2020 Convocation Program
GRADUATION WITH DISTINCTION
Honors (designated with *)
Students who maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.25 for all course work completed at Illinois.
High Honors (designated with **)
Students who maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.5 for all course work completed at Illinois.
Highest Honors (designated with ***)
Students who maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.75 for all course work completed at Illinois.
University Honors – Bronze Tablet (designated with +)
Students must rank in the top three percent of their graduating class. This year in the College of Applied Health Sciences the GPA for Bronze Tablet was 3.95. The students receiving the distinction Bronze Tablet will have their names inscribed on a permanent display in the University Library.
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Doctor of Philosophy
Crina Cotoc
Jong Cheol Shin
Marcela Vizcarra-Catalan
Master of Public Health
Nicole Alberto
Monica Astorga
Madeline Balka
Dakota Clayton
Edson Flores
Steve Koziel
Andreea Lazaroiu
Kelly Ann Licata
Colleen Murphy
Shivani Shah
Mateo Solis Rueda
Haily Stillabower
Lavanya Tripuraneni
Master of Science in Health Administration
Rebecca Biernacki
Julie Kumar
Carly Thomas
Master of Science
Rifat Alam
Mengmeng Ji
Jessica Jackson
Janeth Juarez Padilla
Andrea Ramirez-Olarte
Tarisha Showers-Washington
Bachelor of Science
Ammar Abualhuda*
Michael Adegoke
Faramade Adeniyi
Naba Agha**
Zaid Ahmed**
Ali Ahsan**
Esther A. Ajayi
Sophie Akin***
Michael Ang
Alexandra Arca**
Dominique Arcieri*
Adedipupo Awolola
Victoria Barbosa Munoz***
Stephanie Barrett***
Faye Elizabeth Barry***
Samantha Bell**
Connor Christopher Bertrand***
Jerome Beverly*
Eddy Florent Fowe Boutcheko
Gabriella Borghese**
Aaron Brockmeier
Kara M Buenaventura
Ashley Burgess***
Kennedy Burrell
Joyce Caldwell*
Meghan Campbell
Grace Carlson***
Jennifer Carrillo*
Monserrat Carrillo-Rodriguez
Katherine Castillo**
Andrea Cervantes*
Amaan Aamir Chalisa**
Alicia Rose Coddington
Claire Cody*
Elizabeth Violet Cohen***
Nicholas Crescenzo*
Luz Angelica Cruz**
Galila Mekonnen Dandridge Rafal Debski
Valarie DeMuri**
Charlesa A. Derbigny
Kevin Ding**
Sydni Elizabeth Farris*
Rashad Fattash*
Zaida T Fernandez*
Diamond Leshion Fikes
Kailey Fitzgerald**
Dylan Foster
Abena Frimpong
Lauren Elizabeth Froehlich**
Meghan Rose Gaffaney**
Samantha Jane Gallo***
Isabel Garcia***
Emily George*
Alexis Shaphi Genous
Matthew Gibbs**
Michelle Gil
Ariel Glaviano
Kendall Gloss**
Jessica Leigh Goldman*
Graciela Gonzalez*
Melissa Gonzalez
Venice Gonzalez*
Emily Gorman
Gianna Swan Gradowski***
Antania Micole Green
Andres Gutierrez
Hafsa Habib**
