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SILS 2026 Commencement Program

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Spring 2026 Commencement

Friday, May 8 Memorial Hall

About SILS

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) educates innovative and responsible thinkers who lead the information professions; discover principles and impacts of information; create systems, techniques and policies to advance information processes and services; and promote information creation, access, use, management and stewardship to improve the quality of life for diverse local, national and global communities. For more information on the school and its programs, visit sils.unc.edu.

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Ceremony

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Welcome

Dr Diane Kelly, Interim Dean, School of Information and Library Science

CommencementAddress

Presented by Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto (MSLS ‘07 and Ph.D. ‘10)

Presentation ofAwards

Dean’s PaperAchievementAwards

Presented by Dr.William Payne, TeachingAssistant Professor

Undergraduate HonorsTheses

Presented by Dr RayWang,Associate Professor

Deborah KayBarreauAward forTeachingExcellence

Presented by Dr.Alexandra Chassanoff,Assistant Professor

Instructorof ExcellenceAward, Carolina Health Informatics Program

Presented by Dr. David Gotz, Program Director and Professor

OutstandingService to the Program, Carolina Health Informatics Program

Presented by Dr. David Gotz, Program Director and Professor

Edward G. Holley, Good of the OrderAwards

Presented by Dr Ericka Patillo,Associate Dean forAcademicAffairs and Professor of the Practice

Greetings from the SILSAlumniAssociation

Outstanding Service to the SchoolAward

Presented by KatrinaVernon, President of the SILSAlumni Board

Recognition of Degree Recipients

B.S. in Information Science

M.S. in Information Science

M.S. in LibraryScience

M.P.S. in Digital Curation & Management

Presented by Dr Ericka Patillo,Associate Dean and Professor of the Practice

M.P.S. in Biomedical & Health Informatics

Ph.D. in Health Informatics

Presented by Dr. David Gotz, Program Director and Professor

Ph.D. in Information and LibraryScience

Presented by Dr. Ericka Patillo,Associate Dean and Professor of the Practice

Closing Remarks

Dr. Diane Kelly, Interim Dean, School of Information and Library Science

Commencement Speaker

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy

School Chair, Tom and Marie Patton Chair and Professor M.S. & Ph.D. Alumna, UNC SILS

Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto is a Tom and Marie Patton Professor and School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines the formal and informal ways in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, consumed, and supported, with an emphasis on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Sugimoto was a professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington from 2010 to 2021 and served as the Program Director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program at the National Science Foundation from 2018 to 2020. She has received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching award (2014), a national service award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (2009), and a Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020).

She holds a bachelor’s in Music Performance, a master’s in Library Science, and a doctoral degree in Information and Library Science, all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Graduate Papers, Projects and Internships

Master’s students in the Information and Library Science program are required to complete either a paper or a practicum project as a capstone to their degree. Master’s students in the Biomedical and Health Informatics program complete an internship during their final semester.

To view a complete list of all accomplishments and awards, visit go.unc.edu/SILS2026.

Spring 2026 Master’s Practicum Projects

A More Complete History of SILS (Year Two)

Jennifer Dai

Sarah Edmondson

Nora Nunez

Hope Suttles

Agency Data and Information

Storage Protocol Project (“ADISPP”)

Can Ding

Emily Przykucki

Alicia Slater

Building Knowledge Graphs

Navya Babu

Jared Marrotte

Jake Schwartz

Teri Tang

Haonian (Frank) Wang

Haosen (Harry) Zhong

Yuting Sun

Dian Wang

Archiving the Eno River Association

Nate Allen

Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health, and Equity Web Resource

