On Friday May 5'th the Department conducted the annual Graduation and Awards ceremony at the Faculty club.

We would like to thank all who participated and give a summary of the awards and honors.

Scroll down to follow the entire event.

Department of Geography Chairman Dr. Morton O'Kelly getting the show on the road by first Congratulating this extensive list of brilliant Geography and Atmospheric Sciences Under Graduate and Graduate Majors who finished their degrees during the past year SU16, AU16, and SP17:

Undergraduate Degrees:

Nathan Baumgard     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Kyle Beeler       BA   Geography
Sean Curtin     BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Benjamin Grutsch     BA   Air Transportation
Anthony Murdock     BA  Air Transportation
Alexis Rodgers     BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Lydia Tritschler     BA  Air Transportation
Hannah Van Laningham        BA   Geography
Yinlong Wu       BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Victoria Byram  BA  Geography
Ryan Colantonio  BS  Atmospheric Sciences
Brian Flaherty  BA   Air Transportation
Don Gibson  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Adam Goerlitz  BA   Geography
Junghyon Han  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Sean Hayes  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Dillon Haynor  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Cory Hohenstein  BA   Air Transportation
Alexander Jokerst  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Kyle Kuebler  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Evan Logsdon  BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Michael McGrothers  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Brandon Rachwal  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Kyle Raypole  BS  Atmospheric Sciences
Alayna Reckner  BA   Geography
Corey Schnedl  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Kanad Sengupta  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Brian Steffes  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Joshua Stemen  BA   Air Transportation
Austin Teets  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Philip Varble  BA   Air Transportation
Vanessa Vickroy  BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Mark Welther  BA   Air Transportation
David Werst  BA   Air Transportation
Thomas West  BS  Atmospheric Sciences
Ethan Beau Adams     BS   Geographic Information Sciences
*Mohammad F. Ahmed     BS   Geographic Information Sciences
Brian Joseph Ares     Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Ryan James Barrison     Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Jaymes Gibson Boney     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Christie Brandao     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
*Matthew Arturo Campbell     BS  Atmospheric Sciences and Minor Geography and Minor Geographic Information Sciences
Braden N. Coles     Minor  Atmospheric Sciences
Cory Tyler Copeland     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Andrew M. Dannemiller     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Garrett Robert Dasco     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Jed Michael DeBruin     BA  Geography (URGS) Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Jeffrey Scott Dlugosz     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Alemayehu Degaga Eado     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Noah Franklin Elmore     BA  Geography (URGS) Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Kole Richard Fehling     BS  Atmospheric Sciences Secondary Major-Geography
Thomas John Fortunato     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Dylan Alexander Fraley     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Victoria Leigh Garcia     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Tammy Lynn Gast     BS  Atmospheric Sciences
Garrison John Gawel     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Brian Frederick Guzowski  BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Brady Miles Harris     BA  Atmospheric Sciences
Jacob Jeffrey  Hayes     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Brooke Lauren Hiltz     BA  Geography (E&S)
Farrah Neshie Holt     Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
DaRa Hong     BA  Air Transportation
Michelle Leigh Hooper     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Andrew Yo-Wen Huang     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Nathan L. Hummell     BA  Geography (E&S)
Kevin Inks     BA  Geography (E&S)
Karl Steven Jayawan     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Evan Jenkins     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Matthew Paul Keister     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Kellen Nigel  Kincaid     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Nicholas Joseph Klein     BA  Air Transportation
Joseph Mathias Lataster     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Adam Joseph Lawall     BA  Geography (URGS)
Michael James Levanti     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Travis William McClain     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Nicholas James Merchant  BA  Geography (URGS)
Micah Cameron Moore     BA  Air Transportation
Monica C-T. Mueller     Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Dane Andrew  Nelson     BA  Air Transportation
Austin Wayne New     BS  Atmospheric Sciences
*Nathan Frank On     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Gavin Yusef Ossoli     BA  Air Transportation
Katie Ann Phelps     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Gerald David  Powell     BA  Air Transportation
Aminah Raazi     BA  Geography (URGS)
Nauman Rauf     BA  Air Transportation
Matthew Philip Rea     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Nicholas Jerome Rodgers     Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Jeremy Rodriguez     BA  Geography (URGS)
Summer Saleh     BA  Geography (E&S)
*Emily Nicole Sambuco     BS  Atmospheric Sciences
*Maria M. Sanchez-Luna     BA  Geography (E&S)
Nathan Joseph Seese     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Vincent Michael Serio     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Reuben James Shendo     BA  Geography (URGS)
James Cody Simmons     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Kelsey Devon Simmons     BS  Atmospheric Sciences
Anne Catherine Smith     BA  Geography (URGS)
Benjamin Stanseski     BA  Air Transportation
Celestia Paige Starner     BS  Atmospheric Sciences
Ryan James  Stewart     BA  Air Transportation
Jennifer Valerie Stubler     BS  Atmospheric Sciences & Minor Geographic Information Sciences
Jared Tyler Sweitzer     BA  Air Transportation
*Mary Grace Thibault     BS  Atmospheric Sciences & Anthropology
Joshua Zinivi  Tovuor     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Ian Robert Trusedell     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Stephen Edmund Vernyi     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Xinyi Wang     BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Arleigh H. Wiler-Martin     Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Trevor Paul Williams    BA  Air Transportation
Tyler Joseph  Wilson    BS  Geographic Information Sciences
Jonathan B. Wygonski    Minor  Geographic Information Sciences
Trevor Neil Youngblood    BA  Air Transportation
Courtney Nicole Zimmer    BA  Geography (E&S)

