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Commencement WINTER 2020 Celebrating 50 Years of Commencements 1 2 Contents 4 Freeman A. Hrabowski, III President 5 A Message to the Class of 2020 from President Hrabowski 7 Graduate Commencement 9 Ph.D. Degree Candidates 14 Master’s Degree Candidates 25 Undergraduate Commencement 27 COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND DIVISIONS College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences School of Social Work Erickson School of Aging Studies College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences College of Engineering and Information Technology Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs 53 UMBC Honor Societies 53 Commencement Information 56 Leadership 58 UMBC Alumni Association 60 UMBC Alma Mater OURS IS A SPECIAL COMMUNITY— committed to nurturing people, ideas, and the values that support excellence and service. It is a community that cherishes a common past and looks forward to an exciting future. The poet Langston Hughes tells us to ‘Hold fast to dreams.’ Remember that your dreams and, most important, your character will determine who you become. — FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI, III President of UMBC 5 Freeman A. Hrabowski, III President of UMBC Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, for Leadership Excellence (2011), President of UMBC (University the Carnegie Corporation’s of Maryland, Baltimore County) Academic Leadership Award since 1992, is a consultant on (2011), and the Heinz Award (2012) science and math education to for contributions to improving national agencies, universities, the “Human Condition.” More and school systems. He was recently, he received the American named by President Obama to Council on Education’s Lifetime chair the President’s Advisory Achievement Award (2018), the Commission on Educational University of California, Berkeley’s Excellence for African Americans. Clark Kerr Award (2019), and the He also chaired the National UCSF Medal from the University Academies’ committee that of California San Francisco (2020). produced the report, Expanding UMBC has been recognized as a Underrepresented Minority model for inclusive excellence by Participation: America’s Science such publications as U.S. News, and Technology Talent at the which for more than 10 years has Crossroads (2011). His 2013 TED recognized UMBC as a national talk highlights the “Four Pillars of leader in academic innovation College Success in Science.” and undergraduate teaching. Dr. The Named one of the 100 Most Hrabowski’s most recent book, Empowered University Influential People in the World , written with by TIME (2012) and one of two UMBC colleagues, examines America’s Best Leaders by U.S. how university communities News & World Report (2008), support academic success by he also received TIAA-CREF’s cultivating an empowering Theodore M. Hesburgh Award institutional culture. 6 A MESSAGE TO THE UMBC Class of 2020 FROM PRESIDENT HRABOWSKI Dear Class of 2020, This is a moment of celebration for you and your families. That you have completed the requirements for your degrees during this challenging time demonstrates your grit, determination, and tenacity. While it is unfortunate we cannot be together in-person at the moment, I want you to know how proud we all are of you. This is the 50th year for UMBC commencements, and the unique challenges you have withstood getting to this point only deepen the mark you will leave on this institution and our shared history. I challenge you to take time in the days and weeks ahead to reflect on the academic journey that brought you to this point, and on all the people who provided you with support and encouragement. You have reached an important milestone, and the dreams and values that have guided you will sustain you in the years ahead. Congratulations, Class of 2020. You inspire us. The world needs you now more than ever. Sincerely, Freeman A. Hrabowski, III thGraduate School 75 Commencement 9 10 PH.D. DEGREE College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Unless otherwise noted, at the time of GEOGRAPHY AND publication, the students listed below are doctoral candidates. If all graduation ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS requirements are met, doctoral degrees will be Moustapha Diop* conferred on December 16, 2020. Mentor: LANGUAGE, LITERACY, "To Formalize or Not: Investigating Drivers of AND CULTURE Landholders’ Decisions for Land Formalization in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa, The case of Senegal" Steven Dashiell* Mentor: Dr. Carole McCann Dorothy Borowy "Veteran Identity Construction and Performance: Mentor: Dr. Christopher M. Swan The Case of Student Veterans" "Urban Metacommunities: The Role of Local and Regional Factors on Plant Community Assembly and Landry Digeon* Functional Trait Patterns in Urban Vacant Land" Mentors: Dr. Ed Larkey and Dr. Craig Saper GERONTOLOGY "From New York