Marina Silva Haddad***
Gabriela Amani Hadyeh
Magdalena Hamielec***
John Hamman***+
Mashruba Haque
Anvita Hariharan**
Christina Harper
Nykisha Harris*
Ali Hasan**
Lauren Elizabeth Heinzman***
Pamela Hernandez
Karen Hernandez Patricio***+
Gema Herrera
Casey Hogan**
Swanese Leshay Houston
Caitlyn Hsing*
Ajla Ann Husic**
Asif Huq***
Emily Duncan Irwin**
Ryan Jackson
Sachin Jindal***
Frances Grace Kerr
Clare Buchanan Kessler*
Daniele Claire Klebern*
Thomas John Kolaz
Alexis Kosiek
Yazan Kudaimi*
Molly A Kunstbeck**
Qingyi Lan**
Kaylee Lacoco*
Yareli Lazaro Bahena
Jessica Lopez
Cynthia Jennifer Lund**
Simran Maini***
Mary Alexis Maravelas*
Amy B Martinez
Jocelyn Martinez
Martha Martinez
Jevone Mayes
Fiona McDermott***
Danielle McNair
Jennifer Medina
Shamara Melvin
Noah Mesa
Matthew Morrow**
Caroline Moulis
Aminah Muhammad
Brenda Michelle Munguia**
Rhea Nambiar*
John Neville
Hanna Nilsen
Vanessa Nwanka
Frederick Obanor
Morgan O’Brien
Erik Ochoa*
Nneka Okeke*
Laura E Olson***
Zainab Oluokun
Ricardo Ortiz***
Oreoluwa Osinaike
Farah Ou
Sidney Oluwasayo Oyebiyi
Patricia Pajak***
Lauren Pangelinan***+
Dhara Patel***
Hema Patel***
Shivani Patel**
Yash Patel*
Zil Patel
Ayishat Pedro
Marcin Robert Piechocki
Kewan Pigram
Ashly Pinarkyil**
Sophia Rose Platcow**
Joshua Isaac Pliskin
Ktyah Caryn Point Du Jour
Jade Cassidie Poundstone*
Laura Beryl Potter
Leah Adeline Proctor*
Julia Radon***
Maaz Raheem*
Rachel Rahman***+
Anna Maria Ricano
Meredith Ann Richards
Nicholas Robins*
Melanie E Rodriguez**
Ava Roper***
Madeline Rosendahl***
Demetrius Ruffin S
amantha Sansweet**
Mariela Saenz***
Abdulrhman Salih
Sahinab Saliu
Anne Schultz**
Megan C Sebahar***
Savanah Letitia Scarlett**
Baylin Elaine Shade
Sourabh Sharma**
Rucha Shastri***
Sydney Shephard**
Mariah Shepherd-Hubbard
Christina Simi*
Rachael Simon
Kayla Alexis Sims*
Latrece M Smith
Paris Smith
Eric Solberg**
Monet Sniezek
Austin Sommer
Tyler Soy
Kyle Joseph Spalding* Anne Spence**
Mira Spizzirri**
Kaitlyn Staisiunas***
Amelia Staniszewski***
Rose Staples
Taylor Stateman
Brittany Marie Steineke
Joseph Szaflarski***
Bryan Elijah Taylor
Laurel Tesar**
Patricia Torres
Randall Tran
Imani N Turner
Nneka Ukpaby***
Nnenna Esther Ukpaby**
Beatriz Vargas-Ibarra*
Amelia Vasilic
Antonio Jordan Webster
Nicolette Taylor Westphal*
Kayla Wells
Kortney Wilcher***
Joya Woodard
Elizabeth Yoon***+
Jacob Zweig
KINESIOLOGY
Doctor of Philosophy/MD
Andrew Hua
Doctor of Philosophy
Matthew Adamson
Tiffany Bullard
Jeremy Butler
Yvette Castaneda
Svyatoslav Dvoretskiy Andrew Hua
Chad Killian
Daniel Palac
Jong Hun Sung
Tyler Wood
Master of Science
Rafael Alamilla
Allyson Box
Nakia Brown
Mikaela Frechette Gabriela Garcia
Haley Holz
Samuel Lapp
Dennis Minton
