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W a k e F o r e s t U n i v e r s i t y

The Hooding and awards Ceremony

Class of 2010 and 2011

W a i t C H a p e l

t H r e e o ’ C l o C k i n t H e a F t e r n o o n

s a t U r d a y , M a y t H e F o U r t e e n t H

t W o t H o U s a n d a n d e l e v e n

Graduate school of arts and sciences

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P R O G R A M MUSIC ..........................................................................................................................Mr. Ray Ebert

Organist

PROCESSIONAL .................................................................... Platform Party, Faculty and Candidates INVOCATION ....................................................................................... Reverend Timothy L. Auman

University Chaplain OPENING REMARKS ........................................................................................... Dr. Lorna G. Moore

Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences INTRODUCTION OF DISTINGUISHED GUEST .......................................................... Dr. Frank M. Torti

Charles L. Spurr Professor of Medicine, Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University, and Vice President for Strategic

Programs, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center ADDRESS ......................... “The Molecular Metamorphosis: “My Past is not Your Future” said the

Caterpillar to the Butterfly” Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach

Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives, Center for Health Transformation PRESENTATION OF AWARDS............................................................................... Dr. Lorna G. Moore

Presenter ................................................................................................... Mr. Bryan Wilson

Graduate Student Association The Graduate Student Association Faculty Excellence Award ........ Dr. Mark E. Van Dyke

Associate Professor, Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Presenter………………………………………………………………Dr. Lorna G. Moore The Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Doctoral Student Award ................................................................................... Mr. Ivan Alekseyevich Azarov

Department of Physics The Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Master’s Student Award .............................................................................................. Mr. Austin Henry Jones

Department of Mathematics

THE HOODING CEREMONY

Presentation of Doctoral Candidates ..................................................... Dr. Lorna G. Moore

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Conferral of Hoods .................................................................................. Doctoral Advisors Presentation of Masters’ Candidates ..................................................... Dr. Lorna G. Moore Conferral of Hoods, Master of Arts .......................................................... Dr. Allan Louden

Professor, Department of Communication Conferral of Hoods, Master of Science......................................................... Dr. David John

Professor, Department of Computer Science Conferral of Hoods, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies .............................. Dr. Peter Kairoff

Professor, Department of Music

Conferral of Hoods, Master of Fine Arts .................................................... Dr. Mary Dalton Associate Professor, Department of Communication

Presentation of the Master of Arts in Education Candidates, August 2011 ................................................................. Dr. Lorna G. Moore Conferral of Hoods ................................................................................ Dr. Leah P. McCoy

Professor, Department of Education

CLOSING REMARKS ............................................................................................ Dr. Lorna G. Moore BENEDICTION ...................................................................................... Reverend Timothy L. Auman RECESSIONAL ..............................................................................................................Mr. Ray Ebert

Audience will stand in place while platform party, faculty, and candidates file out RECEPTION ............................................................................................ Green Room, Reynolda Hall

FACULTY MARSHALS

Dr. Christa L. Colyer, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Chemistry Dr. Brian W. Tague, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

STUDENT MARSHALS

Heather Manring, Department of Biochemistry Ricquita Pollard, Molecular Pathology Program Lindsey Ulkus, Department of Cancer Biology

Rui Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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HOODING AND AWARDS CEREMONY NOTES

Please turn off all cell phones and beepers during the ceremony.

This ceremony is being interpreted for the hearing impaired by Elaine Montgomery of Communication Access Partners.

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DISTINGUISHED GUEST

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., was appointed Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs in September 2005, where he immediately engaged an agenda to modernize the FDA. Under his leadership, many new programs have been designed to strengthen the FDA in its mission to protect and promote public health. He has emphasized FDA’s role in working with external partners to assure quality throughout the entire life cycle of the products it regulates while internally fostering, through process improvements, a regulatory pathway that is transparent and efficient while still rigorous and science led. Confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner in December

2006, Dr. von Eschenbach emphasizes innovation by fostering creative projects, including FDA’s Critical Path Initiative (designed to bring modern tools of science to the product development process); work plans like the FDA’s Food Protection Plan; and most especially the nurturing of the workforce through initiatives, such as an Agency-wide fellowship program and development of a new integrated campus for the Agency in White Oak, Maryland.

