Commencement Schedule

Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 6

Graduate School Bramlage Coliseum, 1 p.m.

Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus Student Life Center, Salina, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 28

College of Arts and Sciences Bramlage Coliseum, 8:30 a.m.

College of Education Bramlage Coliseum, 10 a.m.

College of Business Administration Bramlage Coliseum, 11:30 a.m.

College of Agriculture Bramlage Coliseum, 1 p.m.

College of Human Ecology Bramlage Coliseum, 2:30 p.m.

College of Engineering Bramlage Coliseum, 4 p.m.

1 CelebratingOur Future Dear Graduates,

On behalf of Kansas State University, we extend our sincerest congratulations and best wishes on your graduation.

Your degree represents work and commitment on your part and on the part of those who have helped you along your way. Whether it is your family, friends, faculty, staff or fellow students, know that all are proud of your accomplishments.

Commencement marks a milestone in your life and sets you on a journey toward a productive and fulfilling career. We hope you use the knowledge and preparation you received at K-State to move forward and make a difference throughout your life, whether in the career field, in the community or in other worthy pursuits.

As you embark and progress in your career and life, know that Kansas State University will always encourage you along the way. You are now part of our network of more than 200,000 proud alumni worldwide. We urge you to remain connected to the university through the K-State Alumni Association, which is providing you and fellow graduates with a year’s free membership.

Please find opportunities to return to campus, whether to continue your education, share your experiences and expertise with future K-Staters, take in an athletic or cultural event, or just to catch up on your alma mater.

Congratulations and best wishes for the future,

Richard B. Myers Charles S. Taber President Provost and Executive Vice President

2 Letter byAlma H.W. Jones,Mater class of 1888

I know a spot that I love full well, 'Tis not in forest nor yet in dell; Ever it holds me in magic spell, I think of thee, Alma Mater.

K-S-U, we’ll carry the banner high. K-S-U, long, long may thy colors fly. Loyal to thee, thy children will swell the cry. Hail, Hail, Hail, Alma Mater.

Alma Mater 3 About Kansas State University

ansas State University is on its way to becoming K-State also enjoys strong support from its alumni Kansas State University, one of the nation’s Top 50 public research and friends. With more than 200,000 alumni, the Kuniversities by 2025. The visionary K-State 2025 K-State Alumni Association is ranked among the by the numbers plan, launched in 2010, serves as a guide for our top five alumni associations in the nation for the 1 — Where Money magazine ranks K-State on its list of decision-making and priority-setting in all facets percentage of graduates who are members. The best colleges in Kansas. of the university, including academics, facility Kansas State University Foundation's Innovation 4 — Years in a row K-State is rated the best value in needs, research, engagement and athletics. For more and Inspiration Campaign has already earned more Kansas by SmartAsset. information and to track our progress, go to than $1.1 billion and is on its way to reaching $1.4 k-state.edu/2025. billion by 2020. 5 — Years in row K-State receives the HEED Award for diversity and inclusion. Founded in 1863 as the country’s first operational Called "the Silicon Valley for biodefense" because 6 — Years in a row K-State's National Strategic Selling land-grant university, Kansas State University has of its leadership in food safety and security and Institute named one of nation's top sales programs. campuses in Manhattan, Olathe and Salina, which agrodefense, Kansas State University is home to 9 — Times in a row K-State's Crops Team is national is known as Kansas State Polytechnic Campus, four Feed the Future labs, an initiative by the U.S. as well as K-State Global Campus, which serves Agency for International Development to increase champion. distance education students. K-State Research and food production in nations with limited resources. 9 — Academic colleges, offering a variety of academic Extension also has a presence throughout Kansas. The university also is home to the Biosecurity disciplines. Research Institute, which supports comprehensive 10 — Times in the last 13 years K-State's Black Student The mission of Kansas State University is to “farm-to-fork” infectious disease research programs Union has been named best in the Big 12. foster excellent teaching, research and service that that address threats to plant, animal and human develop a highly skilled and educated citizenry health. Construction is underway adjacent to the 200+ — Fellowships held by faculty and patents necessary to advancing the well-being of Kansas, Manhattan campus of the U.S. Department of developed at the university. the nation and the international community. Homeland Security’s National Bio and Agro- $248 million — Financial aid distributed annually, defense Facility, which will be the nation’s premier including scholarships, student wages and veterans' The university embraces diversity and inclusion, animal disease research facility. benefits. encourages engagement and is committed to the discovery of knowledge, the education Total research efforts at Kansas State University 250+ — Academic majors and options. of undergraduate and graduate students, and have led to more than 250 patents to date. The improvement in the quality of life and standard of university has more than 90 research centers, living of those we serve. including the 8,600-acre Konza Prairie Biological Station and the Johnson Cancer Research Center. Forbes magazine, the Princeton Review and U.S. Our distinguished faculty members are tackling News & World Report have recognized Kansas such issues as climate change, cybersecurity, State University as one of the best in America. sustainable energy, urban revitalization and more — often involving undergraduate students in their More than 22,000 students from across the U.S. work. and more than 100 countries attend Kansas State University. Students can choose from more than 250 majors and options in nine colleges: Agriculture; Architecture, Planning & Design; Arts and Sciences; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Human Ecology; Technology and Aviation; and Veterinary Medicine. The Graduate School offers more than 110 academic programs.

4 About Kansas State University About our ceremonies

The university mace The Kansas State University mace made its debut in September 2009 at the inauguration of Kirk H. Schulz as the university’s 13th president. A mace is a decorative symbol of office and typically carried at the front of academic processions. The university’s mace is carried in the processional at the Graduate School ceremony and is displayed at each college’s ceremony. Designed by Tom Boley, a 1970 university graduate, the mace is made from a purple wood called purpleheart and a light- colored maple. Academic dress The history of academic dress dates to medieval European universities of the 12th century. Universities in the United States have standardized academic dress so its features are common and uniform throughout the country. The gown — At Kansas State University, gowns are black and typically made of synthetic material or worsted wool. The pattern varies with the degree held — open sleeves for the bachelor’s degree; long, closed sleeves with slits for the hands for the master’s degree; and round, bell sleeves for the doctoral degree. The hood — Students receiving graduate degrees wear hoods. The master’s hood is shorter than the doctoral hood and lacks the panels of the doctoral hood. Hoods are lined with the colors of the university; the university’s lining is purple with two inverted chevrons. The binding or edging of the hood is the color pertaining to the subject of the degree. The caps — All bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates wear a black mortarboard. Doctoral students may wear a mortarboard or a soft velvet tam with either six or eight sides. The tams can be dark blue or black for Doctor of Philosophy candidates, and light blue for Doctor of Education candidates. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine candidates wear a black mortarboard. Tassel color for all degree candidates depends on the degree and/or degree field. Trimming colors on hoods Dark blue White Brown Doctor of Philosophy Bachelor of Arts Master of Fine Arts Golden yellow Bachelor of Arts in Music Associate degrees Master of Landscape Architecture Master of Arts Dark blue Bachelor of Science Doctor of Philosophy Master of Science Graduation honors Bachelor’s degree candidates who are earning Golden yellow Professional Master of Science graduation honors from Kansas State University wear Professional Master of Technology Master of Science a purple-and-white honor cord on the left shoulder of Gray Professional Master of Science their commencement gown. Honors are awarded based Professional Master of Technology Doctor of Veterinary Medicine on their Kansas State University grade point average. Gray Lavender Eligible students also must have completed a minimum Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Master of Architecture of 60 undergraduate hours at K-State, with at least 42 Lavender Light blue undergraduate hours in graded courses at K-State. Master of Architecture Bachelor’s degrees in Education K-State graduation honors: Light blue Doctor of Education Summa cum laude — For students with a 3.95 or above Doctor of Education Maize GPA. Maize Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Magna cum laude — For students with a 3.85-3.949 Master of Agribusiness Master of Agribusiness GPA. Navy blue Maroon Cum laude — For students with a 3.75-3.849 GPA. Master of Interior Architecture & Product Design Bachelor’s degrees in Human Ecology Note: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree candidates Orange Navy blue receive these honors based on courses completed Master of Software Engineering Master of Interior Architecture & Product Design in the professional program. For the purpose of the commencement ceremony, unofficial graduation honors Master of Engineering Management Orange are recognized for bachelor's degree candidates who Peacock blue Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering possess the required K-State cumulative grade point Master of Public Administration Master of Software Engineering average prior to the start of the semester in which they Master of Regional & Community Planning Master of Engineering Management plan to participate in the commencement ceremony, and Pink Peacock blue who have completed or are currently enrolled in enough Master of Regional & Community Planning Master of Music credit hours to satisfy the credit hour requirements. Salmon Master of Public Administration Master of Public Health Pink Commencement program key (Scl) Summa cum laude Tan/drab brown Bachelor of Applied Education (Mcl) Magna cum laude Master of Accountancy Bachelor of Music Education (Cl) Cum laude Master of Business Administration Master of Music (H) Honors program White Salmon (S) Secondary major Master of Arts Master of Public Health (S18) Spring 2018 graduate Tan/drab brown (SU18) Summer 2018 candidate (S19) Spring 2019 candidate Bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration Tassel colors on candidates’ caps (D) Dual degree Brown Master of Business Administration * Double, multiple majors Bachelor of Fine Arts Master of Accountancy (P) Posthumous degree Master of Fine Arts About our ceremonies 5 Master of Landscape Architecture Graduate School

Introduction: Graduate Student Council Gerard Kluitenberg, Professor, Agronomy Greetings: Emily Pascoe, President, Graduate Student Council Processional: Lars Quincke, Junior, Applied Music Presentation of Graduate Faculty: Carol Shanklin, Dean National Anthem: Morgan Higgins, Senior, Music Education Conferral of Degrees: Carol Shanklin, Dean Greetings from the Kansas Board Recessional: of Regents: Lars Quincke, Junior, Applied Music Dennis A. Mullin, Regent Marshals: Recognition of University Gerard Kluitenberg, Professor, Agronomy Distinguished Professors: Ronaldo Maghirang, Associate Dean, College of Charles S. Taber, Provost and Executive Vice President Engineering Research and Graduate Programs, and Director, Engineering Experiment Station Kenneth Hughey, Professor, Special Education, Honorees: Counseling and Student Affairs Mary Beth Kirkham, Agronomy John Morris, Professor, Accounting David C. Poole, Kinesiology, and Anatomy and Evan Titgemeyer, Professor and Interim Department Physiology Head, Animal Sciences and Industry Jim Sherow, History Kristan Corwin, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor, Physics Recognition of Commerce Bank Bronwyn Fees, Associate Dean, College of Human Ecology, and Professor, Family Studies and Human and W.T. Kemper Foundation Services Distinguished Graduate Faculty Glade Topham, Associate Professor, Family Studies and Human Services Award: Carol Shanklin, Dean Reader: Vincent Carlisle Honorees: Kimberly Kirkpatrick, Professor, Psychological Sciences T.G. Nagaraja, University Distinguished Professor, University Mace Carrier: Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology Spencer Wood, Associate Professor, Sociology Anthropology and Social Work Introduction of Commencement Speaker and Presentation of Honorary Degree: Richard B. Myers, President

Commencement Address: Dan Glickman, Former Secretary of Agriculture

Alumni Association Greetings: Amy Button Renz, President and CEO, K-State Alumni Association

6 Graduate School Kansas Board of Regents

ennis A. Mullin was degree in 1970 from Pittsburg State University, Missouri in 1995. Mullin is a past president/ appointed to the graduating with the honor of Outstanding Senior chairman of the Manhattan Area Chamber of DKansas Board of Regents Man. He was named an outstanding young alumnus Commerce, Manhattan Rotary Club and Greater by Gov. Sam Brownback in of his alma mater in 1984. Manhattan Community Foundation. He is a 2015 and currently serves as founding member and president of the Boys and board chairman. Mullin is a member of the Business Advisory Girls Club, Flinthills Breadbasket and Flint Hills Council for the College of Business Administration Christian School, all of Manhattan. The chairman of Steel and at Kansas State University, trustee emeritus for Pipe Supply, Mullin leads the KSU Foundation and a board member of the He and his wife, Rhonda, have two children and one of the largest steel KS StateBank of Manhattan. He was selected as four grandchildren. In his free time, he enjoys service centers in the nation. entrepreneur of year by Ernst Young and INC watching his grandchildren play sports and Dennis A. Mullin He earned his bachelor’s magazine for the state of Kansas and western everything K-State.

Speaker

an Glickman, the In 1995 Glickman was appointed secretary of is a senior fellow at the Council on American former secretary of agriculture by President Bill Clinton and served in Politics, a part of the Graduate School of Political Dagriculture and Kansas the post until 2001. As secretary, he administered Management at George Washington University. congressman, is the farm and conservation programs; modernized food He also is a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy recipient of an honorary safety regulations; and forged international trade Center, focusing on public health, national security doctorate from Kansas State agreements to expand U.S. markets. and economic policy issues. He is executive director University. of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program and Glickman earned a bachelor's degree in history senior fellow at the Center on Communication Glickman represented the from the University of Michigan and a law degree Leadership and Policy at the University of Southern state's 4th Congressional from the George Washington University Law California's Annenberg School of Communication District from 1977-1995. School. He served as a trial attorney for the U.S. and Journalism. In addition, he is member of Dan Glickman During that time, he was Securities and Exchange Commission from 1969- the Council on Foreign Relations and Chicago a member of the House 1970, and then as a partner in the Wichita law firm Mercantile Exchange; chair of the U.S. Global Agriculture Committee, including six years as chair Sargent, Klenda and Glickman from 1970-1977. Leadership Coalition at the Center for U.S. Global of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal He also was president of the Wichita School Board Engagement; and a member of the board of trustees farm policy issues. He also was an active member of in 1976. of the National 4-H Council. the House Judiciary Committee, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Since leaving his cabinet post, Glickman has and was a leading congressional expert on general remained active in several organizations involved aviation policy. with agriculture, public health and more. He

Awards

researches the effects of gravity on plants. the American Association for the Advancement of University Distinguished Professors Science, the Crop Science Society of America and ary Beth Kirkham Kirkham came to Kansas State University in 1980. the Royal Meteorological Society. is an international Her research has been supported by organizations Mauthority on the plant-water such as the National Science Foundation, the She was recognized with the Distinguished relations of winter wheat Department of Energy, the Department of Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin- and the uptake of heavy Agriculture and the U.S. Office of Water Research Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences metals by crops grown on and Technology. in 2017. She also has received the Carl Sprengel polluted soil. She was the Agronomic Research Award from the American first researcher to document She has contributed to more than 300 articles in Society of Agronomy and the 2010 Crop Science the effects of elevated levels scientific publications, has written three textbooks Research Award. In 2013, she received the Irvin E. of carbon dioxide on crops and has edited four books. She has served on the Youngberg Award in Applied Science, one of the grown under semiarid editorial board for 21 journals, including Soil Science Higuchi-University of Kansas Endowment Research and the Journal of Crop Improvement. Achievement Awards. At Kansas State University, Mary Beth Kirkham conditions. She also she received the 2010 Dr. Ron and Rae Iman Kirkham is a fellow of the American Society of Outstanding Faculty Award for Research. Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America,

Graduate School, Kansas Board of Regents, Speaker, Awards 7 Before coming to Kansas State University, Kirkham im Sherow is a noted funding four primary projects, three pilot projects had appointments at Oklahoma State University and historian with research and three research cores. Activities related to the the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned andJ teaching interests in project are taking place at Wichita State University a doctorate and a master's degree in botany from the environmental history, and the University of Kansas Medical Center. CNAP University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor's Kansas history, North supports six K-State students on graduate research degree in biological sciences from Wellesley College. American Indian history and assistantships and provides access to laboratory the history of the American facilities that are used by more than 50 graduate and West. undergraduate students. professor with joint appointments in He is the author of six Kirkpatrick's main research interest is the role kinesiologyA and in anatomy books: "The Chisholm Trail: of timing and reward processes in determining and physiology at Kansas Jim Sherow Joseph McCoy's Great maladaptive impulsive and risky choices in rats. Her State University, David Gamble," released earlier National Institutes of Health R01 grant, which was C. Poole's discoveries this year; "Railroad Empire Across the Heartland: originally funded in 2010 and renewed in 2016, have helped define how Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward supports research on the development of targeted oxygen is transported Journey," 2014; "Images of America: Manhattan," therapeutic interventions to treat impulsivity. from the lungs to be used 2013; "The Grasslands of the United States: An Altogether, she has received more than $4 million by tissue mitochondria. Environmental History," 2007; "A Sense of the in funding for her research programs, has published Using innovative models American West: An Anthology of Environmental nearly 70 research papers and book chapters, and has David C. Poole at rest and during exercise, History," 1998; and "Watering the Valley: co-authored more than 100 conference abstracts and Poole has identified key Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, delivered nearly 40 invited addresses and symposium sites of metabolic control in health and disease. 1870-1950," 1990. He also has published four book contributions. She has served as a reviewer for more These observations have driven a paradigm shift in chapters and 18 refereed articles. than 30 journals, is currently on the editorial boards the understanding of how capillaries function and of four prominent journals and served as associate advanced novel therapeutics for heart failure. Sherow's 1991 summer teacher institute in editor for the journal Behavioural Processes. environmental history for public school teachers was He has been awarded more than $5 million as the first such program underwritten by the National Passionate about mentoring undergraduate and principal investigator and $17.9 million as co- Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, investigator in research grants from the National him funding for a second summer teacher institute Kirkpatrick has been the major professor for six Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation conducted in summer 1995. doctoral students and one master's recipient. She has and the American Heart Association. His h-Index is mentored more than 100 undergraduate researchers 68 with more than 16,000 citations. Along with the many awards he has received for his and five postdoctoral fellows. teaching and scholarly research, Sherow is actively The author of more than 300 research publications involved in public history and historic preservation. Kirkpatrick regularly publishes with her students and reviews, and three books, Poole has been editor/ He has served for 10 years as the governor-appointed — nearly 50 percent of her publications involve associate editor for four scientific journals and Kansas historian on the Kansas Historic Sites Board student co-authors — and she regularly supports currently serves on nine editorial boards. Poole has of Review. He also was elected to the Manhattan students to attend and present at national and won top awards for research and teaching from City Commission in 2007 for a two-year term, international conferences, with more than 80 percent the College of Human Ecology and the College re-elected in 2009 for a four-year term and served as of her conference presentations involving student of Veterinary Medicine, as well as the university's mayor from 2011-2012. co-authors. Her graduate students have garnered Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation multiple awards, including an Ig Nobel prize, two Outstanding Teaching Award. He was honored by Sherow received his doctorate from the University University Distinguished Professor research awards, the British first lady Cherie Booth Blair in 2000 and of Colorado in 1987, and that fall his dissertation, two Department of Psychological Sciences Research the Danish National Academy of Sciences in 2010. "Discord in the Valley of Content," won the Awards and an American Psychological Association He is the 2018 Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Westerners International/Phi Alpha Theta Award for Division 25 dissertation award and Division 3 early Lecturer in Experimental Biology. A fellow of the the best dissertation in Western history. He joined career award. American College of Sports Medicine, Poole served Kansas State University in fall 1992. He became an as president of its Central States Chapter from associate professor in 1993 and a full professor in 2007. Kirkpatrick received her doctorate in psychology 2001-2002. He also is a fellow of the Association from the University of Iowa in 1995 and served a of College and University Educators for K-State postdoctoral fellowship from 1996-2000 at Brown and councillor for the Exercise and Environmental Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper University. After eight years as a faculty member at Physiology section of the American Physiological Foundation Distinguished Graduate the University of York in the United Kingdom, she Society. He is a 2019 American College of Sports joined the K-State faculty in 2008 as an associate Medicine Citation Award winner. Faculty Award professor. She was promoted to full professor in 2012.

Poole has taught more than 5,000 undergraduate imberly Kirkpatrick and 2,000 graduate/professional students at K-State, is a professor of .G. Nagaraja, a and mentored more than 70 master's and 16 Kpsychological sciences university distinguished doctoral students as co-director of the Clarenburg and director of the professorT of microbiology Cardiorespiratory Laboratory. psychological sciences in the College of Veterinary department's Cognitive and Medicine's diagnostic Poole earned his bachelor's degree in sports science/ Neurobiological Approaches medicine and pathobiology applied physiology from Liverpool Polytechnic, to Plasticity center, which is department, is a highly England, and his master's degree and doctorate known as CNAP. regarded researcher on the from the University of California, Los Angeles, with gut microbiology of cattle. postdoctoral training in medicine at the University The center is funded by a Kimberly Kirkpatrick of California, San Diego. He was the first recipient $10.6 million grant from Supported by extramural of the higher Doctor of Science in physiology from the National Institute of T.G. Nagaraja funding of more than $11 John Moores University in Liverpool in 2000. General Medical Sciences. The center is currently million — predominately from the U.S. Department

8 Graduate School, Awards of Agriculture and noted animal health companies — antimicrobial alternatives. Nagaraja and his associates His many awards and honors include the Dr. Ron Nagaraja's work has focused primarily on the role of have published 19 book chapters, 14 review papers, and Rae Iman Outstanding Faculty Award from the rumen microbes in function and dysfunction of the five symposia proceedings and 214 peer-reviewed K-State Alumni Association in 2012; being named rumen, particularly liver abscesses of cattle and on journal papers. one of Kansas' top 150 scientists by Ad Astra Kansas foodborne pathogens, with a focus on Shiga toxin- in 2011; and the Irvin Youngberg Award for Applied producing Escherichia coli and salmonella in cattle. While research makes up 60 percent of Nagaraja's Sciences, one of the Higuchi-KU Endowment His work has resulted in seven U.S. patents. appointment, he also teaches the Veterinary Research Achievement Awards, in 2010. Nagaraja Bacteriology and Mycology course and lab for also received the 2001 Pfizer Animal Health Nagaraja's research is a blend of basic and applied second-year veterinary medicine students, Ruminant Award for Research Excellence from the College of studies and involves collaborative interactions with Digestive Physiology to first-year veterinary Veterinary Medicine. He is an honorary diplomate of epidemiologists, molecular biologists, pathologists medicine students and the graduate courses Rumen the American College of Veterinary Microbiology. and ruminant nutritionists. He and his associates Metabolism and Rumen Microbiology. He also have made significant contributions in the following serves as director of the College of Veterinary Nagaraja received his bachelor's and master's degrees areas: use of ionophore antibiotics in cattle; causes, Medicine's doctoral program in pathobiology and the in veterinary microbiology from the University of pathogenesis and vaccine development for liver master's program in veterinary biomedical science. Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India. He earned abscesses in feedlot cattle; causes and preventions of a doctorate in microbiology from K-State, and joined ruminal disorders such as acidosis and bloat; ecology Nagaraja has mentored 19 doctoral, 19 Master of the faculty in 1979. He was named a university of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and Science and three Master of Public Health students, distinguished professor, K-State's highest ranking, salmonella in cattle; and antimicrobial resistance and as well as several postdoctoral students and visiting in 2008. scientists.

