Welcome to the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Spring 2023 Convocation Showcase!
Meet CAPLA’s outstanding graduates and leave a congratulatory note on their pages, watch as student organizations bid their students farewell, enjoy a gallery of photos submitted by graduating students and view messages from college administration.
Watch the CAPLA 2023 Convocation Livestream!
Saturday, May 13, 7 p.m.
Address from the Dean
HOW THE CLASS OF 2023 INSPIRES DEAN NANCY POLLOCK-ELLWAND
Dean, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Address from the School Directors
RYAN SMITH
Director, School of Architecture
LAURI MACMILLAN JOHNSON
Director, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
Student and Other Awards
School of Architecture Student Awards
Bachelor of Architecture Student Awards
Outstanding Senior Award
- Hallie Letsinger
Alpha Rho Chi Medal
- Kaya Asiyih Orona
Undergraduate Assistant Award
- David Zúñiga
ARCC King Medal
- Erica Leimahinaanue Pilotin
Capstone Award
- Nhan Van Vo
Ronald G. Gourley Award for Design Excellence
- Kaya Asiyih Orona
AIA Henry Adams Award
- Kaya Asiyih Orona
Rick Joy Awards
- Nickolas Paul Witt, Generous Mind
- Jed Perena, Architectural Mind
- Melack Albargash, Identifying Mind − Keen Observations
Architecture Steam Awards
- Fatima Alsulaiman, History Stream Award
- Abigail Denninghoff, Studio Steam Award
- Nickolas Paul Witt, Studio Stream Award
- Alex Provine, Practice Stream Award
- Maggie Collopy, Technology Stream Award
- Jonah Mikkalson, D.Comm Stream Award
Design Excellence Awards
- Merle Weisshaupt, Winner, ARC 201/202
- Gabriel D. Garcia, Honorable Mention, ARC 201/202
- Jed Perea, Winner, Bisbee Music Park
- Abdullah Alobaid, Honorable Mention, Bisbee Culinary
- Alexis Campion, Winner, House of Water
- Brandon Willmon, Honorable Mention, Water and Light: Sietch del Oro
- Melack Albargash, Winner, Refugee Community Center
- Solar Decathlon Studio (Alyssa Fink, Seunghu Kim, Michelle Munguia and Kedar Sitapati), Honorable Mention, Casa Verde
- Hallie Letsinger, Winner, Monuments for Dreams and Memories
- Nhan Van Vo, Honorable Mention, Desert Ambush
- Nickolas Paul Witt, Winner, The Magic of Real
- Mathew Steven Du and Serena Francsca Gray, Honorable Mention, Redesigning the Residential
- Christian Walker, Winner, Yesterday Park
- Nicolas Montano, Honorable Mention, Historic Garfield
- Studio Moyo
Lesley Acosta
Amanda Michelle Attakai
Itzel Fimbres
Bradyn Hashiro
Nour Kaddoura
Dara Le
Waverly Rose Mellies
Valerie Rauh
Alan Axel Romo Lopez
Johnathan Szymanowski
Dongting Xi
Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts
- Athba Alradaan
- Fatima Alzahraa Alsulaiman
- Juliana Sophia Cervantes
- Serena Francesca Gray
- Yaqoub Hasan
- Hunter Yi Jinbo
- Kaya Asuyih Orona
- Alexandrea Provine
Master of Architecture Student Awards
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
- Kathy Le
Outstanding Leadership Award
- Erika Schmidt
AIA Henry Adams Award
- Gregory Veitch
Stream Awards
- Erika Schmidt, History Stream Award
- Gregory Veitch, Studio Stream Award + Technology Stream Award
- Clarissa-Gabrielle Becerril, D.Comm Stream Award
- Rista Vasiljevic, Practice Stream Award
Design Excellence Awards
- Studio Moyo
Srutarshi Adhikari
Clarissa-Gabrielle Becerill
Kevin McQuaid
Amanda Petr
Erika Schmidt
Sepideh Sharifi-Mazhzoon
Rista Vasiljevic
Greg Veitch
Master of Science in Architecture student Awards
Outstanding Leadership Award
- Felipe Florentino
Best Master’s Project
- Felipe Florentino
Faculty Commendation
- Chumei Rui
School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Student Awards
Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Built Environments Student Awards
SBE Capstone Award
- Lydia Maye Barker-Winkworth
- Maxi Flores
- Katlin Mouisset
- Diego Vicuña Lacherre
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Ashley Avila
