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Recipients of Honorary DegreesWith a distinguished career in service to country thatbegan during her years as an undergraduate student onthe Hill, Major General MARIA B. BARRETT, J88, istoday the commanding general of the U.S. Army NetworkEnterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) at FortHuachuca, Arizona, where her organization secures,operates, and defends the U.S. Army’s global enterprisenetworks. Her keen understanding of military tactics andher expertise in communications ensure informationsuperiority and freedom of access to the network in allphases of military operations.Barrett began her military career as a second lieutenantin Tufts University’s Army ROTC program. She servedin the Gulf War as a first lieutenant and platoon leader.She also served in both Kuwait, as a colonel in supportof Operation Iraqi Resolve, as well as in the war inAfghanistan. Promoted in 2015 to brigadier general,she joined the Army Cyber Command, where she wasresponsible for Department of Defense informationnetworks, military cyberspace operations, and U.S.freedom of action in cyberspace.A recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, the DefenseSuperior Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit, Barretthas earned numerous decorations and awards. In additionto her bachelor of arts degree in international relationsfrom Tufts, she also holds a master of science degree innational resource strategy from Industrial College of theArmed Forces (now the Dwight D. Eisenhower School forNational Security and Resource Strategy), and a masterof arts degree in telecommunications management fromWebster University.In a milestone for the U.S. Army, Barrett and her sister,Brigadier General Paula Lodi, have been recognized by theArmy as the first pair of sisters in the history of the serviceto become generals.Barrett will receive an honorary Doctor of PublicService degree.Physician, medical researcher, and academicianWILLIAM BAZEYO is a tireless advocate forinterdisciplinary One Health education in Africa. Asprofessor of occupational medicine at Uganda’s MakerereUniversity, he has served the university in a variety ofroles over the years, including as deputy vice chancellorand dean of the school of public health.Bazeyo brings expertise to bear on tackling the mostdaunting challenges in his nation and region. He hascontributed his innovative leadership to One Healthinitiatives across central and eastern Africa and to thesupport of government efforts to control tobacco use.Beneficiaries of his efforts include ResilientAfrica Network,which leverages science and technology to strengthen theresilience of African communities against natural andmanmade stresses, and the Monitoring and EvaluationTechnical Support Program, which employs an evidencebased approach as part of Uganda’s response to HIV.Bazeyo’s work has been funded by USAID, the Centersfor Disease Control, and the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation, among others.Bazeyo is also active globally, including playing acritical role in Strategies to Prevent Spillover, a five-yearprogram led by Tufts to strengthen institutions in countriesacross Africa and Asia as they curb the risk and spread ofzoonotic spillover. Most recently, Bazeyo was a member ofthe team of Ugandan scientists who invented a homemadeCOVID-19 rapid-testing kit, now being used in schools andhard-to-reach parts of the country.He also chairs several professional boards andcommittees both in Uganda and regionally, includingUganda’s National Research and Innovation Fund underthe Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation.He is a recipient of Uganda’s highest civilian honor, theGold Medal.Bazeyo holds a bachelor of medicine and bachelorof surgery degree from Makerere University, a master ofmedicine degree with a specialty in occupational healthfrom the National University of Singapore, and a Ph.D.from Atlantic International University.Bazeyo will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree.STACEY B. GABRIEL is pushing the boundaries ofthe genomic frontier as senior director of the GenomicsPlatform at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Under herfar-sighted guidance, the Genomics Platform is one of thelargest gene-sequencing centers in the world as it exploresand defines the future of genomics technology. Her earlywork provided foundational research for the InternationalHapMap Project, which created a map of the humangenome by haplotype (that is, by groups of genes inheritedtogether from a single parent).A major focus of her research is using genomic techniquesto understand the genetic basis of common diseases. Shehas served on the steering committee for the 1000 GenomesProject, the world’s largest public catalog of human variationCOMMENCEMENT 202111

