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Prize Winners
2002-03

 

Academy of American Poets Award

- to Jennifer Nelson ’03, a prize of $100  for a collection of poems

 

Albert Alcalay Prize
- to Marie Elizabeth Glynn ’03, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studio

 

Rudolf Arnheim Prize
 - to Ceridwen Dovey ’03, Jacob Richman ’03, and Michael Wang ’03, 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

Santo J. Aurelio Prize

- to Doris Haas Finley, ALB ’03, a prize of $1,000 for academic achievement and character as an ALB degree recipient in Extension Studies who is more than 50 years of age

Helen Choate Bell Prize

- to Zoe Trodd, a prize of $2,500 for the best essay from 5,000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American literature

 

James Gordon Bennett Prize

- to Lisa Beth Schwartz ’03, income from the fund ($2,200.00) for her senior thesis entitled "Judging Policy: The U.S. Judicial Conference and the Politics of Judicial Involvement in Congressional Policy Making," as an outstanding essay on some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest

 

Philo Sherman Bennett Prize

- to Holden Karnofsky ’03, income from the fund ($800.00) for his senior thesis entitled “Unforced Force: A Theory of Rational Argumentation,” as the best essay discussing the principles of free government

 

Bernhard Blume Awards

- to Timothy John Attanucci ’03, a prize of $200 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 Justice Kraus G2, a prize of $1,500 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 Peter Gilbert G2, income from the fund ($2,370) for his original composition entitled “Ricochet”

Bart J. Bok Prize

- to Joseph Mohr ’95, a prize of $3,000 and a citation for his outstanding work in Astronomy and lecture entitled “Galaxy Clusters, Dark Energy and Structure Formation,” as a graduate who holds a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from Harvard who has yet to reach his 35th birthday

Francis Boott Prize
- to Ken Ueno G4, a prize of $250 for his composition in concerted vocal music entitled “Shiroi Ishi”

David Taggart Clark Prize – Latin Oration

- to Charles B. Watson ’03, a prize of $500, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement

 

Boston Ruskin Club Prize

- to Abigail Joseph ’04, a prize of $1,000 for the best essay on the life, works, or interests of John Ruskin  

 

James Bryant Conant Prize

Awarded to the student who, as part of the regularly assigned work in elementary General Education and Core Program Courses in any of the natural sciences, submits one of the best essays on a subject of scientific interest

- to LeMinh Ho ’04, a prize of $750

- to Heather Shahian ’06, a prize of $750

- to Louisa Thomas ’03-04, a prize of $750

 

Gerda Richards Crosby Prize

- to Lisa Beth Schwartz ’03, a prize of $1,000 for excellence in the concentration

 

Derek Bok Public Service Prize

Awarded to degree and/or certificate recipients at the Harvard Extension School who, while pursuing academic studies and professional careers, also give generously of their time and skill to improve the quality of life for others in the larger community

- First prize ($1,000) to Jane Catherine Eppley, ALB ’03

- Second prize ($750) to Elaine Victoria Grey, AA ’03

 

Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Essays in the English Language

- to Hayang Sook Kim ’03, a prize of $7,500, for her essay entitled "'Imagining' the Nation: Käthe Kollwitz's Weaver's Rebellion and Peasant War"

 

Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Essays in the English Language

- to Christopher Hilliard G5, a prize of $7,500 for his essay entitled "Fiction and the Writing Public: Aspiring Authors and the Uses of Literature in Inter-War Britain" 

 

Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Essays in the Natural Sciences

- to Fiery Cushman ’03, a prize of $7,500 for his essay entitled "Aping Ethics"

 

Bowdoin Prize – Graduate Essays in the Natural Sciences

- to David Lohman G7, a prize of $7,500 for his essay entitled "Identity and Deceit in the Pheremonal Language of Ants "

 

Bowdoin Prize for Translation into Latin – Undergraduate Prize

- to Jonathan Gnoza ’05, a prize of $2,000 for his translation into Latin  

 

Bowdoin Prize for Translation into Latin – Graduate Prize

- to Ana Galjanic, a prize of $4,000 for her original essay in Latin  

 

