We are thrilled to have awarded 229 certificates to 187 students yesterday, as we celebrated the hard work and global mindsets these seniors have honed in their time at Pitt!
The Asian Studies Center conferred the following certificates:
Certificate in Advanced Asian Studies
Kanoko Kamata (G)
Janae Marie O'Connell (G)
Certificate in Asian Studies
Hailey M Buss
Zhiyi Chen
Lily Cusack
Megan E Diston
Geeta M Gunti
Clara Suhyun Kim
Taylor Kingerski
Oleksii Y Kucherenko
Erin Kristina Lancaster (A)
Ertan Li
Christopher Norris (NRIEP)
Madhumitha Parthasarathy
Angela Qiu
Yimei Qiu
Rizky Sasono (G)
Samuel Scott
Hannah Marie Standiford (G)
Dakota Stein (G)
Liam Ullman
Kellen E Weidman
Certificate in Transnational Asia
Cecilia Grace Margaret Rike (S)
Alexander Vinh Thoi
The Center for African Studies awarded the following certificates:
Certificate in Advanced African Studies
Marcelo Jose Cabarcas Ortega (G)
Michael DeAngelo (G, A)
Certificate in African Studies
Jean-Phillip Banane (G)
Jensine Benoit (A)
Reece Bermudez (G, NRIEP)
Isabel Cristina Milagros Brum Cancio (G)
Cassandra R Calvaresi (A)
Samuel R English
Tatiana Grinberg Limoncic
Chelsea Jennifer Jimenez (G)
Aaron Kibler
Yaa Pentuwaah Kornne (NRIEP)
Umamah B. Masum (G)
Cody A McSherry
Deborah Nwachinemere Sike (G, A)
Rachel E Travis (G)
Lydia E Troutman (G)
Laura Vinski
The Center for Latin American Studies conferred the following certificates:
Certificate in Latin American Studies
Howard Saul Alvarez Ulloa (G, A)
Marcelo Jose Cabarcas Ortega (G)
Irene Castillo
Samuel A Coleman
Gianna E Comito
Kayleen Crawford
Diana L Flatto (G)
Tatiana Grinberg Limoncic (I)
Jaquelin Hernandez-Martinez (A)
Haiwei Hu (I)
Ariana J Lyde
Sara M Myers-Maloney
Susana J Oosterveld
Kisha D Pelkey
Kylilah Leilani Reynoso
Nadine Robert (G)
Anisha Sankar
Jakob Isaac Meyer Segal
Ana Helena Vázquez-Cooper
Scarlett E Weiss (A)
Kelsey L Widom
Certificate in Latin American Social and Public Policy
Elias Chavarria Mora (G)
Carolina Forgit-Knerr (G)
Rebeca Nara Nogueira (G)
Dafne Erika Oxana (G)
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies awarded the following certificates:
Certificate in Russian and East European Studies
Olivia Beckage (NRIEP)
Angelica Cramer
Isabel A Darrow
Ella S Fosse
Cody A McSherry
Griffin E Mekler-Culbertson
Michaella Mylott
Matthew J Plichta
Silas Maxwell Switzer (NRIEP)
Michael Vargo (NRIEP)
The European Studies Center conferred the following certificates:
Certificate in European and Eurasian Studies
Elizabeth C DeVincentis
Layla A Kashlan
Kailee M Roney
Certificate in Central European Studies
Angelica Cramer
Aidan R Dietrich (NRIEP)
Isabella Sophia Lewandowski
Lia A Sheahan
Benjamin R Sommer
Certificate in European Union Studies
Jake J Lorenz
Certificate in Advanced Mediterranean Studies
Dijana Mujkanović
Certificate in Mediterranean Studies
Tatiana Grinberg Limoncic (A)
Gaia Prunotto (G)
Certificate in Transatlantic Studies
Rafael Romero Lauro (NRIEP)
Certificate in West European Studies
Christianne Accurso (G)
Domenic A Colangelo
Megan Isabella Debski (G, S)
Aidan R Dietrich (NRIEP)
Johnatan Ivan Ivanov
Ryleigh B Lord (A)
Casper McGinnis
Chloe E Scharf
Maya Gabriella Slabodkin
Benjamin T Wainwright
The Global Studies Center awarded the following certificates:
Certificate in Advanced Global Studies
Carolina Forgit-Knerr (G)
Rachel E Travis (G)
Certificate in Global Health