Dakota Morales
Alexander Nichol
Juan Nino-Gomez
Mark Skonieczny
Yuliana Soto
Samuel Streeter
Rebecca Yarnot
Bachelor of Science
Richardson Adeolu
Elizabeth Alanis
Nicole Alberto
Daisy Alonso
Brock Ambrose*
Ashley Anderson
Domantas Backus
Ryan Wayne Baird***
Amanda Jayne Baker**
Nicole Bakovich**
Rachael Marie Balthazor
Nadia Basave***
Morgan Berland**
Nicole A Beros**
Komal Bhardwaj
Daniel Brito*
Brooke Shere Buchanan
Anne Bunten***
Brian Richard Burns
Joseph Tyler Busse
Kathleen Callaghan**
Nathan Michael Carper**
Jeffrey Cartwright*
Andrew Casula
Gregory M Chan**
Wesley Yelop Chan**
Tiffany Chin**
William Cihlar**
Dakota Clayton
Eryka Cordero**
Jared Cruz*
Isaac D Daiber*
Delaney Davis*
Joshua Deeman Alexander Diab*
Yuliya Drab**
Isabel Cara Eng*
Kristi L Escobar***
Michael Farmer
Brittany Faurie***
Charles A Fell
Jenna Fesemyer
Kazia Frederick*
Carly Jane Frerichs***
Meghan Fritchey**
Jazzmine Garcia*
Alexa Gerdes
Monica Gomez
Marcelo R Gonzalez
Markus Grasemann*
Victoria Grodjesk-Morger
Julia Gulanczyk**
Leonardo Guzman*
Amina Hajro*
Tcherna S Halpern***
Bryce Hamamoto***
Jacob Gregory Hansen
Hannah Hassan
Jeremy Hirsh
Chance Homerin
Karen Howell*
Kaitlyn Hruza
Kenny Hsiao
Attia Huizinga***
Samreen Ana Hussain**
Sarah Michele Jansen
Colette Marie Jaslowski*
Morgan Johannes***
Jay Johnson**
Justeena Jojo
Brittany Lynn Jones*
Veronica Soojin Jung**
Madelynn Kallembach**
Kimberly Kamman***
Alexander Keeble*
Jacob Tanner Keller**
Katie L Kesslering***
Maria Nicole Ketsios
Camraan Khan
Spencer Kiesewetter
Elizabeth Lynne Kooy**
Alexis Koronkiewicz*
Shane Krummick*
Matthew Kumler**
Ardit Lamaj*
Joshua Lee
Jennifer Lemke**
Kylie Lenschow
Jacob Light**
Deena Hope Lipson*
Amber N Lopez**
Bryan Lorenzana
Jeremy Tyler Luczak**
Jordan Lupeamanu
Yanqing Lyu***+
Kelly Maday*
Sarah Madsen***
Megan G Manious
Andres Martinez*
Alyssa Rose Masangkay
Katherine McDade*
Kyle Edward MacRae
Cynthia Medina*
Michael Michalak
Ithika Mirji
Timothy Mollman***
Andrea Monarrez
Christopher Monsingh*
Connor Patrick Murphy
Kyle Murray*
Zaki Naqvi*
Jose Elias Nava
Clayton Nimz
Blake H Nizko
Tristyn Nowlin**
Jasmyn Nunez
Jamiu A Odunsi
Young-Hyun H Oh**
Brianna Oldenburg*
Rowan Olson***
Natalie Ann O’Shea
Dana Pape**
Migi Park**
Brandon Pelayo
Kaitlyn Pieler
Jackson Potrue
Cathryn Quinlivan**
Kent Roberts
Mayra Rosado
Austin Ryan
Natalie Anne Saeger**
Abigail Scheidt
Victoria Schorsch*
Johnathon Schulte***+
Kylie Schultz**
Danielle Moriah Schur***
Dulcenea Scott***
Claire Elizabeth Scully***
Jung Seo
Ahmed Shehata*
Lauren Nichole Smitherman*
Eleanor Spina
Stephanie Stec
Michaela J Stich
Amanda Hayley Sugar***+
Nimota-Lai Sulaiman
Johnathan Sutton**
Jack Swindells**
Edward Tang*