Degree Candidates

Adult Learning and Leadership Agronomy Animal Science

Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Keondria E. McClish Anuj Chiluwal Cashley Marie Ahlberg (SU18) Co-Major Professors: Kakali Bhattacharya and Major Professor: Krishna Sreeramapura Major Professor: Megan Rolf Royce Ann Collins Veerashekarreddy Dissertation: Characterization of water intake in beef Dissertation: My soul looks back in wonder, how I Dissertation: Physiological and genetic cattle: Test length guidelines, water intake prediction, got over: Black women’s narratives on spirituality, characterization of sorghum exposed to early season and genetic parameters sexuality, and informal learning chilling, terminal heat, and drought stress Roger Andrew Cochrane (SU18) Che-Jen Hsiao Major Professor: Cassandra Jones Agricultural Economics Co-Major Professors: Charles Rice and Dissertation: Interventional strategies to reduce Gretchen Sassenrath biological hazards in animal feed Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation: Microbial properties of soils: Effects of Emrah Er management and pedogenesis Major Professor: Nathan Hendricks Biochemistry Dissertation: Applications of machine learning Iryna McDonald to agricultural land values: Prediction and causal Major Professor: Doohong Min Doctor of Philosophy Karanbir Singh Aulakh inference Dissertation: Effects of alfalfa and alfalfa-grass Major Professor: Timothy Durrett mixtures on dry matter yield and forage nutritive value Michael Burnett Lindbloom Dissertation: Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling Major Professor: Vincent Amanor-Boadu Prajaya Prajapati in developing seeds of two Brassicaceae species to Dissertation: An examination of the resilience of Major Professor: Eduardo Alvarez Santos identify key regulators associated with storage oil Kansas farms Dissertation: Using the eddy covariance technique to synthesis measure gas exchanges in a beef cattle feedlot (SU18) Nicholas Jon Pates Nicole Marie Green Major Professor: Nathan Hendricks Sebastian Varela Major Professor: Erika Geisbrecht Dissertation: Supply from many: Studies on Major Professor: Ignacio Ciampitti Dissertation: Coordination of muscle maintenance and heterogeneous U.S. land use decisions at the extensive Dissertation: Agricultural applications for remote innate immunity through integrated tissue physiology and intensive margins sensing: Unmanned aerial systems and satellite imagery in Drosophila

Aritri Majumdar Major Professor: Phillip Klebba Dissertation: TonB-dependent transport of ferric enterobactin through FepA in gram negative bacteria

Graduate School, Awards, Degree Candidates 9 (SU18) Biological and Agricultural Yulia Burakova Bhupinder Kaur Sandhu Co-Major Professors: John Schlup and Jishu Shi Major Professor: Christer Aakeroy Engineering Dissertation: Design of emulsion-based adjuvants for Dissertation: Exploring and anticipating animal vaccines supramolecular synthons: From fundamental science to Doctor of Philosophy practical applications Edwin L. Brokesh (SU18) Jared Carson Major Professor: Donghai Wang (SU18) Major Professor: Mary Rezac Kathleen Ann Sellens Dissertation: Biomass harvesting cost analysis using Dissertation: Atomic force microscopy study of Major Professor: Christopher Culbertson field scale testing data the metal surface during a palladium-catalyzed Dissertation: Microscale analysis systems for the study hydrogenation membrane reaction of proteins and proteases Chelsea Keiana Dixon

Major Professor: Lisa Wilken (SU18) (SU18) Michael Heidlage Raghavender Siramdas Dissertation: Biorefining microalgae and plant hosts Major Professor: Peter Pfromm Major Professor: Emily McLaurin with extraction, recovery, and purification of multiple Dissertation: Sustainable ammonia synthesis via Dissertation: Tuning the size and surface of InP biomolecules thermochemical reaction cycle nanocrystals by microwave-assisted ionic liquid etching

Yang Liu (SU18) Yixiao Li Mohammad Sadegh Yazdanparast Major Professor: Zifei Liu Major Professor: Mary Rezac Major Professor: Emily McLaurin Dissertation: Comparative analysis of Unmix/PMF Dissertation: Enabling membrane reactor technology Dissertation: Complimentary tuning semiconductor modeling for PM 2.5 source apportionment in rural using polymeric membranes for efficient energy and NCs properties using precursor reactivity, doping, and and urban Kansas and a review of life cycle assessment chemical production post-synthetic modification on carbon footprint of beef production (SU18) Song Liu (SU18) Jing Yu Kelsey Rose McDonough Major Professor: James Edgar Major Professor: Stefan Bossmann Major Professor: Stacy Hutchinson Dissertation: Experimental and theoretical studies of Dissertation: Structure determination, mechanistic Dissertation: A multiscale perspective of water hexagonal boron nitride single crystal growth study, and safe delivery of an anti-cancer peptide resources and ecosystem services Civil Engineering Tobias Ebong Oker Chemistry Co-Major Professors: Isaya Kisekka and Aleksey Sheshukov Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy James Emery Brown (S18) Dissertation: Opportunities for improving water AlaaEldin Abouelleil Major Professor: Jun Li productivity using mobile drip irrigation Major Professor: Hayder Rasheed Dissertation: Advances in electrical energy storage using Dissertation: Novel theory for shear stress computations core-shell structures and relaxor-ferroelectric materials Biology in cracked reinforced concrete flexural beam Janaka Chaminda Gamekkanda Gamaethige (SU18) Doctor of Philosophy Husam Aldeen Alshareef Major Professor: Christer Aakeroy Major Professor: Hayder Rasheed Victoria Lynn Michelle Rhodes (S18) Dissertation: Hydrogen- and halogen-bond driven Dissertation: Initial analytical investigation of Major Professor: Kristin Michel supramolecular architectures from small molecules to overhead sign trusses with respect to remaining fatigue Dissertation: Toll signaling immune function and cavitands, and applications in energetic materials life and predictive methods for inspection evolution in anopheline mosquitoes

(SU18) Chamara Abeywickramasinghe Gunawardana Sarah Dacia Auvenshine (SU18) Chemical Engineering Major Professor: Christer Aakeroy Major Professor: David Steward Dissertation: Crystal engineering with coordination, Dissertation: Aquifer recharge and evapotranspiration Doctor of Philosophy hydrogen- and halogen-bonds, and the construction of from the rivers in western Kansas Hayder Abdulkareem Mohsin Al Atabi porous solids Major Professor: James Edgar Naga Narendra Babu Bodapati (S18) Dissertation: Crystal growth of ErN and ScN Zi Li Major Professor: Robert Peterman via physical vapor transport: Synthesis, properties, Major Professor: Daniel Higgins Dissertation: A comprehensive study of prestressing steel characterization, and process simulation Dissertation: Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and concrete variables affecting transfer length in pre- studies of DNA-surface interactions on chemically tensioned concrete crossties Zahraa Fadhil Alauda graded organosilane surfaces Major Professor: Keith Hohn Tri Van Tran Dissertation: Conversion of methyl ethyl ketone Major Professor: Stacey Kulesza (MEK) to valuable chemicals over multi-functional Dissertation: Instrumentation of erosion function supported catalysts apparatus and evaluation of a new erosion characterization methodology

10 Graduate School, Degree Candidates Jan Vosahlik (SU18) Alan Evan English Bradley Dale Neuenswander Co-Major Professors: Christopher Jones and Major Professor: Bradley Burenheide Co-Major Professors: Kakali Bhattacharya Kyle Riding Dissertation: Rigor, relationships, and religion: and Debbie Mercer Dissertation: Pumping of concrete mixtures: Rheology, Exploring youth’s experiences in after-school programs Dissertation: A state of educational imbalance: An lubrication layer properties and pumping pressure autoethnographic account of a deputy commissioner assessment Staci Marie Horton facilitating educational reform Major Professor: Jana Fallin Mohammed Zaki Dissertation: Effect of educational neuroscience Gary Douglas Richmond Major Professor: Hayder Rasheed techniques in the university aural skills classroom Co-Major Professors: Kakali Bhattacharya and Dissertation: Behavior of reinforced concrete beams David Thompson strengthened using CFRP sheets with superior Yuanyuan Zhao Dissertation: Flying blind with badly behaving anchorage devices Major Professor: Debbie Mercer technology: A case study of integrating 1:1 computers in Dissertation: Student engagement in postsecondary middle school Computer Science English classes in China: The teachers’ perspective Roger Andre Syng Doctor of Philosophy Economics Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Surya Teja Kallumadi (SU18) Dissertation: The unsung gay heroes of American Major Professor: William Hsu Doctor of Philosophy education: The gay and lesbian educator in view of civil Dissertation: Representation learning in heterogeneous Weldensie Teklay Embaye (SU18) rights legislation information networks for user modeling and Co-Major Professors: Jason Bergtold and recommendations Benjamin Schwab Electrical Engineering Dissertation: Production efficiency and policy impact of Counseling and Student heterogeneous farm households in developing countries Doctor of Philosophy Aswad Adib Development (SU18) Quazi Fidia Farah Major Professor: Behrooz Mirafzal Doctor of Philosophy Major Professor: William Blankenau Dissertation: Stability and performance enhancement Dissertation: Essays in expectation driven business Gregory Bohner of grid-interactive voltage source inverters cycle and wage polarization Major Professor: Judith Hughey Dissertation: The relationship between college counselor Kim R. Fowler work responsibilities and burnout Educational Leadership Co-Major Professors: Stephen Dyer and Steve Warren Sarah Marie Lancaster (SU18) Doctor of Education Dissertation: A framework for design assurance in Major Professor: Judith Hughey Kellen James Adams developing embedded systems Dissertation: Adolescent female body image: Self-report Major Professor: David Thompson (SU18) predictive cognitions and behaviors Dissertation: Funding public school infrastructure: An Kumarsinh Mahendrasinh Jhala overview of selected impacts and reconceptualization Major Professor: Bala Natarajan Paul Alexander Maxfield of state aid, with insights from three representative Dissertation: Modeling of active consumers and their Major Professor: Doris Wright Carroll Kansas school districts impact on the Smart Grid: A cyber physical social and Dissertation: Whiskey & tangerines: An ethnodrama economic perspective exploring a couple’s transition from alcoholism to long- Heather Leigh Calvert term recovery Co-Major Professors: Kakali Bhattacharya and Solmaz Niknam David Thompson Major Professor: Bala Natarajan Curriculum and Instruction Dissertation: From coblabberation to collaboration: An Dissertation: Interference modeling and performance interview study of professional learning communities in analysis of 5G MM-wave networks Doctor of Philosophy elementary education Asma Bin Ateeq Wenji Zhang Major Professor: Debbie Mercer Charles A. Kipp Major Professor: Bala Natarajan Dissertation: Professional learning communities at Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Dissertation: Error analysis in mode-based Kalman Dammam, Saudi Arabia Dissertation: A qualitative case study identifying filter for stochastic hybrid systems leadership roles and behaviors that significantly impact Amy Darlene Davis the integration of technology in the secondary school Major Professor: F. Todd Goodson Dissertation: An integrated literacy/science intervention for English language learners in third grade

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 11 (SU18) Entomology Brintha Parasumanna Girinathan Jianteng Xu Major Professor: Revathi Govind Major Professor: Yongcheng Shi Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation: Integrating sporulation, toxin Dissertation: Preparation, characterization, and Edwin Afful production, and motility by redefining the role of TcdR applications of highly substituted starch derivatives Major Professor: Thomas Phillips and characterizing the sin regulon in Clostridium Dissertation: Resistance of Rhyzopertha dominica difficile Kouame Dominique Yao (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) to phosphine fumigation; Major Professor: Subramanyam Bhadriraju Daljit Singh geographic variation, high dose treatments and rapid Dissertation: Evaluating the physical and insecticidal Major Professor: Jesse Poland assay assessment properties and the effects on grain flow properties Dissertation: Phenomics enabled genetic dissection of of a synthetic amorphous zeolite intended for grain complex traits in wheat breeding Philip John Freda protection Co-Major Professors: Theodore Morgan and Yoonseong Park Geography History Dissertation: Phenotypic, genetic, and transcriptomic decoupling of thermal hardiness across metamorphosis in Doctor of Philosophy (SU18) Doctor of Philosophy Drosophila melanogaster Ali Saeed Arifi Alghamdi Mack Henry Scott Major Professor: John Harrington Jr. Major Professor: Bonnie Lynn-Sherow Luaay Kahtan Khalaf Dissertation: Climatology of warm season heat waves Dissertation: From a “Great Tree” to a new dawn: Major Professor: C. Michael Smith in Saudi Arabia: A time-sensitive approach Race, ethnogenesis, and indigeneity in Southern Dissertation: Biotype composition and virulence New England distribution of wheat curl mite in the North Central Thomas Barclay Larsen United States Major Professor: John Harrington Jr. Dissertation: Developing a human-environment Horticulture timeline Yinping Li Doctor of Philosophy Major Professor: Raymond Cloyd Stuart Sprague (SU18) Bohua Ling (SU18) Dissertation: Effects of the rove beetle, Dalotia Major Professor: Sunghun Park Major Professor: Douglas Goodin coriaria, on western flower thrips, Frankliniella Dissertation: Ectopic expression of an Arabidopsis Dissertation: Remote sensing of vegetation occidentalis, under laboratory conditions; and glutaredoxin increases thermotolerance in maize during characteristics and spatial analysis of pyric herbivory in integrating the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria reproductive developmental stages bassiana, with D. coriaria to suppress western flower a tallgrass prairie thrips populations under greenhouse conditions (SU18) Mingying Xiang Heidi Elizabeth Mehl Co-Major Professors: Jack Fry and Megan Kennelly Major Professor: Marcellus Caldas Dissertation: Evaluation of tall fescue-zoysiagrass Food Science Dissertation: Understanding stream incision, riparian polystands and new zoysiagrass genotypes for use in the function, and Indigenous knowledge to evaluate land transition zone Doctor of Philosophy management on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Xiaoyu Su Major Professor: Weiqun Wang Human Ecology Dissertation: Identification and quantification of Grain Science anthocyanins in sorghum and sweetpotato leaves Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy (SU18) Roger Andrew Cochrane (SU18) Michelle Ranae Alcorn Jingwen Xu Major Professor: Cassandra Jones Major Professor: Kevin Roberts Co-Major Professors: Channa Rajashekar and Dissertation: Interventional strategies to reduce Dissertation: Personality and environmental Weiqun Wang biological hazards in animal feed behavior: Perspectives of employees working in green Dissertation: Health-promoting phytochemicals: (1) in and nongreen restaurants response to environmental factors in lettuce, spinach and Beibei Li tomato; (2) development of 3D cell culture model for (SU18) Major Professor: Subramanyam Bhadriraju Basem Azmy Saad Boutros potential anticancer role Dissertation: Effects of chlorine dioxide and ozone Major Professor: Kevin Roberts gases against immature stages of stored-grain insects Dissertation: Self-reported food safety behaviors in Genetics independent ethnic restaurants: An application of the Tesfaye Melak Tadesse Social Cognitive Theory Doctor of Philosophy Major Professor: Subramanyam Bhadriraju (SU18) Anupama Joshi Dissertation: Efficacy of filter cake and Triplex against Jacob Troy Caldwell Major Professor: Bikram Gill stored-product insects on concrete surfaces and grain: Major Professor: Carl Ade Dissertation: Map-based cloning of the Hessian fly Safer alternatives to protect stored grain of Ethiopian Dissertation: Functional sympatholysis and blood flow: resistance gene H13 in Wheat smallholder farmers' Regulatory changes with duty cycle, sodium intake, and dietary nitrate supplementation

12 Graduate School, Degree Candidates (SU18) Jesse Charles Craig Industrial Engineering Daniel Gould Major Professor: David Poole Major Professor: Hitesh Bindra Dissertation: Exploring the mechanisms of sexual Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation: Air ingress in HTGRs: The process, dimorphism in oxygen delivery-to-utilization matching Nibal Tawfiq Albashabsheh effects and experimental methods relating to its in skeletal muscle Major Professor: Jessica Heier Stamm investigation and consequences Dissertation: Lignocellulosic biomass-to-biofuel supply (SU18) Ainslie Kathryn Kehler chain optimization with mobile densification and Pathobiology Major Professor: Katie Heinrich farmers' choices Dissertation: Reproductive health among tactical Doctor of Philosophy athletes: An examination of physical activity and (SU18) Izabela Ragan occupational concerns Mathematics Co-Major Professors: A. Sally Davis and William Wilson Sarah Ann Kuborn (SU18) Doctor of Philosophy (SU18) Dissertation: The development of novel diagnostic Major Professor: Melinda Markham Joshua Dale Brummer countermeasures for Rift Valley Fever virus Dissertation: Sexuality education: Implications for Major Professor: Virginia Naibo policy, parents, and family life educators Dissertation: Leibniz-type rules associated to bilinear pseudodifferential operators Pengcheng Shang Major Professor: Ying Fang Xiaoye Li (SU18) (SU18) Dissertation: The roles of papain-like protease-related Jason Clemens Major Professor: Junehee Kwon proteins in viral replication and host immunity Dissertation: “Seeing through consumers’ eyes”: Major Professor: Nathan Albin Dissertation: Spanning tree modulus: Deflation and Exploring online restaurant selection behaviors using Jorge Carlos Simroth-Rodriguez (SU18) hierarchical graph structure eye-tracking technology Major Professor: Daniel Thomson

(SU18) Dissertation: Beef cattle production in the United Thiwanka Nethali Fernando Naiqing Lin States: A complex matrix of interconnected nutritional, Major Professor: Pietro Poggi-Corradini Major Professor: Kevin Roberts health, and welfare management practices Dissertation: Explaining unobserved heterogeneity Dissertation: New metrics on networks arising from modulus and applications of Fulkerson duality of food safety behavioral intention: A sequential mixed Miaomiao Wu method approach Major Professor: Philip Hardwidge Ian Garrett Manly (SU18) Dissertation: Enterobacterial type three secretion (SU18) Major Professor: Andrew Bennett Chelsey Rae Schlechter system effectors and their interference with host innate Dissertation: Data mining and intervention in Co-Major Professors: David Dzewaltowski and immunity Emily Mailey Calculus I Dissertation: The social contexts of youth settings for (SU18) influencing physical activity Christopher John Richardson Personal Financial Planning Major Professor: Christopher Pinner Justin Paul Spiehs Dissertation: A generalization of the Goresky-Klapper Doctor of Philosophy NaRita Gail Anderson Major Professor: Rick Scheidt conjecture Co-Major Professors: Dorothy Durband and Dissertation: SOC solutions of male survivors of Diane Kiss childhood sexual abuse: An exploratory collective case Mechanical Engineering Dissertation: Are financial knowledge, financial risk study tolerance, and the uncertainty regarding future long- Doctor of Philosophy term care need correlated with long-term care insurance Shahin Nayyeri Amiri (SU18) Human Nutrition ownership by baby boomers? Major Professor: Byron Jones Dissertation: Study of Aldehydes, Co and Doctor of Philosophy Christina Elaine Glenn characterization of particles resulting from oil Javier F. Abello Co-Major Professors: Sonya Britt Lutter and contamination of aircraft bleed air Co-Major Professors: Mark Haub and Stuart Heckman Luis Melgarejo Dissertation: The influence of financial socialization on Dissertation: Effect of extracellular vesicles on Nuclear Engineering young adults cancer cell lines in vitro and biodistribution in ectopic osteosarcoma mouse model Doctor of Philosophy Randy Joseph Kemnitz Nathaniel Scott Edwards (SU18) Co-Major Professors: Stuart Heckman and Jillian Marie Joyce (SU18) Major Professor: Douglas McGregor Maurice MacDonald Major Professor: Sara Rosenkranz Dissertation: 6Li-based suspended foil microstrip Dissertation: The influences of financial self-efficacy Dissertation: Evidence for understanding the neutron detectors and financial socialization on college students’ financial implications of improving the dietary quality of school stress and coping lunches

