 Today we're gathered in formal convocation to celebrate the 241st Commencement Exercises of Purdue University. Please join in singing our national anthem, followed by the invocation offered today by Father Patrick McCoskis, pastor and director of Campus Ministry, St. Thomas Aquinas. There was a woman who died not so very long ago who has inspired millions of people by her life's example and her encouragement for all of us to be attentive to a higher, more purposeful calling. In the places where Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived and worked, she would have these words placed on the walls. And as you go forth today from Purdue, may this reflection she had in front of her every day inspire you as well. People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God. It was never between you and them anyway. This is the talk, some sense at last. It's my pleasure to introduce today's guest speaker, Marge Magner. Marge is one of our nation's most successful business people, and among the Cranart School of Management's most celebrated graduates. Although we're 30 years of experience in business, Marge is a founding partner of private equity firm Bryson Global Partners. Forbes listed Marge among the world's most powerful women, and she's been similarly recognized by Fortune Magazine and the New York Stock Exchange. Marge earned a Purdue Master of Science in Information Assurance, is a member of Cranart's Dean's Advisory Council, and received the President's Council Distinguished Pinnacle Award in 2015. Our grateful Marge agreed to address our graduates who all will find plenty to emulate in Marge's example of excellence. Please join me in welcoming our distinguished alumna, Marge Magner. Thank you, President Daniels, for inviting me to speak to the summer graduation of 2020. I am truly honored. I also want to thank you, the faculty and administrative staff, for everything you do for the students, which in ordinary times is extraordinary amount of work, of course, but in recent times, absolutely herculean. And we know the next several months will be very challenging, too. Thank you, thank you for everything you do. We truly appreciate it. Let me begin my remarks with my heartiest congratulations to our graduates, your parents, your friends, and family who are joining you today. While I know this isn't exactly the graduation you anticipated, the accommodation to the pandemic we're living through must not in any way diminish the significance of your achievements. Perhaps the only ones who wanted to see you walk across the stage more than yourself are your parents, who've been looking forward to this moment for a very long time. Their pride in you is absolute, with or without all of the ritual and fanfare commonly thought of as a graduation ceremony. But it's okay if you feel a little disappointed about missing the last few months of excitement leading up to graduation, the time with your friends and your schoolmates and your faculty and teachers, and all of that time that everyone looks forward to. And of course, the ceremony itself. But in truth, it is how you deal with the events in your life that ultimately will determine how successful and satisfied you are with your life. The Class of 2020 will always be special and recognized for your ability to deal with very difficult times. But for this moment, remember that you are loved, respected, honored, and valued by all of us here with you today. I'd like to take a few moments to talk with you about some things that I believe are important and that you might keep in mind. Perhaps someday they will be helpful to you. They are fundamentals, values, and leadership. I have often said to young people who ask me for my thoughts about life and career and everything in between that life is not a run on sentence. It is in fact a series of chapters, paragraphs, sentences, and thoughts, each with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Recognizing that allows you to have focus and perspective. Stay on target. Stay focused. Don't jump so far ahead that you forget to do what is important now. Remember to deal with each aspect of life. Live it. Enjoy it. And get the most out of it that you can. Knowing there is more to come and it all fills up a large volume of work. So how do you deal with the situation you have to face now or at any point in time in the future? Sometimes there's a lot going on and the uncertainty of it makes it particularly difficult when you don't know for sure what's going to happen next. For me it always starts with the fundamentals. I had a colleague, a very proud Hoosier from Evansville. Every year he held a special meeting to share the goals and expectations for the new year with his team. The meeting was as much pep rally as business meeting because he wanted the team to be prepared and motivated for a successful year. He started every meeting the same way with the words of a famous football coach. The coach began each one of his seasons by holding the object in his hand and saying, gentlemen, this is a football. Now that's pretty fundamental, but very grounding. The imagery has always stayed with me. So what are fundamentals? They are the absolute truths or basics about every situation or problem. The questions you might ask yourself in a new situation are, why am I here? What is important? What are the facts? Who are the people involved? What is my role and my opportunity? In a business environment, of course, you might start with the customer, the product. Think