USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
GRADUATE CELEBRATION 2021
GRADUATE CELEBRATION May 13, 2021
A message from the Dean: “ To the Class of 2021. I am so proud of you all, for the excellence you embody every day and for the resilience and resourcefulness you showed this past year. You have not just invested in a degree. You have invested in making life better for people of all ages. I look forward to living in the future you create for each and every one of us. Fight On!”
GRADUATE LIST 2021 MINOR IN GERONTOLOGY
Danielle Frances Kaiser
Aastha Oze
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND AGING Brandon Ann HS Lourdes Bustamante SS Ariana Chen HS Julia Dorado HS Ryan DoyLoo HS Σ Nicholas Esquivel HS Hayli Gold SS Morgan Hasseler SS Jane Hyon SS
Min Kuk Kim SS Audrey Lam HS Stephanie Lee HS Tara McKeown SS Matthew Phan HS Matti Robi SS Michelle Tashjian HS Σ Sarah Zhang HS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN LIFESPAN HEALTH Adam Drazan Jessica Haddad Astoria Ho Raelyn Kelley
Charlotte Miller Tiana Miller McCrae Mower
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN GERONTOLOGY Orli Belman Arthur Brozell
Eldridge Dodson Ann Hayden
HS - Health Science Track SS - Social Science Track Σ - Sigma Phi Omega
Lindsey Hulsebus Eunice Kim Ceran Li Michael McGuinness
MSW - Dual Degree MSG/MSW MSA - Dual Degree MSG/MHA
Jennifer Powell Jordan Sanders Martha Segura-Diaz Mengzhao Yan
MASTER OF LONG-TERM CARE ADMINISTRATION
Naomi Mark
MASTER OF AGING SERVICES MANAGEMENT Maya Astier Andrea Augustine Beverly Castleberry Jin Ah Choi Shannon Hennessy Mikisha Jackson Amanda Lemke Yiting Li Lenan Lin Da Yu Lyu
Raynon McKee Gina Miller Brittney Perez Dhruti Ramchandani Carlie Schlachter Megan Teschon Yuanying Yang Nan Yu Mei Yuan
MASTER OF ARTS IN AGING SERVICES MANAGEMENT Jianan Chen Xi Chen Xinyi Cheng
Shizhou Feng Kai Fu Nichole Hofstad-Ward
Zhouyalong Huang Jiayi Jiang Yilin Jiang Yuqi Jiang Ling Jia Lee Jintang Li Meixuan Li Shilong Li Zichen Li Ziyuan Li Jingyi Liu
Yanghe Liu Ziqiong Liu Zhiyin She Ming Su Yiyao Wang Yu Chun Wang Tari Williams An Yan Zhiyu Yin Xijia Zeng Muyang Zhang
MASTER OF ARTS IN SENIOR LIVING HOSPITALITY Po-Yang Hsu
MASTER OF ARTS IN MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY Richard Esquivel Azniv Libaryan Σ Vincent Ngo
Jiehao Wang Xiyuan Zhang
MASTER OF ARTS IN GERONTOLOGY Cynthia Escarcega-Calderon Emma Flotterud Jingyu Fu Hui Jiao Danella Jones Alexandra Kaplan Janet Lane Yanzhou Li Kelly Lor Giovanna Manson-Hing
Erica Martin Shanice Mitchell Kathy Sato-Trang Σ Susan Joanne Sheldon Σ Lisbeth Smith Zhangrui Song Menghan Sun Brittany Von Schneidau Xiyu Wang Meri Weingarten
Henrietta Wotorchie Ruijia Yang Jingjing Yu
Jie Zhan Luoyu Zhou Yufeng Zhou
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GERONTOLOGY Claire Andrews Han Chang Chen Pengcheng Cheng Melissa Devaney Anjali Devgan Bei Ding Jingxun Gao Jenna Giulioni Jiamei Guo Yijun Guo Yuanjian Guo Ching-Han Hsu Jiacheng Hu Tianyue Huang Cathy Huo Yujie Jiang Nan Jiang Seung Jae Lee Haozhen Li Tongtong Li MSA Ziyi Li Minxian Lu Grace Matelich Katelyn Maximuik Anfal Morsy Emily Munoz-Snyder Donna Murdoch
Lynnsey Oberg Caleigh Poitier MSW Shan Qu Fang Ren Stephen Santos Courtney Shen Yihan Shu Yicheng Song Yiya Tan Taylen Tran Krystal Walden Zezhi Wang Emily Wang Katherine Weir Daniella Werner Xiwen Xia Shiyun Xiao Qiexuan Xu Xinyi Yan Guo Yao Dinghao Zhang Mutian Zhang Hangyue Zhao Juecan Zhao Nan Zhou Zeyuan Zhou Yuyue Zhu
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION, HEALTHSPAN AND LONGEVITY Yilin Chen Zalaé Etienne Melissa Gallardo Sasha Gordon Jillian Gore Hannah Grenfell Kathrine Patricia Hadley Frida-Sofie Hovik Galen Lam Jessica Myers
Ericka Naegle Paige Needles Amy O’Donnell Bianca Paulus Alicia Rodrigo-Miller Sophia Scattaglia Jolene Wang Brooklin White Megan Young
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN GERONTOLOGY Deborah Hoe “Palliative Care: Breaking the Knowledge Barrier Among Community-Based Older Adults” Carly Roman “Age Integration in Late Life: Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Correlates of Intergenerational-Only, Peer-Only, and Age-Integrated Social Networks” Kristi Wisniewski “Subjective Memory Complaint: A Screening Measure for Cognitive Decline”
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOLOGY OF AGING Xiaoyu Cai “Signaling mechanisms governing tissue regeneration and communication in Drosophila” Joshua Kramer “Mediating The Homeostatic Response During Light & Cytotoxic Induced Retinal Damage” Chisaka Kuehnemann “A small molecule protease inhibitor induces senescence phenotypes that are reversible upon drug removal” Megumi Mori “Synaptic transmission, nutrient sensors, and aging in Drosophila melanogaster” Stephen Scheeler “Modeling Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Identifying Therapeutic Targets” Minna Schmidt “Investigating the effect of exercise conditions upon alphasynuclein species in the NL5901 C. elegans worm model of Parkinsons disease”
RECOGNITION OF AFFILIATED DOCTORATE OF MOLECULAR AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Amy Hammerquist “Dissecting novel roles for mafr-1 in reproduction and metabolic homeostasis” James Nhan “Transcriptional dysregulation due to hyperactive SKN-1 leads to a perceived pathogen infection and behavioral defects”
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