Recognition Day for the class of 2026 was celebrated with a fish fry at the home of Roger and Mary Ann Pryor in West Point.
Jassen Callender, interim director and F.L. Crane Professor in the School of Architecture, kicked the celebration off thanking the Pryors as well as Robert and Freda Harrison and School of Architecture staff members Stephanie Childress and Pandora Prater for making the event possible. He also thanked the graduating students' parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, partners, and friends who supported them through their journey in the School of Architecture.
Interim Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Design and Associate Dean of Research Bimal Balakrishanan welcomed everyone on behalf of the college before the following awards were given out:
Alpha Rho Chi
Chapter President: Megan McKinney
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Jacob Gines
Alpha Rho Chi is the only national co-ed professional/social fraternity for architecture and the allied arts. MSU’s Hippodamus chapter includes members representing architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and engineering.
APX Student Book Award
The APX student book award is given to a graduating fifth-year active member who has furthered the mission of the fraternity through service.
Recipient: Iliana Ramos
Alpha Rho Chi Medal
Presented by: Associate Professor Jacob Gines
The Alpha Rho Chi Medal is awarded to the graduating student who has shown an ability for leadership, performed willing service for the school and gives promise of professional merit through attitude and personality. The medal is offered each year to every NAAB fully accredited school of architecture. The recipient is chosen by the entire faculty of the school.
Recipient: Mark Perry
Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society
Chapter President: Jay Snodgrass
Faculty Advisors: Assistant Professor Duane McLemore
Tau Sigma Delta is the architectural and allied programs honor society open to top academic students in design disciplines. Induction into TSD does not occur until the student consistently demonstrates high academic standards and is in the third-year.
TSD Fifth-Year Graduates: Caeli Finch, Becca Garrick, Mackenzie Gibbs, Samuel Isaac Hall, Kasey Losik, Camille Mask, Ellen Overstreet and Heather Papizan
TSD Fifth-Year Design Award
The Tau Sigma Delta Fifth-Year Design Award is presented to the fifth-year design student who has exhibited excellence in design. This is a book award.
Recipient: Isaac Hall
QCAAD
Chapter President: Jo Aguilar and Jay Snodgrass
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Duane McLemore
QCAAD strives to create a safe space for students and faculty in architecture and the allied arts who are members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The club serves as a space for open dialogue about queer identity and expression within the college.
QCAAD Fifth-Year Award
The QCAAD Fifth-Year Award is presented to a fifth-year member of the club who, in their thesis project, has expanded the students’ insight and awareness of LGBTQ+ issues and/or designed with the LGBTQ+ community in mind.
Recipient: Ellen Overstreet.
ARCC King Award
Presented by: Associate Professor Silvina Lopez Barrera
Named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, this award is presented to one student per ARCC-member school. Selection is made by the entire faculty based upon criteria that acknowledge innovation, integrity and scholarship in architectural or environmental design research.
Recipient: Jacqueline Enriquez
Fifth-Year Jurists’ Awards
Studio Coordinator: Assistant Professor Aaron White
The Jurists’ Award, a book award, is conferred by the fifth-year design faculty upon the student(s) who has achieved the greatest personal growth as a designer and whose work has contributed to the overall success of the fifth-year design studio.
Recipients: William Brotherton and Isaac Hall
CDFL Capstone Studio Travel Award
Presented by: Assistant Professor Aaron White
Funds from Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons Architects + Engineers’ $5,000 fifth-year, capstone studio sponsorship were used to support the studio, including support for prominent external project reviewers and two cash awards for student travel.
Recipient: Kasey Losik, first place; Becca Garrick, second place
Academic Achievement Award
Presented by: Assistant Professor Aaron White
The Academic Achievement Award is a book award presented to the graduating student who has the highest cumulative MSU grade point average.
Recipient: Camille Mask
Medal for Academic Excellence
Presented by: Assistant Professor Aaron White
Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, the AIA Medal of Excellence, formerly the Henry Adams Medal, is considered the most important award given to graduating students. It is awarded for “general excellence in architecture” throughout the course of study, as selected by the entire faculty. The AIA presents the medal at a national ceremony. The School of Architecture will support the winner’s travel.
Recipient: Caeli Finch
Graduating Architecture Students:
- Hannah A. Arnold
- Cole Arrington
- Anna Elizabeth Barnes
- Kyla L. Barton
- William H. Brotherton
- Tess Lenore Bruno
- China Wei Chandler
- Caroline Clune
- Grace Kathryn Delahoussaye
- Mary Kirk Dillard
- Sam McGuire Dykes
- Jacqueline Enriquez
- Paulina Isabel Fernandez Urbina
- Caeli Alexis Finch
- Edward Carl Albin Forsberg
- Rebecca K. Garrick
- Elizabeth Marie Gerzon
- Mackenzie Leann Gibbs
- Carlie Susan Gleason
- Michael Y. Gonzalez
- Anna Rives Gully
- Samuel Hall
- Emily Kathryn Hammons
- James Matthew Harper
- Carlos Fidel Hawkins
- Victoria Anne Henderson
- Arturo Hernandez
- John Reid Hitchcock
- Ashlyn Faith Jones
- Elizabeth Shappley Jones
- Emma G. Jordan
- Kasey R. Losik
- Breunna Nicole Manuel
- Camille C. Mask
- Alyssa G. McKee
- Rodney Lamar Morgan
- Lauren Elizabeth Odom
- Ellen Kavanay Overstreet
- Heather Alisa Papizan
- Mark Anthony Perry
- Iliana C. RamosJeremiah J. Richards
- Rachel Elaine Sampson
- Elvis Scott
- Reagan C. Scott
- Michael L. Seale
- Yuria Jasmine Sloane
- Madison Grace Studdard
- Faith M. Troutt
- Austin Amilcar Trujillo
- Jeremiah R. Washington
- Hannah Ying-Yee Zhou