Graduate Degrees:

Masters:
Chengbi Liu, MA, SU16
Seth Warthen, MS, SU16
Emelie Bailey, MA, AU16
Caitlin Stripling, MS, AU16
Gabe Wawrin, MS, AU16
Alex McCarthy MS, SP17
Zach Paganini MA, SP17
Zhiqi Yu MA, SP17

Ph.D:
Rachel Mauk, PhD, SU16  (Advisor: Jay Hobgood)
Chris Hartmann, PhD, SU16  (Advisor: Becky Mansfield)
Hyeyoung Kim, PhD, SU16  (Advisor: Ningchuan Xiao)
Yuxi Zhao, PhD, SU16  (Advisor: Darla Munroe)
Lili Wang, PhD, AU16  (Advisor: Max Woodworth)
Yongha Park, PhD, SP17  (Advisor: Morton O’Kelly)
Jake Carr, PhD, expected  (Advisor: Morton O’Kelly)
Austin Kocher, PhD, expected  (Advisor: Mat Coleman)

Awards:

Professor Mat Coleman stepped up to the microphone to present our undergraduate awards:

The Gary L. Sharpe Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates:

Jeff Dunkle, Cara Gregg, Donovan Kennedy, Keith Marion, Rocky Sword, Stephanie Witherspoon

The Fenburr Undergraduate Scholarship for Women & Underrepresented Groups:

Najla Dorsey, Mia Murray, Ruiyu Tan
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Charles Clifford Huntington Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate Student-Geography Major:

Maria Sanchez-Luna, Matthew Schneider

Edward J. “Ned” Taaffe Scholarship Outstanding Undergraduate ASP Major

Matthew Campbell, Emily Sambuco, Mary Grace Thibault

Arthur H. Robinson Scholarship Outstanding Undergraduate GIScience Major

Mohamed Fasih Ahmed, Ruoran Cheng, Nathan On

Graduate Awards:

Graduate Awards were distributed by Professor Becky Mansfield

Fenburr Travel Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students

Emelie Bailey, Bonnie Bounds, Jiayong Liang, Laura Rivas

T. R. Lakshmanan & Lata Chatterjee Fellowship for Outstanding PhD Students

Anurag Mazumdar, Gabriel Zeballos
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Rayner Scholarship for Fieldwork

Ashley Toenjes

E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellowship Award

Hui Kong

Presidential Fellowship

Debangana Bose
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S. Earl Brown Outstanding Staff Award

Suzanne Mikos
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Lawrence A. Brown Faculty Fellow

Ken Madsen
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Congratulations to all of our Graduates and Award Winners and Thank You for your participation.