Boylston Prize for Elocution

- First Prize to Mawuena Agbonyitor ’04, a prize of $300 for her reading of “Ego Tripping (There May Be A Reason Why)” by Nikki Giovanni

- Second Prize to Joseph Dimento ’05, a prize of $200 for his reading of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

 

LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize for Honors Theses in English

- to Sophia Macris ’03, a prize of $2,000 for her thesis entitled, “Love, Text, World and Art: Classical Greek Influences in the Poetry of James Merrill”

- to Andres Su ’03, a prize of $2,000 for his thesis entitled, “Spies, Guardians and Cheats: Conspiracy and the Spy Identity in James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”

- to Sophia Banay ’03, a prize of $2,000 for her thesis entitled, “Consumed by Consumption: Hunger in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë”

 

John Clive Prize

- to John Bash ’03, a prize of $75 for his thesis entitled “The Epic Cannon: Satan’s Guns in Paradise Lost,” as the best History and Literature honors essay on a topic in the field of British history and literature

 

Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize

Awarded to Extension School degree recipients who demonstrate “singular dedication to learning and the arts”

- First prize ($1,000) to Virginia Ogozalek, ALM ’03

- Second prize ($750) to Natasha Bershadsky, ALM ’03

 

Edward Chandler Cumming Prize

- to Jonathan Darman ’03, for his honors essay of the highest distinction entitled “Killing ‘Society’: Cold War Hollywood’s American Upper Class”

 

Edward Eager Prize

Prizes of $2,000 each, for the best creative writing or poetry, preferably in the juvenile field, by undergraduates in the English department. 

- to Ursula De Young ’04 for “Last Flight to Bandway Airfield”

- to Uzodinma Iweala ’04 for “Breath of Tomorrow”

- to Leslie Jamison ’04 for “lineage”

- to Jennifer Lin ’04 for “Sunday, Sunday River”

- to Emily Porter ’04 for “Snapshots”

- to Monica Rana ’06 for “Orange Revelation”

- to Brendan Reed ’03 for “Loved”

- to Vanashree Samant ’06 for “Zenanah”

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize

- to Robert Dubbin ’04, 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

 

Extension School Commencement Speaker Award

- to Stephen Silver, ALM ’03, a prize of $500

 

Extension School Dean’s Prizes for Outstanding ALM Theses

Awarded for the thesis that embodies the highest level of imaginative scholarship in each of the disciplines of the Extension School’s Master’s Degree Program

- to Jennifer Wolfeld, a prize of $1,000 (Behavioral Sciences)

- to David Palmieri, a prize of $1,000 (Humanities)

- to Yuechao Zhao, a prize of $1,000 (Information Technology)

- to Richard Macniven, a prize of $1,000 (Natural Sciences)

- Carla Bosco, a prize of $1,000 (Social Sciences)

 

Jonathan Fay Prize

Awarded for the most outstanding imaginative work or piece of original research in any field

- to Andrew Evert Carlson ’03, a prize of $3,000 for his thesis entitled “A Comprehensively Integrated Smart Motor Control Chip”

- to Gabriella S. Rosen ’03, a prize of $3,000 for her thesis entitled “‘How Many Selves Have We?’ The Theory, Therapy, and Legacy of Morton Prince’s Breadth Psychology”

- to Stephanie Alexandra Stuart ’03, a prize of $3,000 for her thesis entitled “What Sets the Latitudinal Limit of the Mangrove Habit?”

 

Edward L. Fireman Prize

- to Steven Furlanetto GS4, a prize of $1,000 and a citation by Mrs. Edward L. Fireman, as a doctoral student engaged in experimental work in a field related to nuclear atrophysics

 

Eric Firth Prize

- to Jonathan Taylor ’03, income from the fund ($1900.00) for his senior thesis entitled "The Naked Emperor in the New Patria: The Pinochet Case and the Deepening of Chilean Democracy," for the best essay on the subject of the ideals of democracy

 

Sophia Freund Prize

- (tie) to Elias Reinhold Sacks ’03, 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

- (tie) to Lisa Beth Schwartz ’03, 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

 

Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize and Medal

- to Elizabeth Mitchell ’03, a prize of $500

- to Jennifer Nelson ’03, a prize of $500

 

