CAPLA Graduating Senior Jenny Nguyen One of Four Featured UArizona Graduates, Interviewed on Tucson ABC Affiliate

May 14, 2020
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Jenny Nguyen '20 B Arch was selected as one of four featured University of Arizona graduating students among more than 11,000 graduates this semester.
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Jenny Nguyen

On May 13, University of Arizona News published a story of four featured UArizona graduating students, and the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture's Jenny Nguyen '20 B.Arch was among them.

In "Class of 2020 Includes Stories of Perseverance Beyond the Pandemic," students from CAPLA, the Eller College of Management, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and College of Pharmacy are featured. They were selected from among the 11,000 students graduating from the university this semester.

Nguyen was also interviewed on May 15, 2020 in Tucson's ABC affiliate, KGUN 9. Watch the interview.

"The University of Arizona class of 2020 shares the collective challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. But many students have their own stories, apart from COVID-19, of perseverance and overcoming hardships while excelling in their studies and beginning new careers," University Communications says. Nguyen mourned the loss of her father and shouldered the news of her mother's cancer diagnosis while she was an architecture undergraduate at CAPLA.

Read more about Nguyen and her path to and through the CAPLA Bachelor of Architecture program.

Congratulations to Jenny Nguyen and all of CAPLA's and UArizona's graduating students! Thank you for your hard work, resilience and spirit.

  

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