Raymond Tang***
Malcolm Jamison Taylor
Abby Trojanek*
Justin Tsang**
Celeste Twombly
Taylia Tyo**
Hannah L Uhler
Adrian Valdez
Gerardo Valdivieso
Jenna Vangalis**
Adriana Velasco**
Matthew Villa
Nhung Vo**
Brendan Walker***
Cressa Elizabeth Wagner**
Rita Walsh**
Elijah Watson
Caroline Elizabeth Welsh**
Paige Nicole Winter**
Nolan Woller***
Rachel Woods*
Duorui Xu*
Yanira Y Yanez*
Byungho Yoo**
Abagail Diane Younger***
Kyle Raymond Zajac**
Maryana Zhamaledinovna Zalova**
Marcos Zaragoza*
INTERDISCIPLINARY HEALTH SCIENCES
Bachelor of Science
Ayla Kathleen Adams***
Olaitan Ajayi
Kasandra Alvarez
Rashimi Alwala
Michael Anukwu**
Antonio Arana*
Marielena Bautista
Rebecca Lynn Beaupre**
Alyse Bondarowicz**
Nicole Bouillet
Claudia Brozan***
Olivia Burke***
Alyssa Castro***
Michelle Cheung***
Carman Chiu**
Sandra Anna Chrzaszcz
Jessica Coleman
Maya Crawford**
Niquan Dawson
Maria Derrig**
Rachel Dickey**
Virginia Disch
Aliza Dorevitch**
Samuel Drazner***
Yiting Du***
Clara Dylewski**
Jessica Escutia-Calderon**
Morgan Fiets***
Emily File*
Natea Fisher*
Katherine Marie Florence***
Ashley Garcia
Elizabeth Garvey**
Emma Faye Gelberg***
Angelina Marie Gibson**
Sania Gilani**
Alaina Gillespie***
Ryan Gillespie*
Sarah A Gilman**
Yanko Gonzalez**
Jennifer Goodfriend***
Daniel Patrick Green*
Emina Hajro**
Allison Hoefert***
Chad Hoerr*
Daria Hogren***
Luke Howland
Tavita Hristova***
Kendall Hutchinson**
Daniel Jarka
Carla I. Jimenez
Natalie Jones
Jaelyn Jugo**
Syntyche Kanku*
Claudia Maria Karwowski*
Harjyot Kattaura*
Madison Kaufman***
Magnolia Klepacki
Jamie Susanne Kolar***
Seungha Lee**
Kelsie Lichtenberger***
Tommy Mai*
Darrian March**
Carleonna Marshall
Jacqueline Medrano
Roqayah Mohammed*
Paige Murphy**
Yuliya Mykhaylovska***
Nikita Nangia**
Cydney Natzke**
Esmeralda Nevarez
Jacob Nguyen***
Alexandria Nischke**
Eduardo Orozco Rodriguez*
Lindsey Panozzo*
Megha D Parikh**
Nidhi Parikh***
Ashley Park*
Juli Patel*
Sophia A Peng
McKinzie Polchow
Katarina Nicole Pong**
Kevin H Qin***
Bridgette Rasmussen
Fred Phillip Reetz
Alexa Rodriguez
Lindsey Michele Rush*
Anastasiya Smal**
Cozette Smith**
Sydney Snider**
Anna Song**
Mansi Soni
Alisha Janine Steging***
Gabrielle Stirgus
Antonia Stokes*
Monica Strom***
Alexus Thongsakounh
Madeline Eve Timken*
Mimi Tsang
Ashley Tovar DeLeon
Alyzza L Vargas***
Vanessa Vazquez*
Laila Velic*
Elijah Walker***
Maxwell Wallace
Selena Shiyue Wang***
Sue Ellen Wilk
Carly Wilson***
Amanda Wolff**
Monika Ziogaite**
RECREATION, SPORT AND TOURISM
Doctor of Philosophy
Allison Musser
Kerri Schiller
Master of Science
Jasmine Bailey
Melissa Bainter
Andres Balcazar
Daniel Bednarczyk
Mindy Brand
Jared Brown
Matthew Buchi
Katryn Chryst
Sean Cicogna
Alexis Conlin