about the employees and what makes business successful or not. Get the data. Fundamentals are a good place to start. Something else that's at the heart of who we are and how we approach challenges and opportunities in good times and bad are our values. Our core values reside within us. You take them with us every place you go and to every situation you find yourself in. They will, if you allow it, light the way for you to navigate your life and your path. In a moment of quiet reflection, which I highly encourage, think about your values. You can always do this when push comes to shove and you are in a crisis, but it saves you a lot of angst if you are prepared and understand your values and how to apply them before you are in a difficult situation. For me, my core values have always been a framework for making decisions, big decisions, daily decisions, business decisions, life decisions. One thing I do know for sure, if I'm having trouble seeing the right path to take, you know, the kind of decision that makes your head and your heart hurt, it's because I'm wrestling with compromising my values and what I know to be right. The thing about right and wrong is it doesn't really change from day to day. What's right today is right tomorrow. What is right today is right every day. I always describe this as do the right thing every time, all the time. You will apply this differently in different situations, but what is right, what is consistent with your values shouldn't really change. Your values need to be respected, considered and incorporated into your daily life. I will definitely not bore you with my values, but there is one I would like to share and that is gratitude. Being here with you is a good example. I'm from Brooklyn, New York. How did I come to be an MSIA from the Cranard School of Management at Purdue? Well, that's a whole story by itself from another time. What is important is that it changed the trajectory of my life. It allowed me to do and achieve things I never could have dreamed. My gratitude to Purdue for accepting me at a time when there were few women in any business school, let alone a young woman from Brooklyn, New York and West Lafayette, Indiana is absolute. It's why I am so pleased and proud to be a speaker today. You have received an outstanding education and preparation for life. You will be leaders in your profession, your communities, your religious organizations and in so many other areas of your life. I have found that the best leaders are those who have strong core values that are reflected in respect for others, a willingness to listen, the ability and desire to articulate and share their thought process and their views, and the confidence to know it's not all about them and how great they are, but how great they help to make others be. And become great leaders provide other people with the opportunity, the tools, the encouragement and support to achieve the levels beyond their own expectations. When you hear someone say, thank you, I didn't know I could do that. There is likely a great leader on the other side of that conversation. Leaders don't tell you how great they are. They don't have to raise their voice to be heard because we want to hear what they have to say. Leaders listen and leaders learn. Even when they are the smartest, they don't try to be seen as the smartest person in the room. They are often the most humble, but the most extraordinary people. It's very clear that we desperately need leaders in our communities, our country and our world. It is also clear that young people, you have grown up with greater racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and religious diversity in your lives than previous generations. You have lived it here at Purdue, where diversity is a strength of the institution. We need you. I come from a generation that believed we could accomplish way more than we did. We marched, we protested, but it wasn't enough. We didn't get change and equality embedded in the culture, institutions or the systems as it should be. I'd give us a D plus if I were grading our work based on results. But you can do so much better. You already have. I am heartened by the voices of young people demanding change. Be leaders. Go into your future with confidence. I know you are prepared. You have an outstanding education. You have the talent and the capacity. And I believe you have the heart. And don't forget, you have an army of Purdue alumni ready to help you. I encourage you to commit yourself to justice and equality and a successful and rewarding life, not just for you, but for others. Here's how I think about it. Until every person in our great country has the full opportunity to achieve at the highest level of their capability and aspiration, we all have a lot of work to do. Congratulations again to each and every one of you in the amazing class of 2020. Thank you. Hail Purdue. Mr. President, the candidates for the Doctor of Philosophy degrees will be presented by Linda J. