August 2021 Commencement Graduate Commencement and Hooding Pinnacle Bank Arena August 13, 2021
Undergraduate Commencement Pinnacle Bank Arena August 14, 2021 Congratulations from the Chancellor
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 and August 2021. When you all first became Huskers, none of us would have anticipated these would be the circumstances under which we would be celebrating your accomplishment. You should be enormously proud of what you have achieved. Our university community is made up of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends who know what it means to be determined and resilient in the face of obstacles. We strive toward our goals by adapting and innovating. We reach out for help when we need it and support one another when we see someone who could use a helping hand. That is what we mean by “In Our Grit, Our Glory.” I could not be more proud of what you and all of our graduating students have accomplished during this unprecedented time of COVID-19. You have earned all the glory that comes with it! Commencement is a truly special time. As the first in my family to earn a college degree, I cherished my commencement ceremonies. I am overjoyed that we are once again able to conduct in-person ceremonies and continue our time-honored tradition of presenting your actual diploma on stage. It’s been an unforgettable past 15 months, and I hope the memories you take from this ceremony last forever, too. RONNIE D. GREEN, Ph.D. You are part of a historical graduating class. You’ll always hold a special place in the heart of this great land-grant university and for me as your chancellor. We believe in you and all you can do with your Nebraska degree!
Ronnie D. Green became the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s 20th chancellor on May 8, 2016. Green received bachelors and masters degrees in animal science from Virginia Tech and Colorado State University, respectively. His doctoral program was completed jointly at the University of Nebraska and the USDA-ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in animal breeding and genetics in 1988. Chancellor Green is married to UNL alumna Jane Green and they are the proud parents of four children, all graduates of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
2 Graduate Commencement & Hooding Friday, August 13, 2021 3:00 p.m.
THE COMMENCEMENT PROCESSION HOODING OF DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AND PRESENTATION OF 2021 AND 2020 WELCOME GRADUATES Ronnie D. Green, Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy Chancellor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Doctor of Education THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Doctor of Musical Arts Doctor of Plant Health Trey Christian Meyer, D.M.A. Degree Candidate CONFERRING OF MASTERS DEGREES GREETINGS AND PRESENTATION OF 2021 AND 2020 Steve Kolbe, B.S., Associate Professor, Johnny Carson GRADUATES School of Theatre and Film, Johnny Carson Center for Master of Applied Science Emerging Media Arts Master of Arts Batool Ibrahim, President of ASUN, Student Regent Master of Arts for Teachers Eric Rodene, President, Graduate Student Assembly Master of Business Administration Master of Education INTRODUCTIONS Master of Engineering Management Chancellor Green Master of Fine Arts Master of Music BOARD OF REGENTS GREETING Master of Professional Accountancy Paul R. Kenney, B.S., Chair, Board of Regents, Master of Science University of Nebraska Master of Architecture
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS ALUMNI CONGRATULATIONS “Angling for a better future—your degree, how it changes Shelley Zaborowski, M.Ed., Executive Director, you, how you change the world” Nebraska Alumni Association Daniel G. Linzell, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, F.SEI Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs, CLOSING REMARKS College of Engineering Chancellor Green Leslie D. Martin Professor, Department of Civil and RECESSIONAL Environmental Engineering
Baccalaureate degrees will be presented at a ceremony on August 14, 2021. Today’s Music Provided by: ORGANIST: Johnathan Ross UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FACULTY BRASS AND PERCUSSION: Scott Quackenbush, Tom Kelly, Alan Mattingly, Scott Anderson, Bo Atlas, Dave Hall Note to Guests: The audience will remain seated for both the Processional and Recessional and will rise for the National Anthem. Only official photographers are permitted in the area between the stage and the graduating class. The program lists all persons who were 2021 candidates for degrees as of August 6, 2021, and who have not requested exclusion from publication; as well as any 2020 graduate who selected to attend this commencement ceremony. * Handicap seating for guests is available in sections 106, 107, 110, 112, 114, 117 and 118 on the main concourse level of the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
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Dr. Daniel G. Linzell is the associate dean for Graduate and International Programs and the Leslie D. Martin Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). From August of 2013 to September of 2018, Dr. Linzell was the Voelte-Keegan Professor and Chair of UNLs Department of Civil Engineering. He was an assistant, associate and the inaugural John A. and Harriette K. Shaw Professor of Civil Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University from 1999-2013. The emphasis of Dr. Linzell’s research is structural engineering, with specific foci including response of building and bridge systems to extreme loads, specifically blast and impact; structural health monitoring; steel structures; the design and behavior of bridges during construction and under service loads; and advanced structural analysis. His research group has published over 100 peer-reviewed, archival journal articles and refereed conference papers and abstracts. He teaches courses in bridge engineering, steel design, structural analysis, infrastructure resiliency, and structural health monitoring. Dr. Linzell is chair of the Structural Stability Research Council; co-chair of the America Society of Civil Engineers (ASCEs) Innovation Contest; a DANIEL G. LINZELL member of the Transportation Research Board’s Steel Bridge Committee and ASCEs Committee on Student Conferences and Competitions; and sits on the Board of Directors and Steering Committee for the Engineering Change Lab – USA (ECL-USA). He is an ASCE Fellow, a Fellow of ASCEs Structural Engineering Institute and a licensed Professional Engineer in Georgia, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute and his B.S. in civil engineering from The Ohio State University.
4 Graduate Commencement Seating
STAGE FACULTY BRASS & PERCUSSION & ORGAN
DIGNITARIES FACULTY
2021 DOCTORAL 2021 MASTERS
2021 M ARCH
2020 MASTERS 2020 DOCTORAL
2020 M ARCH MARSHALS 2020 JD
Handicap seating for guests is available in sections 106, 107, 110, 112, 114, 117 and 118 on the main concourse level of the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
5 Honorary Degree Recipient Doctor of Humane Letters
Leta Powell Drake is a local TV pioneer, an American broadcaster, television producer, screenwriter and TV personality. As a single mother, Leta Powell Drake served as program director of KOLN-TV for 28 years, where she purchased and scheduled programs, served as a writer, program producer and on-air host as well as the public affairs director and director of children’s programming, talent development and sales. She hosted and produced the 10/11 Morning Show for 25 years and interviewed more than 1,000 movie and TV celebrities. She created the character Kalamity Kate on the children’s show “Cartoon Corral,” which she hosted and produced from 1967 to 1980. She also served as the assistant network program manager for Nebraska Public Television for 13 years and was the spokesperson for their fund drives and auctions. She has been inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame and Nebraska Press Women’s Hall of Fame. She is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild, having acted in more than 100 plays and two movies. She is a host of “Live & Learn,” a program for seniors on Lincoln’s City TV; and serves on numerous boards, including those of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, UNL Alumni Association and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Nebraska, where she has actively chaired the Arts and Special Events Committee. LETA POWELL DRAKE In 2020, Drake found herself becoming an Internet sensation when her numerous interviews of celebrities went viral. Noted for her blunt, In recognition of her extraordinary matter-of-fact style, she credits her interviewing success to the extensive achievements in the fields of broadcasting and homework she did. the theater; in honor of her leadership and A native of Duluth, Minnesota, Drake holds a bachelors degree in speech creative vision in television programming for and English from the University of Minnesota and a masters degree in all ages; in respect of her tireless work as an theatre arts from Nebraska. Her memoir is titled “The Calamities of advocate for the community; and in gratitude Kalamity Kate: A History of Nebraska’s Children’s TV Shows.” for her loyalty and lifetime of service to the State of Nebraska and her alma mater, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln confers upon Leta Powell Drake the honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters.
6 Undergraduate Commencement Saturday, August 14, 2021 9:00 a.m.
THE COMMENCEMENT PROCESSION PRESENTATION OF HONORARY DEGREE WELCOME COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Ronnie D. Green, Ph.D. “A Common Purpose” Chancellor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Ted Carter, B.S. President, University of Nebraska THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Elaina Matthews, Master of Music ’20 CONFERRRING OF DEGREES AND PRESENTATION OF 2021 AND 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA–LINCOLN GREETINGS GRADUATES Steve Kolbe, B.S., Associate Professor, Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, Johnny Carson Center for ALUMNI CONGRATULATIONS Emerging Media Arts Shelley Zaborowski, M.Ed., Executive Director, Batool Ibrahim, President of ASUN, Student Regent Nebraska Alumni Association
INTRODUCTIONS CLOSING REMARKS Chancellor Green Chancellor Green
BOARD OF REGENTS GREETING RECESSIONAL Paul R. Kenney, B.S., Chair, Board of Regents, University of Nebraska
Doctoral, Masters, and Professional degrees were presented at a ceremony on August 13, 2021.
Today’s Music Provided by: ORGANIST: Johnathan Ross UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FACULTY BRASS AND PERCUSSION: Scott Quackenbush, Tom Kelly, Alan Mattingly, Scott Anderson, Bo Atlas, Dave Hall Note to Guests: The audience will remain seated for both the Processional and Recessional and will rise for the National Anthem. Only official photographers are permitted in the area between the stage and the graduating class. The program lists all persons who were 2021 candidates for degrees as of August 6, 2021, and who have not requested exclusion from publication; as well as any 2020 graduate who selected to attend this commencement ceremony. * Handicap seating for guests is available in sections 106, 107, 110, 112, 114, 117 and 118 on the main concourse level of the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
7 Undergraduate Commencement Speaker
President Ted Carter leads a four-campus university system that enrolls nearly 52,000 students and employs 16,000 faculty and staff on campuses in Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney, plus academic divisions and research and extension centers across the state. Since becoming president in January 2020, he has focused on the land-grant priorities of access and opportunity for students and families. President Carter launched the Nebraska Promise, a financial aid program guaranteeing free tuition for low- and middle-income Nebraskans, and implemented a multi-year budget plan that included a two-year, across-the-board tuition freeze. The result was systemwide growth in enrollment, including record gains among underrepresented students. Before joining the university system, President Carter served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and president of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. A retired vice admiral with 38 years of service, he has logged more than 6,300 tactical jet flying hours and has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star. Carter earned his bachelors degree in physics and oceanography from the U.S. Naval Academy. He is also a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) and holds educational credentials from TED CARTER the Navy Nuclear Power School, Air Force Air War College, Naval War College and Armed Forces Staff College.
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STAGE FACULTY BRASS & PERCUSSION & ORGAN
DIGNITARIES DEANS FACULTY 2021 ARTS & SCIENCES CHANCELLOR’S SCHOLARS 2021 BUSINESS
2020 BUSINESS 2020 ARTS & SCIENCES 2021 PAC 2020 PUBLIC AFFAIRS & COMMUNITY SERVICE 2020 ARCHITECTURE
2021 AGRICULTURAL 2021 JOURNALISM & SCIENCES & NATURAL MASS COMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES 2020 JOURNALISM & 2020 AGRICULTURAL MASS COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCES & NATURAL RESOURCES 2021 EDUCATION & 2021 ENGINEERING HUMAN SCIENCES
2020 ENGINEERING 2020 EDUCATION & HUMAN SCIENCES 2021 FPA 2020 FINE & PERFORMING ARTS MARSHALS
Handicap seating for guests is available in sections 106, 107, 110, 112, 114, 117 and 118 on the main concourse level of the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
9 University Administration
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA–LINCOLN BOARD OF REGENTS ADMINISTRATION Paul R. Kenney, B.S., Chair Ronnie D. Green, Ph.D., Chancellor Robert A. Phares, B.A., Vice Chair Elizabeth A. Spiller, Ph.D., Executive Vice Chancellor for Timothy F. Clare, J.D. Academic Affairs Elizabeth R. O’Connor, J.D. Trev K. Alberts, B.A., Vice Chancellor, Director of James D. Pillen, D.V.M. Athletics Robert M. Schafer, J.D. Marco J. Barker, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Diversity Jack Stark, Ph.D. and Inclusion Barbara E. Weitz, M.P.A., M.S.W. Laurie H. Bellows, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Maeve Hemmer, University of Nebraska at Omaha Michael J. Boehm, Ph.D., Vice President for Agriculture Batool Ibrahim, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Natural Resources, and Harlan Vice Chancellor for Taylor Kratochvil, University of Nebraska Medical Center the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Noah Limbach, University of Nebraska at Kearney Deb S. Fiddelke, M.A., Chief Communication and Marketing Officer UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA ADMINISTRATION Jacob Johnson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate to the Chancellor for Ted Carter, B.S., President Institutional Equity and Compliance Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., Executive Vice President and William J. Nunez, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Business Provost, Dean of the Graduate College and Finance Heath M. Mello, B.A., Vice President for External Heath V. Tuttle, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer Relations Michelle R. Waite, M.L.S., Assistant to the Chancellor for Christopher J. Kabourek, M.B.A., Vice President for Government and Military Relations Business and Finance and Chief Financial Officer Robert G. Wilhelm, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research Philip J. Bakken, M.B.A., Chief of Staff and Corporation and Economic Development Secretary Shelley M. Zaborowski, M.Ed., Executive Director of Stacia L. Palser, J.D., Vice President and General Counsel Nebraska Alumni Association Bret R. Blackman, B.S., Vice President for Information Michael J. Zeleny, M.B.A., Chief of Staff and Associate to Technology the Chancellor Michael J. Boehm, Ph.D., Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
10 UNIVERSITY DEANS UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT & Katherine S. Ankerson, M.Arch., Dean of the College RECOGNITION COMMITTEE of Architecture Vanessa B. Gorman, Ph.D., College of Arts and John Bartle, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Public Affairs Sciences, Chair and Community Service (UNO) Scott L. Anderson, D.M.A., Hixson-Lied College of Fine Mark E. Button, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts and Performing Arts and Sciences Eva Bachman, Ph.D., Office of Graduate Studies Timothy P. Carr, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor and Steven R. Booton, M.A., Office of the University Registrar Dean of Graduate Education Kelli Britten, M.A., College of Journalism and Mass Archie C. Clutter, Ph.D., Dean and Director of the Communications Agricultural Research Division Tamy Burnett, Ph.D., University Honors Program Kathy A. Farrell, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Business Terri A. Eastin, Office of Graduate Studies Amy M. Goodburn, Ph.D., Senior Associate Vice Scott M. Fuess, Jr., Ph.D., College of Business Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education Robert J. Gorman, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Tiffany Heng-Moss, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Scott E. Krienert, B.A., Office of the University Registrar Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Ming Li, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Sherri M. Jones, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education Gail A. Meyer, M.S., Office of the University Registrar and Human Sciences Melanie S. Nunez, M.B.A., Office of the Chancellor Richard E. Moberly, J.D., Dean of the College of Law Megan Patel, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Charles D. O’Connor, M.F.A., Dean of the Hixson-Lied Student Affairs College of Fine and Performing Arts Kelsey R. Sims, M.S., Office of Graduate Studies Lance C. Pérez, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Engineering Corrie J. Svehla, Information Technology Services Claire Stewart, M.L.I.S., Dean of University Libraries Ann M. Tschetter, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences David Varner, Ph.D., Interim Dean and Director of Nebraska Extension Annette M. Wetzel, M.A., Office of the Chancellor Shari R. Veil, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Journalism and Brad Woodruff, Th.M., Office of the University Registrar Mass Communications Shelley Zaborowski, M.Ed., Nebraska Alumni Association Michael J. Zeleny, M.B.A., Office of the Chancellor FACULTY SENATE PRESIDENT Steve Kolbe, B.S., Associate Professor, Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSEMBLY (GSA) Eric Rodene, President
ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (ASUN) Batool Ibrahim, President, Student Regent
11 THE UNIVERSITY MARSHAL CORPS Vanessa Gorman, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences HEAD MARSHAL Jemalyn Griffin, M.A., College of Journalism and Mass Robert Gorman, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Communications Michael Hebert, Ph.D., College of Education and HEAD MARSHALS EMERITI Human Sciences Patrice M. Berger, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Marybeth Helmink, M.S., College of Arts and Sciences Roger W. Mandigo, Ph.D., College of Agricultural Sciences Vicki Highstreet, M.P.E., Campus Recreation and Natural Resources Steve Hu, Ph.D., College of Agricultural Sciences and ASSOCIATE HEAD MARSHALS Natural Resources Scott M. Fuess, Jr., Ph.D., College of Business Qing Hui, Ph.D., College of Engineering Ann Tschetter, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Elina Ibrayeva, Ph.D., College of Business Tamy Burnett, Ph.D., University Honors Program Dane Kiambi, Ph.D., College of Journalism and Mass ASSISTANT MARSHALS Communications Herita Akamah, Ph.D., College of Business Christine Kiewra, M.A., College of Education and Jena Asgarpoor, Ph.D., College of Engineering Human Sciences Stacy Asher, M.F.A., Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Ann Koopmann, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Performing Arts Tony Lazarowicz, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Tammy Beck, Ph.D., College of Business Amy Lester, M.A., College of Business Dirk Black, Ph.D., College of Business Lorraine M. Males, Ph.D., College of Education and Nicole Blackstock, A.A., College of Journalism and Mass Human Sciences Communications Chad Mardesen, M.B.A., College of Business Kara Brant, M.S., College of Arts and Sciences Julia McQuillan, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Kelli Britten, M.A., College of Journalism and Mass Carly Morse, M.A., College of Journalism and Mass Communications Communications Marianna Burks, M.S., College of Arts and Sciences Shane Moser, Ph.D., College of Business Nilovna Chatterjee, Ph.D., College of Agricultural Sciences Majid Nabavi, Ph.D., College of Engineering and Natural Resources Yunwoo Nam, Ph.D., College of Architecture Nathan Conner, Ph.D., College of Agricultural Sciences Siamak Nejati, Ph.D., College of Engineering and Natural Resources Wendy O’Connor, M.S.Ed., College of Arts and Sciences Eddie Dominguez, M.F.A., Hixson-Lied College of Fine Doug Pellatz, B.A., College of Arts and Sciences and Performing Arts Charles Riedesel, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Patrick Dussault, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Shannon Rowen, M.A., SHRM-SCP, CHE, College of Alex Fernando, B.S., B.Journ., College of Journalism and Education and Human Sciences Mass Communications Kelli Saunders, Ph.D., College of Business Mikil Foss, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Mackenzie Savaiano, Ph.D., College of Education and Andrea Gaghagen, B.A., College of Journalism and Mass Human Sciences Communications Kris Scanlon, B.Journ., College of Journalism William V. Glider, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences Joanna Seley, M.A., College of Arts and Sciences
12 Jennifer Sheppard, M.A., College of Journalism and Mass HUSKERVISION Communications The Commencement Committee thanks the staff of Rob Simon, M.B.A., College of Business HuskerVision. Janice Stauffer, M.F.A., Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts NEBRASKA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Scott Swenseth, Ph.D., College of Business The Commencement Committee thanks the staff of the Susan Vagts, F.S.A., College of Business Nebraska Alumni Association and their volunteers for assisting with the commencement ceremony. Alexander Vazansky, Ph.D., College of Arts and Sciences For information on joining the Nebraska Alumni Kara Viesca, Ph.D., College of Education and Human Association, go to www.huskeralum.org. Sciences Elyse Watson, B.S., College of Agricultural Sciences and PHOTOGRAPHY Natural Resources Photographs of each student receiving their diploma will Jiujiu Yu, Ph.D., College of Education and Human Sciences be available to view and order within 48-72 hours after the ceremony. To order, go to www.gradimages.com. THE AMERICAN RED CROSS For additional help, call Grad Images Customer The Commencement Committee thanks the volunteers Service Department at 800-261-2576 or email giservice@ from the American Red Cross for staffing the first aid gradimages.net. station during the ceremony.
