2023 Graduate Award Distinguished Achievement Recipients
Each year the university’s six colleges select graduate students to receive the Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievement. The recipients are honored for their outstanding academic performance and service to the profession, department, and community.
One award recipient from each college is selected for special honors as the graduate college hood. On behalf of their college classmates, they have received the symbolic investiture of the hood.
The Lam Family College of Business
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Mark Oliver Mendoza Belocura
Master Business Administration
Joshua Thaddeus Trawick-Presley Bonse-Davis
Master Business Administration
Kelsey Brown
Master of Science, Quantitative Economics
Saumya Jaiswal
Master of Science, Business Analytics
Karen Orta Gonzalez
Master of Science, Accountancy
Kratika Sharma
Master of Science, Business Analytics
The Graduate College of Education
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Ashlyn Jean Abbott
Master of Arts, Education (Secondary Education)
Gemma Sejera Atkinson
Credential, Special Education Area: Early Childhood Special Education
Jodi L. Becker
Master of Arts, Education (Special Interest Area)
Angela Marie Evenich
Master of Science, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Linda Liu
Master of Arts, Curriculum and Instruction
Maryvi Guadalupe Morales
Master of Science, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Genesis Ng Du
Master of Arts, Special Education
Theresa Thao Nguyen
Credential, Single Subject
Ariana Nazaria Romero
Master of Arts, Special Education
Angela Michelle Rowell
Master of Science, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Sarah Elisa Stein
Master of Arts, Education (Early Childhood Education)
Larry Torres
Master of Arts, Education (Instructional Technologies)
Teo Cerbas Ysip
Master of Arts, Education (Equity and Social Justice in Education)
The College of Liberal & Creative Arts
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Fiona T. Brady
Master of Arts, Philosophy
Samantha Chang
Master of Arts, Design
Cheng-Yuan Chao
Master of Arts, Cinema Studies
Shane Downing
Master of Arts, English (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Ramzi Hassan Elkawa
Master of Arts, English (Linguistics)
Francesca Brianna Felder
Master of Arts, Philosophy
Olivea Sea Flickinger-Renzi
Master of Arts, Communication Studies
Rachel H. Gallegos
Master of Arts, Comparative and World Literature
Jennifer Gomez
Master of Arts, Comparative Literature
Edward Gunawan
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing
Christopher Joel Harris
Master of Fine Arts, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts
Luke Andrew Heslip
Master of Arts, Political Science
Camden Kent
Master of Arts, Humanities
Ariana S. Khateeb
Master of Arts, International Relations
Rebecca Kim
Master of Arts, English Literatures
Sasha I. Kramer
Master of Arts, Anthropology
Henry Russell Nauman
Master of Arts, Museum Studies
London Janay Scott Pinkney
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing
Carlos Antonio Quinteros III
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing
Amelia Romano
Master of Music, Music
Maryam Safanasab
Master of Fine Arts, Art
ReJeanne Smith
Master of Arts, English (Composition)
Weiyu Su
Master of Arts, English (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Vishnu Prasad Vijayarengan
Master of Fine Arts, Cinema
Dylan Matthiessen Weir
Master of Arts, History
Danni Zhang
Master of Arts, Chinese
The College of Ethnic Studies
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Manmit Singh
Master of Arts, Ethnic Studies
Miya Jennifer Sommers
Master of Arts, Asian American Studies
Kei Terauchi
Master of Arts, Asian American Studies
The College of Health & Social Sciences
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Soraida Yvette Acosta
Master of Public Health
Amelia Arifin
Master of Science, Counseling (Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling)
Elizabeth Burt Dawson
Master of Science, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism
Gianna DiGregorio
Master of Arts, Human Sexuality Studies
Shae Antonette Hancock
Master Public Administration
Taara E. Hoffman
Master of Arts, Gerontology
Kevin Le
Master of Science, Kinesiology
Leesa Xadees Lopez
Master of Social Work
Maritza Marquez
Master of Social Work
Marissa Janae Ng-Williams
Master of Arts, Family and Consumer Sciences
Dominique Irene Nuñez-Lowell
Master of Science, Kinesiology
Olivia B. Owens
Master of Science, Counseling
Maria Jose Solis Lopez
Doctor Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy (Joint Program with University of California, San Francisco)
Temur Umarov
Master Public Administration
Grace Shang-wen Yang
Master of Science, Counseling (Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling)
The College of Science & Engineering
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Salma Mohamed Ahmed
Master of Science, Chemistry
MaryGracy Antony
Master of Science, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Gerson Ariel Ascencio
Master of Science, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Lorena Y. Benitez Rivera
Master of Science, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Amanda Michelle Buck
Master of Science, Biomedical Science (Stem Cell Science)
Montse Cordero Aguilar
Master of Arts, Mathematics
Eric Coyle
Master of Science, Biology (Integrative)
Tala Elsabbagh
Master of Arts, Psychology (Mind, Brain, and Behavior)
Andrew Osborne Freeman
Master of Science, Physics
Sebastian Gomez
Master of Science, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Brianna Nicole Hernandez
Master of Arts, Psychology (Developmental Psychology)
Meris Jade Johnson-Hagler
Master of Science, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Alexandra Rose Margulies
Master of Science, Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Sciences
Joel Martinez
Master of Science, Chemistry (Biochemistry)
Charlie Lane McMenomy
Master of Arts, Mathematics
Brian Molina Merino
Master of Science, Physics (Astronomy)
Amir Modan
Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicholas Modar
Master of Science, Geosciences
Ngan Nguyen
Master of Science, Industrial Organizational Psychology
Aswin Rangasamy Venkatesan
Master of Arts, Mathematics
Amanda Rueda
Master of Science, Industrial Organizational Psychology
Fiona Senchyna
Master of Science, Computer Science
Elizabeth Rose Slater
Master of Arts, Psychology (Social, Personality, and Affective Science)
Eric Tang
Master of Science, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Harnoor Kaur Virk
Master of Science, Biomedical Science, (Stem Cell Science)
Jiadong Yu
Master of Science, Computer Science