the excitement of discovery, the encouragement of imagination, and the confidence to execute ideas. This year, 243 undergraduate and 329 graduate degree candidates reached a singular milestone in their educational journeys. They have achieved expertise in their chosen areas of study and have shown the promise of many more successes in the future. We honor their intellectual achievements, congratulate them on their efforts, and bid them good fortune in the years ahead. TABLE OF CONTENTS Honorary Degrees . 4-5 Candidates for Degrees .....................................................................................6-12 January 2021 Graduate Degrees .........................................................................6-9 January 2021 Undergraduate Degrees .................................................................10-12 Degrees With Honors . 13 Honors Program ..............................................................................................14 Special Recognition .......................................................................................... 15 Honor Societies ...........................................................................................16-20 The University. 21 University Leadership. 21 Undergraduate Programs . 22 Graduate Programs. 22 Alumni Association Welcome ....................................................................Inside Back Cover 2 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN CLASS OF 2021 3 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER & HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT Susan B. Frampton, Ph.D. Col. Merryl Tengesdal '94, Doctor of Humane USAF (Ret.) Arts & Letters Doctor of Engineering Susan Frampton, Ph.D., is president of Planetree of the board of directors for Planetree Latina America. Colonel Merryl Tengesdal ’94, a retired colonel Later in her career, she was in charge of flight test and She previously served as chair of the Scientific Advisory program depot maintenance for the U-2 aircraft. She International, a leading nonprofit that works in the United States Air Force, is the first and Panel to the National Academy of Medicine’s Care Culture was also part of the North American Aerospace Defense with organizations around the world to promote and Decision-making Innovation Collaborative and the only African American woman to have piloted Command (NORAD) and the U.S. Northern Command J8 patient-centered care as a model for improving Patient and Family Leadership Network. the Air Force’s U-2 spy plane, a high-altitude staff. She later served as director of inspections for the Inspector General of the Air Force. She retired from the the quality of healthcare. Prior to joining Planetree in 2000, she served as director reconnaissance aircraft. military in 2017 following 23 years of decorated service. of the Center for Health Promotion at Saint Francis A medical anthropologist, she is the author of three Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, and she was After graduating from the University of New Haven, As a student at the University of New Haven, she was editions of “Putting Patients First: Best Practices in director of the Center for Health Management at Beth she took a four-day bus trip to San Diego to test to one of three women in her class to graduate from the Patient-Centered Care,” and she served as lead author on Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She also become a Navy pilot. She was the only one out of electrical engineering program. She was a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s “Harnessing Evidence was director of the Department of Community Health five African-America women candidates to make it the University’s women’s basketball team and its and Experience to Change Culture: A Guiding Framework Education at Manchester Memorial Hospital. through pilot school. Following missions in the Middle National Society of Black Engineers. She was presented for Patient and Family Engaged Care.” East, South America, and the Caribbean, she became a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013. In addition to speaking internationally on culture change, an instructor pilot. Dr. Frampton leads Planetree’s advocacy efforts. She quality, safety, and the patient experience, she was named Currently, Col. Tengesdal works as a certified personal currently chairs the National Quality Forum’s National in 2009 by HealthLeaders Magazine as one of “20 People In 