COLLEGE STATION, Texas–A large group of students celebrated another milestone in their lives as they joined 9,000 other Aggies during spring commencement on Friday, May 13.
The students joined thousands of others from the College of Agriculture and and the College of Geosciences expected to walk the Reed Arena stage. These included 30 undergraduates, 4 Master of Science candidates, 1 Ph.D. candidate, and 27 Public Health Entomology Certificate recipients.
Undergraduates Emily Crews, Alexandria Payne, Taylor Splawn, Colton Sweetser, and Adrianna Tirloni were also recognized during the LAUNCH recognition ceremony held Thursday morning.
Crews, a double major in Animal Science and Entomology, received honors in Animal Science, Entomology and Honors Fellows. She was honored for completing the Honors Capstone Experience course with Dr. Pete Teel with her project titled Ticks infesting the Texas A&M Polo Team horses.
Payne is an Environmental Sciences major and completed her thesis with Dr. Juliana Rangel titled The effects of honey bee queen insemination volume on colony growth. She will be joining the Department and Rangel’s lab as a graduate student in the fall pursuing her Ph.D. in Entomology and has been awarded the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies’ Diversity Fellowship and an NSF Doctoral Fellowship.
Sweetser and Tirloni are Undergraduate Research Scholars and work in Dr. Jeffery Tomberlin’s lab. Sweetser was recognized for completing his senior thesis titled Priority effects of Chrysomya rufifacies and Hermetia illucens – part I Chrysomya rufificies while Tirloni’s was titled Priority effects of Chrysomya rufifacies and Hermetia illucens – part II Hermetia illucens. Both are Forensic and Investigative Sciences majors.
“We are very proud of this group,” Entomology Department Head Dr. David Ragsdale said.
Students expected to graduate this spring include the following:
Undergraduates
| Van Adams | Entomology |
| Andrew Archer | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Jared Bailey | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Carlos Deleon | Entomology |
| Johnathan Dring | Entomology |
| Melissa Espinoza | Entomology |
| Andrew Evans | Entomology |
| Travis Farris | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Alexandra Gordy | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Andrew Graf | Entomology |
| Aaron Gurrero | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Emily Grimshaw | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Jeremy Hewlett | Entomology |
| Valerie Holmes | Entomology |
| Morgan Johnson | Forensic and Investigative Sciences – Law Emphasis |
| Henry Junkert | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Cady Mello | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Domingo Monjaras | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Ryan Selking | Entomology |
| Taylor Splawn | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Colton Sweetser | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Stephanie Stratta | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Law Emphasis |
| Adrianna Tirloni | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Grayson Tung | Entomology |
| Emily Vincent | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
| Whitney West | Forensic and Investigative Sciences-Science Emphasis |
Undergraduates – Double Majors
| Emily Crews | Animal Science and Entomology Double Major |
| Justin Dunn | Biomedical Sciences and Entomology |
| Sydney Jones | Biomedical Sciences and Entomology |
| Antonia Nickleberry | Wildlife and Fisheries Science and Entomology Double Major |
Master of Science – Entomology
| Nicole Bisang | Entomology |
| Rande Patterson | Entomology |
| Amanda Tinder | Entomology |
| Devin Tillman | Entomology |
Ph.D. – Entomology
| Tony “Chris” Keefer | Entomology |
Certificate in Public Health Entomology
| Van Adams | Entomology |
| Emily Elaine Barnett | Biomedical Sciences |
| Kasey Bird | Biomedical Sciences |
| Eva Vanessa Calzada | Biomedical Sciences |
| Corey Covert | Biomedical Sciences |
| Brittany Crawford | Biomedical Sciences |
| Emily Crews | Animal Science and Entomology Double major |
| Megan Davies | Biomedical Sciences |
| Justin Dunn | Biomedical Science and Entomology Double Major |
| Melissa Espinoza | Entomology |
| Lisa Feng | Biomedical Sciences |
| Andrew Graf | Entomology |
| Kimberly Hein | Biomedical Sciences |
| Jessica Herrin | Biomedical Sciences |
| Baylee Hirt | Biomedical Sciences |
| Adriana Ibarra | Biomedical Sciences |
| Sydney Jones | Biomedical Sciences and Entomology double major |
| Han Le-Ngoc | Biomedical Sciences |
| Marc Lainez | Biomedical Sciences |
| Mariam Mansour | Biomedical Sciences |
| Antonia Nickleberry | Wildlife and Fisheries Science and Entomology Double Major |
| Lucy Nguyen | Biomedical Sciences |
| Daniel Pope | Biomedical Sciences |
| Emily Shaw | Biomedical Sciences |
| Kalee Smith | Biomedical Sciences |
| Alessandra Thompson | Biomedical Sciences |
| Katherine Trevarrow | Biomedical Sciences |
| Frances Yu | Biomedical Sciences |