Distinction is granted for high academic achievement
Samantha Boyle
May 21, 2019
Graduating students
More than 100 LAS students are listed on this year's Bronze Tablet. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer.)

This year’s additions to the nearly century-old Bronze Tablet at Illinois include 102 graduates from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Each year, the Bronze Tablet is inscribed with the names of new graduates and placed in the Main Library. To achieve this honor, undergraduate students must rank at the top 3 percent of each college’s graduating class and must have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5.

This year, LAS students make up about 42 percent of the University of Illinois’ total number of Bronze Tablet scholars. The first Bronze Tablet was created in 1925, with 14 names.   

This year's recipients are listed here:

Stephanie Linda Abello, creative writing and Spanish

Kyle M. Adkins, molecular and cellular biology

Thomas Arlo Bane, molecular and cellular biology

Brittany Marie Barajas, Spanish

Emily Barraza, political science

Tamara Meredith Beecroft, actuarial science and economics

Miranda G. Brookshier, English and sociology

Tingting Cai, mathematics

Adam Robert Camp, geography and geographic information science and political science

David Boyan Cao, molecular and cellular biology and chemistry

Sean Michael Chapman, linguistics

Shivang Sharad Chaudhary, molecular and cellular biology and psychology

Mengyan Chen, statistics and computer science

Pengyu Chen, statistics and computer science

Weiru Chen, mathematics

Xinxin Chen, mathematics and statistics

Yijung Chen, chemical engineering

Kevin Ka Ngok Cheng, chemistry and economics

Kristy Chin, molecular and cellular biology

Samuel John Cler, molecular and cellular biology

Brett Thomas Cohen, molecular and cellular biology and psychology

Thomas Frederick Cyberski, molecular and cellular biology

Martin Nuguid De Venecia, molecular and cellular biology

Madeline Elizabeth Decker, English and Spanish

Di Deng, physics and statistics

Tsengel Enkhamgalan, global studies

Angela Fu, economics and creative writing

Xin Gao, mathematics and computer science

Ryan Thomas Garippo, communication

Katrina May Keevil Gerhard, molecular and cellular biology

Aaron J. Goffinet, molecular and cellular biology

Gabriella E. Guerra, English

Jackson Philip Harvey, molecular and cellular biology

Natalia M. Hayes, psychology

Shannon L. Hegarty, English

Kiersten H. Heiman, global studies

Yi Huang, psychology and economics

Haley McKenzie Frazer Hubbard, psychology and religion

Taewon Hur, mathematics and computer science

Sparsh Jain, molecular and cellular biology

William Stephen Jeziorski, statistics and econometrics and quantitative economics

Lydia Haelin Kang, psychology

Priya A. Karkhanis, molecular and cellular biology

Danielle Christine Klimas, molecular and cellular biology

Alexander John Koutsostamatis, chemical engineering

Claire V. Kredens, earth, society, and environmental sustainability and geography and geographic information science

Jenna Nicole Kurtzweil, English

Haydn Charles Lambert, English and political science

Aleeza Josephine Leder Macek, integrative biology

Qianqian Li, mathematics and statistics

Yuchen Li, statistics and computer science and mathematics

Perry Lee Lim, chemistry

Feikai Lin, molecular and cellular biology

Yiling Loh, chemical engineering

Danish R. Majid, molecular and cellular biology

Madeline J. McDevitt, molecular and cellular biology

Yuhao Min, chemistry

Christian Thomas Monte, chemical engineering

Bridget Elizabeth Mueller-Brennan, mathematics

Alexander N. Nemeh, molecular and cellular biology and psychology

Emily K. Nesbeitt, English

Rachel Catherine Neuses, molecular and cellular biology

Sara Marie O’Malley, political science and psychology

Yuchen Pang, mathematics and computer science

Jaimin Chetan Patel, molecular and cellular biology

Yesha C. Patel, integrative biology

Melanie Jane Rdzok, communication

Matthew G. Rice, political science and economics

Jake R. Ritthamel, integrative biology and chemistry

Jennifer Chantal Rodriguez, molecular and cellular biology

Nicole Elizabeth Rose, political science and communication

Kinan Sawar, molecular and cellular biology

Lindsey M. Schmidt, political science

Morgan Samantha Scholtes, chemistry

Niti Nilesh Shah, economics and political science

Chen Shen, psychology

Christopher Junsik Shin, chemistry

You Jin Song, molecular and cellular biology and chemistry

Lois Y. Suh, molecular and cellular biology

Sebastian Sulewski, philosophy

Man Sze, molecular and cellular biology and psychology

Eriele M. Tellis, political science

Sara Elizabeth Temple, history

William Michael Totura, molecular and cellular biology

Wesley Scott Tung, molecular and cellular biology

Alankrita Venkatesh, chemistry

Hao Wang, statistics

Karen Wang, psychology

Yuanheng Wang, chemistry

Yuanning Wei, statistics

Max Noah Weiss, political science

Zepeng Xiao, mathematics and statistics

Tao Xiong, economics and statistics

Jianing Xu, mathematics and psychology

Yiting Xu, molecular and cellular biology

Ziru Xue, economics

Changyu Yin, actuarial science

Jiawei Zhang, psychology and statistics

Yunxiang Zhang, mathematics

Yunxin Zhang, mathematics and computer science

Jingyao Zhu, physics and astronomy

Jingyi Zhu, mathematics

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