Hub

Nathan Cavender

Yixiang Fang

Kelley Slebos

Summer Stevens

Haley Wilkerson

Bite Size Instruction

Navya Babu

Estella Calcaterra

Shitian Jian

Xinzhu Li

Katherine Moran

Phoebe Sabet

Isabella Ukariwo

Cindy Xu

Hengyuan Zhang

Victoria Lucante

Nora McNabb

Angela Nettles

Chapel of the Cross Analog Group

Leta Brewer

Jessica Nifong

Chapel of the Cross Digital Group

Faith Haines

Kyra Lance

Paxton Martin

CHPL Kids’ Book Kit Audit

Jillian Kassor

Abby Oldt

Angel Prince

Ashley Reiss

Kaley Whittle

Abi Whitney

Danziger Archive Project

Aaron Brenner

Christina DeNecochea

Kathryn Molk

Iterative Photo Processing

Jennifer Cole

Carly Jensen

Lucy Marous

Jane Ellen Whittington

Organization and Cataloging Art

Books and Art Works

Anna Lentzer

Eleanor Mullens

Ethan Smith

Lilli Treppel

Fanyun Yang

Reasoning-Agentic RetrievalAugmented Generation for OpenDomain QA

Zhexi Gu

Pengfei Shen

Fengli Wu

Recipes Resurrected

Gabi Benedit

Vivian Lewis

Grace Midha

Rebecca Speas

Rethinking the Representational and Design Space of EHRs Toward Modeling and Design Tools

Yash Amethiya

Kevin Boyles

Echo Li

Song Lu

Marianne Nguyen

Niki Yang

Samantha Yue

Spring 2026 Master’s Papers

Aaliyah Alvin

Understanding Black

Kimberly Eileen Bernard

Generative AI and Legal Research

Underrepresentation in Medical Librarianship: Is Medical Racism a Factor?

Advisor: Fei Yu

Leo Bautista

Teen Reading in the Digital Age: Leveraging Fan Practices for Library

Engagement

Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Instruction: Insights from Academic Law Librarians

Advisor: Diane Kelly

Katie Bushman

Children’s Materials in Archival

Virginia Beall

AI and Descriptive Cataloging: Can Artificial Intelligence Catalog Rare Books?

Advisor: Melanie Feinberg

Family Papers

Advisor: Elliott Kuecker

Cal Caughron

“It Gives Me Big Feelings!”: LGBTQ+ Community Perspectives on the Purpose, Use, and Potentials for Community Archives

Advisor: Joseph Winberry

Sophia Chimbanda

For Liberation, Not for Neoliberalism: A Reimagining of Critical Special Collections Instruction

Advisor: Casey Rawson

Camilla Crane

“Beyond Filling the Gaps”: University Students’ Engagement with Digital Oral History Collections

Advisor: Alexandra Chassanoff

Niya Friday

Black Feminist Fiction as an Archive Advisor: Megan Winget

Genevieve Furges

Racial and Ethnic Representation in Young Adult Climate Fiction

Advisor: Casey Rawson

Alexandra Gaines

Local History Collections in Coastal North Carolina Public Libraries

Advisor: Brian Sturm

Emma Gautier

April Hagins

“F” is for Feminist Theory in the Archives Advisor: Megan Winget

Madeline C. Huh

An Analysis of Title Page Transcription Practices for Aldine Imprints in the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Special Collections Library Advisor: Eileen Dewitya

Mohala Kaliebe

Archive and Go Seek: Investigating the Discoverability of Child-Created Work in Archives

Advisor: Elliott Kuecker

Kamisa Kassa

Representation in Black Queer Digital Community Archives Advisor: Joseph Winberry

Matti Kauftheil

Informing a Movement: Theorizing the Repression of Campus Organizing at The University of North Carolina Advisor: Joseph Winberry

Dev Ghandi

Designing Trustworthy AI

Bridging the Gap Between Patient and Provider: An Exploratory Study of Medical Librarian Services for Improvement of Patient-Facing Health Materials

Advisor: Terri Ottosen

Visualizations in High-Stakes Clinical Decision-Making: A Human Centered Study of Visualization, Infrastructure, and Workflow

Advisor: Yue Wang

Sam Lipert

“Grounded and Real and Right”: Transgender Representation in Stonewall Award Titles for Young Adults, 20102026

Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Isabelle Grise

Raising America’s Girls: Motherhood and Domesticity in American Girl

Historical Books Advisor: Casey Rowman

Jiayi Liu

A Comparative Analysis of Upper-Body and Full-Body Motion Tracking for Personal Attribute Inference Using Perception

Advisor: William Payne

Coral Loach

What Do We Know About AI?

