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a Prize Winners 2004-05   George Plimpton Adams Prize Awarded by the Department of Philosophy -                          to Arata Hamawaki, an award of $1500 Albert Alcalay Prize -                          to Roberta Camacho, ’05, 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 Cara Zimmerman, ’05, 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 Linda Sue Kush, ALB, a prize of $1,500 Bechtel Prize in Philosophy Awarded by the Department of Philosophy -                          to Andrew Roche, an award of $1500. James Gordon Bennett Prize -                          to Karl Proaccini, ’05, an award of $2200 for his essay entitled Class Warfare? An Analysis of Class Rhetoric in Presidential Campaigns from 1932 – 2004 -                          to Anat Maytal, ’05, an award of $2200 for her essay entitled The Media Coverage of Female Politicians in the 108th Congress: Ten Years Later, Has Anything Changed Since “The Year of the Woman” in 1992? Philo Sherman Bennett Prize -                          to Eli Sprecher, an award of $900 for his essay entitled The Strange Case of Medicaid: How the Elderly Ensure Medicaid’s Viability  Bernhard Blume Awards -                          to Mattias Frey (GSAS), an award of $1500 to the 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 in the first three terms of graduate study -                          to Justice Kraus (GSAS), an award of $1500 to the 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 in the second three terms of graduate study -                          to Kerstin Luise Tremel, ’05, for her thesis entitled Literrorisierung: German Literary Approaches to the Red Army Faction, a prize of $500 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 The Bohemians -                          to Karola Obermueller, an award of $2502.57 for the original musical composition entitled Shraeng Derek Bok Public Service Prize -                          Brent J. Sakoneseriiosta Maracle, ALM, an award of $1,500 -                          Carole Y. Rein, ALM, an award of $1,000 Francis Boott Prize -                          to Nicholas Vines, an award of $250 for his composition entitled Ave Generosa Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Essays in the English Language -                          to Julia Stephens, ’05, a prize of $7500 for her essay entitled Educating Mothers, Schooling a Nation: Domestic Ideology and the Growth of Women’s Education in British India, 1875-1900 -                          to Maude Emerson, ’05, a prize of $7500 for her essay entitled Cold Dark Deep and Absolutely Clear: The Shoreline Poems of Elizabeth Bishop Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Essays in the English Language -                          to Ken Hiltner, a prize of $7500 for his essay entitled The Not-So-Green View from Cooper’s Hill -                          to Susan Miller, a prize of $7500 for her essay entitled Gerald Manly Hopkins: Rhythms of the Mind and the Poetics of Conviction  Bowdoin Prize for Dissertation in Latin – Graduate Prize -                          to John Schafer, a prize of $4000 for his Latin composition entitled De Bello Mesopotamico Oratio Francis Bowen Prize -                          to Japa Pallikkathayil, an award of $1500 The Carrier Prize -                          to Francesco Goedhuis, an award of $1500 The Chase Prize -                          to Christopher Adolph, Ph.D., March ’05, an award of $10,000 for his dissertation entitled The Dilemma of Discretion: Career Ambitions and the Politics of Central Banking John Clive Prize -                          to Chloe Schama, ‘05 Coolidge Debating Prizes -                          to David Vincent Kimel, ’05 -                          to Georgios Theophanous, ‘06 Annamae and Allan R. Crite Prize Awarded to Extension School degree recipients who demonstrate “singular dedication to learning and the arts” -                          to Tabitha Claudia Flores, ALB, an award of $1,000 Gerda Richards Crosby Prize in Government (1954) -                          to Brad Smith, an award of $5000 Edward Chandler Cumming Prize -                          to Josiah Pertz, ‘05 Louise Donovan Award -                          to Karin Mangu-Ward, ’05, an award of $500 Susan C. Eaton Fellowship in Organizing Leadership and Social Change Awarded by the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies -                          to Charles Worthington, ’06, an award of $750 for his essay entitled The Role of Domestic Industrial Actors in the Adoption of International Climate Change Agreements Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize -                          to Natalie Orr, ‘06 Extension School Commencement Speaker Award -                          to Monica Antoinette Brooker, ALB, an award 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 -                          in Behavioral Sciences, to Renee Kochevar and Ann Smith, awards of $1,000 each -                          in the Humanities, to Christine Donata de Maupeou and Kristine Guay, awards of $1,000 each -                          in Information Technology, to George P. Strathis, an award of $1,000 -                          in Museum Studies, to Mark S. Gold, an award of $1,000 -                          in the Natural Sciences, to James Stephen Lee, an award of $1,000 -                          in the Social Sciences, to Eric P. Olson, an award of $1,000 Jonathan Fay Prize Awarded for the most outstanding imaginative work or piece of original research in any field -                          to Liora Halperin, ‘05 -                          to Peter McMurray, ‘05 -                          to Christopher Golden, ‘05 Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize -                          to Rebecca Alaly, ’05, an award of $2,000 Eric Firth Prize -                          to Amelia Showalter, ’05, an award of $2000 for her essay entitled The Effects of Women’s Political Recruitment Organizations