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 13 Robert Henry Rodermund Jared Joel Peterson Kaitlin Rae Brantley (S18) Major Professor: Sonya Britt Lutter Major Professor: Lester Loschky Major Professor: Judith Hughey Dissertation: The influence of present and future time Dissertation: The interaction between visual resolution perspective on financial net worth and task-relevance in guiding visual selective attention Catherine Brown Major Professor: E. Ann Knackendoffel Gregory Hunter Gates Schink Ryan Vance Ringer Major Professor: Sonya Britt Lutter Major Professor: Lester Loschky Jennifer Kay Brown Dissertation: Self-regulation of wealth Dissertation: The spatiotemporal dynamics of visual Major Professor: Charlie Nutt attention during real-world event perception Physics Micah Rhian Burt Major Professor: Christy Craft Security Studies Doctor of Philosophy April Rose Carroll (SU18) Benjamin Jeffrey Berry Doctor of Philosophy Major Professor: Itzhak Ben-Itzhak (SU18) Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Jan Kenneth Gleiman Dissertation: Imaging laser-induced fragmentation of Major Professor: Emizet Kisangani molecular beams, from positive to negative molecules Lori Carroll Dissertation: The unconventional strategic option: Major Professor: Dan Wilcox Democracies supporting non-state armed groups Aleena Rafique(SU18) (SU18) Major Professor: Timothy Bolton Carlie Christiansen Dissertation: Tests of neutrino interaction models with Sociology Major Professor: Marilyn Kaff the MicroBooNE detector Doctor of Philosophy Kyle Michael Dorsten (SU18) Physiology Will Chernoff Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Major Professor: W. Richard Goe Dissertation: What youth can’t do: The juvenile court Cindi Tyma Fields Doctor of Philosophy and the social construction of youth offending Major Professor: Charlie Nutt Michael Dean Kleinhenz Major Professor: Johann Coetzee Sandra Yesenia Galta (SU18) Caitlin Film Dissertation: Pharmacokinetic properties of Major Professor: Spencer Wood Major Professor: Charlie Nutt transdermal flunixin in cattle and its use in pain models Dissertation: Intersectional subaltern counterpublics: UndocuQueer online activism and testimonies Tamara Garlock Plant Pathology Major Professor: Charlie Nutt April Terry (SU18) Doctor of Philosophy Major Professor: L. Sue Williams Jason Michael Gray (SU18) Lorena Gomez Dissertation: Dirt roads to justice and heartland girls: Major Professor: Marilyn Kaff Co-Major Professors: Ari Jumpponen and Coercive sexual environments in nonmetropolitan Megan Kennelly communities Elecia Leigh Hadley Dissertation: Assessing the response of soil microbial Major Professor: Judith Hughey communities to different vegetable cropping methods Statistics using high-throughput DNA and RNA-based Jessica Searles Haile techniques and community analyses Major Professor: Charlie Nutt Doctor of Philosophy Yan McGowan Melissa Hardy (SU18) Psychology Major Professors: Christopher Vahl Major Professor: Charlie Nutt Dissertation: Predicting drug residue depletion to Doctor of Philosophy establish a withdrawal period with data below limit of (SU18) Owen G. Jordan John Patrick Hutson quantitation (LOQ) Major Professor: Lester Loschky Major Professor: Charlie Nutt Dissertation: Top-down effects on attentional selection (SU18) in dynamic scenes and subsequent memory: Attitude Academic Advising Jillian Burke Kasher congruence and social vigilantism in political videos Major Professor: Marilyn Kaff Master of Science (SU18) Elena Knyshev Julie Axelson Karley Lynne Kelley Major Professor: Heather Bailey Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Charlie Nutt Dissertation: Is there a bilingual advantage: Testing the role of language mode Bryan Bowerman Jessica Lynn King Major Professor: Kenneth Hughey Major Professor: Christy Craft

14 Graduate School, Degree Candidates Brenda Kay Kutz (SU18) Sheridan Rose Koster (SU18) Joy Rebstein (SU18) Major Professor: Charlie Nutt Major Professor: Amy Hageman Major Professor: Susan Yelich Biniecki

Hannah Kearse Lindemuth Taylor Oliver Ashley Alexis Richter (SU18) Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Mark Linville Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins

(SU18) Marilyn Masters Matthew Chase Ryan Mike Schmiege Major Professor: Kenneth Hughey Major Professor: Mark Linville Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins

Kimberly Taylor McClellan Tyler Strecker Benny Clyde Schulteis Major Professor: E. Ann Knackendoffel Major Professor: Brett Wilkinson Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins

(SU18) Mariah Liette Mueller (SU18) Molly Irene Ward Misty Dyan Stick-Mueller Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Mark Linville Major Professor: Jeffrey Zacharakis

(SU18) Jared Nietfeld Hunter Yakle Richard Tod Strickland Major Professor: Dan Wilcox Major Professor: Mark Linville Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins

Katy Randall Chelsea K. Todd Adult Learning and Leadership Major Professor: Dan Wilcox Major Professor: Haijun Kang

Mikayla Scott Master of Science Andrew Turner Lindsey Kay Bruns Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins Major Professor: Judith Favor (SU18) Meredith Lynn Strmac Holly Zonneveld Jessie Collins Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins

Meredith Tolsma (SU18) Steven Franklin Adult, Occupational, Continuing Major Professor: Dan Wilcox Major Professor: Judith Favor Education

Daniel Julian Tompkins (SU18) Shelley Ruth Fritz Master of Science Major Professor: Kenneth Hughey (SU18) Major Professor: Judith Favor Daniel W. Padgett Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins Kelsey Anne Townsend (SU18) Benjamin Chad Garner Major Professor: Dan Wilcox (SU18) Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins Scott Holman Sawyer Major Professor: Susan Yelich Biniecki Mao-Tong Wang (SU18) Thomas Richard Geisinger Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins Agribusiness Jacquie Rose Welty Erika Anne Henritz Major Professor: E. Ann Knackendoffel Master of Agribusiness Major Professor: Judith Favor Geovano Ceratti (SU18) Major Professor: Keith Harris Owen Wood Mackenzie Johnson Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Major Professor: Susan Yelich Biniecki Barbara Erin Clem (SU18) Major Professor: Keith Harris Accounting Andrew Koch Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins Jordan Daniel Hanslovan Master of Accountancy Major Professor: Vincent Amanor-Boadu Troy Dewey Jessica Dawn Langenwalter (SU18) Major Professor: Amy Hageman Major Professor: Haijun Kang Marvin Mbaso Major Professor: Vincent Amanor-Boadu Melissa Hamilton Dana Lynn Parker (SU18) Major Professor: Danny Fisher Major Professor: Susan Yelich Biniecki Kristina Michelle McAllister (SU18) Major Professor: Christine Wilson Ann Truc Hoang Caralee Rochelle Pruitt Major Professor: Mark Linville Major Professor: Royce Ann Collins

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 15 (SU18) Michael Thomas Reecy Agronomy Michael Thomas Paton Major Professor: Jason Bergtold Major Professor: Paige Adams

Master of Science (SU18) Sydney Janae Van Ravenswaay (SU18) Johanna Helene Zivotic Jeffrey Joseph Albers Major Professor: Aleksan Shanoyan Major Professor: Justin Kastner Major Professor: Anita Dille

(SU18) George G. Warui Robert Elliott Carver (SU18) Architecture Major Professor: Tian Xia Major Professor: Nathan Nelson Master of Architecture Agricultural Economics Jeremy Matthew Davidson (SU18) Keegan Kyler Amos (SU18) Co-Major Professors: Robert Aiken and Major Professor: Matthew Knox Master of Science Doohong Min (SU18) Tanner Michael Aherin (SU18) Megan Cantu (SU18) Major Professor: Ted Schroeder Reshma Moolakkal Antony Major Professor: Susanne Siepl-Coates Major Professor: Krishna Sreeramapura (S18) Bolanle Adijat Atilola Veerashekarreddy Eddie Garcia Major Professor: Vincent Amanor-Boadu Major Professor: Robert Condia Nathaniel Russell Thompson (SU18) (SU18) Candace Elaine Gatson Smart (SU18) Major Professor: Dallas Peterson Sheldon L. Roberts Major Professor: Glynn Tonsor Major Professor: Vladimir Krstic

Animal Science (SU18) Eva Adomaa Kyereboah Amy Lynn Roether Major Professor: Vincent Amanor-Boadu Master of Science Major Professor: R. Todd Gabbard

Jarrod Jeffrey Blackburn (S18) (SU18) Sofiya Sabreen Paul Antonio Leiva Major Professor: Micheal Brouk Major Professor: Aleksan Shanoyan Major Professor: Peter Magyar Lindsey Nicole Drey (SU18) Brandon Grove Smith (SU18) Yuchen Qin Major Professor: Travis O’Quinn Major Professor: Tian Xia Major Professor: Vladimir Krstic Allison Whitney Hobson (SU18) (S18) Steven Court Starr Hanna Lynn Ruder Major Professor: Terry Houser Major Professor: Benjamin Schwab Major Professor: Vladimir Krstic Lucas Horton (SU18) Austin Richard Ungerbuehler Lucas Steven Sudbeck Major Professor: James Drouillard Major Professor: Matthew Knox Major Professor: Mykel Taylor Kimberly Anne Pearl Major Professor: Evan Titgemeyer Architecture Agricultural Education and Communication Spencer Shannon Scotten Master of Science Major Professor: Jim Nelssen M. M. Lekhon Alam (SU18) Master of Science Major Professor: Gary Coates (SU18) Leah DiGioia Sarah Elizabeth Sivinski Major Professor: Gaea Hock Major Professor: Barry Bradford Architectural Engineering

(S18) Brooke Allison Harshaw Apparel, Textiles and Major Professor: Gaea Hock Master of Architectural Engineering Interior Design Hunter Wheeler Major Professor: Bill Zhang Lexi Louise Kiniston Major Professor: Lauri Baker Master of Science Brinda Govindarajan Biochemistry (SU18) Major Professor: Melody LeHew Katelyn Meiwes Major Professor: Gaea Hock Master of Science Applied Science and Technology Linah Mohammed Alkotami Major Professor: Timothy Durrett Professional Science Master Tina Meier Yanan Zhou (SU18) Major Professor: Justin Kastner Major Professor: Zhilong Yang

16 Graduate School, Degree Candidates (SU18) Biological and Agricultural Deepa Upreti Major Professor: Anne Davis Engineering Lanjing Wei (SU18) Master of Science Major Professor: Roman Ganta Hanna Precilla Galoso Estrada (S18) (P) Major Professor: Ronaldo Maghirang Hannah White (SU18) Major Professor: Roman Ganta Jacob Otto Schwindt Major Professor: Ajay Sharda Cori Derosa Youngblood Major Professor: Warren Beard Jonathan Michael Zeller Major Professor: Daniel Flippo Jarrod T. Younkin Major Professor: Elizabeth Davis Biology Business Administration Master of Science Henry Camarillo Master of Business Administration Major Professor: Michael Tobler Steven David Alexander Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Sophie Alexandra Higgs (SU18) Major Professor: Walter Dodds Joshua James Barlow Major Professor: Bongsug Chae Leah Jan Radeke (SU18) Major Professor: Michael Herman Andrew Robert Buser Major Professor: John Morris Adam Joseph Schieferecke (SU18) Major Professor: A. Lorena Passarelli Joel Jeremy Byford Major Professor: Roger McHaney Kasey Lee Swilley (SU18) Major Professor: Bradley Olson Michael Claussen Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Stephen James Walterhouse (SU18) Major Professor: Nicholas Wallace Rolan Davis Major Professor: William Turnley Jr.

Biomedical Science Dallas S.L. Gaither (SU18) Major Professor: Marne Arthaud-Day Master of Science Kaylen McKenzie Capps Michelle Harper Co-Major Professors: Raghavendra Amachawadi Major Professor: William Turnley Jr. and T.G. Nagaraja Adam Crain Klemons (SU18) Amy Christina Lyons Major Professor: John Morris Major Professor: Dana Vanlandingham Keegan Kuecker (SU18) Krishani Dinali Imasha Perera Major Professor: Marne Arthaud-Day Major Professor: Yunjeong Kim Robert Lewis Landry (SU18) Anna Elyse Sage Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Major Professor: Paige Adams Deborah Jean Lewis (SU18) Emily Kathleen Sharpe Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Major Professor: Jessica Slack Francisca Marie Long Melissa Ann Snider (S18) Major Professor: John Morris Major Professor: Paige Adams

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 17 Stephanie Rene Lopez Chemical Engineering Community Development Major Professor: William Turnley Jr.

(SU18) Master of Science Master of Science Chad Vincent Martin Michael Curtis Christopher Lempa (SU18) Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Major Professor: James Edgar Major Professor: Huston Gibson

Sai Pradeep Medarametla Chaoran Huang Kassandra Rose Sprecher (SU18) Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Major Professor: Jennifer Anthony Major Professor: Huston Gibson

(S18) Jeremy Lynn Nordhus Aaron McRorie Raymond Earl Stubblefield Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Major Professor: James Edgar Major Professor: Huston Gibson

Fei Peng Kimberly Marie Yager Computer Science Major Professor: John Morris Major Professor: John Schlup

Jessie Pickrell Master of Science Major Professor: Marne Arthaud-Day Chemistry Sai Sandeep Dasari Major Professor: William Hsu Miriam Rodriguez (SU18) Master of Science (SU18) Major Professor: Stacy Kovar Stephanie Lee Zhiang Fan Major Professor: Emily McLaurin Major Professor: Doina Caragea Bobbie Renee Rose (SU18) Major Professor: John Morris Christopher Sean Satterfield Naresh Kumar Giri Major Professor: Tendai Gadzikwa Major Professor: Arslan Munir Preston Paul Schotte (SU18) Major Professor: William Turnley Jr. Civil Engineering Atef Khan Major Professor: William Hsu (SU18) Mindy Sue Smith Master of Science Major Professor: William Turnley Jr. Sulaiman Alrweih (SU18) Virashree Hrushikesh Patel Major Professor: Asad Esmaeily Co-Major Professors: Cornelia Caragea and Nathaniel Paul Snethen Doina Caragea Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Samer Drou Major Professor: Dunja Peric Debarshi Saha Natalie Stanley Major Professor: Doina Caragea Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Communication Studies Sindhu Velumula Kara Stucky Major Professor: William Hsu Master of Arts Major Professor: Diane Swanson (SU18) Kory Paige Loden (SU18) Vijay Kumar Venkatamuniyappa Major Professor: Colene Lind Kenrick Thompson Major Professor: Doina Caragea Major Professor: Chwen Sheu Jakki Mattson Major Professor: Timothy Shaffer Counseling and Student Sanjeev Uruppattur Major Professor: John Morris Development Samantha M. Pratt (SU18) Major Professor: Sarah Riforgiate Charlene Elizabeth Whiteside Master of Science Shane Robert Conlon (SU18) Major Professor: James Bloodgood (SU18) Levi Lee Smith Major Professor: Kenneth Hughey Major Professor: Gregory Paul Frantina Williams Major Professor: Marne Arthaud-Day Deanna Coughlin Cassidy Stefka (SU18) Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Natalie Pennington Yucheng Xu Major Professor: John Morris Erika Dawn Davis Jennifer Galimore Williams (SU18) Major Professor: Doris Wright Carroll Major Professor: Timothy Shaffer Laura Douglas Major Professor: Judith Hughey

18 Graduate School, Degree Candidates Nicole Cane Grandy (S18) Kayla Marie Harwood (S18) Sidonia Lucrisha McKenzie (SU18) Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Major Professor: Bradley Burenheide Major Professor: Philip Gayle

Joe Luther Hall Ashley Patricia Hurley (SU18) Yiyang Wan Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: F. Todd Goodson Major Professor: Lei Shen

(SU18) Robbie Hotz Amber Kriley Educational Leadership Major Professor: Jessica Lane Major Professor: David Allen

(S18) (SU18) Master of Science Jeremy James Lang (SU18) Alexandra Lee Malloy Amy Leigh Alfrey Major Professor: Vicki Sherbert Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

Annastacia Lin Maynard (SU18) Abigail Marie Newkirk John Efton Alfrey Major Professor: Kimberly Staples Major Professor: Jessica Lane Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

(SU18) (SU18) Hannah Deane Moorhous (SU18) Heather Papp Alyson Anna Amos Major Professor: Vicki Sherbert Major Professor: Lisa Rubin Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

(SU18) Ashley Nunez (SU18) Ana Karen Parra Ryan Arnold Major Professor: David Allen Major Professor: Doris Wright Carroll Major Professor: Mary Devin

Tegan William Nusser (SU18) Lauren Rowe Boyna Bear (SU18) Major Professor: Sherri Martinie Major Professor: Jessica Lane Major Professor: Robert Hachiya

Tracey Lynne Perez Connor Staats Clint Robert Borton (SU18) Major Professor: Suzanne Porath Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

Lisa Pluff(S18) Tara Marie Windley Rachel Buessing (SU18) Major Professor: Sally Yahnke Major Professor: Judith Hughey Major Professor: Mary Devin

Kyle Andrew Van Vogelpoel (SU18) Jordan Jamison Burr (SU18) Curriculum and Instruction Major Professor: F. Todd Goodson Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

Master of Science Fletcher Woolsey (SU18) Samantha JoAnn Bendrick Adriana Caro (SU18) Major Professor: Deepak Subramony Major Professor: Kay Ann Taylor Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

Steven M. Berklund (SU18) Dietetics Rachel Chapman (SU18) Major Professor: Vicki Sherbert Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Master of Science (SU18) Dana Wynter Bruna (SU18) Michelle Huynh Ivy Mary Susan Cooper (SU18) Major Professor: F. Todd Goodson Major Professor: Weiqun Wang Major Professor: Mary Devin

(SU18) Derek Cantu (SU18) Caylee Rachelle Johnson Katie Marie Corwin (SU18) Major Professor: Deepak Subramony Major Professor: Mark Haub Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

(SU18) Brittany Anne Michels (SU18) Jonathan Chae Dana Louise Daylight Major Professor: Amber Howells Major Professor: BeEtta Stoney Major Professor: Robert Hachiya

(SU18) (SU18) Casey Marie Richardson (SU18) Gelia Dodin Katlen Downey Major Professor: Mark Haub Major Professor: Deepak Subramony Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

Catherine Erin Dwinal (SU18) Economics Jason Drinkard (SU18) Major Professor: Deepak Subramony Major Professor: Mary Devin Master of Arts Michael Leroy Elder Sakshi Bhardwaj (S18) Jeff Dusin Major Professor: Deepak Subramony Major Professor: Philip Gayle Major Professor: Robert Hachiya

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 19 (SU18) (SU18) Kim Celeste Freeland Cameron Jay Pratt Electrical Engineering Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Robert Hachiya

(SU18) (SU18) Master of Science Kathy Gemaehlich Emily Ann Rhoades Hammad Jaloud Aljaloud (SU18) Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Hongyu Wu

(SU18) (SU18) Sarah Anne Gere Samantha Ashley Rumbaugh Abdulraheem Adnan Alkhiary Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Behrooz Mirafzal

(SU18) Scott Glass Sheila Renee Sanchez Pallab Kumar Datta (SU18) Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Anil Pahwa

(SU18) (SU18) Denna Anne Gonzalez Hollyann Sewell Glenn Millar Huebner (SU18) Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Hongyu Wu

(SU18) (SU18) Sonia Gonzalez Michelle Lynn Shambow Sifat Afroj Moon Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Caterina Scoglio

(SU18) Ann Gorsuch Daniel Simon Yuqi Song (SU18) Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Major Professor: Punit Prakash

(SU18) (SU18) Joni Lynn Hall Nathan Edward Smith Joshua Welch Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: William Kuhn

(SU18) (SU18) Sarah Lynn Harris Yvonne Spalding Hang Zhang Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Hongyu Wu

Cynthia Delcarmen Hopp (SU18) Coley Morrell Streater (SU18) Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Engineering Management

Phillip Kline (SU18) Manon Taylor (SU18) Master of Engineering Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Management Kurtis Patrick Barnett (S18) Stacey Kramer (SU18) Alauna Jean Thornton (SU18) Major Professor: Bradley Kramer Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Mary Devin

Matthew Brandon Lancaster (SU18) Molly Townsend (SU18) English Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Mary Devin Master of Arts Kathryn Locke (SU18) Amy Wagner (SU18) Gavin Paul Colton Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Katherine Karlin

(SU18) Loretta Logan (SU18) Mary Grayce Wildcat (SU18) Maxwell Nicholas Malone Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Major Professor: Katherine Karlin

Lauren Elizabeth Long (SU18) Amanda Marie Wilkinson (SU18) Entomology Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw

(SU18) (SU18) Master of Science Michelle Lucht Lauren Williams Robert Ewing (SU18) Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Mary Devin Major Professor: Jeffery Whitworth

Amanda McKinley (SU18) Sarah Johanna Williams (SU18) Major Professor: Robert Hachiya Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Family and Community Services

Christine Kay Neeb (SU18) Master of Science Major Professor: Donna Augustine-Shaw Ursala Antoinette Bowe Major Professor: Elaine Johannes

20 Graduate School, Degree Candidates (SU18) Tamara Lynn Huff Danielle Nicole Bauer Geology Major Professor: Charlotte Olsen Major Professor: J. Scott Smith

(SU18) Master of Science Lisa Ann Kindsvater Haley Nicholle Davis (SU18) Karina Galinskaya Major Professor: Charlotte Olsen Major Professor: Weiqun Wang Major Professor: Saugata Datta

Michael T. Hoang Jacob Morgan Hughes (SU18) Family Studies and Human Services Major Professor: Jayendra Amamcharla Major Professor: Brice LaCroix

Master of Science Elizabeth Kirchman (SU18) Nada Abdulrhman E. Alalwani (SU18) Alexandria Demi Richard (SU18) Major Professor: Kelly Getty Major Professor: Elaine Johannes Major Professor: Matthew Kirk

Sarah Brianna Luchansky-Sholly Natalie Ann Bender (SU18) Forest Thomas Shepherd (SU18) Major Professor: Valentina Trinetta Major Professor: Kristin Pelczarski Major Professor: Saugata Datta

Patrice Ann-Marie Lyon Kelsie Bigenwalt Christopher Thomas Wierman Major Professor: Elizabeth Boyle Major Professor: Kristin Pelczarski Major Professor: Matthew Brueseke

Gabriela Magossi Boccatto (SU18) Kerri G. Briggs (SU18) Major Professor: Valentina Trinetta Gerontology Major Professor: Debra Burnett Dan Newbold (SU18) Master of Science Brianna Rebekah Craig Major Professor: Kadri Koppel JoEllyn Argabright Major Professor: Amber Vennum Major Professor: Gayle Doll Kirana Marie Noe (SU18) Ashley Marie Edelman Major Professor: Abbey Nutsch Aubrey Corlette Mentis (SU18) Major Professor: Jane Garcia Major Professor: Maggie Syme Yuda Ou Ellen Elizabeth Franken Major Professor: Kelly Getty Elizabeth Margaret Walsh Major Professor: Jane Garcia Major Professor: Gayle Doll Karthik Sajith Babu (S18) Larisa Lawrence Major Professor: Jayendra Amamcharla Major Professor: Mary DeLuccie Grain Science Rachel Nicole Stevick (SU18) (SU18) Master of Science Samantha Danielle Moore Major Professor: Abbey Nutsch Major Professor: Linda Hoag Nana Serwah Frempong Major Professor: Charles Stark Katelynn Stull (SU18) Sabrina Michelle Rinaldi Major Professor: Sara Gragg Major Professor: Melinda Markham Nan Gao Major Professor: Subramanyam Bhadriraju Skyler Thomas Webb (SU18) Robin Morgan Siemsen Major Professor: Fadi Aramouni Major Professor: Kristin Pelczarski Spencer Catherine Smith Major Professor: Greg Aldrich Chelsey Whitney (SU18) (SU18) Jaclynn Paige Ward Major Professor: Abbey Nutsch Major Professor: Linda Hoag Weiwei Wang Major Professor: Yongcheng Shi Daniel Joseph Wilbanks (S18) Callie Mae Williams (SU18) Major Professor: Jayendra Amamcharla (SU18) Major Professor: Linda Hoag Shiwei Xu Major Professor: Yonghui Li Chelsie Kay-Ann Yokum Geography Major Professor: Deborah Norris History Master of Arts Karl Francis Bauer (SU18) Food Science Major Professor: Xiangxing Lu Master of Arts Claudio Innocenti (S18) Master of Science Major Professor: Andrew Orr Grace Christine Arney Major Professor: Fadi Aramouni

