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a Prize Winners 2001-02   Cyrilly Abels Fiction Prize (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Jennie Lin '03, a prize of $1,500, for "The Soloist," the best short story written by an undergraduate during the academic year. Academy of American Poets Award - to Robert Dennis '02, a prize of $100 for "Opening to Interpretation from the Inuit-Inukitut Dictionary," a collection of poems Albert Alcalay Prize - to Kurt Mueller '02, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studio Rudolph Arnheim Prize - to Carlin Wing '02, a prize of Professor Arnheim's book Power of the Center, for the most outstanding project that achieves excellence through interdisciplinary effort or which demonstrates excellence in scholarly research integrated with visual communication Arnold Prize For the most understanding essay on the true spirit of book collecting. There were no entries for this prize Jeremy Belknap Prize - to Raluca Manea '05, a prize of $2,000 for her essay entitled "Platon et Baudelaire: deux visions possibles sur la structure binaire de l'existence humains" Helen Choate Bell Prize Essay Prize - to Jason Puskar G4, a prize of $2,500 for "The Guesswork of Knowing: Peirce, Howells, and the Observation of Chance." - to Angus Burgin '02, a prize of $2,500 for "Reconceiving the Outsider: Critics and The Bostonians, 1885-1956." Lillian Bell Prize (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Matthew Rojansky '02, a prize of $100, as the undergraduate who has written the best paper on the Holocaust or other major 20th-century event involving human tragedy Robert T. Benjamin Prize - to Daniela Tartakoff '04, income from the fund ($376.66) to an Eliot House sophomore or junior of high academic promise, broad interests, and deep humanitarian concerns who has contributed significantly through extracurricular activities to the Harvard community and/or the outside community James Gordon Bennett Prize - to Stacy Ann Porter '02, income from the fund ($2303.41), for her senior thesis entitled, "Production Systems and Welfare Regimes: A Framework for Understanding Women's Employment in the Advanced Economies," an outstanding essay on some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. Philo Sherman Bennett Prize - to Ting Wang '02, income from the fund ($849.54), for an outstanding essay discussing principles of free government, entitled "Extrajudicial Mediation of Civil Disputes in China: The Decline of People's Mediation and Institutional Response"  William J. Bingham Award - to Ben Crockett '02, as the top male athlete in Harvard's senior class Bernhard Blume Awards - to Spencer William Wolff '02, a prize of $250 to the undergraduate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, or in the Department of Comparative Literature whose major field is German, who has attained the most outstanding record in course work - to Patrick Fortmann G2, a prize of $500 to the graduate student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, or in the Department of Comparative Literature whose major field is German, who has attained the most outstanding record in course work The Bohemians - to Nicholas Vines G1, income from the fund ($1,162.15), for his original composition entitled "Terminus in Time" - to Robert Hasegawa G1, income from the fund ($1,162.14), for his original composition entitled "Due Corde" The William and Mary Lee Bossert Prize - to Giulia Stellari '03 A Lowell House Prize Boston Ruskin Club Prize - to Dehn Gilmore '02, a prize of $1,000 for "'It is We Who Gnaw Like the Worm': Ruskin's Influence on the Artistic Understanding of Thomas Hardy."  Francis Boott Prize - to Jonathan Wild G5, a prize of $250, for his composition in concerted vocal music entitled "Wreath of Stone" Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate English - to Leah Whittington '02, a prize of $6,000 for her essay entitled "Milton's Imitation of Vergil and the Rewards of Self-Sacrifice" - to Daniel A. Rosenthal '02, a prize of $6,000 for his essay entitled "Walt Whitman's War" Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Natural Sciences - to Manda Clair Jost G6, a prize of $6,000 for her essay entitled "Gessner's Hyena and the Telephone Game" Bowdoin Prize - Graduate English - to Susan E. Barba G4, a prize of $6,000 for her essay entitled "Trying to Achieve the Impossible: Lyric Closure in Thomas Hardy's Winter Words" Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Translation into Latin - to Zachary Podolsky '04, a prize of $1,000,for his translation into Latin Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Translation into Latin - to John Schafer G3, a prize of $2,000, for his translation into Latin Boylston Prize for Elocution - to Kieran Fitzgerald '03, a first prize of $300 David Steven Braverman Prize - to Sarah Dabney Redmond '02, a prize of $25 to the Adams House senior who, while pursuing a concentration not closely allied with the arts, demonstrates great talent and commitment to the performing arts, particularly but not exclusively in music - to Frederick Bengtsson '04, second prize of $200 LeBaron Russell Briggs - Commencement Oration - to Zayed Muhammed Yasin '02, a prize of $500, as the member of the graduating class of Harvard College who delivers the undergraduate English oration at the Commencement Exercises   LeBaron Russell Briggs - Fiction Prize - to Ian MacKenzie '04, for "Sleeps Bright Land" LeBaron Russell Briggs - Thesis Prize - to Jean Han '02, a prize of $2,000 - to David Kornhaber '02, a prize of $2,000 - to Christopher Meserole '02, a prize of $2,000 - to Emily Ogden '02, a prize of $2,000 LeBaron Russell Briggs - Travel Prize - to Millicent Bennett '02, a prize of $2,000 - to Robert Dennis '02, a prize of $2,000 - to Anna Fishko '02, a prize of $4,000 - to Vasugi Ganeshananthan '02, a prize of $4,000 - to Alexandra Haines-Stiles '02, a prize of $9000 - to Lindsay Jones '02, a prize of $2,000 - to Sonja Nikkila '02, a prize of $3,000 - to Antoinette Nwandu '02, a prize of $3,000 - to Erin Sheley '02, a prize of $2,000 - to Leah Whittington '02, a prize of $2,000 Reuben A. Brower Memorial Fund Prize - to Elizabeth Napier Dewar '02, a prize of $25 to the Adams House senior who has achieved excellence in the Humanities Francis H. Burr '09 Fund Prize - to Ryan Fitzgerald '02, a prize of $11,266.53 to the senior who combines as nearly as possible Francis H. Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership, scholarship and interest in athletics Edward M. Chase Prize - to Christina Lynn Davis Ph.D '01, income from the fund ($10,000), for her dissertation entitled, "Beyond Food Fights: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization," as the best essay on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace by any student in the University David Taggart Clark Prize - Latin Oration - to Leah Jane Whittington '02, a prize of $500, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement Classics Department Prize - to Christopher Diamond '02, a prize of $100 to a senior who has demonstrated excellence in Latin and/or Greek - to Ann Marie Tigani '02, a prize of $100 to a senior who has demonstrated excellence in Latin and/or Greek - to Leah Whittington '02, a prize of $100 to a senior who has demonstrated excellence in Latin and/or Greek John Clive Prize - to Jayne Rosefield '02, a prize of $75, for her essay entitled "'What Passing Bells?': Memorializing Benjamin Britten's War Requiem," the best History and Literature honors essay on a topic in the field of British history and literature Colton Prize - to Sarah Carter '02, a prize of $500, for excellence in the preparation of a senior thesis in the Department of History, entitled "World in Miniature: Sickness, Charity and Death in Doll Play, 1850-1897" Coolidge Debating Prize - to Allon Kedem '02, one-half of the income from the fund ($2455.76) as one of the best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debates - to Steven Wu '02, one-half of the income from the fund ($2455.76) as one of the best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debates Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - to Andrew Lynn '02, a prize of $2,500, for his honors essay of the highest distinction entitled "Reading Bartleby" Louis Curtis Prize - to Deirdre Mask '02, a prize of $200 for excellence in Latin to a senior who has concentrated in any of the fields of concentration in which Latin forms a part - to Joyce Keck '02, a prize of $200 for excellence in Latin to a senior who has concentrated in any of the fields of concentration in which Latin forms a part Department of History Senior Prize - to Stephen Sachs '02, a prize of $100, for the best total record as a history concentrator by the end of the senior year Department of History Junior Prize - to Rachel Brodin '03, a prize of $100, for one of the best essays written in Junior Tutorial - to Nathan Perl-Rosenthal '03, a prize of $100, for one of the best essays written in Junior Tutorial - to Anne Skrodzki '03, a prize of $100, for one of the best essays written in Junior Tutorial - to Richard Worf '03, a prize of $100, for one of the best essays written in Junior Tutorial David Herbert Donald Prize - to Timothy Sohn '02, a prize of $500, as a graduating senior in the Department of History whose work in American history exemplifies the high standards of erudition, original thought, and elegant prose embodied in the career of David Herbert Donald Louise Donovan Award - to Kate Agresta '02, a prize of $500, for the Harvard-Radcliffe student who was worked behind the scenes in the arts - for example, as director, producer, or accompanist - contributing most to the success of a production and the opportunity for others to shine. - to Marvin Pittman '02, a prize of $500, for the Harvard-Radcliffe student who was worked behind the scenes in the arts - for example, as director, producer, or accompanist - contributing most to the success of a production and the opportunity for others to shine.   Dressler Traveling Grant - to Natalia Truszkowska '04, a grant of $2,000 to afford the opportunity to travel and study in the countries where Romance languages are spoken, in order to further ner understanding of language, literature, politics, history and culture Dudley House Book Prize - to Duncan Smith-Rohrberg '02, a prize of $100 to the senior member of Dudley House receiving financial assistance who has shown the most promise and progress in his or her years at Harvard Dunster House 50th Anniversary Prize - to Melissa Coleman '02 and Vanessa Henke '02, individuals who have freely given of their time and talents to make an outstanding and memorable contribution to the life of the House as a whole Edward Eager Memorial Fund prizes of $2,000 for the best creative writing, preferably in the juvenile field, by undergraduates in the English Department - to Vasugi Ganeshananthan '02, for "Love Marriage" - to Robert Dennis '02, for "The Lazy Eye" - to Kristopher Kelly '02, for "The Trench" - to Angela Hur '02, for "Retreat" - to Elizabeth Phang '02, for "The Glass Walkway" - to Anna Fishko '02, for "The Deep End" - to Birgit Larsson '04, for "Moon Lake" prizes of $2,000 for the best poetry by undergraduates in the English Department - to Erica Levy '02, for "Chase" - to Audrey Walton '03, for "Allegory" John Petersen Elder Prize - to Alex Healy '02 and Tyken Hsieh '02, a prize of $50 to each of the scholarly Lowell House students who have made unique contributions to the House Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - to Natasha Pasternack '03, a prize of $75 to be expended on books, to a member of the junior class, concentrating in the field of History and Literature, in recognition of high academic distinction in her essay entitled "Riding Outside the Sphere: The Call for Female Independence in Frances Williard's A Wheel Within a Wheel" Ethnic Studies Senior Thesis Prize -to Ashley Kircher, '01-'02, a prize of $1,500 in recognition of her outstanding senior thesis relating to Ethnic Studies, entitled "From Church to Casino: An Ethnographic Study of Native American Identity at the Laguna Pueblo." John P. Fadden Award - to Javier Lopez '02 and Hilary Walton '02, the seniors who have overcome physical adversity to make a contribution to their respective teams Timothy Faron Memorial Prize for Music - to Gregory Clifton Padgett '02, a prize of $25 to the Adams House senior who has significantly contributed to the musical life of Adams House Jonathan Fay Prize - to Susie Huang '02, a prize of $5000 for her