Honors College Citation Ceremony – Spring 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

Introduction

Dr. Kristjana Maddux, Executive Director of the Honors College 

Welcome

Prof. William Cohen, Associate Provost & Dean for Undergraduate Studies 

Honors College Research Grant

• Shaina Fein, Human Development Honors Program
• Shreyas Kanwar, Biology Honors Program
• William Ratnavale, Economics Honors Program
• Vanessa Reyes, Hearing and Speech Sciences Honors Program
• Katherine Siniuk, Entomology Honors Program

Winston Family Paper Awards 

• Research Paper: Anushka Poddar, Isra Qadri
• Thesis: Christopher Clark, Anna Petersen, William Ratnavale, James Schmidtlein, Holland Schmitz, Matthew Zinno 

Winston Family Honors Faculty Award 

• Prof. Robyn Muncy, History
• Prof. Larry Washington, Mathematics

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Craig Kier, Director, Arts for All

Conferral of Honors College Citations

Presented by Dr. Stephan Blatti, Dr. Randy Ontiveros, and Dr. Jui Ramaprasad

Citation Recipients:

Kelsey Afoakwa (DCC)
Ezinwa Agbo (ACES)
Raifah Alam (HGLO)
Alisa Alford (UH)
Chisom Amaikwu (UH)
Madeline Anson (ACES)
Naana Asamoah (UH)
Nisha Athrey (UH)
Akshay Badrinathan (ACES)
Emma Bair (HH)
Korelle Baker (UH)
Nicole Baker (UH)
Lara Becker (UH)
Kayla Benjamin (HH)
Lina Berhaneyessus (UH)
Isabelle Nicole Bernardo (HH)
Sarah Maya Blackman (HH)
Karen Boby (ILS)
Likhithskandaram Bomma (ILS)
Madisen Bonner (UH)
James Botti (UH)
Jiaoli Bowden (HGLO)
Jayden Brooks (IBH)
Jenna Burtch (HH)
Natalie Carpenter (UH)
Smrithi Chakravarthy (ILS)
Neha Chandra (ILS)
Shruti Chauhan (ILS)
Nihar Chegireddy (UH)
Amber Chen (ACES)
Andy Chen (UH)
Austin Chen (UH)
Jeffrey Chen (ACES)
Tao Chen (UH)
Michelle Choi (UH)
Justin Chu (UH)
Allison Chung (DCC)
Beatrice Chung (ACES)
Urszula Cieslak (IBH)
Gabrielle Cole (DCC)
Allison “Faith” Comising (DCC)
Christopher Connor (UH)
Laura Crocker (ILS)
Aditya Dabeer (IBH)
Phoebe Dainer (ACES)
Zaharias Dakoulas (UH)
Nicholas Dalson (HGLO)
Varun Das (ACES)
Khalil Davis (UH)
Lillian DeJesus (HGLO)
Jonah Delman (UH)
Om Desai (ILS)
Sanika Devare (UH)
Julia Devine (UH)
Anna Devoto (UH)
Neha Dheenadhayalan (UH)
Andrew Diep (ACES)
Jennifer Ding (ILS)
Andrew Dolecki (ACES)
Nithya Doodi (ILS)
Anish Dudeja (HGLO)
Aryaan Duggal (ILS)
Zoe Ebersold (UH)
Sean Eby (UH)
Divine Enyi (UH)
Ayeesha Fadlaoui (HH)
Star Olamide Fashoto (HH)
Gabriella Feinberg (UH)
Ari Ferneau (UH)
Noah Ferrara (UH)
Jake Fey (HGLO)
Greyson Fletcher (UH)
Adelia Fontes (UH)
Hannah Freeman (UH)
Meherzan Gai (UH)
Vanshika Garg (ILS)
Patrick Gee (UH)
Noah Goldberg (DCC)
Althea Gonzales (ACES)
Madison Elise Green (HH)
Luke Griffith (UH)
Abigail Guicheteau (ACES)
Brooke Guo (ILS)
Iris Guo (UH)
Alma Hagstrom (UH)
Adam Hare (UH)
Dana Harel (UH)
Joseph Hauerstein (UH)
Aditi Hegde (UH)
Medha Hegde (UH)
Jasmine Heminger (DCC)
Stella Henson (HGLO)
Ava Hill (UH)
Ariel Hong (UH)
Robert Hopkins (UH)
Anika Hukmani (UH)
Lillian Irvin (UH)
Daniel Jamison (UH)
Shane Jayasundera (UH)
Rashmi Kanipakala (HGLO)
Alexander Kantuni (UH)
Alexander Manuel Kaplan (HH)
Shreya Katuri (ILS)
Naomi Kaul (IBH)
Sumeya Kemal (DCC)
Karl Kfouri (HGLO)
Andrew Kim (UH)
Isabel Kim (UH)
Zachary Kinloch (HGLO)
Pradyumna Kotla (UH)
Maggie Krieg (HGLO)
Kyle Krieger (IBH)
Duncan Kuchar (IBH)
Kyle Kuo (ILS)
Sebastien Lair (UH)
Robert Latyak (UH)
Emma Lawrence (UH)
Kira Le (UH)
Benjamin Lee (UH)
Carolyn Lee (IBH)
Collin Lee (UH)
Injoo Elena Lee (HH)
Maia Lenes (ACES)
Isabelle Leo (DCC)
David Li (ACES)
John Li (ILS)
Veronica Lijeron (IBH)
Danielle Lim (UH)
Emma Lin (ILS)
Saniya Littlejohn (HH)
Amber Liu (UH)
Jocelyn Lopez-Flores (DCC)
Sophie Lu (UH)
Keenan MacHalek (DCC)
Srashta Maharjan (ILS)
Gerald Markey (IBH)
Danielle Martin (ILS)
Joseph Martin (UH)
Devika Mathur (ILS)
Michael McDonald (ACES)
Nateniel Mearns-Escobar (ILS)
Yasmine Megdiche (UH)
Tej Mehta (UH)
Jonathan Mei (UH)
Pedro Mendonca (UH)
Salem Mengistu (UH)
Nicole Mensah (DCC)
Zachary Metellus (DCC)
Aidan Meyer (UH)
Nadia Meyerovich (UH)
Dorian Mitchell (UH)
Emily Jasmine Moaddel (HGLO)
Aelim Morales (IBH)
Melanie Morford (UH)
Bradley Morhiser (UH)
Anjali Murthy (UH)
L. Navarrete (DCC)
Quinlan Ngo (UH)
Liliana Norkaitis (UH)
Zef’rah Nicole Ochoa (HH)
Emmanuella Ogwo (ACES)
Victoria Olyshko (UH)
Ava Renee Ortmeyer (HH)
Prince Osei (UH)
Indra Pabba (ACES)
Alicia Esperanza Padilla (HH)
Tiana Parker-Bey (UH)
Ryan Parlett (UH)
Mukund Parsi (ILS)
Ansh Patel (UH)
Kavi Patel (UH)
Mansi Patel (DCC)
Tulsi Patel (ILS)
Flavia Peredo Barbery (UH)
Danika Perez (DCC)
Justin Pham (UH)
Sarana Poudel (ILS)
Caitlin Powell (UH)
Abigail Price (HH)
Asbah Qadri (UH)
Eddy Qiu (IBH)
Maarij Qureshi (UH)
Jasmine Ramos (UH)
Sanchay Ravindiran (UH)
Kaitlyn Ro (UH)
Michelle Rodriguez Cruz (UH)
Joshua Rosado (IBH)
Sophia Rowe (UH)
Jayden Russell (ACES)
Brynn Saffer (UH)
Priyansu Sahu (UH)
Olaniyi Salami (ACES)
Matthew Salay (IBH)
Yahav Sarig (HH)
Andrew Schaefer (UH)
Curtis Sechler (UH)
Abhiraman Senthilkumar (ILS)
Olivia Sevy (UH)
Asifa Shagul (ILS)
Aryan Shah (UH)
Kunal Shah (UH)
Mun Shah (IBH)
Gahl Shem-Tov (ILS)
Stephen Shkeda (UH)
Susan Shollenberger (UH)
Sara Sifert (HGLO)
Ethan Silver (UH)
Anna Simpson (UH)
Aneesh Singh (HGLO)
Anamika Erickson Smith (HH)
Hannah Smith (UH)
Evan Song (UH)
Kayla Kyuhee Song (HH)
David Soussana (ILS)
Vishnu Sreekanth (UH)
Campbell Stein (UH)
Alexis Stonebanks (UH)
Peampat Suphaphon (UH)
Brielle Taubenblatt (DCC)
Colin Tiffany (HGLO)
Krishnapriya Tipparaju (IBH)
Angelina Tran (UH)
Emily Tran (UH)
Samuel Tran (UH)
Thuc-Anh “Mia” Tran (DCC)
Ria Trivedi (ILS)
Solomon Ucko (ACES)
Yusra Umer (HGLO)
Samuel Verbrugge (UH)
OIivia Vincent (ILS)
Danylo Voloshyn (UH)
Sneha Wagle (ACES)
Maxwell Walker (ILS)
Peter Wange (UH)
Grace Warfield (UH)
Ben Waterman (ILS)
Braden White (UH)
Wendy Witcraft (ACES)
Sophia Wolin (UH)
Annika Wong (UH)
Leeann Wong Arbelo (UH)
Michelle Xie (UH)
Upaasna Yadav (UH)
Stephanie Yang (DCC)
Eiza Yousif (HH)
Daisy Zheng (UH)
Joseph Zolkiewicz (UH)

Concluding Remarks and Acknowledgments

Dr. Kristjana Maddux

Special thanks to the UMD School of Music String Quartet

• Hoclin Molina, Violin
• Ellie Kim, Violin
• Emily Blake, Viola
• Leigha Daniels, Cello
• Britney Hansford, Double Bass