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 21 Kaitlyn Stump (SU18) Tzu-Yin Su Sarah Michelle Jackman (SU18) Major Professor: Robert Linder Major Professor: Malgorzata Rys Major Professor: Blake Belanger

Cameron Stutzman Laurin Ashley Wagner Evan Lanning (SU18) Major Professor: David Graff Major Professor: Todd Easton Major Professor: Blake Belanger

(SU18) Timothy Suttle Jingyi Zhou Andrea Lemken (SU18) Major Professor: Andrew Orr Major Professor: Shing Chang Major Professor: Katie Kingery-Page

Horticulture Interior Architecture & Breanna Nelson (SU18) Product Design Major Professor: Timothy Keane

Master of Science (SU18) Erin Kay Bailey (S18) Master of Interior Architecture and Chandler Nyp Major Professor: Timothy Keane Major Professor: Candice Shoemaker Product Design Chelsea Nicole Bainbridge (SU18) (SU18) Riccardo Prudenti Braden K. Hoch Co-Major Professors: Ryadi Adityavarman and Major Professor: Katie Kingery-Page Co-Major Professors: Jason Griffin and Chad Miller Vibhavari Jani

(SU18) (SU18) Wei Sun Mu Hong Rebecca Elise Keating Major Professor: Katie Kingery-Page Major Professor: Dale Bremer Major Professor: Rodney Troyer

(SU18) (SU18) Zachary Nathan Hoppenstedt Kendra Lee Lemon (SU18) Tsz Wai Wong Major Professor: Cary Rivard Major Professor: Steven Davidson Major Professor: Alpa Nawre

(SU18) Ashley Elizabeth Kelly Mass Communications Co-Major Professors: Ryan Sharp and Jeffrey Skibins Kinesiology

(SU18) Master of Science Maximillian Roger Larreur Master of Science (SU18) (SU18) Dane Anthonyleo Davis Major Professor: Adam Ahlers Dryden Ray Baumfalk Major Professor: Danielle LaGree Major Professor: Bradley Behnke David Edward Loewen (SU18) (SU18) Major Professor: Cary Rivard Dakota Joe Coats Mathematics Major Professor: Thomas Barstow Master of Science Human Nutrition Garrett Lovoy Reginald Cyril Wallis Anderson Major Professor: Carl Ade Major Professor: Gabriel Kerr Master of Science (SU18) Brittany Tenille Dennis Hunter Post (SU18) Alexia June Machina (SU18) Major Professor: Linda Yarrow Major Professor: Carl Ade Major Professor: Anna Zemlyanova

(SU18) David Alejandro Gomez Baquero Taylor Anne Rand Jonathan D. Rehmert Major Professor: Edgar Chambers IV Major Professor: Bradley Behnke Major Professor: Xiannan Li

(SU18) Industrial Engineering Bailey Sanderson Major Professor: Steven Copp Mechanical Engineering

Master of Science Andrew Charles Stevens (S18) Ugandhar Delli Master of Science Major Professor: Thomas Barstow Major Professor: Shing Chang Ian Darrah Co-Major Professors: Mohammad Hosni Cassidy Harper (SU18) Landscape Architecture and Byron Jones Major Professor: Shing Chang Master of Landscape Architecture Seth Martin Heronemus Candace Kuecker Skylar Ray Brown (SU18) Major Professor: Steven Eckels Major Professor: Meng Zhang Major Professor: Katie Kingery-Page Andrew Mitchell (SU18) Behnam Malmir (SU18) Anthony John Depriest (SU18) Major Professor: Mohammad Hosni Major Professor: Shing Chang Major Professor: Timothy Keane

22 Graduate School, Degree Candidates (SU18) Modern Languages Brian Paul Huck Andrew Thomas Trammell Major Professor: Todd Easton Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Master of Arts Ashton Kappelman Stephen Franklin Whitley Ghaida Alaskar Major Professor: Todd Easton Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Major Professor: Mary Copple

(SU18) Aaron Chandler Ross Hannah M. Rogers Major Professor: Todd Easton Physics Major Professor: Sara Luly

Douglas Avril Sharp Master of Science (SU18) Music Major Professor: Todd Easton Tia Laycee Camarillo Major Professor: Bharat Ratra Daniel Streeter Master of Music (SU18) Praful Gagrani Tiffany Bonnewell Major Professor: Todd Easton Major Professor: Lado Samushia Major Professor: Julie Yu Oppenheim Shaun Michael Wild (SU18) (SU18) (SU18) Han Hu Madison LeAnna Deal Major Professor: Todd Easton Major Professor: Michael O’Shea Major Professor: Ruth Gurgel

(SU18) Personal Financial Planning Darren James Enns Plant Pathology Major Professor: Julie Yu Oppenheim Master of Science Master of Science (SU18) John Baldi Kayla C. Gonzales Christian Andrew Webb (SU18) Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Major Professor: Amy Underwood Major Professor: Erick DeWolf

(SU18) (SU18) Shawn A. Best Katherine Anne Hoefer Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Psychology Major Professor: Ruth Gurgel

(SU18) (SU18) Monica Blondin Grant James Mathews Master of Science Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Victoria Lee Arnold Major Professor: Frank Tracz Major Professor: Clive Fullagar (SU18) (SU18) Andrew D. Creekmur Florida Rodriguez Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Stacy Bauserman Major Professor: Karen Large Major Professor: Clive Fullagar (SU18) (SU18) Stacy Lynn Culotta Rachel Jane Tacha Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Janelle Kay Becker Major Professor: Frederick Burrack Major Professor: Clive Fullagar Christen Nichole Harrison (SU18) Nutrition, Dietetics and Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Jessica Anne Chase Sensory Sciences Major Professor: Clive Fullagar Joseph Patrick Lennon Master of Science Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Johnna Cortopassi-Rich (SU18) Major Professor: Clive Fullagar Alexander Fees (SU18) Major Professor: Mark Haub Stephen Patrick Magennis Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Sara Marie Herr

(SU18) Major Professor: Clive Fullagar Adriana Maria Lezama-Solano Major Professor: Edgar Chambers IV Brent Mitcham Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Crystal Ann Hong

(SU18) Major Professor: Patrick Knight Audra Megan Sasse (S18) Major Professor: Martin Talavera April Rose Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Cynthia Kim Major Professor: Patrick Knight Operations Research Chase Sperber Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Adam Francis Pawlosky Master of Science Major Professor: Patrick Knight Andrew Eickbush (SU18) Rob Stephens Major Professor: Todd Easton Major Professor: Maurice MacDonald Morgan Brianna Tashea Major Professor: Patrick Knight

Graduate School, Degree Candidates 23 LaTanya Chantelle Walker Sociology Theatre Major Professor: Patrick Knight Master of Arts Master of Arts Public Administration Laura Danielle Murphy Emily Bartlett (SU18) Major Professor: Kevin Steinmetz Major Professor: Sally Bailey Master of Public Administration Wahida Akhtar Lynsey Becher (SU18) Major Professor: Brianne Heidbreder Software Engineering Major Professor: Sally Bailey

Mohri Carolyn Exline Master of Software Engineering Garrett Felipe Fuentes (SU18) Major Professor: Ethan Bernick James Michael Lastrapes Major Professor: Sally Bailey Major Professor: Daniel Andresen Daena M. Robinson Riley Anne Gray (SU18) (SU18) Major Professor: Ethan Bernick Yasser Ahmad Zalah Major Professor: Sally Bailey Major Professor: John Hatcliff

(SU18) Public Health Rachael C. Hammer Special Education Major Professor: Sally Bailey

Master of Public Health (SU18) Molli K. Maberry Kyle James Braun Master of Science Theodore Raymond Aldridge(SU18) Major Professor: Sally Bailey Major Professor: Mary McElroy Major Professor: James Teagarden

Kanyarat Chamraswimonrat Kelsey Ann Leadbetter (SU18) Major Professor: Justin Kastner Major Professor: James Teagarden

Katelyn Erin Gilmore (SU18) Blake Madsen Major Professor: Katie Heinrich Major Professor: E. Ann Knackendoffel Mayrena Isamar Hernandez (SU18) Erin Morse (SU18) Major Professor: Mark Haub Major Professor: E. Ann Knackendoffel Sohaila June Jafarian (SU18) Major Professor: Ellyn Mulcahy Megan Perkuhn Major Professor: Marilyn Kaff Anna Marie Sommer Major Professor: Abbey Nutsch Statistics

Alexis Zavala Master of Science Major Professor: Emily Mailey (SU18) Jinguang Lin Major Professor: Michael Higgins Regional & Community Planning Nelson Burke Walker (SU18) Master of Regional and Major Professor: Trevor Hefley Community Planning Alicia Hunter (S18) Zhihan Zhang Major Professor: Gregory Newmark Major Professor: Michael Higgins

Jiali Zhu Security Studies Major Professor: Wei-Wen Hsu

Master of Arts Zhihe Zhuang (SU18) Arcadio Luis Guerra Munoz Major Professor: Perla Reyes Cuellar Major Professor: Andrew Long

Brutus Ijigbami Segun Major Professor: David Graff

24 Graduate School, Degree Candidates Graduate School 25 Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus

Announcer: Reader: James Westling, Rocking M Media, Salina Kurt Barnhart, Associate Dean of Research and Professor, Aviation Processional:* Christian Coker, President, Student Governing Alumni Association Greetings: Association Amy Button Renz, President and CEO, K-State Alumni Association National Anthem:* Eric Cole, Guest Musician Conferral of Degrees: Alysia Starkey, Interim CEO and Dean Welcome: Alysia Starkey, Interim CEO and Dean Recessional: Eric Cole, Guest Musician Student Address: Christian Coker, President, Student Governing Student Marshal: Association Christian Coker, President, Student Governing Association Introduction of Commencement Speaker: *The audience will please rise. Alysia Starkey, Interim CEO and Dean

Commencement Address: Beverly Gatton, 2015 Kansas State Polytechnic Alumni Fellow

Presentation of Degree Candidates: Terri Gaeddert, Director of Academic Operations and Associate Professor

Presentation of Diplomas: Alysia Starkey, Interim CEO and Dean

Assisted by: Andrew Smith, Professor, Aviation

26 Kansas State Polytechnic Speaker

everly Gatton earned program. Since 2003, she has served on the Kansas Gatton earned a Bachelor of Science in business her associate degree in State Polytechnic Computer Systems Technology administration from the University of Texas at Bcomputer technology when Advisory Board. Dallas and a Master of Management in information Kansas State University systems from Friends University in Wichita. She Polytechnic Campus was Gatton retired with more than 30 years of is married to Lee Gatton, a 1971 graduate of the known as Kansas Technical experience in the information technology field. electronic engineering technology program and the Institute. Her connection She has received recognition for her work as a 2012 Alumni Fellow. with the campus did not project manager overseeing banking software stop there. For six years, implementation projects across the country. In Gatton taught night her career, she also served on various information classes at K-State Salina technology projects for other companies that are Beverly Gatton as part of the applied global providers of technology. She was the Kansas business software certificate State Polytechnic Alumni Fellow in 2015.

Degree Candidates

School of Integrated Studies Engineering Technology/ Applied Business Computer Systems Associate of Science Aeronautical Technology/Aviation Emilee Pankow, Salina (D) Bachelor of Science (D) (D) Aaron Yarbrough, Cedar Hill, Texas Maintenance Management Kyler Jordan Besher, Salina Bachelor of Science Khristopher Tywan Miller Sr., West Point, (Mcl) Joon Seok Lee, Incheon, Korea Mississippi (Mcl) Engineering Technology/ Joshua Cole Orbin, Shawnee (Mcl) Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology/ Associate of Technology Aeronautical Technology/ Digital Media Colby Matthew Johnson, Salina Professional Pilot Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Science Jia Jin Tan, Klang, Malaysia (Cl) College of Human Ecology Hideki Oda, Higashiosaka, Japan Ryunosuke Takama, Hayama, Japan Engineering Technology/ Family Studies and Human Services Unmanned Aircraft Systems Bachelor of Science Aeronautical Technology/ (Scl) Bachelor of Science Kelci Noel Krier, Salina Unmanned Aircraft Systems Jacob Timothy Runyon, Laguna Hills, California Bachelor of Science Certificate in Aviation Electronics Austin Lee Burns, Salina Technology Management Technology Andrew Neil Danner, Parkville, Missouri Jordan D. McDonald, Olathe Jordan D. McDonald, Olathe Bachelor of Science (Cl) Mehnaz Afrin, Overland Park Diana Kathryn Nichols, Carlisle Pennsylvania Cody Michael Bonczkowski, Topeka Kenneth William Vadakin, Wichita Eric Brown, Wichita Michael Wayne Wilson, Iola Evan Wade Burke, Horton Hunter Scott Hawkins, Arkansas City Jeremy Michael Lee, Yukon, Oklahoma Aaron Yarbrough, Cedar Hill, Texas (D)

Kansas State Polytechnic, Speaker, Degree Candidates 27 College of Arts and Sciences

Processional: Charge to the Class: David Pickering, Associate Professor, Music Amit Chakrabarti, Dean

National Anthem:* Alma Mater:* Noah Lindquist, Bachelor's Candidate, Applied Music Noah Lindquist, Bachelor's Candidate, Applied Music

Welcome and Introductions: Recessional: Amit Chakrabarti, Dean David Pickering, Associate Professor, Music

Recognition of Ronald N. Gaches Marshals: Teaching Awards: Michael Krysko, Associate Professor and Department Yang-Ming Chang, Professor, Economics Chair, History Shawn Hutchinson, Professor, Geography Gregory Paul, Associate Professor and Interim Donald Saucier, Professor, Psychological Sciences Department Head, Communication Studies Charles W. Martin, Professor and Department Head, Recognition of William L. Stamey Geography Marcellus Caldas, Assistant Provost, International Teaching Awards: Programs, and Associate Professor, Geography Katherine Karlin, Associate Professor, English Debra Skidmore, Professor of Practice, Journalism and *The audience will please rise. Mass Communications Kathy Lillich, Advisor, History and Political Science Nicholas Barts, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Biology

Commencement Address: Donald Hedrick, Professor of English Brandon Collins, Master's Student, Music

Conferral of Degrees: Richard B. Myers, President

Presentation of Diplomas: Amit Chakrabarti, Dean Kristan Corwin, Associate Dean Kimathi Choma, Assistant Dean

Readers: Louise Benjamin, Associate Dean Alison Wheatley, Assistant Dean

Alumni Association Greetings: Amy Button Renz, President and CEO, K-State Alumni Association

28 College of Arts and Sciences Speaker

onald Hedrick is a more than 3,000 in his career, including many of He has published in the field’s top journals on native Kansan and a whom who have gone on to prestigious graduate Shakespeare, cultural theory, architecture and Dprofessor of English who programs. He also has led study tours to London, teaching. Hedrick's scholarship on Shakespeare has taught at Kansas State Prague and Las Vegas; directed summer workshops has received international recognition with University for 42 years and called Camp Shakespeare for high school teachers; talks given in Europe, Japan and at the World counting. and was founding director of the university's Shakespeare Congress multiple times. His research graduate program in cultural studies. also has received numerous grants from the Folger Highly honored for his Shakespeare Library, the National Endowment teaching, Hedrick received Hedrick has been responsible for bringing the for the Humanities and the Kansas Humanities the College of Arts and theatre company Actors from the London Stage Council. Sciences’ Gasches Teaching for many residencies and performances at K-State. Donald Hedrick Award in 2017, he has been He was project director for the selection of K-State When it comes to the Bard, Hedrick loves when awarded the English department's teaching award in 2016 for the exhibition of the 400-year-old students discover the fun in Shakespeare as well as and received the endowed Donnelly Scholar award. Shakespeare First Folio volume at the university's the profound wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, John He also has experience teaching across the nation Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, organizing F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and others. He even and world. Hedrick received a Senior Fulbright campus and communitywide programs, including hopes to add a bit of that fun and wisdom in today's Teaching Award for Charles University in Prague, musical and performance events for veterans, commencement with his address, “Arts and Sciences and has had visiting professorships and research retirees and high school students, related to the x 1." and teaching appointments at Cornell University’s exhibit. Society for the Humanities, Colgate University, the Hedrick graduated summa cum laude with a University of New Orleans, Amherst College and Hedrick's research is especially relevant today as Bachelor of Arts in English and German from the University of California, Irvine. it focuses on the history of entertainment value the University of Kansas. He earned a Master of or fun, such as in the variety of entertainments in Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance and When Hedrick teaches at universities on the coasts, Shakespeare’s London that led to the dominance dramatic literature from Cornell University. he misses his Midwestern students, having taught and economics of today’s entertainment industry.

Awards

Ronald N. Gaches Teaching Awards competition and the environment. He has more and integration of geospatial technologies, than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals in geographic information systems, geovisualization, economics. geocomputation and web-based geographic ang-Ming Chang information services. He has extensive international joined the Kansas Along with teaching undergraduate and graduate research and teaching experience, including work in StateY University economics courses, Chang is actively involved in advising France, China, Paraguay and Senegal. department faculty in fall economics majors and directing master's theses 1984. Over a span of 34 and doctoral dissertations. Based on statistics from In addition to teaching and research, Hutchison years in teaching economics Research Papers in Economics, a prominent ranking developed and administers Kansas State to students at K-State, service in the economics profession, Chang is University's undergraduate and graduate geographic Chang has maintained a ranked in the top 5 percent of economists nationally information systems certificate programs and serves strong commitment to and in the publication records of his supervised students. as director of the university's secondary major passion for teaching. Chang This achievement reflects Chang's contributions to in natural resources and environmental sciences. was an inaugural recipient Yang-Ming Chang teaching at K-State. He is a university delegate to the University of the William L. Stamey Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Teaching Award, which was first presented in 1988- hawn Hutchinson, a past regional councilor for the American 1989. professor of geography Association of Geographers and was awarded a Sand director of the special achievement in GIS Award in 2005 by the During the past three decades, Chang has either Geographic Information Environmental System Research Institute. received the highest score or ranked among the Systems Spatial Analysis top of the economics faculty for his teaching Laboratory, actively Hutchinson's work has been published in peer- performance in annual evaluations. Chang is a performs research on reviewed journals more than 40 times, and he two-time recipient of the Professorial Performance issues related to grassland has been an investigator on extramurally funded Award — in 2012 and 2018 — from the K-State and military training land research grants totaling more than $8 million. Office of the Provost. sustainability, surface Hutchison also served as an officer in the U.S. Army water resources, and Corps of Engineers from 1990-1995 with the 1st Chang's research interests include applied Shawn Hutchinson agricultural biosecurity with Infantry Division. microeconomics, international trade and industrial an increasing emphasis on real- and near-time organization. He has concentrated his recent environmental monitoring. research projects on the economics of peace, as well as issues related to strategic trade policies, Hutchison's areas of teaching include application regional trade agreements, resource conflict, market

College of Arts and Sciences, Speaker, Awards 29 onald Saucier ebra Skidmore is a icholas Barts is a is a professor of professor of practice doctoral candidate Dpsychological sciences and Din the A.Q. Miller School Nand graduate teaching a university distinguished of Journalism and Mass assistant in the Division of teaching scholar. He is a Communications and Biology. Barts is studying fellow of the Society for serves as the strategic mechanisms that allow Personality and Social communications sequence some organisms to be Psychology, the Society for head. more tolerant to stressful the Psychological Study of environments than others. Social Issues and the Society Skidmore brings 30 years of Specifically, he investigates for Experimental Social experience as a public affairs the physiology of fish that Donald Saucier Debra Skidmore Nicholas Barts Psychology. specialist at Fort Riley with inhabit naturally toxic, the 1st Infantry Division to her K-State classes. hydrogen sulfide-rich springs in southern Mexico. Saucier is the director of undergraduate studies, While at Fort Riley, she handled communications chair of the undergraduate program committee to media about deployments, redeployments and Barts earned a bachelor's degree in biology at the and co-director for the teaching apprenticeship soldier deaths due to the war on terrorism, as well University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2015 program in the psychological sciences department. as on special training exercises, support activities on before starting doctoral studies at Kansas State His teaching philosophy focuses on maximizing post for military families, and entertainment and University. He considers teaching to be an equally the levels of both teacher and student engagement social events on post. important part of his graduate work and has taught in the classroom. He has taught a broad range of both introductory and advanced biology courses classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Because of her love of writing and teaching, she with an emphasis on ecology, evolution and fish from large sections of General Psychology to has long worked with military journalists and biology. small classes in Advanced Psychological Research students. Skidmore shares her experience with Methods. K-State students, teaching them how to work with Outside of his teaching responsibilities, Barts is media, write news releases and handle a crisis. She active in science communication efforts and is a His numerous awards and honors include the started the Fort Riley Intern Program, and now member of the Kansas Science Communication Coffman Chair for University Distinguished is developing a certificate program in military Initiative, serves as a Sunset Zoo science Teaching Scholars, Putting Students First Award communication as part of a partnership between communication fellow and develops lessons related for Outstanding Service to Students, the University Fort Riley and the Miller School. to his research with local high school teachers. Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentoring of Barts' goal is to become a faculty member in a Undergraduate Students in Research, the William athy Lillich is the biology department that emphasizes both research L. Stamey Teaching Award from the College of undergraduate and teaching. He hopes to foster academic Arts and Sciences, and the Commerce Bank and Kacademic advisor for environments that promote diversity and inclusion W.T. Kemper Foundation Outstanding Teaching Kansas State University's so that all students can be empowered to challenge Award. history and political the status quo and actively engage with the world as science departments. She scientists and as citizens. is the primary advisor for William L. Stamey Teaching Awards approximately 260 students in the majors and more than atherine Karlin, 70 students with minors associate professor of in the fields. In addition to KEnglish, joined Kansas Kathy Lillich her advising duties, Lillich State University in 2009 represents her departments and teaches courses in at university recruiting events and meets with creative writing, literature prospective students visiting campus. and film. Her other activities include serving as the research A highly honored author chair for the University Advisor Forum, chair of the as well, her numerous political science department's outreach committee works include the short Katherine Karlin and a member of the university's Mark Chapman story collection, "Send Me Scholars Program selection committee. In addition, Work," which was the recipient of the Balcones she is currently a student in the K-State master's Fiction Prize, a Kansas Notable Book Award and program in academic advising. the Huffington Post's designation as one of the 20 Best Books From Independent Presses in 2011, A first-generation college graduate, Lillich is among other accolades. Recently, the New York passionate about helping students who are also Public Library awarded fellowship support for striving to become the first in their families to go Karlin to conduct research on Etta Moten at the to college. She mentors first-generation students on Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture campus and conducts research on best practices for and the Museum of the Moving Image. first-generation student success in academia. Lillich presented a session on the impact of academic The founding director of K-State's Young Writers' advisors as first-generation mentors at the 2018 Workshop, Karlin is involved with K-State's 48- Kansas Academic Advising Network conference. Hour Film Festival, the Gordon Parks Archive Project, Ebony Theatre, and the SYROP and Along with advising, Lillich taught political science McNair programs for undergraduate research and at Central Texas College and served as an instructor development. of political science at K-State.