Dr. von Eschenbach joined FDA after serving for four years as Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health where he set an ambitious goal to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer by rapid acceleration and integration of the discovery-development-delivery continuum. While at NCI, he committed resources to ensure the application to oncology of nanotechnology, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, and other emerging technologies. At the time of his appointment by President Bush to serve as Director of NCI, he was President-Elect of the American Cancer Society. Dr. von Eschenbach entered government service after an outstanding career over three decades as a physician, surgeon, oncologist and executive that included numerous leadership roles from Chairman of the Department of Urologic Oncology to Executive Vice President and Chief Academic at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, an institution world renowned for the magnitude and excellence of its clinical and research cancer programs. An internationally renowned cancer specialist and author of more than 200 scientific articles and studies, Dr. von Eschenbach has served in numerous leadership roles, including serving as one of the founding members of the National Dialogue on Cancer. He has received numerous professional awards and honors. In 2006, Dr. von Eschenbach was named one of Time magazine’s “100 most influential people to shape the world,” and in both 2007 and 2008, he was selected as one of the Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician’s “50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare.” Dr. von Eschenbach earned a B.S. from St. Joseph’s University in his native Philadelphia and his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He served as a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. After completing a residency in urologic surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, he was an instructor in urology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a Fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He has been married to his childhood sweetheart, Madelyn, for over 40 years, and they are proud parents of four children and elated grandparents of six.

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GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARD This award is presented to the faculty member whom the Graduate Student Association has selected as having done the most to promote excellence in graduate education this past year.

GORDON A. MELSON OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARD This student has been identified as being outstanding in research, productivity and quality. Although the award is for excellence in the student’s research program in general, special emphasis in selecting the recipient is given to the dissertation in terms of originality, importance, and potential influence on the student’s field. Other factors which are considered in conferring this award are academic record, activity in the discipline, as well as university and departmental citizenship. The award’s monetary prize is made possible through gifts from alumni and friends to the Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Doctoral Student Award Fund of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

GORDON A. MELSON OUTSTANDING MASTER’S STUDENT AWARD

This student has been identified as being outstanding in terms of academic record, activity in the discipline, as well as university and departmental citizenship. Furthermore, the student’s research productivity and quality have been deemed exceptional. The award’s monetary prize is made possible through gifts from alumni and friends to the Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Master’s Student Award Fund of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

AWARDS RECEIVED BY GRADUATES

Linara S. Axanova ......................................................................... Prostate Cancer Training Award

Department of Defense, 2007

Kyle William Binder .................................................................................... 2nd

Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, 2011 Place Poster Award

Best Presentation, Burn Repair

Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, 2010

Basic Science Gold Award Surgical Sciences Research Day, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2009

Best Presentation, Burn Repair

Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, 2009

1st

North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, 2008 Place Poster Award

Amanda Lynn Brown .................................................................. Young Investigator Travel Award

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2010

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AWARDS RECEIVED BY GRADUATES (CONTINUED)

Amanda Lynn Brown (Continued) ............. Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2008

Patricia Denise Durant ................................................................................. 2nd

American Chemical Society, 10 Place Poster Award

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Annual Meeting, 2010

Campbell’s Scholar American Institute for Cancer Research, 2009

Alumni Student Travel Award

Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2009

Lolita Marie Forrest .................................................................................................... Travel Award University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010

Lin Jia..................................................................... Early Career Investigator Award of Excellence

Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, 2010

Early Career Investigator Award of Excellence Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, 2009

Masood Ahammed Machingal .............................................................................Best Poster Award

North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference, 2010

2nd

Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine Conference, 2010 Place Poster Award

2nd

Graduate Student Research Day, Wake Forest University Graduate School of Place Poster Award, Translational Science Category

Arts and Sciences, 2010

Alumni Student Travel Award Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2010

Best Poster Award

Surgical Sciences Research Day, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, 2009