Advisor: Francesca Tripodi

Hailey Mandel

The Training of Graduate Student

Archival Processors and Attitudes

Towards Their Labor

Advisor: Melanie Feinberg

Sydnie Martin

Renegotiating Library Values: Black LIS

Professionals’ Critical Refusal of Generative AI

Advisor: Maggie Melo

Kyla Marze

Beyond the Panels: Representations of Asian American Youth in Young Adult

Graphic Novels

Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Rachel Meichelbock

How is Their Story Being Told? A Content Analysis of Holocaust Literature From One Public Library

Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Mert Overcash

“I’ve Experiments to Run, There is Research to Be Done”: Video Game Art Within Academic Art Library Collections

Kathryn Phillips

Cross-breading Apples and Oranges: Links Between Representation for Digitized Archival Objects

Advisor: Ryan Shaw

Kennedy-Grace Pierce

A Content Analysis of Digitization and Accessibility Practices for Academic Library

Clothing Collections in the United States

Advisor: Casey Rawson

Primrose Piper

Putting the Trans in Tags: Attitudes toward Transfeminism Through Folksonomy

Advisor: Melanie Feinburg

Haley Prell

To Read This Paper, Subscribe Today: A Qualitative Analysis of News Framing Across Paywall Types

Advisor: Francesca Tripodi

Advisor: Brian Sturm

Srujay Patelu

Brian Quast

It Was the Best of Lines, It Was the Worst of Lines

Advisor: Megan Winget

Alexa Salvato

Credibility and Persuasion Signals in US

Finfluencer Short-Form Video Content: A Multi-Platform Content Analysis Using Large Language Models

Advisor: Francesca Tripodi

Isi Patterson

Youth-Adult Equity in NC Public Libraries: An Assessment of Youth

Exploring Depictions of Friendships and Social Relationships in Middle-Grade Novels with Disabled Protagonists

Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Abbie Lynn Stanford

Participation

Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell

A Study of Sturdiness: Online Readers’ Advisory in Public Libraries Ten Years Later

Advisor: Casey Rawson

Clare Stephenson

Depictions of Visual Metaphor of Death and Grief in Children’s Picture Books

Advisor: Brian Sturm

Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Archival Activities

Advisor: Christopher Lee

Kaitlyn Underwood

How Neurodivergent Students

Conceptualize the Risks and Benefits of AI Chatbots

Advisor: William Payne

Grace Villanueva

A Seat at the Table: How Public Libraries Engage in Food Justice

Advisor: Ron Berquist

Wenyuan Wang

Far From Enough: A Mixed-Method Study on Individual Factors of Information Safety on Judgmental Boundary Advisor: David Gotz

Claire Warr

“We Are Not Alternative Press, But the Real Press!”: Sinister Wisdom and the Construction of a Lesbian-Feminist Information Infrastructure Advisor: MaggieMelo

Isabella Yaguda

Books Behind Bars: A Survey of Print Media Access in North Carolina Detention Facilities Advisor: Diane Kelly

Lawrence Zhang

Defunding the Stacks: Executive Order 14238 and Its Impact on Public Libraries Advisor: Ronald Bergquist

Carolina Health Informatics Program Graduate Internships

Adote Junior Akue-Ka

Integrating Behavioral Health Workforce and Population Needs

Datasets

UNC Sheps Center

Aipu Ameh

Improving the Annual Review Process of the Heart and Research Institute

Core (HIRC) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Using an Interactive Dashboard

Dr. Danny Wu, Director of Innovative Clinical Data Capture and Use (iCDCU), UNC SILS

Lucy Armour

Addressing Domestic Violence Service Gaps in North Carolina

North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Jiawei Chen

Cost-Effectiveness of a Hypothetical Outpatient Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Treatment for Elderly Patients in the United States

Jahnavi Dhingra

How Implicit Bias Influences Clinical Decision-Making

Dr. Danny Wu, Director, iCDCU, UNC SILS

Louis Farer

Driving Operational Efficiency and Leveraging Data to Quantify Business Value at CareHarmony CareHarmony

Demi Jones

Secondary Buffer Supplier Qualification to Ensure Supply Chain Continuity Novartis Gene Therapies

