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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