VOLUNTEERS Thank you to the many faculty, staff and friends of the University that devoted their energy and time to ensure graduates received their degrees today and families were able to join in-person and online for the celebration.
13 Doctoral Degrees Graduate College Marcus Vinícius Barbosa, Lincoln; Modern Languages and Literatures—Dissertation: Como Aguja Imantada: All degrees are University of Nebraska Degrees Testimonio Y El Proyecto Revolucionario En America Latina Presented by Dean Timothy Carr (1970-1989). Advised by Professor Isabel Velazquez. Henry Philip Bass, Springfield, IL; Psychological Studies in DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Education—Dissertation: The Effectiveness of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation on Student Outcomes in Rural Fitsum Fekadeselassie Abebe, Urbana, IL; Educational Communities: A Follow-Up Study. Advised by Professor Studies—Dissertation: Preservice Teachers’ Technological Susan Sheridan. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Self-Efficacy and Development in K-6 Math. Advised by Professor Amanda Baligh Ben Taleb, Lincoln; History—Dissertation: Reckoning Thomas and Professor Guy Trainin. with the Legacy of U.S. Settler Colonialism: Treaty Claims and the Western Shoshone Quest for Justice. Advised by Professor Afsana Ahamed, Russellville, AR; Electrical Engineering— Margaret Jacobs. Dissertation: Improving Routing Protocols to Enhance QoS in VANET. Advised by Professor Hamid Vakilzadian. Maria B. Benes, Lincoln; Political Science—Dissertation: Wading Through Water Networks: Lessons Learned at Aziza N. Al Zadjali, Muscat, Oman; Computer Science— the International, Regional, and Local Levels. Advised by Dissertation: Using Contextual Bandits to Improve Traffic Professor Patrice McMahon. Performance in EDGE Network. Advised by Professor Jitender Deogun. Angela Ruth Bolen, La Vista; History—Dissertation: The Virago Paradigm of Female Sanctity: Constructing the Masculine Danielle Lynn Alesi, Lincoln; History—Dissertation: Woman in Medieval Christianity. Advised by Professor Consuming Empire: Eating Animals in the Early Modern Jessica Coope. Atlantic World, 1492-1630. Advised by Professor Amy Burnett and Professor Julia Schleck. Cameron J. Borgholthaus, Edwardsville, IL; Business— Dissertation: Three Essays on the Consequences of CEO Mashael Altwijri, Lincoln; Human Sciences—Dissertation: Personality. Advised by Professor Jonathan O’Brien. A Mixed Method Approach to Investigate the Associations Between Saudi Parenting Behavior and Their Preschoolers’ Nicole Christine Bricko, Omaha; Psychological Studies in Self-Regulation. Advised by Professor Holly Hatton-Bowers. Education—Dissertation: Examining the Efficacy of an Intervention Package Delivered Via an Online Learning Tool Nancy A. Anderson, Lincoln; Psychological Studies in to Improve Prerequisite Algebra Skill Fluency. Advised by Education—Dissertation: Test Validity Theory and Practice: Professor Edward Daly III. An Examination of Their Intersection Over Time in Manuals of Commercially Published Tests. Advised by Professor Brandi Jade Brown, Papillion; Biological Engineering— Kurt Geisinger. Dissertation: Efficient Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production by Rhodopseudomonas Palustris From Lignocellulosic Biomass. Eric David Anttila, Lincoln; Engineering—Dissertation: Advised by Professor Mark Wilkins and Professor Towards Experimental and Computational Investigations of Rajib Saha. Balloon Angioplasty and Stenting in Human Femoropopliteal Arteries. Advised by Professor Alexey Kamenskiy. Ella May Burnham, Spencer, IA; Statistics—Dissertation: Factors Influencing Student Outcomes in a Large, Online James Eugene Baker, Lincoln; Geography—Dissertation: For Simulation-Based Introductory Statistics Course. Advised by Meeting Up Again: Getting Stuck and Unstuck in Time-Spaces Professor Erin Blankenship. of COVID-19. Advised by Professor David Wishart and Professor Christina Dando. Robert Arthur Byrom, Jr., Logan, UT; Psychological Studies in Education—Dissertation: Exploring Supervisor Experiences of Hope in Clinical Supervision: A Phenomenological Approach. Advised by Professor Michael Scheel.
14 Timothy James Cook, West Oneonta, NY; English— Haolin Fu, Anyang, China; Business—Dissertation: The Dissertation: The Discrepant Strain: H.D. and the American Relationship Between Job Attitudes and Subjective Well- Epic Poetic Tradition. Advised by Professor Roland Vegso Being. Advised by Professor Janet Near. and Professor Stephen Buhler. Montserrat Fuente Camacho, Lincoln; Modern Languages and Reilly Cooper, Lincoln; Biological Sciences—Dissertation: Literatures—Dissertation: Repensando La Discapacidad En Unraveling Effects of the Microbiome on Host Fitness in the Espana Y Latino America: La Produccion Cultural Hispanica Keystone Zooplankton Daphnia Magna. Advised by Professor De Autores/as Con Diversidad Funcional En Los Siglos XX Y Clayton Cressler. XXI. Advised by Professor Iker Gonzalez-Allende. Ethan Allan Davis, Lincoln; Mechanical Engineering and Christopher Lee Furbee, Swansea, MA; Educational Studies— Applied Mechanics—Dissertation: Toward an Understanding Dissertation: Didatic Physician Assistant Education in Light of Fundamental Mechanisms in Transitional and Turbulence of SARS-CoV-2. Perceptions of PA Program Directors on the Flow Control. Advised by Professor Jae Sung Park. Use of an Online Curriculum: Has the Thinking Evolved?. Justine Marie Diener O’Leary, Wilmington, NC; Psychological Advised by Professor Marilyn Grady. Studies in Education—Dissertation: Power, Privilege, and Marlene Faye Grayer-Chisulo, Elkhorn; Educational Studies— Fraternity Men’s Perceptions of Sex and Sexual Violence: Dissertation: Brilliant, Better, Best: Teaching to Affirm a A Phenomenological Study. Advised by Professor Neeta Positive Racial Mathematics Identity. Advised by Professor Kantamneni. Edmund Hamann. Haluk Dogan, Marietta, GA; Computer Science—Dissertation: Nicole E. Green, Lincoln; English—Dissertation: Getting Our Representing Relationships Between Variables from Discrete, Act(ivism) Together: Understanding and Fostering Secondary Continuous and Mixed Data with Graphical Models. Advised and University Teacher Advocacy Collaborations. Advised by by Professor Juan Cui and Professor Stephen Scott. Professor Debbie Minter. William James Echtenkamp, Lincoln; Physics and Ahmed Humood Haddadi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Psychological Astronomy—Dissertation: Voltage Controlled Magetization Studies in Education—Dissertation: To D or Not to D: Some in Chromia Based Magnetic Heterostructures. Advised by Methodological and Estimation Perspectives on the D-Scoring Professor Christian Binek. Method of Measurement. Advised by Professor Kurt Boone Wayne Evans, Lincoln; Chemistry—Dissertation: Geisinger. I. Applications of Cyclobutenes as Click Reagents; II. Daniel Jacob Haden, Lincoln; Physics and Astronomy— Investigations of Modified Fatty Acids as Potential Dissertation: Research and Applications of High-Intensity- Antimycobacterials; III. Investigations into Photoredox Laser-Driven Radiation. Advised by Professor Donald Activation of Perioxides Using New Alkoxy Radical Clocks. Umstadter. Advised by Professor Patrick Dussault. Zeynep Mutlu Hakguder, Lincoln; Computer Science— Stephen Francis Fahey, Papillion; Engineering—Dissertation: Dissertation: High Dimensional Data Modeling using Novel Techniques for Improved Performance of Dynamic Graphical Models. Advised by Professor Stephen Scott and Differential Frequency Hopping Under Partial Band Jamming. Professor Juan Cui. Advised by Professor Lim Nguyen. Trenton Matthews Haltom, Lubbock, TX; Sociology— Sarah Marie Fischer, Baltimore, MD; Psychology— Dissertation: Cover Guys: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Dissertation: Approaches For and Barriers to the Long-Term Representations of Men’s Bodies in Popular Magazines for Execution of a Recovery-Oriented Rehabilitation Model of Men. Advised by Professor Kelsy Burke and Professor Treatment in a Community Day Psychiatric Rehabilitation Kristen Olson. Setting. Advised by Professor William Spaulding. Erin Elizabeth Hamel, Athens, GA; Human Sciences— Julia Roehling Flanigan, Statesboro, GA; Educational Studies— Dissertation: Exploring Non-Contact Time in Early Childhood Dissertation: Evaluating the Effects of a Reader Perspective- Education. Advised by Professor Rachel Schachter. Taking Instructional Strategy on the Descriptive Writing AbdelMalek Hammami, Lincoln; Agricultural Economics— Performance of Children with a Specific Learning Disability. Dissertation: Two Essays on U.S. Imports of Olive Oil. Advised by Professor Michael Hebert. Advised by Professor John Beghin.
15 Guanhua Hao, Xi’an, China; Physics and Astronomy— Siavash Jafarzadeh, Lincoln; Mechanical Engineering Dissertation: Manipulation of Spin Crossover Phenomenon in and Applied Mechanics—Dissertation: Novel and Fast an Fe (II) Molecular Complex and Application to Molecular Peridynamic Models for Material Degradation and Failure. Spintronics. Advised by Professor Peter Dowben. Advised by Professor Florin Bobaru. Sela Rose Harcey, Crete; Sociology—Dissertation: Measuring Nan Jiang, Hangzhou, China; Engineering—Dissertation: Social Integration: Linking Personal and Associational Ties in Power Efficient Virtual Reality Streaming.Advised by Ego Networks. Advised by Professor Jeffrey Smith. Professor Lisong Xu and Professor Sheng Wei. Katherine Pearl Hazen, Hudson, MA; Psychology— Boyuan Jin, Ramsey, MN; Electrical Engineering— Dissertation: Procedural Justice and Identity: Comparing Dissertation: Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity Based Evaluations of Police-Civilian Interactions. Advised by on Metamaterials and its Applications in Self-Induced Professor Eve Brank. Nonreciprocal Devices. Advised by Professor Christos Rita Ann Cihlar Hermann, Omaha; Educational Studies— Argyropoulos. Dissertation: Fragmentary Seeking Wholeness: A Personal Brigette Corder Kampfe, Harrison, AR; Biological Sciences— Narrative of Teacher Education. Advised by Professor Dissertation: Immunogen Design for Influenza Virus Elaine Chan. Vaccines. Advised by Professor Eric Weaver. Kenneth Neal Hipp, Lincoln; Chemistry—Dissertation: Yashu Kang, Zhangshu, China; Civil Engineering— Advancements in Self-Assembled Monolayer-Based Sensing Dissertation: Data and Algorithmic Modeling Approaches in and Surface Modification Technologies.Advised by Professor Crash Analysis. Advised by Professor Aemal Khattak. Rebecca Lai. Reha Karadag, Cracow, MA, Poland; Business—Dissertation: Natalie Rose Holt, Louisville, KY; Psychology—Dissertation: Strategic Resource Decay: The Overlooked Endogenous Development of a Minority Stress Preventive Intervention Threat. Advised by Professor Laura Poppo. for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth and Young Adults. Shahab Karimifard, Lincoln; Civil Engineering—Dissertation: Advised by Professor Debra Hope. Effects of Biofilms on the Flow and Colloid Transport in Eric James Hopkins, Nixa, MO; Mathematics—Dissertation: Porous Media Inside Microfluidic Channels.Advised by N-Fold Matrix Factorizations. Advised by Professor Professor Yusong Li and Professor Xu Li. Mark Walker. Shayan Kaviani, Lincoln; Chemical and Biomolecular Erica Nicole Hopkins, Nixa, MO; Mathematics—Dissertation: Engineering—Dissertation: Oxidative Chemical Vapor Free Complexes Over the Exterior Algebra with Small Deposition of Conjugulated Polymers: Electroactive Organic Homology. Advised by Professor Mark Walker and Professor Thin Films. Advised by Professor Hendrik Viljoen and Alexander Seceleanu. Professor Siamak Nejati. Elnazsadat Hosseiniaghdam, Lincoln; Agronomy and Badri Khanal, Nawalparasi, Nepal; Agricultural Economics— Horticulture—Dissertation: Quantifying the Combined Effect Dissertation: Essays on the Designs and Benefits of Land of Abiotic Factors on the Decomposition of Organic Matter Conservation Programs. Advised by Professor Karina in Semiarid Grasslands Soils. Advised by Professor Martha Schoengold. Mamo and Professor Haishun Yang. Ufuk Kilic, Istanbul, Turkey; Electrical Engineering— Yifeng Hu, Nanjing, China; Architectural Engineering— Dissertation: Optoplasmonic Properties of Heterostructure Dissertation: Development and Demonstration of a Method Metamaterials Fabricated Using Glancing Angle and Atomic to Determine Residential Air-Conditioning System Fault Layer Deposition Techniques & Analyzed Using Finite Prevalence. Advised by Professor David Yuill. Element and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Methods. Advised by Mohammad Mazharul Islam, Pabna, Bangladesh; Chemical Professor Mathias Schubert. and Biomolecular Engineering—Dissertation: Metabolic Annie Jean Krueger, Lincoln; Entomology—Dissertation: Modeling and Omics-Integrative Analysis of Single and Multi- Toxicology of Chemical Stress to Monarch Butterflies (Danaus Organism Systems: Discovery and Redesign. Advised by plexippus L.). Advised by Professor Troy Anderson. Professor Rajib Saha.