thesis entitled, "Signal Interferences from Turbulent Spin Dynamics in Solution NMR Spectroscopy," as an outstanding imaginative work or piece of original research in any field - to Andrew Lynn '02 , a prize of $5000 for his thesis entitled "Reading Bartleby," as an outstanding imaginative work or piece of original research in any field William Scott Ferguson Prize - to Nathan Burstein '04, a prize of $500, for the best essay written in History 97 Eric Firth Prize - to Mari M. Calder '02, income from the fund ($2004.36), for her senior thesis entitled "Achieving Power Without Power? The Politics of Japanese Immigrant Policy in Comparative Perspective," for the best essay on the subject of the ideals of democracy. Franklin Ford Award - to Andrew Sodroski '04 and Gretchen Passe '04, a prize of $50 to each of the Lowell House students who share "Franklin's scholarly interest in academic subjects, strong intellectual ability and dry wit" William Plummer French Prize - to Marques Gerrad Redd '04, a book prize to the undergraduate student who has collected the best personal library focusing on some aspect of African or African-American culture and history Sophia Freund Prize - to Stephen Sachs '02, a prize of $1,000, as the student in the senior class of Harvard College who is graduating summa cum laude with the highest grade-point average Paul Revere Frothingham Fund Prize - to Trevor Cox '01-'02, a prize of $7,875.29 to the senior who best exemplifies the qualities of excellent scholarship, character and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897 Prize - to Alexander B. Horowitz '02, a cash prize, for his thesis entitled "An Analysis of Recidivism in Suffolk County," judged by the Department of Sociology to best represent the standards of research, content and expression of which Sociology is capable Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize - to Anton Yakovlev '03, a prize of $1,000 for "Counterpoints: a Group of Poems" Carroll F. Getchell Manager's Award - to Masa Hoshino '02, the team manager of the year Leo Goldberg Prize in Astronomy Senior - to Karin Sandstrom '02, a prize of $1,000 in recognition of outstanding undergraduate research achievement for her senior thesis entitled "Dynamical Masses of Hot White Dwarfs" Junior - to Matthew Rigazio '03, a prize of $600 in recognition of outstanding undergraduate research achievement for his junior thesis entitled "X-Ray Emission Spectra of Hydrogenic Ions Induced in Charge Transfer Collisions" The Richard Harris Gottesman Award - to Diego Arambula '02 and Maureen Shannon '02, seniors whose participation, enthusiasm, excellence and sportsmanship have contributed most to this year's Winthrop House intramural athletics program Graduate English Commencement Oration - to Avery Weld Gardiner, HLS '02, a prize of $500, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercise Kate and Max Greenman Prize - to Eric Chesin '02, Martin Roth '04, Matthew Moon '05 and Ya'ir Aizenman '05, medals for their participation in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debates  The David J. Hanson Award - to Alana Murphy '02 and Kyle Egan '02, seniors who perpetuate David J. Hanson's "high character, original sense of humor, warmth of personality, and who by participation in many facets of undergraduate life contributed largely to the activities and life of his [or her] fellow students, thereby adding to the heritage of Harvard College." Seymour and Ruth Harris Dunster House Senior Prize for Academics - to Sarah Little '02, a prize of $500 for an outstanding academic record in the House Seymour and Ruth Harris Dunster House Senior Prize for Combined Achievement - to Andre Williams '02, a prize of $500 for an outstanding combined record of achievement in studies, character and extra-curricular activities Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics - to Benjamin Edelman '02, income from the fund ($3,716.77), for his outstanding thesis entitled "The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com" Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize (Other Social Sciences) - to Alexander Nyren '02, income from the fund ($3,716.77), for his outstanding thesis entitled "When is it Rational to Play Tit-for-Tat? Iterated Admissibility and the Infinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma" Harvard College Women's Leadership Award - to Laura Clancy '02, a prize of $500 for exceptional leadership affecting women while attending Harvard, achievement of meaningful impact on fellow students and exhibition of a potential for leadership in future endeavors Harvard Monthly Prize - to Elizabeth Phang '02, a prize of $500, as that student in the most advanced courses in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics Award - to Natalia Berry '02, a prize of a watch to the senior varsity woman who best exemplifies the qualities of excellent scholarship, character, leadership and athletic ability Roger Conant Hatch Prize - to Lucy Ives '02, a prize of $50 for "At Table" Clemens Herschel Prize - to Craig May '02, a prize of $200 for the purchase of books, as a meritorious student registered in practical hydraulics Philip Hofer Prize for Book and Art Collecting First Prize: - to Katharine K. Olson, G2, for her entry entitled Collecting Welsh Books Second Prize: - to Michael R. Canfield, G3, for his entry entitled The Influence and Inspiration of Entomology - to Trevor Cox '02, for his entry entitled Philately Speaking Honorable Mention: - to Patrick Hanley, G5, for his entry entitled A Collection of Ecological Images Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (see end of list) Charles Edmund Horman Memorial Prize - to Reema Rajbanshi '03, a prize of $1,800, awarded to a junior who excels in creative writing and who best personifies the ideals and sense of values held by Charles Edmund Horman, to provide financial assistance in the senior year John B. Imrie Memorial Award - to Daniel Droller '02, the senior in Eliot House with "a joyous, deep-rooted affirmation of life, disdain for the purely conventional, a love of adventure, the desire to learn by experiencing and the ability to respond creatively to difficult situations" Intramural Athletics Award - to Ellen Schulz '02 and Bill Sokol '02, a prize of $50 to each of the seniors