Outstanding Grad: Leisha Talley, College of Business
“I want to empower people with the information they need to make decisions that prioritize sustainability.”
Category: "Outstanding Grads"
Outstanding Grad: Clare Ryan, Warner College of Natural Resources
“When I decided to come back to school for a science degree, I was nervous about not understanding the material. I worked really hard, asked a lot of questions and excelled in the general science courses. I’m proud of myself for the work I put into this degree.”
Outstanding Grad: Sarai Ramnani, College of Natural Sciences
"Community is a difficult thing to build organically, but given enough time, patience, and resilience, you’ll find your people."
Outstanding Grad: Aaron Offermann, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
"Everyone goes through rough patches, in college and in life. You're not going to be ready for it, and life will not care."
Outstanding Grad: Micah Loy, College of Health and Human Sciences
"I don’t like to quit things, and I want to finish them out as best as I can, and I can’t quit what’s going on right now. And my mom didn’t quit (fighting) cancer for a long time until it overcame her."
Outstanding Grad: Shavauntay Dukes, Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
“I knew I had potential to make a bigger impact. I liked the culture here. I knew electrical engineering was the right choice for me.”
Outstanding Grad: Luke Deyle, College of Agricultural Sciences
"Reach out and connect with your professors, the faculty and your peers because they all have the capacity to provide mentorship when given the opportunity."
Outstanding Grad: Hayley Berland, College of Liberal Arts
"Don’t be afraid to try something that you never thought you would want to try. … I think a lot of people come into college with the idea of what they’re going to do, but they don’t know the possibilities of stepping outside those boundaries."
Outstanding Grad: Calvin Tai, Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
“When times were hard, I always convinced myself to pull through. This helped not only in computer engineering but also in my computer science major where continuous learning is essential.”
Outstanding Grad: Luisanna Hernandez Jeppesen, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
"Although I had always wanted to study in a foreign country, coming here from Venezuela was certainly an interesting journey! It took a lot of courage to immerse myself in a completely different world from what I'd known back home, all my life."