30 College of Arts and Sciences, Awards Degree Candidates

Art Fisheries, Wildlife and Ronnie Mae Wallden, Kiowa, Colorado Selena Marie Wapelhorst, Pretty Prairie Conservation Biology Bachelor of Arts Miranda Watson, Kansas City, Missouri Bachelor of Science Tyler Eugene Watts, Beloit Kara Marie Bergman, Parkville, Missouri Alyssa Janae Brunner, Elbing Nayeli Yazmyne Guzman, Kansas City, Missouri Luke Burns, Valley Falls Savannah Rae Hill, Wichita Foster Garrett Hartman, Overland Park Economics Allegri Catherine Kopulos, Kansas City, Missouri Richard Cale Hedges, Garnett Anjelica-Maria Teresa Luna, Westwood Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts Clayton Jackson Moubry, Russell Cheng Hu, Wuhan, China Sarah Jean Beatty, Manhattan Donald Cody Pierce, Topeka Te Lin, Wenzhou, China Braden Christian Byers, Wichita Teri Lanette Potter, Council Grove Matthew G. Nelson, Shawnee (Scl) Anton Paul Deblauwe, Overland Park Dylan J. Smith, Independence Caleb Andrew Stark, Overland Park Kenny Nam Quoc Dinh, Dodge City Jayden Jennifer Tatman, Wichita Anna Rose Rassette, Leawood (Scl) Bachelor of Science Logan Elizabeth Robertson, Shawnee Matthew John Beauchamp, Pomona Anthony David Stepp, Manhattan Microbiology Bachelor of Science Jacob Phalen Carroll, Rogers, Arkansas Devaughn Justice Casey-Means, Manhattan Katherine E. Bukowski, Kansas City Biochemistry * Michael Chase Derusseau, Leawood Gene Paul Coker, Tampa, Florida Michael Alan Gauby, Olathe Sarah Ruth Cox, Bad Windsheim, Germany Bachelor of Arts Haley Marie Harrison, Lebo (Mcl) (Scl) Chase Timothy Cunningham, Shawnee Xena Moore, Lenexa Jintao Hu, Nanjing, China Michelina Marie Haynos, Paxico Jacob William Lorenzen, Olathe (Cl) (D) Carter Lundberg, Olathe (Cl) Mauricio Martinez Seifart, Asunción, Paraguay Bachelor of Science Jessica Michelle Sharpe, Lawrence Ayomide Esther Aduloju, Lagos, Nigeria Dillon Myles Morford, Grand Junction, Colorado (Scl) Katherine Lynn Smith, Manhattan Molly Anne Bassette, Atchison Daniel Stephen O'Connor, Hays (D) Jazmine Augusta Snow, Olathe Gary Davis, Junction City * William Gage Perry, Buhler Emily S. Wedeman, Olathe Brendan Anthony Drouhard, Conway Springs Jacob Christian Wilgers, Wichita Jackson Dean Wilborn, Wichita Matthew Lucas McWhorter, Overland Park Adam Joseph Wilmes, Highland (Mcl) Kayla Elaine Nutsch, Riley Ding Yu, Wuhan, China (Scl) Zachary Cale Reuter, Columbia, Missouri Chemistry Mateo Zavala Tomboly, Asunción, Paraguay (D) * Emily S. Wedeman, Olathe Mitchell William Zubradt, Lenexa Bachelor of Science (Mcl) Biology Olivia Liseten Haney, Lenexa English Hannah Lou Henderson, Burlington Biology Monika Juliett Perez, Olathe Elizabeth Anne Peterson, Manhattan Bachelor of Arts Jonathan Robert Baxter, Olathe Bachelor of Science Skyler Roth Amal Alkhashram, Kuwait City, Kuwait Sophia Lynn Brooks, Wichita (Mcl) Jordan Edward Anschutz, Buhler Sarah Kathryn Byarlay, Plano, Texas (D) Disha Deepak Badlani, Mumbai, India Communication Studies Nathaniel William Cameron, Prairie Village (Scl) (Scl) Molly Anne Bassette, Atchison Cody Andrew Doud, Spring, Texas Kyler Michael Bell, Salina Bachelor of Arts Thomas Paul Lachowsky,Topeka Kaylin Edwards, Derby Austin Patrick McKenna Sr., Andover Kylee Renee Norris, Wichita (Scl) Kelsey Anne Haag, Topeka Alexandra Lee Parr, Florissant, Missouri Andrew David Pringle, Yates Center (Cl) Katelyn Rebekah Holthaus, Centralia Molly Michele Pyle, Sierra Vista, Arizona Mallory Marie Taylor, Olathe (D) (D) Breanne Rene' Kruse, Hays Cheyenne R. White, Silver Lake (Scl) Andrea Natascha Mutter, Redondo Beach, California Bachelor of Science Randall Willnauer Kristy Thi Nguyen, Wichita Richard Andra Greer III, Olathe Jackson Christl Wright, Leawood (Mcl) Matthew Raymond Sostarich, Shawnee Camden John Hoppock, Derby (Cl) Margaret Victoria Starr, Hutchinson Justin Lorenz Hughes, Elberton, Georgia Regan Campbell O'Rourke, Overland Park Kamerin Lydell Redmon-Evans, Wichita

College of Arts and Sciences, Degree Candidates 31 Gender, Women, and Sexuality Bachelor of Science Music, Theatre, and Dance Studies Abigail Paige Ballou, St. Charles, Illinois Brandon Christopher Fabac, Schertz, Texas (Cl) Applied Music Bachelor of Science Megan Kathleen Fish, Olathe Bachelor of Music Grace Martha Frederick, Leawood Kasey Jo Garzillo, Lawrence Xing Huang, Chengdu, China Elizabeth A. Heath, Dighton (D) Noah Lawrence Lindquist, Topeka Megan Elizabeth Kocer, Wagner, South Dakota (Mcl) James Omasz Renner, Inman Geography Lydia Ann Lierz, Hiawatha Presley Ryan Rodecap, Nortonville Jonathan Reilly McHugh, Kansas City, Missouri Kelly Cole Urschel, Overland Park Bachelor of Arts Abbie Lee Plummer, Manhattan Samuel James Wilson III, Fort Worth, Texas Devon Lee Garcia, Manhattan Mary Christine White, Topeka (Mcl) Julia Michelle Worley, Osborne Bachelor of Science Music Education Connor Montgomery Copley, Manhattan Life Sciences Bachelor of Music Education Justin Fowler Jones, Carrizo Springs, Texas (D) Sarah LaRae Grose, Meriden Mary Catherine Higgins, Wichita Bachelor of Arts Geology Henry Thomas Law, Wichita Jordan LaGrace Cook, Chapman Victoria Elizabeth Loepp, Overland Park Cameron James Niemtschk, Dallas, Texas Catherine Anne Mallory, Wichita Bachelor of Science Eleanor Naomi Mankin, Manhattan (Mcl) (D) Austin Joseph Becker, Manhattan Bachelor of Science Christian Manuel Martinez, Salina Andrew Thomas Makings, Phillipsburg Keeley Shaye Cowley, Horton Meridith Scott Neuer, Topeka Mikaela Alaine Rader, Wichita (Scl) (D) Margaret Leigh Donley, Wichita Christopher James Opperman, Olathe Madison Nichole Smith, Overland Park (Scl) Riley Mae Flake, Wichita Jeremey Dean Reynolds, Manhattan Raegan Olivia Hildebrand, Kansas City, Missouri Marcel Williams, Olathe History Madison Leigh Howard, Basehor Allison Faye McClendon, Overland Park Theatre Bachelor of Arts Natalie Alexis Ann Sanders, Hoisington (Mcl) (Cl) Bachelor of Science Rachel Elizabeth Hein, Andale Tegan Mae Small, Frankfort (Scl) (D) (Cl) Tiffani Danielle Lawrence,Overland Park Molly Elizabeth Pratt, Leawood Suzanne Evelyn Wood, Milton, Florida Madison Grace Plouvier, Lenexa Connor Eugene Spellman, Augusta Morgan Lynn Sterrett, Overland Park Mathematics Bachelor of Science (Scl) Philosophy Jacob Reece Allen, Fort Scott Bachelor of Science James Lindsey Gillum, Manhattan (D) Tyler Kaleb Aden, Hutchinson Adam Lee Hegemann, Hoyt Rachael Ivonne Cano, Perryton, Texas Bachelor of Arts Alexander Grant Woodson, Manhattan * Kelli Christine Holder, Highland Natasha Lynn Graham, Olathe Haley Marie Harrison, Lebo (Mcl) * Humanities Olivia Kathryn Lenertz, Overland Park (Cl) (D) Bachelor of Science * Daniel N. Marsh, Wichita Jeremy Scott Campbell, Topeka James Lindsey Gillum, Manhattan * Bachelor of Arts Kevin Tirkey, Rourkela, India Ronnie Mae Wallden, Kiowa, Colorado * Me'Quelle Prentyst Keeling, Olathe Katherine Constance Ventura, Warner Robins, (Scl) * * Mallory Blythe Williams, Halstead Georgia Journalism and Mass Physical Sciences Communications Modern Languages Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Arts (Cl) (D) Christopher Travis Dierenfeldt, Manhattan Elizabeth Frances Cox, Lenexa Leah Elizabeth Devers, Olathe (D) Mitchell Louis Weber, Olathe Allie Catherine Deiter, Meriden (Scl) Harrison Adams Lamb, Milford, Utah (Scl) * Brock Cody Wolf, Overland Park Emily K. Gatschet, Olathe Alexandra Lee Parr, Florissant, Missouri Grant Edward Miller, Gardner Paige Elizabeth Porter, Kansas City Madison Paige Obermeyer, Wichita (Mcl) Christopher Matthew Reusz, Downers Grove, Physics Madeline Frances Powell, Mansfield, Texas Illinois (D) Nora Tess Pohlenz, Topeka Glenna Jeanne Vano, Overland Park * Bachelor of Science Caitlyn Nichole Sabbert, Olathe Jamey Alan White, Manhattan Natasha Lynn Graham, Olathe * Alisia A. Saucedo, Garden City Brett Randall Kippley, Olathe (Scl) (D)

32 College of Arts and Sciences, Degree Candidates Katherine Constance Ventura, Warner Robins, Social Sciences Molly Beth Stevenson, Edna Georgia * Logan Charles Stoddard, Wamego (D) Haozhe Zhang, Zhoushan, China Bachelor of Arts Ivan Colin Thian, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Reginald Ngozi Walker, Ponchatoula, Louisiana McKenzie Nichole Farney, Hutchison Political Science Willie Isaiah Zuber, Atlanta, Georgia Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Arts Marissa Christine Biggs, Junction City Anthropology (Cl) Andrew Le, Wichita Marking Lasabre Daniels, Coffeyville Bachelor of Arts Victor H. Sanchez Montufar, Junction City Connor Nikole Davis, Ellsworth Tiffany Renee Hattesohl,Washington Amanda Rachelle Doyle, Overland Park Bachelor of Science Zachary Sean Elliott, Eudora Bachelor of Science Ian Christian Burrow, Overland Park Crystal Frazier, Spring Hill Brittani Jean Ballard, Waxahachie, Texas Seth Mark Dinkel, Garden City Dylan Reid Hanna, Elkhart Carly Patricia Bagnieski, Green Bay, Wisconsin * Alexa Bri-Ann Fetterly II, Manhattan Chassidy Loren Kearney, Kansas City Jenevieve Lynd Corona, Marion Charles Edward Johns III, Osawatomie * Joshua Thomas Kettering, Overland Park Seth Isaiah Sagstetter, Manhattan Helen Elizabeth McEntire, Lawrence (Scl) Eileen Clare Koczan, Spotsylvania, Virginia Lucas Cole Peterson, Liberty, Missouri Blake Whitfield LaGue, Overland Park Social Work Christine Alice Rock, Olathe Alexis Lauren Law, St. John Melanie Santiago, Manhattan Elizabeth Dianne Marsh, Herington Bachelor of Arts Sarah Ludwick, Paola Mallory Blythe Williams, Halstead (Scl) * JaTashia Chantrell Matlock, Topeka Consuelo Martinez, Rolla (Cl) Allan James May, Wichita Arnoldo Ruiz, Arkansas City Psychological Sciences Rachael Marie Mirth, Kansas City Alicia Mary Juanita Muniz, Grand Junction, Michigan Bachelor of Science (Mcl) Bachelor of Arts Abrielle Lynn Richter, Hanover Alexis Marie Altamirano, Dodge City Nancy Julissa Castillo, Los Angeles, California (Scl) Jagrup Singh Sandhu, Bloomington, Illinois Jessica Leigh Anschutz, Wichita Jensen Elizabeth Strasser, Garden City Victoria Renee Shaw, Kansas City, Missouri Martin Joseph Cox, Norfolk, Nebraska Glenna Jeanne Vano, Overland Park * Megan Elizabeth Starr, Overland Park Taylor Dyan Dechant, Louisburg Jyvanni Marie Thibodeaux, Dallas, Texas Christina A. DiMattia, Junction City Bachelor of Science Justin Michael Turner, New York City, New York Kristen Lyn Gile, Lawrence Sydney June Acedo, Queen Creek, Arizona Hao Wang, Manhattan Clayton L. Lucas, Piper (Mcl) * Sarah Catherine Albert, Overland Park Hunter Jane Wishart, Wichita Ashley Monae Longoria, Garden City Jeremy Scott Campbell, Topeka * Maranda Ashlyn Belle McMichael, Gene Paul Coker, Tampa, Florida * Arkansas City (Mcl) Anna Dampier Cook, Prairie Village (Scl) Sociology, Anthropology Sarah Anne Mize, Wakefield(Cl) Konnor Lee Cook, Louisburg and Social Work Virginia Leighann Myers, Mulvane Ciprianna Harmon Francis King Rodrigo, Manhattan Chioma Sharon Ibeh, Lagos, Nigeria Sociology Kate Elizabeth Kastens, Goddard * Bachelor of Science Statistics Kathryn Therese Klonder, Hoffman Estates, Illinois Sarah Catherine Albert, Overland Park (Mcl) * Charday Jeanette Long, Abilene * Carly Patricia Bagnieski, Green Bay, Wisconsin Bachelor of Science Delante' Karon Madden, Kansas City Trevor John Bell, De Soto * Tyler Lance Braddock, Manhattan Gabrielle Therese Mayers, Albert Connor Alexander Cress, Topeka (Cl) Ella Margaret Skye McLeod, Atchison Amanda Lea Easton, Manhattan Jacob Thomas Miller, Wichita Dan Marcus Harris Jr., Fort Worth, Texas Statistics and Data Science Mitchell Lloyd Packard, Kingman Nicole Lianne Holle, Coon Rapids, Minnesota Bachelor of Science Maria Danielle Pereira, Summerville, South Carolina Jeremy Tyler Jensen, Kansas City Jadyn Wen Atteberry, Olathe Teryn Sierra Pinneo, Louisburg Charles Edward Johns III, Osawatomie * Nuvia Aurora Guerra, Garden City * Brooke Lauren Prothe, Paola Kathryn Therese Klonder, Hoffman Estates, Illinois* Bayleigh Nicole Smith, Coffeyville Philip Eugene Mattocks, Manhattan Marissa Grace Sullivan, Haysville Gabrielle Therese Mayers, Albert * * Selena Marie Wapelhorst, Pretty Prairie Benjamin Ray Mosley, Wichita (D) Chi-Leigh Qian Warren, Shawnee Jaylan Kyle Dela Cruz Padilla, Junction City Da'Quan Ryland Patton, Austin, Texas Brooke Lauren Prothe, Paola * Trey P. Richardson, Prairie Village Jill Virginia Seidl, Valley Center

College of Arts and Sciences, Degree Candidates 33 College of Education

Processional:* Alma Mater: Lars Quincke, Junior, Applied Music Samantha Williams, Junior, Applied Music

Welcome: Recessional: Debbie Mercer, Dean Lars Quincke, Junior, Applied Music

National Anthem:* Marshals: Samantha Williams, Junior, Applied Music Ken Hughey, Professor and Department Chair, Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs Lotta Larson, Associate Professor, Curriculum Presentation of Kathryn A. Holen and Instruction Excellence in Service Award: Tonnie Martinez, Assistant Professor, Curriculum Debbie Mercer, Dean and Instruction Kimberly Staples, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction Presentation of Student Awards: Be Stoney, Associate Professor, Curriculum F. Todd Goodson, Assistant Dean and Department and Instruction Chair, Curriculum and Instruction Jim Teagarden, Associate Professor, Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs Commencement Address: Signe Cook, Fifth-Grade Teacher, Park Elementary *The audience will please rise. School in Great Bend, and 2019 Kansas Teacher of the Year Finalist

Student Commencement Address: Abby Hershenow, Bachelor's Candidate, Secondary Education

Conferral of Degrees: Oath of Education Richard B. Myers, President

Presentation of Degrees: hereby pledge my dedication to the profession Debbie Mercer, Dean of teaching. I accept the obligations and the Richard B. Myers, President Ichallenges of guiding students to knowledge, Charles S. Taber, Provost and Executive Vice President always showing them care and concern. I will Roger Schieferecke, Assistant Dean encourage respect for all people, and will cultivate Bradley Burenheide, Associate Professor, Curriculum the disciplined, yet free minds necessary for a and Instruction democratic way of life.

I promise to champion policies which promote quality in teaching and learning. I will provide everyone engaged in education the opportunity to achieve their own level of excellence. I will strive to become a knowledgeable, ethical, caring decision maker and emulate these qualities which I pledge to foster. I recognize that at times my endeavors may prove discouraging. Nonetheless, I remain faithful to the belief that my actions in the pursuit of these goals make me worthy of my profession, and make my profession worthy of a free people.

34 College of Education Speaker

igne Cook, a 24-year A quote by Carl W. Buechner defines Cook’s Cook and her husband, Mark, a principal at Ellinwood, veteran of the teaching philosophy about students and relationships: “They have been married for 22 years and have three children. Sprofession who teaches fifth- may forget what you said, but they will not forget how The couple have had K-State season football tickets for grade math and science in you made them feel.” This held true whether Cook was 24 years. Great Bend, was honored this teaching kindergarten or middle school English as a year as a finalist for the 2019 second language to students in Junction City. Kansas Teacher of the Year award. Cook is inspired to enter the classroom each day sharing a joy and love for learning that’s nothing less Cook graduated from Kansas than contagious — a love she hopes continues far Signe Cook State University in 1994 beyond her students’ academic careers. She believes with a bachelor’s degree in in building strong relationships with students so they elementary education and an endorsement in social know they have someone who cares about them and studies and general science. In 2002, she earned a believes in them. master’s degree.

Award Kathryn A. Holen Excellence in These students have continued to serve the field as Currently, the center is serving 40 Saudi Arabian public school teachers, instructional coaches, college educators from K-12 schools who are here to enhance Service Award instructors, program directors and administrators for their abilities as agents of innovation and change for school districts that serve large numbers of culturally their own schools and districts. ocorro Herrera, professor and linguistically diverse students. of curriculum and Herrera has led or co-organized multiple education Sinstruction and executive In August 2012, BESITOS was recognized as an abroad experiences or international study seminars director of the Center for exemplary program for underrepresented students by for future teachers in China, Guatemala, Ecuador, Intercultural and Multilingual Excelencia in Education, a national nonprofit formed Mexico, Paraguay, Spain and Kenya. Over the last 15 Advocacy in Kansas State to accentuate exemplary postsecondary teaching years, more than 200 future teachers in the College University's College of practices for Latino/a students. of Education have had opportunities to teach in one Education, is the recipient of seven different countries. She has been an invited of the Kathryn A. Holen Herrera has helped students and teachers through speaker for educators across a range of venues and Excellence in Service Award. service and programs that more directly reach K-12 locales. She also has been an academic collaborator Socorro Herrera schools and communities, especially rural ones. She for a range of refereed journals, including as an invited Herrera's longstanding did this through face-to-face and distance education, manuscript reviewer and advisory board member. commitment to culturally and as well as video/modules and asynchronous online linguistically diverse students and families in Kansas education. For her distinguished work, Herrera was recently and throughout much of the nation is but one reason inducted into the Teaching Hall of Honor by her alma that she was selected for this recognition. Internationally, Herrera has been an invited mater, Eastern New Mexico University. speaker and a leader for the En Yachay, or School The BESITOS program at K-State illustrates her of Knowledge, Initiative. She led efforts to develop advocacy for and service to the equitable education curricula and provide a foundation for the Yachay of underrepresented students from across the English Language Institute in Ecuador. She led Midwest. What began as a personal effort to develop the College of Education in providing professional postsecondary opportunities for Hispanic students development or master’s degree programs to more than in southwest Kansas became one of the most 1,200 Go Teacher/Ecuadorian scholars, and nearly 500 successful recruitment and retention programs in educators from Mexico have enhanced their pedagogy the United States. BESITOS recruited, taught and and language skills through the COMEXUS and differentially supported more than 150 first-generation Proyecta 100 Mil partnerships between the Center for students from a range of underrepresented groups. Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy and Mexico.

