2026 Spring Commencement

Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design
May 9, 2026 — 1 p.m.
Barnhill Arena

Graduates will be recognized in a ceremony led by the deans and department heads that will also be live-streamed on the university’s official YouTube channel. For more details, visit the Commencement website.

Commencement Speaker

Sloan Aulgur 

Sloan Aulgur is a designer, researcher and playwright whose work explores the space between narrative and lived experience. Born and raised in Arkansas, she graduated from the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in 2020 with a Bachelor of Interior Design. Since then, her work has spanned art, interior design, architecture, exhibition and scenic design, treating interiors as performative sites for collective inquiry. She believes the most profound thing we do as human beings is gather in person to tell stories, grounding her practice as a designer.

Following her undergraduate studies, Aulgur worked with practices across Northwest Arkansas, including Somewhere Studio, Blue Crane, and Marlon Blackwell Architects. She went on to receive a Master of Architecture from MIT, where she served as a Research and Design Lead at Matter Design, exploring how stories from the humanities past can inform future environments. This work developed her approach grounded in narrative, material histories, and collective modes of reading and staging.

Her recent work includes exhibition design for The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology, a collateral event of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, and MIT Face to Face, a campus-wide drawing project inspired by Es Devlin. Her performance work, Green Herrings in a Yellow Room: A Counter-Production of The Yellow Wallpaper, debuted Off-Off Broadway at the Dream Up Festival in New York. She is currently an architectural designer at Rockwell Group in New York, creating spaces between hospitality and performance, and continues to build a practice that makes underrepresented and underexplored conversations, places and stories accessible to broader publics. 

Parking

Free parking is available in any unrestricted parking lot on campus. Download a map of all parking areas.

Pictures

A professional photographer will be taking pictures during the awarding of diplomas and will contact you later to arrange for prints.

2026 Candidates for Graduation

Bachelor of Architecture

Sydney Babbitt
Kennedy Evan Baird
Rylee Ball     Cum Laude
John Blake     High Distinction
Walden Wheeler Blankenship
Darcia Burris     Highest Distinction
Olivia Caban
Wyatt Charles
Lyric Cooksey
Haley Czeschin     Distinction
Ema Nicole Djukic     Distinction
Carlyn Duperroir
Adam Eugene Engelke
Thomas C Fisher     High Distinction
Edward M Franklin     Cum Laude
Jordan Gerling
Hunter T Goad
Michka Gordon     Distinction
Aaron Edward Gust
Bowen Truckee Heidger
Joseph MacGlashan Hill
Ken Ho     Distinction
Brennan Hoad     Distinction
Micah Hook     Distinction
Kierstin Lee Hoover
Tatum P Howard     Distinction
Seth Philip Johnson
Rory Jones     Distinction
Grace Ann Kaempfe
Mary Krasovec
William W Langston     Distinction
Maggie E Lee     Distinction
William Gabriel Long
Alice MacDonald
Andrew Mardell
Kathelyn McHaney     Magna Cum Laude
Robert Melton
Ineza Amaury Ndagijimana
Abigail Panneck
Hailey Pease
Skyler Ashton Perryman
Ruth Prenzler     Magna Cum Laude
Whitley Paige Raney     Distinction
Aspen Regan     Summa Cum Laude
Layla Riley
Evan Richard Roberts     High Distinction
Hailey Rodriguez
Erica Roman
Caleb Rothell     High Distinction
Claire Sanders
Matthew Brady Schroeder     Distinction
Grace Ann Shoemaker     High Distinction
Morgan Solomon
Katherine Stanek     Magna Cum Laude
Mackenzie N Stevens
Hallie Stiff     Cum Laude
Will Sutton     Summa Cum Laude
Margarita Torres     Distinction
Katherine Voss     Distinction
Macy McKay Watson
Bradley O Weimer
Kara White
Sydney Winkler     Distinction
Kara Jean Young
Hasen Gaia Zimmerman                    

Bachelor of Interior Architecture and Design

Kathryn M Ballard
Carrie Denise Ballenger
Sydney Bommarito
Macy Paige Brady
Burton Brandt
Blakely Anne Brighton     Distinction
Parker Brobston     Magna Cum Laude
Emmalyn Burns     Magna Cum Laude
Claire Callaway     Highest Distinction
Sofia Chiartosini
Brennah Clubine     Distinction
Finley Grace Condon
Riley Cook
Alexandra Costley
Caroline Margaret Dabney
Lindsay Deramus     Distinction
Kenleigh Rhea Embrey     Cum Laude
Emerson S Foley
Halley Garcia     Magna Cum Laude
Sydney Claire Gaston     Distinction
Katie E Hill    Magna Cum Laude
Eryn Marisa Hughes
Kate Jernigan
Turner Kane
Madelyn Rose Kennish     Distinction
Emerson Lundien
Saylor Elizabeth Maloney
Mary Virginia McNeil
Gavin McWethy
Brandi Lynn Meredith
Brianna D Jones Mosby
Caroline Rose Normand
Campbell Osier
Olivia Phelan     Distinction
Taylor Elizabeth Rice
Madilyn Louise Riley
Lauren Grace Romero
Savannah Avery Rye
Isabella Grace Sanchez
Mikala M Sexton    Magna Cum Laude
Drew Joseph Shillings
Caroline Simpson
Andrea Lee Smith     Distinction
Audrey F Swan     Distinction
Caitlin Swanson     High Distinction
Anna Claire Wall     High Distinction
Avery Cate Webb
Ann-Elizabeth R Williams
Grace Katherine Wixson
Margaret P Yelverton
Abigail Kathleen Young
Emma Zenthoefer     High Distinction

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Ana Barnett     High Distinction
Sophia Bobzien    Magna Cum Laude
Kadin Alexander Broussard
Zeacus M Brown     Distinction
Grace E Cali
Erin R Dolan     Highest Distinction
Isaac J Dyer
Lauren Irwin
Audrey Bea Jackson
Natalie Lentz    Magna Cum Laude
Abigail McDonald    Magna Cum Laude
Raegan J Meyer     High Distinction
Andrew Pehlman     Magna Cum Laude
Sara Svensson     Summa Cum Laude
Lauren Beth Wright     Magna Cum Laude
Harper G Yingst     Distinction
Dean Zakrzewski     Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Science in Architecture Studies

Melanie Guadalupe Castrejon
Brooke Elizabeth Criner
Caitlyn Rose Davis
Benjamin Mitchell Enloe
Patrick Paul Gattelaro
Weston Moore
Caleb Oliva
Anna Isabella Sanders