Recipients of Honorary Degreesand genotype data; the landmark Cancer Genome Atlas;and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s TOPMedprogram, which targets disease treatments tailored to anindividual’s unique genes and environment.In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gabrieldeveloped and executed the viral diagnostic effort of theBroad Institute. Under her leadership, the lab rapidlybecame the largest testing lab in New England, and onethat also contributes substantially to testing numbers forthe entire nation. Tufts is one of the many communitiesthat has benefited from the lab’s robust testing output,allowing for enhanced infection-rate monitoring andkeeping transmission numbers low. For having helped toset a new standard for COVID-19 testing, she was namedby The Boston Globe in 2020 as a “Bostonian of the Year.”Gabriel has been recognized by Clarivate Analyticssix years in a row as one of the world's most highly citedscientists in molecular biology and genetics. She receiveda bachelor of science in molecular biology from CarnegieMellon University and a Ph.D. in human genetics from CaseWestern Reserve University.Gabriel will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree.A widely acclaimed public interest lawyer, BRYANSTEVENSON has dedicated his career to helpingthe poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Heis the founder and executive director of the EqualJustice Initiative (EJI), a human rights organization inMontgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has wonmajor legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfairsentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners,confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill,and aiding children prosecuted as adults.Stevenson found his calling while a student at HarvardLaw School when he worked for Stephen Bright’s SouthernCenter for Human Rights, which provides representationfor death row inmates throughout the American south.He joined the Atlanta-based center full-time upon hisHarvard graduation in 1985. In 1989, he moved to Alabamato run a branch of the center in Montgomery, which wouldbecome EJI.At the time of EJI’s founding, Alabama was the onlystate that did not provide legal assistance to people on deathrow, and still has no statewide public defender program.The cause of people sentenced to the death penalty becamemore dire in 1995 after Congress eliminated funding fordeath-penalty defense for lower-income people. Through12TUFTS UNIVERSITYEJI, Stevenson guaranteed a defense to anyone in Alabamasentenced to the death penalty.Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at theUnited States Supreme Court, including a 2019 rulingprotecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementiaand a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory lifeimprisonment-without-parole sentences for all children 17or younger. He and his staff have won reversals, relief, orrelease from prison for more than 135 wrongly condemnedprisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds ofothers wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.Dedicated to anti-poverty and anti-discriminationefforts, Stevenson led the creation of two highly acclaimedcultural sites that opened in 2018 in Montgomery: theLegacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peaceand Justice. These new national landmark institutionschronicle the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racialsegregation, and the connection to mass incarceration andcontemporary issues of racial bias.A MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize recipient,Stevenson has received numerous awards and medals for hiswork in civil rights and international human rights. He wasinducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in2014 and won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, which isawarded for a lifetime of remarkable achievement.He is the author of the critically acclaimed New YorkTimes bestseller, Just Mercy, which was recently adapted asa major motion picture. A graduate of Harvard Law Schooland the Harvard Kennedy School, Stevenson is also aprofessor of law at the New York University School of Law.Stevenson will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.Raised in a dairy-farming family in a small village ineastern Turkey, HAMDI ULUKAYA is the founder andCEO of Chobani. In fewer than five years of its founding,Chobani became the top-selling Greek yogurt brand in theUnited States—and an organization that has been lauded asa “Change the World” company by Forbes. Other honors forthe company include a Salute to Greatness Award by TheMartin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Changeand its having been named one of the Best Places to Workfor LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign.Ulukaya has a vision for industry leadership imbuedwith compassion and humanitarianism. From thebeginning, Chobani has donated a portion of its profits tocharitable causes, many of them in Idaho and New York,where its products are made. A champion of reducing

Recipients of Honorary Degreesincome and wealth inequality nationwide, Ulukaya raisedthe starting hourly wage to at least 15 an hour—morethan double the federal minimum wage. He also took therare step in manufacturing of instituting a six-week, fullypaid parental leave program for all mothers and fathersemployed by the company.In 2016, Ulukaya launched the Chobani FoodIncubator to mentor and support socially responsiblefood entrepreneurs and further the company’s commitmentto food accessibility. Ulukaya also founded the TentPartnership for Refugees to mobilize the private sectorto improve the lives and livelihoods of the more than25 million refugees around the globe. He also signed theGiving Pledge and committed the majority of his personalwealth to the cause. For these efforts, he was named anEminent Advocate by the United Nations Refugee Agencyand received the United Nations Foundation GlobalLeadership Award, among other honors.Ulukaya sits on the board of Catalyst, a nonprofitdedicated to building inclusive workplaces for womenand is a member of B Team, a collective of global leadersworking to inspire dialogue and business action fora fairer, greener, and more human economy. An avidfan of independent films and the Turkish soccer teamFenerbahce, Ulukaya lives in New Berlin, New York.Ulukaya will receive an honorary Doctor of HumaneLetters degree.a law that has inspired others to revitalize and supportIndigenous languages around the world.For a lifetime of work devoted to education about,maintenance of, and recovery of languages belongingto Indigenous people, she has been awarded aMacArthur Fellowship.Zepeda is the author of three books of poetry: OceanPower: Poems from the Desert, Jewed I-Hoi/Earth Movements,and Where Clouds Are Formed. She also wrote TohonoO’odham Grammar and co-edited Home Places, a celebrationof 20 years of publication of the Sun Tracks series, a bookseries publishing Native American authors. Her poemsand essays have appeared in numerous anthologies andjournals, and her work was recently published in When theLight of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through,edited by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.Zepeda will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.A member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, educator andactivist OFELIA ZEPEDA has dedicated her career tothe preservation of O’odham (the language spoken bythe Tohono O’odham, Akimel O’odham, and Hia C-edO’odham) and its culture. She co-founded and directs theAmerican Indian Language Development Institute at theUniversity of Arizona, where she is a Regents’ Professorof Linguistics. Through the institute, Zepeda has workedwith more than 2,000 students—Native American languageeducators, researchers, advocates, and activists, most ofwhom return to their tribal communities.A powerful voice for the reclamation and preservation ofIndigenous tongues and for ensuring the rights of Indigenouspeoples to speak their languages, Zepeda was nominatedto serve on the international taskforce for the UNESCOInternational Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032),as the group’s sole representative for the Indigenous peopleof the United States. Her advocacy is credited as helpingdrive forward the Native American Languages Act of 1990,COMMENCEMENT 202113