Leo Goldberg Prize in Astronomy

Senior

- to Ann Marie Cody ’03, a prize of $1,000 in recognition of outstanding undergraduate research achievement for her senior thesis entitled “Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Distributions in Globular Clusters”

Junior

- to Shazrene Mohamed ’04, a prize of $600 in recognition of outstanding undergraduate research achievement for her junior thesis entitled “Rotational Spectra of the Carbon Chain Radicals HC60 and HC70”

 

Graduate English Commencement Oration

- to Elizabeth Carpenter, MBA ’03, a prize of $500, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercises

 

Green Prize in Music

- to Anthony Cheung ’04, a prize of $5,000

 

Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics

- to Charmaine H. Y. Lee ’03, income from the fund ($3,000) for her outstanding thesis entitled “How Large Are External Returns to Education?”

 

Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Other Social Sciences

- to Gina Kramer’03, income from the fund ($3,000) for her outstanding thesis entitled “Performing for Profits: The sources of Organizational Convergence in New York City’s Social Service Sector”

 

Harvard Monthly Prize

 - to Caroline Fletcher ’04, a prize of $500 to that student in the most advanced courses in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise

 

Roger Conant Hatch Prize

- to John Cody Carvel ’03, a prize of $100

- to Lily Brown ’04, a prize of $50

 

Lawrence J. Henderson Prize

- to John C. Huetsch ’03, a prize of books, for his honors thesis in Biochemical Sciences entitled "Crystal structure of the DNA-wrapping domain of DNA gyrase A from Escherichia coli"

 

Clemens Herschel Prize

- to Gene-Hua Crystal Ng ’03, a prize of $200 for the purchase of books, as a meritorious student registered in practical hydraulics

 

History and Literature’s “Intellectual Architect” Award

- to Caitlin Casey

Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 Prizes

- to Timothy Attanucci ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Literal Transfigurations: The Rhetoric of Metamorphosis in Kafka, Hesse and Woolf” –   Professor John Hamilton        

- to Caitlin Barrett ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Graves, Ghosts, and Goddesses: A Comparison of the Archaeological and Textual Evidence on the Ancient Mesopotamian Afterlife and the Possible Resurrection-Prototype Role of Inanna/Ishtar” –   Professor C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky        

- to John Bash ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Epic Cannon: Satan's Guns in Paradise Lost” –   Dr. Swen Voekel        

- to Jessica Berenbeim ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Livy in Paris” –   Professor Jeffrey Hamburger and Professor Richard Thomas

- to Thomas Blair ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Merchant Bodhisattva: History, Translation, and Critical Edition of Ksemendra's Sronakotikarnavadana” –   Professor Parimal G. Patil        

- to Angie Boyce ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Super(able)Man: Figures of Aggression and Violence in Bioscience and Culture, 1955-1996” –   Professor Sheila Jasanoff        

- to Andrew Carlson ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “A Comprehensively Integrated Smart Motor Control Chip” –   Professor Roger Brockett and Professor Gu-Yeon Wei

- to Cheryl Chan ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Constructing Ethnicity: The Impact of "Chinese-ness" on Sino-Singaporean Relations” –   Mr. Victor Shih        

- to Margareta Ingrid Christian ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Uncertain Topographies: Language and Perception in Herta Müller's Niederungen and Herztier” –   Professor Judith Ryan        

- to Leslie Chu ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Departure” –   Ms. Jane Brox        

- to Julia Chuang ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Challenging Poverty with Culture: Filial Adaptations to Labor Migration in China” –   Professor Cameron Macdonald        

- to Steven Corsello ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Overexpression of ErbB2 (HER2) in Breast Cancer Cell Lines: Implications for Signal Transduction and Gene Expression” –   Dr. David Frank        

- to Jonathan Darman ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Killing "Society": Cold War Hollywood's American Upper Class” –   Dr. Steven Biel        

- to Joshua Dienstag ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Sovereigns of the Senses: Jan Breughel's Allegories of the Five Senses as a 'Mirror of Princes'” –   Professor Alice Jarrard        

- to Ceridwen Dovey ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Land, Lives and Labels: Empowerment Projects on South African Wine Farms” –   Mr. Robb Moss and Ms. Amy Farber

