Graduate School Commencement 2024
On Thursday, May 16, Graduate School students received their degrees in the Tom and Lula Gooch Auditorium at a 7 p.m. commencement. Download the Commencement Program.
2024 Commencement Stories
Recognizing 2023-2024 Graduates
- Biological Chemistry
Program Director: Benjamin P. Tu, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Christopher Luis Cervantes
- Krystal Courtney Johnson
- Michael Alexander Pontikos
- Biomedical Engineering
Program Director: W. Matthew Petroll, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Paul Humberto Acosta
- Zachary Thomas Bennett
- Carlos Jesus Brambila
- Sean A. Dilliard
- Yin Gao
- Sheng Qing Lin
- Elizabeth Marie Polsdofer
- Limin Zhou
- Cancer Biology
Program Director: Rolf A. Brekken, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Ester Alvarez Benedicto
- Joseph Louis Bower
- Yan Fang
- Mauricio Antonio Marquez Palencia
- Carla Sofia Rodriguez Tirado
- Mingrui Zhu
Student Awards
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Program Director: Angelique Whitehurst, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Julita Chlebowicz
- Bianca Catriona Field
- Atossa Ghorashi
- Mehmet Oguz Gok
- Amrita Shrikant Gokhale
- Lizbeth Perez Castro
- Hande C. Piristine
- Luis Carlos Reza Herrera
- Manolo Uriel Rios
- Spencer Dewayne Shelton
- Natalie Ortiz Speer
- Clinical Psychology
Program Director: Richard Robinson, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Ellen Marie Andrews
- Haley Sora Brown
- Tanisha R. Clark
- Karen Atilegna Dorsman
- Afsoon Gazor
- William Foster Goette
- Allison P. Gregg
- Jessica Orobio
- Jessica Marie Woodford
- Genetics, Development, and Disease
Program Director: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Daniel Alejandro Armendariz
- Phoebe Catherine Carter
- Andreas Chenzhang Chai
- Tyron Chang
- Yujing Cheng
- Lauretta El Hayek
- Tuozhi Huang
- Usman Hyder
- Benjamin Thomas Jones
- Chunyang Ni
- Nicole Marie Novaresi
- Carlos Andres Pinzon Arteaga
- Daniel Andrew Schmitz
- Choushi Wang
- Jingcheng Wang
- Yichi Zhang
Master of Science
- Yuki Inaba
Student Awards
- Immunology
Program Director: Anne Satterthwaite, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Sushobhna Batra
- Ryan Shie Huang
- Kennady Noelle Knox
- Molecular Biophysics
Program Director: Luke M. Rice, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Michael Antonio Cotten
- Umang Goswami
- Casey Elizabeth Hudman-Wing
- Dagimhiwat Hailu Legesse
- Philip Frederick Paul Schmiege
- Jesus A. Vega Lugo
- Liwei Wang
- Molecular Microbiology
Program Director: John Schoggins, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Melissa Renee Budicini
- Wesley Berry Burford
- Matthew Bret McDougal
- Moiz Munir
- Keyera Larlan Randolph
- Vivian Kimberly Rojas
- Da Hee Seo
Master of Science
- Nguyen Hoang Khanh Vo
- Neuroscience
Program Director: Maria Chahrour, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Newaz Ibrahim Ahmed
- Danyal Hassan Alam
- Emre Caglayan
- Ambar Cajigas Hernandez
- Katherine Poinsatte
- Jennifer Nicole Putman
- Natalia Rodriguez-Sosa
- Gordon Chandler Werthmann
- Organic Chemistry
Program Director: Uttam K. Tambar, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Jake M. Aquilina
- James Edward McGettigan, Jr.
- Cooper Atkins Vincent
