University's 12 summa cum laude undergrads second-most for a Fall Commencement

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Twelve of the Â鶹ҹÊÐ’s 896 undergraduate students share a place in history.

The students, who have all maintained 4.0 GPAs, represent the second-highest number of summa cum laude graduates for a Fall Commencement ceremony.

During Â鶹ҹÊÐ’s Fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday, a total of 1,214 degrees will be conferred. That number includes 33 doctoral degrees, which is the most in a fall semester in school history, and 285 master’s degrees.

Summa cum laude undergraduates, listed by college, are:

B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration

  • Adrienne Sonnier, management

College of Education & Human Development

  • Lauren Bainter, kinesiology

College of Engineering

  • Lucas Blanchard, electrical engineering

College of Liberal Arts

  • Myca Broussard, human development and family science
  • Maria DeRoche, strategic communication
  • Vanna Do, speech pathology and audiology
  • Seth Dupre, psychology
  • Lila Mount, sociology
  • Ashley Sellers, communicative disorders

Ray P. Authement College of Sciences

  • Isaac Kulp, mathematics
  • Ruby Shrestha, computer science
  • Laurielle Watkins, chemistry

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Photo caption: During Â鶹ҹÊÐ’s Fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies, 12 undergraduate students earned 4.0 GPAs, the second-most summa cum laude graduates in a fall semester. (Photo credit: Rachel Rafati / Â鶹ҹÊÐ)