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a Prize Winners 2003-04   Academy of American Poets Award - to Shane Slattery-Quintanilla ’04, a prize of $100 for “San Louis, CO”   George Plimpton Adams Prize Awarded by the Department of Philosophy - to Peter Epstein ’04, a prize of $1,500 for his senior thesis “COMPARING QUALIA: What Science Can and Can’t Tell Us about Consciousness”   Albert Alcalay Prize - to Meredith James ’04, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studio   - to Thenji Nkosi ’04, 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 Brian Goldstein ’04, 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  William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize - to Abigail Joseph ’04, for her essay entitled “Henry Spencer Ashbee and the Paradoxes of Pornomania”  Bechtel Prize in Philosophy Awarded by the Department of Philosophy - to Peter Paul Katsafanas (GSAS), a prize of $1,500 for his essay “Consciousness and Conceptualization: Nietzche’s Theory of Mind”  Helen Choate Bell Prize - to Carla Namwalli Serpell (GSAS), a prize of $2,500 for her essay on a subject in American literature, “Haunted Words and Shadowed Words: Secrecy in Beloved and The Scarlet Letter”  Lillian Bell Prize (Radcliffe) - to Teresa Lind ’04, for her thesis entitled “The Second Belt of Silence: Manipulations of Western Perceptions of the Soviet Famine, 1932-1933”   Bernhard Blume Awards - to Sonja Totten-Harris ’04, for her thesis entitled “Redefining the ‘deutsch’ in ‘Deutschtrap’: Negotiating German Identities in Contemporary Hiphop Subcultures”, a prize of $250 awarded 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 written the best honors thesis on a German subject and whose performance in courses offered toward the concentration is of equal merit   - to Gundela Hachmann (GSAS), a prize of $750 awarded 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   - to Christina Svendsen (GSAS), a prize of $750 awarded 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 Robert Hasegawa (GSAS), income from the fund for his original composition entitled Ajax is all about attack  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 Eileen Mary Weisslinger ALB ’04 - Second prize ($750) to Lucia Dentice-Clark ALM ’04 - Second prize ($750) to Ria Merrill Riesner ALB ’04  Francis Boott Prize - to Nicholas Vines (GSAS), a prize of $250 for his composition in concerted vocal music entitled Leverett magnificat   Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Essays in the English Language - to Emma Firestone ’05 , a prize of $7,500, for her essay entitled “The Unbound Vision: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound as Defense and Demonstration of Myth”   Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Essays in the English Language - to Debra Gettelman, a prize of $7,500 for her essay entitled “Reading Ahead in George Eliot” - to Anna Henchman (GSAS), a prize of $7,500 for her essay entitled “Red Apples and Bright Stars: Thomas Hardy’s Stargazers”   Bowdoin Prize – Graduate Essays in the Natural Sciences - to David Lohman (GSAS), a prize of $7,500 for his essay entitled “In Praise of Fireflies”   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 Greek – Undergraduate Prize - to Jonathan Gnoza ’05, a prize of $2,000 for his translation into Greek   Bowdoin Prize for Dissertation in Latin – Graduate Prize - to John Schafer (GSAS), a prize of $4,000 for his original essay in Classical Latin - to Jarrett Welsh (GSAS), a prize of $4,000 for his original essay in Classical Latin   Bowdoin Prize for Dissertation in Greek – Graduate Prize - to Ana Galjanic (GSAS), a prize of $4,000 for her original essay in Classical Greek   Francis Bowen Prize Awarded by the Department of Philosophy - to Kyla Ebels Duggan (GSAS), a prize of $1,500 for her essay “Hobbesian Agent and Bondage of Self-Interest”   Boylston Prize for Elocution - First Prize ($300) to Maximillian Beach ’06, for his recitation of Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself and Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens - Second Prize ($200) to Meghan Day ’05, for her recitation from East of Eden by John Steinbeck    Le Baron Russell Briggs Commencement Prize - to Kathryn Rakoczy ’04, for the student selected to present the Undergraduate Oration at Commencement.   Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize - to Seth Kleinerman ’04, for “Travelers’ Scrapbooks (New York-Paris-Nix, 1998)”   Le Baron Russell Briggs Literary Fellowship - to Adam Lalley ’04, a prize of $1,800 - to Juliana Chow ’04, a prize of $4,000 - to Julia Fawcett ’04, a prize of $2,000 - to John Hulsey ’04, a prize of $2,400 - to Walter Hunter ’04, a prize of $2,000 - to Uzodinma Iweala ’04, a prize of $4,000 - to Henry Lowenfels ’04, a prize of $3,000 - to Matthew Ocheltree ’04, a prize of $4,000 - to Brian Quinn ’04, a prize of $2,850 - to Kayla Rosen ’04, a prize of $3,000 - to Alexander Schemmer ’04, a prize of $2,500 - to Shane Slattery-Quintanilla ’04, a prize of $4,000 - to Brittani Sonnenberg ’04, a prize of $2,500 - to Louisa Thomas ’04, a prize of $2,900 - to Anton Yakovlev ’04, a prize of $3,500   Le Baron Russell Briggs Prize for Honors Theses in English - to John Hulsey ’04, a prize of $2,000 for his thesis entitled “ Against Representation: The Site of Painting in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Honoré de Balzac’s Le Chef-D’Oeuvre Inconnu” - to Leslie Jamison ’04, a prize of $2,000 for her thesis entitled “Eloquent Relics of Existence: (Re)imagining Incest in William Faulkner’s Early Novels”   The Carrier Prize Awarded by the Department of Philosophy - to Sharon Street (GSAS), a prize of $1,500 for her dissertation “Evolution and the Nature of Reason”   David Taggart Clark Prize – Latin Oration - to Pankaj K. Agarwalla ’04, a prize of $500, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement   John Clive Prize - to Shannon Ringvelski ’04, a prize of $75 for her thesis entitled “‘Buy the truth, and sell it not’: The Economic Antichrist in Two Early Modern Contexts ,” as the best History and Literature honors essay on a topic in the field of British history and literature   Colton Award - to Noah McCormack ’04, for his thesis entitled “A Party to Remember: The Earl of Shaftesbury and the Origin of Party Politics in England, 1667-1677”   - to Melissa Borja ’04, for her thesis entitled “To Follow the New Rule or Way: Religious Change among Hmong Refugees in Stockton, California, 1975-1990”   Coolidge Debating Prizes A prize of $2,500 each to Nicolas Cornell ’04 and David Kimel ’04, as the two best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates.   Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize Awarded to Extension School degree recipients who demonstrate “singular dedication to learning and the arts” - to Ellen Marie Fonfara ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000   Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - to Catherine Romatowski ’04, for her thesis of the highest distinction entitled “Outlining the Playing Field: Title IX, Athletic Bodies and Catogories of Sex/Gender in the 1990s”   David Herbert Donald Prize - to Suzanne Gershowitz ’04, 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"   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 Charles Black ’04 for “Two Oysters Left” - to Leslie Jamison ’04 for “Isabel’s House” - to Colin Jost ’04 for “The Overcoat” - to Birgit Larsson ’04for “Red” - to Jeremy Reff ’04 for “Consolations Revised” - to Vanashree Samant ’06 for “Kabob King” - to Brittani Sonnenberg ’04 for “Taiping” - to Catherine Tung ’06 for “The Order of Things”   Susan C. Eaton Fellowship in Organizing Leadership and Social Change Awarded by the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies - to Andrew Crespo ’05, $750 for his project entitled “Community Development Corporations: Engineers of Social Capital”   Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - to Andrew Budreika ’05, 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 Catherine Ann Rahaim ALM ’04, a prize of $500 for her speech entitled “Open Gates”   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 Grace Lee Uy ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Behavioral Sciences) for her thesis entitled “Daily News Reporting and Its Role in the Development of Secondary Traumatic Stress in Public Safety Newspaper Reporters” - to Jany R. Siddall ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Humanities) for her thesis entitled “A Lifetime of Saying ‘I’: First-Person Narrative in Alice Munro’s Stories” - to Sarah Ann Smith ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Humanities) for her thesis entitled “’Until the Taxis Are Dancing With the Daffodils’: Merging the Internal and External Worlds of Virginia Woolf’s Late Work” - to Jeremy Katz ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Information Technology) for his thesis entitled “Towards Synthetic Genomes: RNA Secondary Structure Reduction” - to Eleni Kaxiras ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Information Technology) for her thesis entitled “SciencePeer: Building a Collaborative Problem Solving Environment using Peer-to-Peer Concepts” - to Joel N.H. Stern ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Natural Sciences) for his thesis “Amelioration of PLP 139-151 Induced EAE by Synthetic Amino