- to Daniel Eng ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Master Yinshun and Pure Land Buddhism in Taiwan” –   Mr. Alan Wagner        

- to Jeremy England ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Statistical Physics and Structural Proteomics of Protein Fold Designability” –   Professor Eugene Shakhnovich        

- to Daniel Ewing ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “"Down in the Flood:" Labor, Class, Justice and the Tulsa Riot of 1921” –   Ms. Kimberly Sims        

- to Hannah Fleener ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Shall We Be Moved? The Story of a Small-Town American Congregation, 1882-2002” –   Professor David D. Hall        

- to Kyna Fong ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Multi-stage Information Acquisition in Auction Design” –   Professor David Parkes        

- to Ellen Haddock ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Anticipating an American Response: Why Foreign Governments Initiate Investment Disputes with Some United States Firms and Not Others” –   Professor Jeffry Frieden        

- to Justin Haynes ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “A Resolution of Memory: The Vergilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba” –   Professor Jan Ziolkowski        

- to Avram Heilman ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Computational Models of Epileptiform Activity in Single-Neuron Cultures” –   Dr. James Quattrochi        

- to Jeffrey Helfrich ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Television Traders: Do Viewers Trade Based on Recommendations by Guests on CNNfn?” –   Professor Jeremy Stein        

- to Kristin Hoelting ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “"Sustaining the Past, Honoring the Future": One Community's Quest for Sustainable Livelihood” –   Professor Daniel P. Schrag and Dr. Theodore Macdonald

- to Nicholas Horbaczewski ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Bitter School of Honor and Faith: Forging a New Manhood in the Crucible of Combat, A Study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s Civil War Experience” –   Dr. Jeanne Quinn        

- to Helen Istvan ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Compassionate Promiscuity: Women, Sex, and Enlightenment in Chinese Buddhist Literature” –   Professor Robert M. Gimello and Mr Tian Yuan Tan

- to Lucy Ives ’02-'03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Familiar Theatre” –   Professor Jorie Graham        

- to Christopher Kanakry ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Skepticism and the Quest for Certainty: al-Ghazali's Reconciliation of Mysticism and Rationalism” –   Dr. Carl Pearson        

- to Mark Kirby ’02, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Harvard's Simian Seminar: Sociobiology's Salon Culture” –   Professor Everett Mendelsohn        

- to Beatrice Kitzinger ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “"The Forms of Things Unknown": 14th Century Visual Art and the Viewer's Ascent to Heaven” –   Professor John Parker        

- to Gina Kramer ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Performing for Profits: The Sources of Organizational Convergence in New York City's Social Service Sector” –   Professor Paul Pierson        

- to Charmaine Lee ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “How Large Are External Returns to Education?” –   Mr. Marcelo Moreira        

- to Scott Lee ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Contested Meanings, Contested Lives: Interpretations of AIDS-Apparent Illness in Western Kenya” –   Ms. Charlotte Harrison        

- to Nicole Legnani ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Instruction of the Inqa Don Diego de Castro Titu Kusi Yupanki for His Most Illustrious Lord Licentiate Lope García de Castro” –   Professor Jose Mazzotti        

- to Micah T. Lewin ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Substance and Procedure in Rawl's Political Theory: A Reply to the Objections of Nozick and Habermas” –   Professor Thomas M. Scanlon        

- to Christopher Librizzi ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Bargaining and the Division of Household Labor” –   Professor Torben Iverson        

- to Tzu-Huan Augustine Lo ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Medical Demonstration in Taiwan: From Japanese Formosa to Republic of China” –   Professor Bridie Andrews        

- to Betty Luther ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Medical Invention of Gender: Harry Benjamin and Transsexual Surgery, 1949-1966” –   Dr. Stephanie Kenen        

- to Joseph Markson ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Real-Time Visualization of Stochastic Bursts of Gene Expression Events” –   Professor Xiaoliang Sunney Xie and Dr. Michael Eck

- to Elizabeth Mitchell ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Of the Thousand Pieces” –   Professor Jorie Graham        