16 Xinwei Liu, Dalian, China; Music—Dissertation: Student Amir Monemianesfahani, Lincoln; Engineering—Dissertation: Engagement in Higher Music Education with Online Learning A Single Cell Pair Mechanical Interrogation Platform to Study Components: A Mixed Methods Case Study. Advised by Cell-Cell Adhesion Mechanics. Advised by Professor Professor Rhonda Fuelberth. Ruiguo Yang. Vincent Frederick Longo, Lincoln; Mathematics—Dissertation: Kaitlyn Marie Mosher, Austin, TX; Psychological Studies Results on Nonorientable Surfaces for Knots and 2-knots. in Education—Dissertation: An Evaluation of a Kindness Advised by Professor Alex Zupan and Professor Mark Intervention on Bullying and Related Outcomes. Advised by Brittenham. Professor Susan Swearer. David Michael Mabie, Lincoln; Biological Engineering— Seyed Mohammadsina Mousavi, Omaha; Civil Engineering— Dissertation: Assessment of the Effects of Airflow Conditions Dissertation: Multi-Physical Analysis of Thermal, Hydraulic, Related to Hop Drying. Advised by Professor David Jones Mechanical, and Bio-Chemical (THMB/C) Coupled Processes and Professor Michael Kocher. in a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill.Advised by Professor Mitchell Steven Maguire, Lincoln; Biological Engineering— Jongwan Eun. Dissertation: Leveraging Unmanned Aerial System Remote Philma Glora Muthuraj, Nagercoil, India; Nutrition— Sensing to Inform Energy and Water Balance Models For Dissertation: Protective Role of Palmitoleate Against Zika Spatial Soil Water Content Monitoring and Irrigation Virus-Induced Apoptosis in Placental Trophoblasts. Advised Management. Advised by Professor Christopher Neale and by Professor Sathish Kumar Natarajan. Professor Wayne Woldt. Deepak Nadig Anantha, Lafayette, IN; Engineering— Miras Mamirov, Shymkent, Kazakhstan; Civil Engineering— Dissertation: Application-Awareness in Softwarized Dissertation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Recycled Concrete Networks: Building Intelligent Networks Through Application Aggregate (RCA) Characteristics and Effective Use of RCA and Network-Layer Collaboration. Advised by Professor Characteristics in Concrete Mixture Design. Advised by Byrav Ramamurthy. Professor Jiong Hu. George David Nasr, Newbury Park, CA; Mathematics— Adolfo Amadeus Martin, Cambridge, MA; Mathematics— Dissertation: A Combinatorial Formula for Kazhdan-Lusztig Dissertation: Curved BGG Correspondence. Advised by Polynomials of Sparse Paving Matroids. Advised by Professor Professor Mark Walker. Jamie Radcliffe. Ali Jamal Mazaltarim, Lincoln; Chemistry—Dissertation: Alison Kathryn O’Toole, Lincoln; Political Science— Harnessing Surface Chemistry and Instabilities in Silicone Dissertation: Navigating Non-Physical Borders: An Elastomers to Synthesize Adaptive Systems with Mechanically Examination of the Boundaries of Exclusion and Ideas About Tunable Surface Properties and Functionality. Advised by Inclusion of Immigrants in American Communities. Advised Professor Stephen Morin. by Professor Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Anastasios Mazis, Arta, Greece; Natural Resource Sciences— Yu Pan, Chengdu, China; Computer Science—Dissertation: Dissertation: Application of Proximal and Remote Sensing 3D Tracking and Analysis on Multivariate Time Varying Methods for Estimating Important Morphological and Scientific Data.Advised by Professor Hongfeng Yu. Ecophysiological Plant Traits. Advised by Professor Aryamav Pattnaik, Lincoln; Integrative Biomedical Sciences— Tala Awada. Dissertation: Development of Vaccines and Antivirals against Alana Kay MillerMacPhee, Los Lunas, NM; Sociology— Zika Virus. Advised by Professor Fernando Osorio. Dissertation: Immigration Advocacy in the Midwest: Taylor Elise Petty, Huntingburg, IN; Psychology—Dissertation: Organizations in Coalition and Contention. Advised by Victim or Offender? The Response to Sexually Exploited Professor Kelsy Burke. Minors. Advised by Professor Richard Wiener. Jessica Lea Minnick, Folkston, GA; Chemistry—Dissertation: Marketa Podebradska, Prague, Czech Republic; Natural Investigation of Carbohydrate Isomers Through Ion Mobility Resource Sciences—Dissertation: Developing a Method for Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry. Advised by Professor Eric Timely Estimates of Annual Forage Production to Inform Dodds and Professor Jiantao Guo. Drought Decision Making. Advised by Professor Michael Hayes.
17 Fray Francisco Pozo-Lora, Omaha; Engineering—Dissertation: Nawaraj Shrestha, Dhulikhel, Nepal; Natural Resource Flexural & Bond Performance of Pre-Tensioned Beams Sciences—Dissertation: Understanding Lake Dynamics and Reinforced with 1.125-Inch Diameter Prestreessing Strands. Redcedar Encroachment in the Nebraska Sand Hills: A Remote Advised by Professor Marc Maguire. Sensing and Modelling Perspective. Advised by Professor Emily Jane Rau, Lincoln; English—Dissertation: Jumping the Aaron Mittelstet. Tracks: The Railroad in American Literature. Advised by Kyle Robert Siddoway, Salem, OR; Psychology—Dissertation: Professor Melissa Homestead. Targeted Violence on Campus: A Comparison of Exposure Flavia Ribeiro Furtado De Mendonca, Astolfo Dutra, and Response to Bias and Otherwise Motivated Potential Pre- Brazil; Civil Engineering—Dissertation: Development Incident Behavior on a College Campus. Advised by Professor and Evaluation of an Innovative Cementitious Composite Mario Scalora. Material Inspired by the Microstructure of Bones. Advised by Brianna Charise Smith, Omaha; Music—Dissertation: Professor Jiong Hu. Interpersonal Practices in Individualized Voice Teaching: Jaala Arlene Robinson, San Jose, CA; Sociology—Dissertation: A Mixed-Method Study of Pedagogical Similarities and Housework: Socialization Influences on Individual Differences Between Teachers of Singing and Speech- Performance, Couple Division of Labor and Mental Health. Language Pathologists. Advised by Professor Kevin Advised by Professor Christina Falci and Professor Hanrahan. Jeffrey Smith. Carmen Sylvia Smith, Lincoln; English—Dissertation: Almost Bikash Ranjan Sahoo, Jagatsinghapur, India; Integrative Speechless: Representations of Womanhood and Female Biomedical Sciences—Dissertation: Host Cell Responses to Voices in Turn-of-the-Century American Novels. Advised by Zika Virus Infection. Advised by Professor Asit Pattnaik and Professor Melissa Homestead. Professor Rodrigo Franco Cruz. Luz del Rosario Sotelo, Pharr, TX; Mechanical Engineering Jaspreet Kaur Sandhu, Lincoln; Agronomy and Horticulture— and Applied Mechanics—Dissertation: Ultrasonic Dissertation: Molecular and Physiological Characterization Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring in Metal of Rice (Oryza Sativa) Seed Development Under Heat Stress. and Hybrid Additive Manufacturing. Advised by Professor Advised by Professor Harkamal Walia. Joseph Turner. Sunandita Sarker, Omaha; Mechanical Engineering and Cameron Scott Steele, Lincoln; English—Dissertation: No Easy Applied Mechanics—Dissertation: Ingestible Capsules Way Out. A Memoir of Interruption. Advised by Professor for Extended Retention and Systemic Delivery of Joy Castro. Macromolecular Drugs in the Small Intestine. Advised by Liangrui Sun, Carmel, IN; Statistics—Dissertation: Empirical Professor Benjamin Terry. and Variational Bayesian Methods in High Dimensional Data Sean Daniel Scanlon, Lincoln; History—Dissertation: Analysis. Advised by Professor Yawen Guan and Professor ‘Inherently Tender and Prone to Crisis:’ U.S.-Israeli Relations, Qi Zhang. 1974-1989. Advised by Professor Thomas Borstelmann. Elham Tavakoli, Lincoln; Engineering—Dissertation: Novel Wheaton Lane Schroeder, Lincoln; Chemical and Biomolecular Pathways to Synthesize Organic-Inorganic Polymers with Engineering—Dissertation: Creation and Application of Controlled Characteristics. Advised by Professor Li Tan and Various Tools for the Reconstruction, Curation, and Analysis Professor Siamak Nejati. of Genome-Scale Models of Metabolism. Advised by Professor Tamrat Zelalem Teshome, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Human Rajib Saha. Sciences—Dissertation: Adverse Childhood Experiences at Rachel Elizabeth Schumacher, Lincoln; Psychological Studies the Family and Neighborhood Levels and Their Longitudinal in Education—Dissertation: Starting School Socially and Impact on Adolescent Depression: Mediation Analyses With Behaviorally Ready: The Impacts of Malleable Home and Parenting Stress and Parenting Quality. Advised by Professor School-Based Relationships and Community Setting. Advised Jeong-Kyun Choi. by Professor Susan Sheridan. Herbert Lytel Thompson III, Bellevue; Human Sciences— Ajay Shankar, Kottayam, India; Computer Science— Dissertation: Making Sense of Inclusive Leadership in Dissertation: Enabling In-Air Interactions For Aerial Public Higher Education: An Interpretive Phenomenological Vehicles. Advised by Professor Carrick Detweiler and Analysis. Advised by Professor Gina Matkin. Professor Sebastian Elbaum.
18 Jessie Jo Tibbs, Oklahoma City, OK; Psychology—Dissertation: DOCTOR OF EDUCATION Alcohol Use and History of Traumatic Brain Injury in College Wendy Jo Kemling-Horner, Scottsbluff; Educational Students: An Analysis of Neuropsychological and Behavioral Administration—Dissertation: Organizational Supports and Factors. Advised by Professor Dennis McChargue. School Climates. Advised by Professor Jiangang Xia. Ashley Rae Mulcahy Toney, Lincoln; Human Sciences— Christine Cathrine Olsen, Omaha; Educational Studies— Dissertation: From Bench to Community: Addressing Health Dissertation: Cooperative Group Work in a Fifth Grade Disparities by Investigating Host Metabolic Benefits of Red Mathematics Classroom: Impacts on Equity Through Raspberry Polyphenols and Understanding the Macrosystem Strategic Engagement Structures. Advised by Professor Level of Influence on Community Health Worker Amanda Thomas. Effectiveness.Advised by Professor Virginia Chaidez and Mary Elizabeth Pollema, Sioux Center, IA; Educational Professor Amanda Ramer-Tait. Studies—Dissertation: An Ethnographic Interpretation of Melanie Dawn Trenhaile Grannemann, Wahoo; Animal Latino Perspectives on Family Engagement in Education. Science—Dissertation: Quantification and Repeated Advised by Professor John Raible. Measurements of Conformation Traits in Replacement Females to Optimize Sow Longevity. Advised by Professor Benny Mote. DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS Lindsay Upperman, Chambersburg, PA; Animal Science— Seung Kyung Baek, Chicago, IL; Music—Dissertation: Dissertation: Estimation of Breed Effects and Genetic Exploring the Eclectic Piano Works of Mathew Fuerst. Parameters for Age at Slaughter and Days to Finish in a Advised by Professor Mark Clinton. Multibreed Beef Cattle Population. Advised by Professor Kiya Fife, Rupert, ID; Music—Dissertation: Prairie Land, Matthew Spangler. Prairie Heart, & Prairie Spirit: An Introductory Analysis Trace Cameron Vardsveen, Lincoln; Psychology—Dissertation: and Performance Guide of Gwyneth Walker’s Prairie Songs. What’s Reasonable? Testing the Reasonable Officer Standard Advised by Professor Jamie Reimer Seaman. in Fourth Amendment Civil Liability Police Excessive Force Anne Elizabeth Gray, Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: A Cases. Advised by Professor Richard Wiener. Performance Guide to Tammy Miller’s Learning to...A Song Alyssa Nicole Whittemore, Lincoln; Mathematics— Cycle on the Experience of Grief in Five Poems by Mary Oliver. Dissertation: Bootstrap Percolation on Random Geometric Advised by Professor William Shomos. Graphs. Advised by Professor Xavier Perez Gimenez. Patrick Edward McNally, Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: Dongyue Xie, Lincoln; Engineering—Dissertation: Micro- The Gambler’s Son: A Performance Companion Guide of Structure and Mechanical Properties of FeCrAl Alloys Under Dr. Tyler Goodrich White’s Opera. Advised by Professor Extreme Environment. Advised by Professor Jian Wang. William Shomos. Jiaqi Xu, Lincoln; Statistics—Dissertation: Statistical Arbitrage Katie Lynne Mersch, Overland Park, KS; Music—Dissertation: in Momentum and Pairs Trading by Machine Learning Stories Retold: Exploring Real-Life Stories Through an Models and Copulas. Advised by Professor Stephen Analysis of William Vollinger’s Art Songs for Lyric Soprano Kachman. and Piano. Advised by Professor Anthony Bushard and Professor Kathleen Butler. Mohammadreza Yavari, Lincoln; Engineering—Dissertation: Thermal Modeling in Metal Additive Manufacturing Using Trey Christian Meyer, Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: A Graph Theory. Advised by Professor Prahalada Rao. Contemporary Adaptation of America’s Musical Heritage: The American Folk Set by Steven Mark Kohn. Advised by Dongdong Zhang, Lincoln; Biochemistry—Dissertation: Professor William Shomos. Characterization of Sphingolipid Biosynthesis and Modification in Plants.Advised by Professor Edgar Cahoon. DOCTOR OF PLANT HEALTH Lindsay Marie Overmyer, Lincoln; Plant Health—Dissertation: The Importance of Communication Skills to Independent Crop Consultants. Advised by Professor Gary Hein.