2004, she left the Navy to join the Air Force’s U-2 trainer. She has been the subject of numerous articles Quality Partners Leadership Consortium, and she has who Make Healthcare Better” program. Piloting the U-2, which has been called for her pioneering aviation accomplishments and for co-chaired NQF action teams on advanced illness care, the most difficult plane in the world to fly, she was her efforts to inspire kids through speaking engage- patient-family engagement, and decreasing hospital (re) She has been a key partner in the University of New deployed multiple times in support of the wars in ments and school visits. admissions. She serves on the governing board for the Haven becoming one of the first colleges or universities Iraq and Afghanistan. World Health Organization collaborating center for the in the nation to pursue higher education certification She has been cast on the second season of the CBS International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals from Planetree. Col. Tengesdal earned her master’s degree in competition series “Tough as Nails,” which premieres and Health Services. aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical in February. Dr. Frampton earned a bachelor’s degree in medical University in 2008, the same year she was honored A member of the editorial board for the Journal anthropology from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in as Air Combat Command Aerospace Physiologist of Compassionate Health Care, Dr. Frampton is part medical anthropology from the University of Connecticut. of the Year. 4 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN CLASS OF 2021 5 GRADUATE DEGREES GRADUATE DEGREES Christopher James Farrell MASTER OF SCIENCE Ganesh Babu Palacharla The Candidates for Degrees Kurt Anthony Fasulo Jr. Chemistry Feni Pravinkumar Patel Candidates listed for Winter Commencement are those who petitioned for graduation by June 15, 2020. Shamare Gerry Holmes Kathryn Elizabeth Coleman Evan Michael Perry Monica Claire Kowalski Yun-Ju Hang Pratigya Shakya Pradhan Shanice Nicole Little Kayden Chase Pintarelli Avinash Reddy Chinthi Reddy MASTER OF ARTS Kelsey Lynn Andreoli Michelle Lynn Stafford-Wirth Justin Lee Mazzucco Alexandra Frances Reimers Sai Kiran Reddy Kanmantha Reddy Clinical Mental Thunziner Jisha Anwar Matthew J. Webb Robert Michael Velez Vraj Nisidh Shah Health Counseling Emily L. Baker Guanqing Zhou MASTER OF SCIENCE Ashish Shrestha Marisa Nicole Aspromonti Avind Nicholas Baur MASTER OF Civil Engineering Shuchintha Srinivasa Nigel Oshane Beckford Jr. Healthcare MASTER OF Satish Kumar Thota Asia Chuaviriya Kuladeep Reddy Chandhagari Shivaniben S. Bhavsar Administration Ajinkya Tukaram Wani Jessica Ann Fidler Public Health Alexa M. Girimonte Joseph Thomas Buturla III Tara Ahmed Longlong Xu Samantha Anne Kent Terry Daniell Cooper Nithin Kuntumadugu Gia Cecora Faisal Alanazi Sr. Milan Vipulbhai Zinzuvadiya Jackson Anthony Monarca Shashank Piyushkumar Patel Matthew Christopher Hayfa Omar Alsharqi Amanda Cepero Rey MASTER OF SCIENCE Rahul Gandhi Irudaya Raj Giuliana D'Arcangelo Ali Hassan Bhatti MASTER OF SCIENCE Accounting Waseem Ahmed Usmani MASTER OF ARTS Mark Jermaine Eaton Asia Lorea Coley Kelsey C. Bennett Yichao Yang Criminal Justice John M. Esposito Jr. Community Psychology Soraya Colon-Millan Ibrahim Nabil Dababneh Gianna N. Albanese Alexa Victoria Esteves Heather Burdin Ennis Olufunke Mary Benson Lambria Yvette Gilling MASTER OF SCIENCE Simran R. Asudani Samuel Thomas Groves Stephen Robert Brunetti Whitney Ann Fleurantin Yusniar Marhaeni Computer Science Tracie Cherel Brown Zeynep Guven Rabia Sarosh Hamid Albert Ray Dancy Sienna Engracia Ratigan Candace Marie Mastrianna Ajiethvenkat Arumugam Paula Annique Irvin Mazalo Kpatcha D'Nai' S. DuBose Raquasia Monet Darlene Smith Hoang Vu Nguyen Sravani Atluri Dennis Antoiné James Kathia Maitre Cassandra Lynn Ellison Vishesh Shah Jaron M. Bialecki MASTER OF ARTS Payal Javiya Shivani Kalpesh Pathak Alexus Murray Jennifer Tremblay Haoran Cheng Nikhil Katyal Rashmi Regmi Alison Anne Oliver Industrial/ Shelly Choudhary Organizational Rose O'Neill Keithan Agustin David Prat Rendon Kory Welton Vincent GRADUATES 2021 JANUARY MASTER OF SCIENCE Cytisus Anzhela Nicole Eurydice Psychology Riwaida Abdalla Eltayeb Khalafalla Gabriella M. Reyes Robert J. Weymer Biomedical Engineering Yiming Fan Klerisa Kimca Harmandeep Kaur Sangha Chandel Sheila Gibbs Hesham Saleh Alghamdi Gabrielle Nicole Good Heather