Rhea Chacko Abraham
Thaybah Shazadi Ahmed
Matilda Catherine Armstrong
Tasiemobi Ezinwa Asiegbunam
Jessie Assaf
Ella A Baer
Sarika Bapat
Amanda H Bedard
Maya E Berrebbi
Kaylynn A Bryan
Evan Calhoun
Seana R Camp
Kenna Marie Campbell
Margaret Cassady
Christine Chandran
Vincent Chen
Aiden Jeremy Chriss
Michelle S Chung
Abigail J Daley
Neha C Devineni
RuthAnne M Dougherty
Gabriela Nicole Dugas
Samantha P Epstein
Reagan M Faizon
Richard Fang
Justin Ladell Gaines
Bootsie R Glasser
Kenly J Golanoski
Emily Goon (NRIEP)
Lauren Grill
Una Medea Haines
Jaydep Halder
Katelyn E Hartigan
Jaquelin Hernandez-Martinez
Jade Ashli Holmen (NRIEP)
Nathan C Holst-Rightley
Tiffany L Hom
Kayla Honeysett
Nishitha Girish Hundi (NRIEP)
Maryam E Ismail
Anvi Jain
Sweta Jena
Genevieve Elizabeth Dare Johnston-Smeathers
Harshita Kadiyala
Anna Katherine Kessler
Emily M Knapp
Jessica Hoa Knapp
Neeharika S Kolli
Dylan G Kurian
Cara Elizabeth LaBelle
Cindy Thientran Le
Chaviva N. Lebovits
Grace C Lim
Samantha C Lovett
Amanda E Lucas
Meredith R Lucey
Namita Mahajan
Aaryn Shaun Mathias
Anna M McDermott
Isabella H Meyer
Rebecca J Miceli
Victoria Miller
Sofia Milone
Jennifer Moore
Courtney G Murphy
Neharika Murthy
Mrudul Nagapurkar
Anirudh Nangunoori
Nissa H Newman
Sydney-Lam N Nguyen
Jay Noh
Natasha R O'Brien
Mary G O'Malley
Gloria K O'Neil
Tanmay Parakala-Jain
Rushali R Patel
Panari Mukesh Patel
Isabella V Penica
Angeline Pho
Molly Catherine Pizzuta
Jamie Patricia Ponticiello
Akruthi R Puttaparthi
Micah Ji-Hyun Rasmussen
Richael Rayen
Kailee M Roney
Stella Ross
Juveria F Sayyad
Alyssa Sharma
Riya Sharma
Hannah Schmidt
Amy L Shneyderman
Sydney Simpson
Courtney C Sindoni
Carter Kornegay Smith (A)
Cameron N Sniderman
Ava M Spinola
Pranavan M Sriranganathan
Lucy A Stewart
Noah M Stockwell
Rae Templeton
Nishi Thawani
Jayden L Toczylousky
Abigail R Toth
Charles D Trimer
Claire Jean Tunny
Breanna N Tuskan
Laura Varano
Sriya Veeramachaneni
Mckenna H Vento
Advika Ventrapragada
Gloria Wang
Christian Richard Waronsky
Lauren Weaver
Hope Rahel Williams
Amy Theresa Wilson
Lillian J Wolfe
Madeline Paige Wolfe
Elizabeth L Womack
Catherine M Wynne
Lorena Ye
Alissa Lynne Yen
Sophia Yi
Eileen W Zhang
Nicole Zhang
Certificate in Human Rights and Social Justice
Olivia Collins
Chloe Malaya Edwards
Mikayla Rae Kaelin
Betty Kromah
Alexa Catharine Leckrone
Cheyenne R Rodgers
Hiba Siddiqui
Certificate in Global Studies
Weeam Boumaza
Isabel Cristina Milagros Brum Cancio (G)
Cassandra R Calvaresi
Josephine M Cantelmo
Samuel A Coleman
Margaret Conjelko
Brooke A Eyler
Carolina Forgit-Knerr (G)
Melinda Theresia Go (G)
Patrick C Holdener
Astrid L Johnston
Macy Kaff
Betsy Little
Fatima Mendez Fuentes
Christopher Norris (NRIEP)
Edward A Paras
Kylilah Leilani Reynoso
Anjali Esperanza Shah
Isabel C Sichlau
Niobe E Tsoutsouris
Saskia Anneke Van't Hof
Jake P Vasilias
Benjamin T Wainwright
Liam Weixel (NRIEP)
Kelsey L Widom
Madison Young (G)
Haley Stephanie Zarek
Certificate in Sustainable Development
Sobia Ayub (G)
Junyi He (G)
Rebeca Nara Nogueira (G)
Amanda Zaner (G)
The following students received a global distinction:
Megan Diston
Lauren Giovagnoli
Jaydep Halder
Adeline Jay
Emily Knapp
Erin Lancaster
Livia Paoletti
Emma Rubin
Chloe Scharf
Arianna Schiff
A: Ambassador
G: Graduate Student
I: Intern
N: Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs Scholarship
S: Student Worker