The College of w88 casino games conferred 402 academic degrees on May 17 and celebrates a host of awards received by faculty and students this spring.
w88 casino games Acting Dean Indira Chatterjee handed out 338 bachelor’s degrees, 44 master’s degrees and 20 doctoral degrees at the commencement ceremony on the University of Nevada, Reno campus.
The college also honors its many outstanding students and faculty.
Anna Urias, a double major in biomedical and electrical w88 casino games with a minor in math, has received the Herz Gold Medal, the University’s most prestigious academic honor. The Herz medal is awarded to graduating seniors with the highest University grade-point average with the most letter-graded credits (beyond 120) that have been earned at the University.
Lloyd Gonzales is the College Scholar Awardee and Haley Marquez is the College Service Awardee. Gonzales also is recognized by the w88 casino games and the Nevada Alumni Association as the College’s Senior Scholar.
Sara Moon is the Senior Scholar Awardee for Chemical & Materials Science w88 casino games (CME) and Jade Beland is the CME Senior Service Awardee.
Nathan Hart is the Senior Scholar Awardee for Civil & Environmental w88 casino games (CEE) and Karlie Del Santo is the CEE Senior Service Awardee.
Kirin Hardinger is the Senior Scholar Awardee for Computer Science & w88 casino games (CSE) and Amber Hankins is the CSE Senior Service Awardee. Hardinger also is the Senior Scholar Awardee for the Honors College.
Urias — the Herz medal recipient — also is the Senior Scholar Awardee for Electrical & Biomedical w88 casino games (EBME) and Andy Tan is the EBME Senior Service Awardee.
Robert Anderson Gillespy is the Senior Scholar Awardee for Mechanical w88 casino games (ME) and Kaitlin Sachiko Leong is the ME Senior Service Awardee.
Additionally, ME doctoral graduate Alessandro Ralls received the Sam Leiberman Regents’ Award for Student Scholarship (Graduate) granted by the w88 casino games System of Higher Education (NSHE).
Outstanding faculty
Several w88 casino games faculty were recognized this spring for outstanding teaching and research.
Ann-Marie Vollstedt received NSHE’s w88 casino games Regents’ Teaching Award (Non-Tenured).
Professor Keri Ryan earned the Nevada Regents’ Academic Advisor Award (Graduate) as well as the w88 casino games Academic Advisor Award (Graduate).
Assistant Professor Hamed Ebrahimian won the Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award (one of three at the w88 casino games.)
Professor and CEE Chair Krishna Pagilla has received the w88 casino games Foundation’s Outstanding Researcher, STEM Award.
Associate Professor Alireza Tavakkoli earned the w88 casino games Foundation’s Early Career Innovator Award.
Kelly Keselica won the F. Donald Tibbetts Distinguished Teacher Award granted by the w88 casino games’s Office of the Provost.
Devrin Lee received the Exceptional Letter of Appointment Instructional Faculty Award granted by the Provost’s Office.
w88 casino games’s newest emeriti faculty are Chemical & Materials w88 casino games Associate Professor Jeffrey LaCombe; Civil & Environmental w88 casino games (CEE) Foundation Professor Ian Buckle; and CEE Professor Raj Siddharthan.