Reginald Corbin
Nathaniel Cualoping
Natalie Dukes
Michael Girot
Michael Haynes
Michael Jones
Aaron Jordan
Joseph Kalwat
Nicole Kohler
Karlee Kolb
Steven Knysch
Nicole Lamborn
Matthew Lopez-Cervantes
Tyler Nelson
Abigail O’Brian
Abigayle Olsen
Yue Pei
Matthew Poland
Gus Psimoulis
Jenna Scinto
Evan Shawgo
Matrisha Souvannarath
Michael Sprieser
Dana Tincher
Derek Wagner
John Weems
Bachelor of Science
Madeline Adams
Tarren Bradford Adams
Abraham A Bakare
Benjamin Barnes
Stanley Marshall Belfort*
Anthony Bellanca***
Adrian Berlinski
Michael Braverman
Kennedy Brown**
Liliana Bustos
Andrew Camugnaro
Seoyeon Choi
Ashley Coleman
Kyla Collins
Deja Cook-Reynolds
Justin Coyle*
Daniel Cuautle
Maciej Czerlonko**
Alexis Blake Davis
Trenard Lamar Davis
Zachary Deliberto**
Joshua Jacob Eiker
Maxwell Richard Ernest**
Christian Evans
Dawn May Failla*
Michael Feagles
Michael Fischer
Alejandro Flores
Jasmine Nicole Gencik*
Tyler Scott Gold***
Matthew Tyler Goldstein*
Julia Greuel
Cristina Guerrero
Daniel Harder
Samuel Aaron Isaacson
Taylor M Jackson*
Alec James*
Mallory Jenkins**
Pengxuan Jiang
Courtney Joens
Jordyn Abrianna Jones
Nicholas Kargol
Paul T Keen
Liam Kerrigan***
Madeline Mari Klein
Adam James Kulek***
Collin Lafon***
Alec Lamoureaux**
Daniel Lee
Lige Liu
Mikkie Lopez
Dylan Lee Lytel
Javier Antonio Maldonado
Joseph Manning
Melani Nia McCoy**
Jack Ryan McCoy
Brendan McGuire
Stella McMillan
Nathaniel Charles Mechling*
Madeline Elizabeth Meinhold*
Austin Montbriand**
Maya Selena Montoya
Desiree Mosely
Javier Murillo
Robert Nardini
Blake Nicolls
Emily Oberst
Victoria O’Connor
Jack O’Malley
Tyler J Opilka
Devin Kenneth Quinn
Adam Jordan Perl
Sadie Potvin
Christian Price
Shaiquan Ray-Pringle
Jeffrey Reichling
Cierra Rice
Joshua David Riskind
Arturo Rocha
Jonathan Rogel
David Levi Rudin
Jeremiah Sanders
Ryan Schmitt
Anna K Skaredoff
Emmanuel Jabarie Smith
Jacob Paul Sons
Lauren Spencer*
Elyse Eileen Standard*
Lucas Stone
Murray Tao**
Leslie Lynn Taylor
Kaylee Thompson***
Zachary Treadway
Jordan Tullman
Angela Lorraine
Tzortzis Zachary Vargas*
Eliza A Vega
Anthony Vitucci*
Wei Wan
Grant Webb**
Chumar Laquinn Williams
Rikyah Wright
Alex Yi
Yueyao Zhao
SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCE
Doctor of Audiology
Ariel Brownlee
Jacob Caravello
Zoë Dinger
Victoria Eschmann
Carolyn Jeon
Kristin Johnson
Malorie Wagman
Doctor of Philosophy
Henry Giovanny Angulo Jiménez
Master of Arts
Stephanie Bauer
Caitlyn Boni
Hannah Cassiday
Stephanie Cheng
Elizabeth Ehrendreich
Erin Fabry
Elizabeth Habisohn
Abigail Hellrigel
Sarah James
Kathleen Lapcewich
Emma Larson
Daphne Le
Alexandra Lioznov
Tracy Preza
Kayla Ross
Alana Sullivan
Leah Tabone
Victoria Veldman
Sarah Weekes