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School of Arts and SciencesOrder of EventsOpening RemarksSamuel W. Thomas, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences and Professorof ChemistryRecognition of GraduatesJames M. Glaser, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor ofPolitical ScienceNancy Bauer, Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Dean ofAcademic Affairs for Arts and Sciences, and Professor of PhilosophyRobert Cook, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean of Researchfor Arts and Sciences, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences, andProfessor of PsychologyClosing RemarksBárbara Brizuela, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences and Professorof EducationDepartment and program ceremonies and presentation of degrees will follow.16TUFTS UNIVERSITY

School of Engineering Undergraduate ProgramsOrder of EventsMaster of CeremoniesChris Swan, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Associate Professor ofCivil and Environmental EngineeringGreetingsJianmin Qu, Dean and Karol Family ProfessorRemarksJeannie Diefenderfer, E84, University Trustee and Member of the EngineeringBoard of Advisors, Founder & CEO, courageNpurpose, LLCClosing RemarksJianmin Qu, Dean and Karol Family ProfessorConclusionChris Swan, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Associate Professor ofCivil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment ceremonies and presentation of undergraduate degrees will follow.COMMENCEMENT 2021 17

School of Engineering Graduate ProgramsOrder of EventsMistress of Ceremonies/Opening RemarksKaren Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education and Professor of Electrical andComputer EngineeringGreetingsJianmin Qu, Dean and Karol Family ProfessorRemarksDavid Rosowsky, E85, EG87, Member of the Engineering Board of Advisors,Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Former Provost andSenior Vice President, University of VermontClosing RemarksKaren Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education and Professor of Electrical andComputer EngineeringDepartment ceremonies and presentation of graduate degrees will follow.18TUFTS UNIVERSITY

School of Arts and Sciences and School of EngineeringUndergraduate Awards and Department PrizesCompetitive PrizesThe Phyllis Karno Dean’sAward for Leadership andAcademic ExcellenceSophia Beatriz SalomaoCosta A23Layla F. Sastry A23Deepti Srinivasan E23The Martin GutermanAwardKevin D. Tang A24The Theresa McDermottCarzo AwardNorma Mateo A21The Resumed Educationfor Adult LearnersPrize ScholarshipRachel E. Callahan A21The Gregory H. Arabian,A54 Air Force Prize FundJulia M. Graham A22The Army ROTCPrize AwardAndrew DelBrocco A22Isabella R. McKinney A22The Navy V-12/NROTCMemorial PrizeColin J. Seeley E21The Anne E. BorghesaniMemorial PrizeJessica C. Ding A22Adam C. Foster A22Amith T. Galivanche A22Yumei A. Lin A22The Marshall HochhauserMemorial PrizeChristopher T. Panella A21Saherish S. Surani A21The Wendell PhillipsMemorial AwardAtrey Bhargava A21The Nadia Medina PrizeDevina A. Bhalla A22Cameron J. Cummings A21The Elizabeth VerveerTishler Prize in MusicPerformanceThe Class of 1911Prize ScholarshipsThe Frederick M. andDorie Ellis PrizeGeneral Prizesand ScholarshipsRachel M. Breslau A21Sadhya Garg A21Sonia C. Groeneveld A21Ethan A. Isenman A21Philip R. Miljanic E21Grace C. van Deelen A21Xinjie Chen E22Harris H. Hardiman-Mostow E21Colette B. Smith A22Boris Sorkin A21Catherine E. Urquhart A22The Alpha Omicron PiPrize ScholarshipThe Class of 1942Prize ScholarshipEric Zaks E23Jesse L. Ryan A21The Alpha Xi Delta PrizeScholarshipShannon R. Cloherty A22The Association of TuftsAlumnae Seventy-FifthAnniversary AwardVivian E. Kim A21The Bennett MemorialScholarshipZackary B. Dresens E22The Benjamin G. BrownScholarshipVictor I. Arsenescu A22Alyssa M. Blaise A21Anirban Chakraborty A21Jenna C. Fromer E21Yiwen Jiang E21Erin L. Soule-Albridge E21Mikayla K. Barreiro A21Jenna E. Clark A21Allison E. Culbert A21Daniel G. Pascal E21Jonathan Rodriguez A21Kai Y. Smith A21The CommunityService AwardAna Brasil A21The Donald A. CowderyMemorial ScholarshipThe Ivan GalanticSpecial Achievement inHumanities PrizeBizaye T. Banjaw A24Ruby Belle Booth A21Aidan J. Demsky A21The Audrey Butvay GrussScience AwardAnju Ishizaki A22Samantha M. Livermore A21Meghan L. Mulvey A21Meredith G. Sherman A21Olivia M. Steiner A21The Audrey Hale PrizeJoshua E. Clarkson A21Sharif Hamidi A21Sophie A. Lloyd E21Christian M. Senecal A22Sarah R. Wiener A21Michael T. Wilkinson A21Maya Velasquez A21The De Florez Prize inHuman EngineeringThe Lewis F. ManlyMemorial PrizeThe Ethel M. HayesScholarshipMichael L. Booth A22Patrick Song E21Vincent J. Avallone A21The Gemma CifarelliMemorial ScholarshipAiden Lewis E21Krista E. Taylor A21Muhammad Umair E21Kamar D. Godoy E22Claudia J. Guetta A22Linnea M. Otto A22The Diversity, Equity,Inclusion, and JusticeService AwardThe Prize Scholarship ofthe Class of 1882Kareal K. Amenumey A21James A. Cameron E21Emma C. Downey E22Matthew Stout E21The Alex Elias MemorialPrize ScholarshipThe Ellen C. MyersMemorial PrizeAyden J. Crosby A21Iverson J. Eliopoulos A21Abigail E. Wilson E21The Class of 1898 PrizesJason E. Getzler A21Sithya Lach A21Adam R. Lipson E21Anderson Zuo A21Julian J. Batt E21Scarlet R. Bliss A21Eoghan B. Downey A22Hannah M. Isenhart A21John Steven LaLime Jr. A21Rosanna M. Vitiello A21The Lt. CommanderRobert James ManningMemorial PrizeMark Beckwith A22Vy B. Ngetich A21The Class of 1947 VictorPrather PrizeJordan R. Bricknell A21Jacob P. Sunnerberg A21Katya P. Thorup E21Gian Marco Visani A21The Pride on the Hill AwardHasan M. Khan A22Jo Michael Rezes G3COMMENCEMENT 2021 19