Best Poster Award 23rd

Annual European Association of Urologists Congress, 2008

Tara Lee Massie ................................................................................................. Richter Scholarship Wake Forest University, 2009


Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

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Sophia Lisette Maund .................................................................................. 2nd

Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Cancer Biology, 2010 Place Poster Award

The Lucy Robbins Fellowship Fund



Student Travel Award

Cancer Biology Training Consortium Chair and Director’s Meeting, 2008

Student Travel Award American Foundation for Aging Research, 2008, 2010

American Foundation for Aging Research Award

GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, 2008

Edward E. Smuckler Memorial Pathobiology of Cancer Workshop Travel Award American Association for Cancer Research and the National Cancer Institute, 2008

Director’s Award

Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Cancer Biology, 2005

Hetal Pandya .................................................................... Gold Metal Poster Award, Basic Science 18th

University School of Medicine, 2010 Annual Residents’ and Fellows’ Research Day, Wake Forest

NIH Selected Attendee

5th

Annual National Graduate Student Research Festival, 2010


Gold Metal Poster Award, Basic Science

16th

University School of Medicine, 2009 Annual Residents’ and Fellows’ Research Day, Wake Forest

Runner-up, Translational Science Category

8th

School of Arts and Sciences, 2008 Annual Graduate Student Research Day, Wake Forest University Graduate

Edward E. Pryor, Jr. ........................................................................ Herbert C. Cheung PhD Award


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Edward E. Pryor, Jr. (Continued)...................................................................... Student Traineeship Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 2010


Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2010

The Sandy Lee Cowgill Memorial Scholarship Fund Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2008



Amity LeAnn Roberts .................................................................................... Student Travel Award International Conference on Gram-Positive Pathogens, 2010


American Society for Microbiology Meeting on Biofilms, 2009

Student Travel Award Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting, 2009

Shunxing Rong............................................................................................... Student Travel Award

Keystone Symposia, 2010

Early Career Investigator Award of Excellence Kern Aspen Lipid Conference, 2010

Cynthia Rachel Ryder .................................................................................... Student Travel Award

Mid Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting, 2009

Trainee Travel Award 5th

ASM Meeting on Biofilms, 2009

Areepan Sophonsritsuk ........................ Outstanding Research Award for an Individual in Training American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2010



Aksana Vasilyeva......................................................................................... Drexel Heritage Award Wake Forest University, 2005

Allison Burrow Weckerle ................................................................. Alumni Student Travel Award


The Sandy Lee Cowgill Memorial Scholarship Fund Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2009

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Michael John Wesley .................................. Billy R. Martin Award for Best Oral Presentation by a Pre-/Post-Doctoral Student

International Cannabinoid Research Society, 2008

Student Travel Award International Cannabinoid Research Society, 2007, 2008

Christine Ann Carlson Whittington ................................................................... Richter Scholarship

Wake Forest University, 2008

Min Wu ........................................................................................... Predoctoral Traineeship Award Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, 2009

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This list may be incomplete. The list which is read during the Hooding and Awards Ceremony will be official.

CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

May 16, 2011

Program Advisor Peter James Apel* Neuroscience Dr. Zhongyu Li Chelsie Elizabeth Armbruster Microbiology and Immunology Dr. W. Edward Swords Ivan Alekseyevich Azarov Physics Dr. Daniel Kim-Shapiro Nicole Marie Beauchamp Molecular Medicine and Dr. Martha Alexander-Miller Translational Science Kyle William Binder Molecular Genetics and Dr. James J. Yoo Genomics Amanda Lynn Brown Molecular Medicine and Dr. John S. Parks Translational Science Paul D. Cao Cancer Biology Dr. Guangchao Sui Zachary Dylan Cary Biochemistry and Molecular Dr. Douglas S. Lyles Biology Yu Cheng Molecular Genetics and Dr. Jianfeng Xu Genomics Heather Adeline Bradbury Coan Molecular Genetics and Dr. Mark E. Van Dyke Genomics Melissa Daly Biomedical Engineering Dr. Katherine R. Saul Lolita Marie Forrest Molecular Medicine and Dr. John S. Parks Translational Science Anthony Richard Gerardi Chemistry Dr. Christa Colyer Morten Sand Hadsel* Neurobiology and Anatomy Dr. Robert C. Coghill Summer Nicole Hanna Chemistry Dr. Bradley Jones Jerrold Edmund Kielbasa Physics Dr. Richard Williams Bhavani Krishnan Molecular Genetics and Dr. E. Ann Tallant and Genomics Dr. Patricia E. Gallagher Mitchell Ryan Ladd Biomedical Engineering Dr. James J. Yoo Masood Ahammed Machingal Biomedical Engineering Dr. George Christ Christopher M. MacNeill Chemistry Dr. Ronald Noftle Sophia Lisette Maund Cancer Biology Dr. Griffith D. Parks Hetal Pandya Molecular Genetics and Dr. Waldemar Debinski Genomics Edward E. Pryor, Jr. Biochemistry and Molecular Dr. Thomas Hollis Biology Karishma R. Rajani Biochemistry and Molecular Dr. Douglas S. Lyles Biology Lu Rao Chemistry Dr. Ulrich Bierbach Jillian Rouse Richter Biomedical Engineering Dr. Mark E. Van Dyke Adriana Sanchez Biology Dr. Kathleen Kron Saurav Jyoti Sarma Chemistry Dr. Paul Jones Tanja Magdalena Schuster Biology Dr. Kathleen Kron Areepan Sophonsritsuk Molecular Genetics and Dr. Thomas C. Register Genomics Jimmy Suryadi Chemistry Dr. Rebecca Alexander Allison Burrow Weckerle Biochemistry and Molecular Dr. Yuh-Hwa Wang Biology Min Wu Molecular Genetics and Dr. Scott D. Cramer Genomics Haiyong Xu Biomedical Engineering Dr. Peter Santago II *In Absentia

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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Conferred December 30, 2010

Program Advisor Linara S. Axanova Cancer Biology Dr. Scott D. Cramer Ranjan Banerjee Chemistry Dr. S. Bruce King Erika Bechtold Chemistry Dr. S. Bruce King Matthew Steven Conover Molecular Genetics and Dr. Rajendar K. Deora Genomics Todd Landon Fallesen Physics Dr. Jed Macosko Crystal Dawn Hayes Neurobiology and Anatomy Dr. Carolanne E. Milligan Lin Jia Molecular Pathology Dr. Liqing Yu Tara Lee Massie Chemistry Dr. Christa Colyer Joshua M. Rapp Biology Dr. Miles Silman Amity LeAnn Roberts Microbiology and Immunology Dr. Sean D. Reid Shunxing Rong Molecular Pathology Dr. John S. Parks Huan Tan Biomedical Engineering Dr. Robert A. Kraft Aksana Vasilyeva Cancer Biology Dr. Karin D. Scarpinato Kristin Elizabeth Dew Weimer Microbiology and Immunology Dr. W. Edward Swords Michael John Wesley Physiology and Pharmacology Dr. Linda J. Porrino

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Conferred August 15, 2010

Program Advisor Michael James Blanks Molecular Genetics and Dr. Zheng Cui Genomics Kristina L. Brzoza-Lewis Molecular Genetics and Dr. Elizabeth H. Schwartz Genomics Nicole Yolanda Davis Biochemistry and Molecular Dr. David A. Horita Biology Patricia Denise Durant Molecular Medicine and Dr. Alan J. Townsend Translational Science Jiyan Gue Chemistry Dr. Bradley Jones Lindsey Rebecca Hamilton Neuroscience Dr. Michael A. Nader Cheraton Fabrice Love Microbiology and Immunology Dr. Rajendar K. Deora Erasmo Nieves Martinez Neuroscience Dr. Michelle M. Nicolle Cynthia Rachel Ryder Microbiology and Immunology Dr. Daniel J. Wozniak

CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS May 16, 2011

Program Tasha Kamali LaBega Adams Counseling *In Absentia

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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (CONTINUED) Amanda Jeanne Beck Counseling Lydia Backer Bennett Counseling Elizabeth Ann Bicehouse* Mathematics Daniel Blalock* Psychology Davis Michael Bourland Communication Christopher James Casement Mathematics Bethany Carlene Chafin English Eric Russell Chalfant Religion Aoshuang Chen Communication Hannah Leah Creel§ Counseling Neal A. Dawes Mathematics Joshua Albert DeBenedetto Mathematics Mark Patrick Eades Counseling Daniel L. Elliott Communication Rachel A. Ernst English Brady Summer Everett Psychology Joelle Marie Fanciullo Psychology Miriam Elizabeth Filvarof Counseling Rachel Anne Fishman Counseling Ryan Austin Fitzgerald Religion David Julius Ford, Jr. Counseling Liviu Gajora Communication Chen Gao Communication Melissa Ann Glass Mathematics Joshua Matthew Kalohe Goocey* Religion Patty Ann Green Communication Jennifer Leigh Greenholt English William Blaine Henderson§ Counseling Kevin Scott Heston Communication Katherine Gatewood Parker Hyland Counseling Anthony Mark Jardina* Communication Andrew Guerry Jenkins English Clare Tenney Conway Johnson§ Counseling Austin Henry Jones Mathematics Carolyn Leigh Jones English Matthew Holden Koval English Hannah Strong Lacko Communication James Wharton Leonard English Sarah Elizabeth Lieberman Religion Deborah J. Love Bioethics Margaret L. Maultsby Bioethics Sara Elizabeth McGarvey Counseling Peter Meindl* Psychology Bethany Fraser Montplaisir Counseling Tameka Michelle Oliphant Counseling Sydney Porter Pasquinelli Communication Sean Edward Pifer Mathematics Emily Lynn Poe English Matthew Ryan Riddle* Psychology Heidi Jean Robinson Counseling *In Absentia §Joint Degree with Master of Divinity

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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (CONTINUED) Amy Elizabeth Rush* Communication Timothy Eric Silva Counseling Stephanie Lenore Tigue Counseling Emma Vanhoozer* English Jonathan Derek Williams° Religion Sally Ann Williams Psychology Anna Elizabeth Willis English Zixuan Zhou Communication

MASTER OF ARTS

Conferred December 30, 2010 Program Dionne Doshia Barner° Bioethics Kelly Renee Daigle Bioethics Matthew Eki Okoh Bioethics Abigail Margaret Rogers Psychology Carlos Alberto Tello Mathematics

MASTER OF ARTS Conferred August 15, 2010

Program Brian L. DeLong Communication Gabriel Lee Edmondson Bioethics Brent A. Furl Psychology Joshua Arturo Gonzalez Communication Leila Hamzi Bioethics Paul J. Hutman Psychology Juliette Lauren McNamara Psychology Johnathan E. Statzer Psychology Michael N. Tennison Bioethics Ryan Clark Thames Communication *In Absentia §Joint Degree with Master of Divinity °Joint Degree with Juris Doctor

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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE May 16, 2011

Program Subhashish Agarwal Clinical and Population Translational Sciences Jennifer Shultz Anderson Clinical and Population Translational Sciences Elizabeth Anne Dameron Health and Exercise Science Kathleen L. Egan Clinical and Population Translational Sciences William Farfan Rios Biology Micheal Joseph Forkin Computer Science Leon Ray Friesen* Biology Alesia Michelle Goodman Health and Exercise Science Mackenzie L. Hoops Health and Exercise Science Jonathan W. Isley Biology Nicole Lynn Kassebaum Health and Exercise Science Van Mai* Chemistry Derek Pamukoff Health and Exercise Science Erin C. Reddan Health and Exercise Science Asim Upreti Biomedical Engineering Xiao Xu* Computer Science Kathryn M. Yamamoto Health and Exercise Science

