Spring 2025 Commencement Program
| Name | Degree | Major | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kabita Adhikari | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Advancing pandemic preparedness through developing broad-spectrum antivirals, sustainable PPE decontamination, and vaccine efficacy evaluation of human coronaviruses. |
| Aaron Taylor Aguilar-Bonnette | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | “We deserve to be seen, heard, and included in recovery spaces:” A content analysis informing the improvement of alcohol use treatment for sexually diverse individuals |
| Hayaa Alhazani | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Accomplishing Education Vision 2030: An ICT-based Constructivist Approach to Enhance Content Knowledge and Learning Attitudes of Saudi Arabian High School Students |
| Kelsey Marie Allen | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | |
| Ria Anand | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Dissecting Slit Signaling: Regulating Stem Cells, Proteolytic Cleavage, and its Emerging Roles in Metabolism |
| Ashley Lenae Anderson | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | The Role of Medical Education Learning Specialists in Preparing Students for the United States Medical Licensing Exam Step 1 |
| Jennifer Lynn Patton | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Leah Elizabeth Auchter | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation Methods |
| Adea Badivuku | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | The Contemporary Pianist’s Toolkit: Reimagining the Piano’s Sonic Identity Through Extended Techniques |
| Palina Bahdanovich | Doctor of Philosophy | Atmospheric Science | Laboratory Chemical Characterization of Fresh and Aged Bioaerosols |
| Sivasankar Balakrishnan | Doctor of Philosophy | Epidemiology | Going beyond the average treatment effect: estimating the diverse impacts of a home visiting intervention on infant hemoglobin, breastfeeding, and dietary diversity |
| Allison Bartlett | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Regulation of Interstitial Cells by Hormones and Neuropeptides: Mechanisms and Implications for Gastrointestinal Motility |
| Karey Ellen Basile | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Ellen Martini Beenfeldt | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Jeffery Best | Doctor of Philosophy | Geography | Advancing UAV-Based Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Ecological Monitoring, Habitat Disturbance Detection, and Forensic Science in Arid Landscapes |
| Cindy A. Black | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Preparation and Training of School Counselors for Roles in Virtual K-12 Settings |
| Elijah Nathaniel Boardman | Doctor of Philosophy | Hydrology | Linking Hydrological Processes With Water Resource Insights Through Synthesis of Big Data and Physics-Based Modeling |
| Alec Brennan | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Utilizing Chemical Biology Approaches to Study Streptococcal Quorum Sensing |
| Zara Rose Browne | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | |
| Janice Lynn Burke | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Understanding Factors that Influence Attorneys' Plea Recommendations |
| Robert P. Chastain | Doctor of Philosophy | Statistics and Data Science | Multivariate Random Events Driven by Truncated Exponential Observations |
| Uriel Cholula Rivera | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Assessing the Effects of Deficit Irrigation on Alfalfa Grown in Northern Nevada |
| Tara Christensen | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | How interactions with plants influence butterflies’ responses to environmental stressors: from pathogens to climate change |
| Kara Cleveland | Doctor of Education | Education | Beyond Recruitment: An Evaluation of the GradFIT Program |
| Alexandra Cecilia Coconis | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Drivers of species distribution in woodrats (Neotoma) of the Great Basin Desert |
| Marissa Angelina Cossio | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Bethany Marie Damonte | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Shane Dominguez | Doctor of Philosophy | English | Disaster Fiction and Cultural Characteristics In Twenty-First Century America |
| Fady Ahmed Mohamed Elshazly | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Seismic Analysis and Isolation Strategies for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Cask Systems |
| Suoyao Feng | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Socioeconomic Considerations in Traffic Safety Studies by Leveraging Vehicle Trajectory Data |
| Annanicole Fine | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Judging AI: Exploring professional identity and attitudes toward artificial intelligence in the legal system |
| Landen Pearce Flournoy | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Kiana Danielle Gamble | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Burak Gulsacan | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Estimation and Enhancement of Hydrodynamic Performance of Bio-Inspired Underwater Propulsion |
| Majid Hassani, Sr | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemical Physics | From Pulses to Pathways: Unveiling Molecular Motion and Energy Landscapes with 2D IR Spectroscopy |
| Erin E. Hicks | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Serene Randa Isam Hireish | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Elijah John Holschbach | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | |
| Kara A. Hoofman | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Message Framing and Personality in Older Adults’ Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions with AI-driven Healthcare Treatment Recommendations |
| Kimberly Ruth Hruby | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Weijian Hua | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Hydrogel-Particle Interaction-Powered Embedded Ink Writing: from Material Design to Biomedical Applications |
| Nataliia Aleksandrovna Igrashkina | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Towards a New Generation of UHPC Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Systems |
| Hannah Jane Jacques | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Yi-En Ji | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Seismic Response of Nonstructural Platform framed Cold-formed Steel Walls Subassemblies Detailed for Drift Compatibility |
| Hannah Victoria Jochem | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Lurleen Johnson-Gonzales | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Ashley N. Juste | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Sampada Karandikar | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Affluenza: Scale Construction and Validation, Association with Dark Personality Traits, and Potential Role in Perpetration of White Collar Crime |
| Sandy Karkar | Doctor of Philosophy | English | Time Machines: The Sensation Novel as a Technology of Transimperial Temporality |
| Ericka R. Kay | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Ecological Perspectives on Cannabis Phytochemistry: Biotic Interactions and Abiotic Stress in Managed and Natural Systems |
| Aidan Klemmer | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Measurements of Magnetic Compression and Melt of Electrically Thick Metals Driven by Lineal Current Densities Characteristic of Pulsed-Power-Driven Fusion Devices |
| Madeleine Lohman | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Spatiotemporal Modeling for Wildlife Demographic Analysis: Bridging Analysis to Waterfowl Conservation |
| Siying Lu | Doctor of Philosophy | Atmospheric Science | Analysis of Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols using Numerical Techniques |
| Kristi Marie Lyles | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Christopher J. Mallon | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemical Physics | |
| Bridget Martinez | Doctor of Philosophy | Basque Studies | Uncovering the protective mechanism propelling the high incidence of RH negative blood in the Basque population |
| Danielle Rene Mathews | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Jacqueline Anne McDonald | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Trevor D. Mclemore | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | Entrepreneurship in times of changing technology and labor markets |
| Kristine Pheysey Mcneill | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Mona Mehrani | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Development and Structural Analysis of Peptide-Based Probes for Modulating Quorum Sensing in Streptococcal Bacteria. |
| Ramkrishna Mishan | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Impact of IBR-Storage Technologies on Modern Electric Grids: Dispatchability, Ancillary Service and Transient Stability |
| Ericka Maria Mora Campos | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Advanced Mobility Applications using High-resolution Vehicle Trajectory Data |
| Arunava Nag | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | The Invisible Landscape: Statistical Characterization and Simulation of Large-Scale Outdoor Odor Plumes |
| Echo Sherry Neill | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Stormi Elizabeth Nevada-Noll | Doctor of Philosophy | Atmospheric Science | Characterization of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Observed During the Perlan Mission II Campaign |
| Travis R. Numan | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Post-wildfire mobilization of nutritional elements |
| Rita Olla | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Determining the Predictive Utility of IRAP and Q Methodology in the Analysis of Teamwork Among Humans and Artificial Intelligence in An Analog Work Setting |
| Joshua Temitayo Olowolaju | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Enhancing Flexibility, Operation, and Control in Modern Electricity Grids through Robust Data-Driven Methods |
| Kemi Osho | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Developing Free radical initiated peptide sequencing towards the analysis of complex mixtures |
| Katherine Grace Parker | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | The 'Siren of Naples' Reborn: Reexamining the legacy and developmental repertoire of Isabella Colbran |
| Hailey Silver Rodis | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Informal Mentoring within the Tenure-Track Faculty Experience: A Phenomenological Study |
| William Fredrick Roser | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Seismic Performance of Nonstructural Cold-Formed Steel Framed Exterior Walls with Drift-Compatible Details in a 10-Story Mass Timber Building |
| Melanie Schmidt-Wolf | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Towards Safety-Assured Environments of Autonomous Robots via Intent Expressive Autonomy |
| Hailey Schollnick | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | |
| Daivee Terese Serafini | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Kasra Shamsaei | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Advancing Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Simulation: Fuel Representation and Fire Spotting |