who by participation and talent have done most to further intramural athletics in Lowell House Caroline Isenberg Award - to Karin Alexander '02 and David Modigliani '02 A Lowell House Prize Howard Mumford Jones Prize - to Catherine Toal, income from the fund for the best doctoral dissertation concerning some aspect of British or American literature or literary history in the nineteenth century submitted to the Department of English and American Literature and Language John V. Kelleher Prize - to Jean Han '02 and Dan Rosenthal '02, a prize of $50 to each of the Lowell House seniors who exemplify John Kelleher (Professor of Irish Studies, Emeritus)'s values, academic and intellectual interests, dependability and loyalty to Lowell House Ernst Kitzinger Prize - to Benton Bodamer '02 and Debby Rin '02 A Lowell House Prize George Arthur Knight Prize - to Christopher Trapani '02, income from the fund ($1,464.83), for his instrumental music composition entitled "History by Moonlight" - to Christopher Honett G1, income from the fund ($1,464.84), for his instrumental music composition entitled "Three Deaths in a Cambridge Museum" Korean War Memorial - to Michelle Kuo '03, a prize of $100 to the junior in Lowell House who, in the opinion of the Master and Tutors, possesses the qualities of unhesitating responsibility and strength of character Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship  - to Larissa Chernock '02 and Peter O'Connell '03, a prize of $16,853.69 each to a junior and a senior seriously interested in classical thought, with especial regard to traits of mind and character and the intention to pursue a career in law or service to the state Doris Cohen Levi Prize - to Sara Heller '02, a prize of $750 and a certificate, to the undergraduate student who "has demonstrated the best combination of talent and energy with an outstanding enthusiasm for musical theatre and for Harvard." - to Sarah I. Meyers '02, a prize of $750 and a certificate, to the undergraduate student who "has demonstrated the best combination of talent and energy with an outstanding enthusiasm for musical theatre and for Harvard." Jonathan Levy Prize - to Emily Knapp '03, a prize of $500, as the most promising actor in the College David Mason Little '18 Prize - to Rachel Anne Vessey '03, a prize of $25 to an Adams House junior on the basis of leadership, character, scholastic achievement and good House citizenship George Emerson Lowell Scholarship Prize - to Zachary Podolsky '04, a prize of $250 for excellence in the Classics on the basis of an examination which tests, in alternate years, competence in Greek and Latin language and literature - to Peter O'Connell '03, a prize of $250 for excellence in the Classics on the basis of an examination which tests, in alternate years, competence in Greek and Latin language and literature Hugh F. MacColl Prize - to Anthony Cheung '03, income from the fund ($1,190.07), for his composition entitled "No Unnecessary Noise" Marshall Tankard  - to Casey Mee Lee Daum '03, a prize of $25 and a pewter tankard to the Adams House junior who has contributed significantly to international understanding. The winner keeps the Marshall Tankard throughout his or her senior year Patrick Melendez Award -to Colby Hall '02 and Pete Karlen '02, a prize of $50 to each of the Lowell House seniors who exhibit qualities most similar to those of Patrick Melendez Mill-Taylor Prize - to Michelle Kuo '03 and Benjamin Schmidt '03, a prize of $250 to each of the two best Social Studies 10 essays written by any second year student concentrating in Social Studies Perry Miller Prize - to Avi Steinberg '02, a prize of $75, for his essay entitled "The Heroism of Laughter and the Community of Laughers: The Wabbit and World War II Amerwica" as an outstanding honors essay on a topic in the field of American history and literature Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize - to Tara McAllister '02, a prize of approximately $1,000 to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated both past meritorious achievement in the study of Japanese and strong potential for future achievement in and significant contributions to a Japan-related field of endeavor Sally and Cresap Moore Prize - to Rachel Hoffman '02, a prize of $50 for showing the Moores' zest for learning by integrating materials from different academic fields, or by using formal or informal study out of residence, extra-curricular activities or community service to produce outstanding academic work James Buell Munn Prize - to Chartey Quarcoo '02, a prize of $100 to the Lowell House senior with an outstanding academic record and strong literary talents and interests that have not been recognized in some official way Oliver-Dabney Prize in History (a Radcliffe Fund) - A prize of $25 to the senior who is judged to have the best overall record as a History concentrator Not awarded 2001-02 Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Sophomore) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Shannon Ringvelski '04, a prize of $75, for excellence in her sophomore essay entitled "Trafficking in Sacred Things: The Inferno's Fraudulent and the Problems of Imitation" Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Junior) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Mike O'Neill '03, a prize of $75 to be expended on books, to a member of the junior class, concentrating in the field of History and Literature, in recognition of high academic distinction in his essay entitled "Southern Cross: Exploring the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 through James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time" Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Senior) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Abby Schlatter '02, a prize of $75, for her honors essay of high distinction entitled "Choked by the Weeds of Domesticity: Inserting Edith Summers Kelley into American Feminist Thought" Mary P. Paget Prize - to Jennifer Monti '02, the senior student who has contributed most to women's athletics at Harvard Joseph Garrison Parker Prize - to Claire Herrick '02, a prize of $769.51 to a student intending to study in the field of medicine who has, like Joseph Garrison Parker, unusual breadth of interests outside the specifically