Spring 2026 Commencement Program
| Print Name | Degree | Major | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johanne Marie Odasz Albrigtsen | Doctor of Philosophy | Hydrology | Do feedback cycles between snow accumulation, soil edaphics, and vegetation growing conditions drive subarctic ecosystem conversions? |
| YeVonne F. Allen | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | LGBTQ+ College Student Academic Persistence Outcome Expectations |
| Audrey Briana Andrews | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | Six Weeks in the High Desert: The Historical Archaeology of Reno Divorce Ranches |
| Jawshan Ara | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | |
| Marlyn Arce-Gomez | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Annet Joselyn Atuhairwe | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Brandy Bengoa | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Jonah Richard Bibo | Doctor of Philosophy | History | Furnishing Crusade: The Balearic Campaign of 1113-15 and the Medieval Environment |
| Arnab Biswas | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Contextual Modulation of Visual Representations from the Retina to the Cortex |
| Matthew John Bolino | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Harnessing N-glycans as Next Generation Prebiotics |
| Luciana Correia Borges | Doctor of Philosophy | Public Health (Social and Behavioral Health) | When evidence is not enough: Political, legal, and coalition determinants of tobacco standardized packaging adoption in Brazil and globally |
| Zara Rose Browne | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | |
| Caleb Seay Cage | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | Managing Disasters Collaboratively: Integrating Collaborative Strategies to Address Operational and Political Complexity During the Coronavirus Pandemic |
| Cossette Ashley Canovas | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Evaluating the Feasibility of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for the Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress |
| Emili Jeanne Striggow Chavez | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Anna Celeste Cole | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | The Pathway from Interpersonal Trauma to Emotion Dysregulation: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Trust, Emotional Expression, and Emotional Suppression in Daily Life |
| Zoe Nichole Corkill | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Christina Elizabeth Coss | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Aren Teva Crandall-Bear | Doctor of Philosophy | Geophysics | |
| Moira Kathrene Cunius | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Lay Beliefs, Schemas, and Decisions Regarding an Extremist Group Defendant |
| Sara Rai Davis | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Face Value: Investigating Data Quality, Representation, and Bias in Face Recognition Systems |
| Glenice Joy Dilley | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Natalia Duda | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | |
| Ryan Enoki | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | |
| Chalyss Valyshu-Monae Evans | Doctor of Philosophy | Human Development and Family Science | Fathers' Role and Impacts on LGBTQ+ POC Emerging Adult Identity Development |
| Sonja Maria Farr | Doctor of Philosophy | Mathematics | Derived operadic centers in algebraic geometry and deformation quantization |
| Madison Taylor Fenner | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Identification and Progression of Oculomotor Impairments in Acute Sport-Related Concussion |
| Kelly L. Fink | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Jacqueline Lorna Galimany Skupham | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | Incorporating the Weathering Hypothesis and Virtual Imaging to Multivariable Macroscopic Adult Age Estimation for Forensic Anthropology |
| Guillermo Garcia Costoya | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Constraints on the adaptive potential of ectotherms to climate change |
| Tommy J. Garcia | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Weylin Gilbert | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | |
| Akhila Chandu Gopal | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | The thermal environment as a driver of complex phenotypes and fitness in a desert lizard |
| Crystal Lynn Gray | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Hannah Haase | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Timothy Patrick Hannon | Doctor of Philosophy | Judicial Studies | Artifical Intelligency and the Future of the Judiciary |
| Nadini Haththotuwe Gamage | Doctor of Philosophy | Animal and Rangeland Sciences | Beef microRNAs: Stability, evidence of absorption, transference into organs, and effects on physiology, metabolism, and gut microbiota of mice |
| Chanakya Hingu | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Power and Resource-Aware FPGA Acceleration of Recurrent Neural Network Controllers for Power Electronics Converters |
| Elijah John Holschbach | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Exploring Causal Agents of Opuntia Stunting Disease |
| Blakely K. Hume | Doctor of Philosophy | English | |
| Brandon Hunley | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Examining Stakeholders' Perceptions of an Adult Forensic Interview Protocol for Sexual Offenses |
| Alyssa Nicole Jacobucci | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | |
| Roshni Jain | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | From Hunger to Sensory Processing: Insulin¿s Role in Modulating Drosophila Larval Olfactory Sensory Neurons |
| Connor Lambert Jimenez | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | |
| Lauren E. Jones | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | |
| Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta | Doctor of Philosophy | Geography | Sthreela Sancharam: Mobility, Authority, and Gendered Rights to the City in Hyderabad, India |
| Jordan Rose Kaye | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Helicopter Parenting and Emotion Regulation in Emerging Adults: A Cross-Lagged Path Analysis |
| Rachel Leah Kozloski | Doctor of Philosophy | Hydrology | Microplastic characteristics and properties in human impacted environments |
| Holly Kruitbosch | Doctor of Philosophy | English | The Politics of Poetry in the Reign of Charles II: 1660-1685 |
| Samantha Charlotte Lee | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Lateralized costs of divided attention and neural representation of categorical face information |
| Leah Lenzo | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Investigating variation in seed traits across space, time, and taxa to inform restoration and conservation practices in the western United States |
| Qizhou Luo | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | Three Essays on Sustainable Economic Development: Experimental and Empirical Evidence from Financial Markets, the Gambling Industry, and Entrepreneurship |
| Ke Lyu | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | Essays on the Effects of Public Policy on Early-Stage Entrepreneurship |
| Theodore Maranets | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | |
| Lauryn Massic | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Leveraging a Whole Genome Sequencing-Based Hypersurveillance Approach to Investigate the Emerging Fungal Pathogen Candidozyma auris |
| Pearson Glenn McIntire | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | ROS and SIK regulation of Stress-Induced Sleep |
| Laurie McKinnon | Doctor of Philosophy | Judicial Studies | Proportionality Under the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause: What's Included? |
| Tara Lela McKinnon | Doctor of Philosophy | Hydrology | Impacts of Stream Flow Regulation on Riparian and Aquatic Communities in the Upper Shasta River |
| Emmanuel Atta Mends | Doctor of Philosophy | Mineral Resources Engineering | Hydrometallurgical processing of nickel sulfides with activated carbon in sulfuric acid medium |
| Abigail Jo Miller | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | The impact of the microbiome on amphibian development, immunity, and susceptibility to infectious disease. |
| Kaiana Mauliola Miller | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | Efficiency of Various Sports Gambling Markets and Bias in NBA Officiating |
| Zachary A. Miller | Doctor of Philosophy | Mathematics | The Double Concordance Genus and Crosscap Number of a Knot |
| Kellen Robert Mitchell | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Interface-engineered Additive Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Polymers: Printing Technique and Material Design for End-use Manufacturing |
| Amy Morris | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | The Body in the Mind: Proprioceptive Consistency, Visuoproprioceptive Interaction, and Neural Correlates of Illusory Movement |
| Carrie Virginia Murphey | Doctor of Education | Education | Travel by Canoe and Leave No Wake: Women in Medical Education Student Affairs Leadership |
| Shannon R. Myers | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | |
| Christopher Natali | Doctor of Philosophy | English | Gothic Nuance: Monstrous, Uncanny, and Gothic Tropes in early 20th Century Passing Literature |
| Diana Namdepi Neely | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | Three Essays on Economic Value Creation through Decisions and Cooperation |
| Briana Tribeca New | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | Understanding relationships between mixed and matched cranial data to improve forensic anthropology application |
| Mary Catherine Oechslin | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| John Robert Ondich-Batson | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | Body Awareness: Using Efficient Movement and Alignment in Conducting |
| Jenna N. Pablo | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Working Memory Under Unpredictable Retrieval Task Demands |
| Haley Brianne Paterson | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Devon A. Picklum | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Sammelan Pokharel | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| Kristen Grace Quigley | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Conception and Preliminary Evaluation of the Quigley-Fenner Concussion Assessment |
| James Michael Ragsdale | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Moral Reframing, Inoculation, and Attitudes toward Needle Exchanges |
| Clay Parke Renshaw | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Peptide-Based Communication in Streptococci: Decoding the Structural Determinants and Regulatory Logic of Quorum-Sensing Circuits |
| Stephanie Rodriguez Reyes | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Unified Protocol Spanish Telenovela in a Latine Sample: A Pilot Study |
| Keely M. Rodriguez | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Quorum Sensing and Virulence Regulation in Commensal and Pathogenic Streptococci |
| Richard Lee Rosencrance, II | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | Assessing the Chronological Variation within Western Stemmed Tradition Projectile Points |
| Bobbi Lee Roth | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Megan James Rupnik | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Identifying and Testing Mechanisms Underlying Sexual Communication Discrepancies in Romantic Relationships |
| Keidi Sada | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | A Pedagogical Grading of Albanian Violin Repertoire |
| Md Abu Sayed | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Threatmap: A Heatmap Framework for Enhancing Security Awareness and Decision-Making for Naval Agents |
| Michael Ray Schulz | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | |
| Carson Crews Smith | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Auditory Induced Vection |
| Kileigh Branae Smith | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | Barriers to Information: Exploring Status Dynamics in Organizations |
| James L. Spoo | Doctor of Philosophy | Judicial Studies | The Trauma-Based Interface by Police Officers with Victims Coincident to the Scenes of Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study of Original Police Domestic Violence Probable Cause Statements |
| Lucas Leandro Tapia Pitzzu | Doctor of Philosophy | Mathematics | Diophantine Approximation on Planar Lines and Affine Subspaces |
| Madison Ashley Thomasson | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Multilevel Adaptations of the Threat System: Hypervigilance, Visual Scanning, and Trigger Identification in Trauma-Exposed Populations |
| Ashley Rebekah Thompson | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Reactions to Sexual Abuse Disclosure and Adult Psychological and Romantic Outcomes |
| Angela Manka Tita | Doctor of Philosophy | Mineral Resources Engineering | Advancing Lithium Extraction from Nevada's Sedimentary Claystones: Hydrometalurgical Pathways and Sustainability |
| Wendy Alfonso Torrens | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Unraveling the trait overlap: Cortical and behavioral profiles differentiate subclinical autism and schizotypy |
| Jamie Umphres | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Chance C. Utter | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | Beyond Batá: Documenting the Folkloric Lucumí Drumming Traditions of Matanzas, Cuba |
| Noel Parker Vineyard | Doctor of Philosophy | Geography | The Lithium Moment in the Sagebrush Sea: The Dynamics of Place, Water and the Future of McDermitt Caldera Lithium Mining |
| Dominik Richard Vlaha | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | |
| Nicole Rita Wagoner | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | Multi-Scale Evaluation of Geothermal Resource Potential in the Great Basin Region through Improved Play Fairway Workflows |
| Jessica Quartez Wallace | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes and Nanoparticles for Biological Applications |
| Ziru Wang | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Large-Scale Automated Extraction of Roadway Features |
| Claire Elaine Williams | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Climate change and animal microbiomes: implications for physiology and survival |
| Janelle Baugh Willis | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Mackenzie Victoria Wise | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Exercise-Induced Modulation of Visual Pathways in Humans: a Tripolar EEG Study |
| Yu Zhao | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Spatial Representation of Bodies in the Human Visual Cortex. |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Kayla A. Aikins | Doctor of Medicine |
| Olawale Eyitayo Akinyemi | Doctor of Medicine |
| Rondo Bauer | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ensi Bejto | Doctor of Medicine |
| Bertha Alicia Beltran-Regalado | Doctor of Medicine |
| Todd Boscarello | Doctor of Medicine |
| Finnley Cornelius Bourne | Doctor of Medicine |
| Lauren Brilliant | Doctor of Medicine |
| Taylor F. Carson | Doctor of Medicine |
| Zoee Alyssa Castro | Doctor of Medicine |
| Noelle Nicole Cederwall | Doctor of Medicine |
| Anthony Paul Cummins | Doctor of Medicine |
| Steven Davis | Doctor of Medicine |
| Pranav Singh Dewan | Doctor of Medicine |
| Michael Joseph Esenarro | Doctor of Medicine |
| Sahar Forootan Sedigh | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jonathan Eugene Freeman | Doctor of Medicine |
| Joseph Gardner | Doctor of Medicine |
| Janilynn Alforja Gatpayat | Doctor of Medicine |
| Arianna Gregg | Doctor of Medicine |
| Sara Ann Hanneman | Doctor of Medicine |
| Marie Hashitani | Doctor of Medicine |
| Miranda Renee Hellman | Doctor of Medicine |
| Chloe Grace Henderson | Doctor of Medicine |
| Meredith Yvonne Hoppe | Doctor of Medicine |
| Bailey Ivory | Doctor of Medicine |
| Tanner Evan James | Doctor of Medicine |
| Allyn Christine Jones | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ann Elizabeth Kelly | Doctor of Medicine |
| Lauren Lee Kennedy | Doctor of Medicine |
| Bhupinder Kumra | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jacob Pratt LaMay | Doctor of Medicine |
| Victoria Maged Maged | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jose Luis Martinez | Doctor of Medicine |
| Samantha Joanne Marx | Doctor of Medicine |
| Maliha Masud | Doctor of Medicine |
| Cody Tyler Mcgrale | Doctor of Medicine |
| Christopher Isidro Mendoza | Doctor of Medicine |
| Hannah Alison Miller | Doctor of Medicine |
| Pouyan Mofidi Nasab | Doctor of Medicine |
| Kylee Myers | Doctor of Medicine |
| Tahsin Najmi | Doctor of Medicine |
| Matthew Nugent | Doctor of Medicine |
| Alexa Jade Paikai | Doctor of Medicine |
| Kyle Joseph Pauly | Doctor of Medicine |
| Maria Victoria Rincon Olivares | Doctor of Medicine |
| Emily Marie Schwarz | Doctor of Medicine |
| Maureen Danielle Scott | Doctor of Medicine |
| Adam Shoaf | Doctor of Medicine |
| Cameron Shonnard | Doctor of Medicine |
| Gurkaran Singh | Doctor of Medicine |
| Anna Christine Smith | Doctor of Medicine |
| Brandon Michael Smith | Doctor of Medicine |
| Carson William Spade | Doctor of Medicine |
| David Anthony Tingle | Doctor of Medicine |
| Skotti K. Torrence | Doctor of Medicine |
| Matthew Le Tran | Doctor of Medicine |
| Lourdes Alondra Valdez | Doctor of Medicine |
| Joshua James Warner | Doctor of Medicine |
| Claudia Marie Seki Watkins | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ryan Joseph Whelan | Doctor of Medicine |
| Savannah Wirth | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jennifer Leigh Wittmann | Doctor of Medicine |
| Xueying Zheng | Doctor of Medicine |