College of Education, Speaker, Award 35 Degree Candidates

Elementary Education Kaden Cole Vanderpool, Melvern Jefferson Albert Storms,Bonner Springs Brittaney Ann Warnow, Wamego John Daniel Swagerty, Overland Park (Cl) Bachelor of Science Abigail Dawn Webb, Hutchinson Mallory Marie Taylor, Olathe Payton Renee Arganbright, Waterville Ashley Nicole Wegeng, Bloomington, Illinois Breanna Cay Temaat, Oakley (Mcl) Kirkland Nickles Babin, Chapman Abigail R. Williamson, Wichita Stacey Renee Thomas, Christiansburg, Virginia William Kerby Bochte, Salina Chelsea Lynn Winter, Wichita Taylor Michelle Tobin, Pratt (Mcl) Ashley May Buessing, Axtell (Scl) Christine Marie Warren, Manhattan (Scl) Shawannah Casto-Elcock, Los Angeles, California Secondary Education Emily Louise Webb, Leawood Madison Christine Clinton, Wichita Emily Janelle Young, Lenexa Chanity Dawn Daily, Wallace (Scl) Bachelor of Science Alyson Taylor Daniels, Gardner (Scl) Marshall Donald Adams, Manhattan Ashton Hope Ettleman, Atchison Ryan William Bird, Overland Park Jordan Maria Fanning, Derby Jordan Marie Boswell, Manhattan Jensyn Rose Ford, Olathe Aram Sahag Boyajian, Gardner Olivia Marie Frey, Overland Park William Edward Butts, Overland Park Taylor R. Gabel, Ness City Sarah Kathryn Byarlay, Plano, Texas Allicia Rose Hall, Iuka (Scl) Samantha Ann Dameron, Wichita Haley Ann Hamilton Alex C. Delton, Hays Brianna Nicole Hammond, Wichita Elizabeth Ellen Eades, Salina Morgan Rae Hauserman, Salina (Scl) Bailee Paige Flaming, Shawnee Mariah Sue Hisle, Horton Jenette LeAnn Follmer, Earlham, Iowa (Scl) Kristen Marie Howser, Silver Lake (Cl) Colby Joseph Gottschalk, Olathe Rebecca Lynn Hunt, Omaha, Nebraska (Scl) (H) Tyriq Rasheed Herbin, Junction City Amy True Jackson, Louisburg Abby Lynn Hershenow, St. Louis, Missouri Madison Christine Janzen, Potwin Laura Ellen Herter, Prairie Village Madison Shay Jewett, Stilwell (Cl) Andrew James Hovis, Leawood Natalie Marie Kilgore, Overland Park Samantha Nicole Huber, Topeka Kade Austin Kinnamon, St. John Rey Jared Irwin III, Overland Park Allison McKenna Kinsley, Manhattan Rachel Marie Jensen, Topeka Ashley Brooke Kitchen, Shawnee Joshua Parker Johnston, Shawnee (P) Ashley Lauren Krier, Wichita Brett Randall Kippley, Olathe (Scl) Kathleen Olivia Lansdon, Overland Park (Mcl) Jacob Ryan Koch, Conway Springs Catelynne Castanea LePage, Solomon (Mcl) Breanne Rene' Kruse, Hays Kelsey Lane Marshall, Arlington, Texas (Cl) Harrison Adams Lamb, Milford, Utah Brooke Justine McGlachlin, Wichita (Cl) Tiffani Danielle Lawrence,Overland Park (Scl) (H) Abigail Lynn Morris, Kansas City (Cl) Olivia Kathryn Lenertz, Overland Park (Cl) Maggie Jean Murphy, Topeka (Scl) Austin Saul Lovelace, Overland Park Alexis Kristen Oddo, Olathe Dalton Jade Maples, Wichita Kourtney Paige Oehm, Kansas City, Missouri Amy Elizabeth Matlick, Wichita (Scl) Laura Jo Rankin, Ellsworth (Scl) Hadley Gail Mikkelson, Lansing Maggie Noonan Reid, Overland Park Lindsey Nicole Miles, Andover Madison Rae Rogers, Colby Ashley Ann Minge, Bremen Janie Marie Rottinghaus, Seneca (Scl) Reginald Deangelo Moore, Rocky Mount, Whitney Wilkey Samuelson, Overland Park North Carolina Jonathan Blake Scarmeas, Austin, Texas Caleb John Parenti, Manhattan Polly Faye Schinstock, Manhattan Paige Breann Parker, Lenexa Peter Alexander Schlierman, Abilene Madison Grace Plouvier, Lenexa Natalie Elizabeth Schwartz, Manhattan (Scl) Mikaela Alaine Rader, Wichita (Scl) Amanda Nicole Sellers, Lansing James Omasz Renner, Inman (Mcl) Hayley Kathleen Shepherd, Wichita Garrett Levi Runnion, El Dorado Johnna Charmayne Shoemaker, Magnolia, Texas (S19) Jennifer Leigh Schleicher, Roeland Park Melissa Smith, Onaga (Cl) Shelby Anne Shearon, Burrton (Mcl)

36 College of Education, Degree Candidates College of Business Administration

Processional:* Alumni Association Greetings: Rachael Gros, Master's Student, Music Amy Button Renz, President and CEO, K-State Alumni Association National Anthem:* Deanna Richard, Bachelor's Candidate, Marketing Student Remarks: Abbey Kramer, Bachelor’s Candidate, Marketing and Information Systems Welcome and Introductions: Kevin Gwinner, Dean Presentation of Degrees: Kevin Gwinner, Dean Commencement Remarks: Stacy Kovar, Associate Dean, Academic Administration Randall C. Stuewe, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Chwen Sheu, Associate Dean, Academic Programs Darling Ingredients Inc. David Lehman, Instructor, Marketing

Presentation of Awards: Assisted by: Kevin Gwinner, Dean Richard B. Myers, President Charles S. Taber, Provost and Executive Vice President KS StateBank Teaching Excellence Award Alma Mater:* Jiho Yoon, Assistant Professor, Management Deanna Richard, Bachelor's Candidate, Marketing

College of Business Administration Recessional: Rachael Gros, Master's Student, Music Outstanding Contribution in Research Award *The audience will please rise. Terry Mason, Assistant Professor, Accounting Doug Walker, Associate Professor, Marketing

College of Business Administration Professional Staff Excellence Award Michael Raine, Director, Information Technology Projects and Services

Outstanding Senior in Business Sydney Haas, Bachelor’s Candidate, Finance and Management

College of Business Administration 37 Speaker

andall C. Stuewe has business turns animal and food waste into usable management, sales and trading positions at Cargill served as chairman items like paint, ink and pet food and is the largest Inc. Rand CEO of Darling publicly traded rendering operation in the U.S. Ingredients Inc., formerly Stuewe earned a bachelor's degree in finance Darling International, In 2009, Darling Ingredients was listed by from Kansas State University and an MBA from since February 2003. CNNMoney as the 13th fastest growing company the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Darling Ingredients is in America. Management. America's leading provider of rendering, recycling From 1996 to 2002, Stuewe worked for ConAgra and recovery solutions to Foods Inc. as executive vice president, and most the nation's food industry. recently was president of Gilroy Foods. Before Randall C. Stuewe The 132-year-old recycling joining ConAgra Foods, he spent 12 years in

Awards

KS StateBank Teaching College of Business Administration University. Before earning his doctorate, Mason ran a successful business and worked as an Excellence Award Outstanding Contribution in accounting manager for Walmart’s home office. Research Award iho Yoon, assistant An associate professor of marketing, Walker’s professor of management, primary research stream, conducted with isJ the recipient of the 2018 colleague Edward Nowlin and supported by the KS StateBank Outstanding college’s National Strategic Selling Institute, Teaching Award. focuses on conditional processes in the area of sales and sales management. Walker also Yoon incorporates investigates marketing phenomena related to analytics- and optimization- public policy and sports. based decision-making into each of his courses, A Kansas State University faculty member since including Transportation Jiho Yoon fall 2015, Walker earned bachelor’s degrees Management, Introduction in marketing and finance from K-State. He to Operations Management, Terry Mason Doug Walker earned his MBA and doctorate from the C.T. and ERP Project Planning and Implementation. Bauer College of Business at the University of He regularly finds ways to involve his students in erry Mason and Doug Walker are Houston. experiential learning opportunities and actively recipients of the 2018 College of Business works to help students land internships and jobs. AdministrationT Outstanding Contribution in College of Business Administration Research Award. The honor recognizes faculty Applying blockchain technology in the areas of members who have excelled in research activities. Professional Staff Excellence Award logistics and supply chain risk management is the focus of Yoon's current research. His work has been ichael Raine, director The Koch Industries director of the Master of published in top journals and presented at premiere of information Accountancy program and an assistant professor international and national conferences. Mtechnology for the College of accounting, Mason is active in public interest- of Business Administration, oriented research in financial accounting and Yoon earned his master's degree in industrial is the recipient of the auditing. Specifically, in the financial accounting and operations engineering from the University college's Professional Staff stream, Mason focuses on market efficiency and of Michigan and his doctorate in supply chain Excellence Award. This earnings management. In the auditing stream, he management from the Eli Broad College of award goes to a professional focuses on accounting information’s effects on Business at Michigan State University. staff member who has audit fees. demonstrated outstanding performance in their work Mason teaches Financial Reporting, Accounting Michael Raine area. Research and Communication, and Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation. Raine, who received a Bachelor of Science in business administration with an emphasis in He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting management information systems from Kansas from Harding University and his master’s degree State University in 2002, was a student worker and doctorate in accounting from Florida State in the IT department. His title changed to

38 College of Business Administration, Speaker, Awards microcomputer support technician, then to Active in university service, Raine has served on Raine is a member of the Information Technology information technology coordinator in 2013 the K-State Faculty Senate and currently serves Professionals of Kansas, the Technology in Business to director of information technology projects as co-chair to the Faculty Senate Committee Schools Roundtable and AACSB Association of and services in 2015. He was named director of on Technology. He represents the College of Business School IT Directors. He was named the information technology in 2018. Business Administration on the K-State System College of Business Administration's Classified Administrators Committee and the university IT Employee of the Year in 1999. Raine has general responsibility for all technology leadership team. in the College of Business Building and supervises two full-time staff members and 15 student staff members.

Degree Candidates

Accounting Klint James Graham, Omaha, Nebraska Jared F. Mulkey, Overland Park Elaina Marie Grantham, De Soto Daniel Stephen O'Connor, Hays Britton Steven Becker, Andale * Brett Christopher Hammett, Wamego * James Lawrence Thomas Scott,Omaha, Nebraska Seth Christian Boswell, Phillipsburg Dusty Male, De Soto (S19) Alex Jordan Stitt, Manhattan Katherine Ann Bugner, Garden Plain (Cl) Dillon Joseph Reiser, Great Bend Jennifer Josie Taylor, Granger, Iowa Jocelyn Camarillo, Holcomb Madalyn Ann Tarke, Sutter, California Ziyi Wang, Chengdu, China Andrew J. Dombeck, Manhattan Yun Tian, Tongren, China Lance Taylor White, Midland, Texas Ashley Marie Eberhart, Louisburg Aspen Nicole Weber, Edmond, Oklahoma Jordahn Alexyis Whitlow, Overland Park Drake Taylor Evans, Topeka Joshua Alexander Weisbender, Manhattan Ziyan Yan, Chengdu, China Karli Christine Fleischer, Meriden (Scl) Kevin Luke Wendt, Leavenworth Qimeng Zhang, Tianjin, China Travis Freeman, Sacramento, California (Mcl) Melissa Marie Hamilton, Newton Finance General Business Madison Delin Hammett, Olathe (Scl) Benjamin Arthur Heath, Topeka Dalal Abdulrahman E. Alalwane, Manhattan (S19) Rebecca Ann Gillen, Fort Collins, Colorado * Grant Michael Herpich, Manhattan Turki Badr AlSaadoun, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Brandon Michael Gorman, Allentown, Pennsylvania * Turner Lee Herrs, Greenleaf Ibrahim Mohamad Altamimi, Manhattan (S19) Kimberly Mae Linn, Salina (Scl) Gretchen Ann Holthaus, Leawood Michael Scott Bailie, Lenexa Caleb Robert Moser, Overland Park Margaret Jean Huseman, Ankeny, Iowa Kaylee Marie Bontrager, Seneca Emilee Pankow, Salina * Gannon Lance Ihrig, Goodland Lyndon Alexander Breckenridge, Wichita Tinisha Lynn Selvy, Junction City Joshua L. Karlin, Shawnee Troy Isaac Burgett, Overland Park (Cl) * Christopher James Veitch (Mcl) Griffin Eli Kepple,Ness City Cade Michael Calvert, Salina Lucas Christian Westhoff, Great Bend Emilee Kern, Lawrence Devaughn Justice Casey-Means, Manhattan (Cl) Daniel Meyer Laverentz, Leawood Kane Douglas Comfort, Salina Management Chadrick Dean Lind, Wichita Reid Allen Cross Andrew Timothy Martin, Salt Lake City, Utah Michael Chase Derusseau, Leawood Lindsay Roseanna Albers, Cottonwood Falls Thomas Andrew Nagle,Junction City Kai Ding, Taizhou, China Marlon Rageandra Appadu, West Lawn, Carly Ann Odell, Scandia Ryan Thomas Dudenhoeffer, Flower Mound, Texas Pennsylvania Taylor Jene Oliver Titus William Ewert, Hesston (Scl) Kendra Dawn Bargman, Palmer Bailey Jean Otto, Topeka Christina Michelle Flowers, Junction City Greta Jean Bauer, Burdett * Alyssa Nicole Schultejans, Silver Lake Coleman Joseph Forst, Marysville (Mcl) Gino James Berutti, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Scl) Abby R. Stueder, Claflin Blaise Robert Gammon, Overland Park (Mcl) Jiayue Bian, Hangzhou, China Matthew Ryan Sullivan, Olathe Keenan Herbert George, Overland Park Jacob Phalen Carroll, Rogers, Arkansas Xinxin Yao, Manhattan Sydney Erin Haas, Overland Park (Cl) * Griffin Millar Case,Marion Zackary David Zegunis, Lenexa Javier Herrera, Hutchinson Yunbo Chen, Weinan, China Kaylee Merideth Keck, Colby Lillian May Clark, Seneca Entrepreneurship Logan Anna Linnemann, Wamego Cassidy Renee Corrigan, McPherson Charles Joseph Lipford, Leawood Austin John Crowder, Overland Park * Suvana Alexsys Danyell Nikcoal Badgett, Meriden Shawn Mathias Manning, Shawnee Jackson Robert Dorsh, Overland Park Sarah Kathryn Bennett, Olathe Madison Lee McClellan, Palco (Cl) Tyler Andrew Eckstein, Parkerfield Ty Weigant Brull, Salina (S19) Austin David McGaugh, Omaha, Nebraska Gerald Alan Elsea, Lenexa Cordell Lane Goddard, Penokee Caleb Robert Meyer, Manhattan East Fang, Manhattan

College of Business Administration, Awards, Degree Candidates 39 Jack Robert Fisher, Prairie Village Trenton Alexander Bush, Overland Park * Certificate in Integrated Johnathan Patrick Godfrey, Alsip, Illinois Steven Andrei Cargin, Leawood Investment Management Alex Keith Grey, Kansas City Mitchell David Copeland, Wichita Sydney Erin Haas, Overland Park Kennedy Paige Hamilton, Silver Lake Sophie Anne Crisp, Lansing Shawn Mathias Manning, Shawnee Hanz Michael Harker, Bakersfield, California Brianna Elizabeth Delaney, Seneca James Lawrence Thomas Scott,Omaha, Nebraska Nicholas James Haverkamp, St. George Timothy Jacob Eccles, Overland Park Brette Ellen Hooker, Crystal Lake, Illinois Paul Timothy Feiden, Lenexa Nathaniel Michael Jarvis, Crystal City, Missouri Chandler Kae Ford, Adamstown, Maryland Certificate in Professional Samantha Elaine Jones, Tonganoxie Catharine Mary Galligan, Kennebunk, Maine Strategic Selling Steven Ronald Kirkeby, Manhattan Wade J.A. Gassmann, Atchison * Trevor Dean Allen, Haddam Spencer William Kraus, Wichita Marquis Keegan Golliday, Los Angeles, California Jade Emery Anderson, Placentia, California Makinna Cheyenne Lee, Wichita Zachary Tyler Gustafson, Wichita Lyndon Alexander Breckenridge, Wichita Summer Rae Lightfoot, Junction City (Cl) Allison Nicole Harris, Atchison Timothy Jacob Eccles, Overland Park Wangjun Lin, Wenzhou, China Taylor Nicole Hart, Sherman, Texas McKenzie Nicole Farney, Hutchinson Kayla Lenae McDougald, Olpe Jessica Rose Hecker, Berryton * Chandler Kae Ford, Adamstown, Maryland Madison Margot McGinn Tad Thomas Hiatt, Belleville Tad Thomas Hiatt, Belleville Blake Jonathan Meier, Andover Ryan A. Horn, Dighton Ryan A. Horn, Dighton Eric D. O'Reilly, McPherson Hannah Rose Howey, Osage City Caleb Duwayne Jurgensen, Wichita Diana Ortiz Muniz, Garden City Caleb Duwayne Jurgensen, Wichita Hyun Jun Lee, Bucheon, South Korea Lacey Jane Ostmeyer, Oakley (Cl) Addison Elizabeth Justus, Salina (Mcl) Deanna Marie Richard, Omaha, Nebraska Kelsi Michelle Parmenter, Overland Park (Cl) Noah Christopher Kaifes, Merriam Amy Kate Robben, Andale (S19) Robert Samuel Perry, Overland Park Abbey Elizabeth Kramer, Seneca (Mcl) Riley Bruce Stinson, Stilwell Kazdyn Kade Pierce-Blanchard, Zoe Renae Kvasnicka, Overland Park Landon Scott Warmund, Grain Valley, Missouri (Mcl) St. Joseph, Missouri Cody Allen LaGreca, Hutchinson (S19) Phillip Dorsey Wendling, Lyndon Corey Joseph Roth, Holcomb Hyun Jun Lee, Bucheon, South Korea Tania Sarabia, Liberal Jacob William Lorenzen, Olathe (Cl) Caden Severs, Inman Andrew Dean Marsh, Haysville (Mcl) Samuel Stephen Sheahan, Valley Center Austin Earl Mills, Hugoton Gerald Wesley Smith, Parker, Colorado Ma Ming, Tianjin, China Brock Donovan Steinert, Wichita Cavan Davis Mulcahy, Chantilly, Virginia (S19) Riley Bruce Stinson, Stilwell Tanner Andrew Niemczyk, Beloit Tarynn Nicole Stueder, Great Bend Allyson K. Nondorf, Liberal Corben David Tannahill, Merriam Rachel Lynn Ogren, Mission Mingze Tong, Xuzhou, China Deanna Marie Richard, Omaha, Nebraska Madeline Elise Unruh, Louisburg Mary Grace Ruhlman, Prairie Village Hannah Rae Vanderree, Ingalls Valley Malachi Scharping, Wichita Whitley Elise Vishnefske, Salina Kyle-Edward Arcelona Stupp, Olathe Songxue Xiao, Shiyan, China Tucker Chase Sweely, Newton Shimin Xing, Liaoning, China Alex Michael Taussig, Lyndon Yan Zhang, Beijing, China Olivia Rae Taylor, Overland Park Kelsey Marie Thorp, Leawood Management Information Systems Mitchell James Tyler, Overland Park Dalvin Dashawn Warmack, Blue Springs, Missouri Blake Andrew Bulloch, Wichita Killian Garrett Wood, Junction City Adam Charles George, Salinas, California Xiulin Yang, Beijing, China (S19) Maitri Prajapati, Ahmedabad, India Kasey Nicole Zeller, Windom Evan Michael Schmidtberger, Overland Park John Austin Smith, Overland Park Certificate in International Business Marketing Melissa Marie Hamilton, Newton Diana Ortiz Muniz, Garden City Jade Emery Anderson, Placentia, California Yu Bai, Shenzhen, China Tyler Lee Benson, Wellington Certificate in Data Analytics Austin Chauncey, Manhattan Chance Matthew Berndt, Herington Evan Michael Schmidtberger, Overland Park Matthew Brian Bowman, Wichita Sarah Adeline Bures, Topeka (Mcl)

40 College of Business Administration, Degree Candidates College of Agriculture

Processional: Presentation of Diplomas: Rachael Gros, Master's Student, Music Ernie Minton, Interim Dean

National Anthem: Assisted by: Codie Van Meter, Bachelor’s Candidate, Agronomy Sandy Klein, Assistant Dean Shannon Washburn, Assistant Dean Zelia Wiley, Assistant Dean Reflections: Cameron Bradshaw, Bachelor’s Candidate, Agribusiness Recessional: Rachael Gros, Master's Student, Music Introductions: Don Boggs, Associate Dean

Recognition of Honors Graduates: Shannon Washburn, Assistant Dean

Commencement Address: Jason Bergtold, Professor, Agricultural Economics

Student Commencement Speaker: Christine Rock, Bachelor’s Candidate, Food Science and Industry

Conferral of Degrees: Ernie Minton, Interim Dean

Presentation of Degree Candidates: Allen Featherstone, Professor and Department Head, Agricultural Economics Jason Ellis, Professor and Department Head, Communications and Agricultural Education Joe Harner, Professor and Department Head, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Michel Ransom, Professor and Interim Department Head, Agronomy Steve Keeley, Professor and Interim Department Head, Horticulture and Natural Resources Evan Titgemeyer, Professor and Interim Department Head, Animal Sciences and Industry Karen Schmidt, Professor, Animal Sciences and Industry Gordon Smith, Professor and Department Head, Grain Science and Industry