19 Specialist Degrees Graduate College All degrees are University of Nebraska Degrees Dean Timothy Carr
EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST Madison Bray Atwater, Birmingham, AL—Educational Psychology Kailee Shae Groshans, Lincoln—Educational Psychology Barbara Racine, Livingston, MT—Educational Psychology Jeffrey Allen Tlamka, Lincoln—Educational Psychology
20 Masters Degrees Graduate College Kaitlynn Julianna Dykman, Fenton, MO—Modern Languages and Literatures All degrees are University of Nebraska Degrees Christopher Gale Etheredge, Lincoln—Modern Languages Presented by Dean Timothy Carr and Literatures Montserrat Fuente Camacho, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning MASTER OF APPLIED SCIENCE and Teacher Education Matthew Allan Gress, Nebraska City—Teaching, Learning Andrew Adolph Carl, Papillion—Applied Science and Teacher Education Abby Kaye Hitchler, Spalding—Applied Science Maria Elizabeth Harvey, Davey—Teaching, Learning and Sarah Allison Rooks, Tifton, GA—Applied Science Teacher Education William Eugene Schledewitz, York—Applied Science Genevieve Marina Heimer-Lang, Lincoln—Educational Erica Lindsey Siemek, Duncan—Applied Science Psychology Brooke Anne Talbott, Lincoln—Applied Science Bailey Renee Hinrichs, Lincoln—Educational Psychology Greyson Holliday, Lincoln—Educational Psychology MASTER OF ARTS Crystal Marie Hutson, Peru—Educational Administration Seima Ibrahim Al-Momani, Lincoln—Psychology Taylor DeAnn James, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Amelia-Marie Kingsley Altstadt, Lincoln—Educational Administration Kyrie Anne Kellogg, Omaha—Special Education Abdulla Alzarouni, Dubai, United Arab Emirates—Educational Matthew Lee Knapp, Lincoln—Journalism and Mass Psychology Communications Sawyer Gene Barragan, Wichita, KS—Educational Ethan Koopman, Meadow Grove—Modern Languages and Administration Literatures Erika Elaine Bellingham, Austin, TX—Educational Megan A. Lane, Omaha—Educational Administration Administration Madison Rose Lawler, Lincoln—Educational Psychology Mary Elizabeth Bennett, Omaha—Teaching, Learning and Taylor Irene Morris, North Myrtle Beach, SC—Educational Teacher Education Psychology Lisa Jean Birge, North Platte—Special Education Mary Clare Scalia Murray, Falls Church, VA—Teaching, Austin Boltin, Papillion—Educational Psychology Learning and Teacher Education Ashley Joyce Bolton, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Bailey Jo Ramos, Stillwater, OK—Educational Administration Education Carl Dean Rice, Omaha—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Sarah Marie Bretschneider, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Education Teacher Education Kaci Kay Richter, Omaha—Journalism and Mass Catherine Mae Carney, Greenwood—Educational Psychology Communications Whitney Marie Colling, Kearney—Teaching, Learning and Sophia Grace Ridge, Omaha—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Teacher Education Education John Paul Yniguez Del Rosario, Lincoln—Philosophy Gabrielle Renee Schenkelberg, Omaha—English Rachel Lynn Dority, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Edwin Lawrence Schooler III, Omaha—Modern Languages Education and Literatures Emika Xiaoshuang Du, Lincoln—Educational Psychology Chantelle Kay Schroeder, Avoca—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Danielle Marie Durham, Lincoln—Educational Psychology Sarah Ruth Simon, Lincoln—Educational Administration
21 Daniel Alan Smith, Frederica, DE—Special Education Nathaniel Arthur Erwin, Charlottesville, VA—Business Samantha Rae Smith, Rapid City, SD—Educational Max Maxon Fleck, Colorado Springs, CO—Business Administration Leela Krishna Golla, Lincoln—Business Carter John Svec, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Brian Kearns, Derry, NH—Business Education Karissa Keck, Omaha—Business Nora Tarte, Reno, NV—Journalism and Mass Communications Alireza Khodaei, Lincoln—Business Neida Estefania Tornel Mariscal, Houston, TX—Modern Kelly Dawn Lowrance, Kearney, MO—Business Languages and Literatures Zachary Charles Lund, Aurora, CO—Business Brittany Ann Tvrdy, Ceresco—Educational Psychology Giovanni Andre Martinez, Chicago, IL—Business Courtney Lea Van Hoosen, Omaha—Journalism and Mass Erika Lynn McCubbin, Omaha—Business Communications Juan Jose Miceli Garcia, Tapachula, Mexico—Business Esmeralda Martina Vazquez, Omaha—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Kevin Pray, Omaha—Business Lisa Venner, Bennington—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Diego Armando Sanchez, Holloman Air Force Base, NM— Education Business Brittany Nicole Wambold, Lincoln—Special Education Esakkiappan Senthivel, Fremont, CA—Business Lauren Renee Watkins, Gurnee, IL—Teaching, Learning and Lisa Christine Solis, Philadelphia, PA—Business Teacher Education Santhosh Sridhar, Seattle, WA—Business June Frances Weber, South Amboy, NJ—Anthropology Gregory William Thomas, Taylor, MI—Business Megan Wehling, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Teacher Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Omaha—Business Education Michael Wireko Agyemang, Kumasi, Ghana—Modern MASTER OF EDUCATION Languages and Literatures Kelsy Tabea Neil, Papillion—Special Education Emily Jean Wright, Kansas City, MO—Special Education Kiley M. Thalken, Omaha—Special Education Kimberly Ann Wright, Gretna—Teaching, Learning and Charisa Lynn Woods, Firth—Educational Administration Teacher Education Xu “Tamayo” Zhou, Tianjin, China—Educational Administration MASTER OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Matthew Downing Bair, Omaha—Engineering Management MASTER OF ARTS FOR TEACHERS Elizabeth Ann Boschult, Columbus—Engineering Management Allison Renae Brown, Omaha—Mathematics Matthew Robert Jones, Chicago, IL—Engineering Management Andrew Campbell, Omaha—Mathematics Andrew Joseph McNaughton, Omaha—Engineering Rosanne Marie Gartner, Kearney—Mathematics Management Kayla Marie Geiger, Grand Island—Mathematics Matthew James Paulo, Annandale, NJ—Engineering Lori Johnson, Dallas, TX—Mathematics Management Cady Lea Maple, Neligh—Mathematics Phillip Joseph Plonka, Rochester, MN—Engineering Lauren Elaine Taylor, Omaha—Mathematics Management Adam Jacob Schlotthauer, Lincoln—Engineering Management MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Tobin Urijah Benjamin Streamland, Camarillo, CA— Samuel Richard Arrigo, Palos Park, IL—Business Engineering Management Luke Christian Castner, Lincoln—Business Michael Alan Walsh, Jr., Danville, PA—Engineering Management John Decker, Oro Valley, AZ—Business Jennifer Ann Deitloff, Sergeant Bluff, IA—Business
22 MASTER OF FINE ARTS Payton Leigh Boyes, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Amythest Hultman Warrington, Waterloo, IA—Art Karmen Kay Browitt, Mc Cool Junction—Business Analytics Kaitlyn Nicole Bruggenthies, Rochester, MN—Speech- MASTER OF MUSIC Language Pathology and Audiology Olga Lebedeva, Omaha—Music Justin Busnot, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France—Mechanical Jacob Ryan Ludwig, Lincoln—Music Engineering and Applied Mechanics Joshua Pace, Omaha—Music Walker K. Carson, Turkey, TX—Food Science and Technology Shani Rhae Sorensen, Lincoln—Music Margaret Crull, Skokie, IL—Child, Youth and Family Studies Amy Sue Thorpe, Lincoln—Music Connor Alan Curry, Lincoln—Business Analytics Kalindi True, Lincoln—Music Timothy Binh Dang, Lincoln—Entomology Eric Wyler, Omaha—Music Qianqian Du, Baoding, China—Agricultural Economics Jared Thomas Duren, Columbus—Civil Engineering MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANCY Kathleen A. Engel, Lincoln—Leadership Education Yigit Erdem Akalin, Naponee—Accountancy Jessica Lynn Erbst, Andover, KS—Nutrition and Health Sciences Gavin Michael Brown, Martell—Accountancy Sterling Roger Ericsson, Lincoln—Biological Sciences Hannah Sierra McKinney, Beatrice—Accountancy Joseph Gerard Foral, Jr., Roslindale, MA—Agronomy Emily Ann Olsen, Omaha—Accountancy Riley Michelle Ford, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology MASTER OF SCIENCE Kaitlyn Rose Fraser, Coldwater, MI—Agronomy Dmitry Adams, Lincoln—Agricultural Economics Haley Rae Furrow, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology Sandro Alie Aldana, Decatur, IL—Mechanical Engineering and and Audiology Applied Mechanics Diana Smith Gallagher, Hingham, MA—Entomology Ely D. Anderson, Broken Bow—Agronomy Caitlyn Marie Glissmeyer, Smithfield, UT—Child, Youth and Andrew Spencer Ashby, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Family Studies Studies David Fabian Gomez Quintero, Lincoln—Food Science and Asif Ashraf, Lincoln—Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Technology Luke James Ausdemore, Persia, IA—Business Analytics Nicholas Paul Halle, Tulsa, OK—Finance Cyril Nsom Ayuk Etaka, Lincoln—Food Science and Christina Mae Hamling, St. Edward—Speech-Language Technology Pathology and Audiology Masen Eric Bachleda, Carpentersville, IL—Business Analytics Audrey Hartwell, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology and Brianna Bauwens, Lincoln—Finance Audiology Rachel Julia Beck, Clarks—Speech-Language Pathology and Carly Erin Hillburn, Kearney—Nutrition and Health Sciences Audiology Ian Ross Hoppe, Colon—Natural Resource Sciences Claire Elise Benisch, Rock Island, IL—Speech-Language Magdalena Horova, Prague, Czech Republic—Biochemistry Pathology and Audiology McKenna Rae Hotovy, Fremont—Speech-Language Pathology Eric Michael Bertrand, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family and Audiology Studies Xiaoyun Huang, Shijiazhuang, China—Food Science and Alisha Marie Bevins, Lincoln—Computer Science Technology Christopher William Bianchini, Omaha—Environmental Rebekah Joyce Hutchinson, Lincoln—Speech-Language Engineering Pathology and Audiology Abigail Borgmeier, Kasota, MN—Plant Pathology Nicholas Alden Jaton, Omaha—Telecommunications Engineering
23 Lucie Beth Johannes, Houston, TX—Finance Katie Mowat, Lincoln—Environmental Engineering Kent Johansen, Lexington, NC—Business Analytics Shpresa Musa, New York, NY—Food Science and Technology Alisha Kar, New Brunswick, NJ—Food Science and Technology Noelle Atieno Mware, Lincoln—Civil Engineering Aubrey Grace Kemper, Jacksonville, FL—Natural Resource Darien Marie Myers, North Platte—Speech-Language Sciences Pathology and Audiology Seyed Behzad Khatamifard, Lincoln—Civil Engineering Zoe Louise Myers, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Studies Minho Kim, Lincoln—Food Science and Technology Hoa Hong Nguyen, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Studies Taylor Anne Kindle, Broomfield, CO—Speech-Language Kanawai Aikanaka Noa, Union City, CA—Child, Youth and Pathology and Audiology Family Studies Susan Caterina King, Pleasanton, CA—Child, Youth and Julia Nogueira Duarte Campos, Para de Minas, Brazil— Family Studies Entomology Md Humaun Kobir, Dhaka, Bangladesh—Mechanical Natalia Jo Nolting, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Audiology Catherine Anne Koss, Wausau, WI—Speech-Language Mitchell Maynard Norman, Ashland—Animal Science Pathology and Audiology Mojisola Opeyemi Ogunnaike, Lincoln—Nutrition and Health Amanda Lynn Kowalewski, Lincoln—Agricultural Economics Sciences Kailon Anthony Lang, Chicago, IL—Agronomy Shuyah Tani Aurore Ouoba, Lincoln—Civil Engineering Kacy Jean Leuck, Papillion—Speech-Language Pathology Emily Jolan Papp, Victoria, MN—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Audiology Tang Li, Lincoln—Food Science and Technology Esther J. Perisho, Terre Haute, IN—Natural Resource Sciences Chee Town Liew, Lincoln—Agricultural and Biological Megan Marie Plumbtree, Fullerton—Child, Youth and Family Systems Engineering Studies Brian Peter Liston-Ray, Lincoln—Statistics Elizabeth Anne Preister, Columbus—Speech-Language Sujun Liu, Xinxiang, China—Food Science and Technology Pathology and Audiology Emma Leigh Loberg, Wayne—Speech-Language Pathology Michaela Catherine Reddel, Omaha—Speech-Language and Audiology Pathology and Audiology Andrew Eric Loken, Hickman—Civil Engineering Rachel Renae Reith, Lincoln—Animal Science Jacob Luebke, Omaha—Architectural Engineering Daniel Anthony Rico, Omaha—Computer Science Mallory Rose Luers, Milford, IA—Speech-Language Pathology Luis Gerardo Rodriguez Alvizo, Omaha—Mechanical and Audiology Engineering and Applied Mechanics Kyle R. Martens, Lincoln—Natural Resource Sciences Olivia Dale Rodriguez, Olathe, KS—Speech-Language Musharrat Mustaree Mau, Jessore, Bangladesh—Mechanical Pathology and Audiology Engineering and Applied Mechanics Jing Shao, Weihai, China—Food Science and Technology Jasmine Marie Mausbach, Omaha—Agronomy Benjamin Nelson Shuldes, Shoreview, MN—Chemical Shawn Thomas McDonald, Lincoln—Agronomy Engineering Iris Irene McFarlin, Lincoln—Natural Resource Sciences Julie Deane Sierks, Lincoln—Business Analytics Levi James McKercher, Brandon, SD—Natural Resource Madison Sophie Sloup, Seward—Speech-Language Pathology Sciences and Audiology Christopher Louis Meurer, Dubuque, IA—Speech-Language Brooke Andrea Smith, Omaha—Nutrition and Health Sciences Pathology and Audiology Megan Lynn Snethen, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Ipsita Mitra, Lincoln—Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Studies Alyssa Hope Molina, Naperville, IL—Speech-Language Joseph August Sonderman, Columbus—Animal Science Pathology and Audiology Michael Paten Sperry, Cave Springs, AR—Business Analytics
24 Stacy Jo Stohs, Kearney—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Jun Sun, Hefei, China—Computer Science William Riley Talbert, Huntsville, AL—Business Analytics Meghan Salley Taylor, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Mia Francesca Teehan, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Studies Cuong Viet Than, Lincoln—Computer Science Joshua Edward Timmons, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Studies Ian Michael Tsukada, Omaha—Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Evan Matthew Updike, Lincoln—Biochemistry Kristin Rose Vankat, Omaha—Child, Youth and Family Studies David M. Velazco, Manhattan, KS—Animal Science Marie Elizabeth Wagner, Omaha—Civil Engineering Rebecca Carol Walker, Omaha—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Amber Marie Weir, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Studies Emily Amanda Welch, Lincoln—Physics and Astronomy Brooke Wells, Lincoln—Leadership Education Caleb T. White, Omaha—Civil Engineering Elaine Williams, Overland Park, KS—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Taelor DeAnn Williamson, Earlham, IA—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Maci Elizabeth Wingard, Milford—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Brianne Adele Wolf, Lincoln—Natural Resource Sciences Miranda Emily Workman, Lincoln—Business Analytics Seokhwan Yoo, Lincoln—Civil Engineering Chenxi Yu, Jiaxing, China—Computer Science Kara Ann Zimmerman, Unadilla—Agricultural Economics Khadija Sami Zogheib, Tallahassee, FL—Child, Youth and Family Studies
25 Professional Degrees College of Architecture Presented by Dean Katherine Ankerson MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Masoud Abedimoghadam, Denver, CO—Architecture Bahrun Saleh Ismail Baranuri, Ende, Indonesia—Architecture Conner Keith Swearingen, Lincoln—Architecture Kelsey Dawn van Zyl, Lincoln—Architecture Andres Felipe Villegas, Juniata—Architecture
26 Baccalaureate Degrees College of Nora Catherine Ramey, Lincoln College of Arts & (With High Distinction) Agricultural Sciences Nicole Lillian Swanson, Blair Sciences & Natural Resources Devony Lynn Votava, Lincoln Presented by Dean Mark Button Dalton Joseph Wagner, Albion Presented by Dean Tiffany Heng-Moss BACHELOR OF ARTS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Hannah Margaret Ahl, Papillion IN APPLIED SCIENCE IN AGRIBUSINESS Kelly Aldredge, Columbus Melissa Jane Whetzal Yost, Omaha Noah Maddox Boger, Valley Tristan David Niles, Red Cloud Khila Danielle Bowling, Omaha Evan Ryan Puls, Hoskins BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jessi Rae Brashear, Murray Trevor Darrel Ricenbaw, Beaver Crossing IN FISHERIES & WILDLIFE Maia Tamsyn Bryan, Lincoln Will Vincent Sonderman, Columbus Victoria Camryn Biancalana, Roseland (With Distinction) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Brittany Sarah Herzberg, Omaha Marissa Taylor Campbell, Mason City IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Madeline Diane Mann, Wahoo Spencer James Cook, Clarendon Hills, IL Nicole Elizabeth Nordell, Lincoln Caleb Nathaniel Cox, Lincoln Grant Daniel Grzywa, Papillion (With High Distinction) Mikayla Elizabeth Cruickshank, Lincoln Jonathan Matthew Miller, Papillion Camden Elaine Oathout, Omaha Jissell Cruz, Grand Island Sushant Timalsina, Lincoln (With Distinction) Hanny Dabas, Delhi, India Jacob Colton Ponec, Elkhorn BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Eric Scott DeVito, Roselle, IL IN AGRICULTURAL & Moriah Nicole Rawlings, St. Paul Emma Ann Dirks, Omaha ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Jordan Lynn Springer, Lincoln Elana Marie Helena Dworak, Lincoln COMMUNICATION Megan Frances Ekstrom, Lincoln Jessica Lynn Rudolph, Gothenburg BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Alexa Fernández Bravo, San José, (With Distinction) IN GRASSLAND ECOLOGY Costa Rica & MANAGEMENT Jamil LeRay Funnah, Lincoln BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jordan Lynn Springer, Lincoln Zachary Lawrence Gerry, Wheaton, IL IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION Evan Jacob Gutierrez, Fontana, CA Chantelle Marie Schulz, York BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jackson Charles Hilsabeck, Lincoln Emily Lynn Soll, Coleridge IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE Kelly Lannette Holsteen-Chapman, Lincoln Calvin Wood Martin, Lincoln BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Sophia Faith Holtz, Sioux Falls, SD IN AGRONOMY BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With High Distinction) Zayne Timothy Heckenlively, Beatrice IN PGA GOLF MANAGEMENT (University Honors Program) Calista Rose Humphrey, Lincoln Ryan Douglas, Hastings BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Alaa K. Ismail, Lincoln Joseph Robert Sherman, St. Charles, IL IN ANIMAL SCIENCE Jordan Elizabeth Jarecke, Omaha Jack Thompson, Lincoln Eric Theodore Johnson, Brooklyn, NY Cara Annemarie Haubner, Addison, IL Collin Niemann Toner, Grand Island Gage Ivan Kraeger, Avoca Brandy A. Jordan, Alvo
