Ceremonies celebrate Pharmacy graduates
At 3:30 p.m. May 14, 2022 at the Lied Center on the KU campus, 121 School of Pharmacy students will participate in their Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) hooding and awards ceremony. An additional 10 Pharmacy graduate students will be hooded for their Ph.D. or master’s degrees at a 7 p.m. ceremony at Allen Fieldhouse. Dean Ronald E. Ragan will preside at the Pharm.D. ceremony and will be part of the stage party at the Ph.D./Master’s hooding ceremony. A live stream of the Pharm.D. hooding and awards ceremony will be available at KU School of Pharmacy Recognition Ceremony. The live stream of the Ph.D. and master’s hooding can be found at 2022 Doctoral Hooding Live Stream. Commencement for all graduates at KU will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
The Pharm.D. ceremony will feature Andrea Bond as the Class of 2022 speaker. Pharm.D. student awards will also be presented. A list can be found below. Doors of the Lied Center will open at 2:45 p.m. for the 3:30 p.m. ceremony. Photos of graduates being hooded will be available for purchase. The photographer will email a link to graduates for ordering.
Additional information about the Ph.D. and master’s hooding is available at KU Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. Please note, it could be three hours or more from the time guests are seated in Allen Fieldhouse until the last graduate is hooded. We expect a large number of graduates for this multi-year ceremony. Guests should arrive at the Fieldhouse between 6 and 6:30 p.m. to be seated before the ceremony begins at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
Guests are permitted to take photographs during the hooding ceremony at Allen Fieldhouse but should not impair the view of others. GradImages Photography will be taking pictures of all graduates as they are hooded. The photographer will contact graduates about the opportunity to view proofs and purchase photographs.
Parents, family, friends and other commencement guests can find more information about attending Sunday’s commencement at KU Commencement. Please note prohibited items and weather and parking details. Pharmacy graduates will follow West Memorial Drive for the procession down the Hill. The walk down Mt. Oread is a time-honored tradition at Kansas. As former Chancellor Robert Hemenway once said, “The walk is the ceremony.” Graduate names are not read during the commencement ceremony, but Pharmacy graduates will be individually recognized at their respective hooding ceremonies.
2022 Pharm.D. Student Awards
- ASP-APhA Senior Recognition Award, Madeline Burling
- ASP Professionalism Award, Connie Marker
- KPhA Outstanding Service Award, Madeline Burling
- NCPA Outstanding Student Member Award, Sara Dreiling
- KCHP Students of the Year Award, Sydney Markley (KU Lawrence) and Tammy Nguyen (KU Wichita)
- Edward E. Smissman Award, Shelby Go
- Walter F. Enz Awards, Timothy Borel and Shelby Go
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Award, Miranda Anaya
- Dr. George J. Traiger Award, Timothy Borel
- Merck Manual Awards, Cory Bestwick, Andrea Bond and Kaitlyn Styve
- VIATRIS Excellence in Pharmacy Award, Shelby Go
- Wolters Kluwer Health - Facts and Comparisons Clinical Communications Award, Benjamin Wagner
- Pharmacy Practice Clinical Skills Awards, Haley Blanck, Matie Meeks, Auriene Jamison and Alyssa Schartz
- Pharm.D. Research Certificate Program, Hannah Harman
2022 Doctor of Pharmacy Graduates
- Miranda Anaya
- Rachel Arnold *
- Feker Ashenafi
- Rachel Askew
- Kingsley Atakpa
- Silvano Axel
- Jealani A. Balram
- Audrey Caitlin Barton
- Anthony Batiz
- Cory Bestwick ^^
- Joshua F Bjelland
- Haley Blanck ^^
- Andrea Bond **
- Timothy Borel **
- Alexa Brockel
- Lindsey Burleson
- Madeline Burling
- Jose Cabrera
- Tristan Martin Callis
- Christine Corcoran
- Hannah J. Costello
- Kaylee Croft
- Selena Demus
- Katie Denning
- Dakota Denton
- Derek Douglas
- Sara Dreiling
- Sonia Ebrahimi
- Ashlee Edler
- Weston Erbert
- Colton Essex
- Alison Evans
- Reece Farwell
- Devin Fitzgerald ^^
- William A. Fletcher
- Yoselin Flores
- Maria Paredes-Flores
- Jason Frederick *
- Sivani Gadiraju
- Adam Garcia
- Alison Gehrke
- Shelby Go **
- Ellie Gossman
- Vinh Ha
- Hannah Harman **
- Gil Haro
- Lily He ^^
- Chelsea Herrarte
- Giang D. Hoang *
- Kacie Holland
- Katie Howard
- Derek Huynh
- Auriene Jamison
- Kinley Jorgensen ^
- Blade Kalleck
- Osama M Khader
- Cole Kitterman
- Christopher D. Koons
- Taylor Jo Kufahl
- Mina Kuhlmann
- Rachel Lamb *
- Scott Langenegger **
- Haena Lee
- Madison Livengood
- Laura Loyet
- Connie Marker
- Sydney Markley
- Emily Marshall
- Riley Martin
- Connor McGovern
- Matie Meeks
- Leticia Mendez
- Baron C. Miller
- Rylan Minar
- Tanner Moore *
- Nick Moyers
- Fatima Mozaffar
- Jenna Mussett
- Tanner Neuendorf
- Kaci Nuehring *
- Tam Nguyen
- Regina Tudzi-Ofosu
- Okwudili Martin Okekearu
- Chaehee Park
- Jarrett Price
- Karmendeep S. Punia ^
- Candace S. Quaites
- Hannah Rardin
- Jakob Ready
- Meaghan Rettele *
- Jackson Richmond *
- Luke Riley
- Katherine Salas
- Alyssa N. Schartz
- Fred Schertz
- Josh Schmidt
- Cale Schneider
- Michael Schooler
- Lake Schultz
- Alexis Simons
- Jarrod Smith
- Ashley J. Stock
- Emily Stohs
- Sara Strand
- Nehal Sutariya
- Joshua Swift +
- Vincent Tabares *
- Jerod W. Theis
- Brock Townsend
- Peter Tran
- Gio-Bao Tran
- Robyn M. Tyman
- Nicholas Vitale
- Ben Wagner
- Lexi Wahlstrom
- Lacey Waterman
- Kiley Weir
- Kelly Westphal
- Mew Wetsawand
- Christian Williams ^
- Kaitlyn Yoakum
* Graduates with Distinction (Top 10%)
** Graduates with Highest Distinction (Top 3%)
+ August 2022 Degree Candidate
^ PharmD/MBA Graduate(August 2022)
^^ PharmD/MSHI Graduate
2022 Ph.D. Graduates
- Angelo Andres, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
- Aidyn Marie Medina-Lopez, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Jacob Sorrentino, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
- Maria Tickerhoof, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Zhaoxian Wang, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
2022 Master’s Degree Graduates
- Kathia Antillon, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
- Christopher Duphren, Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Alexander Kozintsev, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Emily Mueller, Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Erika Sieber, Department of Pharmacy Practice