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professor of agricultural advises graduate and undergraduate students in the The many honors for teaching and research that economics, Jason agricultural economics department and serves on Bergtold has received include K-State's Presidential BergtoldA enjoys helping multiple college and departmental committees. He Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; students become engaged in is the inaugural editor for a new journal, Applied Outstanding Teaching Award for less than 10 years learning, develop tools for Economics Teaching Resources, as well. of experience from both the Agricultural and Applied critically analyzing problems Economics Association and Western Agricultural and applying those tools to Bergtold's research examines the impact and policy Economics Association; and the 2018 U.S. situations they encounter in implications of conservation, bioenergy feedstock Department of Agriculture Food and Agricultural agriculture and business. production and climate change on agricultural Sciences Excellence in College and University crop production and land use nationally and Regional Teaching Award. Jason Bergtold Bergtold teaches several internationally. He has published articles in the courses, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, A K-State faculty member since 2007, Bergtold Agricultural Economics American Journal of Agricultural Economics, earned a bachelor's degree in economics from and Agribusiness, Data Analysis and Optimization, Climatic Change, Water Resources Research, Energy Colorado State University and his master's degree Quantitative Methods for Agricultural Economics, Economics, Energy, Land Use Science and Journal of and doctorate in from Virginia Tech. and Discrete Choice Methods and Applications. Choice Modeling, among others. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Bergtold

Degree Candidates

Agricultural Economics Trevor Hunter Haun, Fall River Agronomy Caleb Wayne Hurst, Burrton * Agribusiness Topanga S. McBride, Severance, Colorado Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Justin Andrew Nelson, Windom Rodrigo Arrellaga Sosa, Asunción, Paraguay Bachelor of Science Spencer Cannon Parra, Olathe in Agribusiness Taylin Brae Bird, Fowler James Michael Reedy, Louisburg Ryan Patrick Burns, Kansas City, Missouri Colin Barratt Acedo, Manhattan Kaylyn Louise Turland, Otisville, Michigan Hunter Irvin Carter, Billings, Missouri Benjamin Franklin Ballinger, Garden City Matthew Lee Weigel, Shawnee Quintin Thomas Crandall, Little River Cameron Brock Bradshaw, Jetmore Taylor Neil Williamson, Sublette Jacob Daniel De Haan, Tulare, California Chelsey Jean Bruce, Arkansas City Keren Ruth Duerksen, Newton (Mcl) Chad Andrew Diederich, Linn Victoria Elizabeth Duree, Hutchinson Logan Thomas Harner, Hutchinson Communications and Grant Alan Frasier, Sharon Springs Chad Michael Hildebrand, Stafford Agricultural Education (Scl) Trent Allen Frye, Belleville Adam Christian Holtorf, Seward, Nebraska Austin James Gabel, Manhattan Matthew Brett Jones Sr., Melvern Agricultural Communications Luke Huelskamp, Fowler Forrest Scott Laird, Derby and Journalism Lucas Ray Miller, Parker Taylor Ann Ochs, Jetmore (Scl) Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Spencer Hardtman Navrude, Overland Park Joseph Dean Reinert, Cassoday * Topanga S. McBride, Severance, Colorado Aaron Michael Peters, Palmer Ryan Levi Spiegel, Formoso Carlee Jaye Meeks, Taylor, Nebraska Talha Shahryar, Manhattan Andrew Mark Tiemeyer, Morrowville Ashley Nicole Tercero, San Martin, California Lauren Sydnee Simmons, Lenexa Raymond Ortiz Towner, Shawnee Codie Lynn Van Meter, Eskridge Phillip Dorsey Wendling, Lyndon Agricultural Hayden Craig Walker, Weskan (Mcl) Technology Management Hannah Christine Wallace, Fairway Agricultural Economics Lawrence Gerard Weigel, Kansas City, Missouri Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Trevor Dean Allen, Haddam Bachelor of Science in Agriculture David Joseph Campbell, Leawood Tyler Wilson Ahring, St. George Horticulture and Natural Resources Alberto Fabrizzio Jesus Ferrera Jou, Tanner Beagle, Pleasant Hill, Missouri Asunción, Paraguay Logan Ryan Bertholf, Medicine Lodge Horticulture Caleb Daniel Fischer, Dodge City Tyler Patrick Blythe, White City Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Coleman Joseph Forst, Marysville (Mcl) Conor Scott Hamilton, Turon Jacob Henry Belfield,Lake Quivira Grant Isaac Glaser, Ellsworth Walter Basil Cody Knight III, Shawnee Derek Christopher Halls, Sabetha (Scl) Matthew Charles Hamon, Ozawkie (Scl) Clay Andrew Schemm, Sharon Springs Danielle Marie Haynos, Emmett Greg Daniel Schlickau, Pretty Prairie

42 College of Agriculture, Speaker, Degree Candidates Erica R. Hecht, Council Grove Madison Brooke Beauchamp, Goddard Ty Blaine Wood, Cherryvale Robert M. Hennahane, Leawood Austin Victor Black, Pratt Aubri Auna Zogg, Coffeyville Hunter Maverick Hill, Whitewater Adriane Nichole Blanchat, Danville Casey Lee Hoffman,Chapman Madison Marie Blinzler, Wichita Veterinary Medicine Paul Richard Knackendoffel,Manhattan Johnathan William Herman Bott, Palmer Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Gage Matthew Knudson, Junction City Diamond Channae Brown, Dighton Kaitlin Elizabeth Goldsby, Fishers, Indiana Alexander J. Lutz, Overland Park Jenna Brunkow, Topeka Daniele Lois McFadden, Towanda Mar'Quel Ka'Cynthia Collins, Florissant, Missouri Food Science and Industry Eric Lee McKinsey, Holton Amber Marie Comp, St. Louis, Missouri Rhett Calvin Delay, Platte City, Missouri Bruce Robert Moore, Wichita Bachelor of Science in Food Ross Monroe Nichols, Wichita Luis Alberto Duarte Gonzalez, Caaguazu, Paraguay Chance A. Scarlett, Topeka James Gillespie Elder, Valley Center Science and Industry Juan Carlos Arias, Hudson, North Carolina Karen Kay Schneck, Lawrence Haley Jolynn Ellis, Colony Nicholas Todd Baker, Jacksonville, Florida Andrew Mark Tenholder, Topeka Breanna Diane Eulert-Manrose, Paradise Connor Wade Bivins, Overland Park Lauren M. Walz, Garden City Miranda Jane Faulkner, Olathe Lauren Kasey Fedrick, Lancaster Gabrielle Therese Draper, Parma, Ohio Conrad John Kabus, Topeka Park Management and Conservation Cheyenne Brooke Ferguson, Abilene Macy Raye Flowers, Chanute Naery Kim, Escondido, California Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Amy Fruits, Gardner Karen Ellen Magana-Moran, Santa Ana, Tobias Joseph Blue, Salina El Salvador Marci R. Glennemeier, Logan Aubrey Paige Burns, Salina Randall Clade Martin, Claflin Erryn Bychelle Goods, Plumas Lake, California Ryan Carl Buss, Westmoreland McKenna Marie Mills, Highlands Ranch, Colorado Eric William Grossnickle, Auburn Elora Allain Kay Hardacre, Concordia Jesse Gregory Mortensen, Coon Rapids Ashley Renae Hartman, Denton, Montana Eric Charles Harkins, Seneca Cameron Brontz Hayden, Cassopolis, Michigan (Cl) (H) Natalie Michelle New, Weskan Elizabeth A. Heath, Dighton Jessica Nicole Hennessey, Topeka Rene Rafael Perla Quintanilla, Nuevo Cuscatlan, Cody Ryan Hopkins, Marquette El Salvador Lauren Kaye Herd, Wichita Justin Fowler Jones, Carrizo Springs, Texas Brittany L. Raisor, Harrodsburg, Kentucky Alexis Taylor Ashley Holm, Carpentersville, Illinois Jeffrey Martinez, Manhattan Christopher Matthew Reusz, Downers Grove, Scott Gordon Hooper Jr., Southern Pines, (D) Illinois Brandon Mengel, Lenexa North Carolina Amy Kate Robben, Andale Dixon Lane Olson, Marquette Milan Alexandra Hunter, Buffalo Creek, Colorado (Scl) (H) Christine Alice Rock, Olathe Colter John Silhan, Oxford Emmalie Paige Hurla, Topeka Robert William Ruder, Wichita Bailey Jo Jeffries,Augusta Sierra Lee Savage, Wellsville Wildlife and Outdoor Kenyanna Jachell Jones, Overland Park (Scl) Megan Michelle Steward, Garden City Linden Lee Kaliff,York, Nebraska Enterprise Management Austin Charles John Weber, Olathe Catherine Jeanine Kasper, Olathe Bachelor of Science in Wildlife and (H) Lora Welliver, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Jessica Keane, Papillion, Nebraska (Mcl) Outdoor Enterprise Management Garrett David Kietzman, Clinton, Wisconsin Yiqin Zhang, Shanghai, China Christopher David Barnhart Jr., Canastota, New York Brooke Denise Marshall, Halstead Charles Edwin Courtney, McLouth Amanda Hope McCormick, Fredonia Grain Science and Industry Logan Elizabeth Erickson, Girard Makenzie McGinnis, Orange, California Alex Eugene Hartman, Mulvane (Mcl) Caylee Marie Merrow, Wichita Bakery Science and Management Shane Mathew King, Salina (Scl) Selby Rianne Merrow, Wichita Asa Ray Lee, Fowler (Scl) Bachelor of Science in Bakery Laura Faye Mossman, Olathe Elliot Neal Maytac, Raleigh, North Carolina Science and Management Cole Thomas Norberg, Lindsborg Emalee J-Ann McClurg, Meriden Ivy Michelle Wangui Gichohi, Nairobi, Kenya Jenna Palczewski, Bowman, North Dakota (Cl) (D) Benjamin Daniel Petrie, Leawood Aaron Goerl, Great Bend Micah R. Palmateer, Sulphur Springs, Texas Andrew Michael Karstens, Olathe Clayton Eugene Swanson, Arkansas City Jenna Rae Phelps, Hoisington Erin Kathleen Parker, Overland Park Breck Andrew Winter, Augusta Andrew Logan Phipps, Matfield Green Christopher Matthew Reusz, Downers Grove, Cheyenne Nicole Pierce, Topeka Illinois Animal Sciences and Industry Lindsey Gwyn-Ann Proffit,Savannah, Missouri Yicheng Wei, Tianjin, China Boyd Scott Roenne, Meriden Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Kelly Laine Shriver, New Cambria Clayton Wyatt Alley, Douglass Brett Melvin Slater, Paxico Feed Science and Management Bayley Jaye Anderson, South Haven Issa Garcia, Cimarron Bachelor of Science in Feed Brendon John Asch, Clyde Rebecca Chantel Storrer, Wichita Science and Management Jesse Colin Barnes, Olathe Dario Valles, Kansas City Jonathon David Corn, Inman Adrien M. Beaty, Olathe Hailey Williams, Santa Rosa, California Ryan William Lierz, Holton

College of Agriculture, Degree Candidates 43 Milling Science and Management Bachelor of Science in Milling Science and Management Andrew Ray Alvarez, Leawood Ben Andrew Broxterman, Manhattan (Cl) Aaron Goerl, Great Bend (Cl) (D) Sumner T. Harrelson, Leawood Hailey Lauren Heizman, Overland Park Parker Alan McGuire, Overland Park (Cl) Carl James Whitmer, Overland Park

44 College of Agriculture, Degree Candidates College of Human Ecology

Processional:* Rachael Gros, Master's Student, Music Alma Mater:* Danielle Winchester, Bachelor's Candidate, Welcome: Hospitality Management Bronwyn Fees, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Recessional: National Anthem:* Rachael Gros, Master's Student, Music Danielle Winchester, Bachelor's Candidate, Hospitality Management *The audience will please rise.

Student Address: Darah Kay Portenier, Bachelor's Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Recognition of Student Honors: Shawn Jordan, Assistant Dean and Research Assistant Professor, Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health

Commencement Address: Lynda March, Owner and Operator, Nutrition Services for Rural Communities

Alumni Association Greetings: Amy Button Renz, President and CEO, K-State Alumni Association

Conferral of Bachelor's Degrees: John Buckwalter, Dean

Presentation of Degree Candidates: Barbara Anderson, Professor and Department Head, Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design Sonya Lutter, Associate Professor and Interim Director, School of Family Studies and Human Services Mark Haub, Associate Professor and Department Head, Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health Michael Ottenbacher, Professor and Department Head, Hospitality Management Bronwyn Fees, Associate Dean and Professor, Family Studies and Human Services Craig Harms, Professor and Department Head, Kinesiology

Presentation of Diplomas: John Buckwalter, Dean

Assisted by: Richard B. Myers, President Charles S. Taber, Provost and Executive Vice President

Charge to the Class: John Buckwalter, Dean

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registered and licensed As the granddaughter of two county extension of Science from Texas Tech University and a dietitian, Lynda agents and the daughter of a plant geneticist, Master of Science from Stephen F. Austin State MarchA owns and operates March spent much of her time in rural areas of University. Nutrition Services for Rural Kansas, Nebraska and Texas. Through her time as a Communities. She helps member of 4-H, March developed a desire to work An active supporter of K-State, March and care for patients in nursing in rural areas. her three sons have created the March Family homes, small hospitals, Opportunity Scholarship for nontraditional senior feeding programs March is active in the nutrition community, students. March also established the Lynda March and correctional facilities. serving as editor of the Renal Nutrition Forum Scholarship for dietetics students who plan to She is also a staff member and volunteering as a grant writing facilitator for work in rural communities, as well as the Lynda of Fresenius Medical Care, nonprofit organizations in her area. Outside of March Faculty Award in the College of Human Lynda March a health care company for nutrition, she is a member of the Texas Scottie Ecology. people with renal and other Rescue Foundation. chronic conditions. She currently works in the Texas panhandle and eastern New Mexico. March received her doctoral degree from Kansas State University. She received her Bachelor

Degree Candidates

Apparel, Textiles, and Ashton Marie Royer, Plainville Ashley Marie Lantz, Junction City Lauren Grace Studer, Wathena (Scl) Marissa Elizabeth Lord, Olathe Interior Design (S) Haley Beth Thompson, Hiawatha Nathan Thomas Mignano, Manhattan Elaine Marie Williams, Lenexa (Scl) (S) Jaylene Marie Miller, Parker, Colorado * Bachelor of Science in Kathrine Lynn Yarrow, Wakefield(Scl) Megan Elizabeth Rose, Manhattan Apparel and Textiles Allison Marie Russell, Chanute Heather Lynn Albers, Warrensburg, Missouri Justin Ja'Rel Silmon, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Scl) (H) (Early Childhood Education) Emily Elizabeth Andrews, Manhattan Lisette Sophia Casillas, Coppell, Texas Terrell Howard Smith, Vicksburg, Mississippi Madison Dawn Brockman, Concordia Hannah Daniels, Jewell Jessica Erin Sorensen, Topeka Megan Taylor Lindequist, Thousand Oaks, California Kennedy Morgan Lynn, Lexington, Missouri Allison Schafer Thompson, Tonganoxie Madison Lee McClellan, Palco (Cl) (D) Darci Jo Myers, Wichita K’Lynn Kristine Tilley, Frankfort Xiwen Wei, Fujian, China (S) Jamie Phoua Thao Xiong,Kansas City Kiernan Briana Vining, Chatham, New Jersey Chelsi Ann Warden, Junction, Texas Family Studies and Human Services (Family Studies and Human Services) Bachelor of Science in Human Bachelor of Science in Family Paige Alexis Altwegg, Chapman Development and Family Science Studies and Human Services Lily Kathryn Anderson, Overland Park Rylee Noelle Karhoff, Girard (Cl) (Communication Sciences Kyle Freeman Barfield,College Station, Texas Shannon Elyse Keith, Ellsworth Sarah Marie Brown, Griffin, Georgia Sara Christina Martin, Colby and Disorders) Braden Glenn Mccune Streit, Manhattan Christina Dawn Ashenfelter, Augusta (Mcl) (S) Britney Aynn Dennis-Campbell, (SU18) Emmaline Joann Bohlander, Topeka Cleveland, Ohio Abigail Nicole Fangman, Ottawa (Scl) Jamie Leigh Dressler, Lansing Bachelor of Science in Personal Nicole Danielle Greenstein, Wichita (Cl) Caitlyn Margaret Dunigan, Frisco, Texas Financial Planning (Mcl) Baylie Kay Harsh, El Dorado Suzanne Sailer Fiss, Leawood Jarah Elizabeth Cooper, Salina Madison Renae Knox, Clifton (Mcl) Mario Garcia III, Shawnee Zachary Wayne Pohlenz, Topeka Renée Therese LaFreniere, Overland Park Toriana E. Hardie, Topeka Landon Scott Warmund, Grain Valley, Missouri (Cl) Alexandra Nicole Maynard, Overland Park Dominique Lauryn Humphreys, Junction City Addison Laine McGill (Scl) (S) Aubrey Mishel Jung, Manhattan Jaylene Marie Miller, Parker, Colorado * Addison Raeann Kingsbury, Smith Center Darah Kay Portenier, Kirwin (Scl) Jaci Kolm, Pratt Marlee Renee Rath, Oakley (Cl) Kelci Noel Krier, Salina (Scl) Brecken Annette Renfro, Overland Park (Mcl) (S) Kristen Lauren Krueger, Clive, Iowa (Scl)

46 College of Human Ecology, Speaker, Degree Candidates Food, Nutrition, Dietetics Catherine MaryEllen Lochner, Chanhassen, Minnesota and Health Hayley Danielle Merz, Winfield Maureen Adhiambo Oduol, Lenexa Bachelor of Science in Athletic Brenna Christine Shields, Lincolnville Training Megan Lynn Webster, Wichita Benjamin Joel Dorsett, Osawatomie Amber Nicole Wilhelm, Horton (Cl) (Mcl) Emily Elizabeth Kelley, Manhattan Danielle Joanne Winchester, Lecompton Bowen Yu, Guizhou, China Bachelor of Science in Dietetics Abigayle Renee Boxberger, Hoisington Bachelor of Science in Hotel and (Cl) Elizabeth Anne Buege, Marshfield, Wisconsin Restaurant Management Kyrstie Ashley Ehm, Potwin Yun Tian, Tongren, China (D) Sarah Elizabeth Hansen, Wichita (Mcl) (D) Logan Dawn Harvey, Chula Vista, California Abbie Ann Herkelman, Coffeyville Human Ecology Madison V. Hinman, Belton, Texas Jenilee Horn, Hinesville, Georgia (Cl) Bachelor of Science Lauren Olivia Keller, Hays in Human Ecology Julia Ashlyn Lambert, Manhattan (Scl) (D) (General Human Ecology) Hannah E. Masse, Richmond, Rhode Island Jordan Chanel Jackson, Lafayette, Colorado Jennifer H. Rabung, Mechanicsville, Virginia Erin Jean Schmitt, Libby, Montana Kinesiology Kady Lynn Schneider, Mulvane Emily Larson Troll, Goddard Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology Molly Katherine Ward, Corvallis, Oregon Bailey Elizabeth Alexander, Louisburg (S) Julie G. Williams, Rowlett, Texas Nicholas W. Beach, Gardner Kelsey Nicole Woodson, Lenexa Cassandra Maria Beattie, Basehor (Mcl) Brooke Nicole Bennett, Shawnee (Scl) (D) Bachelor of Science in Human Chaddrick Beshirs, Fort Riley Nutrition Tori Ann Bontrager, Whiting (Mcl) (Scl) (Nutrition and Health) Allison Kristine Bullinger, Colwich Heather Marie Castelan, Hoisington Jeremy Grayson Collier, Leawood (Cl) Samantha Jean Collins, Garden City, Michigan Mackenzie Kaitlin Getz, Spring Hill (S) Zareen Habib Dadabhai, Harrison, Arkansas Alexandra Payton Herrmann, Kinsley Lindsey Elaine Dias, San Antonio, Texas Dalton Arnold Holt, Wellington (Scl) Clara G. DiBartolo, Bristol, Tennessee Erin Leslie Holtmeier, Washington Malin Hope Ferre, Topeka (Cl) Samuel David Johnson, Wichita Adam John Furneaux, Springfield Missouri Ashlynn Paige Kleinbeck, Manhattan Sarah Elizabeth Hansen, Wichita (Mcl) (D) Anndrea Louise Kraisinger, Otis Kelli Marie Mark, Topeka (Scl) Brady Kent Kurtz, Overland Park (Scl) (D) Shayna Mae North, San Diego, California Julia Ashlyn Lambert, Manhattan Emily Annmarie Waterworth, Topeka (S) Heidi Marie Larson, Athol Garrett Michael Lovoy, Topeka (Nutritional Sciences) Katlyn Marie Miller, Wichita (Cl) Mary Christina Morrissey, Topeka Gabrielle Riley Ciccarelli, Leawood Benjamin Ray Mosley, Wichita (D) Nicholas Jacob Desch, Topeka Alyssa Marie Oborny, LaCrosse Jesse Bryan Patterson, Overland Park (Cl) Hospitality Management Taylor Anne Rand, Topeka Keaton Donn Reece, Overland Park Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Christopher Alan Sandquist, Salina Management Hannah Beth Strange, Colby (S) Regina Nadine Basse, Overland Park Hali Alexandra Sutter, Overland Park Emily Faith Don, Overland Park Taylor Nicole Sweet, Portage, Michigan Cherilyn Xue-Ling E, Andover Ivan Colin Thian, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (D) Christina Ann Hoops, Byron, Nebraska Austin Hayes Waters, Wamego Zachary Allan Will, Pratt

College of Human Ecology, Degree Candidates 47 48 Hale Library College of Engineering

Processional:* Conferral of Degrees: Student Brass Quintet Darren Dawson, Dean

Welcome: Recital of College of Engineering Craig Wanklyn, Assistant Dean Pledge: Bette Grauer, Assistant Dean National Anthem:* Tyler Aden, Bachelor’s Candidate, Computer Science Alma Mater:* Tyler Aden, Bachelor’s Candidate, Computer Science Recognition of Honors Graduates: Darren Dawson, Dean Recessional: Student Brass Quintet Student Address: Trevyn Sell, Bachelor's Candidate, Architectural Engineering Grand Marshals: Ronaldo Maghirang, Associate Dean Andy Fund, Assistant Dean Commencement Address: Alan Levin, Owner, Port of Tucson LLC, Cushing *The audience will please rise. Business Center, Century Park Research Center, Tucson Frozen Storage and Levin & Sons Construction Co.