Acid Copolymers and Its Mechanisms” - to Melissa Dawn Burrag ALM ’04, a prize of $1,000 (Social Sciences) for her thesis entitled “Albert Cameron Burrage: An Allegiance to Boston’s Elite through a Lifetime of Political, Business and Social Reform”   Jonathan Fay Prize Awarded for the most outstanding imaginative work or piece of original research in any field - to Ann Marie Cody, ’03, a prize of $5,000 for her thesis entitled “Polluted Stellar Evolution: Modeling the Effects of Planet Accretion”   William Scott Ferguson Prize - to Lewis Alexander Slack ’06, for his essay entitled “Mehmed’s Miracle: The Capture of Constantinople”   Sophia Freund Prize - to Andrew Goldstone ’04, 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 Scholarship - to Elizabeth Quinn ’04   Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize and Medal - to Ellenor Honig ’04, a prize of $500 for “Mother: The Bingo Talisman” and other poems - to Walter Hunter ’04, a prize of $500 for “Respect for a Mere Idea” and other poems   Graduate English Commencement Oration - to Stephen E. Frank ’95 (HLS), a prize of $500, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercises   Kate and Max Greenman Prize A medal, to those students in Harvard College who participate in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debate, as members of the team or as alternates. - to Alexander Blenkinsopp ’05 - to Nicolas Cornell ’04 - to David Kimel ’04 - to Richard Powell ’05 - to Martin Roth ’04 - to Jason Wen ’04   Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics - to John Beshears ’04, income from the fund ($3,500) for his outstanding thesis entitled “CEO Incentives and Earnings Management to Thresholds”   - to Andrew Kallem ’04, income from the fund ($3,500) for his outstanding thesis entitled “Youth Crime and the Minimum Wage”   Harvard Monthly Prize  - to Elinathan Ohiomoba ’06, 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 - First Prize ($100) to Lindsay Coleman ’04, for her lyric poem entitled “Light Destroyer”   - Second Prize ($50) to Louisa Thomas ’04, for her lyric poem entitled “Blue”   Clemens Herschel Prize - to Adiari Vazquez ’05, a prize of $200 for the purchase of books, as a meritorious student registered in practical hydraulics   Department of History Prize Awarded to the student with the best total record as a history concentrator by the end of the senior year - to Francis Altiere ’04   Department of History Junior Essay Prize - to John Chaffetz ’05, for his essay entitled “Melton Prior: Cataloguing the Empire”   - to Whitney Martinko ’05, for her essay entitled “’Dress-Reform Made Easy’: Female Entrepreneurs and Their Expansion of the New England Women’s Club Dress Reform in the Victorian Economy”   - to Thomas Wolf ’05, for his essay entitled “’An American Speaking to Americans’: The Philosophical and Political Theoretical Anti-Absolutism of Ralph Barton Perry, 1942-1954” Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 Prizes - to Jason Alcorn '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "URACCAN: A Discourse for Autonomy" -- Dr. Theodore Macdonald    - to William Andress '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Design Project entitled, "Standing Wave Oscillators Utilizing Wave-Adaptive Tapered Transmission Lines" -- Professor Donhee Ham    - to John Beshears '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "CEO Incentives and Earnings Management to Thresholds" -- Professor David Laibson  - to Melissa May Borja '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "To Follow the New Rule or Way: Religious Change Among Hmong Refugees in Stockton, California, 1975-1990" -- Professor Lisa McGirr  - to Emily Caplan '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "A Documentary of Documentary: Ansel Adams at the Manzaner War Relocation Center" -- Professor Jennifer Roberts  - to Grace Catenaccio '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Selective Memory" -- Professor Annette Lemieux  - to Alinna Chung '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Who's Chinese?  