- to Kristin Elizabeth Naragon ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Perception of Timbre as an Organizational Structure in Twentieth Century Nontonal Music” –   Professor Joshua Fineberg and Professor Elizabeth Spelke

- to Jennifer Nelson ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Truthful Treachery: Case Studies in Pindar, Robert Browning, and Paul Cézanne” –   Ms. Melissa Feuerstein        

- to Jeffries Oliver-Li ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “New World Order: Bloomsbury Ideology and the Critical Reception of John Singer Sargent” –   Professor Jennifer L. Roberts        

- to Yi-Ching Ong ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Towards the Directed Evolution of Allosteric Protein Splicing” –   Professor David Liu        

- to Joseph Rabinoff ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Bruhat-Tits building of a p-adic Chevalley group and an application to representation theory” –   Professor Stephen DeBacker        

- to Lisa Racki ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “NPR2: A novel Gene and its Role in Defense Response Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana” –   Professor Frederick Ausubel        

- to Fatima Raja ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “For Such a Tomb: The Craftsman in Indo-European Antiquity” –   Professor Calvert Watkins        

- to Miranda Richmond ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Nothing but the Greatest Good: Rural Jacobinism and Its Contradictions.  The Case of the Vaucluse, 1789-1795” –  Professor Patrice Higonnet        

- to Courtney A. Roberts ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “On Either Side of the Fence: Project Whitecoat, Biological Weapons, and Patriotic Noncombatency” –   Dr. Eric D. Kupferberg        

- to Gabriella Rosen ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “"How Many Selves Have We?": The Theory, Therapy, and Legacy of Morton Prince's Breadth Psychology” –   Professor Anne Harrington        

- to Julie Rosenberg ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Effect of Stigma in the Experience of Illness and Treatment Outcome for Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Carabayllo– Lima, Peru” –   Professor Arthur Kleinman        

- to Elias Sacks ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Jew of Berlin and the Philosopher of Königsberg: Mendelssohn, Kant and the Limits of the German Enlightenment” –   Dr. Kimerer LaMothe        

- to Kimberly M. Sanchez Ocasio ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “A Fork in Fertility: The Demographic Transition and Factors Mediating a Fertility Decline among the Indigenous Toba of Argentina” –   Professor Cheryl D. Knott        

- to Karin Sandstrom ’02, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Dynamical Masses of Hot White Dwarfs in Binary Systems” –   Dr. David Latham        

- to Meredith Schweig ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Made in Taiwan: Hybrid Voices and the Performance of Cultural Plurality in Taiwan's Popular Music from Teresa Teng to Samingad” –   Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay        

- to Benjamin Shultz ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Lame Ducks in the Statehouse: State Legislative Term Limits and the Last Period Problem” –   Mr. Christopher Adolph        

- to Stephanie Stuart ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “What Sets the Latitudinal Limit of the Mangrove Habit?” –   Professor Noel Michele Holbrook        

- to Alessandra Balco Sulzer ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions: Orality, Literacy and the Greek Dipinti on Four Vases in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum” –   Professor David Gordon Mitten        

- to Jeffrey Theodore ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Baronial Reform: Community, Counsel, and Incipient Political Identity in Egland, 1258-65” –   Professor Thomas Bisson        

- to Aaron Tievsky ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “A Geometric Littlewood-Richardson Rule for Equivariant Schubert Calculus” –   Mr. Kalle Karu        

- to Morgan Tingley ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Effects of Offshore Wind Farms on Birds: "Cuisinarts in the Sky" or Just Tilting at Windmills?” –   Professor Richard T.T. Forman        

- to Patrick Toomey ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “An Ordered Aesthetic: Mass Spectacle in a Contemporary Buddhist Movement” –   Mr. Sayres Rudy        

- to Brent Tworetzky ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Analysis of Web File Sizes: New Methods and Models” –   Professor Michael Mitzenmacher and Professor Donald Rubin

- to Joshua Vandiver ’03-'04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Thucydides, Realism, and the Crisis of Citizenship” –   Dr. Chad Elliot Noyes        

- to Genevieve Liu Wang ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “The Role of Social Networks in Promoting Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis of Structural Social Capital” –   Professor Benjamin Friedman        