| Tracy L. Shane | Doctor of Philosophy | Animal and Rangeland Sciences | Novel remote-sensing and statistical approaches to evaluating landscape changes associated with targeted livestock grazing |
| Matthew William Shinkle | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Deep Neural Network-Based Simulations for Predicting, Controlling, and Characterizing BOLD fMRI Responses |
| Mary Olegovna Smirnova | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Leveraging social support to enhance approach in interoceptive exposure |
| Emily Mckeehan Smith | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | |
| Stacy Ann Marie Thaler | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Katie Wahler | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Alana Sydney Walls | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | “Appropriate for School”: Childhood, Relationships, and Intimacy in a U.S. Middle School |
| Elizabeth Ellen Walsh | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Development of Molecular Tools and Elucidation of Antiviral Pathways in Culex Mosquitoes |
| Anni Wang | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Bond Markets |
| Lingchen Wang | Doctor of Philosophy | Epidemiology | Cancer and COVID-19: Impacts on Mortality and Long COVID Risk |
| Danika Williams | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Multifaceted Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Smoking, Influenza Vaccine Uptake, and Respiratory Mortality |
| Saber Yaghoobi | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Enhancing Logical Reasoning and Temporal Dynamics in Complex Systems through Hybrid Logical Neural and Echo State Networks |
| Tiffany Young | Doctor of Education | Education | Mirror and Windows: Exploring the Intersection of Reflective Practices and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. |
| Tania Akter | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Electrochemical CO₂ Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products: Strategies for Enhancing Selectivity and Efficiency |
| Anithakrithi Balaji | Doctor of Philosophy | Biomedical Engineering | |
| Nicole Beaulieu | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Julia Brockman | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Linking Individual Behavior to Population Dynamics: Insights for Effective Raven Management |
| Terina Caserto | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | |
| Zhihui Chen | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Ranging-Image-Based Methodologies to Enhance LiDAR Processing Efficiency |
| Shawon Dey | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Hierarchical Game Theory based Control for Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems: A Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Approach |
| Heinrich Di Santo | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Sustainable Approaches to Enhance Water Productivity in Horticultural Crops |
| Ryan Durbin | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Protons and Potentials: Monitoring Activity-Dependent pH Transients and their Effects on Neurotransmission |
| Brian Feeney | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | |
| Amy Fitch | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Heat waves, early birth, and vulnerable populations: Epidemiological and spatial analyses in the United States |
| Alan Garcia Ceballos | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | |
| Milad Ghahramanieisalou | Doctor of Philosophy | Mineral Resources Engineering | Advancing Rockfall Hazard Assessment through Data-Driven Modelling Based on Laboratory-Scale Experiments |
| Ari Grele | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Hailey Hermann | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Recombinant human laminin-111 restores cell signaling and molecular mechanisms through laminin adhesion complexes |
| Khondker Fariha Hossain | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Robust and Efficient AI-models for Medical Image Reconstruction, Segmentation, and Multimodal Knowledge Distillation |
| Md Tasmirul Jalil | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | |
| Vala Kafil | Doctor of Philosophy | Biomedical Engineering | Noble Metal-Based Nanocomposites and Their Bioapplications |
| Cameron Locke | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Associative Polymer Networks with Bipyridine-Metal Complexes: Extensional Rheology and Applications |
| Johnathan Lomas | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | |
| Austin Lopez | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Flies, Data, Robots: Insect-Inspired Flight Strategies for Robust UAV Navigation in GPS Denied Environments |
| Lauren Netzel | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Visual-Oculomotor and Head Movement Strategies in Postural Control |
| John Ostermiller | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | |
| Danny Phung | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Psychological Distress in Gay Asian American Men: The Role of Cultural Values and Conflict of Allegiance |
| Devon Picklum | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Md Hafizur Rahman | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Understanding the wear-electro-corrosion mechanisms of phosphonium ionic liquids to enhance the degradation resistance of electric vehicle components |
| Suman Rath | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | A Dynamic Defense Framework for Adaptive Resiliency Against Emerging Threats in Microgrid Cybersecurity Games |
| Christopher Richey | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | |
| Alexandar Rollings | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Nuclear spin coherence times of HD trapped in solid parahydrogen matrices |
| Michael Schulz | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | From Resilience to Response: A Critical Analysis of Mental Health Preparedness in EMS Training |
| Md Idris Shareef | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Temporal Dynamics and Perceptual Consequences of Face Adaptation |
| Courtney Smith | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | |
| Ciara Viola | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Nanosecond Electric Pulses in Neuromodulation: A Journey from Isolated Adrenal Chromaffin Cells to Murine Tissue Slices |
| Cynthia Acosta-Pizana | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Karlee Boyd | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Yolanda Gardner | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Beverly Bovey | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Shannon Hartmann | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | |
| John Appert | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | The Economics of Crime and Punishment: An Agent-Based Computational Approach |
| Jeremiah Paul | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Multiwavelength Signatures of Super-Eddington Accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Haydon Hill | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | To Catch a Virus: the Development of Immunoassays to Detect Viral Pathogens |
| Amaris Martin | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Gautami Yerabati | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Kate Margheritis | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Pooja Sheevam | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | |
| Garrett Larson | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | |
| Tahliah Ling-Sudler | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Digital Locker Room Talk: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Sex Buyers’ Online Narratives in Nevada’s Legal and Illegal Commercial Sex Industry |
| Md Kausar Anik | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Mitigation of Liquefaction-Induced Foundation Movements using 1g Shake Table Tests |
| Brian Prince | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Reading between the strands: Deciphering dsRNA-based immune responses in mosquito-virus interactions |
| Elena V. Bubnova | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Outcomes among College Students in Online Courses: Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Asha B. Putnam | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology |
| Print Name | Degree |
|---|---|
| Eunice Aiyuk | Doctor of Medicine |
| Zoe Noelle Anderson | Doctor of Medicine |
| Aamir A. Aziz | Doctor of Medicine |
| Sawyer Zach Bauer | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jordyn Noelle Becker | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jacob Christopher Benna | Doctor of Medicine |
| Milena Diem-Xuan Bradley | Doctor of Medicine |
| Paulene Cay | Doctor of Medicine |
| Garett Frank Cecchini | Doctor of Medicine |
| Avishay Chand | Doctor of Medicine |
| Andrew Park Cobourn | Doctor of Medicine |
| Kallie Cobourn | Doctor of Medicine |
| Mirabel E. Dafinone | Doctor of Medicine |
| Mohamed S. Dahroug | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ramneek Dhami | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ruby Oropeza Garcia | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ricardo Garcia-Inguanzo | Doctor of Medicine |
| Emily Anne Ginn | Doctor of Medicine |
| Erick Andrew Herrera | Doctor of Medicine |
| Michael Strickler Herron | Doctor of Medicine |
| Leah Marie Heydman | Doctor of Medicine |
| Clarice Ho | Doctor of Medicine |
| Simon Jiahao Hu | Doctor of Medicine |
| Dakota Scott Johnson | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jonathan Wayne Joyner | Doctor of Medicine |
| Axenya Kachen | Doctor of Medicine |
| Elijah David Kraus | Doctor of Medicine |
| Martina Lange-Fernandez | Doctor of Medicine |
| Gideon Lomiiko Lawi | Doctor of Medicine |
| Kathryn Rose Lencioni | Doctor of Medicine |
| Stephen Lencioni | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ivan Alexandro Lopez | Doctor of Medicine |
| Erin Callister Lore | Doctor of Medicine |
| David Maeng | Doctor of Medicine |
| Aisha Masud | Doctor of Medicine |
| Braden Matthews | Doctor of Medicine |
| Cody Tyler Mcgrale | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jorge I. Monge | Doctor of Medicine |
| Mackenzie L. Montero | Doctor of Medicine |
| Haley Rae Nadone | Doctor of Medicine |
| Gianna Nicole Niemeier | Doctor of Medicine |
| Tatiana Lidia Minu Nikooei | Doctor of Medicine |
| Timothy Ogburn | Doctor of Medicine |
| Samantha Palacios | Doctor of Medicine |
| Roshan Mohadev Panda | Doctor of Medicine |
| Paul Joseph Resong | Doctor of Medicine |
| Tyler J. Rogers | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jessica Lauren Scamman | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jacqueline Ann Keating Scarbrough | Doctor of Medicine |
| Julia Schechter | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jaime Angeles Sesgundo | Doctor of Medicine |
| Vishal Kenneth Shah | Doctor of Medicine |
| Korrina Naeem Siddiqui | Doctor of Medicine |
| Wanda S. Thi | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ryan E. Thomas | Doctor of Medicine |
| Erika Tiffany Thys | Doctor of Medicine |
| Raquel Maris Wescott | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ryan Lee Wilson | Doctor of Medicine |
| Victor Yu | Doctor of Medicine |