Sakshi Kanani

Transforming Data into Strategy: Dashboard Design for Merz Aesthetics

Salesforce (Client: Merz Aesthetics)

AESARA

Mikaela Coley

Samuel King

Developing an Interactive Tableau

Dashboard to Explore Patient-Reported Preferences

Dr. Daniel Richardson, UNC School of Medicine (SOM)

Identifying Operational Bottlenecks in Clinical Trial Budgeting Start-Up

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Brittany D’Agostino

Improving the Domain Wellness of the Existing EHR System at Abraxas Youth and Family Services

Abraxas Youth and Family Services

Suguna Kotte

Sleep Quality and Associated Risk Factors in Adults with ADHD: An Exploratory Analysis Using the All of Us Database

Dr. Danny Wu, Director, iCDCU, UNC SILS

Hlim Ksor

Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Hospitalization Rates and Social Determinants of Health Across NC Counties

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Mounika Metta

Application of Systems Analysis in Healthcare: A Phlebotomy Case Study

Dr. Lukasz Mazur, UNC SOM, Division of Healthcare Engineering

Riley Nguyen

Development & Validation of a Machine Learning-Based Prediction Model for 30-Day COPD

Readmissions: Enhancing Early Risk Stratification & Intervention

Dr. Joshua Thorpe, UNC School of Pharmacy

Belinda Njue

Developing an R Shiny Application to Assess Readability of Health Information Using Data Visualization

Dr. Danny Wu, Director, iCDCU, UNC SILS

Swathi Pabba

Semi-Automated Patient Selection

Workflow for the mPATH-Cloud Study

UNC Gillings

Jairo Patino

Optimizing Smartsheet Dashboards for Real-Time Metrology Project Control

Jinhee Son

Visual Analysis of Sleep Patterns Among Adults with AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Using the All of Us Fitbit Dataset

Dr. Danny Wu, Director, iCDCU, UNC SILS

Leslie Vankoy

Using Text Analytics and Local Partnerships to Scale Dada Bora AI for Women’s Wellness

Bora Technology, LLC

Wilkens Verger

NC State Health Plan – Humira

Utilization Analysis Project

NC Department of State Treasurer

Elise Wilson

Measuring the Impact of Innovation HKS

Catherine Young

Optimizing Quality Reporting for Efficient Post-Operative PROMs Collection

Novo Nordisk, Metrology Department

Aayush Rabadey

Atrium Health, Musculoskeletal Institute, Dept of Quality

How Reddit Users Engage with LLMs for Health Advice and DecisionMaking

Dr. Fei Yu, UNC SILS

Anusmitha Sathuluri

Creating Customizable Visual Dashboards for Workplace Violence

Reporting at UNC Health

Dr Lukasz Mazur, UNC SOM, Division of Healthcare Engineering

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Isabella Lynch | Supervisor: Rob Capra | Highest Honors

“From simply one search”: Exploring the Effects of Task Complexity on the Use of GenAI in Search

Michael Selfridge | Supervisor: Arcot Rajasekar | Highest Honors

Artificial Intelligence in the American Smart City: A Cross-Dimensional Risk Framework for Responsible Deployment

Oanh Li Huy Nguyen | Supervisor: Danny T.Y. Yu | Honors

Generating Patient-Friendly Summaries of Clinical Notes with Large Language Models: A Pilot Evaluation in an Oncology Setting

Gilda-Mei Kahealani Pesqueira | Supervisor: Ron Bergquist | Honors

Latvia's Dynamic Identities in Orbit: Mapping Language Policy and Semiospheric Shifts

Awards and Recognitions

AI/AP Fellowship Scholar

Dev Gandhi

Akers Fellowship

Virginia Beall

Carly Jensen

Cameron Hall

Jessica Marie Nifong

Lucy Maria Marous

Grace Villanueva

American Library Association

Spectrum Scholar, 2024–2025

Cohort

Grace Villanueva

Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Doctoral Colloquium

Membership Registration Award, 2024

Mohammad Golam Kibria

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Kaleidoscope Scholarship, 2025