prescribed premedical courses Pease Prize - to Nathaniel Mendelsohn '02, a prize of $250 for the best Latin thesis Eliot and Mary Perkins Prize - to Amara Murray '03, a prize of $100 to the sophomore or junior with high academic standing and interest in contributing to the community, both in Lowell House and in extracurricular activities Reginald H. Phelps Prize - to Deborah Leigh Fairchild ALB '02, a first prize (tie) of $1000 awarded to a graduating student receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Extension Studies on the basis of "academic achievement and character" - to Trey L. Thomas ALB '02, a first prize (tie) of $1000 awarded to a graduating student receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Extension Studies on the basis of "academic achievement and character" - to Robert Matthews ALB '02, a second prize of $750 awarded to a graduating student receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Extension Studies on the basis of "academic achievement and character" - to Lisa Barca ALB '02, a third prize (tie) of $500 awarded to a graduating student receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Extension Studies on the basis of "academic achievement and character" to Audrey Huff ALB '02, a third prize (tie) of $500 awarded to a graduating student receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Extension Studies on the basis of "academic achievement and character" Wendell Phillips Award - to Nitin Shah '02, a prize of $1,884.96 for special oratorial powers  Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies - to Jonathan Gribetz '02, a prize of $2,000 for his essay, "A Fresh Vision of Democracy: an Internal Critique of Cultural Pluralism and Zionism in the Thought of Horace M. Kallen," the best essay, feature article, or short story on a Jewish theme Edward H. Potter Prize - to Eric Aiese '02, Kristopher Mendez '02, and Isauro Villarreal '02, income from the fund ($850.52 apiece) to the Eliot House students who best fulfill "the great enthusiasm and curiosity for truly eclectic learning exhibited in his lifetime by Edward H. Potter" Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Comparative Literature) First Prize - to Dara Shulman, G1, a cash prize for her essay entitled "Moral Structures in I.J. Singer's Yoshe and the Calf and I.B. Singer's The Magician of Lublin: Toward a Definition of Narrative Demand." Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age First Prize - to Adam Weiss '02, a prize of $1,500 for his essay entitled "Despues del amor cortes: La transformacion de la belleza femenina en Don Quixote" Second Prize - to Ashley Isaacson '03, a prize of $750 Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Award - to Michelle Guerette '02, as the top female athlete in Harvard's senior class John H. Reardon Jr. Prize - to John Friedman '02, a prize of a watch to the senior varsity male who best exemplifies qualities of excellent scholarship, character, leadership and athletic ability William King Richardson Prize - to Alec Nevala-Lee '02, a prize of $500 for distinction in both Latin and Greek Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize - to Lionel Levine '01-'02, a prize of $275 for "Clifford Algebras and Vector Fields on Spheres," the best paper presented before the Mathematics Table - - to Alexander Healy '01-'02, a prize of $275 for "Zero Knowledge Proofs," the best paper presented before the Mathematics Table Robert and Maurine Rothschild Prize - to Adriane Gelpi '02, a prize of $300 for her outstanding senior thesis in history of science, entitled "Experimental Space and the Problem of Double Consciousness in Turn of the Century Boston" - to Hallam Stevens '02, a prize of $300 for his outstanding senior thesis in history of science, entitled "Symmetry, aesthetics, accelerators: The role of fundamental physics in (post-)modern society" Russian Literature and Culture Award - to Micaela Tegan Chatman '02, a $150 gift certificate to the Harvard Book Store for "A Novel Detective Story: Self-knowledge in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina," the most superior honors thesis in the Russian Literature and Culture concentration Russian Studies Award - for the superior honors thesis in the Russian Studies concentration No award was given in 2001-02 Sales Prize - to Sarah Hoff '02, a prize of $3,000 to the best scholar in Spanish to have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship has been determined by her proficiency in Spanish composition Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize - to Trevor Dryer '02, a prize of $4,522.77 to the Harvard College senior, proposing to enter Harvard Law School and considered best fitted, by intellect and character to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others John Osborne Sargent Prize for Latin Translation - to Sharon Harvey '02, a prize of $200 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace Winthrop Sargent Prize For the best essay relating to Shakespeare or Shakespeare's work There was no award given this year. Lisa Schnitzer Prize - to Avik Chatterjee '02, a prize of $25 to the Adams House senior who has given time and care for the benefit of others in the Cambridge-Boston community Carl Schurz Prize - to Laura Schubert '05, a prize of $200 to the freshman in German A, not on financial aid, who earns the highest mark in elementary German at the midyear examination V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize - to Susan Barba G4, a prize of $200 for "Sight, Insight and Memory in Mandelstam's 'Journey to Armenia,'" the best graduate essay on a topic in Russian Literature, or in Comparative Literature with a Russian component, from the calendar year just completed There was no undergraduate prize awarded this year. Smyth Prize - to Rachel Ahern '02, a prize of $250 George B. Sohier Prize - to Christopher Trapani '02, a prize of $250, for his thesis entitled "Songs From the Plays: Creating a Musical Reflection of Kenneth Koch's Poetry," as the best thesis written an undergraduate presented for Honors in English or in modern literature and in certain cases History and Literature Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - to Dehn Gilmore '02, a prize of $75, for her honors essay of high distinction