in Gender Ratios in State Legislatures Sophia Freund Prize -                          to David Hayden Camden, ’05 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 Ya'ir Aizenman '05 -                          to David Kimel '05 -                          to Sam Myat San '06 -                          to Alex Potapov '05 -                          to Georgios Theophanous '06 -                          to Jason Wen '05 Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics -                          to Melissa Lynn Dell, ’05, an award of $1000 for her essay entitled Widening the Border: The Impact of NAFTA on Female Labor Force Participation in Mexico Clemens Herschel Prize -                          to Alexander Paddington, ‘07 Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 Prizes -                          to Jonathan Abel, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Taking Stock of Empire: Rethinking the Reform of the British East India Company in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Professor Thomas Robert Travers -                          to Shalini Ananthanarayanan, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Access to Abortion for Victims of Rape in Mexico City: A Case Study of Policy Implementation -- Professor Jorge Dominguez -                          to Deema Arafah, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Beyond 'Life or Death':  Palestinian Health and Emergency Medical Transport under Long-Term Military Closure in the West Bank -- Dr. Carl Pearson -                          to Gregory Atwan, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Mr. Pope's Painting: Translating Homer's Original Genius in the Augustan Age -- Professor Elaine Scarry, Professor Gregory Nagy -                          to Victor Ban, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Plato in China: Translation and Interpretation in the Early Twentieth Century -- Mr. Christopher Leighton -                          to Benjamin Black, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Looking Beneath the Surface: Measurements of Impact Crater Geometries Provide Evidence for Ice-Rich Deposits at Low Latitudes on Mars -- Professor Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay -                          to Charles Black, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Dimensions of the Lacanian Mind: Implications of Split-Conciousness for Narrative and Metaphor -- Ms. Melissa Fuerestein -                          to Jacob Bor, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Politics of National Responses to AIDS in Developing Countries -- Professor Daniel Ziblatt -                          to Jane Caflisch, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Intimate Pluralism: Negotiating Religious Difference in the Jewish-Christian Family -- Professor Robert Orsi -                          to David Camden, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Taste and Dynamis in the Hippocratic Treatise 'On Regimen' -- Professor Mark Schiefsky -                          to Gabriel Carroll, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Formal Properties of Categorial Grammars -- Professor Clifford Taubes, Professor Cedric Boeckx -                          to John Chaffetz, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Nathan Matthews Jr. and the "Conservative Experiment": Liberal Reform and the Democratic Party in Boston, 1884-1893 -- Mr. Richard Bell -                          to Matthew Chingos, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Effects of Florida's A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program on Student Achievement -- Professor Paul Peterson, Professor Caroline Hoxby -                          to Michelle Chun, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Ironic Points of Light: (Re-) Illuminating the Thought of Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin -- Dr. Oona Ceder -                          to Robert Cioffi, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Epistulae Historicae: The Letters of Pliny as a Minor History -- Professor Kathleen Coleman -                          to Jeffrey Clemens, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Opium in Afghanistan: Prospects for the Success of Source-Country Drug Control Policies -- Professor Martin Feldstein -                          to Alia Crum, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Think and Grow Fit: The Mind-Body Connection Between Exercise and Health -- Professor Ellen Langer -                          to Sarah Curtis, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled "Why, oh why, the doily?": Elizabeth Bishop's Concern for the Genuine -- Dr. Courtney Lamberth, Mr. Brandon Tilley -                          to Anna Dickerman, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled In a Fine Frenzy: La Folie de Hugues van der Goes, a 19th Century Flemish Portrait of Madness and Genius -- Dr. Bennett Simon, Professor Herni Zerner -                          to Brian J. Distelberg, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Making of a "Gay Classic": A Cultural History of Auntie Mame -- Dr. Steven Biel -                          to Joseph Fishman, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Collective Memory of a Memorial: The American Reception of Dimitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67 -- Professor Alexander Rehding, Professor Kevin Madigan -                          to Eleanor Fraser, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Sex, Sex-Roles, and Dominance: A Functional Genomics Approach -- Dr. Hans Hofmann -                          to Willa Friedman, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Language Policy in African Schools -- Dr. Kiaran Honderich -                          to Christopher Golden, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Eaten to Endangerment: Mammal Hunting and the Bushmeat Trade in Madagascar's Makira Forest -- Dr. Glenn Adelson -                          to Scott