ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
The listed local students have been recognized by their colleges or universities for the following achievements:
GRADUATIONS
Pace University (Part III Special Degrees)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Jenny Lyn Alegre of Elmhurst; Sara A. Bartlett of Astoria; Christian B. Cansino of Woodside; Alyssa D. Genna of Woodhaven; Patricia S. Grecco of Long Island City; Shennel L. Huggins of Hollis; Nudrat Khan of Jamaica; Cheryl Li of Fresh Meadows; Marie McGovern of Belle Harbor; Raymond Ng of Oakland Gardens; Greta J. Rojas of Bayside and Jennifer Smar of Maspeth.
Certificate of Advance Graduate Studies
Henry Caracas of Maspeth; Deborah L Charles of South Ozone Park; Keri Goldman of Jackson Heights; Jennifer Lozano-Luna of Bayside and Elmer G. Palmones of South Richmond Hill.
Doctor of Jurisprudence
Sevan A. Aydin of Bayside; Yok-seung Chiu of Woodhaven; Alokananda Dutta of Sunnyside; Yu-Ching Huang and Braem Velo of Astoria; Erica A O’Brien of Jackson Heights; Siluvai Raj of Floral Park; William Seo of Oakland Gardens; Alexander Viderman of Rego Park and Eva Zajkowski of Maspeth.
Doctor of Professional Studies
Shaker A. Lashuel of Ridgewood; Henry Ruan of Bayside; Cynthia J Stroh of Astoria; Abdo A. Zandani of South Ozone Park.
Doctor of Psychology
Sara Asher of Flushing; David J Blank and Amy E. Reale of Astoria.
Master of Fine Arts
Chris D Pierce of Astoria and Jamie E Sellers of Long Island City.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Tanya Vazirani of Oakland Gardens.
Master of Laws
Eugenia A. Mendoza of Astoria.
Master of Public Administration
Jessica Jordan of Jackson Heights and Julie M. Pino of Flushing.
Master of Science for Teachers
Sulaiman Z. Akbar, Jennifer Godwin and Laura Stevenson of Glendale; Kevin Allard, Georgia N Giannikouris, Julia Kim, and Dionne Lutz of Astoria; Rachel Anderson of New Hyde Park; Ernestine Butler-Johnson of Rosedale; Janelle A. Charles, Jennifer M. Fernandez, Crystal Richberg, and Victoria M. Rush of Jamaica; Marielle K. Crespo and Yunseon Kim of Oakland Gardens; Bradley Crump and Sherin Thomas of Bellerose;
Kelly Dean of Richmond Hills; Denekqua Demetrius of Far Rockaway; Fei Deng, Cherise James and Mariela Lazala of Flushing; Liv M Dillon, Timothy M Gilroy, Ryan Mullally and Ewelina Ostrowska of Ridgewood; Jennifer Dull and Aleksandra A. Kaplon-Schilis of Maspeth; Jennifer Dunn of Rockaway Park; Naser Durakovic of Middle Village; Brian Forman, Margarita A. Leonard and Ivy Mak of Elmhurst; Keryn E. Greve of Long Island City; Jamie M. Hendrickson of Queens Village; Siaka Kone of Sunnyside; Taso Lampoutis of College Point; Irene Lau of Forest Hills; Jeffrey M. Lowenhaupt of Jackson Heights;
Michelle C. Mark of Fresh Meadows; Alicia Mason of South Ozone Park; Shivika Rajkisore of Ozone Park; Maria R. Salane of Bayside; Chantelle A. Thompson-Claxton of Cambria Heights; Chris Tkaczyk of Woodside and Jacqueline L. Williams of East Elmhurst.
Master of Science in Education
Kathryn J DeRoss of Astoria; Christine L Moloughney of New Hyde Park and Jessica Mura of Astoria.
Pre Baccalaureate Certificate
Marcos F. Fernandez of Flushing and Johnny Gomez of Woodside.
Pre Masters Certificate
Maggie Berck of Douglaston.
