USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
GRADUATE CELEBRATION 2020
GRADUATE CELEBRATION May 15, 2020
A message from the Dean: “To the class of 2020, I want to congratulate you on your graduation and recognize the strength and resilience you have displayed in what became an unconventional academic year. This challenging time demonstrates the importance of gerontology and confirms that you have made the right decision in your chosen field. We look forward to all the ways we know you will go out into the world and make a difference in the lives of older adults. Congratulations again.�
GRADUATE LIST 2020 MINOR IN GERONTOLOGY
Stephanie Davis Samantha Jo Hardy
Danielle Frances Kaiser Carlin Merkel
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND AGING Maya Abdulridha HS Claire Lynn Andrews SS Nicholas Esquivel HS Sydney Brandes Fraser HS Sandhyarani Gullapalli HS Shannon Rylie Hennessy SS Celeste Debora Daeun Kim SS Min Kuk Kim SS Daral Maesincee HS
Alexis Teddi Maggelet SS Vanessa Akelian Ocon HS Lorenzo Gabriel Batingal Pasia HS Sharon Talasazan HS Tari Williams SS Kyle Xia HS Jonathan Chung Yoo SS Minyang Zhang SS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN LIFESPAN HEALTH Corey Michael Burrill Jenna Giulioni
Kayla Anise Richardson Kyla Ashley Richardson
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN GERONTOLOGY Cheryl R. Minter Brown Jennifer Goldberg
Shanshan Li Pamela Y. Williams
HS - Health Science Track SS - Social Science Track
MSW - Dual Degree MSG/MSW MSG/D - Dual Degree MSG/ PharmD
MASTER OF AGING SERVICES MANAGEMENT Michelle En-Deh Chao Jane Chen Shu Fang Menglu Gao Monica Gonzalez YuanYuan Han Yang He Shannon Rylie Hennessy Hua-I Hsu Po-Rung Huang Sandra Hudock Gregory Jah-Hau Hwee Celeste Debora Daeun Kim Amanda Lemke Huihui Li Xurui Li Yiting Li Shen Liang Jintaek Lim Chiu-Yuan Lin Haojun Lin Minjin Lin
Yunhe Liu Roel Lopez Linda Palafox Tabitha Dorcas Payton-Wood Abigail Mathes Pitou Annalise Brooke Proctor Han Qian Robin Nicole Reeves Anni Ren Kristen Nicole Scriven Ming Sun Maria Herminda T. Szymanski Ruixian Tan Ran Tao Yuduan Tian Chun Wang Yuedi Wang Yueran Wang Mengkai Xue Yuanying Yang Fei Fei Zeng Yufeng Zhang
MASTER OF ARTS IN AGING SERVICES MANAGEMENT Jianan Chen Crystal Nicole Covington
Olivia-Anne Miclat Felibrico Xinrui Hu
Jun Ji Hanyun Li Sinong Lin Nelson Rubio Argueta
Nantao Shen Jinghang Wu Shenming Wu Hedan Yin
MASTER OF ARTS IN MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY Yixin Tan
MASTER OF ARTS IN GERONTOLOGY Stephen Baccari Blair Emma Harper Billings Elise Marie Collins Allison Groves Alexis Jones Sarah Lynn Konecnik Andrea Kurzulian Yennifer Laverde Jin Liang Jiayi Liu Shawna Maltbie Erica Martin Thai Quoc Nguyen Kelly Norton Sherry Pauline
Sarah Jane Ponce Michelle Safarian Tammy L. Sensel Yuhan Shi Sheila Smith Sherri L. Snelling Andrew Mason Sokolowski Robyn Stratford Dongyan Tan Erica Thygesen Johnny Torres Layana White Stacey Sterling White Yong Zhang
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GERONTOLOGY Michelle Barba MSW Amanda Berger Stephanie Bolton Sicong Chen Mengya Cheng Calina Deana Clark
Shad Edward Cruz MSW Mingdong Cui Bei Ding Rong Fan Ruixin Fang Lydia Freeman MSW
Shaina Harding Shyam Hassan Jessica Howard Hsuan-Yao Huang Tianyue Huang Yuchen Huang Joanna S. Jiang Dongjian Jin Jane Jung Rahil N. Khasgiwale You Yeon Kim Alexis Lang MSG/D Hye Rynn Juliana Lee Jiaqi Li Yutong Li Yingxin Liang Peng Liu Yueming Ma Anfal Morsy Donna Murdoch Siddharth Nagaich Lynnsey Oberg
Yuxin Pan Juyoung Park Bailin Peng Holly Rice Siyao Song Yilin Tan Brooke Alexandra Tilson Kylie Uyeda Alec Walker Yanan Wang Yuanyuan Wei Si Wen Wan-Ling Weng Xiaoyan Wu Shi Xian Ziheng Xu Li Yan Yuan Yao Ruiling Zhang Xijie Zhang Fengxue Zhou Tong Zhu
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION, HEALTHSPAN AND LONGEVITY Sara Alamdari Jordan Anthony Ranier Castillo Jillian S. Chaney Emily Michelle DaCosta Zalaé Etienne Marianna Y. Gonzalez Chavez Madison Leigh Gouza Oscar Jan Laura Denise Kauffman
Lacy Kuester Lillie Lourdes Nally Christina Marie Overstreet Jennifer Lynn Pearce Annalise Christine Rosik Christy Elizabeth Schuld LaDale Sibley Jade Corinne Tamyo Tiffany L. Yuan
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN GERONTOLOGY Stephen Frochen “Residential Care in Los Angeles: Policy and Planning for an Aging Population” Gerson Galdamez “Developing a Better Understanding of Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams: Addressing Gaps for Research, Policy, and Practice” Catherine Perez-Garcia “Raices de Salud (Roots of Health): How Sociocultural, Cohort, and Contextual Factors Influence Health Among Older Latinos in the United States” Laura Giles Rath “Family Caregiver Well-Being: Generational Differences and Coping Strategies” Hyunju Shim “Technology Use, Psychological Functioning and Social Isolation at Older Ages”
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOLOGY OF AGING Azar Asadi Shahmirzadi “Alpha-ketoglutarate, an Endogenous Metabolite, Extends Lifespan and Compresses Morbidity in Aging Mice” Amin Haghani “Air Pollution Neurotoxicity Throughout the Lifespan: Studies on the Mechanism of Toxicity and Interactions with Effects of Sex and Genetic Background” Maria Konovalenko “The Overlap Between mTOR Signaling, Rapamycin and Cellular Senescence” Joseph Cassidy Reynolds “Mitonuclear Communication in Metabolic Homeostasis During Aging and Exercise”
RECOGNITION OF AFFILIATED DOCTORATE MOLECULAR AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Chia-An Yen “The Role of Proline Metabolism in Male Reproductive Senescence”
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