Gabi Benedit

Atlantic Coast Conference

Cum Laude

Sruthy Mammen

Dean’s List

Braxton Manuel Mira-Knippel

Jonathan Steven Luc

Miguel Magana Melendez

Rini Rose Madathinal

Dean’s Practicum Achievement Award

Jill Kassor

Abby Oldt

Angel Prince

Ashley Reiss

Abi Whitney

Kaley Whittle

Jennifer Cole

Carly Jensen

Lucy Marous

Jane Ellen Whittington

Doctoral Merit Scholarship, 2022–2025

Mohammad Golam Kibria

Duke Machine Learning Spring School 2026 Scholarship: Health AI

Suguna Kotte

Academic Honor Roll, 2024 and 2025

Sarah Gail Gresham

Buckley Public Service Scholar

Abigail Marie Allred

Erica Ocbu

Sylvia Rene Prevette

Elfreda Chatman Award

Isi Patterson

Haley Prell

Epsilon Eta Environmental Honors Fraternity

Michael Selfridge, Vice President of Finance 2024–2025; Recruitment Chair

Carolina Academic Library

Associate

Camilla Crane

Summer Victoria Stevens

Spring 2024; Career Chair Fall 2025

Evelyn J. Bishop Fellowship

Abigail Marie Allred

Carolina Covenant Scholarship

Sylvia Rene Prevette

CommunityWorkshop Series

Certificate forDigital Literacy

Instruction

Abigail MarieAllred

Kaitlyn Underwood

Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship

Abigail Marie Allred

Fulbright Scholar

Godspower Mercy Law

Graduate and Professional

Student Government (GPSG)

Dev Gandhi, Director of Data Collection andAssessment

Greenhouse Scholar

Mariam Tasneemah Matin

Health Informatics Students Association (HISA), Carolina

Health Informatics Program, 2024–2025

Suguna Kotte, President

Honors Carolina

Godspower Mercy Law

Abigail Stafford

Information and LibraryScience StudentAssociation

Abigail MarieAllred, President Carly Jensen, Community Development Chair

Morehead-Cain Scholar

Godspower Mercy Law

National Residence Hall Honorary Societyof Janus Chapter

MandyVirgina Lubinski

ParrCenterforEthics, Ethics Scholar

Isabella Lynch

Phi Sigma Pi National Honors Fraternity

Miguel Magana Melendez, Fundraising Chair andAlumni Chair

Philip and Gilda Cree Scholar

Sruthy Mammen

Robertson Scholar Riya Sharma

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)

Best PaperAward, 2025

Mohammad Golam Kibria

Sigma Eta Pi Fraternity (KenanFlagler Business School Affiliated Entrepreneurship)

Tharani Kavi Senthilkumar

SILS Scholar Showcase Best Project Award

Will Nowland

James E. Griffin Scholarship

Recipient

Sruthy Mammen

Kalp Fellowship

Gilda-Mei Kahealani Pesqueira

SILS Scholar Showcase Social Impact Award Chris Conner

SILS Scholar Showcase People’s Choice Award

Primrose Piper

Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc.

To Tam Thi Le

LibraryAssociation of UNC Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH)

Abigail MarieAllred, SILS Student Liaison

Society of American Archivists (SAA) F. Gerald Ham and Elsie Ham Scholarship, 2025

Gabi Benedit

Michael HookerGraduate Fellow inApplications Network

Kaitlyn Underwood

Society of North Carolina Archivists (SNCA) C. David Jackson Memorial Scholarship, 2025

Gabi Benedit

Strata Clean EnergyCase

Competition 2025 Semi-Finalist

Michael Selfridge

Student Chapterof the Societyof AmericanArchivists (SAA)

