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Ohio State EmPOWERment Program – Graduates and Spring 2025 Trainee Participants

October 24, 2025

Hend Abououf
Mechanical Engineering

Noah Bevers 
Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering

Brian Capobianco 
Environment & Natural Resources

René Castillo 
Earth Sciences

Nathaniel Colvin 
Material Science Engineering

Samuel Copeland
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering 

Abdirashid Mohamed Dahir*
Geography

Obaida Darwish 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed Elsayed
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Okezie Emmanuel
Animal Science

Kat Finneran
Geography

YunJing Guo
Integrated Systems Engineering

Diego Hincapie Ossa*
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering

Abbi Houser
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Emmaline Hutchison
Material Science and Engineering 

Kaniza Islam 
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Sushma Katari
Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering 

Kenzington Kottenbrock
Biomedical Engineering

Hyeonsong (Song) Lee
Environment and Natural Resources

Michael Lee
Mechanical Engineering

Liping Li 
Integrated Systems Engineering

David Liu 
Chemistry

David Mapunda 
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ahmad Mohammadshirazi
Computer Science & Engineering

Michael Nye
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Victoria Osei-Ahenkan 
Public Policy and Management

Teagan Reasch 
Public Policy and Management

Brandon Rothrock
Geography

Jamie Rye*
Environment & Natural Resources

Prince Henry Sampson Eduam
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Troye Sas-Wright*
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering

Bishista Shree
Environment and Natural Resources

Jaden Tatum*
Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering

Aashma Upreti
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering

Euler Valdivieso Calle
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ming Weng
Environmental Sciences Graduate Program - Animal Science

Alex While
Integrated Systems Engineering

Qingrun Yang*
Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering

*Trainee has graduated