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School. Mr. President, these students have successfully fulfilled the requirements of the graduate school. With the approval of the faculty, they are now presented to you to receive the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Exercising the authority of the trustees of Purdue University, legally vested by the people of the state of Indiana, and upon the recommendation of the Purdue faculty, I now confer upon you who have fulfilled the highest requirements of this university, the Doctor of Philosophy degree, with all the rights, privileges, duties, and responsibilities of that degree. As evidence of this tremendous achievement, you will be vested with the hood of the Doctor of Philosophy and receive an appropriately inscribed diploma. I now invite our orders to read aloud the names of all students who are earning Doctors of Philosophy. Graduates, I invite you to have your special designee hood you and present your diploma cover now. Be sure to capture a photo of this to share with us. Doctor of Philosophy. Lina M. Abumona. Amadi M. Abu-Jabal. Andrea Akuna. Ankit Agrawal. Shupam Agrawal. Camilo G. Aguilar Herrera. Jung Hong An. Bilal Aitwe-Merzian. Kumar Akash. Abdul Rahman Nasser Al-Ghandi. Ahmad Alhuleil. Sahad I. Aljadai. Khalid Saif Alamari. Ann M. Alvar. Ali Salam Al-Yakub. Vishal Anand. Gerardo Joel Alnaya. Joseph Antler. Brandon J. Anson. Syrah Anwar. Risa Asanpur. Travis Renardo Atkinson. Shema Azam. Hao Bai. Jin Ching Bai. Neil Stephen Bailey. Caroline E. Baker. Hattie Banat. Mary Catherine Batishtish. Damiki M. Bayable. Bradley K. Bousham. Svetlana N. Bielfus. Erin B. Benjamin. Samuel C. Bennett. Chandrili Bhattachira. Tyler R. Billingsley. Daniel Ben Mustafa Kamal. Matthew Binkley. Jing Jun Bu. Emma Caroline Brace. Russell Scott Braefield II. Clinton L. Brown. Florian M. Brown. Michael Roderick Brownstein. Anthony J. Bushner. Jianan Tsai. Xiaoran Tsai. Juan Alfonso Campos Gomez. Si Yuan Xiao. Alex Donald Casey. Robert J. Cassell. Julian Castillo. Victor Hernado Cervantes. Jackie S. Cha. Prakash Chakraborty. Kiyajung Chang. Ashtish Chaudhry. Jose Adrian Chavez Velasco. Chenning Chen. Jianyu Chen. Jinsong Chen. Shi Chen. Yao Chen. Yanyu Chen. Jihun Chou. Zhangxiang Choy. Su Yan Choy. Niha Chaudhry. Charlene Clear. John S. Coleman. Bharath Kumar Commander Jagannathan Raghunathan. Devin S. Cook. Monty J. Cooper. Paula Cooper. Sarah G. Corwin. Mikayla D. Coyne. Christopher E. Creighton. Justina Charter. Adam P. Dankowitz. Anas Azim Dagestani. Sarah Elizabeth Daly. Leandro Heschel-Danez. Tan Dang. Jason Merrigan Davis. Tyson C. Davis. Levan K. Dean Knoll. Fikaru Debala. Ophelia Desmet. Jacob R. Desmond. Abhas Deva. Parveen Dillon. Emily E. Diller. Homera Denar. Jordan M. Dolson. Avik Dutta. Leah Felice Easterling. Hoda Esan. Jessica Abby Isma. Ryan Gupta Ellis. Daniel C. Ernst. Mikay H. Ernst. David A. Evenhouse. Siway Phan. Elia Phara. Monica M. Williams Farrelly. Dan Feng. Dylan Feng. Hayden W. Fennell. Hilary M. Florrigan. Rachel M. Fogeth. Jianen Fu. Robert T. Gabbardroca. Jonathan M. Gast. Caitlyn L. Gurwin. Mehdi Gheramani. Amadresa Gamba poor Gochani. Carmen Ganda-Lekar. David F. Gonzalez Rodriguez. Dejeane Hoseini Goodrich. Jack Boyette Gordon. Deb Kalpugoswamy. Ann Marston Gray. Kareen R. Green. Taylor B. Groom. Navga Guisani. Ailey M. Gunderson. Jing Ho Han. Shu Wu Han. Allison M. Haney. Orchie Hassan. Tyler R. Hayes. Nisundh Danupa Hirath. Nathan M. Hicks. Horane A. Holgate. Eric Andrew Holloway. Aidan M. Houlton. Stephen K. Horrocks. Samuel Lee Huntington. Myung Wan Hwang. Sung Hwang Hwang. SM Numola Slam. Caitlyn Jarvis. Andrew T. Jeb. Taylor A. Jones. Amin Judaki. Xinyang Jun. Sung Bong Jun. Jin Ho Jung. Girija Suhas Kudlaskar. Devan M. Kalaflet. Rajasekar Kamari. Alicia Diane Karabinas. Sarah Karame. Amanpreet Kar. Yuki Peter O. Kearns. Ashley Kentner. Mosab A. Kayat. Garam Kim. Hong Sun Kim. Yongbin Kim. Yonghun Kim. Peter Andrew Koulas. Evgenia Maria Contopulu. Erin D. Krabel. Teri Sue Kraus. Rashmi Kumar. Lisa Marie LaForest. Steven G. LaRue. Alex Layton. Chenkyu Lee. Changrayo Lee. Sula Lee. Taik Song Lee. Young Wu Lee. Ali Lanjani. Jorge Andres Leon Kiroji. Jiaqi Li. Kiong Li. Xiaorei Li. Xin Li. Yan Chen Li. Nicole J. Labretto. Che Hong Liu. Jason Liu. Jia Ping Liu. Xiaolian Zalu. Jiaqi Liu. Liya Liu. Christian Liorazo Jimenez. Alexander C. Long. Gabriel R. Lonsberry. Raixing Loh. Amanda M. Loveless. Tony A. Loh. Han Luo. Dong Dong Ma. Lindsey McDonald. Soprio Maji. Ganesh Chandra Malia. Justin Mansel. Antoine Pierrek Martin. Michelle Martindale. Daniel Ma's Montserrat. Chase Matheson. Lindsey Maet. Adrian James McClure. Kelly McFall. Dysdale Mahari. Shagufta Menaz. Stephanie Meyer. Zachary Meyers. Elaine Mehlk. Aura Ankita Mishra. Shakar Misra. Mareetra Mitra. Taylor Meiling. Azadouzaman Muhammad. Mohamed Reza Moini. James Mollison. Hehran Moon. Corey Moore. Fabiola Murovilla Nueva. James Nakamura. Tran Nguyen. Swayta Natala. Brandon Norton. Robert Nyaga. Diannest Nazariya Mania Jr. William John O'Neill. Heather Michelle Offerman. Heijang Oh. Yu Mi Oh. Aja Bagum Ojagbo. Ikenna O'Kiki Agbu. Carla Josefa Olava Olivares. Trinity Overmeyer. Jacob Owens. Emaina Ozturk. Rahul Padavagodo Ramamurthy. Anikhet Paul. Servio Ernesto Palacios Interiano. Vandit Pamuro Subramanya Rama. Holgan Pak. Zung Subak. Sean Robert Parkinson. Priam Vivek Patki. Smriti Nandanpal. Matthew Pike. Michael R. Pilla. Philip Martin Piper. Joan Ponce. Arnau Ponce Laurenti. Amritha Prasad. Edward Price. Maria Pritchett. Robert Pritchett. Timothy Pritchett. Vatsal Porohit. Amelia Ann Putnam. Brandon Quinby. Christopher Quincurt. Benjamin Ratchanuck. Andrew Radcliffe. Dinesh Radhakrishnan. Saranya Radhakrishnan. Adarsh Raghavan. Swayta Ramadesakhan. Sugir Dalakshmi Ramaraj. Shrutha Rain. Azure Rika Garizar. Do Young Rowe. Lindsey Robbins. Kari Rodriguez. Kirsten Rau. Edgar Rohansmunoz. Carla Rosenfeld. John Roteua. Elijah Roth. Kahu Run. Phillip Rushton. Robert Thomas Ryan. Benam Sadri. Salar Safarkhani. Aya Sali. Bo Song. Stephanie Santo Diaz. Jessica Sargent Brown. Sabas Savidas. Ayesha Sayid. Shanchari Sen. Hannah Serlin. Hadi Shigerti Esmaili. Vaseem Sheikh. Zhang Xiaxiong. Animesh Sharma. Daniel Allen Shemwell. Mortuza Shergadwalla. Xiaobing Shi. Moon Sikshin. Animika Srivastava. Rebecca Sims. Gideon Singer. Priya Serohi. Kinsey Skillen. Ronald Smith. Dong Yun Song. Yu Ying Song. Isis Dakinnelli Perez-Shagas Scott. Daniel Stratman. Ray Jua Su. On Chun Song. Velab Suresh. Sovaguya Satar. Mai Takeuchi. Michael Andreas Tendiri. Divya Tankasala. Aslahan Terzi. Jenova Thomas. Rayhan Takparyeva. Ruyin Ping Tong. Alexander Trowbridge. Hazel Teresan. Saria Udaya Shalerm. Roberto Oyoa Esquivel. Hasini Arala Liyanagi Dona Gunasenghi. Maria Del Rosario Uribe Tioso. Pawankumar Vithiswaran. Ajay Venkatarman. Dina Verden. Miguel Antonio Villarreal Vasquez. Osvaldo Vitali. Colin Weiss. Elizabeth Vox. Tyrell Wagner. Dahui Wang. Guan Yi Wang. Guizhen Wang. Shan Wang. Xuejing Wang. Dihan Wang. Jessica Welch. Madison Whitman. Raidha Widarsia. Maureen Weiland. Elizabeth Ann Weemers. Daniel Wilcox. Benjamin Christopher Wiles. Chloe Kuzino Wires. Michael Whipple. Jared Wright. Kuangru Rho. Mengyang Wu. Riteng Wu. Tsi Zhongwu. Jia Arxia. Mingtao Xu. Xiaoyuan Xu. Xing Xu. Xiayu Yifei. Quan Yang. Yun Yang. Jiao Yang. Anagu Yariyeva. Keisuki Yazuwa. Armin Yildareem. Katie Yokmen. Zanghou Yuk. Dali Yun. Young Yu. Sim Suk Yok. Chai Yangyang. Bruce Zhang. Xiangcha Zhang. Xinxin Zhang. Yong Zhang. Yifan Zhang. Yizhe Zhang. Bi Zhao. Haiqing Zhao. Wei Zhao. Yong Zhao. Yu Meng Zhao. Xunwei Zhao. Johnny Juchen. Yihan Zhou. Yukai Zhou. Mr. President, the candidates for the master's degrees will be presented by Linda J. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School. Mr. President, these students have successfully fulfilled the requirements of the graduate school. With the approval of the faculty, they are now presented to you to receive the master's degree. Exercising the authority of the trustees of Purdue University, legally vested by the people of the state of Indiana, and upon the recommendation of the Purdue faculty, I now confer upon you the master's degree with all the rights, privileges, duties, and responsibilities of that degree. As evidence of this achievement, you will receive an appropriately inscribed diploma. I now invite our orators to read aloud the names of all students who are earning master's degrees. Graduates, I invite you to have your special designee present your diploma cover to you now. Be sure to capture a photo of this to share with us. Master's. Abir Abduhadi. Bilal Jamal Abuhaali. Akunjali Alex Adebi-Hinbi. Somaya Agarwal. Rakari Alanze. Beth Ann Albrecht. Ryan Almatrudy. Chanda Am. Christina Anderson. Jasmine Angiano. Leah Anton. Ashley Archer. Nicholas Archer. Tiffany Armstrong. Jessenia Arroyo. Abhinand Ayaswamy. Apoor Suresh Bademi. You may buy. Sarah Bailey. Kelsey Baker. Purwaj Baila Subramani. Sanchara Balag. Sanya Renee Barber. Katelyn Barnett. John Barnett. Michael Barron. Louis Brian Barr III. Christina Barsa. Rachel Barton. Steven Bartram. Sumit Bidar. Anthony Becerra. Corey Beck. Ruvay Beck. Timothy Banker. Anita Bining. Adrienne Bell. Javier Belmonte. Emma Benner. Arcaprobo Vadacharia. Radhika Arvin Bhopatkar. Ethan Biggs. Maggie Bill. Trevor Bird. Jeremy Bittner. Brady Black. Casey Blair. Audra Bluett. Laura Bollinger. Lesri Bonthron. Grace Boone. Kristen Booth. Samir Madhav Bohnwankar. Janaye Boss. Crystal Boyd. Calle Brackera. Christopher Brand. Kenneth Brand. Tony Brantley. Caitlin Brickie. Angela Brial. Patrick Brinson. Claire Brock. Rebecca Brocas. Stephanie Brown. Woody Brown. Kyle Bushland. Tyra White Buritez. Brittany Butler. Richard Casciola. Leerong Sai. Juan Camarena. Elizabeth Cameron. Brian Campbell. Cassandra Cannon. Fernando Contrero Rivera. Samuel Carew. Bria Carey. Juan Andres Carvajal. Paul Castillo. Gina Catania. Sachita Chakavorty. Monica Chandra. Aiswala Chandaskaran. Li-jen Chang. Long Chang. Emily Chapman. John Chen. Kanru Chen. Xiaojing Chen. Min Chen. Perlin Chong. Yensu Chou. Orchana Suhas Choudhury. Michael Cristiano. Alan Chu. Matthew Church. Brett Cody Adelman. Abby Colglazier. Davita Coakley. Katie Connolly. Melina Cook. Elliot Cooley. Sandra Cardoba Renteria. Mikayla Covington. John Cowan. Kyle Cross. Warren Cuepo. Mitchell Danby. Leon Darley. Santa Darvish. Some Dada Dada Roy. Brandon Davis. Jordan Davis. Julianne Day. Tabitha DeBose. Kimberly Dehaven. Erin Dell. Alexandra Devischevic. Leheny Diaz. Nathan Deech. Kevin Dilly. Aresal Diop. Darcy Downing. William Downing. Aruna Drama Raju. Stephanie Drucker. Runjia Du. Emily Duhan. Ryan Dunlop. Shubank Aida. Tracy Elcory. Jennifer Elshuehi. Ahmad El-Lefi. Sanjun Yang. Orianna Esqueda. Xiaoji Feng. Zheng Feng. Devin Fanno. Ellis Farr. Kerry Featherstone. Caitlyn Falcons. Steven Fenton. Tyler Field. Fieny Philos Gonzalez. Chelsea Fitzgerald. Christine Fleming. Jessica Fleming. Michelle Flum. Kenyal Ford. Arian Foster. John Foster. Matthew Fritz. Adam Fry. Da Ren Fu. Elizabeth Gale. Ruth Gaelic-Mackle. Michael Garbeth. Comedio Garce Saneet. Monica Garcia. Steven Garrett. William Garrison. Nathanio Gastair. Rachel Gehr. Mallory Gumbra. Wesley Gibson. Alina Ging. Dana Gerardi. Alex Kisiguera. Tanner Givens. Haley Glenn. Deeply Nisa Sheetlin. Felicia Gucch. Grace Gorvin. Luis Eduardo Garjeda Torres. Melody Grande. Zoe Griffin. Caitlyn Griswold. Rachel Grubbs. Daniel Graba. Indelika Guha. Morgan Gunn. Simran Gurdassani. Daniel Hagen. Kelly Hahn. Brianna Hammer. Jessica Hanlon. Nicholas Hanlon. Dayan Ha. Caitlyn Heffner. Justin Heffron. Margaret Hedgewood. Regina Marie Domine Canaris. Edward Henry. Oyi Lang Heur. Christopher Hernandez. Dylan Omar Higgs. Kristen Hill Thymish. Heath Hilsheim. Hannah Hinkel. Rachel Hippenstiel. Ryan Hockmeyer. Connor Hodgskis. Caroline Holloman. Sean Ping Hong. Jaime Hong. Emily Hooper. Tyler Howell. Chang Huang. Hank Huang. Yanxu Huang. Ziye Huang. Michael Hudecek. Daniel Hull. Alexander Iles. Kayla Irwin. Nancy Eisner. Robert Jacobs. Christopher Zhang. Justin Janks. Tracy Jenae. Christine Jian. Catherine Jareth. Frederick John. Christine Johnson. Austin Jones. Calvin Jones. Christopher Jones. Shomari Jones. Eric Jungle. Faye Julies. Jae Hong Jung. Lucini Kamikyan. Tushae Karatash. Alan Karchner. Zachary Casberg. Jacob Castenbauer. Jennifer Catley. Topeka Kausho. Ahmad Kazim. Lisa Keane. Kyle Kerwald. Brian Kelly. Hannah Kemmer. Robert Kennedy. Sarah Kinney. Michelle Kessler. Angelique Kettis. Amber Ketchring. Fuad Kori. Clayton Kibbe. Eugene Kim. Ali King. Amanda King. Annemarie King. Robert Ketching. Kayla Clemensen. Sahitya Kodam. Vivesh Koran. Brandy Cortis. Christopher Kovac. Brian Crair. Amanda Craiger. Philip Crowe. Demetrios Chromatis. Andrew Kroon. Teresa Kubiak. Steven Kubicki. Aurora Kufor. Laura Koon. Ivy Lam. Lucas Lam. Ellie Lambert. Charles Langley II. Lindy Lawson. Laura Levins. Donghong Li. Nsut Lee. Jilean Li. Erin Leney. Amelia Leneg. Kelly Lenehan. Whesum Lee Pak. Caitlyn Levin. Ying Li. Yulong Li. Waishi Li. James Likata. Katrina Liu. Kuan Hung Lin. Sarah Lin. Lin Little. Bangda Liu. Tracy Liu. Natalie Loduca. Dan Lorenz. Megan Lorenzen. Hector Lozano Perez. Robert Luzeki. Chang'en Liu. Ryan Ma. Lauren Madson. Vito Maglio. Maz Manjar. Amogue Munginoth. Madeleine Mann. Brent Mansfield. Caroline Merritt. Ryan Markley. Amy Marley. Janelle Marshall. Jacob Maskell. Jenna Matagevic. Courtney McCullough. Greg McCurry. Mark Miguelicott. Eric McGinnis. Kerri McKean Kelly. Margaret McKean. Ainsley McNamara. Wes McVeigh. Rootvik Mehta. Alan Mendoz. Kevin Merrill. Derrick Middleton. Mariah Milberg. Dakota Miller. Joy Christine Miller. Caden Milleren. Taryn Miner. Michael Minahan. Kallissa Mitchell. Kevin Mitchell. Shomo Smitha Mithra. Matthew Monaco. Marzia Monty. Mariette Bowen Modi. Anna Gabriela Moralesona. Janine Murphy. Anna Marie. Jeffrey Murray. Jashala Mwamba. Islam Nazmi. Gillian Ness. Jiaxini. Jonathan Nielsen. Michael Nielsen. Kendra Nunein. Rosemary O'Brien. Jose Alfredo Acevedo Barraza. Kimberly Ardañez. Rebecca Oriana Montano. Lee Organski. Zaffer Ozen. Jyotsna Padakumar Bindu. Jihwan Pak. Yonsu Bak. Juan Perar Diaz. Husani Paris. Todd Piskowski. Ashish Sud Patel. Dhruv Patel. Monique Patel. Wahiduddin Patel. Sumruti Patil. Stephanie Pazdrow. Ryan Piersol. Leslie Perez. Lindsay Peralt. Veronica Peshkova. Wyatt Peterson. Jordan Petty. Pasita Pibbuchinda. Shala Quadri Pillai. Steven Fister. Maria Amelia Ponton. Michael Porter. Jeff Pressler. Ellen Price. Steve Pugia. Jennifer Rackleff. Anubhav Rai. Rachel Reigns. Janani Ramachandran. Lakitha Ramesh Reddy. Robert Randent. Harsha Rao. Neeti Rastogi. Archana Ravindran. Bliss Raymond. Daniel Reddy. Samuel Reif. Steven Reiman. Glenda Remigio Sol. Davian Reynolds. Mary Kate Richards. Patrick Ringwald. Blanca Rios. Charles Martin Rich. Jordan Ritter. Angelica Robbins. Callan Robbins. Marceline Elise Robbins. John Gentry Roberts. Elena Robles Molina. Lana Robin. Elena Rodriguez. Leneina Roarsen. Ritney Rupnerine. Christina Rook. Claudia Russo. Myung Han Raiu. Nico Satterall. Brooke Sales. Carlos Salinas. Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo. Sudadeep Sakhar. Mohamed Siraj. Darrell John Sol. Daniel Shearer. Jacob Schmeusel. Jacob Schmeis. Molly Marie Scott. Peter Stefton. Wendy Setterfeld. Mareika Shevitz. Darsh Shah. Zhen Yang Shao. Katherine Sharp. Felicia Shartle. Cam Chappelle. De Wenxi. Pingyi Shi. Kerry Shulbrade. Elizabeth Shore. Elizabeth Simmons. Jace Skelton. Booker Smith. Katie Smith. David Salarty. Guan Chenhao Song. Alicia Southheart. Jocelyn Kale Sousa. Jordan Sparek. Grayson Spencer. Deette Starr. Tabitha Steckler. Derek Stevens. Christopher Stevenson. Kailin Jane Stevenson. Brianna Steins. Rahadana Stavall. Natalia Strandberg. Christine Strasma. Gabriel Cedario. Zheng Yu Sun. Shakar Suryavansh. Katelyn Swanberg. Gina Lisa Marie Tamayo. Omar Tantawi. Adam Taylor. Carrie Turvillager. Guiheng Wenchai. Studi Thapa Magar. Emily Thomas. Nicole Thomas. Ashley Dorsett. Joshua Kane Thurmond. Jewel Tempe. Priyanka Tawari. Derek Todd. Vahesta Rakhshan. Arnold Toppo. Ashana Tarani. Estella Torres. Kira Tyson. Ata Er Rahman. Sandesh Sanjay Arwar. Liesel Siegler Vale. Tyler Van Dyke. Srujit Kumar Vasudevan. Hannah Vaughn. Shannon Verhege. Vansi Vaparla. Kristin Vitartis. Cindy Voight. Srijotsna Boleti. Carissa Voris. Matthew Vosberg. Bridget Voslu. Michelle Walknick. Marlon Walls. Di-Huan Huang. Fei Huang. Michael Wong. Wei Nan Wong. Arsenio Ward. Cynthia Marie Horgaki. Zachary Warshar. Wei Hui. Zifu Wei. Madison Weemer. Daniel Wellage. Andrew Wendell. Amy White. Matthew White. Morgan Whittinghill. Lori Wiley. Sharla Deon Wilkins. Luana Williams. Rebecca Williams. Angelo Williamson. Susan M. Williamson. Hannah Wilson. Julia Wilgemuth. Agnes Wong. Ivy Wu. John Woodcock. David Work. Xilun Wu. Eugene Wu. Chengyi Xu. Gufeng Xu. Ruya Xu. Peiyan Yao. Srikanth Yurigola. Dahun Yim. Yashwant Yogi. Abigail Young. Brandon Victoria Youngman. David Yuska. Rebecca Zaremba. Maria Zia-Rohas. Dunyang Zhang. Kui Zhang. Yizhou Zhang. Nian Zhou. Jingling Zhu. Byron Rickroll. Michael R. Zintara. Sadia Zaber. Lucia DeLordis Zaniga. Mr. President, the candidates for the Doctor of Nursing Practice will be presented by Marion K. Underwood, Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences. Mr. President, these students have successfully fulfilled the requirements of the professional curriculum of the College of Health and Human Sciences. With the approval of the faculty, they are now presented to you to receive the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Exercising the authority of the trustees of Purdue University, legally vested by the people of the state of Indiana, and upon the recommendation of the faculty, I now confer upon you the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with all rights, privileges, duties, and responsibilities of that degree. As evidence of your achievement, you will now be vested with the hood of the Doctor of Nursing Practice and receive an appropriately inscribed diploma. I now invite our orators to read aloud the names of all students who are earning Doctors of Nursing Practice. Graduates, I invite you to have your special designee hood you and present your diploma cover now. Be sure to capture a photo of this to share with us. Doctor of Nursing Practice. Emily Fusick. Amy Dionne-Chapel Stitt. Elizabeth Long. At this time, it's appropriate we give special recognition to those graduates who have demonstrated outstanding scholastic achievement, leadership, and service to the university community. You can review the recipients of these recognitions in your commencement program. On behalf of the trustees and the faculty, congratulations on your accomplishments. We're counting on you to continue making exceptional contributions in all your future endeavors. Some of you out there are wearing red, white, and blue cords, signifying that you are veterans of the US Armed Forces. We would like to express our special and sincere gratitude to you and your fellow servicemen and women for your patriotism. Mr. President, I am pleased to present the candidates for the baccalaureate and associate degrees, College of Agriculture, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Pharmacy, Polytechnic Institute, College of Science, College of Veterinary Medicine. Mr. President, these students have successfully fulfilled the requirements of the undergraduate curricula in their respective college or school. With the approval of the faculty, they are now presented to you to receive the appropriate degree. Exercising the authority of the trustees of Purdue University, legally vested by the people of the state of Indiana, and upon the recommendation of the Purdue faculty, I now confer upon each of you who have fulfilled the stated requirements, the appropriate baccalaureate and associate degree with all the rights, privileges, duties, and responsibilities of that degree. As evidence of your achievement, you will now receive an appropriately inscribed diploma. I now invite our orders to read aloud the names of students who are earning baccalaureate and associate degrees. Graduates, I invite you to have your special designee present your diploma cover to you now. Be sure to capture a photo of this moment to share with us. The College of Agriculture, Ariana Apadaca, Aviana Bekas, Kevin Bonar, Dominic Bozik, Crystal Bray, Kennedy Callaway, Olivia Consoli, Kristen Dill, Corey Dozier, Braylin Fitzpatrick, John Garner, Doria Lauren Gilberg, Tracy Harvey, Kayla Hoppt, Zachary Jones, Kayla M. Jordan, Michael Keller, Ellen Lesko, Dwing Jua Liu, Brenda Martinez, Tampson Myers, Alexandra Lynn Newlin, Victoria Auling, Jessica Adi, Kenna Porter, Katherine Poston, Julie Redding, Pierce Scott, Kelsey Schuch, Denia Justine Sotak, Christopher Stichter, Benjamin Stone, Henry Terhuan, Yuhantu, Richard Van Ness, Alexandra Walther, Haley Alexandra Westfall, Taylor Wooden. Education, Mark Bubek, Alexis Kaufman, Jaya Jain, Madison Lukens, Marilyn Martindale, Jenna Olson, Cody Orr, Jared Shanley, Elizabeth Trotter, Engineering, Rafique Alzogby, Omar Aljuwaser, Christopher Allen, Adam Averell, Rohan Balay, Sean Boulay-Daitouchet, Dan Bully II, Noah Cardo, Lauren Ciervo, Jacob Cook, Melchor Delegarza, Alec Demary, Kurti Denji, Benjamin Evans, Alexander Falkenberg, Carsten Falstick, Jennifer Firehammer, John Fulkers, Juan Garona Garcia, Matthew Garten, Marcus Gunion, Maasir Ha Kim, Maximillan Hansen, Corey Everett Helman, Zachary Hensler, Griffin Holland, Maximum Romus, Bradley Jacobs, Wan Wei Kam, Carson Kelly, Mohamed Harib Khan, Kirit Palkana, Yongtae Kim, Wan Wok Kim, Colin Kincaid, Kennedy Nolten, Erin Kryline, Alexander Krollop, James Wallace, Jillian Lazar, Lawrence Lee, Leah Macklin, Jillianne Mahon, Lynn Shiu Mann, Mohamed Matar, Morgan McDowell, Joshua Miners, Abu Mohamed Mikhail, Brittany Mills, Thaddeus Milsen, Noor Nadira Akila, James Mulvanna, Casey Neganthali, Jacob Carney, Patrick O'Donovan, David Park, Puwe Peng, Kevita Vendaba Pereira, Grace Pike, Keaton Quinn, Elmer Raouk, Anna Renkel, Ho Chiang Rieu, Abrina Saho, Justin Schaefer, Evan Salking, Pooja Shah, Erin Schwartz, Sabrina Singh, Ryan Slattery, Adrian Soto, Phillip Spiritoso, Aswini Srinivas-Parsad, William Trish, Andrew, Matthew Van Valkenburg, Andres Farella, Atreya Verma, Godfrey Walker, Daniel Walsh, Rachel Wassum, Dylan Weber, Lucas Onezappel, Zuja Wu, Mohamed Sufan Zaheen Benzino, Haiyi Shan, and a bachelor's degree awarded posthumously to Trevor Cole. College of Health and Human