entitled "'It Is We Who Gnaw Like the Worm': THomas Hardy's Novels and Victorian Debates about Artistic Permanence " Adelbert W. Sprague Prize - to Du Yun G1, income from the fund ($1,442.33), for his orchestral composition entitled "Ennui" Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize - to Julie Allen G4, a prize of $1000 to a Teaching Fellow who, in the judgment of a faculty committee visiting classes, conducts undergraduate sections with the highest measure of pedagogical skill, linguistic proficiency, enthusiasm and commitment to students' learning and welfare Zeph and Diana Stewart Prize -to Rachelle Gould '03, a prize of $100 to the undergraduate who has contributed most notably, whether through personal qualities or through activities, to the sense of community in Lowell House Phyllis Strimling Award -to Heather Wynne CSS '02, a prize of $500 for a graduate student who has used or is preparing to use the CSS experience for the advancement of women and society and who has grown personally and professionally as a result Matthew Strominger Prize - to Elly Truitt G2, a prize of $1500 for her outstanding work in public health and medicine Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts - to Christopher Hossfeld '02, a prize of $1000, in honor of the sum of activities of a graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts - to Cary McClelland '02, a prize of $1000, in honor of the sum of activities of a graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts  - to Jeff Sheng '02, a prize of $1000, in honor of the sum of activities of a graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts Sumner Prize - to Peter Warren Singer Ph.D. '01, income from the fund ($9,446.52), for his dissertation entitled "Corporate Warriors: The Privatized Military Industry," the best dissertation written by any student in the University from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace Tau Beta Pi Prize - to Benjamin Yolken '02, a prize of $100, to an undergraduate showing excellence in Engineering Sciences Benjamin Teel Memorial Prize - to Trevor Davis Dryer '02, a prize of $25 to the Adams House senior who has served the House in the same generous, gentle and happy spirit as Benjamin Teel Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies - to Albert Cho '02, a prize of $500, for his thesis of highest distinction entitled "The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold" - to Brian Shillinglaw '02, a prize of $500, for his thesis of highest distinction entitled "Epistemological Change and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in Eighteenth Century England" Francis J. Toland Community Service Award - to Maureen Shannon '02, the senior athlete who has made the most outstanding contribution to Harvard and its neighboring communities Toppan Prize - to Arash Abizadeh Ph.D. '01, income from the fund ($6,165.55), for his entry "Rhetoric, the Passions and Differences in Discursive Democracy," as the best dissertation on a subject of political science. Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize - to David Orenstein '02, first prize ($1,000), for his essay and bibliography on China. - to Jura Pintar '05, second prize ($750), for his entry entitled "Praxis Philosophy and Book Collecting Practi[s]e: From Marxians to Martians?" - to Susan Long '02, third prize ($500), for her essay and bibliography on family-owned books. Joan Gray Untermeyer Poetry Prize - to Emily Ogden '02, a prize of $500 for her entries entitled "Hawk", "Surveyor", "Pearl" and "Carrying", for best original poem or group of poems by an undergraduate in a given year. Luisa Vidal de Villasante Award - to Travis Zadeh G1, a prize for his essay entitled "'Of Texts and Dying in Garcilaso: Mortality in the Metaphor of Writing," the "best essay given by a student on any subject in the field of Comparative Literature, preference given to subjects dealing in some way with Spanish literature and/or language" Esther Sellholm Walz Prize - to Justice Kraus G1, a prize of $500 to a graduate student pursuing studies in German or Scandinavian language, with the intention of entering the teaching field, for "Freedoms and Fatalisms in Buchner's Dantons Tod," the best paper or essay as determined by a committee of members of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Philip Washburn Prize - to Stephen Sachs '02, a prize of $500, for the best thesis on a historical subject presented by a successful candidate for the bachelor's degree with honors in the Department of History The Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies - to Michael Gerber '02, a prize of $2,000 for his essay entitled "The Jewish Literary Tradition: the Conceptualization of Jewish History and of Judaism in Harry Austryn Wolfson's Semitics 9 Lectures, 1926-1927" Barrett Wendell Prize - to Yan Fang '04, a prize of $75, for excellence in her sophomore essay entitled "The Insider-Outsider: Lily Bart and Friendship in Edith Wharton's House of Mirth" Jane Coolidge and Walter Muir Whitehill Prize - to Scott Lee '03 and Sachin Shivaram '03, a prize of $50 to each of the Lowell House juniors who, as scholars and a citizens, best represent the tradition of the humane letters and arts B.J. Whiting Prize -to Kyle Hawkins '02 and Rasheed Townes '02, a prize of $50 to each of the seniors in Lowell House who add wit and charm to the House, show loyalty to the House and make it a desirable place for interaction Elizabeth Wilder Prize - to Yanjung Wang '05, a prize of $1000 to the freshman needing financial aid who earns the highest mark in elementary German at the midyear examination Lenore Wilson Prize - to Lisa Haber-Thomson '02 and Kaii Tu '04, as students in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies who have done superior work in the area of printmaking The Winthrop House Public Service Award - to Lavanya Kondapalli '02 and Benjamin Kornell '02, seniors in Winthrop House who gave generously of their time, effort and organizational skills to further the cause of service to the community   Judith Wood Memorial Prize - to Amit Malkani, ALM candidate, a prize of $1,000 for an Extension School student who, while compiling honors academic records at the School, also contended with disabilities of a serious nature - to