27 Lance Raymond Kelley, Danbury Shahad Said Obaid Thane Al-Shukaili, College of Business Makenna Marie Kliment, Lincoln Lincoln Haley Ann Lampe, Lincoln Julie Ann Asbury, Yorktown, VA Presented by Dean Kathy Farrell Alexandra Kay Byrd, Tea, SD Adriana Mariah Maldonado, Clovis, CA BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Lixin Cao, Lincoln Tyler Grant Matson, Omaha IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Natalie Christine McKinney, Woodland Leila Amoura Casaccio, Stamford, CT Park, CO Hoong Kai Cheong, Kuala Lumpur, Amy Solange Abadie, Lenexa, KS Riham Mohammed, Lincoln Malaysia Salim Saif Muslem Salim Al Hajri, Muscat, Oman Luzelena Moreno, Lincoln Makayla Morgan Choplin, Shelton Muzna Shakeel Khalid Al Zadjali, Lincoln Julia Paige Murphy, San Diego, CA Katharina Eleanor Dvorak, Lincoln Alexander Jacob Aldana, Lincoln Sarah Katherine Naber, Papillion Leah Marie Engquist, Columbus Alexander Joseph Anzalone, Omaha Andrew Clayton Ramos, Columbus (With Distinction) (University Honors Program) Mason John Brandenburg, Columbus Courtney Allison Robb, Omaha Alexa Fernández Bravo, San José, Stephen Edwin Browne, Huntley, IL Mike Kenneth Rodriguez, Grand Island Costa Rica Samuel Bliss Castner, Lincoln Sierra Michelle Schurman, Pickrell Chloe Sara Galinsky, Seattle, WA Cuong Bao Chau, Lincoln Kora Mae Seats, Lincoln (With Distinction) Qianhao Chen, Lincoln Lindsey Marie Selting, Lincoln Tengjun Gao, Hubei, China (With Distinction) Tate Steven Christie, Lincoln Erica Lois Mays, Chadron Ethan Thomas Cox, Blair William Henry Swisher, Lincoln (University Honors Program) Aishwarya Deshmukh, Hyderabad, India Skylar Allison Taylor, Lincoln (Jeffrey S. Raikes School) Collin Doan, Lincoln Janessa Kalynn Thompson-Pollard, Shiv Raj Mukherjee, Santa Cruz, CA Alex Patrick Fanslau, Papillion Lincoln Nicole Elizabeth Nordell, Lincoln Duncan Henry Tucker, Superior (With High Distinction) Jackson Lee Fortner, Omaha Karsin Kaylyn Underwood, Lincoln Megan J. Parsons, Harrisburg, SD Morgan Elizabeth Frauendorfer, Humphrey Leo Thomas Van Horn, Crete Olivia Marie Pletcher, Lincoln (With Distinction) (With Distinction) William Kefauver Fritz, Calabasas, CA Emily Isabelle Vanek, Lincoln Cameron James Ramsey, Lincoln Paige Nicole Grogan, Omaha (With Highest Distinction) Harrison Henry Sanny, Kearney Derek Wayne Guyton, Jr., Bellevue (University Honors Program) Matthew Norris Semin, Lincoln Blake Bradley Hamel, Papillion Alexandria Christine Warneke, York Louis Shakya, Kathmandu, Nepal Carson Lee Henry, Lincoln Bennett M. Widman, Lincoln Allison Shelbourn, Lincoln Sarah Elizabeth Higgins, Elkhorn Jordan Michael Williams, Lincoln Yuin Xuen Wong, Cheras, Malaysia Krystal Hoang, Lincoln Michael S. Winberg, Oakdale, MN (With Distinction) Austin Michael Hraban, Lincoln Jakob Nicholas Woxland, Omaha Yihan Xiao, Lincoln Farukh Ishanov, Odintsovo, Russian Jiajia Xu, Beijing, China Federation BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Xinyi Zhu, Shanghai, China Kyle Thomas Kasun, Papillion Sanyam Agrawal, Indore, India (With High Distinction) Gregory Thomas Klein, Elm Creek (With Distinction) Kaden Keith Lathrop, Highlands Sulaiman Salim Mohammed Al Badi, Ranch, CO Muscat, Oman Khawlh Abdulla Hamed Al Farsi, Funja, Oman
28 Nhi Hang Uyen Le, Lincoln College of Education Erin Elizabeth Kelly, Lincoln Hosu Lee, Lincoln (University Honors Program) Peng Liu, Beijing, China & Human Sciences Jaden Scott Kelly, Lincoln Skylar DeJong Lowe, Omaha Presented by Dean Sherri Jones Ee Rene Lau, Puchong, Malaysia (With Distinction) Sahsha Alie Lovermi, Bellevue BACHELOR OF ARTS Ricky Carnell McCants, Jr., Omaha Tamisha Star Miller, Waverly IN HOSPITALITY, RESTAURANT Zachary Charles McClure, Papillion & TOURISM MANAGEMENT Guadalupe Elizabeth Mora, Lincoln Andres Giovanny Mensching, Lincoln Gaia Octavia Pernice, Austin, TX Drew Scott Dravland, Valley Jayden Quitney Miller, Brooten, MN Michaela Peskova, Trnava, Slovakia Isaiah Alexander Heinicke, Lincoln Luzelena Moreno, Lincoln Nuvia Rodriguez, South Sioux City Grace Elaine Maser, Scottsbluff Caleb Thomas Newburn, Lincoln Alexis Monique Shade, Omaha (With High Distinction) Dat Tuan Nguyen, Lincoln Colby Dillon Smith, Louisville Austin Wade Moline, Papillion Johnkhiem Trong Nguyen, Lincoln Noele Simone Smith, Omaha Maddison C. Porter, Sidney Adrianna Kimberly Parks, Omaha (With Distinction) Mariah Stowe, Lincoln Tanner David Peterson, Grafton Cayla Dawn Williby, Lincoln Adriana Isabel Suarez, Lincoln John Thanh Pham, Lincoln Isabeau Lee Lady Hawke Tholen, Omaha Alta Mae Pryce, Lincoln BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Lixin Tu, Nanchang, China Brady Allen Radcliffe, Lincoln IN EDUCATION & HUMAN Mary Elizabeth Underwood, Omaha Isaiah Owen Roby, Dixon, IL SCIENCES Abigail Marie Van Dyke, South Sioux City Tyler Reed Rogert, Waterloo Emma Louise Algarin, Lincoln Leo Thomas Van Horn, Crete Corbin Scott Ruth, Malcolm Christian Price Banker, Omaha Travis Robert Vokolek, Lincoln Kelby James Schommer, Hartington Tristan Timothy Patrick Bentzinger, Trang Minh Vuong, Lincoln Jonathan James Scripnick, Milton, Panama Della Lee Wilson, Bellevue Canada Percy Caraig, Allen, TX Chloe Laurel Wise, Kearney Donald Carroll Smalley, Aurora Ashley Alayna Carlson, Overton Michaela Kaitlynn Wubbels, Lincoln Christopher Patrick Smith, North Platte Haley Nicole Clausen, Elkhorn Ina N. Yarmolyuk, Lincoln Garrett Mason Stice, Lincoln Spencer James Cook, Clarendon Hills, IL Michael Allan Todd, Omaha Schyler Sarah Cruse, Papillion Kendrick Parker Umphreys, Council (With Distinction) College of Engineering Bluffs, IA Brittany Marie Eisenhauer, Lincoln Presented by Associate Dean Sohrab Jacob Reefe Villalva, Omaha Madison Elizabeth Enck, Grand Island Asgarpoor Li Wang, Mian Yang, China Karen Janelly Gonzalez Esquivel, Qiao Wang, Zaozhuang, China Schuyler BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (With Distinction) Izzabella Grace Guerrero, Dripping ENGINEERING Yifan Wang, Shanghai, China Springs, TX Nathan Paul Wheeler, Firth Madelyn Jo Hickson, Lincoln Lukas David Fields, Lees Summit, MO Katherine Marie Wiebelhaus, Lincoln Terrell Gregory Horton, Omaha BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With High Distinction) Samantha Jean Jenkins, Thornton, CO IN CIVIL ENGINEERING Zhihan Zhang, Zhengzhou, China Olivia Claire Kalvoda, Grand Island (With High Distinction) Carlos Daniel Felix, Scottsbluff Noah James Keller, Falls City (With Distinction) Kyle James Maguire, Rapid City, SD
29 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Hixson-Lied College Taylor Michelle Louthan, Lincoln IN CONSTRUCTION Brennan Tyler Merkle, Naperville, IL MANAGEMENT of Fine & Performing David Kamin Park, Whippany, NJ Alwadhah Fakhri Ahmed Al Wadhahi, Arts Delaney Lee Ann Patten, Omaha Lincoln Presented by Dean Charles Carlie Jae Reineke, Lincoln O’Connor Matthew Jay Sernett, Omaha BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Madeline Lucille Sherman, Wheat IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING BACHELOR OF ARTS Ridge, CO Abdulmajeed Abdullah Al Naabi, Lincoln DieuThao Tran Duong, Lincoln Benjamin Matthew Skow, Marengo, IL Karen Marianne Sotelo, Pharr, TX Michelle Colette Ingle, Lincoln Chase Thompson, Alliance Aaron James Gregory Trupp, Overland BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Park, KS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Steven Isaac Lang, Bellevue Jian Wang, Lvliang City, China Joseph Michael Carter, David City Amanda Evelyne Rigsby, Libertyville, IL Rachael Kimberlee Elizabeth Weller, Jacob Jeffrey Hansen, Lincoln Connor Lloyd Schultz, Elkhorn Eagle Aayush Khatiwada, Lincoln Khalifa M. Teya, Grand Island Taylor Paige Yarnell, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Jennifer Marie-Paul Yuma, Lincoln Kevin An Nguyen, Lincoln BACHELOR OF MUSIC Chase Michael Pearson, Lincoln IN EDUCATION (With Distinction) Jacob Tyler Arellano, Lincoln College of Public Affairs & Omaha Program Community Service College of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Journalism & Mass Presented by Associate Dean The- IN ARCHITECTURAL resa Barron-McKeagney ENGINEERING Communications BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jenna Noelle Irwin, Omaha Presented by Dean Shari Veil Zachary Michael Nannen, Blair IN CRIMINOLOGY AND BACHELOR OF JOURNALISM CRIMINAL JUSTICE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Elijah Cole Ausenbaugh, Omaha Sonia Arellano Cabrales, Tecumseh IN CIVIL ENGINEERING Alexandria Jade Bartels, Lincoln Andrew Eduardo Bardales, Grand Island Mehdi Jawad Hassan Al Ajmi, Mackenzie Jane Bartlett, West Des Jolie Antoinette Calfior, Omaha Bushar, MA Moines, IA (With Distinction) Sara Burger, Omaha Jissell Cruz, Grand Island BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Kristin Nicole Callan, Wahoo (With High Distinction) IN CONSTRUCTION YiYing Chen, Hangzhou, China Alyssa Ann DiMauro, Kennard MANAGEMENT Chloe Gabrielle Discoe, Columbus Joshua James Fry, Lincoln Brenden James Huls, Omaha DieuThao Tran Duong, Lincoln Austin Michael Herold, Lincoln Xing Huang, Fuzhou, China Sophia Faith Holtz, Sioux Falls, SD BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Devin Reid Kolbo, Kearney (With Highest Distinction) IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (University Honors Program) Houd Saif Al Shariyani, Ruwi, Oman
30 Priscilla Kim Hutchison, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Christian Reese-Newquist, Lincoln Zurisadai Carolina Saquiche Dominguez, Grand Island (With Distinction) Deontre Lee Thomas, Lincoln Mitch Dallas Tyndall, Saskatoon, Canada
31 2020 Graduates
Members of the Class of 2020 who have chosen to participate in today’s ceremony are listed by college and degree on the following pages.
32 Doctoral Degrees Graduate College Josue Campos do Prado, Joinville, Brazil; Electrical Engineering—Dissertation: Vision, Framework, and All degrees are University of Nebraska Degrees Decision-Making for Integrating Distributed Energy Presented by Dean Timothy Carr Resources in the Next-Generation Retail Electricity Market. Advised by Professor Wei Qiao. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Long Chen, Ithaca, NY; Biological Engineering—Dissertation: Improving Microbiological Safety of Low Moisture Food Jason Ross Adams, Albuquerque, NM; Statistics—Dissertation: Products Using Radio Frequency and Ethylene Oxide. Plant Segmentation by Supervised Machine Learning Advised by Professor David Jones and Professor Methods and Phenotypic Trait Extraction of Soybean Plants Jeyamkondan Subbiah. Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Transfer Learning. Advised by Professor Kent Eskridge. Bohdan M. Christian, Ventnor City, NJ; Educational Studies— Dissertation: The Effects of School Leadership on Teachers’ Zeina T. Al Ameeli, Lincoln; Natural Resource Sciences— Professional Practices on Teacher’s Classroom Practice: Dissertation: Predators Foraging on Endosymbiotic Evidence from Talis 2013 US Data. Advised by Professor Containing Paramecium Catalyze Chloroviruses Population Jiangang Xia. in the Ecosystem. Advised by Professor Steven Thomas and Professor James Van Etten. Terri Lynn Deayon, St. Joseph, MO; Educational Studies— Dissertation: Grace Steinberg Day: Barrier Breaker. Advised Ana Arciniega Castillo, Lincoln; Food Science and by Professor Marilyn Grady. Technology—Dissertation: Advancing Food Safety and Quality Through Innovative Partnerships. Advised by Sara El Alaoui, Lincoln; Engineering—Dissertation: Routing Professor Jayne Stratton and Professor Andreia Bianchini. Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Space and Mission-Driven Internet of Things (IoT) Environments. Subharthi Banerjee, Howrah, India; Engineering— Advised by Professor Byrav Ramamurthy. Dissertation: BIOTRUST: A Novel Biologically Inspired Optimal Trusted User Social Trait-Aware Association for Amy J. Encinger, Lincoln; Human Sciences—Dissertation: Wireless Proximity Services in 5G and Beyond. Advised by The Influence of Proximal and Distal Familial Factors on Professor Hamid Sharif. Preschool Children’s Inhibitory Control on Social Emotional Skills. Advised by Professor Soo-Young Hong and Professor Pamela Shanahan Bazis, Lincoln; Educational Studies— Victoria Molfese. Dissertation: Effects of the “Write Sounds” Program on Handwriting and Phonics Skills. Advised by Professor Sarah C. Erwin, Ann Arbor, MI; Human Sciences— Michael Hebert. Dissertation: Daughters of Exotic Dancers: A Phenomenological Study of Experiences & Outcomes. Advised Andrew Rudolph Becklin, Mahtomedi, MN; Mathematics— by Professor Rochelle Dalla. Dissertation: Hadamard Well-Posedness for Two Nonlinear Structure Acoustic Models. Advised by Professor Linda Frances Garcia Merchant, Lincoln; English— Mohammad Rammaha. Dissertation: Mulcaxitl: A Performance of Chicana Methodology. Advised by Professor Amelia de la Luz Montes Natalia Ann Bjorklund, Lincoln; Entomology—Dissertation: and Professor Matt Cohen. Evaluations of Floral Resources and Horticulture Practices on Wild Bee Foraging in Urban Habitats. Advised by Professor Sarah Jensine Gaughan, Omaha; Natural Resource Judy Wu-Smart and Professor Tom Weissling. Sciences—Dissertation: Using Genetic Markers to Enhance Conservation Efforts.Advised by Professor Kevin Pope. Kaleb Lauren Briscoe, Lincoln; Educational Studies— Dissertation: Fighting Racism and Hate: A Case Study Zachary Michael Gillen, Starkville, MS; Human Sciences— of Black Graduate Students’ Perceptions of a University Dissertation: Comparisons of Muscle Strength, Size, and President’s Responses to Racialized Incidents. Advised by Neuromuscular Function in Pre- and Post- Pubescent Males Professor Deryl Hatch-Tocaimaza. and Females. Advised by Professor Joel Cramer.
33 Theresa Ann Glanz, Lincoln; Geography—Dissertation: Federal Jennifer M. Kruse, Omaha; Communication Studies— Land-Use Policy and Resettlement in the Great Plains: An Dissertation: Exploring Constructions of “Good” Motherhood Experiment in Community Development during the New Deal on Social Media: Navigating Neoliberal Mommy Rhetorics Years, 1933-1941. Advised by Professor David Wishart. and the Negative Affective Entanglements of Women’s Yage Guo, Lincoln; Psychological Studies in Education— Discourses on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram. Advised Dissertation: Using Rapid Responses to Evaluate Test by Professor Casey Kelly. Speededness in High-Stakes Testing. Advised by Kurt Nam Hoang Le, Hanoi, Vietnam; Business—Dissertation: Geisinger. Essays in Corporate Finance. Advised by Professor Surabhi Gupta Vakil, New Delhi, India; Entomology— Julian Atanassov. Dissertation: Landscape Enhancement Options to Reduce Moriah Elizabeth Locklear, Lincoln; Chemistry—Dissertation: Pesticide Contamination in Pollinator Habitats and Increase Peroxides as Sources of Electrophilic Oxygen: Their Reactivity Forage for Beneficial Insects in Agroecosystems.Advised by and Synthesis. Advised by Professor Patrick H Dussault. Professor Judy Wu-Smart. Jose Rodrigo Mendoza Jimenez, Lincoln; Food Science and Sohan Gyawali, Butwal, Nepal; Engineering—Dissertation: Technology—Dissertation: Assessment of Grain Safety in Misbehavior Detection and Privacy in Cellular Based Developing Nations. Advised by Professor Andreia Bianchini Vehicular Communication Networks. Advised by Professor and Professor Jayne Stratton. Yi Qian. Tammera Jean Mittelstet, Lincoln; Educational Studies— Courtney Ellen Herber, Saint Paul, MN; History—Dissertation: Dissertation: An Evaluative Study of the Rural Elementary Towards Consortship: Performing Ritual, Intercession, and Teachers’ Perspective on the Partnership Between Rural Networking in Tudor and Early Stuart England. Advised by Public Elementary Schools and Nebraska Extension. Advised Professor Carole Levin. by Professor Stephanie Wessels and Professor Julie Thomas. Brianna Dawn Hitt, Colorado Springs, CO; Statistics— Mahdi Mohammadighaleni, Boise, ID; Chemical and Dissertation: Group Testing Identification: Objective Biomolecular Engineering—Dissertation: Design, Synthesis, Functions, Implementation, and Multiplex Assays. Advised and Fabrication of Membranes and Modules for Water by Professor Christopher R. Bilder. Desalination: Porous Materials with Special Wettability for Eric Ryan Holley, Lincoln; Natural Resource Sciences— Membrane Distillation. Advised by Professor Siamak Nejati. Dissertation: Comprehensive and Agricultural Greenhouse Ali Tahseen Mohammed, Lincoln; Biological Engineering— Gas Emissions Inventories For Nebraska and the Midwest Dissertation: Maize Growth, Yield, Water Productivity and as Baselines for Climate Change Mitigation. Advised by Evapotranspiration Response to Different Irrigation Methods Professor Adam Liska and Professor Michael Hayes. and Amounts and Different Timing and Methods of Nitrogen Andrew Marlin Husa, Beatrice; Geography—Dissertation: Applications. Advised by Professor Suat Irmak. Population Sustainability in Rural Nebraska Towns. Advised Toni Maisano Morgan, Lincoln; Communication Studies— by Professor David J. Wishart. Dissertation: Conceptualizing Perceived Parental Majid Jadidi Miandashti, Isfahan, Iran; Mechanical Communicated Acceptance During Parent-Child Religious Engineering and Applied Mechanics—Dissertation: Difference.Advised by Professor Jody Koenig Kellas. Biomechanics of Elastic and Muscular Arteries in the Context Evangela Quinette Oates, Newton Grove, NC; Educational of Aging. Advised by Professor Alexey Kamenskiy. Studies—Dissertation: Marginalized Faculty at Marginalized Xuanyuan Jiang, Wuhan, China; Physics and Astronomy— Institutions: Counternarratives as Resistance in Exploring the Dissertation: Growth and Characterization of Organic Experiences of Black Librarians at Public, Two-Year Colleges. Ferroelectric and Magnetic Thin Films. Advised by Professor Advised by Professor Deryl Hatch-Tocaimaza. Xiaoshan Xu. Melissa Dawn Olson, Lincoln; Human Sciences—Dissertation: Michael Robert Jolley, Lincoln; Educational Studies— A Qualitative Study Exploring Attachment Through the Dissertation: Going the Distance: A Case Study of One Rural Context of Indian Boarding Schools. Advised by Professor Community College’s Journey Across the Digital Divide. Cody Hollist. Advised by Professor Brent Cejda.