Masters in Business Administration
Aakash Bhatia. Ashwani Chandnani, Yu-Fen Chou and Jenny S Lee of Elmhurst; Nicole Biscardi, Paige Teuscher, Yu-Hao Wang and Stella Simantiraki of Astoria, Eduard Bulku, Patty Dong, Anis A Lakhani and Elias Letsios of Woodside; Chun-Chih Chang, Prachee J Shah of Floral Park; Judith Ciceron, and Meena Kumar of Queens Village; Ana C Ferrarini of South Ozone Park; Rosemary Fung of Little Neck; Amy Ho, Ching Hsu, Tatiana Lebedeva, Weidong Li, Koji Ohashi, and Suzan A Shah of Forest Hills; Stacy P Johnson Williams of Jamaica; Tanakorn Laosillapacharoen of Corona; Yi Chun Lin, Yasmin B Saloudeen of Flushing; Emmanuel S Ogunyemi of Fresh Meadows; Adebola Omotade of Glen Oaks; Sansanee Phromma of Sunnyside; Jennifer Rahman of Richmond Hill; Calianne K Ryan of Far Rockaway; Jacqueline Salazar of Jackson Heights; Patricia E Stewart of Jamaica; George Takos, Erica and Wong, Kar K Yip of Bayside and Gonzalo Zarza Gonzalez of Jackson Heights;
Masters in Science Degree
Grace Adegite, Rachelle Boncy, William I Romo, and Mikhail Veyler of Jamaica;
Ana M Aragon Tello, Jennifer Del Campo. Blerim Jegeni, Upen P Patel, Wei-Lin Tsou, and Wei Wu of Forest Hills; Catherine M Badala of Bayside; Eli Bakst, Lesurma Dixon, and Anissa N Truitt of Far Rockaway; Richard N Balkissoon of Bellerose; Kaitlyn Booth; Rachel L Bostic, Marguerite A Gibson, Rebecca J Grudzina, Sukla R Hazra, Erin S Lee, Courtney A Roberts, Cindi Schmalz, and John Zias of Astoria; Jeffrey Caban, and Tasha Johnson of Arverne; Yee Kei Chan, Ying Cheng, Yang Guo, Xu Han, Zhubing He, Zehua Huang, Michael Lam, KeKe Lin, Hong Tao Liu, Pipakorn Lumwanna, Qingfang Shen, Chalongkrung Wacharintranon, Weiye Wang, Daifei Wang, Xiao You, Wanqin Yu, Yaoyu Zhang, and Lianyu Zhang of Elmhurst; Manisha P Chauhan of Briarwood; Alam Chowdhury of Woodhaven; Rifatul Chowdhury and Abraham Collazo of Woodside; Michael L Dominguez and Sinan Ozgur of Sunnyside; Joseph A Everett, Carmen Li, Zhan Ma, and Zilai Zhou of Flushing; Xinfang Feng, and Guangwen Xu of Corona; Tatiana L Gallardo of Glendale; Louise A Henri of Hollis Park Gardens; Cortney R Hood of Queens Village; Shazad Iqbal of Floral Park; Nikolaos Kartalis and Victoria E Rodriguez of Whitestone; Tomasz M Kasperek and Miguel A Vega of Ridgewood; Melissa A Klein, Prithipal Singh and Sumeer Vij of South Ozone Park; Jingxin Pang, and Abhishek Sharma of Ozone Park; Michael C Roper of Long Island City; Shiyam Satkunasingham of Glen Oaks; Robin Simon of New Hyde Park; Vita L Tagliavia of Howard Beach; Teresa Taylor of Richmond Hill and Pei Zhu of Rego Park.
HONORS and AWARDS
Jackson Heights resident Leonora Yaun, RN, MA, Nurse Manager of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital (SLR) in Manhattan, is the recipient of the Care and Compassion Award at the hospital’s annual celebration of Pastoral Care Week.
GROUNDBREAKING
Queens Collegeheld a groundbreaking ceremony for Phase II renovations of the Selma and Max Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. Among the enhancements planned for the arts center are such audience-friendly features as larger lobbies and bathrooms, new exterior and interior lighting, signage and landscaping.
Allstate agency owner Francisco Mercado, whose office is located at 188-01 Northern Boulevard in Flushing, was recently named an Agent Hero by Allstate Insurance Company’s New York Region, and awarded a $500 grant for a local youth program. Mercado donated the grant to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) of New York, to be used to support the ADA’s NYC Step Out to Fight Diabetes Walk.
SCHOOL EVENTS
Students at The School for Language and Communication Development (SLCD) invited their grandparents to attend school with them for a portion of the day on October 26. Students were excited to show off their classroom and introduce their friends and teachers to their grandparents. In some classes, the grandparents read to the students, in others they sat next to their grandchild’s desk and participated in an art and crafts activity, and still in others they simply sat next to their grandchild and listened as the students learned their daily curriculum.
