Honors College Citation Ceremony – Fall 2025

Honors Citation Ceremony — Photo credit: Amina Lampkin.

Friday, November 14, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

Student Processional

Introduction

Dr. Kristjana Maddux, Executive Director of the Honors College

Welcome

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

Honors College Family Endowed Scholarship Awards

Konikoff-Rudman Family Scholarship: Jayden Clugston (IBH)
Labonski Family Scholarship: Nia Jolivet (HGLO)
Morinigo Family Scholarship: Madison Harris (ACES)
O’Rourke Family Scholarship: Ethan Tran (UH) and Nelson Zheng (UH)

Honors College Research Grant

Kenna Costello, Biology Honors Program
Alex Emmert, Linguistics Honors Program
William Finch, Biology Honors Program
Xiang Luo, Neuroscience Honors Program
Bhavya Nileshkumar Patel, Aerospace Honors Program
Savannah Robbins, Psychology Honors Program
Bhargav Srinivasan, Entomology Honors Program
Akemi Takeuchi, Aerospace Honors Program
Akash Raghu, Biology Honors Program

David Goff Scholarship

Amrutha Alibilli (ILS), presented by Dr. Najib El-Sayed, Director

Portz Outstanding Honors Student Awards

Madeline Anson (ACES), presented by Cassie Harrington, Associate Director
Beatriz Moreira Leite (DCC), presented by Dr. Damien Pfister, Director
Tami Mumuney (GEMS), presented by Jannelle Dang, Graduate Assistant
Carmela DeLlano Hernandez (HGLO), presented by Dr. Sarah Croco, Director
Noora Ghahremani (HH), presented by Dr. Sarah Humud, Associate Director
Urszula Cieslak (IBH), presented by Dr. Jui Ramaprasad, Director
James Szot (ILS) presented by Dr. Sabrina Kramer, Associate Director
Laila Wilson (UH), presented by Chelsea Bradford, Assistant Director

Student Remarks

Matthew Zinno (HGLO)

Performance

Lorelai Loyd (UH) and Biannca Fuentes Rosales, Music Education and Secondary Education majors

Keynote Speaker

Sylvette LaTouche-Howard, Assistant Dean, School of Public Health

Awarding of Citations

Citation Recipients:

Vihanga Amarasinghe (ACES)
Mallige Anand (ACES)
Ella Antonishek (ACES)
Methasha Bambarande-Hewage (ACES)
Marissa Carper (ACES)
Sara Carter (ACES)
Claire Chen (ACES)
Mouhamadou Dieng (ACES)
Sai Divvela (ACES)
Benjamin Dodge (ACES)
Sofia Douglass (ACES)
Heather Doyen (ACES)
Ryan Fleming (ACES)
Harleen Green (ACES)
Clarissa Gullion (ACES)
Angelina Hermosilla Roman (ACES)
Andrew Hill (ACES)
Joshua Huang (ACES)
Spencer Kitts (ACES)
Joseph Lavallee (ACES)
Elijah Lehman (ACES)
Nathan Lui (ACES)
Arav Luthra (ACES)
Paul Makarevich (ACES)
Ashna Nayak (ACES)
Nhandi Nyawela (ACES)
Chibundu Onwuegbule (ACES)
Anika Rai (ACES)
Gitika Saravanan (ACES)
Romero Schwarz (ACES)
Niyati Sharma (ACES)
Seungha Shin (ACES)
Alex Shrestha (ACES)
Lindsey Song (ACES)
Amanda Tsai (ACES)
Viraj Urs (ACES)
Vishram Urs (ACES)
Charis Wang (ACES)
Kaleb Ward (ACES)
Grace Yang (ACES)
Jamie Zheng (ACES)
Jessica Zhou (ACES)
Julina Zhou (ACES)
Diego Abarcar-Calugay (DCC)
Melissa Akdun (DCC)
Cynthia Amaghi (DCC)
Aashika Balaji (DCC)
Morgan Ballard (DCC)
Hawa Barrie (DCC)
Katherine Beza (DCC)
Praneet Boggarapu (DCC)
Kimora Brown-Lawrence (DCC)
Stella Colantuno (DCC)
Basmah Elradi (DCC)
Javier Fuentes (DCC)
Natalie Gaitan (DCC)
Noelia Gomez Gonzalez (DCC)
Sarah Hajjar (DCC)
Finna Hsu (DCC)
Purva Jani (DCC)
Sydney Johnson (DCC)
Arden Lawson (DCC)
Julie Lin (DCC)
Valerie Lin (DCC)
Jude Lwin (DCC)
Aleeza Malik (DCC)
Fiona McKee (DCC)
Lydia Melkamu (DCC)
Erica Metheny (DCC)
Farah Mikdashi (DCC)
Priya Nayak (DCC)
Trung Ngu (DCC)
Simon Osgood (DCC)
Esther Ou (DCC)
Sunil Pateel (DCC)
Sravya Patibandla (DCC)
Emily Roldan (DCC)
Sofia Santiago (DCC)
Shiham Siddiqui (DCC)
Nuha Talukder (DCC)
Tracy Tan (DCC)
Amanda Thompson (DCC)
Nathaniel Unnikumaran (DCC)
Sylvia Vallina (DCC)
Brian Wu (DCC)
Shiqi Wu (DCC)
Ethan Yen (DCC)
Ariel Zang (DCC)
Adam Zennia (DCC)
Frederick Zheng (DCC)
Suhani Agrawal (HGLO)
Ziyan Ahmed (HGLO)
Olivia Akhtar (HGLO)
Adrianne Allred (HGLO)
Sarah Ator (HGLO)
Fahran Bajaj (HGLO)
Calvin Chrisfield (HGLO)
Daniela Cornejo (HGLO)
Sourish Dey (HGLO)
Jeymy Diaz (HGLO)
Ilayda Dogan (HGLO)
Hasan Ege (HGLO)
Caroline Ferreira (HGLO)
Matthew Flanagan (HGLO)
Elizabeth Frisbie (HGLO)
Quentin Harden (HGLO)
Natalie Haugen (HGLO)
Patrick Hong (HGLO)
Vianne Hughes (HGLO)
Adaku Iwudike (HGLO)
David Jiang (HGLO)
Samuel Jordan (HGLO)
Brennen Le (HGLO)
Hana Lee (HGLO)
Tiffany Liu (HGLO)
Michael Lynch (HGLO)
Yazan Moakkit (HGLO)
Erika Mosley (HGLO)
Grace O’Neill (HGLO)
Temisanren Ogbe (HGLO)
Eckart Schneider (HGLO)
Sevien Schulhoff (HGLO)
Adele Smith (HGLO)
Bence Szego (HGLO)
Shokhrukh Tadjiev (HGLO)
Alex Tamba-Ardelean (HGLO)
Alexandre Trad (HGLO)
Joshua Vallabhaneni (HGLO)
Samantha Vert (HGLO)
Dana Wadsley (HGLO)
Miranda Wang (HGLO)
Grace Yeh (HGLO)
Matthew Zinno (HGLO)
Isabella Amador (HH)
Georgia Bardi (HH)
Ariyana Brittingham (HH)
Autumn Brooks (HH)
Joseph Darrow (HH)
Charisse Delostrico (HH)
Razak Diallo (HH)
Maja Durkovic (HH)
Madelyn Fields (HH)
Katherine Gough (HH)