City to Paris. Crime TV Series Roberto Millar* Adaptations: A Multimodal Digital Semiotics Procedure" Mentors: Dr. Amanda Lehnig Ibrahim Er* and Dr. Takashi Yamashita Mentors: Dr. Ed Larkey "Neighborhood Social Environment and Lower Extremity and Dr. Bilge Yesil Function in Older Adults" "A Critical Approach to Cultural Adaptations: A Case Study on the Localization of Norms of Authority and PSYCHOLOGY Gender Politics in TV Series Adaptations in Turkey" APPLIED Heidi Faust DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Mentors: Dr. Beverly Bickel Merve Balkaya Ince and Dr. Joan Kang Shin Mentor: Dr. Charissa S. L. Cheah "Extending Professional Development Through "A Multi-Method Approach to Examine Predictors and Community: A Case Study of Non-Native English Outcomes of Muslim American Adolescents’ Social Identities" Speaking Teachers of Young Learners in Peru" HUMAN SERVICES PSYCHOLOGY Mary Gallagher Samantha Bento* Mentors: Dr. Beverly Bickel Mentor: Dr. Lynnda Dahlquist and Dr. Sarah Jewett "Great Expectations: The Conditioned Pain Modulation “'What am I Supposed to Look Like?' STEM Identity Response and Induced Optimism in Young Adults" Narratives of Diverse Women Pursuing a Computing Degree Through Vertical Transfer" Adam Lamotte* Mentor: Dr. Christopher M. Murphy Jaclyn Stone "Experiential Avoidance as a Mediator of the Relationship Mentors: Dr. Bambi Chapin Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and and Dr. Christine Mallinson Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration" "Receive, Respond, Report: Faculty Experiences with Students’ Disclosures of Sexual Assault" Daniel Leibel* Mentor: Dr. Shari Waldstein Eva Wright "Telomere Attrition and Age-related Cognitive Decline: Mentor: Dr. Craig Saper Disparities by Poverty Status and Race" "PTSD & Narration: Traumatic Stories' Impact on Realism in Film and Literature" Surbhi Lipkin-Moore* Mentors: Dr. Kenneth Maton and Dr. Shuyan Sun "The Relationship between School Climate, School Valuing, and Academic Achievement among Middle School Students" *August Graduate 11 PH.D. DEGREE College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Zachary Millman* Shariece Evans Mentor: Dr. Jason Schiffman Mentor: Dr. Nancy A. Miller "Facial emotion recognition in attenuated psychosis, "Predicting Parental Participation to Toddler Obesity depressive, and anxiety syndromes: Are impairments Prevention Programs" common or specific?" Kathy Guggino Danielle Shaked* Mentor: Dr. Nancy A. Miller Mentor: Dr. Shari Waldstein "An Analysis of the Impact of Prescription Drug "White Matter Tract Integrity as a Mediator of the Association Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) Operational Variation Between Socioeconomic Status and Executive Function" on Prescription Opioid Abuse" Alicia Wiprovnick* Ann Kellogg Mentor: Dr. Carlo DiClemente Mentor: Dr. Jane Arnold Lincove "Ambivalence about Marijuana Use: A Potential Facilitator "Expanding the Capacity for Data Use in Education of Information Processing and Changes in Attitudes and Policy: Three Papers on the Legislative Origins, Intentions Resulting from Anti-Drug Messaging" Intergovernmental Networks, and Bureaucratic Infrastructure that Contributed to the Rise of State SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY Longitudinal Data Systems" PUBLIC POLICY Amanda Koch Faizah Carr* Mentors: Dr. Jane Lincove Mentor: Dr. Nancy A. Miller and Dr. Lauren Edwards "Factors that Impact Female Utilization of Veteran Health "Enabling Sexual Assault Prevention and Reporting at Administration Services" Maryland Universities" Xiaobei Dong* Tyrone McKoy, Jr. Mentor: Dr. Nancy A. Miller Mentors: Dr. Chris Curran "Effect of the Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care and Dr. Jane Lincove Act on Health Insurance Coverage, Health Care Access, Use, "The Effect of Early Enrollment in a First-Year Seminar on the and Health Outcome for People with Disabilities" Second-Year Retention of New Community College Students" Daryl Dutrow* Nathan Pritchard Mentors: Dr. Tim Gindling Mentor: Dr. Pamela R. Bennett, Ph.D. and Dr. Lisa Dickson "Policy and Contextual Implications for Self-Sufficiency "The Impact of Title IV-E Waivers on the Number of and Length of Stay among Assisted Housing Participants" Children in Foster Care from 2012 to 2016" Justin Velez-Hagan Monica Mean* Mentors: Dr. Ryan Brady Mentors: Dr. F. Chris Curran and Dr. Chunming Yuan and Dr. Jane Arnold Lincove "The Impact of Fiscal Consolidations on Economic Performance" "Career and Technical Education in High School: Anirban Basu Relationships with Postsecondary Trajectories and Mentor: Dr. Marsha Goldfarb Employment Outcomes" "An Early-Stage Evaluation of Maryland's Hospital Care Jennifer Crystle Quality Initiatives" Mentor: Dr. Jane Lincove "The Impacts of National and Institutional Policies on the Internationalization of Higher Education in Australia: What it means for Australia and what it could mean for the United States" 12