Negotiations of Identity and Community Among the Chinese in Vallone, Switzerland" -- Dr. Irving Johnson  - to Matthew Ciardiello '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Eulogy and Encomium: The Dual Purpose of the Normannicus Draco" -- Professor Jan Ziolkowski  - to Ann Marie Cody '03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Polluted Stellar Evolution: Modeling the Effects of Planet Accretion" -- Professor Dimitar Sasselov    - to Lindsay Coleman '03, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Vespertine" -- Mr. Peter Richards  - to Christopher Conlon '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Sold Out: An Empirical Analysis of Product Availability" -- Professor Julie Mortimer  - to Rebecca Dizon-Ross '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "The Effect of School Facilities on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Texas Instructional Facilities Allotment Program" -- Professor Caroline Hoxby  - to Deborah Doroshow '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "The Injection of Insulin into American Psychiatry" -- Mr. Jeremy Greene  - to Melissa Eccleston '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "In the General's Command: The Determinants and Socioeconomic Effects of Military Rule in the Modern World" -- Ms. Abigail Waggoner  - to Adrien Finlay '03/04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Towards French Opera: The First Production of Lully's Academy of Music, Les Fjtes de L'Amour et de Bacchus" -- Professor Mauro Calcagno Professor Alexia Duc - to John Francis '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "On the connective real K-theory of K(Z,4): an application of stable homotopy theory to integrals on spin manifolds" -- Professor Peter Kronheimer    - to Rozalina Grubina '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "The Development of DNA-Templated Synthesis for the Creation and Discovery of Synthetic Small Molecules" -- Professor David Liu  - to Moira Hill '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Matthias Weckmann's Four Sacred Concertos of 1663" -- Professor Christoph Wolff  - to Catherine Honeyman '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "An Orientation Toward Human Progress: Developing Social Responsibility in Rural Honduran Youth through the Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial" -- Ms. Erin Murphy-Graham  - to Daniel Hong '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Medical Science Networks and American Pharmaceutical Research and Development at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" -- Ms. Alissa Spielberg  - to Susan Huang '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Structural basis for recognition and repair of the adenine:8-oxoguanine lesion by the adenine glycosylase MutY" -- Professor Gregory Verdine    - to Uzodinma Iweala '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Beasts of No Nation" -- Ms. Jamaica Kincaid  - to Leslie Sierra Jamison '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Eloquent Relics of Existence: (Re)Imagining Incest in William Faulkner's Early Novels" -- Professor Lawrence Buell  - to Abigail Joseph '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Pornomania: Sex and Bibliography in Victorian England" -- Professor Leah Price  - to Jakub Kabala '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "The Ambitions of Guibert of Nogent (1054-1125).  Nobility, Learning, Spirituality and a Medieval Career Path"   Professor Michael McCormick  - to Andrew Kallem '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Youth Crime and the Minimum Wage" -- Professor Lawrence Katz  - to Gabriel Katsh '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "The Meaning of Freedom in a Complex Society: The Development of Karl Polanyi's Thought on Economics, Modernity, and Human Liberty" -- Professor Richard Tuck  - to Joseph Keefe '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "A Curious Building: The Contentious Constructional History of Sant Viceng de Cardona" -- Professor Rabun Taylor  - to Hannah Kenser '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Cognitive effects of priming in biracial individuals" -- Professor Ken Nakayama and Ms. Joan Chiao - to Judd Kessler '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "The Effect of Wage Inequality on Worker Effort: An Experimental Analysis" -- Professor Alvin Roth  - to Jason Kohout '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Wisconsin School Finance Reform: Collective Action, Government Structure and Policy Outcomes" -- Professors Caroline Hoxby and William Howell - to Bram Levy '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "More Than Meets the Eye: Playboy's Advancement of Racial Equality in the 1960s" -- Professor Lizabeth Cohen    - to Christopher Loomis '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Box Five: Competition, Community and Junior Drum and Bugle Corps in America, 1921-2004" -- Dr. Quenby Olmsted Hughes  - to Karolina Maciag '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "A Computational Approach to the Identification of Protein Network Elements Involved in the Coupling of Gene Expression Machines in Eukaryotic Cells" -- Professor Tom Maniatis and Dr. Steven Altschuler - to Ian MacKenzie '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Slow