Sciences, Annabelle Adams, Mackenzie Allison, Daniela Ayala, Grace Bassett, Tessa Bauman, Colin Bebe, Gabrielle Bonanno, Bryce Bonner, Madeline Brown, Lauren Brulinski, Justin Bryant, Cody Bollington, Ally Buskovitz, Lois Carpenter, Erika Carroll, Peter Celes, Patricia Serna, Austin Cekaluk, Eunice Choi, Molly Clark, Lydia Davis, Denise Diaz Hernandez, Josie Donnerer, Savannah Douglas, Halina Duke, Riley Duncan, Liana Early, Noah Ellison, Caitlin Elson, Matthew Estill, Alexis Ferngren, Peyton Philson, Connor Fisher, Courtney Foster, Ashlyn Gandhi, Hope Gaskin, Andrea Gonzalez Gonzalez, Amrith Gothra, Jessica Grimmer, Gemma Harkin, Tiara Harney, Holly Harris, Taruna Jogtiani, Jay Jones, Morgan Karshner, Katrina King, Madeline Klein, Cassidy Clemp, Sophia Lanting, Erin Leonard, Laura Levin, Amanda Lander, Sarah Long, Prakshah Mahatra, Natalie Martin, Alexander Martinez, Hashmat Moshiana, Victor Meyer, Stephen Minidom, Kaleen Moore, Hailey Morgan, Valerie Morris, Sarah Necky, Jumei Nyu, Hailey Nunamaker, David Obergefell, Odukayud Oson-Token, Joy Oladouni, Claire Pardo, Anu Park, Hung Tai Park, Tori Parmley, Elegant Parsons, Taryn Paltier, Jean Pinare, Danielle Proche, Galista Ramirez, Alexander Rollins, Nathan Ryder, Jordan Ross, Patricia Ruble, Julian Sabortio Madrigal, Kaley Sabotnick, John Sage, Julian Sandrick, Mike Saucito, Lacey Schramm, Kylie Seifert, Anya Smith, Emma Smock, Jared Sparks, Sidney Stephens, Jenny Swanson, Morgan Swick, LaVon Thompson, Jordan Ward, Hallie Wilson, Stephanie Witkowski, Megan Wykauf, Megan Zagunda, The College of Liberal Arts, Aisha Al-Gaythi, Ashlyn Allenson, Isaac Almbaugh, Claretta Catherine Arrivo, Molly Beza, Louise Becerra, Beau Boswell, Olivia Burley, Spencer Burns, Haley Compton, Gersimron Singdom, Tian Yifong, Emily Fisher, Katelyn Fitzgerald, Luke Gowens, Diwon Guan, Jonathan Gutemann, Jeffrey Henderson, Kyla Hodges, Alicia Jensen, Diann Berry, Chloe Klein, Shelby Ladd, Yifong Lei, Alistair Chenyuan Lim, Ariyo Luah Atabata, Grace Personette, Matthew Redinbo, Mary Ruchoff, Simeon Smiley, Bryston Sprecker, Yufan Su, Owen Swanson, Ashlyn Taylor, Rebecca Tidwell, Madeleine Unger, Richard Valentine, Ziqiao Wang, Aizai Yong, The School of Management, Sayeed Mohamed Haris Iblatif, Dylan Chase, Nicholas Chuma, Brandon Clark, Jacob Farabak, Tyler Gull, Rohan Gandhi, Yasha Scouda, Thomas Rote, Zheng Wakan, Zengri Hong, Kelton Hunt, Benjamin Johnson, Christian Komlenich, Heta Kotak, Justin Lagai, Annabelle Lee, Frances Lee, Hwaying Lee, Adam Livers, Erin McCormick, Cole Miller, Christian Alexander Moeller, Joy Magombi, Rose Ma, Erin Rush, Mark Stickford, Qian Swen, Eric Wagner, Zhiwei Wang, Weiyao Wang, Andrew Yang, Yongshu Zhou, Ziyue Zhou, College of Pharmacy, Kaigao, Soyeon Li, The Polytechnic Institute, Nathaniel Adams, Vincent Albanese, Samuel Alley, Brigendra Bolina, Jonathan Barron, Milo Beam, Michael Beck, Owen Blum, Harrison Brennan, Logan Bryant, Dean Chironis, Daniela Davis, Evan Easton, Guan Bo Feng, Elizabeth Finlay, Carter Gilliam, Tyler Hamilton, Tom Hanna, Colin Hart, Thomas Hirschfeld, Dakota Hodap, Nicholas Howell, Dishon Johnson, K-Wan Jones, James Kalkbrenner, John Nock, Nick Lutz, Trenton Mahoney, Connor Market, Daniel Matt Chain, Hunter McCartan, Jesse McClung, Colin McDonnell, Joseph McGinnis, Bryson McKee, Stephen Meredith, Lucas Michael, Nathaniel Moore, Charles Mustin, Jessica Meyers, Mallory Nason, Devin Nob, Dai Chi Azawa, Louise Paratus, Jeremy Place, Timothy Pruss, James Ramsey, Jameson Redman, Carlos Rebo, Courtney Rickmeyer, William Roberts, Riley Rodin, Jaeger Rose, Monty Roth, Jaleesa Rush, Katherine Elizabeth Shanahan, Brayden Shepard, Kyo-Wan Shim, Jason Smith, Madison Stool, Keith Strom, Kevin Sutton, Chance Schubert, Austin Thompson, Kevin Torres Guerrido, Akshat Tyagi, Brent Voneer, Yifan Wang, Blake Westling, David Wacharek, Alexander Wilkins, Leonard Wink, Zachary Zeebert, Chui Zhang, The College of Science, Unkit Agrawal, Abdullah Aldolan, Noah Angelus, Jordan Barkley, Weira Ashraf Binismail, Tianhao Chong, Jason Cosby, Jacob DeSousa, Ryan DeRue, Zidane Dutta, Nicholas Galecki, Gabriela Gambarazio, Li Yao Gao, Megan E. Green, Dexter Hammond, Crystal Harrington, Kelly Herman, Xuanchao Wang, Dominic Hurley, Alexander Ivan, Madeline Joyner, Corin Joswiakowski, Hamdan Khalid, Samuel Kaiser, Noah Caravilla, Francis Legault, Haoja Ling, Li Chenyi, Edward O'Neill, Alexa Parker, Avery Reika, Anish Raman, Fareed Ramos, Joseph Reyes, Emily Sanders, Ruth Loreno Serrano, Hailey Stutter, Joel Taylor, Nate Venkis, Zi Rui Wang, Michael Wiley, Jia Songwu, Yan Yi Yang, Ji Sheng Yu, Athila Joy-Marie Zepeda, Hongqing Zhang, The College of Veterinary Medicine, Alayna Baker, Shelby Camp, Jennifer Davis, Ellen Fettig, Rachel Frisela, Bailey Grubb, Mackenzie Guiman, April Hershey LaPlant, Sarah Hockersmith, Ariana Holland, Katelyn Hoyt, Sarah Jordan, Deborah Key, Courtney LeFeu, Darlene Lucas, Elizabeth Moriscoll, Morgan Miller, Chloe Morris, Erin Mueller, Kaley Padgett, Larissa Parris, Jordan Price, Tori Rentschler, Tori Silvius, Sarah Somerlott, Samantha Thompson. Okay, it's official. You are now graduates of Purdue University. It's time for you to observe tradition by moving your tassel from the right side of the mortarboard to the left, signifying your new status. Congratulations to all our new alums. We're gathered to honor these graduates for their hard work and accomplishments, but they'd be the first to tell us they did not make the journey alone. So will the graduates please take this moment to