MASTER OF SCIENCE Conferred December 30, 2010

Program Ryan C. M. Best Physics Thang Pham Computer Science

MASTER OF SCIENCE Conferred August 15, 2010

Program Elizabeth Ashlee Chmelo Clinical and Population Translational Sciences Rajyalakshmi Gadi Health Sciences Research Kathryn Nicole Riley Biology Rebecca Elizabeth Slager Clinical and Population Translational Sciences Chunru Yu Biomedical Engineering

CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS MAY 16, 2011

Program

Jonathan George Bougher* Documentary Film *In Absentia

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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS (CONTINUED) Nicholas Salvatore Corrao* Documentary Film Michelle Friedline* Documentary Film Saman Azhar Piracha Documentary Film Roman Safiullin* Documentary Film Peter Scott Salomone* Documentary Film John Varley Documentary Film

MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION CONFERRED AUGUST 15, 2010

Program

Elizabeth Ann Allen Teaching Andrea Anderson Teaching Rebekah Lynn Bray Teaching Patricia C. Brown Visiting International Faculty Raluca Dranca Visiting International Faculty Peter Benjamin Dunlap Teaching Isabel Cristina Zapata Hincapie Visiting International Faculty Clayton Reid Honeycutt Teaching Michael Patrick Hoover Teaching Scott Crawford Hopper Teaching Chloé-Marie Keveryn Teaching Jessica Ashley Krantz Teaching Jordan Alexandra Lucas Teaching Shannon Marie MacAulay Teaching Perpétua Cavalcanti Magalhães Visiting International Faculty Caitlin McClelland Teaching Robert Craig McFeeley Teaching Mariana Carmen Miroiu Visiting International Faculty Caitlin Elizabeth Murphy Teaching Pavel Angel Miranda Narvaez Visiting International Faculty Jonathan Newman Teaching Eric M. Oddo Teaching Krista Helen Pool Teaching Gregg Punger Teaching Maggie May Pursley Teaching Simone Petry Santos Visiting International Faculty Peter James Schild, Jr. Teaching Paige Alana Sellers Teaching Lucy Terry Shepley Teaching Michelle Lynn Showalter Teaching Elizabeth Anne Taylor Teaching Shannon Marie Teare Teaching Tyler Samuel Treadaway Teaching Sydney Morgan Tysinger Teaching Jeffrey David Williams Teaching *In Absentia

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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES

May 16, 2011 Hermina Maria Borgerink Kathy Ann Bunn Michael Kendell Curry Lindsay Hofer Decker Teresa Dowell-Dennis* Helen Stuart Dowling Scott Damone McAbee Shaun K. Melvin* Emillie Joy Poteat-Fisher Cecilia Francis Stach* David Frederick Taylor Christine Ann Carlson Whittington Shan Leigh Woolard

MASTER OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES Conferred December 30, 2010

Sara Schlichter Cromwell Chemere Leshea Davis Robin Burr DeVane Carly Stelting Mauch John Richard Mazza Michael David McDowell Brian Charles O’Shea

CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION August 15, 2011

Program Patricia da Costa Amaral Visiting International Faculty Elena Andrei* Visiting International Faculty Heidi Ida Arnold Teaching Anna Catherine Ballantyne* Visiting International Faculty Greg A. Bartley Teaching Jessica Bendeck-Yañez Visiting International Faculty Emily Fairbrother Visiting International Faculty LaShunda Tomeka Faison Teaching Claudia Nicole Fletcher Visiting International Faculty Jennifer Lynne Foreman Teaching Eleanor Kathleen Fuller Teaching Emily Rae Garcia Teaching Eliana Gutierrez Giraldo* Visiting International Faculty Veronica Catherine Grannis Visiting International Faculty Meredith Cecile Horton Teaching Chloe Anne Johnson Teaching Jill Anna Klinepeter Teaching Thomas Kevin Kozak Teaching *In Absentia

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CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION

(CONTINUED)