Hands of the Living: A Novel"   Ms. Jamaica Kincaid  - to Noah McCormack '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "A Party to Remember: The Earl of Shaftesbury and the Origins of Political Parties in England 1667-1677"   Professor Mark Kishlansky  - to Nathalie Miller '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Shattering Normative Definitions of Family: Gay Fathers, their African-American Adopted Children, and American Kinship" -- Professor Kimberly DaCosta  - to Nilah Monnier '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "High-resolution structural and functional studies of sialic acid binding variants of rotavirus VP8*" -- Professors Stephen Harrison and Philip Dormitzer - to Christine Murray '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Discovering America: Translations of Faulkner by Vittorini and Pavese" -- Mr. Alberto Ribas-Casasayas  - to Venu Nadella '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Navigating the College Application Process: The Role of Family, Peers, and School in the Generation of Educational Inequality" -- Professor Mary Brinton  - to Kate Nesin '03/04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Public Art for a Private Self: Time and the Viewer in the Sculpture of Richard Serra" -- Dr. Harry Cooper  - to Anne Nguyen '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Sex Without Borders: International Non-governmental Organizations and the Trafficking of Women in Vietnam and Cambodia" -- Professor Susan Pharr  - to Emily Louise Nielson '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "High Stakes for Students: The Effects of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Graduation Requirement on Standardized Test Performance and High School Competition" -- Mr. Martin West  - to Matthew Ocheltree '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "The  Perfect Reconciliation: Imaginative Relation and Formal Meaning in the Prose Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" -- Professor James Engell  - to Gladden Pappin '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Subject to Higher Powers: Rights, Polity and the Common Good in the Conciliar Thought of Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Cusa" -- Professor James Hankins  - to Molly Perkins '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Impact of GB Virus C (Hepatitis G Virus) in HIV-1 Pathogenesis" -- Professor Bruce Walker and Dr. Marylyn Addo - to Nathan Perl-Rosenthal '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "The Tide of Freedom: American Seaman as the Vectors of Revolution, 1763-1789" -- Professor Joyce Chaplin  - to Christopher Phillips '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Moral Mathematics: The Propagation of Mathematics for Social Ends by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1826-1848" -- Dr. Kristen Haring  - to David Plunkett '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "The Subject of Dwelling: Selfhood, Place, and The Later Heidegger's Environmental Ethics" -- Professor Peter Gordon  - to Suzanne Podhurst '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "An Uncommon History: The Commonplace Book in Seventeenth-Century Great Britain" -- Professor James Engell  - to Alexander Pollen '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "How the Physical and Social Environment Sculpt the Brain in Tanganyikan Cichlid Fish" -- Dr. Hans Hofmann and Dr. Susan C.P. Renn - to Brian Quinn '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Acutest at its Vanishing: Why We Can't Forget Edgar Poe" -- Professor Daniel Albright  - to Matthew Rigazio '03, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "X-ray Emission Spectra Induced by Highly Charged Solar Wind Ions in Charge Transfer Collisions" -- Professor Alexander Dalgarno  - to Megan Robertson '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "The Penitent Magdalene: Representations of Mary Magdalene in French Literature of the Seventeenth Century" -- Professor Alexia Duc  - to Catherine Romatowski '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Outlining the Playing Field: Title IX, Athletic Bodies and Categories of Sex/Gender in the 1990s" -- Dr. Jane Gerhard  - to Jessica Rosenberg '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Curious in Conceit: Figures and Practices of Grafting in Seventeenth-Century England" -- Professor Lynn Festa  - to Reid Saaris '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Our Latest Generation: The Civic Greatness of Young Americans" -- Professor Sidney Verba  - to Saurabh Sanghvi '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "A Study of Two-Party Random Selection