- Lydia Maye Barker-Winkworth
Faculty Commendation
- Ashley Avila
- Lydia Maye Barker-Winkworth
- Claudia Benites Silva
- DaviAnn Blas
- Landon Brenish
- Julio Cueva Lujan
- Jackson Ells
- Jessica Faith Ferreira
- Ashton Guza
- Josh Heros
- Cory LaPlant
- Crystal Miller
- Viviana Miranda Arana
- Katlin Mouisset
- Alejandra Pachas Ramirez
- Jacob Charles Schaffer
- Stella Shao
- Heather Schulz
Master of Landscape Architecture Student Awards
Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar
- Jianjie Ma
CELA Fountain Scholar Award
- Patricia Vasquez Cabrera
AzASLA Honor Award
- Teresa DeKoker
AzASLA Merit Award
- Jianjie Ma
AzASLA 2022 Student Collaborative Design Honor Award
- Teresa Dekoker
- B. Blake Houghton II
- Huanyu Liu
- Lauran Morrissey
- Jianjie Ma
- Kendall Murie
- Price Riggins
- Patricia Vasquez Cabrera
AzASLA 2022 Student Collaborative Design Design Award of Excellence
- Jianjie Ma
- Lin Tang
- Keegan Thomas
- Patricia Vasquez Cabrera
AzASLA 2023 Student Individual Honor Award
- Krista Planinac
Leadership Award
- Teresa DeKoker
Outstanding GPA Award
- Jianjie Ma
- Keegan Thomas
- Patricia Vasquez Cabrera
Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society
- B. Blake Houghton II
- Keegan Thomas
- Jianjie Ma
Master of REal Estate Development Student Awards
Projects in Real Estate Award (MRED)
- Derek Drees
- Nathan Dyhre
- Patrick Hayter
- Katie Wallace
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Katie Wallace
Outstanding GPA Award
- Alonso Carrillo
- David Dempsey
- Jeffrey Elias
- Robert Freeman
- Fred Lupe Moreno
- Myles Ramsey
- Daniel Scaring
- Jason George Scott
- Alissa Tibbs
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Nathan Dyhre
Master of Science in Urban Planning Student Awards
2023 AICP Outstanding Student Award
- Keri Tallorin
Faculty Distinction Award
- Veronique (Vero) Arguello
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Andrew Birkelbach
- Nathan Dyhre
- Glenn Ingram
- Lauren Heath
- Shamara Smith
- James Stuart
Excellence in Planning Research Award
- Stephanie Smith
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
- Glenn Ingram
- Sarah McDowell
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Xahria Santiago
Outstanding GPA Award
- Zsalina Allen
- Veronique Arguello
- Andrew Birkelbach
- Lauren Heath
- Glenn Ingram
- James Stuart
- Keri Tallorin
Friends of Planning – Planning Excellence Gold Winner: El Pueblo Station Area Plan & Neighborhood Revitalization
- Andrew Birkelbach (lead)
- Zsalina Allen
- Glenn Ingram
- Xahria Santiago
- Keri Tallorin
Friends of Planning – Planning Excellence Silver Winner: Tourist-Sector Prosperity and Vision Planning for Santa Cruz County
- Stephanie Smith (lead)
- Nate Dyhre
- Sarah McDowell
- Anushka Phalke
- Katie Christine Wallace
CAPLA Faculty and Staff Awards
School of Architecture Faculty Teaching Award
- Jesús Edmundo Robles, Jr., Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture
School of Architecture Faculty Research Award
- Altaf Engineer, Assistant Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture Faculty Service Award
- Clare Robinson, Associate Professor of Architecture
- Oscar Lopez, Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Roy P. Drachman Award for Excellence
- Richärd | Kennedy Architects, CAPLA West Building Renovation
Anne Graham Rockfellow Memorial Award, Presented by Women in Architecture Society
- Laura Hollengreen, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Architecture
Student Showcase
View and congratulate our CAPLA Class of 2023 CAPLA graduates!
Scroll to the right to view all degree programs. Click on an image to view all graduating students in the program.
CAPLA Clubs + Life
View messages from student organizations and a gallery of images of CAPLA life submitted by graduating students:
Graduate Certificates
View recipients of CAPLA Graduate Certificates in 2023: