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Fall 2018 

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Sungyeon Ahn

William Andries

Kamal Apatira

Georges Azouri

Faith Blakey

Colleen Kelly

Benjamin May

Pia Ocvirk

Natalie E. Raskas

Helina Samson

Ryan Scott

Sydney Secuskie

Sarah Selzer

Abigail Smith

Griffin Spurgin

Jarrod Stiver

Aleysha Ward

Theresa R. Weigel

Jackson Williams

Joseph S. Zanca

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Caleb Baue

 Jonathan Bonilla

 Frederick Coudret

 Destiney Davis

 DaBreonna Doss

 Christopher Douglas

 Cailey Griffin

 Gunter Jaeger

 Emmanuel Koutsouras

 Yongjie Li

 Katharine McLean

 Brogan Miller

 Joshua Mundell

 Richard Pasch

 Daniel Scotto

 Ryan Smith

 Nathan Stapleton

 Leda Turpen

 Margaret Wagenbrenner

 Kenneth West

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