Graduate School Commencement 2021
Graduate School 2021 Commencement
Sixty-seven students will earned doctorate and master’s degrees on May 20 during a commencement ceremony held on Eugene McDermott Plaza. Download the Commencement Program.
2019-2021 Graduates by Degree Program
- Biological Chemistry
Program Chair: Benjamin P. Tu, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Curtis Wayne Bacon
- Aloysus Kome Lawong
- Nikhil Madhusudhan
- Tabitha Chung-Yan Ting
- Biomedical Engineering
Program Chair: W. Matthew Petroll, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Busola Ruth Alabi
- Vamsi Krishna Daliparthi
- Alicia Rachel England
- Yesenia Amanda Gonzalez
- Devin Sean O’Kelly
- Minzhe Zhang
- Cancer Biology
Program Chair: Rolf A. Brekken, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Wenting Du
- Matthew Aaron Esparza
- Chien-Hsiang Hsu
- Stacy Yuan Kasitinon
- Demetra Patricia Kelenis
- Jin Suk Park
- I-Hui Wu
- Paul Matthew Yenerall, II
- Ning Zhang
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Program Chair: Angelique Whitehurst, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Miles Black
- Sanchari Datta
- Zachary Regino Gallegos
- Zane Alexander Gibbs
- Soo Young Kim
- Andrew David Mathis
- Carlo Giovanni Quintanilla
- George Russel Wendt
Master of Science
- Woong Hee Cho
- Clinical Psychology
Program Chair: Beth D. Kennard, Psy.D., ABPP
Doctor of Philosophy
- Joshua Eric Becker
- Natalie Nicole Benedetto
- Audrey Lorraine Cecil
- Jeanette Lee Chong
- Nicholas Edmund Curcio
- Savanna Sablich Duley
- Ana Fey El Behadli Gonzalez
- Daniel Kuroda Elledge
- Cole David Hague
- Lora Jane Israelsen
- Hayden Mensah Mbroh
- Catherine Elizabeth Munro
- Aysha Gabrielle Najjab
- Sarita Patel
- Sarah Grace Pennant
- Jeffrey Michael Schaffert
- Hunter Boone Small
- Emily Elaine Smith
- Jessica Wiblin
- Kristin Linette Wolfe
- Lucas Peter Salvatore Zullo
- Clinical Science
Program Chair: Scott Smith, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Jessica D. Abramowitz, M.D.
- Rohan Khera, M.D.
- James Patrick MacNamara, M.D.
- Nirmish Singla, M.D.
- Ayesha Noor Zia, M.D.
- Genetics, Development, and Disease
Program Chair: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Sarah Elizabeth Addams
- Samadrita Bhattacharyya
- Cemre Celen
- Edward Daniel
- Jordan Harrison Driskill
- Courtney DaVee Goldstein
- Stephen Li
- Victor Manuel Palacios
- Zhaoning Wang
- Qian Yang
- Yu Zhang
- Immunology
Program Chair: Anne Satterthwaite, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Yajing Gao
- Ricardo A. Irizarry-Caro
- Minghao Li
- Uma Maheswari Selvaraj
- Seoyun Yum
Master of Science
- Byounggyu Yoo
- Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
Program Chair: Yi Liu, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Alexandra Lee Ghaben
- Haijing Guo
- Evan McAllister Stevens
- Shidan Wang
- Fangzhou Zhao
- Molecular Biophysics
Program Chair: Luke M. Rice, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Jordan Matthew Baumhardt
- Katelyn Ashley Doxtader
- Nathan Chandler Egge
- Anant Vishwanath Gharpure
- Tae H. Kim
- Anna Kunyoung Lee
- Alexander Christian Partin
- Allyson Rice
- Andrew Frank Schober, Jr.
- Yusuf Talha Tamer
- Sai Rashmi Voleti
- Wenmin Xing
- Jing Zhang
Master of Science
- Jordan Finnell
- Michael Porter
- Charis Elyse Springhower
- Molecular Microbiology
Program Chair: John Schoggins, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Michael Edward Abrams
- Peter Michael Burnham
- Kyle Nicholas Goodman
- Elizabeth Rose Hughes
- Angel Giovani Jimenez Lopez
- Aman Kumar
- Breanna Lauren Pasko
Master of Science
- Virginia Ann Ray
- Neuroscience
Program Chair: Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Ashley Grace Anderson
- Marissa Co
- Brianne Marie Dentel
- Elyza Hope Kelly
- Pei-Yi Lin
- Matthew Mendoza
- Elizabeth Anne Scheuermann
- Alex Jay Sonneborn
- Mengni Wang
- Wen Mai Wong
- Xingjian Zhang
- Wenchan Zhao
Master of Science
- Jacob Lee McClendon
- Organic Chemistry
Program Chair: Uttam K. Tambar, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Jackson Andrew Gartman
- Junyu Gong
- Mohammed Sharique
Student Profiles
Meet Curtis Bacon
Meet Aloysus Lawong
Meet Catherine Munro
Meet Catherine Munro
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