Matthew Gu (HH)
Sara Hussain (HH)
Vivian Jiang (HH)
Lochlan Joyce (HH)
Elanor Kim (HH)
Juliette Leeth (HH)
James Liao (HH)
Sacha Llanto (HH)
Wren Massey (HH)
Abigail Min (HH)
Sera Mishra (HH)
Gavin Neubauer (HH)
Aida Nyabingi (HH)
Keegan Perry (HH)
Maxine Poe-Jensen (HH)
Daniela Prudencio (HH)
Thomas Raff (HH)
Jessica (Jess) Reed (HH)
Mehar Sandhu (HH)
Isha Sesay (HH)
Toluwanimi Talabi (HH)
Evelyn (Evie) Troy (HH)
Sophia Vallandingham (HH)
Evan Vilar (HH)
Eduardo Bonzi Teixeira (IBH)
Christopher Cordova (IBH)
Mae Crews (IBH)
Arun Crispino (IBH)
Leo Delboy (IBH)
Rayan Elias (IBH)
Nina-Netanya Enwesi (IBH)
Madoe Etey Benissan (IBH)
Jessie Feng (IBH)
Katherine Galgano (IBH)
Benjamin Glaros (IBH)
Rahul Harish (IBH)
Amelia Harn (IBH)
Jacob Herrera (IBH)
Conor Huey (IBH)
Michael Ilie (IBH)
Ananya Jagdish (IBH)
Kiley Jensen (IBH)
Bailey Johnstone Clark (IBH)
Alexandra Julka (IBH)
Gavin Kirsh (IBH)
Anh-Mi Le (IBH)
Joseph Linthicum (IBH)
Uchechi Mba (IBH)
Isabelle Park (IBH)
Ayushi Patel (IBH)
Joseph Pichney (IBH)
Jared Ramirez (IBH)
Harold Rathbun (IBH)
Archit Ravishankar (IBH)
Bryan Rios Ramirez (IBH)
Ryan Saitta (IBH)
Mit Shah (IBH)
Iain Snoddy (IBH)
Julianne Tinana (IBH)
Olevia Tinpaw (IBH)
Kashaf Ul Eman (IBH)
Srihitha Akula (ILS)
Amrutha Alibilli (ILS)
Aishwarya Balamurugan (ILS)
Michelle Berko-Boateng (ILS)
Hyeonsu Cheon (ILS)
Agata Czaja (ILS)
Jonathan Everhart (ILS)
Avery Fan (ILS)
Aditri Gadigi (ILS)
Grace Huang (ILS)
Eunice Khor (ILS)
Catherine Koo (ILS)
Rishi Kumar (ILS)
Annika Phase (ILS)
Aleksandra Potapova (ILS)
Suneha Rahaman (ILS)
Grace Rawlett (ILS)
Ella Roth (ILS)
Swathi Sevugan (ILS)
James Szot (ILS)
Claire Williams (ILS)
Michelle Yu (ILS)
Kevin Zhang (ILS)
Karim Abdallah (UH)
Mariam Abed (UH)
Nishan Abeywardena (UH)
Jessica Ahn (UH)
Ibhade Akhabue (UH)
Charles Alessi (UH)
Samuel Alexander (UH)
Caroline Allred (UH)
Shayna Alter (UH)
Jason Altneu (UH)
Avani Ambardekar (UH)
Simon Ambrozak (UH)
Eleni Antoniades (UH)
Martina Astori (UH)
Nicole Baker (UH)
Sarah Bamba (UH)
Ella Banting (UH)
Gabriella Baranovsky (UH)
Gabrielle Barke (UH)
Christopher Barozzini (UH)
Richard Baumann (UH)
Addis Belayneh (UH)
Jordan Bentivenga (UH)
Sophia Bernhard (UH)
Abbas Bharmal (UH)
Natalia Bienkowski (UH)
Deeraj Binkam (UH)
Nicole Bissett (UH)
Max Blinkoff (UH)
Trent Bowman (UH)
Emma Boyd (UH)
Jordan Brady (UH)
Leah Brennan (UH)
Tal Bresler (UH)
Katherine Brown (UH)
Sabine Buccheri (UH)
Mattia Butera (UH)
Jeremiah Carr (UH)
Alvaro Ceron-Ruiz (UH)
Kristina Chan (UH)
Emma Chang (UH)
Gabriella-Malia Cheetham (UH)
Ava Ciabattoni (UH)
Luca Cincotta (UH)
Maya Cleveland (UH)
Owen Cleveland (UH)
Benjamin Cohen (UH)
Alexander Collins (UH)
Niina Craven (UH)
Alika D’Souza (UH)
Liliana Daugherty (UH)
Isabella Decrescenzo (UH)
Matthew Dietrich (UH)
Emily Do (UH)
Elisabeth Durso (UH)
Kamryn Edwards (UH)
Lynelle Essilfie (UH)
Rhiannon Evans (UH)
Julia Fay (UH)
Amber Felger (UH)
Emily Flores (UH)
Damilola Folorunso (UH)
Madelyn Forlenza (UH)
Aidan Gaines (UH)