Carly Jensen, Vice President

Lucy Maria Marous

SummerVictoria Stevens, Treasurer and Secretary

UNC Graduate and Professional

Student GovernmentTravel Award, 2024

Mohammad Golam Kibria

Undergraduate Ethics PosterAward

Daisy Musser

Irving Garcia-Gomez

Cole Oliver

UniversityLibraries Student Staff

AppreciationAward Abigail MarieAllred

Graduates

Bachelor of Science in Information Science

CarterAdrias

Agada Uredoojo

EsmeraldaAlbarran

AnaAltman

John PaulAmalong

Beatrice Babel

Bridget Baker

Timothy Baldwin

Ella Barrera

Khristine Bautista

Bradley Bennett

Ndumbeh Boye

Jayden Buckley

Nicholas Byrd

John Callahan

Adrias Carter

Elijah Chellman

Lawrence Chung

Colin Cleary

Jack Dacey

Beckett Darcy

Ayanna Davis

John Daw

Luca Dean

Zhixin Deng

Alexander Emmons

Jonah Ettore

Tyler Fang

Reem Fayyad

Michael Francken

Rufta Fukur

Anushka Ganesh

Kushal Garg

Mohammad Ghani

Mohamed Ghareeb

Archana Goli

Navyasri Gottumukkala

Daniel Govea

Bridget Grazel

Laura Green

Sarah Gresham

Harris Gunter

Jue Jue

Eleni Kafexhiu

Giwon Kang

Nyasia Kenan

Byungyoon Ko

Ai-Ling Kue

Nathaniel Lai-Quong

Katie Lam

Guangning Guo

Cameron Hall

Henry Halvorsen

Olivia Hammond

Ethan Hinkle

Meghan Howell

Mukhtar Idris

Sara Jadhav

Godspower Lawal

To Tam Le

Nhu Le

Meagan Leung

Bowen Liao

Cherry Lin

Yu Qi Lin

Benjamin James

Ryan James

Chandon Jarrett

Wei Jiang

YuanYao Lin

Shaquira Little

Joshua Loo

Mandy Lubinski

Jonathan Luc

Isabella Lynch

Rini Rose Madathinal

Miguel Magana-Melendez

David Mallinson

Sruthy Mammen

Harshith Manepalli

Hugh Martin

Dagoberto MartinezAvila

Mariam Matin

Meris Mcelveen

Cole Miller

Braxton Mira-Knippel

Caitlin Monaghan

Stella Moorman

Connor Morneau

Anya Narayan

Ashley Nguyen

Jacqueline Nguyen

Minh Nguyen

Erica Ocbu

Daniella Okyere- Boateng

Jennifer Phung

Logan Pilcher

Sylvia Prevette

Francisco PuacVasquez

Alexandra Ramirez

Olmedo

Allison Ranatza

Amy Rivera Franco

Cole Oliver

Owen Osborne

Juah Park

Dev Patel

Mahi Patel

Manav Patel

Rital Patel

Hrishika Roychoudhury

Mary Rudisill

Sydney Schaefer

Mary Schultz

Michael Selfridge

Tharani Senthilkumar

Anosha Shah

Jackson Peppers

Alexander Perez

Medeline Perez-Vasquez

Gilda-Mei Pesqueira

Avery Phillips

Luoqing Shao

Riya Sharma

Taylor Sharp

Oluwatobi Shorunke

Natasha Shrestha

Justin Singletary

Ashley Smith

Jaedyn So

Abbey St. Pierre

Abigail Stafford

Arnav Sugavanam

Cristina Sullivan

Vanegas

Megan Taylor

BaylorTexerArame

Thiam

JennyTran

Ngoc-Uyen Tran

LauraTrochanowski

TvishaVadapalli

CristinaVargas-Bayas

AlejandroVilla Palacios

KenWatanabe Sakay

FrancineWei

DanielWood

ShuyanWu

Geensia Xiong

SiyingYao

Ha-RinYoun

Riya Zalavadia

Marwan Zarrouk

Peiwen Zhang

Yihan Zhang

Yuefeng Zhong

Yi Zhou

Xinyue Zhu

Zihang Zhuo

Master of Science in Information Science

Navya Babu

Nora Benallal

Nathan Cavender

Hsinning Chen

Aubrey Clark

Can Ding

Yixiang Fang

Dev Gandhi

Emma Gautier

Zhexi Gu

April Hagins

Jacob Horner

Shitian Jian

Yue Jiang

Jiayi Liu

Coral Loach

Song Lu

Victoria Lucante

Nora McNabb

Marianne Nguyen

Srujay Patelu

Kemisa Kassa

Xinzhu Li

Kathryn Phillips

Emily Przykucki

Jake Schwartz

Pengfei Shen

Alicia Slater

Hope Suttles

YirongTang

