2025 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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Saathveenaa Mohan
Master of Science , Business Analytics
Raul Alberto Padilla Gonzalez
Master of Science , Business Analytics
Santiago Ricci Justo
Master Business Administration
Pooja Singh
Master Business Administration
Thanapol Singjaroen
Master of Science , Business Analytics
Chin Ting Wong
Master of Science , Quantitative Economics
The Graduate College of Education
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Jason S. Bolich
Master of Arts , Education (Secondary Education)
William Jay Breeman
Master of Arts , Educational Administration and Leadership
Hannah Esther Brown
Master of Arts , Special Education
Brittney Cooper
Doctor of Philosophy , Education, Special Education, a Joint Program with the University of California at Berkeley
Omar Emmanuel Currie
Doctor of Education , Educational Leadership
Alice Findsen
Master of Arts , Education (Early Childhood Education)
Tiana Harper
Credential , Single Subject
Lindsay Raquel Kerr
Master of Arts , Special Education
Ebony Melendez
Master of Arts , Special Education
Christian Daedalus Greeley Mitchell
Master of Arts , Special Education
Zoe Pantera
Master of Arts , Curriculum and Instruction
Lauren Emily Pimentel
Master of Science , Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Anahy Salcedo
Credential , Single Subject
Annie San
Master of Arts , Special Education
Sadia Shaheed
Master of Arts , Education (Instructional Technologies)
Jennifer Lorena Vega
Master of Science , Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
The College of Liberal & Creative Arts
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Rita Francis Clement Aga
Master of Arts , Communication Studies
Houxue An
Master of Arts , English (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Asia Salangsang Baclay
Master of Arts , Philosophy
Xuan Ban
Master of Arts , Chinese
Tashina S. Boyer Armstrong
Master of Fine Arts , Creative Writing
Hilary Natasha Cruz Mejia
Master of Arts , Spanish
Nilgun Duman
Master of Arts , International Relations
Zachary Greenberg
Master of Arts , History
Laird Harrison
Master of Fine Arts , Creative Writing
Matthew Ibrahim
Master of Arts , Comparative Literature
Matthew Robert Jackson
Master of Arts , Cinema Studies
Malleeswari Jagabattuni
Master of Arts , English (Linguistics)
Rafe A. Kassim
Master of Arts , English Literatures
Lisset Lopez
Master of Arts , Communication Studies
Filipp Matveev
Master of Arts , Philosophy
Dani Poortinga
Master of Arts , Classics
Amanda Robusti
Master of Arts , Humanities
Alyssa Robyn
Master of Arts , Museum Studies
Eleanor Louise Scholz
Master of Fine Arts , Art
Daria Strakhova
Master of Arts , Museum Studies
Jesse Sutterley
Master of Fine Arts , Cinema
Gillian Paige Welcher
Master of Arts , Political Science
The College of Ethnic Studies
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Nori Henk
Master of Arts , Asian American Studies
Noah Whitman Kawaguchi
Master of Arts , Asian American Studies
The College of Health & Social Sciences
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Jane Bakhter
Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Joint Doctoral Program with the University of California at San Francisco
Nathan Burns
Master of Arts , Human Sexuality Studies
Taylor Barry Cheatham
Master Public Administration
Samantha Noel Christie
Master of Public Health
Stacy deCarion
Master of Arts , Gerontology
Kaleigh Anne Doyle
Master of Science , Kinesiology
Ixel Garcia
Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Joint Doctoral Program with the University of California at San Francisco
Cassidy Sebastian Hall
Master of Social Work
Mechila-Rae Corrina Hodge
Master of Science , Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Heather McBirney
Master of Science , Nursing (Adult/Gero Clinical Nurse Specialist)
Bertha Osorno
Master of Social Work
Jace Perry
Master of Science , Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Germaina N Powell
Master of Arts , Family and Consumer Sciences
Elysam Rizali Raib
Master of Science , Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Shalett Kristy Reyes
Master of Science , Nursing (Adult/Gero Clinical Nurse Specialist)
The College of Science & Engineering
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Manuel Nicolas Abundis-Morales
Master of Arts , Psychological Science (Social, Personality, and Affective Science)
Hsu Htet Aung
Master of Arts , Psychological Science (Developmental Psychology)
Caitlin T. Claunch
Master of Arts , Psychological Science (Mind, Brain, and Behavior)
Chinh Do
Master of Science , Engineering (Structural/Earthquake Engineering)
Alexander Esquivel Contreras
Master of Science , Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Xu Gu
Master of Science , Computer Science
Marcela Eleanora Hagen-Aguirre
Master of Science , Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
Michael Anthony Hajkowski
Master of Science , Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Ryan Jason Hartnett
Master of Science , Mechanical Engineering
Reed Kenneth Shaw Hoshovsky
Master of Science , Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Sciences
Jian Bin Huang
Master of Science , Engineering (Embedded Electrical and Computer Systems)
Mark S. Kim
Master of Science , Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Claire Komori
Master of Science , Astronomy and Astrophysics
Long Kim Le
Master of Science , Physics (Astronomy)
Tommy Thien Tam Luong
Master of Science , Biomedical Science (Stem Cell Science)
Tiffany Aurora May
Master of Science , Biology (Integrative)
Oliver Nocedal
Master of Science , Industrial Organizational Psychology
William James Kahula O'Brien
Master of Science , Geographic Information Science
Ashmitha Dale Pais
Master of Science , Computer Science
Liliana Rose Pruett
Master of Science , Biology (Physiology and Behavioral Biology)
Gerardo Ramos
Master of Science , Biology (Integrative)
Monica Tran
Master of Science , Industrial Organizational Psychology
Tanya Velasco
Master of Science , Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Timara Nicole Vereen
Master of Science , Biology (Physiology and Behavioral Biology)
Natalia Wieczorek
Master of Arts , Psychological Science (Mind, Brain, and Behavior)
Kobe Lasanga Wijesekera
Master of Arts , Mathematics