Alumni Association Greetings: Amy Button Renz, President and CEO, K-State Alumni Association

Presentation of Degree Candidates: Ray Buyle, Associate Professor and Department Head, Pledge Architectural Engineering and Construction Science and Management Joseph Harner, Professor and Department Head, Biological and Agricultural Engineering As a graduate of the James Edgar, Professor and Department Head, College of Engineering, I pledge: Chemical Engineering Mustaque Hossain, Professor and Department Head, To give the utmost of performance; Civil Engineering To participate in none but honest enterprise; Scott DeLoach, Professor and Department Head, To live and work according to the laws of humanity, Computer Science and the highest standards of professional conduct; Don Gruenbacher, Associate Professor and Department To place service before profit, the honor and Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering standing of the profession before personal Bradley Kramer, Professor and Department Head, advantage, and the public welfare above all other Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering consideration. William Dunn, Professor and Department Head, In humility and with need for Divine Guidance, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering I make this pledge.

College of Engineering Pledge Presentation of Diplomas: Darren Dawson, Dean Based on the Engineer's Creed, National Society of Professional Engineers Assisted by: Gary Clark, Senior Associate Dean Bette Grauer, Assistant Dean

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lan Levin, a 1969 graduate of Kansas Mexico. In 2014, Port of Tucson expanded Titian II missile combat crew commander State University in mechanical to approximately 52,000 feet of railroad from 1969-1972. engineering,A is the owner of Cushing infrastructure. Business Center, Century Park Research Active in his community, Levin serves on Center, Tucson Frozen Storage and Levin & Before starting his own general the board of the Arizona Cancer Center and Sons Construction Co. contracting business in 1981, Levin was is active in and supports many local charities, a project manager for E.M. Systems, a including Child and Family Resources, Boys In 2001, Levin founded Port of Tucson mining equipment systems design and & Girls Clubs, Pima County 4-H, Christian LLC, an intermodal and logistics center manufacturing company, as well as a project Family Care, Tucson Girls Chorus, Arizona assisting businesses with access to rail manager and engineer for the Anamax Cancer Center, YMCA and El Rio. He is and intermodal container transportation Mining Co. Uranium Recovery Plant. a licensed pilot and enjoys prospecting and options for industrial product customers mining. Alan Levin throughout southern Arizona and northern Levin served in the U.S. Air Force as a

Degree Candidates

Architectural Engineering Brady Reid Myers, Olathe Seth Colby Eckels, Manhattan Luke Anthony Porter, Kansas City, Missouri Wannakuwatta Waduge Ann Sumudu Priyasha Bachelor of Science Joseph Michael Ptak, Shawnee Fernando, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka Waleed Khalid M Alharbi, Al Madinah Al Heath Thomas Redman, Topeka Shaun Paul Finn, Olathe Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia Viridiana Retana-Rodriguez, Topeka Megen Aileen Heyen, Prairie Village (Cl) Yousef H J M Alharbi, Al Jahra, Kuwait Daniel Tyler Rosson, Coffeyville Dylan Lloyd Kleissler, Hugo, Minnesota Tyler Austin Benschoter, Overland Park Eric Thomas Rourke, Russell Christopher James Kreiser, Edgerton Aoife Christina Callanan, Barrington, Illinois Charles Colton Skidmore, Manhattan Yazmine Patel, Olathe Katherine Elizabeth Clark, North Billerica, Spencer Weber Walker, Manhattan Alexander Nicholas Westrope, Overland Park Massachusetts Logan Alan Wells, Wichita Ryan Michael Helus, Wamego Civil Engineering Jacob Andrew Lassman, Overland Park Biological Systems Engineering Trevyn John Sell, Carrollton, Texas (P) Bachelor of Science Samantha Kaye Scott, Fort Morgan, Colorado Bachelor of Science Fouad Salim Alangurli, Manhattan Lucy Anna Toplikar, Olathe Blake Vaughn Brown, McPherson Abdullah F A A S A Alansari, Kuwait City, Kuwait Hunter Dale Wheeler, Olathe Cheyanne Elizabeth Day, Rossville Frank A. Baiamonte, Overland Park Amelia Hope Harris, Prescott Valley, Arizona Swedi Bitendelo, Richmond, Texas (H) Construction Science Tristan Xavier McCallister, Liberal Amy Elizabeth Clark, Olathe (Mcl) and Management Nicholas William Meyer, Marion John Morgan Davis, Meade Alexander Joseph Peter Nytko, Roscoe, Illinois Jacob Matthew Frey, Kansas City, Missouri (P) Bachelor of Science Jacob Charles Peters, Holt, Missouri Drew Allen Hoops, Republic Jason Patrick Scheer, Gretna, Nebraska (Cl) Jon Brady Anderson, Lenexa Kristen Josynne Jones, Overland Park Kseniya Alekseyevna Sheshukova, Manhattan Marissa Christine Axelson, McPherson Mohammed Khawari, Kuwait City, Kuwait Nicholas Alan Sosaya, Shawnee Malik Robert Bieberle, Wichita Isaac Daniel Klugh, Chanute Ezekiel Judson Swihart, Manhattan Taylor Brian Clites, El Dorado Madison Raquel Lage, Leawood Megan Teufel, Wichita Mathias Edwin Dahlman, Topeka Nathan Edward Lubeck, Overland Park Kole Alan Urban, Loretta Toby Leo Dominguez, Garden City Tyler Patrick Murray, Villa Ridge, Missouri Chuncheng Wang Hassan Saeed Eskirjeh Kirk Benjamin Pfannenstiel, Hays Dalton Luke Harman, Salina Drew Douglas Young, Burlington Kirk James Provine, Manhattan Benjamin Dean Hoefgen, Augusta Trent Alan Lawrence Salsbury, Olathe John Joseph Hopfinger, Overland Park Chemical Engineering Trevor Matthew Splichal, Spring Hill Caleb Ryan Howser, Silver Lake Hunter Scott Thrailkill, Castle Rock, Colorado Courtney Nicole Jenkins, Inman Bachelor of Science Robert John Vohs, Lenexa Jared Patrick Kirkland, Valley Center Samuel Winston Applegate, Wichita Samuel Frank Weinhold, De Soto Scott Michael Linnebur, Wichita Allison Tully Crowther, Overland Park Daniel Aaron Wiens, McPherson

50 College of Engineering, Speaker, Degree Candidates Computer Engineering Cody Lee Riniker, Wamego Kagan Jay Blackwell, Hoisington Alec Phillip Ruth, Highlands Ranch, Colorado Jarrod Austin Booth, Manhattan Caleb Brook Schweer, Salina Glenn Stanley Brandon, Kansas City Bachelor of Science (Mcl) Hamza Ahmed, Islamabad, Pakistan Jennifer Ann Spero, Temple, Texas Ty Albert James Brickell, Valley Falls (Scl) Shelby Danae Coen, Hutchinson Jeremy Grant White, Wichita Austin Bullinger, Canton Matthew Hunter James Haufler, Centralia (Scl) William Lee Yeager, Abilene Alan G. Burl, Cimarron Amber Jo Schubert, Salina Stewart Patrick Dennison, Benton Elijah Paul Simmons, Burlington Information Systems Trevor Wayne Duerksen, Newton Mark Alan Spicer, Topeka August Charles Dunlop, Parker Bachelor of Science Luke Joseph Eilert, Beloit Jacob Anthony English, Kansas City Electrical Engineering Sarah Jane Allen, Eskridge Kyle James Eisenbarger, Lenexa Tyler Blake Farthing, Madison Anson Jones, Dodge City Nathaniel Gregory Fleming, Olathe Bachelor of Science (Mcl) Kevin Jesus Garcia, Cimarron Abdullah Y A M Abdulkarim, Mangaf, Kuwait Abbey Elizabeth Kramer, Seneca Mark Harrison Garner, Fort Scott Yousef Dawood M Aldawood, Safwa, Saudi Arabia Marc Dwayne Scott, Clay Center Brandon Alex Haggerty, Paola Abdullah Meshaal F Alsulami, Manhattan Alex Edward Todd, Andover Joshua Tulloch Hodge, Lawrence Hannah Nicole Baldwin, Kansas City, Missouri Cole Anthony Hoing, Lansing William Anthony Brownlee, Prairie Village Industrial Engineering Colton Ely Horne, Baldwin City Joseph Dongoski, Delano, Minnesota Keith Daniel Huddleston, Frankfort Ji Feng, Shijiazhuang, China Bachelor of Science Brandon Lawrence Hulet, Olathe Corey Allen Gaither, Valparaiso, Florida (Mcl) Benjamin Bernard Adams, Dallas, Texas Nathan Patrick Kellogg, Omaha, Nebraska Brian Lee Gerwick, Derby Daniel William Baker, Stilwell Dong Hyun Kim, Busan South Korea Manuel Alberto Hernandez, Kansas City Missouri Luis Antonio Coca Urdanivia, La Paz, Bolivia Jackson Wesley Lage, Leawood Henry C. Hickert, Hutchinson Tyler M. Doyle, Shawnee Miranda Aven Lane, Emporia Gaige Lee Jacobus, Oakley Catherine Ann Dunn, Stilwell Letian Li John Erik Laughlin, Overland Park (Cl) Kevin Fandawa, Surabaya, Indonesia Chase Karl Lynd, Hays Matthew David Legler, Overland Park Samantha Erin Gerstner, St. Louis, Missouri Patrick Joseph McAtarian, St. Marys Jun Ma, Manhattan Luke Thomas Henes, Lenexa Daniel Patrick Mendenhall, Leawood Jack Thurlow Maatsch, Overland Park Troy Joseph Hilderhof, Overland Park Alec Christohper Mitchell, Overland Park Jesus Israel Mendoza, Ulysses Brendon Michael Hutley, Berryton David Jose Montalvo, St. Marys Jun Ying Tan, Johor Bahru, Malaysia (Cl) Anna Mae Kathleen Kleiböhmer, Lawrence Trenton Michael Musick, Hutchinson Trevor Wayne Unruh, Galva Candace Taylor Kuecker, Arkansas City Max Ethan Nager Luke Patrick Zahner, Overland Park Malik Kijana Livingston, Emporia Brett Alexander Quiason, Kansas City, Missouri Liya Zhu, Tianjin, China Ryan Joseph Loiacono, Lenexa Alan John Reinke, Wakefield Salvador Munoz, Topeka Preston Thomas Ryan, Hays Scott Thomas Perlenfein, Eagan, Minnesota Computer Science Christopher David Sharlow, Wichita Anna Elizabeth Pyle, Shawnee (H) Trenton Alexander Shaver, Derby Landon Scott Root, Wichita Bachelor of Science Samuel Robert Slotten, Buffalo Grove, Illinois Garrett Bradley Sanders, Lexington, Missouri Tyler Kaleb Aden, Hutchinson Timothy Allen Spencer, Dodge City Samuel Creson Sizelove, Argyle, Texas Cale Douglas Benne, Manhattan Bruce Edwin Stanley, Leavenworth MacKenzie Brianna Suderman, Moundridge Haley Ann Canfield,Rose Hill Kory Don Stone, Topeka Ramie Lynn Taylor, Stillwater, Oklahoma Maria Fernanda De La Torre Romo, Zachary Chance Woods Stower, Overland Park Denis Taylan Uzdil, Brussels, Belgium Kansas City, Missouri Conner Matthew Swope, Topeka Norma Eunice Varona Ortiz, Mexico City, Mexico (Cl) Leah Elizabeth Devers, Olathe Tanner Michael Swope, Topeka Laurin Ashley Wagner, Offerle (Scl) Kevin Matthew Dice, O'Fallon, Illinois Jacob Mackenzie Terrell, Olathe David Dean Freeman, Leavenworth Alexander Jeffrey Thompson, Emporia Mitchell John Gehrt, De Soto Mechanical Engineering Michael Eugene Tillhof, Leawood Jeremie Scott Havice, Junction City Joshua David Tryon, Topeka Ryan Huse, Humboldt Bachelor of Science Seth J. Tucker, Manhattan (Scl) Aaron Keith Jensen, Salina Jack William Adkins, Buhler Tianyu Wang, Kaifeng, China Eric Carl Johnson, Kansas City, Missouri Fahad Askar Al Hajri, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Chandler Scot Williamson, Wichita Shawn Kirby, Manhattan Ali Mohammed A Alghobari, Manhattan Jacob Robert Winter, Topeka (Scl) (Mcl) Brent Anthony Krull, Olathe Mohammed Baqer Alshaghab, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia Casey Wise, Hays Shreya Kumar, Manhattan Tyler David Anderson, Overland Park John Francis Wright, Topeka Patrick Thomas McEldowney, Overland Park Jordan Andrew Barton, Gardner Bo Yu, Shanghai, China Mark Gabriel McGuire, Lenexa Fahad Mohammed Bin Jibreen, Mark James Zarybnicky, Hanover Casey Arie LaRoy Poole, Selah, Washington Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

College of Engineering, Degree Candidates 51 52 Anderson Hall, 1939 53 University Distinguished Professors he title of University Distinguished Professor is the highest honor Kansas State University can bestow on its faculty. This lifetime title recognizes faculty making outstanding contributions to teaching, research and service to their professions and communities. University Distinguished Professors are appointed followingT a universitywide competition conducted by the provost and senior vice president. Each recipient receives a commemorative medallion upon appointment. The honorees 2018 2009 Brian S. Spooner, Biology Mary Beth Kirkham, Agronomy Walter K. Dodds, Biology 1998 David C. Poole, Kinesiology, and Anatomy and Charles W. Rice, Agronomy Gary W. Conrad, Biology Physiology 2008 Timothy R. Donoghue, Physics (honorary) Jim Sherow, History Edgar Chambers IV, Human Nutrition Jan E. Leach, Plant Pathology 2017 Philine Wangemann, Anatomy and Physiology 1997 T.G. Nagaraja, Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology Phillip Klebba, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics C. Lewis Cocke, Physics Timothy Musch, Kinesiology, and Anatomy and 2007 Bikram S. Gill, Plant Pathology Physiology Dale Herspring, Political Science Peter M.A. Sherwood, Chemistry Anil Pahwa, Electrical and Computer Engineering Duy Hua, Chemistry 1994 Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Biochemistry Yan Soibelman, Mathematics John J. Iandolo, Pathology and Microbiology Kun Yan Zhu, Entomology 2006 James L. Marsden, Regents Distinguished Professor 2016 John M. Blair, Biology of Animal Sciences P.V. Vara Prasad, Agronomy Daniel C. Marcus, Anatomy and Physiology 1993 Richard A. Marston, Geography Bharat Ratra, Physics Neville "Bill" Reay, Physics 2015 2005 1990 Michael R. Kanost, Biochemistry Wayne Goins, Music Chii-Dong Lin, Physics Harald E.L. Prins, Anthropology Douglas S. McGregor, Mechanical and Nuclear Michael W. Suleiman, Political Science Engineering James Shanteau, Psychological Sciences 1989 2014 2004 William Fateley, Chemistry James R. Coffman,Clinical Sciences (honorary) Yolanda Broyles-González, American Ethnic Studies Norman J. Fedder, Theatre David C. Hartnett, Biology Gary Pierzynski, Agronomy Terry Johnson, Biology Yoshiro Ikeda, Art Sandra Stith, Family Studies and Human Services Hongxing Jiang, Physics Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Grain Science and 1988 Joseph V. Ortiz, Chemistry Industry Cornelia B. Flora, Sociology Sonny Ramaswamy, Entomology Jonathan Holden, English 2013 Ted Schroeder, Agricultural Economics Kenneth W. Jones, History James H. Edgar, Chemical Engineering Kenneth Klabunde, Chemistry Stephen Higgs, Biosecurity Research Institute 2003 Patrick Richard, Cortelyou-Rust Distinguished M.M. Chengappa, Diagnostic Medicine and Ryszard Jankowiak, Chemistry Professor of Physics Pathobiology Nancy Monteiro-Riviere, Anatomy and Physiology Sadahiro Saeki, Mathematics Robert D. Linder, History Philip Nel, English David A. Schmidt, Computing and Information Sciences Jürgen A. Richt, Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology 1987 Jim Riviere, Anatomy and Physiology L.T. Fan, Chemical Engineering 2002 David Leith, Regents Distinguished Professor Mike Tokach, Animal Sciences and Industry Alan Knapp, Biology of Pathology S. Lillian Kremer, English 2012 Donald Setser, Chemistry Thomas E. Roche,Biochemistry Christer Aakeröy, Chemistry Barbara Valent, Plant Pathology Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Physics 1986 Susan Brown, Biology Duane Acker, Animal Sciences and Industry 2001 Horst Leipold, Pathology Ruth Welti, Biology Frank Blecha, Anatomy and Physiology David Littrell, Music 2011 1985 Talat Rahman, Physics Michael Dryden, Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology Richard Consigli, Biology Larry Takemoto, Biology Brett Esry, Physics Dean Zollman, Physics 1984 John Hatcliff, Computing and Information Sciences Kenneth Hoyt, Education John Leslie, Plant Pathology 2000 Xiuzhi "Susan" Sun, Grain Science and Industry Rob Denell, Biology 1974 Ernest E. Shult, Regents Distinguished Professor 2010 Christopher M. Sorensen, Cortelyou-Rust Distinguished Professor of Physics of Mathematics Elizabeth Dodd, English Anthony Joern, Biology 1999 1964 E. Wayne Nafziger, Economics Dudley Williams, Regents Distinguished Professor 54 University Distinguished Professors of Physics Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars he Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars was created in 1995 to underscore Kansas State University’s commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching and learning. A faculty memberT acknowledged as a leading teaching scholar is appointed to the chair by the university’s provost and executive vice president for one academic year. All who hold the chair retain the title of University Distinguished Teaching Scholar throughout their careers. During the year in residence, the scholar’s time and resources are spent advancing the interests of undergraduate teaching and learning at the university. The honorees 2018-2019 2004-2005 Keith Hohn, Chemical Engineering Harald E.L. Prins, Anthropology 2017-2018 2003-2004 Todd Easton, Industrial and Manufacturing Andrew Barkley, Agricultural Economics Systems Engineering 2002-2003 2016-2017 Jana Fallin, Music Patricia Ackerman, Arts, Sciences and Business 2001-2002 2015-2016 Medhat M. Morcos, Electrical and Computer Donald Saucier, Psychological Sciences Engineering 2014-2015 2000-2001 Mick Charney, Architecture Stephen Thien, Agronomy 2013-2014 1999-2000 John Fliter Jr., Political Science Larry Williams, Biology 2012-2013 1998-1999 N. Sanjay Rebello, Physics Bryan Schurle, Agricultural Economics 2011-2012 1997-1998 Michael Wesch, Anthropology Ann Stalheim-Smith, Biology 2010-2011 1996-1997 Kimberly Williams, Horticulture Dean Zollman, Physics 2009-2010 1995-1996 Doug Benson, Modern Languages Cliff Meloan,Chemistry 2008-2009 Greg Eiselein, English 2007-2008 Christopher M. Sorensen, Physics 2006-2007 Roger McHaney, Management 2005-2006 Michael Boland, Agricultural Economics

Coffman Chair for University Teaching Scholars 55 University administration Kansas Board of Regents Program notes Richard B. Myers, President The Kansas Board of Regents is the governing The Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Charles S. Taber, Provost and Executive Vice President board of the state’s six universities and the statewide Teaching Awards are funded by the W.T. Kemper Cindy Bontrager, Vice President for Administration coordinating board for the state’s 32 public higher Foundation and the Commerce Bancshares and Finance education institutions — seven public universities, Foundation. Pat Bosco, Vice President for Student Life and Dean 19 community colleges and six technical colleges. of Students The president and CEO of the Kansas Board of The organ was supplied by Mid-America Piano, Peter Dorhout, Vice President for Research Regents is Blake Flanders. The following individuals Manhattan. Jeffery Morris, Vice President for Communications are members of the Board of Regents: and Marketing Terry Ferguson is the bagpiper for all ceremonies at Gary Pratt, Chief Information Officer Shane Bangerter, Dodge City Bramlage Coliseum and at Kansas State University Bryan Samuel, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Ann Brandau-Murguia, Kansas City Polytechnic Campus. Jay Stephens, Vice President for Human Capital Bill Feuerborn, Garnett Mark Hutton, Wichita If available, the hometowns of undergraduate Dennis Mullin, Manhattan students from Kansas are included in the listing of Academic divisions Dave Murfin,Wichita degree candidates. For students from out of state or Ernie Minton, Interim Dean, College of Agriculture; Allen Schmidt, Hays out of country, the hometown and state or country and Director, K-State Research and Extension Daniel Thomas, Mission Hills are included. Timothy de Noble, Dean, College of Architecture, Helen Van Etten, Topeka Planning & Design Amit Chakrabarti, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Commencement questions? Kevin Gwinner, Dean, College of Business Alumni membership If you have questions or comments about Administration All colleges have provided graduates with a commencement, please contact: Office of the Debbie Mercer, Dean, College of Education one-year membership to the K-State Alumni Provost and Executive Vice President, Kansas State Darren Dawson, Dean, College of Engineering Association. Graduates also will receive a gift University, 108 Anderson Hall, 919 Mid-Campus John Buckwalter, Dean, College of Human Ecology from the alumni association in recognition of their Drive North, Manhattan, KS 66506-0113, Alysia Starkey, Interim CEO and Dean, Kansas State graduation today. K-Staters are some of the most 785-532-6224, [email protected]. University Polytechnic Campus loyal alumni in the country, and we are excited to Bonnie Rush, Interim Dean, College of Veterinary welcome you into a new relationship with your alma Medicine mater. The K-State Alumni Association is your link Carol Shanklin, Dean, Graduate School for life to K-State. Learn more and stay connected Karen Pedersen, Dean, K-State Global Campus by visiting K-State.com. Lori A. Goetsch, Dean, K-State Libraries Ralph C. Richardson, CEO and Dean, K-State Olathe

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