34 Cailen M. Oshea, Lincoln; Educational Studies—Dissertation: Neerja Sahu, Omaha; Engineering—Dissertation: Innovative School Autonomy Distributed Leadership and Teachers’ Framework of Trustworthy Computing and Transmission Use of Innovative Teaching Practices. Advised by Professor for Electrocardiogram Physiological Signals. Advised by Jiangang Xia. Professor Dongming Peng. Dinesh Panday, Knoxville, TN; Agronomy and Horticulture— Cody Allen Sasek, Omaha; Educational Studies—Dissertation: Dissertation: Effects of Char on Nitrogen Management in Entrustable Professional Activities and Physician Assistant Agricultural Soils of Semi-Arid Western Nebraska. Advised Student Motivation. Advised by Professor Elizabeth Niehaus. by Professor Bijesh Maharjan. Celeste Walmer Spier, Greenwood; Educational Studies— Ahmed Eissa Rageh, Lincoln; Civil Engineering—Dissertation: Dissertation: Effects of Career Courses on Career Self-Efficacy Riveted Steel Railway Bridge Health Monitoring and Damage and Outcome Expectations. Advised by Professor Nick Pace Detection. Advised by Professor Daniel Linzell. and Professor Richard Torraco. Shawn Michael Ratcliff, Lincoln; Sociology—Dissertation: Tyler John Spore, Eureka, KS; Animal Science—Dissertation: The Relationship Between State-Level Dynamics, Firearm Protein and Water Utilization in Beef Cattle Systems. Advised Policies, and County-Level Homicides. Advised by Professor by Professor Galen Erickson. Regina Werum. Channing C. Stellato, Lincoln; Chemistry—Dissertation: Matthew Reichenbach, Longmont, CO; Mathematics— Electrochemical Peptide-Based Environmental Sensors for the Dissertation: Spectral Properties of a Non-Compact Operator Detection of Uranium. Advised by Professor Rebecca Lai. in Ecology. Advised by Professor Richard Rebarber and Sean Michael Stewart, Houston, TX; Educational Studies— Professor Brigitte Tenhumberg. Dissertation: Examining the Intersectionality of Race and Kelley J. Rice, Bayard; Educational Studies—Dissertation: Gender: A Narrative Study of Women of Color in Mid-Level Steam Education: Integrating the Arts into Stem to Create Leadership Positions at Texas Community College. Advised Steam. Advised by Professor Marilyn Grady. by Professor Brent Cejda. Leah Marie Richardson, Saint Joseph, MO; Educational Anne Grace Sullivan, Logan, UT; Psychology—Dissertation: Studies—Dissertation: Principal Wellness: Principals’ Individual Differences in Social Responsiveness, Social Managing Their Wellbeing. Advised by Professor Experiences, and Oxytocin System Genetic Variation in Marilyn Grady. Depression Symptom Severity. Advised by Professor Brittany A. Rom, Omaha; Music—Dissertation: Scaffolding Scott Stoltenberg. Autonomy in the Practice Room: A Mixed Methods Study Anna Joy Taylor, Lincoln; Chemistry—Dissertation: Sweet and Examining the Impact of Digital Scaffolds on High School Salty: The Fragmentation and Differentiation of Group II String Musicians’ Self-Correction and Improvement of Cation Adducted Sialylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides Pitch and Rhythmic Accuracy During Independent Music by Electron Transfer Dissociation, Ion Mobility and Practicing. Advised by Professor Brian Moore. Supplemental Vibrational Activation. Advised by Professor Isaac Rukundo, Kampala, Uganda; Food Science and Eric Dodds. Technology—Dissertation: Evaluating the Use of Handheld Alexandre Tonon Rosa, Uruguaiana, Brazil; Agronomy Near Infrared (NIR) Spectrometers in Food Adulteration and Horticulture—Dissertation: Influence of Cover Crop Detection and Feed and Forage Analysis. Advised by Management Practices on Rainfed Corn Production in Semi- Professor Mary-Grace Danao and Professor Curtis Weller. Arid Western Nebraska. Advised by Professor Cody Creech Jennifer Nickole Rutt, Lincoln; Educational Studies— and Professor Roger Elmore. Dissertation: Comprehending the Lasting Influence of Karina Leigh Uhing, Omaha; Mathematics—Dissertation: Study Abroad on Ethnic Identity in Heritage Scholars: A Exploring Pedagogical Empathy of Mathematics Graduate Constructivist Grounded Theory. Advised by Professor Student Instructors. Advised by Professor Nathan Wakefield Christina Yao and Professor Elizabeth Niehaus. and Professor Yvonne Lai.
35 Amber Nicole Vlasnik, Hickman; Educational Studies— Matthew Wayne Knight, West Lafayette, IN; Educational Dissertation: Career Pathways of Noyce Master Teaching Psychology—Dissertation: Lived Experiences of Second-Year Fellows: Why Teachers Shift to Hybrid Teacher Leadership Rural College Students. Advised by Professor Christina Yao. Positions. Advised by Professor Lorraine Males and Amber Marie O’Shea, Lincoln; Educational Psychology— Professor Wendy Smith. Dissertation: Understanding Hope in Elementary Students. Abeygael Wachira, Raleigh, NC; Psychological Studies in Advised by Professor Stephanie L. Wessels and Professor Education—Dissertation: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lydiah K. Kiramba. Happiness: The Psychosocial Adjustment Experiences of Trina Pettit, Endicott; Educational Psychology—Dissertation: First-Generation, Black, African Men. Advised by Professor Addressing the Need for an Alternative Education Michael Scheel. Collaborative in Nonmetropolitan School Districts. Advised Hiruni Ridmika Wijesena, Lincoln; Animal Science— by Professor Ted Hamann. Dissertation: Translational Genomics for Improving Sow Nicole Leeann Sorensen, Gering; Educational Psychology— Fertility. Advised by Professor Daniel Ciobanu. Dissertation: Applying Agriculture Curriculum as a Vehicle Yi Yang, Lincoln; Biological Sciences —Dissertation: Soil for Science Learning. Advised by Professor Julie Thomas. Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Abandoned Agricultural Rebecca Lynn Tuttle, Lincoln; Educational Psychology— Lands. Advised by Professor Chad Brassil. Dissertation: Investigating the Role of Culturally Relevant Alyssa Ann Zajdel, Jacksonville, FL; Psychological Studies Pedagogy with Children from Minoritized Communities. in Education—Dissertation: Stigmatized Virginity and Advised by Professor Guy Trainin. Masculinity: Exploring in Non-Virgin Cisgender Men. Clayton L. Waddle, Gibbon; Educational Psychology— Advised by Professor Mary Meghan Davidson. Dissertation: The Effects on Equalization of Funding on the Smallest School Districts in Nebraska. Advised by Professor DOCTOR OF EDUCATION Barbara LaCost. Laura Anne Barrett, Gering; Educational Psychology— Dissertation: Preventing Attrition: What Influences Itinerant DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS Teachers Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay? Advised by Alfonzo Cooper, Jr., Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: “This is How Professor Jiangang Xia. We Do It”: A Descriptive Analysis of the Musical Elements and Duane G. Brooks, Oakdale, CA; Educational Psychology— the Black Church Cultural Influences in Adolphus Hailstork’s Dissertation: Engagement Requires the Institution Too: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes: A Cantata for Tenor, Choir, and A Case Study of a California Community College Using Chamber Orchestra. Advised by William Shomos. Assessment Data to Improve Student Success Practices. Season E. Cowley, Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: A Review of Advised by Professor Deryl Hatch-Tocaimaza. the Pedagogy of Five American Clarinet Professors of the 21st Shanna Gannon, Shelton; Educational Psychology— Century Through Observation and Interviews. Advised by Dissertation: How Principals Support the Instructional Professor Diane Barger. Coaching Process: A Collective Case Study From Two Rubén Darío Gómez Prada, Bucaramanga, Columbia; Music— Midwestern Elementary Schools. Advised by Professor Dissertation: Critical Edition and Interpretive Analysis of Nick Pace. Música para Orquesta de Vientos y Percusión, Op. 152 by Blas Devvonie Meosha Johnson, Omaha; Educational Psychology— Emilio Atehortúa. Advised by Professor Carolyn Barber. Dissertation: What Are the Major Reasons for Principal Jared Schuyler Hiscock, Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: Turnover. Advised by Professor Marilyn Grady. Transcendentalist Sympathies: A Contextual Study of The Tonya Lee Jolley, Lincoln; Educational Psychology— Wound-Dresser. Advised by William Shomos. Dissertation: Incentives to Impact the Longevity of Urban Shiana Skye Montanari, Lincoln; Music—Dissertation: An Special Education Paraprofessionals. Advised by Professor Analytical Study of Amanda Harberg’s Sonata for B-Flat Marilyn Grady. Clarinet and Piano. Advised by Professor Diane Barger.
36 DOCTOR OF AUDIOLOGY Awarded by the College of Education and Human Sciences Presented by Dean Sherri Jones Carissa Rae Allen, Elm Creek; Audiology and Hearing Science—Doctoral Document: The Potential Benefit of Amplification on Cognitive Performance. Advised by Professor Sherri Jones. Nicole Elizabeth Genrich, Gretna; Audiology and Hearing Science—Doctoral Document: Fall Prevention Outcomes: The Effects of Education on Fall Risk Individuals.Advised by Professor Sherri Jones. Lauren Lynn Volzke, Warrensburg, MO; Audiology and Hearing Science—Doctoral Document: High School Students’ Exposure to Healthcare Fields and Knowledge of Hearing Conservation. Advised by Professor Sherri Jones.
37 Masters Degrees Graduate College Andrea Estefania Moran, Albuquerque, NM—Psychology Marianne Irja Kyllikki Pahkala, Kalakoski, Finland—Business All degrees are University of Nebraska Degrees Amy Sue Peterson, Lincoln—Anthropology Presented by Dean Timothy Carr Jarrett Ramsey, Lincoln—Educational Administration Lisa Renee Ryba, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Teacher MASTER OF APPLIED SCIENCE Education Carly Rae Horstman, Lincoln—Applied Science Heidi Sarala Simmons, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and Blayne Logan Sharpe, Lincoln—Applied Science Teacher Education Jodie Lynn Smith, Hancock, IA—Educational Administration MASTER OF ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING Ellen Lorraine Grabner Strebar, Naperville, IL—Educational Administration Richard Branton, Omaha—Architectural Engineering Betsy Totten, Eureka, CA—Journalism and Mass Communications MASTER OF ARTS Sydney Lynn Webb, Topeka, KS—Educational Administration Shannon Renee Ankeny, Lincoln—Journalism and Mass Michael Wilson, Fremont—Journalism and Mass Communications Communications Tianna Leigh Bankhead, Omaha—Teaching, Learning and Laura Madeline Wiseman, Lincoln—Journalism and Mass Teacher Education Communications Sydney Kaye Baty, Papillion—English Demeitre Dariel Brim, Dundee, FL—Educational MASTER OF ARTS FOR TEACHERS Administration Alyssa Brooke Baber, Crete—Mathematics Mackenzie Burk, Omaha—Special Education Alleen Nicole Christensen, Lincoln—Teaching, Learning and MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Teacher Education Justin Alan Ellerbe, Lincoln—Educational Administration Brian Joseph Britton, Beaufort, SC—Business Amanda Lee Fairley, Fairbury—Educational Administration Emily Alison Edge Biersdorf, Los Angeles, CA—Business Zane Burton Gaudern, Fort Walton Beach, FL—Business Sarah Hesna Ghannam, Omaha—Anthropology Earl Thomas Hughes, Lincoln—Business Morgan Jean Green, Lincoln—Educational Administration Stephanie Lynn Jacobsen, McCool Junction—Business Whitney L. Jurgens, Cortland—Journalism and Mass Communications Vimal Mehta, Olathe, KS—Business Bethany Julene Kraft, Lincoln—Textiles, Merchandising and Anne Elizabeth Rimmington, Omaha—Business Fashion Design Anh Phan Le, Hanoi, Vietnam—Business MASTER OF COMMUNITY AND Kathryn Elizabeth Duncan Lentz, Mauldin, SC—Educational REGIONAL PLANNING Administration Muath Saleh R. Altuijary, Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia—Community Christopher A. Machian, Omaha—Journalism and Mass and Regional Planning Communications Kelechi Emmanuel Chibuikem, Lincoln—Community and Alyssa Marie Mettler, Mankato, MN—Educational Regional Planning Administration RaeAnna Hartsgrove, Lincoln—Community and Regional Planning
38 MASTER OF EDUCATION Tiana Marie Maier, Cedar Rapids, IA—Speech-Language Colin Patrick Clare, Lincoln—Educational Administration Pathology and Audiology Ann Marie Teigland, Bellevue—Special Education Lauryl Marie McClintick, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Esha Mishra, Kirtipur, Nepal—Physics and Astronomy MASTER OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Luke Erias Monhollon, Roca—Agricultural and Biological Austin Jay Fricke, Lincoln—Engineering Management Systems Engineering Rachel Irene Hanigan, Edmond, OK—Engineering Lindsay Marie Overmyer, Lincoln—Entomology Management Megan Celia Ringo, Crete, IL—Leadership Education Steven Austin Lesher, Columbus—Engineering Management Alexander John Rogge, Auburn—Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics MASTER OF MUSIC Mikki Rosemary Sandin, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family William Charles Green, Elkhorn—Music Studies Jaquelyn Frances Havranek, Omaha—Music Lawrence Gustavo Seminario-Romero, Scottsbluff— Mathematics Chelsea Elizabeth Kuddes, Hooper—Music Suresh Thapa, Okhaldhunga, Nepal—Computer Science Elaina Joy Matthews, Lincoln—Music Tunc Deniz Uludag, Merkez/Canakkale, Turkey—Architectural Anna Katrina Wigtil, Lincoln—Music Engineering Elisa Vasquez, Pharr, TX—Mechanical Engineering and MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANCY Applied Mechanics Amanda Lee Farver, Ankeny, IA—Accountancy Abby JoAnn Kile, Lawrence—Accountancy
MASTER OF SCIENCE Mary Opokua Ampaw-Asiedu, Kenner, LA—Actuarial Science Emaly Lynn Ball, Kearney—Child, Youth and Family Studies Jacob Alexander DeLone, Fayetteville, NC—Civil Engineering D M P B Dissanayake, Menikdiwela, Sri Lanka—Natural Resource Sciences Thilini Kumari Ekanayaka, Lincoln—Physics and Astronomy Pejman Ghasemzadeh, Tehran, Iran—Telecommunications Engineering Deepak Ghimire, Nawalparasi, Nepal—Agronomy Elizabeth Marie Griffith, Lincoln—Child, Youth and Family Studies Zachary Dale Horstman, Lincoln—Natural Resource Sciences Alexandra Claire Hotchkiss, Omaha—Physics and Astronomy Mark A. Keck, Plainview—Agronomy Meredith Kathleen Konkol, Lincoln—Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Sumeet Maan, New Delhi, India—Computer Science
39 Professional Degrees College of Architecture Presented by Dean Katherine Ankerson MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Devin Bayles McLean, Denver, CO—Architecture
College of Law
JURIS DOCTOR Devon Michelle Fox, Sioux Falls, SD Ashley Marie Inbau, Omaha (With Distinction) Sarah Jane Moore, Elkhorn (With High Distinction)
40 Chancellor’s Scholars Students honored as Chancellor’s Scholars have earned As on all of their graded work at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and all other postsecondary institutions attended by the student during his or her academic career. At least 42 hours must have been earned at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