Kaitlin Yorde
Kristine Zachrich
Bachelor of Science
Itzel Abundis*
Eleena Ahmed***
Payton Archer*
Sabrina Mai Barkal**
Madeline Kaye Berg*
Katrina Anne Blum***
Angela Bogusz**
Ada Bulka
Hannah Bulthuis**
Yazmin Camarena*
Jillian Logan Campbell***
Andriani Christoforou***
Diana Jasmine Carrillo
Amanda Carroll**
Cori Dahl***
Raquel Diaz Deleon
Amanda Quincena Diaz*
Kathleen Dowling***
Elizabeth Dudzik***+
Karin Eig*
Lily Ellyin**
Ericka Estrada
Anwyn Marie Eydt-Beebe**
Ada Ezlakowska**
Elena Frizzell***
Ellie Gatz*
Richard Glasser
Gabrielle Greaser***
Emily Griggs***
Bailey Harmon**
Guadalupe Herrera**
Elissa R Hoffman***
Claire Elizabeth Inskeep***
Eirelyn Sass Johnson*
Madalene Jorda**
Emma Kahle**
Hiba Katerji**
Hyerin Kim*
Sandra Kogan***
Gabrielle Kosh***+
Taliya Kottai
Natalia Katherine Krasuska**
Jenna M Lachman***
Veronica E Lane***+
Madison Larocca**
Brianna Marie Legner***+
Amy Nicole Leick
Heather Levon**
Ragnar Lindberg***
Bella J Lindquist
Patricia Marek**
Kathryn Michele McBain**
Cristina McCormack**
Angela Medrano***
Kari Moore***
Malinda V Mullet***
Elizabeth A Musur***
Lakshmi Nanduri**
Ryan Lou Oimoen
Emily Pankey*
Jessica Philipp***+
Mikayla Pollard***
Sheryl Quinn**
Kyler Rennels*
Celia Rodriguez**
Benjamin Rose
Allison Marie Rush***
Isabella De Jesus Russell**
Jenna Cheri Savell***+
Molly Schultz**
Cynthia Catherine Secaras**
Hannah Therese Shultz***
Shaliny Somson
Charlotte Spiro**
Anna Tulley***+
Gabrielle Van Zant**
Margaret Warkenthien**
Katherine M Weber***
Hailey Wilson***
UNIVERSITY HONORS – BRONZE TABLET
Yiting Du
Elizabeth Dudzik
Jennifer Goodfriend
John Hamman
Karen Hernandez
Madison Kaufman
Gabrielle Kosh
Veronica Lane
Brianna Legner
Yanqing Lyu
Lauren Pangelinan
Nidhi Parikh
Jessica Philipp
Rachel Rahman
Jenna Savell
Johnathon Schulte
Amanda Sugar
Anna Tulley
Elizabeth Yoon
To earn Bronze Tablet distinction, students must rank in the top three percent of their graduating class. This year in the College of Applied Health Sciences the minimum GPA for Bronze Tablet was 3.95.
The students receiving the distinction of Bronze Tablet will have their names inscribed on a permanent display in the University Library.
This program contains the list of graduates who received degrees in August 2019 and December 2019. This program also contains the unofficial list of degree candidates for May 2020 and Bachelor and Master students expecting to receive a degree post-May 2020. Due to printing deadlines, the names of some degree recipients may not appear while the names of some degree candidates who have not completed their degree requirements may be included.
Honors listed in the program are tentative and will be finalized at a later date.