Graduate School Commencement 2023
Graduate School 2023 Commencement
Eighty-nine students earned doctorate and master’s degrees on May 18 during a commencement ceremony held on Eugene McDermott Plaza. Download the Commencement Program.
2023 Commencement Stories
Recognizing 2022-2023 Graduates
- Biological Chemistry
Program Director: Benjamin P. Tu, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Albert Budhipramono
- Avash Das
- Anne Marie Devlin
- Anderson Ross Frank IV
- Rupam Ghosh
- Brittany Monique Johnson
- Martyna Kosno-Vega
- James Henry McGinnis III
- Madeline Milligan McGinnis
- Jugal Mohapatra
- Thu Pham Thanh Nguyen
- Ryan P. Reynolds
- Cody Ryan Ruhl
- Anam Fatima Shaikh
- Kyuto Tashiro
- Floortje Paulien Van De Poll
- Han Wu
Master of Science
- Paul Roberts
- Biomedical Engineering
Program Director: W. Matthew Petroll, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Joshuah Gagan
- Jace Edward Grandinetti
- Lindsay Taylor Johnson
- Sina Khorsandi
- Xiao Liang
- Cooper James Mellema
- Kevin Phan Nguyen
- Chandreshkumar Vishnubhai Patel
- Varun Sadaphal
- Jiwon Song
- Kai Wang
- Jonathan Louis Wilhelm
- Zi Yang
- Xinyi Zhang
- Yun Zhang
- Cancer Biology
Program Director: Rolf A. Brekken, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Divya Bezwada
- Eliot Benjamin Blatt
- Simanti Das
- Debolina Ganguly
- Yuemeng Jia
- Aiden Nguyen
- McKenzie Taylor Patrick
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Program Director: Angelique Whitehurst, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Luming Chen
- Rui Chen
- Andrew Cox
- Subhajit Das Gupta
- Magdalena Grazyna Grzemska
- Byron Gabriel Weiss
Master of Science
- Emma Harrell
- Sarah Ana Henriquez
- Clinical Psychology
Interim Program Director: Richard Robinson, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Sandra Ahmed
- Eva Catherine Baker
- Dennis Delaine Burchette Jr.
- Jeethu K. Joseph
- Talha Khan
- William Blake Martin
- Victoria Denise Mckenzie
- Alexandra Paige Moorehead
- Chase Reid Presley
- Katherine Rial
- Genetics, Development, and Disease
Program Director: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Haley Rose Barlow
- Giovanni Angelo Botten
- Anne Lynn Zhou Cooley
- Dileep Reddy Karri
- Sherwin Hiren Kelekar
- Yu-Hsuan Lin
- Isabel Alejandra López-García
- Akansha Mahavir Shah
- Bethany Kristina Smith
- Edem Jean De Dieu Tchegnon
- Tezin A. Walji
- Li Wang
- Abigail Watterson
Master of Science
- Yuki Inaba
- Health Informatics
Program Director: Christoph U. Lehmann M.D.
Master of Science
- Elizabeth Lauren Gonzalez
- Marcus Anthony Hurt
- Sahajveer Mann
- Divya Vankayalapati Prasad
- Alicia Munoz Russell
- Shannon Lee Shiffer
- Immunology
Program Director: Anne Satterthwaite, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Yongbin Choi
- Christina Marie Zarek
- Molecular Biophysics
Program Director: Luke M. Rice, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Dailu Chen
- Abner Josue Gonzalez Castro
- Jenny Jiou
- Michael Shane LaCroix
- Yang Liu
- Leigh Jessica Manley
- Adam Krzysztof Osinski
- Valerie Ann Perez
- Bryan David Ryder
- Kamil Sekulski
- Alex H. Treacher
- Molecular Microbiology
Program Director: John Schoggins, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Umaru Barrie
- Alexander Ethan Lafrance
- Savannah Joy Taylor
- Neuroscience
Program Director: Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Robert M. Altamirano
- Marcus N. Berndt
- Thomas Leigh Dunham
- Filip Piotr Dybowski
- Jennifer Gibson
- I-Mei Liao
- Seon Hye Park
- Lilyana Dream Quigley
- Jennifer Marie Smith
- Islam Oguz Tuncay
- Jaime Vaquer-Alicea
- Connie Hua Wong
- Kelsey Elizabeth Zuk
- Amy Nicole Zwierzchowski-Zarate
- Organic Chemistry
Program Director: Uttam K. Tambar, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Colton Randall Davis
- Annie Yang Heble
- Sang Min Lee