Isabella Ukariwo

Kaitlyn Underwood

MichaelVavlitis

DianWang

HaonianWang

WenyuanWang

FengliWu

CindyXu

FanyunYang

YiniYang

SamanthaYue

Hengyuan Zhang

Haosen Zhong

Master of Science in

HebaAbd El Salam

NathanielAllen

AbigailAllred

AaliyahAlvin

Benedict Bacher

Leo Bautista

Virginia Beall

Gabriela Benedit

Lindenmann

Kimberly Bernard

Sarah Bernstein

Aaron Brenner

Leta Brewer

Katherine Bushman

Cal Caughron

Sophia Chimbanda

Anna Cohen

Jennifer Cole

Camilla Crane

Jennifer Dai

Christina Denecochea

Sarah Edmondson

Emma Eubank

Patrick Evans

Library Science

Isabelle Grise

Evelyn Haines

Madeline Huh

Carly Jensen

Mohala Kaliebe

Jillian Kassor

Matti Kauftheil

Kyra Lance

Anna Lentzer

Vivian Lewis

Samantha Lipert

Hailey Mandel

Lucy Marous

Katherine Martin

Sydnie Martin

Kyla Marze

Rachel Meichelbock

Amanda Melton

Grace Midha

Grace Moebes

Eleanor Mullens

Angela Nettles

Jessica Nifong

Nora Nunez

Kennedy Pierce

Primrose Piper

Haley Prell

Angel Prince

Brian Quast

Ashley Reiss

Alexa Salvato

Kelley Slebos

Ethan Smith

Rebecca Speas

Abbie Stanford

Clare Stephenson

Summer Stevens

Arie Taxier

GraceVillanueva

ClaireWarr

AbigailWhitney

JaneWhittington

KaleyWhittle

HaleyWilkerson

IsabellaYaguda

Lawrence Zhang

Genevieve Furges

Alexandra Gaines

Abby Oldt

Jessica Isi Patterson

Master of Professional Science in Digital Curation and Management

Robert LeVine

Briana Meyer

Sara Price

Master of Professional Science in Biomedical and Health Informatics

Adote JuniorAkue-Ka

Sakshi Kanani

LeslieVankoy

AipuAmeh

LucyArmour

Jiawei Chen

Jiawei Chen

Mikaela Coley

Christopher Conneran

Brittany D'agostino

Samuel King

Suguna Kotte

Hlim Ksor

Mounika Metta

Riley Nguyen

Belinda Njue

Swathi Pabba

WilkensVerger

EliseWilson

CatherineYoung

Jahnavi Dhingra

Louis Farer

Caroline Gore

Demi Jones

Jairo Patino

Aayush Rabadey

Anusmitha Sathuluri

Jinhee Son

Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics

Abhishek Bhatia

Advisor: Dr. Emily Pfaff

Dissertation: Estimating Environmental Health Impacts Using Electronic Health Records: Linked Data for Clinical and Epidemiological Research

John Geracitano

Advisor: Dr. Saif Khairat

Dissertation: Introducing a GeoHealth web tool operationalizing the Digital Health Index

Mohammad Golam Kibria

Advisor: Dr. Javed Mostafa

Dissertation: Explainability for AI-driven Clinical Decision Support Systems: A User-centered Study with Clinicians

Doctor of Philosophy in Information and Library Science

Matthew Belskie

Advisor: Dr Brad Hemminger

Dissertation: Recovery Gaming: Effects of a Systematized Reduction of Task-Specific Video Gaming on Performance Health

Mengtian Guo

Advisors: Dr. Ray Wang & Dr. David Gotz

Dissertation: Facilitating Human-Machine Teaming in Machine Learning Problem Formulation

Lan Li

Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Jarrahi

Dissertation: AI sensemaking and adaptation through knowledge workers' career transition narratives

Robert Manzo

Advisor: Dr. Ryan Shaw

Dissertation: What Is Informative about Autistic Autobiographies?: A Study of Autistic Autobiographical Narratives as Articulations of Complex Subjectivity and Hermeneutical Creativity

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