Cederick Lamar Moore Teaching John Andrew Mundell Teaching Anna Grace Nicodemus Newman Teaching Carmen Suzanne Peek Teaching Jacob Steven Perry Teaching Andrew Robert Petrilli Teaching Amanda Catherine Plyler Teaching Cayce Brooke Poindexter Teaching Lauren Michelle Redman Teaching Grace Ann Rishel Teaching Lauren Christine Schnepper Teaching Brian Alexander Smith Teaching Silvia Gisela Timmerding* Teaching Florina Nicoleta Trufas Visiting International Faculty Sarah Elizabeth Vroom Teaching Kenneth LaVonne Wallace, Jr. Teaching Rachel Leigh Will Teaching *In Absentia

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PREVIOUS DISTINGUISHED GUESTS AT THE HOODING AND AWARDS CEREMONY

Affiliation 2009-2010 Timothy M. Persons United States Government (’00 M.S., Computer Science and Accountability Office ’01 Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering) 2008-2009 Lieutenant General Eric B. Schoomaker 42nd

Army Surgeon General

2007-2008 Carol Marzetta, Ph.D. Applied Strategies (’86 Ph.D., Experimental and Comparative Pathology)

2006-2007 Hanli Liu, Ph.D. University of Texas, Arlington (’94 Ph.D., Physics) 2005-2006 Debra W. Stewart, Ph.D. Council of Graduate Schools 2004-2005 Mitchell E. Robinson, Ph.D. East Tennessee State University

(’83 Ph.D., Biochemistry) 2003-2004 Reed Humphrey, Ph.D., PT Idaho State University

(’76 MA, Health and Exercise Science) 2002-2003 Max Gomez, Ph.D. WNBC NewsChannel4

(’78 Anatomy)

2001-2002 Nancy J. Cotton, Ph.D. Wake Forest University 2000-2001 L. DiAnne Borders, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro

(’79 MAEd, Counseling)

1999-2000 Eric N. Olson, Ph.D. University of Texas, Southwestern (’81 Biochemistry) Medical Center

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PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARD

Department 2009-2010 Scott D. Cramer, Ph.D. Cancer Biology 2008-2009 Erik C. Johnson, Ph.D. Biology 2007-2008 William H. Turkett, Jr., Ph.D. Computer Science 2006-2007 Laura J. Veach, Ph.D. Counseling 2005-2006 Douglas S. Lyles, Ph.D. Biochemistry 2004-2005 Deborah W. Newsome, Ph.D. Counseling 2003-2004 Sara R. Jones, Ph.D. Physiology and Pharmacology 2002-2003 Mark T. Wallace, Ph.D. Neurobiology and Anatomy 2001-2002 Eric R. Stone, Ph.D. Psychology 2000-2001 Peter Santago II, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering 1999-2000 Dwayne Warren Godwin, Ph.D. Neurobiology and Anatomy

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE GORDON A. MELSON OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARD

Program 2009-2010 Christine Renee Carlisle Physics 2008-2009 Nicole M. Hughes Biology 2007-2008 Jennifer L. Martelle Physiology and Pharmacology 2006-2007 Daniel Eberli Molecular Medicine 2005-2006 Georgia Meyer Alexander Neuroscience

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARD

Program 2004-2005 Xiaoying Zhu Neuroscience 2003-2004 Xiuli Xu Physics 2002-2003 Anita K. McCauley Neurobiology and Anatomy 2001-2002 Ekaterina V. Anokhina Chemistry

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2000-2001 Michael Allen Barger Biology 1999-2000 George Joseph Yohrling IV Physiology and Pharmacology

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE GORDON A. MELSON OUTSTANDING MASTER’S STUDENT AWARD

Program 2009-2010 Clare Elizabeth Hector Biology 2008-2009 Richard T. Guy Mathematics 2007-2008 Erika Carlson Psychology 2006-2007 Amy Lynn Olex Computer Science 2005-2006 John David Foley Mathematics

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS OF THE OUTSTANDING MASTER’S STUDENT AWARD

Program 2004-2005 Robert M. Davis Mathematics 2003-2004 Emily Love Kader English 2002-2003 Emily Marie Brewer English 2001-2002 Jason Edward Black Communication 2000-2001 Lyndsey Shelton Jessup Haywood Mathematics

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