School of Arts and Sciences and School of EngineeringUndergraduate Awards and Department PrizesThe Charles F. Seymour Jr.PrizeThe Paula FrazierPoskitt ScholarshipTaite R. Pierson A21Mary L. Reynolds A21Hannah J. Kerber A22The Philip E. A. Sheridan,M.D., PrizeMaxwell H. Kaye A21The Tufts UniversityAlumni Association AwardNikki I. Ziebelman A21School of Artsand SciencesAnthropologyThe Department ofAnthropology PrizeIsabel W. Rosenbaum A21ArchaeologyThe Marianne J. H.Witherby Prize inArchaeologyAmelia B. Parrish A21The Department of Artand ArchitectureThe ArchitecturalStudies PrizeAyden J. Crosby A21The Art & Art History PrizeSung-Min Kim A21BiologyThe Thomas HarrisonCarmichael and EmilyLeonard Carmichael PrizeScholarshipChemistryThe R. M. Karapetoff CobbChemistry FundCarina M. Carlos A22Juliana G. Kressler A22Tara N. Lowensohn A22The Durkee ScholarshipsJordan R. Bricknell A21Cassandra N. Cancemi A21Cameron J. Cummings A21Olivia A. Hofheinz A21Meghan L. Mulvey A21The Margaret DurkeeAngell and HenriettaBrown DurkeeScholarship FundCarolyn J. Hitelman A21Olivia M. Steiner A21The Max TishlerPrize ScholarshipAndrea X. Foo A22Tara N. Lowensohn A22Kevin J. Schult A22Child DevelopmentThe Eliot-PearsonDepartment of ChildDevelopment PrizeJulian H. Balkcom A21Elon F. Perry-Stiner A21ClassicsThe William FrankWyatt PrizeKatrina N. Hotaling A23Computer ScienceHistoryThe James Schmolze Prizefor Excellence in ComputerScienceDaughters of the RevolutionPrize ScholarshipKeisha M. Mukasa A21Earth & Ocean SciencesThe James Hume FieldGeology PrizeEliot Stein A21Emma P. Tombaugh A21The Robert L. NicholsScholarship PrizeHanh-Tu E. Do A22Rose M. Malanga A22The Charles E. StearnsPrizeLara K. Williams A22EconomicsThe Charles G. BluhdornPrize in EconomicsEleanor L. Jenke A21The Marion Ricker HoustonPrize ScholarshipYiyun Ma A21Elias N. Sekkal A21The Daniel Ounjian Prizein EconomicsJunxing Gu A22

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