Nicolle Spence, CPH candidate, a prize of $1,000 for an Extension School student who, while compiling honors academic records at the School, also contended with disabilities of a serious nature Judge Charles Wyzanski Award - to Nader Hasan '02 and Geoff Starks '02, a prize of $50 to each of the Lowell House seniors interested, like Judge Wyzanski, in the law, vigorous conversation, and theoretical and practical issues of justice The Katie Y.F. Yang Prize - to Christina Hoefler CSS '02, a prize of $500 awarded to the international graduate in the CSS Program with the most outstanding academic record (tie) - to Tuba Yesilakaya CSS '02, a prize of $500 awarded to the international graduate in the CSS Program with the most outstanding academic record (tie) Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes, 2001-2002 - to Rachel Ahern ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “An Evil and Shameful Return Hast Thou Planned': The uo¢stoV of Medea in Argonautica 4” -- Professor Andreola Rossi. - to Miriam Asnes ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “‘My Rights Don't Just Come to Me’: Palestinian Israeli Women Negotiating Identity” -- Professor Steven Caton. - to Will Bain ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Wind-Induced Systematic Error in the Closed Dynamic Chamber Soil Respiration Method” -- Professor Steven Wofsy. - to Pavan Bendapudi ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Association Properties of the SecYEG and SecA Translocase Components from B. subilis and T. maritima” -- Dr. Lambertus van den Berg. - to Wenya Linda Bi ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Molecular Profile of Selective Vulnerability in Huntington’s Disease” -- Professor David Standaert and Dr. Sarah Augood. - to Jesse Billett ’01, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “A Newly Identified Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Antiphoner” -- Professor Thomas Kelly. - to Benton Bodamer ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Toad Trip: Shamanic Transformation, Rain Divination and the Role of Toads in Precolumbian and Modern Mesoamerican Ritual” -- Professor William Fash. - to Alexis Burgess ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Making Something Out of Nothing” -- Professor Richard Heck. - to Peter Chung ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Reading Beween the Signs: The Politics of Deaf and Hearing Identity Between the Deaf and Hearing Worlds” -- Ms. Margaret Izutsu. - to Christopher Cox ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Declining German America: German-Language Humor Writing and the Disappearance of an Ethnic Group” -- Dr. Mark Molesky. - to Trevor Cox ’01-’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Edward Bates, the Civil War, and the Legal Mind of the Lincoln Administration” -- Mr. Timothy McCarthy. - to Rob Dennis ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Lazy Eye” -- Mr. Douglas Powell. - to Ross Douthat ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Subversive Reactionary: Rider Haggard's Unimperial Fiction” -- Dr. John Mackey. - to Benjamin Edelman ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com” -- Professor Ariel Pakes. - to Margaret Elias ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Fate of the Fieldnote” -- Professor Steven Caton. - to Jonathan Flombaum ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Evolution of Guesstimating: Spontaneous Representations of Large Numbers in a Nonhuman Primate” -- Professor Marc Hauser. - to John Friedman ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Market Timing in Mergers: Theory and Evidence” -- Professor Jeremy Stein. - to John Gansner ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Characterization of the Second DNase I Hypersensitive Site in the Murine Interferon-Gamma (IFNg ) Gene” -- Professor Anjana Rao. - to Adriane Gelpi ’01, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Experimental Space and the Problem of Double Consciousness in Turn of the Century Boston” -- Professor Robert Brain. - to Michael Gerber ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Harry Austryn Wolfson: The Personal Struggles and Intellectual Projects of a Jewish Immigrant at Harvard” -- Professor James Hankins. - to Melissa Gniadek ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Divisions of a Separating World: Community in the Composite Novel” -- Mr. Neal Dolan. - to Jean Han ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Delmas Treason Trial: Lyric Song, Legal Rhetoric, and Treason Law in Apartheid South Africa” -- Professor Elaine Scarry. - to Vanessa Henke ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Characterization of ChaK2, a Putative Mammalian Ion Channel and Kinase” -- Professor David Clapham. - to Susie Huang ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Signal Interferences from Turbulent Spin Dynamics in Solution NMR Spectroscopy” -- Professor Eric Heller. Professor Warren Warren - to Jeremy Hwang ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Femtosecond Laser-Induced Damage for Micromachining of Transparent Materials” -- Professor Eric Mazur. - to Benjamin Jarvis ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Transworld Identity's Counterpart” -- Professor James Pryor. - to Sara Johnstone ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Age and Culture: An Analysis of Cognitive Reasoning Strategies in Relation to Attitudes Toward the Elderly Between Chinese and Americans” -- Dr. Tianshu Pan. - to Yuni Kim ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Phonological Features: Privative or Equipollent?” -- Professor Bert Vaux. - to David Kornhaber ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Down” -- Ms. Kathleen Peterson. - to Mekhala Krishnamurthy ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “In the Shadow of the State, in the Shade of a Tree: The Politics of the Possible in Rural Gujarat” -- Professor William Fisher. - to Erica Levy ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Disquiet” -- Professor Peter Sacks. - to Conor Liston ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Self-Recognition, Language, and the Origins of Long-Term Event Memory” -- Professor Jerome Kagan. - to Alexis Loeb ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Trial and Erreur: The Cases of Robert Brasillach and Ezra Pound in Their National Contexts” -- Dr. Joshua Zeitz and Professor Patrice Higonnet. - to L. Stephen Long ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Psychopathic Personality and Affect in a Non-Incarcerated Sample” -- Dr. Debra Titone and Professor Donald Rubin. - to Kathy Lu ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Behind the Curtain: Classical Japanese Dance and the Iemoto Seido” -- Mr. Cemil Aydin. - to Andrew Lynn ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Reading Bartleby” -- Ms. Naomi Sofer. - to Christopher Meserole ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Unsignified Self : Body and Text in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and William Faulkner's Light in August” -- Professor Robert Kiely. - to Shanthi Kommi Naidu ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Beyond Valence: An ERP Investigation of How Arousal of Stimuli Moderates Biased Memory Processing in Major Depression” -- Professor Patricia Deldin. - to Alec Nevala-Lee ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Amphiaraus Revenant: A Hero's Return from the Dead in Poetry and Cult” -- Professor Albert Henrichs. - to Alexander Nyren ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “When Is It Rational to Play Tit-for-Tat? Iterated Admissibility and the Infinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma” -- Professor Adam Brandenburger. - to Emily Ogden ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Road into the Hollow” -- Professor Jorie Graham. - to Tetsuro Onitsuka ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Why Do Japanese Executives Work So Hard?: The Intra-Firm Tournament as an Incentive Mechanism in Japan” -- Professor Caroline Hoxby. - to Sue Paik ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Stalling Stereotype Threat: The Effects of Intervention” -- Professor Nalini Ambady. - to Parag Pathak ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Portfolio Choice, Uncertainty Aversion, and Limited Diversification” -- Professor Gary Chamberlain. - to Robert Porter ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Natural Law and the Natural Man: The Moral and Political Thought of C.S. Lewis” -- Mr. Travis Smith. - to Matthew Rojansky ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “A Delicate Balance: The Politics of Post-Stalin Reform in Amnesties for Nazi War Criminals and Their Soviet Collaborators” -- Professor Terry Martin. - to Svetlana Rukhelman ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Unseen, Unheard, Unspoken: Epiphanies and Authorial Self-Revelation in the Short Stories of Isaac Babel” -- Ms. Esther Liberman. - to Stephen Sachs ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The 'Law Merchant' and the Fair Court of St. Ives, 1270-1324” -- Professor Thomas Bisson. - to Erik Sandegard ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Going Home:Two Japanese Writers and Their Search for Identity” -- Professor Jay Rubin. - to Abby Schlatter ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Choked by the Weeds of Domesticity: Inserting Edith Summers Kelley into American Feminist Thought” -- Dr. Julie DesJardins. - to Elena Schoenberger ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “HIV nef Dysregulates Chemotaxis and Chemokine Signaling in T Lymphocytes” -- Dr. Jerome Groopman. - to Katherine Sharaf ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Effects of Herbivory on Size, Flowering, Pollination and Fitness of Ipomopsis aggregata” -- Professor Brian Farrell. - to Brian Shillinglaw ’01-’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Epistemological Change and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in Eighteenth Century England” -- Professor Stephen Marglin. - to Jillian Shulman ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Poet's Place: The Search for Identity in the Works of Xi Chuan and Yu Jian” -- Professor Eileen Chow and Ms. Tian Yuan Tan. - to Timothy Sohn ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “A Flawed Utopia: Old Harbor Village and the Origins of Public Housing in Boston, 1933-1944” -- Professor Lisa McGirr. - to Geoffrey Starks ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Forty Acres and a Lexus?: The Present-Day Case for Black Reparations” -- Professor Lawrence Bobo. - to Hallam Stevens ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Symmetry, Aesthetics, Accelerators: The Role of Fundamental Physics in (Post-)Modern Society” -- Professor Silvan Schweber. - to Ian Tomb ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Emotion and Decision-Making: A Critical Test of the Somatic Marker Hypothesis” -- Professor Marc Hauser. - to Sarah Tsien ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “What We Get is Small Change: An Economic and Anthropological Analysis of Microcredit in Two Villages of Southwest China” -- Dr. Pauline Peters. - to John Tsou ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Small Pool Expression Screening for Maternal Genes Involved in Early Embryogenesis” -- Professor Marc Kirschner. - to Melissa Tukey ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Effect of LRP on APP Processing: Implications for Alzheimer's Disease” -- Dr. Rudolph Tanzi. - to Gernot Wagner ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Counting Trees: Towards an Economic Criterion for Sustainability” -- Professor Dale Jorgenson. - to Jennifer Wagner ’01, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Making Sex Work: Exploring the Legitimacy of Commercial Sex” -- Professor Cameron Macdonald. - to William Wailand ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Transporting Arctic Energy Resources: An Evaluation of Alternative Alaskan Natural Gas Pipeline Routes” -- Professor Richard Forman. - to Daniel Yamins ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Structural Organization Theory: A New Approach to Modeling Complex Systems” -- Professor Richard Lewontin. - to Narie Yoo ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Identification of Genes Involved in the Development of Streptomyces Coelicolor” -- Professor Richard Losick and Dr. Amy Gehring. 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