- to Rachel Weinerman ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “A Modern Aggadah: M.Y. Berdichevsky and the Reshaping of the Hebrew Narrative Tradition” –   Professor Avi Matalon        

- to Anna Weiss ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “(Re)Reading Turgenev's Rudin: Text and Context in 1850s Russia” –   Professor Julie Buckler        

- to David Wollenberg ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Terrorism and the Failure of International Law” –   Dr. Lisa Rivera        

- to David Xiao ’03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “The Evolution of Expander Graphs” –   Professor Salil Vadhan        

- to Rachel Vera Zabarkes ’03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Spinoza and the Challenge of Liberal Virtue” –   Professor Harvey Mansfield        

HOOPES HONORABLE MENTIONS

- to Isaac Chiu ’02, for his Senior Thesis entitled, “Characterization of a Novel Protein Encoded on Chromosome 7” – Professor Jack Strominger

- to Mona Lewandoski ’03, for her Senior Thesis entitled, “Cantata on Sacred Themes” – Dr. John Stewart 

Charles Edward Horman Memorial Prize

- to Uzodinma Iweala ’04, 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

 

Howard Mumford Jones Prize

- to Stephanie Pumphrey, 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

 

George Arthur Knight Prize

- to José Luis Hurtado G1, income from the fund ($2,988) for his composition entitled “Of Green and Gray,” judged the best composition in instrumental music by any University student

Morris Kronfeld Prize in Economics

- to Priyanka Malhotra ’03 for the most improved student  

Harold Langlois Award

- to David Ross Hurwitz, Ph.D., CSS ’03, a prize of $1,000 as a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management graduate who has demonstrated exceptional academic accomplishment and promise as a manager

 

Hugh F. MacColl Prize

- to Alexander Ness ’04, income from the fund ($1,213) for his composition, “Untitled”

 

Mill-Taylor Prize

- to Shakira Hudani '03-'04 and Jennifer Hsaio '04, 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 Jonathan Sherman ’03, a prize of $75 for his thesis entitled “‘We’re Gonna be Ready Tonight’: Civil Rights and the Race Politics of Film Noir,” as an outstanding honors essay on a topic in the field of American history and literature

 

Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize

- to David Hembry '03, 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

 

Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Sophomore) (a Radcliffe Fund)

- to Luise Tremel ’05, a prize of $75 for excellence in her sophomore essay entitled “Huldigung als leere Hulle und Geschichte als ‘planmabige Losung’: Three Throne Jubilee Celebrations Emperor Franz Joseph I in Historical and Literary Accounts”

 

Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Junior) (a Radcliffe Fund)

- to Ursula DeYoung ’04, 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

 

Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Senior) (A Radcliffe Fund)

- to Beatrice Kitzinger ’03, a prize of $75 for her honors essay of high distinction entitled “‘The Forms of Things Unknown’: Fourteenth Century Visual Art and the Viewer’s Ascent to Heaven”

Reginald H. Phelps Prize

Awarded on the basis of “academic achievement and character” to outstanding graduating students receiving Bachelor’s degrees in Extension Studies

- First prize ($1,000) to Nova Ann Najarian, ALB ’03

- Second prize ($750) to Asako N. Severn, ALB ’03

- Third prize (tie) ($500) to Ann Marie Murphy, ALB ’03

- Third prize (tie) ($500) to Johanna Leslie Wilbur, ALB ’03

 

Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Comparative Literature)

- to Travis Zadeh G3, a prize of $1,500 for his essay entitled "Groundwork for investigations on Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey don Rodrigo"

 

Tau Beta Pi Prize

- to Andrew Carlson ’03, a prize of $100 to an undergraduate showing excellence in Engineering Sciences

 

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature

- to Charisse Padilla ’03, for her thesis entitled “Latinidad’s Limits: The Shortcomings of a Community-Based Vision of Latino Identity in Junot Diaz’s Drown”

 

Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize

Awarded for the best paper presented before the Mathematics Table

- First prize to Andrew Cotton ’03, a prize of $300 for “Holomorphic Curves and Minimal Surfaces”

- Second prize to James Fowler ’03, a prize of $200 for “Surreal Games”

 