LUKAS RYAN THAYER HALL AMY JANE HEUSINKVELT KATHERINE LOUISE SCHOENHALS Biochemistry, Elkhorn Geography, Columbus Elementary Education, Fairmont AUSTIN ROBERT HAUFLE CALEB CHRISTIAN KROHN CLAIR MARIE TRENHAILE Nutrition and Health Sciences (Nutrition Accounting, Finance, Osmond Communication Sciences and Disorders, Science Option), Wilbur Bloomfield
41 Baccalaureate Degrees College of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jessica Ashley Glas, Geneva, IL Agricultural Sciences IN AGRONOMY (With High Distinction) Caleb Joseph Eckel, Pleasanton Lukas Ryan Thayer Hall, Omaha & Natural Resources (Chancellor’s Scholar) Jacob Dominic Ernest, Lodgepole (With Highest Distinction) Presented by Dean Tiffany Heng-Moss Dalton Gene Johnson, Gering (University Honors Program) Jeannie Marie Lozowski, Upper BACHELOR OF ARTS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Darby, PA IN HOSPITALITY, RESTAURANT IN ANIMAL SCIENCE (With Distinction) & TOURISM MANAGEMENT Alexa McKenna Barber, Lincoln Samantha Mae Surber, Bennington Shaelah Htoo, Madison (With Highest Distinction) Kelsey Jane Jameson, Kearney Leslie Benitez, Moreno Valley, CA BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Erin Nicole Blucher, Ramona, CA IN ENVIRONMENTAL BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Jade Bottger, Lincoln RESTORATION SCIENCE IN AGRIBUSINESS Brianna Elizabeth Davis, Bellevue Katelyn Johannah Boden, Hallam Luke James Ausdemore, Persia, IA Dawn Marie Eckel, Chambers Rebekah Suzanne Simmons, Lincoln Haley Lee Ehrke, Orleans (With Distinction) Phelan Eleanor Stover, St. Petersburg, FL Brent Roy Miller, Oakland Alexia Marie Hamilton, Omaha (With Distinction) Jeremy William Henkel, Campbell BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (University Honors Program) Caitlin Grace Janke, Battle Creek IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Karly Ann Niewohner, Scribner Ronald James Kramer, West Point Aldi Jeferson Airori, Jayapura, Indonesia Chase Daniel Samuelson, Palmer Dakota James Lovett, Bladen Brent Roy Miller, Oakland BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With Distinction) IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS (University Honors Program) Alaina Kapla, White House, TN Alyssa Rose Ehler, Elkhorn Erin Jeanne Muntz, Louisville Lexy Jean Polivanov, Gretna Brennan Joseph Williams, Holdrege Katelyn Jeanette Grace Petersen, Lyons (University Honors Program) Kelsey Anne Phillips, Mullen Nathan Jeffrey Zach, Norfolk BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Elizabeth Ruskamp, North Bend IN AGRICULTURAL & Alexandra Lari Stich, Alliance BACHELOR OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES IN FISHERIES & WILDLIFE COMMUNICATION BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN APPLIED SCIENCE Christian Nathaniel Bennett, Falls City Haley Lee Ehrke, Orleans Ryan Michael Husa, Liberty Katelyn Johannah Boden, Hallam Jillyan Nycole Johnson, Kansas City, MO BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Arden Tyree Kimme, Omaha IN BIOCHEMISTRY (With Distinction) Alexander John Kemnitz, Grand Island (University Honors Program) Andrea Aileen Cadlo, Omaha (With High Distinction) Lindsey Ann Pearl LaBrie, Hastings Claudia Morgan Van Dyke, Lincoln Jocelyn Gina Marie Daubendiek, Gretna (With High Distinction) (With Highest Distinction) (University Honors Program) (University Honors Program)
42 Jana Therese Malene, Omaha BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With Distinction) IN INSECT SCIENCE IN VETERINARY SCIENCE Alyssa Jean Noble, Chadron Timothy Micheal Thielen, Fremont Meredith Rae Batten, Fremont Alexandrea Elisabeth Otto, Omaha Braden Quinn Wojahn, Prior Lake, MN (With High Distinction) (With Distinction) (University Honors Program) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Lexy Jean Polivanov, Gretna IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE College of (University Honors Program) Paige Clementine Reimers, Boelus Joseline Dusabe, Lincoln Architecture Algarde Jefferson Habanineza, Kigali, Presented by Dean Katherine Ankerson BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Rwanda IN FOOD SCIENCE & Vanessa Ibambe Nkesha, Kigali, Rwanda BACHELOR OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Zilfa Irakoze, Lincoln IN DESIGN (With High Distinction) Xueyan Hu, Renqiu, China Angel Fawn Coleman, Lincoln Ange Nicole Ishimwe, Kigali, Rwanda Jessica Rae Humphrey, Lincoln Faith Porter Combs, Omaha Besta Mugabekazi, Kigali, Rwanda (With Highest Distinction) Rosemary Jacquelyn Dayton, (University Honors Program) Polly Musayidizi, Kigali, Rwanda Urbandale, IA Emily Elizabeth Jundt, Lincoln Hubert Muyirate, Kigali, Rwanda (With Distinction) Junru Pan, YangLing, China Lambertine Niyomwungeri, Kigali, Jamee Elaine Decker, Omaha Xu Shi, Lincoln Rwanda Leia Grace Farrens, Tekamah Justin Quang-Trieu Tran, Papillion Eric Nkurikiye, Kicukiro, Rwanda Margaret Jane Gies, Lincoln (With Distinction) Tania Rugamba, Kigali, Rwanda (With Distinction) Vanessa Whitmore, Shelby Ferdinand Turatsinze, Kigali, Rwanda (University Honors Program) Raissa Urujeni, Lincoln Nicole Paige Phinney, Grand Island BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Nadine Uwayezu, Kigali, Rwanda (With Distinction) IN FORENSIC SCIENCE Charlotte Elizabeth Wortmann, Sophia Grace Kallas, Green Bay, WI BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Waterloo (With Highest Distinction) IN MECHANIZED SYSTEMS (University Honors Program) MANAGEMENT BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Alexis Taylor Overman, Omaha Pray Reh, Lincoln Shana Nicole Rewolinski, Gretna Jacob Michael Schlick, Fairfield Kristina Harms, Sioux Falls, SD Santanna Hazel Marie Schunk, Shell Rock, IA BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Timothy Micheal Thielen, Fremont IN MICROBIOLOGY College of Arts & Ibraheem Damilola Hamzat, Chicago, IL Sciences BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Alexis Eduardo Mercado, Madison IN GRAZING LIVESTOCK Presented by Dean Mark Button SYSTEM BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF ARTS Ronald James Kramer, West Point IN PGA GOLF MANAGEMENT Juan Enrique Alarcon San Martin, Blake Hunter Schroeder, Columbus Lincoln BACHELOR OF SCIENCE East Norwich, NY Lydia Grace Allen, Ainsworth IN HORTICULTURE Shuang Zhao, Violette Lauren Tamim Al-Timimi, Eric Christopher Bohaty, Seward Lincoln Phillip Michael Astorino, Omaha
43 Lisa Susan Ath, Lincoln Kalley Elizabeth Hottovy, Morris, MN Sasha Orieny, Lincoln Emily Elizabeth Bargar, Lincoln Christopher Y. Hu, Lincoln Alexis Jeanette Orr, Elk Point, SD Joseph Arthur Barney, Lincoln Maizie Alexa Humm, Lincoln Maya Linn Peirce, Lincoln Shannon Samantha Barrientos, Lincoln (With Distinction) Ana Gabriela Perez-Senic, Grand Island Lyrica Rayven Baxter, Lincoln Amanda Claire Suzanne Ilg, Lincoln Rosina Yolanda Pirwitz, Omaha Sara Anne Benes, Lincoln (With Distinction) Bailey Powell, Albuquerque, NM Gillian Taylor Bennett, Omaha Joy Elizabeth Karges, Lincoln (With Distinction) (With Highest Distinction) Claire Marie Berman, Sioux Falls, SD Peyton Reynolds, Omaha (University Honors Program) Grace Lauren Billig, Omaha (With Distinction) Ellen Frances Keast, Harlan, IA Alejandro Rodriguez, Lincoln Thea Jennifer Bowzer, Omaha (With Distinction) Leslie Rojas, Norfolk Sabrina Jane Broderick, Lake Alan Raymond Kickert, Midlothian, IL Barrington, IL Kyle Edward Rojewski, Seward Jodell Kocsis, Granbury, TX Ronaldo Mauricio Carcamo, Lincoln Madison Rose Sanders, Lincoln Alyssa Jade Kugler, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Sabrina Marie Schroeder, Chanhassen, Carey Elizabeth Kyes, Fremont Lesley Castanaza, Grand Island MN Lindsey Ann Pearl LaBrie, Hastings Briseyda Rubí Ceballos Cornejo, Grand Emilee Nicole Shaw, Brady (With Distinction) Island Anna Nit Singharath, South Sioux City (University Honors Program) Kaitlin Marie Cipperley, Ogallala Robyn Erin Smith, Lincoln Mia Catherine Lambertsen, Sioux City, Anthony Daniel Cipriano, Wheaton, IL IA Matthew Bryan Stafford, Lincoln Tessa Elizabeth Comfort, Lincoln Ava Isabelle Landis, River Forest, IL Michaela Lynn Stutheit, Lincoln Ann Marie Decero, Downers Grove, IL Carah Bronte Ludwig, Omaha Moo Ku Taw, Lincoln Yesenia Dayana Delgadillo-Orozco, Taynen Nikkol Mach, Anselmo Kelsey Brynn Tillman, Lincoln Dakota City Monica Marie Marsolek, Lincoln Gillian Alexandra Toland, Lincoln Emma Grace Ebito, Lincoln Lauren Elizabeth Mayer, Omaha Diego Alfredo Trejo, Omaha Alyssa Rose Ehler, Elkhorn Ariel Nichole McDonald, Newton, NJ Ruvarashe Ione Tsoka, Omaha Marwa Salih Eissa, Grand Island Kaitlin Ann McKenna, Omaha Vanessa Janean Tym, Bristol, WI Abigail Susan Enholm, Omaha Lauren Soller McNeal, Kearney Trina Iyamuremye Uwineza, Lincoln Guadalupe Esquivel, Grand Island (With Highest Distinction) (With Distinction) Lily Ann-Marie Farrens, Elyria (University Honors Program) McKenzie Rochelle Vincent, Papillion Jannel Lynn Fiehtner, Kimball Brenna Lenae Micek, Omaha Sarah Ruth Wearne, Lincoln Laura Andrea Gamboa Urrego, Grand (With High Distinction) David Del Weed, Maineville, OH Island (University Honors Program) Sarah Elizabeth Weisbecker, Lincoln Morgan Ann Glup, Willmar, MN Flora Jino Kalisto Said Mondi, Bellevue Alexis Nicole Wildrick, Lincoln (With Highest Distinction) Monica Diana Moreno, Lincoln Fernando Wisniewski-Peña, Omaha (University Honors Program) Ashley Marie Morrison, Randolph Landon Yelken, Minden Alexis Marie Grossnicklaus, Ellisville, (With Highest Distinction) Virginia Mae Yoder, Lincoln MO (University Honors Program) Nestor Isaias Hernandez, Lincoln Vivian Ngoc-Thuy Nguyen, Omaha BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With Distinction) Chenoa Jordan Nichols, Haysville, KS Amy Jane Heusinkvelt, Columbus Rachel Elizabeth Nissen, Lincoln Emily Christine Anderson, Lake Havasu (Chancellor’s Scholar) City, AZ Jared Syed Noetzel, Omaha (With High Distinction) (With Highest Distinction) Darren Brian Armstrong, North Platte (University Honors Program) (University Honors Program) (University Honors Program)
44 Nathan Michael Asselin, Lincoln Rachel Anne Nielsen, Omaha Elizabeth Bayley Brake, Lincoln Masen Eric Bachleda, Carpentersville, IL (With Distinction) Dominic Rohan Campbell, Omaha Sanat Bhandari, Lincoln Taylor Gayle O’Brien, Falls City Hunter James Chadd, Lincoln (With Distinction) Hannah Juyoung Oh, Lincoln Catherine Constance Chapman, Melissa Claire Bowers, Omaha Evan M. Parsons, Sidney Waukesha, WI Remington Cole Brandenburger, Lincoln Kelly Kay Petersen, Omaha Oscar Chavez-Franco, La Vista Lauren Christine Brickett, Ponca (With Distinction) Max Monter Colligan, Lincoln Kaitlin Elizabeth Buhler, Bloomington, IL (University Honors Program) Brady Raymond Conant, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Noelle Anne Pick, Omaha (University Honors Program) (University Honors Program) Khristina Alexandra Polivanov, Gretna (Nebraska Business Honors Academy) Hung Phuc Chu, Omaha (University Honors Program) Megan Lynn Copsey, Gering Lauren Ellyse Cohn, Highlands Ranch, Daniel Creighton Popelka, La Vista (With Highest Distinction) CO Ibraim Erbey Salinas, Norfolk (University Honors Program) Jamie Rae Foote, Arvada, CO Courtney Brooke Schuster, Shenandoah, (Nebraska Business Honors Academy) Aiswary Ganapathy Devendra Rajan, IA Jeffrey Charles Crate, Omaha Lincoln Shivani Tamkiya, Lincoln Dalia Cruz, Villa Park, IL Wintana Tewelde Ghebreyohannes, Tuyet Tien Mickey Tran, Lincoln Erin Elizabeth Cummings, Medford, MA Asmara, Eritrea Baolong C. Truong, Lincoln Connor Alan Curry, Lincoln Abby J. Herding, Storden, MN (University Honors Program) Olivia Mae Danner, Berlin, Germany (With High Distinction) Allison Marie West, Omaha (With High Distinction) Dominic Henry Hezel, Papillion Hope Elizabeth Wilke, North Platte Brady James Dickson, Lincoln Dana Francis Hoppe, Columbus Jared Thomas Yost, Lincoln Mayte Briggite Dingman, Greenwood (With Distinction) (University Honors Program) Anh H. Do, Omaha (University Honors Program) Chi Zhang, Hangzhou, China Dominic Thanh Duong, Lincoln Margaret Jane Hutson, Omaha Joshua Mark Dycus, Hastings (University Honors Program) Emma Susan Eastman, Mound, MN Nathan Karl Jatczak, Papillion College of Business Daniel Alan Engmark, Bolingbrook, IL Jacey Marie Kant, Norfolk Presented by Dean Kathy Farrell Ethan David Foxall, Papillion Eli Raymond Kliment, Creighton (With High Distinction) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Rowan Marie Franks, Omaha Pierre Bienvenido Lavedan, Colleyville, IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Chenfeng Gao, Lincoln TX Julian Alejandro Garcia, Lincoln Daniel John Albin, Lincoln Liam Hoang Quoc Le, Lincoln Abigail Johannah Greeneway, Appleton, Sarah Elizabeth Alexander, Omaha Elise Marie Le Coz, Tewin, Great Britain WI Abdulrahman Khalid Hilal Alqalhati, John Bruce Guiton II, Woodbury, MN Jenica Nicole Lesser, Papillion Lincoln Justin James Lukas, Hastings Leigh Elizabeth Hanson, Omaha Violette Lauren Tamim Al-Timimi, (With Distinction) David Andrew Maas, Lincoln Lincoln (University Honors Program) (With Distinction) Sarah Nicole Arthur, Chesapeake, VA (Nebraska Business Honors Academy) Yakira Breaun McKay, Omaha Amjad Khamis Muhanna Awlad Thani, Anthony Michael Hare, Alliance Alexander Tamer Megahy, Belleville, IL Muscat, Oman (University Honors Program) Lucille Lorraine Melcher, Lincoln (With Distinction) (Nebraska Business Honors Academy) Fatima A. Mohammed, Elkhorn Jennifer Ann Bogle, Austin, MN Brooke Elizabeth Harmon, Omaha Haley Nicole Nelson, Springdale, AR (With Highest Distinction) Jackson Edward Hartley, Lincoln (University Honors Program) Zachary Helms, Omaha
