Honors College Citation Ceremony – Spring 2026
Friday, April 24, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Procession of Honors Faculty and Staff
Introduction
Prof. Kristjana Maddux, Executive Director of the Honors College
Welcome
Prof. William Cohen, Associate Provost & Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Introduction of Student Speaker
Dr. Sabrina Kramer
Student Speaker
Maritza Mercado, ILS
Introduction of Student Performance
Dr. Sarah Humud
Student Performance
Eitan Amster, HH
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Tania Mitchell, Vice President for Community Engagement
Awarding of Citations
- Michel Cukier and Cassie Harrington | ACES
- Damien Pfister and Jessica Lu | DCC
- Sarah Croco and Natalie Vinski Ibrahim | HGLO
- Randy Ontiveros and Sarah Humud | HH
- Liz Galvin and Ali Brill | IBH
- Najib El-Sayed and Sabrina Kramer | ILS
- Christine Jones, Dario Middleton, and Brittany Proudfoot Ginder | UH
Citation Recipients:
ACES
Sathvik Andhavarapu
Uday Annavarapu
Anoushka Arora
Shane Barrios
Amanda Callaghan
Joel Chemmanur
Jacob Demory
Jeffrey Deng
Kenneth Fadojutimi
Raymond Flowers
Simran Gill
Jack Greenwood
Arush Gune
Tegan Hakim
David Hardy
Erica Honadel
Abhinav Inavolu
Laura Jia
Hao Jiang
Elieen Jiang
Allie Kang
Samuel Kirub
John McKee
Ivan Mladenov
Brikti Nriayo
Dev Patel
Matthew Ritter
Ashim Thakuri
Lilymar Torres Santana
Amaar Trisal
Zoey Tsai
DCC
Oluwafolahan Agbebi
Calvin Berlin
Nina Butler
Lydia Chan
Christine Dasi Mengwe Fienkeng
Elliot Gerig
Meredith Hecht
Anna Lee
Joanne Lee
Nhi Pham
Kevin Qi
Romi Radi
Andrea Sjaarda
Mia Smith
Andy Sun
Emma Wilson
HGLO
Ishan Bansal
Zen Gordon
Jocelyn Guzman
Alex Hammerash
Lynne Homann Cure
Marios Kalpakis
Aybars Kocoglu
Charlotte Krisetya
Samantha Linares
Brian Siegel
Christopher Sixbey
Audrey Tabibi
Dashiell Darrow Tischler
Aidan Vaca
Catherine Williams
HH
Daniel Awoke
Kathryn De Leon
Sofia Ferrucci
Charlotte Harvey
Andrea Mendoza
Anya Olson
Samantha Otazo
Gabrielle Rowley
Ana Sans
Sophia Ubiera
IBH
Amira Abujuma
Benjamin Brune
Harrisen Cefalu-Schwartz
Jack Defranco
Kellen Harding
Audrey Jones
Katiti Kajubi
Noah Ko
Xavier Lee-Llacer
Matan Meltzer
Ella Murthy
Victoria Okodua-Oboh
Rishi Paladugu
Daniel Schroeder
Gaurav Sharma
Julie Solonsky
Samuel Weinberger
ILS
Srinidhi Arumugam
Joanna Chang
Matthew Chu
Victoria Condliff
Joshua Duong
Muhul Goyal
Mehul Goyal
Aarushi Gupta
Samantha Halling
Leah Han
Ishika Jain
Abigail King
Pragya Kumar
Kahli Lampley
Emily Liu
Tracy Ly
Brynn McCabe
Maritza Mercado
Nivitha Paranthaman
Yash Porwal
Aleksandra Potapova
Arti Rajesh
Prishasai Ramnath
Annabella Rinaldi
Ella Simon
Keira Venter
Lindsey Walter
Emily Wang
Lilian Wang
UH
Lila Aboul-Nasr
William Adams
Teniola Adenugba
Stephnie Aguocha-Sam
Gabriella Alagon
Yuval Amit
Mollie Anderson
Brooke Baney
Finnan Beals-Simon
Mara Bell
Max Blinkoff
Edwin Blyden
Ari Burman
Britany Cabrera Portillo
Elena Carvajal
Andy Chen
Spencer Chen
Josie Choe
MacKenzie Cooke
James Crabtree
Alexander Cui
Jenna Darby
Kyle De Melo
Gabrielle Dorsey
Jennifer Duru
Courtney Easton
Lydia Efrem
Lukas Englert-Fernandez
Adaora Eziemefe
Zoe Fagnani
Alison Ferraro
Olivia Fink
Bradley Flam
Maximillian Frueh
Julianna Gray
Hannah Haber
Matthew Hachey
Sofia Hasrat
Naasera Husain
Hunniya Jafri
Eshan Khan
Rachel Kim
Tanvi Kotta
Elyssa Kugler
Catherine Le
Adam Lingelbach
Anna Liston
Maria Lukz
Zoe Mace
Dennis Malikov
Vivian Maneval
Cyril Mathew
Victor Mathias
Ecclisia Mekbeb
Olivia Miller
Diego Moreno
Miku Nagao
Peter Njoroge
Emily Noel
Christopher Ocloo
Skye Omoqui
Lacorya Palmer
Roshan Panwala
Alaya Parker
Kashish Patel
Priyanshi Patel
Marissa Pease
Milan Phillips
Reuben Puthumana
Sydney Quintana
Alexander Rauch
Gustavo Rego
Chelsea Reyes
Hannah Richard
Isabella Roman
Marcelo Rosas
Camryn Rosenzweig
Jothika Saravanarajan
Brent Sare
Kai Schreim
Brynn Seergae
Abigail Shea
Ke Shi
Sara Shibu
Marvi Shukla
John Skinner
Jasmine Sonpar
Ellicia Soto
Anthony Spinelli
Aarti Srinivas
Sophia Stein
Isabella Steinebach
Olivia Struble
Kathleen Tchagou
Sabrina Tepper
Isabelle Terres
Johann Thomas
Vincent Tran
Jose Urisar
Lana Valdez
Aneka Velthuis
Asha Verma
Riley Ward
Muhammad Wasay
Ella Williams
Alexander Woodka
Vahe Zaprosyan
Selina Zhu
Valeska Zitta
Ray Zong
Concluding Remarks and Acknowledgments
Prof. Kristjana Maddux
Special thanks to the UMD School of Music Woodwind Quartet
- Larissa Hsu, flute
- Oscar Krug, oboe
- Tess Coltvet, clarinet
- Gavin Gibson, horn
- Will Duis, bassoon