Carl Schurz Prize

- to Lauren Schuker ’06, a prize of $250 to the freshman in German A, not on financial aid, who earns the highest mark in elementary German at the midyear examination

 

Thomas Small Prize

Awarded on the basis of “academic achievement and character” to two outstanding Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies degree recipients

- First prize ($1,000) to Laurie Wilczynski-Zollo

- Second prize (tie) ($375) to Amy Barabasz

- Second prize (tie) ($375) to Shahid Dad

 

George B. Sohier Prize

- to Sophia C. Macris ’03, a prize of $250 for her thesis entitled “Love, Text, World, and Art: Classical Greek Influence in the Poetry of James Merrill,” as the best thesis written by an undergraduate presented for Honors in English or in modern literature and in certain cases History and Literature

 

Barbara Miller Solomon Prize

- to Nicholas Horbaczewski ’03, a prize of $75 for his honors essay of high distinction entitled “The Bitter School of Honor and Faith: Forging a New Manhood in the Crucible of Combat.  A Study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s Civil War Experience”

 

Adelbert Sprague Prize

 - to Dominique Schafer G1, income from the fund ($1,417) for an orchestral composition entitled, “Klangspiegelungen” 

 

Phyllis Strimling Award

- to Andrea C. Spence, CSS ’03, 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

 

Sumner Prize

- to Nigel Gould-Davies Ph.D. November ’02, income from the fund ($10,000.00), for his dissertation entitled “The Logic of Faith: Ideas, Interests, and the Soviet Experience in World Politics,” 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

 

Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies

- to Alvaro Bedoya ’03, a prize of $500 for his thesis of highest distinction entitled “Welcome to the First World: The Exploitation of Peruvian Sheepherders in the American West”

- to Rachel Zebarkes ’03, a prize of $500 for her thesis of highest distinction entitled “Spinoza and the Challenge of Liberal Virtue”

 

Toppan Prize

- to Orit Kedar Ph.D. ’03, income from the fund ($4,000.00) for her dissertation entitled “Policy Balancing in Comparative Context: Institutional Mediation of Voter Behavior,” as the best dissertation on a subject of political science

 

John Gray Untermeyer Poetry Prize

Awarded for the best original poem or group of poems by an undergraduate in any given year

- to Victoria Tse ’03, a prize of $250

- to Selin Tuysuzoglu ’03, a prize of $250

 

Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize

- First Prize (tie) to Phoebe Kosman ’05, a prize of $1,000 for her entry entitled “‘To Arlie’: An Intergenerational Collection of Early 20th Century Boys’ Books”

- First Prize (tie) to Roland Oliver Lamb ’06, a prize of $1,000 for his entry entitled “A Personal Encounter with Philosophy”

- Third Prize to Anna Elizabeth Harkey ’04, for her entry entitled “Out of Thin Air: A Collection of Old Time Radio Books and Memorabilia”

 

Esther Sellholm Walz Prize

- to Tamar Abramov G3, a prize to a graduate student pursuing studies in German or Scandinavian language, with the intention of entering the teaching field, for “Die Letzte Welt: Time, Myth, History and Fiction in Ransmayr’s Novel,” the best paper or essay as determined by a committee of members of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

 

Cyrilly Abels Weinstein Short Story Prize

- to Brittani Sonnenberg ’03, a prize of $1,500

 

Barrett Wendell Prize

- to Brian Distelberg ’05, a prize of $75 for excellence in his sophomore essay entitled “‘Truly Femineered’: Submerged Subversion in a 1950s Kitchen”

 

Charles J. Wister Prize

- to James Fowler ’03, income from the fund, as the senior concentrating in Mathematics who has the highest record in his field of concentration

Judith Wood Memorial Prize

- to Juan Botero, 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

 

The Katie Y. F. Yang Prize

- to Sujit Kuma Basu, Ph.D., CSS ’03, a prize of $1,000 awarded to the international graduate in the CSS Program with the most outstanding academic record

 

Allyn Young Prize in Economics

- to Jeffrey Helfrich ’03, a cash prize and a book on economics to be chosen by the recipient for his outstanding senior thesis entitled “Television Traders: Do Viewers Trade Based on Recommendations by Guests on CNNfn?” as an outstanding thesis.