45 Natasha Joy Hindia, Saint Paul, MN Rachel A. Olig, Omaha Justin Meinert Wissmann, Lincoln Eric Alan Horn, Weeping Water Joseph Ryan Osbron, Valencia, CA Rongyuxian Wu, Lincoln Alexis Camille Hruby, Lincoln Hannah Ruth Pearson, Omaha Fandi Xu, Omaha (With Highest Distinction) Brittney Anne Peden, Bloomington, IL Tessa Marie Masako Yonekura, Lincoln Alyssa Michelle Joseph, Greeley, CO (With High Distinction) Xueqing Zhao, Shenyang, Chn (With High Distinction) (University Honors Program) Tori Ryba Kimminau, Lincoln Linh Thuy Phung, Lincoln Olivia Noelle Klein, New Berlin, IL (With Distinction) College of Education Gunnar Patrick Kliver, Omaha Gregory Toby Piechalak, Omaha & Human Sciences Diamond Koh, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Race Parker Kohel, Lincoln Xueyao Qi, Shenyang, China Presented by Dean Sherri Jones (With Highest Distinction) Emma Marianne Kolb, West Fargo, ND BACHELOR OF ARTS Timothy Frank Rakestraw, Blair Hannah Rose Krajicek, Papillion IN HOSPITALITY, RESTAURANT Anja Miangola Diana Rakotoarimanana, Caleb Christian Krohn, Osmond & TOURISM MANAGEMENT Antananarivo, Madagascar (Chancellor’s Scholar) Jenae Cecilia Boudreau, Minden (With Highest Distinction) Jordan Nicole Rehagen, Olathe, KS Megan Lynn Copsey, Gering (University Honors Program) Gabriela Joanna Rodriguez, Lincoln (With Distinction) (Nebraska Business Honors Academy) Rammuhamed Sabyrkulov, Tokmok, (University Honors Program) Sydney Faye Lacher, Hugo, MN Kyrgyzstan Therese Marie Lux, Norfolk Kathryn Louise Lawton, Dixon, IL Daulten Kevin Sadd, Hastings Hannah Grayce Schlotthauer, Lincoln Rebekah Marie Lee, Le Mars, IA (With High Distinction) Jacob Matthew Sahulka, Weeping Water Gage Walker Lippold, Crete BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Vincent John Malene, Omaha Veronica Sanchez Gonzalez, Gibbon IN EDUCATION & HUMAN (With Highest Distinction) Jared Christopher Sasse, Lincoln SCIENCES (University Honors Program) Blake Hunter Schroeder, Columbus Claire Elyse Aden, Littleton, CO (Nebraska Business Honors Academy) Bailee Rae Smith, Salem, SD Erica Renee Alquist, Clay Center, KS Makinsey Taylor Manning, Lincoln Emma Kay Smith, Omaha Madeline Louise McDougal, Omaha (With Distinction) Andrew Scott Bailey, Broken Bow Sydney Ann McManamy, Sioux City, IA Matthew David Snyder, Lincoln Sophia Josephine Bardales, Grand Island Nathan Wesley McNiel, Holdrege Benjamin William Spargo, Columbia, IL Samuel Charles Barnes, Lincoln Samantha Joy Miedl, Omaha (With High Distinction) Allison Elise Becker, O’Neill Brock Robert Milius, Plattsmouth Yvonne Marie Stone, Lincoln Alexandra Lynne Beckman, Ashland Jake Louis Modica, Naperville, IL Erica Miwa Taddiken, Manhattan Alexa Leigh Berry, Bertrand Yamilet Naomi Nevarez-Alarcon, Beach, CA Grace Lauren Billig, Omaha Schuyler Ermiyas Tekeste, Lincoln Katie Michelle Brinamen, Lincoln Bao Duc Nguyen, Lincoln Mai Thi Ngoc Tran, Lincoln Megan Michelle Britton, Lincoln Chi Linh Nguyen, Lincoln Cindy Paola Valladares, Lincoln Kendel Renae Burr, Dunbar (With Distinction) Benjamin Vanness, La Vista Alexander Nicholas Casebeer, Omaha Tam T. Nguyen, Lincoln Andretti Joseph White, Omaha Briseyda Rubí Ceballos Cornejo, Grand Lindsey Kay Nissen, Lincoln Spencer Hayes White, Chapel Hill, NC Island Rachel Lynn Novicki, Sheboygan, WI (With High Distinction) Morgan Rae Chipps, Roca (With Highest Distinction) Grace Katherine Whitmer, Lincoln (University Honors Program)
46 Lauren Ellyse Cohn, Highlands Ranch, Kennedy James Krikac, Lincoln College of Engineering CO Morgan M. Kuklis, Lincoln Raylie May Dinterman, Riverside, CA Katherine Mason Lansman, Lincoln Presented by Associate Dean Josie Cara Doxzon, Papillion (With High Distinction) Sohrab Asgarpoor Jessica Paige Engler, Downs, KS Christine Le, Lincoln BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Abigail Susan Enholm, Omaha Alexis Monique Madlock, Lincoln IN AGRICULTURAL Hannah Leigh Ervin, Elkhorn (With Distinction) ENGINEERING Claire Marie Franklin, Omaha Jeyson Fransisco Martinez, Lincoln Nicholas Albert Boehler, San Ramon, CA Lauren Elise Galán, Evanston, IL Cole Allen Meadows, Elkhorn Rylan Alvin Dvorak, St. Paul Erica Ann Garcia, Grand Island Hannah Marie Meints, Cortland (With Distinction) (With High Distinction) (With Distinction) Grant Paul Gaspers, Norfolk Habiba I. Ghaifan, Lincoln Sarah Marie Meyer, Norfolk Josie C. Gilligan, Chicago, IL (With Distinction) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With Distinction) Angela Maria Miller, Superior IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Taylor Renae Golden, Cody, WY Sabrina Musau Mukuna, Lincoln ENGINEERING (With Distinction) Andrea Nicole Neill, Omaha Matthew Dale Boren, Platte City, MO Hailey Capri Greene, Lincoln Stasia Marie Nielsen, Sterling Shauntaa’ Sheree Burkhalter, Lincoln Keeley Hagge, Fordyce Tayten Mikel O’Brien, Falls City Connor C. Gee, Lincoln Macee Lynn Harris, Lincoln Michael Timothy Odle, Sandy, UT Lowell Amandus Johnson, Wahoo Austin Robert Haufle, Swanton Carmen Yasmin Paniagua, Madison Andrew Paul Kremer, Woodbury, MN (Chancellor’s Scholar) Abigail Perry, Highlands Ranch, CO Ashley Nicole Slattery, Papillion (With Highest Distinction) Kelsey Jean Safarik, Farwell Madeline Elyse Hoffman, Derby, KS (With Distinction) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (With Distinction) Eleanor Colleen Sartore, Lincoln IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Maizie Alexa Humm, Lincoln Katherine Louise Schoenhals, Lincoln Mark William Kathol, Lincoln Ayah Issa, Lincoln (Chancellor’s Scholar) Hannah Kathleen Jacobs, San Antonio, (With Highest Distinction) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE TX Jeseca Jeanne Stolte, Lincoln IN CIVIL ENGINEERING Brittany Marie Jennett, Lincoln Haley Rose Thiele, Lincoln Juan Alejandro Arellanes Gallarzo, Jr., Cole Allen Jividen, Geneva Clair Marie Trenhaile, Bloomfield Grand Island Avery Patricia Johnson, Holdrege (Chancellor’s Scholar) Huy Nhat Nguyen, Hanoi, Vietnam (With Distinction) (With Highest Distinction) Gurkirat Singh, Lincoln Karlie Jade Johnson, Gering Lyn’Asia Unique Valentine, Omaha Chi Zhang, Hangzhou, China Destiny Michelle-Ranae Jones, Lincoln Corinne Rose VerMulm, Sioux Falls, SD Kimberly Ann Jorgenson, Gothenburg Olivia Jordan Versaw, Lincoln BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Cassie Lynn Jorges, Johnson Lake Daniela Andrea Villabona, Papillion IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING Bryce Nicole Kaltenbach, Omaha Radious Devine Walker-Woods, Lincoln Antony Habib Habib, Waverly Kyle Noel Kelly, Corona, CA Rachel Judith Wells, Cairo (With Highest Distinction) Teadrana Kbrianna Knox, Omaha Samantha Belle Wolff, Norfolk Richard Irungu Maina, Lincoln Rachael Marilyn Kohrell, Lincoln Logan Anthony Uhlir, Sidney (With Distinction) (With Distinction) Grace Anne Zatorski, Olathe, KS (University Honors Program) (Jeffrey S. Raikes School)
47 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN CONSTRUCTION IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Mackenzie Johanna Conroy, Lincoln MANAGEMENT Brooke Elizabeth Lampe, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Trevor James Camenzind, Omaha (With Highest Distinction) Isaac Richard Mitchell, Kearney Hannah Michelle Pence, Danville, CA (University Honors Program) Morgan Melissa Roth, Omaha BACHELOR OF MUSIC Hixson-Lied College IN EDUCATION BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Asael Arévalo González, Lincoln IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING of Fine & Performing (With Distinction) Abdul Aziz Musabah Khalfan Al-Harrasi, Arts Bosi Fang, Omaha Seeb, Oman Sajjad Ali Nasser Alhassan, Lincoln Presented by Dean Charles O’Connor Ryan Patrick Bates, Lincoln BACHELOR OF ARTS College of Julian Ryan Caudillo, Kansas City, KS Ashley Marie Collins, Omaha Journalism & Mass Jonathan Kristopher Pachunka, Omaha Jalaya Kayvonne Daye, Omaha Communications Michaella Zerda Deladia, Grand Island BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Presented by Dean Shari Veil IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Miranda Lauren Finn, Belle Chasse, LA (With High Distinction) BACHELOR OF JOURNALISM Alexis Teodoro Chavez Garcia, Omaha (University Honors Program) Amanda Lynn Acevedo, Flanders, NJ Pin Hao Cheng, Lincoln Gabriela De La Cruz Gonzales, Bellevue (With Distinction) Nicholas David Andryshak, Goshen, NY Japrice Ta’Zhon Green, Omaha Jonathon Francis Cowley, Windsor, CO Mckenna Rae Arthur, Lincoln Adriana Michell Martinez Henriquez, Lydia Asplin, Seward Aaron Lee Finkey, Lincoln Lincoln Sitti Amirah Azizah, Lincoln Christopher Matthew Fisher, Fairbury Gayle Lynn Rocz, Elkhorn Grace Elizabeth Bornschlegl Trexel, Kyle Evan Groshong, McCook Katie Ann Schini, Post Falls, ID Lincoln James Calvin Hanson, Omaha (With High Distinction) Charles Krueger, Lincoln Ali Marie Brehmer, Omaha (With Distinction) Jiaqi Li, Lincoln BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Cassie Raygene Brenner, Valparaiso Eric Austin Mears, La Vista Gabrielle C Connor, Newnan, GA Juan Jose Casarin, Lincoln Hessan Sedaghat, Tehran, Iran Ryan Matthew Hovland, Omaha Taylor Ruth Christian, Bellevue (University Honors Program) Kristina Marie Insingo, Floral Park, NY Kimberly-Frances Tabot Chungong, Lenin Paul Stephenpaul Joshua, Alyssa Danielle May, Lincoln Chennai, India Lee’s Summit, MO Patrick Joseph Pantoja, Omaha (With High Distinction) Zachary Scott Vyhlidal, Elkhorn Maya Linn Peirce, Lincoln Ashley Marie Collins, Omaha Alexander Kim Wheeler, Bellevue Lindsey Marie Pinkerton, Crete (With Distinction) Yahaira Cortez, Elkhorn (University Honors Program) Jessica Adriana Reiter, David City Ashlynn Kay Devall, Lincoln Jace Devyn Wieseler, Omaha Jesse Clayton Esquivel, Lincoln (With Distinction) Tuscan Alexander Fairfield, Lincoln
48 Eyram Fidegnon, Omaha Mariah Paige Tupper, Lincoln Jessica Rylie Fowler, Denton Mia Suzanne Virgillito, Lincoln Celine Haynes, Omaha (With High Distinction) Erin Michele Hunter, Bellevue John Daniel Weed, Maineville, OH Sumit Jagdale, Lincoln Acacia Maya Wetzstein, Fargo, ND (With High Distinction) Jeremy Andrew Wharton, Waterford, MI Yanzhu Jiang, Kunming, China Brenna McKinley Zollman, Gretna Isabelle Grace Johnson, Lincoln (With High Distinction) Sierra Karst, Omaha Amer Imran Khan, Lincoln Emilee Kaitlyn Lesser, Papillion College of (With Distinction) Public Affairs & Myles Alexander McGary, Encino, CA Community Service Matthew Ross Miller, Papillion Ann Simone Milroy, Omaha Presented by Associate Dean Theresa Barron-McKeagney Lauren Elizabeth Nunez, Lincoln Jacquelyn Marie O’Meara, Olathe, KS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Brianna Christine Olesen, Bellevue IN CRIMINOLOGY AND Kip G. Ortega, Grand Island CRIMINAL JUSTICE Kaitlyn Ann Pfannenstiel, Omaha Christopher Peter Dean, Papillion (With Distinction) Kaitlyn Paege Ford, Oxford Hannah Rose Polacek, Wahoo Morgan Ashly Goulette, Papillion Jacob Jeffrey Polesky, Omaha Patrick C. Hayford, Omaha Camryn Celine Preston, Axtell Zachary Alan Philip Lanham, Omaha (With High Distinction) (With Distinction) Christa Rahl, Papillion Sandra Lopez Padilla, Omaha (With High Distinction) Danielle Marie Martin, Lincoln Christopher Kye Rush, Denver, CO Quashira Y. McIntosh, Providence, RI Oscar Manuel Salazar Reyes, Lincoln Kaitlyn Ann Mullen, Littleton, CO Kyle Santos, Hastings Joy Darnisha Randolph, Lincoln Kristen Sierra Seidl, Papillion Tara Marie Schlisner, Lincoln Logan John Skrabal, Omaha Elianet Tamayo, Lincoln (With Highest Distinction) (With High Distinction) (University Honors Program) Brittany Rose Tyler, Saint Louis, MO Helena Gabrielle Slaughter, Chicago, IL (With High Distinction) Destiny Lyric Southern, Lincoln Elsie Cullen Stormberg, Omaha Casey Thomas Surma, Dunkirk, NY Sarah Allison Sutton, Beaufort, SC
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The caps and gowns worn during not worn by candidates for the bachelors Doctorate Degrees formal academic occasions in American degree but only by those upon whom this Audiology – olive green colleges today are the direct descendants degree has been previously conferred. Education – light blue of the everyday costumes worn in the The masters hood is considerably longer, Law – purple universities of Medieval England. has a wider velvet edging, and exposes Music – pink Because of the tremendous growth of more of the lining. The doctors hood Philosophy – blue American colleges and the confusion has wide panels at the side and is easily Plant Health – maize which would result if each were to adopt recognized since, of the three types of a distinctive costume, the Intercollegiate hoods, it has the widest velvet edging, Tassel Colors Bureau of Academic Costume was greatest length, and fullest exposure of Undergraduate – black organized. The Bureau has established the lining. Masters – same color as hood a uniform code which over 700 The black mortar board cap with tassel Doctorate – gold institutions have adopted. is worn with each type of gown. Those There are three types of gowns and holding a doctors degree are privileged to DEGREES WITH DISTINCTION three types of hoods for bachelors, wear a gold tassel. Masters and bachelors Selection for degrees with distinction, masters, and doctors, respectively. wear tassels that are either black or the high distinction, and highest distinction The bachelors gown has a long pointed color appropriate to the course in which is made by the college awarding the sleeve; the masters gown has a long they are being graduated. degree. Each college establishes its closed sleeve, square at the end with The Board of Regents, the President, requirement for this honor. Students an arc of a circle just above the bottom. and the Chancellor wear robes with velvet graduating with honors are presented a The sleeve extends well below the front panels and sleeve bars denoting their keepsake medallion. A medallion with knee, the arm coming through a slit office. The Commencement Marshals a red ribbon denotes graduation with near the elbow. The doctors gown has wear scarlet robes with black velvet front distinction, one with a white ribbon a voluminous bell-shaped sleeve with panels and sleeve bars. denotes high distinction, and one with three velvet bars. The colors of the bars Hood colors observed at this a combination red and white ribbon are usually the colors of the faculty that commencement, which symbolize denotes highest distinction. granted the degree, but may be black. various areas of study, are as follows: Chancellor's Scholars have earned As on The hood is the most important and all of their graded work at the University distinctive feature of the code. The Masters Degrees of Nebraska–Lincoln and all other hoods for all degrees are lined with silk Agriculture – maize postsecondary institutions. They wear a in the official academic color or colors Architecture – lilac Chancellor’s Scholar pin on their ribbon. of the institution conferring the degree Arts – white Graduates of the University Honors and have an edging or trim of velvet. The Business – drab Program have fulfilled specific color of the velvet edging indicates the Education – light blue requirements. Honors Program course or faculty to which the degree Engineering – orange graduates wear a red and white pertains. The lining is exposed when the Fine Arts – brown epaulette in recognition of their hood is worn. For example, a doctor of Human Sciences – maroon achievement. philosophy of the University of Nebraska Journalism (arts) – white will wear a hood whose lining is scarlet Journalism (science) – yellow above the cream-white indicating Law – purple Nebraska, trimmed with blue velvet for Music – pink philosophy. The bachelors hood is rather Public Accounting – drab short with narrow velvet edging. It is Science – golden yellow
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