132 CEHS students awarded degrees at August commencement

17 Aug 2024    

More than 130 students from the College of Education and Human Sciences will be among the nearly 550 students graduating during the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's combined graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremony Aug. 17 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

The ceremony, which is expected to last two-and-a-half hours, will begin at 9 a.m., with doors opening to the public at 7:30 a.m. The university will award doctoral, master’s, juris doctorate and baccalaureate degrees. The ceremony will be streamed here and broadcast live on Spectrum channel 1303, Allo channel 23 and Kinetic channel 1080.

CEHS has 19 students graduating with bachelor's degrees, 34 with doctoral degrees and 79 with master's degrees. Additionally, three students have completed graduate certificates. All CEHS students completing degrees and certificates are listed below with their major or degree specialization listed.

Bachelor’s

• Clay Bradford - human development and family science
• Caroline Friesen – human development and family science
• Grace Gutzmer – human development and family science
• Sheradyn Johnson – inclusive early childhood education
• Braden Klover – community health and wellness
• Jordyn Kohtz – athletic training
• Charles Look – human development and family science
• Merdie Mandungu – human development and family science
• Robert McGowens – human development and family science
• Vanessa Molina – human development and family science
• Natalie Noesen – elementary education
• Nyakim Pal – human development and family science
• Kali Paulson – nutrition, exercise and health science
• Kaylee Preuss – human development and family science
• Jayci Roh – hospitality, restaurant and tourism management
• Rans Sanders – human development and family science
• Raylyn Soper – textile and apparel design
• Tayler Trotta – human development and family science
• Gabriel Vicharra – nutrition, exercise and health science

Doctoral

• Elyxcus Anaya – counseling psychology
• Jessica Boyles – counseling psychology
• Emma Brag – educational psychology
• Emily Camp – counseling psychology
• Genese Clark – global family health and wellbeing
• Miriam Crinion – school psychology
• Brandon Ee – educational psychology
• Alex Farquhar-Leicester – counseling psychology
• Sarah Gahan – educational psychology
• Sarah Garvey – audiology and hearing science
• Guadalupe Gutierrez Ramirez – school psychology
• Theresa Haack – teaching, curriculum and learning
• Faqrul Hassan – textile science
• Greyson Holliday – counseling psychology
• Yuenjung Joo – child development/early childhood education
• Danika Lang – special education
• Gretchen Larsen – innovative learning technologies
• Donger Liu – child development/early childhood education
• Tyler Neltner – nutrition and health sciences
• Lucy Okrasinski – educational psychology
• Raul Palacios – school psychology
• Megan Pitrat – teaching, curriculum and learning
• Hali Santiago – counseling psychology
• Judith Sigler – teaching, curriculum and learning
• Wes Sliger – teaching, curriculum & learning
• Bobby Smith – nutrition and health sciences
• Jasmin Smith – child development/early childhood education
• Melisa Spilinek – merchandising
• Cassidy Spradlin – school psychology
• Linnea Swanson – school psychology
• Sophie Tonjes Kowalski – developmental and learning sciences
• Brooke Wells – leadership studies
• Kelley Wick – developmental and learning sciences
• Zhenqiao Yang – child development/early childhood education

Master’s

• Yousef Al Farqani – biomchemical and molecular nutrition
• Evie Anderson – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Jessica Anderson – counseling psychology
• Lara Armenteros Garrido – world language teaching
• Kinna Arp – community nutrition and health promotion
• Emma Arthur – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Sarah Ashworth – counseling psychology
• Brooke Bachman – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Taylor Barros – special education: visual impairments
• Rafael Bertacini – material culture and textile studies
• Naveta Bhatti – child development/early childhood education
• Jessica Bialas – higher education
• Gina Black – family and consumer sciences education
• Karissa Boesiger – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Camryn Brown – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Samuel Cahow –orientation and mobility
• Eunice Canoy –orientation and mobility
• Jennifer Carter –orientation and mobility
• Aaron Coeling – higher education
• Annalise Connolly – speech-language pathology and audiology
• MaKenna Dahlgrin – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Sierra De La Castro – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Sidney Doty – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Desiree Feria Smith –orientation and mobility
• Kathy Florell – innovative learning technologies
• Lesley Garcia – marriage and family therapy
• Erika Gearhart – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Cayleen Green – innovative learning technologies
• Sarah Hammami – quantitative, qualitative and psychometric methods
• Trenten Hansen – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Jenna Haskins –orientation and mobility
• Brittany Hodgson –visual impairments
• Alise Hoffman –visual impairments
• Payton Horacek – marriage and family therapy
• Rachel Hruza – educational administration
• Maddie Huppert – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Hannah Johns – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Chi Juan – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Kaitlynn Johnson – counseling psychology
• Caitlin Kabes – family and consumer sciences education
• Cholpon Kalandarova – student affairs administration
• Krysta Konecky – counseling psychology
• Jane LeClair – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Chloe Legel – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Megan Manly – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Season Mellema – innovative learning technologies
• Andie Mikuls – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Kali Moreno – higher education
• Alyssa Noble – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Julius Owusu Afriyie – student affairs administration
• Lauren Pauley – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Kathy Plant –orientation and mobility
• Claire Pfeiffer – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Kendra Quiroz – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Irvin Ramirez-Benavides – higher education
• Chad Ray – special education
• Maddie Reinarts – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Olivia Reiser – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Hannah Robertson – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Rebekah Roh – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Jamie Rojas – marriage and family therapy
• Paushali Saha – student affairs administration
• David Sanchez – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Alexis Schmidt – youth development
• Garrett Schwindt – marriage and family therapy
• Melissa Scott – family and community services
• Melissa Sellers – teaching, learning and teacher education
• Cynthia Serrano-Ortega – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Courtney Sorensen – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Mohamed Soumit – marriage and family therapy
• Claire Streeter – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Anna Suppes – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Bailey Swan – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Rebeckah Taylor – counseling psychology
• Gelsey Timilsina – counseling psychology
• Barbara Vitek –early childhood special education
• Abbie Vodicka – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Lauren von Frieberg – speech-language pathology and audiology
• Benjamin Yeo – youth development

Graduate Certificate

• Cindy MacMillan – quilt studies
• Alexis Pappas – quilt studies
• Darby Thomas – social justice and diversity education