Suvan Gangar (UH)
Christian Garcia (UH)
Danielle Gargano (UH)
Caroline Garrett (UH)
Ashley Gitau (UH)
Naomi Habtemariam (UH)
Henok Hailegebriel (UH)
Alexus Halford (UH)
Katherine Hall (UH)
Joseph Heavner (UH)
Caffrey Helpa (UH)
Jack Henick (UH)
Hannah Hertz (UH)
Erin Hiner (UH)
Cassandra Huber (UH)
Alexa Hunleth (UH)
Anusha Iyer (UH)
Rory Jacobs (UH)
Natalie Jeon (UH)
Darby Jones (UH)
Lillian Joubert (UH)
Charlotte Juengel (UH)
Marzan Karim (UH)
Jamiesen Kavanagh (UH)
Charles Keene (UH)
Yaseen Khan (UH)
Sulayman Khan (UH)
Ashlynn Kidwell (UH)
Ryan Kim (UH)
Ellie Kim (UH)
Jinee Kim (UH)
Kenneth Klepsig (UH)
Genevieve Koduol (UH)
Julia Kries (UH)
Megha Krishnakumar (UH)
Aditya Kumbhare (UH)
Nicole Kyei-Asare (UH)
Jameson Lau (UH)
Emily Lawrence (UH)
Jaegeon Lee (UH)
Luca Lemberger (UH)
Brenden Lively (UH)
Zoe Mace (UH)
Karthik Madathil Harishanker (UH)
Mosiah Maddox (UH)
Alice Maeng (UH)
Emily Mann (UH)
Prodromos Manolis-Oraiopoulos (UH)
Erick Martinez-Gonzalez (UH)
Ryan Mathew (UH)
Genevieve Mayle (UH)
Haley Meade (UH)
Allanah Mednard (UH)
Mia Meredith (UH)
Carly Merwitz (UH)
Allison Mize (UH)
Olivia Morse (UH)
Savanna Murdock (UH)
Vikram Nagarajan (UH)
Praharsh Nanduri (UH)
Emma Nguyen (UH)
Justin Nguyen (UH)
Lillian Nikolov (UH)
Delaney O’Neil (UH)
Samuel Oluwasanmi (UH)
Henry Orozco-Contreras (UH)
Molly Panepento (UH)
Maahi Patel (UH)
Riya Patel (UH)
Yesenia Perez (UH)
Aiden Peters (UH)
Ritika Pokharel (UH)
Nathan Pscherer (UH)
Kyle Pumphrey (UH)
Vinay Raman (UH)
Britney Rapach (UH)
Chloe Rayner (UH)
Adrianna Reganato (UH)
Julian Reichelt (UH)
Matthew Reyes (UH)
Alex Ridolfi (UH)
Zachary Robinson (UH)
Ciara Rogers (UH)
Archer Romelli (UH)
Andy Romero (UH)
Matteo Rosenberg (UH)
Henry Rowley (UH)
Keira Rude (UH)
Charita Sandoze (UH)
Gabriel Santiago (UH)
Sylvia Santoyo (UH)
Tyler Sauvajot (UH)
Moris Serpas (UH)
Sara Silverman (UH)
David Simberg (UH)
Hannah Soo-Tho (UH)
Jude Stephen (UH)
Trevor Stuart (UH)
Santosh Sureshkumar (UH)
Keya Suri (UH)
Nic Tacchetti (UH)
Elena Tator (UH)
Alan Tchamourliyski (UH)
Grace Terry (UH)
Tessa Thomas (UH)
Ryan Thompson (UH)
Lillian Thornton (UH)
Yen Truong (UH)
Nebeyu Tsigea (UH)
Shelly Tu (UH)
Rachel Ullman (UH)
Isha Uprety (UH)
Vivienne Uzamere (UH)
Liran Vaiman (UH)
Samantha Vaisman (UH)
Abigail Vanasse (UH)
Cricia Villanueva (UH)
Sanjanaa Viswanathan (UH)
Angelina Vu (UH)
Julia Walz (UH)
Abigail Wambach (UH)
Cindy Wang (UH)
Michelle Wang (UH)
Lindsey Washburn (UH)
Jacob West (UH)
Ashley Witcher (UH)
Annika Wong (UH)
Caroline Wright (UH)
Stephen Wu (UH)
Chuanhai Xu (UH)
Sydney Young (UH)
Kai-Lin Yu (UH)
Leah Zahniser (UH)
Winston Zhang (UH)
Anya Zhang (UH)
Melinda Zhao (UH)
Spencer Zheng (UH)
Michelle Zheng (UH)
Vanessa Zhong (UH)

Concluding Remarks and Acknowledgments

Dr. Kristjana Maddux

Special thanks to the UMD School of Music Woodwind Quartet

Courtney Adams, flute
Oscar Krug, oboe
Lilli Smith, clarinet
Gavin Gibson, horn

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