offer thanks and appreciation to your parents, grandparents, spouses, brothers, sisters, other family members and friends for their long and loving support that brought you to this moment. The audience is invited to sing the Purdue hymn. The words are located inside the front cover of the program. I'm pleased to introduce today's student responder, Aaron Benjamin. Aaron is receiving a doctor of philosophy in biochemistry, and while at Purdue, he served as a graduate research assistant, as a teaching assistant, and as treasurer of Purdue graduate student government. Please welcome Aaron Benjamin. Thank you, President Daniels, for your kind introduction, and thank you to family, friends, and guests joining in this memorable event online. When I learned that my nomination for the August student responder from the graduate school was successful, the reality of having to address my fellow summer graduates hit home, and I must admit, the moments of hesitation and questions arose to the surface. I wondered, what do I have that others do not? What makes me someone worthy of this honor? But after careful consideration, and despite my fear of speaking in front of pre-COVID-19 large crowds, I realized that I had an opportunity to share with all of you the most valuable life lessons learned during my time as a student at Purdue and as a citizen in the West Lafayette community. To combat the undergraduate burnout and to support my well-being, I elected to take a year off between my undergraduate and graduate career. Once I applied and was admitted to the College of Agriculture as a graduate student, I was welcomed into my department and was met with smiles by the community as a whole. As a first-year student, I am sure like most of you, I was very unsure about my skills and knowledge within my field of study. At the beginning of my graduate tenure, I sharpened my skills in classes through problem-solving, and honed my abilities in the laboratory. In addition, I made valuable friendships which gave me confidence in both the academic and social arena. Networking allowed me to form friendships with my classmates and peers, and I received valuable mentoring from a variety of different staff, faculty, and deans. As I continued in my graduate school journey, I learned that having the drive to do something is one of the most valuable skills one can have to achieve short and long-term goals while having a positive impact. In addition, I have challenged my ideas through rigorous discussions with many of my peers and mentors, allowing me to think about all of the possibilities when approaching a problem. As such, I have reinforced my ability to question things productively, helping to reach solutions to many of the problems which I have sought to understand. All of this learning has helped me to gain the abilities to work independently and not be afraid or ashamed to ask for help when needed, because at some point in life, we all need a helping hand. One of the most important lessons that I have learned is to simply admit when you do not know the answer to something, and be comfortable in knowing that this is indeed okay, and a big part of the educational and life experience. But it does not stop there. If you do not know the answer, keep looking until you can find the answer, even if the answer does not align with your original hypothesis, that's behind research. If you do not find the answer, let the search begin. The skills we have all learned at Purdue University will allow us to do this. As we prepare to go in so many different directions, I would like to leave you with several pieces of my learned knowledge. One, keep challenging yourself to be better every day. Two, never give up. And three, do not be afraid to ask questions. Congratulations to my fellow graduates and all the best in our future endeavors. And I leave with my final greeting as a student, now that we are all alumni. Let us all hammer down and hail Purdue. Today you are standing on the edge of possibility. We pause to give thanks for the deep sense of accomplishment, pride, and hope of this very moment. We pause today to reflect on your time here and the hope for your future. We gather with abundant joy and overwhelming gratitude. We pray the experience here embodies our vision of education as an engaged and dynamic partnership between the university and the wider world. The work here has never been merely for personal use, but always for public good. And so today we celebrate the collective commitment to creating a better and more just world. May we appreciate the joy of this day and may the dedication and patient perseverance that has brought us to this moment carry us forth to create a world marked by peace, justice, and compassion beyond measure. Go forth to do the good work set before you. Be tireless. Seek the common good. Love and nurture the people and things you value. Attend to your work with integrity so that what you believe may be what you do. And when you feel as if you might become defeated think back on this day and know that you already have accomplished much. May you be blessed and may your lives be a blessing to all of us. Amen. And so we conclude our commencement convocation. Thank you for joining us during these most unusual circumstances and sharing your celebration with us acknowledging your achievement as Boilermakers. As we said we would we're making it through together. On behalf of the trustees the faculty and all the Purdue family I bid you farewell and Godspeed Hail Purdue.