Protocols" -- Professor Salil Vadhan    - to Madiha Sattar '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Re-Placing the British? Post-Colonial Elites and Permeable Spaces in Rushdie's South Asia" Dr. Andrew Muldoon  - to James Schaffer '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "On Pliny (His Parentheses)" -- Professor Kathleen Coleman  - to Benjamin Schapira '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Bonapartes and Sharks: The Political Theory of Herman Melville" -- Mr. Mark Somos  - to Raphael Schoenle '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Evidence on the Determinants and Formation of Carpooling" -- Professor Markus Mobius  - to Joel Steinhaus '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "No Second Chances: The United States, The United Nations, and the Partition of Palestine"   Dr. Bradley Zakarin  - to Joshua Stenberg '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Notes From the Khabarovsk Market: An Ethnographic study of the Chinese Trading Minority in the Russian Far East" -- Professor Philip Kuhn and Ms. Alison Groppe - to Caitlin Stork '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Encountering the Divine: Mystical Experience & Delusional Psychosis" -- Mr. Timothy Dalrymple  - to David Troiano '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Dynamically Tracking Frequent Items in Heavy Tailed Distributions" -- Professor Michael Mitzenmacher  - to Chia-Jung Tsay '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Perceptions of Achievement: Privileging Innate over Acquired Ability" -- Professor Mahzarin Banaji and Dr. Brian Little - to Aaron Udager '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "A Chondrogenic Cellular Environment Provides a Competence for Runx2 to Induce Collagen X Expression" -- Professor Andrew Lassar  - to Previn Warren '04, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "In Pursuit of Peirce: Habermas's Reconstruction of a Fugitive Philosopher"   Professor Steven Caton  - to Sylvia Yang '04, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "What is the Extent of Specificity of the Mycoheterotroph Monotropa uniflora (Ericacaea) on its Russula (Russulaceae) Mycobionts in Areas Near Cambridge, Massachusetts"  Professor Donald Pfister    Honorable Mention - to Thaddeus RF Fulford-Jones '04, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "A Wireless Sensor Network to Monitor Intensive Care Patients "  Professor Matt Welsh and Professor Gu-Yeon Wei - to Dimitar Jetchev '04, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Visible Elements of the Shafarevich-Tate Group "  Professor William Stein - to Jyoti Kandlikar '04, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "Identification and Characterization of Small Molecule Suppressors and Enhancers of Histone 3 Lysine 4 Dimethylation "  Professor Stuart Schreiber - to Andre Kydd '04, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Molecular Regulation of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase SHP-1 P2 Promoter Activity in Uninfected and Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-1 (HTLV-1)-Transformed T-Cells "  Dr. Wayne Marasco - to Christopher Lamie '04, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "History in the rings: Exploring the potential of recovering climate signals through isotopic analysis of Alaskan trees "  Professor Daniel Schrag - to Kayla Rosen '04, for her Senior Thesis entitled, "The Arrival "  Ms. Marie Rutkoski - to Feng Zhang '04, for his Senior Thesis entitled, "Real-Time Visualization of Viral Entry and Membrane Fusion "  Professor Xiaowei Zhuang History and Literature’s Intellectual Autobiography Award - to Simeon Zahl ’04   Charles Edward Horman Memorial Prize - to Colin Lockard ’05, 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   George Arthur Knight Prize - to Dominique Schafer (GSAS), income from the fund for his composition entitled fluchtpunkte, judged the best composition in instrumental music by any University student  Harold Langlois Award - to Kerri Ann Johnson CSS ’04, 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   George Emerson Lowell Prize Examination in Latin - to Jonathan Gnoza ’05   Hugh F. MacColl Prize - to Carson Cooman ’04, income from the fund for his composition entitled Desiring the solitude of rain   Mill-Taylor Prize - to Jody Kelman ’05 and Alexander Post ’05, 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 Tamara Reichberg ’04, a prize of $75 for her thesis entitled  “Constructing Fannie Lou Hamer: The Political Mutability of  Grassroots Icon,” as an outstanding honors essay on a topic in the field of American history and literature   Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize - to Linda Wanlin Zhang ’04, 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   David Mumford Prize - to Dimitar Jetchev ’04, a prize of $200 to the most promising senior concentrator in mathematics   Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Sophomore) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Alexandra Zukerman ’06, a prize of $75 for excellence in her sophomore essay entitled “Flaubert’s Admission in Bouvard et Pecuchet: The Incompatibility of Style and Fact and ‘Orientalizing of the Orient’”   Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Junior) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Bonnie Lee ’05, 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 Madiha Sattar ’04, a prize of $75 for her thesis of high distinction entitled  “Re-Placing the British?  Post-Colonial Elites and Permeable Spaces in Rushdie’s South Asia”   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 David Blakeslee ALB ’04 - Second prize ($750) to Lata Parwani ALB ’04 - Third prize (tie) ($500) to Yvonne Fraser ALB ’04 - Third prize (tie) ($500) to  Jerald F. Knight ALB ’04   Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies - to Elinathan Ohiomoba ’06, for her short story “A Change is Going to Come”   Susan Anthony Potter Undergraduate Prize (Comparative Literature) Awarded to a student of Harvard College for the best essay “on some subject of Comparative Literature drawn from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance   - to Jessica Rosenberg ’04, a prize of $750 for her essay entitled “‘Curious in Conceit’: Figures and Practices of Grafting in Seventeenth Century England”   Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Comparative Literature) Awarded for the best essay by a student (graduate or undergraduate) in Harvard University on any subject in the field of Comparative Literature   - First prize ($1,500) to David Elmer (GSAS), for his essay entitled “Graeca Fides: Plautus’ Asinaria and the Comparative Law of Sale”   - First prize ($1,500) to Hannah Sullivan (GSAS), for her essay entitled “We have kept our erasers in order: Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius as critics”   Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age - Second prize ($1,000) to Ashley Isaacson ’04, for her essay entitled “Causas desastradas: Fortuna y libre albedrio en Carcel de amor y La Celestina”   Edward Purcell Prize - to Brian White ’04, a prize of $4,000   David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature - to Jane S. Kim ’04, for her thesis entitled “The California Missions: Myth, Romance, and History (1787-1929)”   Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize Awarded for the best paper presented before the Mathematics Table   - First prize to Corina Petrascu ’06, a prize of $400 for “Computing Order Statistics in the Farey Sequence”   - Second prize to Jonathan Bloom’04, a prize of $300 for “The Local Structure of Smooth Maps of Manifolds”   Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize - to Alexey Gorshkov ’04, a prize of $200   John Osborne Sargent Prize for a Latin Translation - to Henry Walters ’06   V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize Awarded by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for essays on Russian literature - to Seth Kleinerman ’04, a prize of $300 for his essay on Anna Karenina entitled “Three Poses, Three Portraits” - to Alex Spektor (GSAS), a prize of $300 for his essay entitled “The Taming of the Sublime, or How Derzhavin Took the Vertical and Put it Horizontally”   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 (tie) to Jason Lindsay ALM ’04 - First prize (tie) to Kim L. Mercer ALM ’04 - Second prize (tie) to Jany R. Siddall ALM ’04   George B. Sohier Prize - to Natalia Truszkowska, a prize of $250 for her thesis entitled “Parodic Patrotism and Ambivalent Assimilation: A Rereading of Mary Antin's The Promised Land.,” 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 Katherine Stirling ’04, a prize of $75 for her thesis of high distinction entitled “The Last Utopia: Aesthetics and Ideology at the 1937 Paris Exhbition”   Adelbert Sprague Prize  - to José-Luis Hurtado (GSAS), income from the fund for an orchestral composition entitled Seis   Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in German - to Andrea Deeker (GSAS), a prize of $1,000   Phyllis Strimling Award - to Isabelle Anguelovski CSS ’04, 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   Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies - to Marques Redd ’04, a prize of $500 for his thesis of highest distinction entitled “Plato’s Egyptian Voyage: A Reading of Five Dialogues”