Goldman, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Politics of the NASCAR Nation: How the Political Beliefs of NASCAR Fans Challenge the "Great Divide" Theory of American Politics -- Dr. Thaddeus Williamson -                          to Cornelia Griggs, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Systems Breakdown: The Politics of Error in American Medicine and the Evolution of the Patient Safety Movement -- Ms. Christine Wenc -                          to Caroline Gross, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Deconstructing the Panama Canal: Management, Sovereignty, and the Making of an Imperial Project -- Dr. Peter Buck -                          to Raja Haddad, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The "World Image": Film, (Post)Modernity, and Cultural Movement -- Professor Stanley Hoffmann -                          to Liora Halperin, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled The Arabic Question: Zionism and The Politics of Language in Palestine, 1918-1948 -- Professor Peter Gordon -                          to Veronica Heller, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Selfyeast of Spirit: Word-Coinages and Identity in Hardy and Hopkins -- Professor Elaine Scarry -                          to David Hiniker, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Improving Region Selection in Dynamic Optimization Systems -- Professor Michael D. Smith -                          to Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled The Weight of the World -- Professor Mario Biagioli -                          to Lauren Jacks, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled "A Dead Man's Icy Hand Obstructs Us": An Exploration of Portraiture in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables -- Professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Professor Elisa New -                          to Clay Kaminsky, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Lungo-Drom: Description and Analysis of Long-Distance WH Movement Phenomena in Burgenland Roman -- Professor Cedric Boeckx -                          to Jody Kelman, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled The Broken Promise: Why Liberal Democracies Shut Their Doors to Asylum Seekers -- Professor Michael Hiscox -                          to Nora Khan, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled "One" (A Novel) -- Ms. Jamaica Kincaid -                          to Maria Konnikova, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Grandiose Leadership -- Professor Stephen Rosen -                          to John Lai, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Accelerated Implementations of the Ascending Proxy Auction -- Professor David Parkes -                          to Ian Le, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Tangent Lines to Curves Arising from Automorphic Distributions -- Professor Wilfried Schmid -                          to Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Some Books Have Pictures, Some Pictures Have Books: R.B. Katja's In Our Time -- Professor Jennifer Roberts -                          to Flora Lindsay-Herrera, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Ya No Creemos en la Politica: Rock Nacional and Politics in Argentina, 1976-1983 -- Ms. Carrie Endries -                          to Kamila Lis, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Passing Through Gesthemane -- Professor Jorie Graham -                          to Zachary Liscow, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Impact of Tenancy Insecurity on Forest Cover in Nicaragua's Agricultural Landholdings -- Professor Mark Rosenzweig -                          to Peter Lovely, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled A structural (Vp) model of the Salton Trough, California, and its implications for strong ground motion simulations and seismic hazard -- Professor John Shaw -                          to Julia Mansfield, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Specimens of Taste: The Role of Classical Architecture in Constructing a Character for the New Republic -- Professor Betsey Robinson -                          to Kristi Katherine Marks, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Algiers 1963: Le Parti Avant-garde et le Parti Pris Esthetique Avant-Garde -- Professor David J. Roxburgh -                          to Peter McMurray, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled "The Singer" After 70 Years: A Dialogic Restudy of Parry, Lord, and the Family Mededovic -- Mr. David Elmer -                          to Svetlana Meyerzon, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled The Center versus it's Periphery: Nikita Khrushchev Dinmukhamed Kunaev and the Emergence of the Kazah Political Elite, 1953-1969 -- Professor Terry Martin -                          to Aaron Mihaly, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Dynamics of an Ouster: Explaining the October 2003 Forced Resignation of Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada -- Professor Jorge Dominguez -                          to Roxanna Myhrum, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Disabled, Beyond Comprehension: Reconstructing the Social Model of Disability in the Americans With Disabilities Act -- Ms. Darra Mulderry -                          to Swati Mylavarapu, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Voices Against Violence: Hindu-Muslim Riots and Civil Society in Hyderabad, India -- Dr. Theodore Macdonald, Jr, Dr. Robert Bates -                          to Sameer Narang, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Fault Line of Fortune: America's Crusading Spirit and its Conservative Soldiers -- Professor Samuel Huntington -                          to Anthony Onah, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled A Neural Switch Controlling Phototactic Behavior in Drosophila -- Professor Samuel Kunes -                          to Wendy Pang, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Cellular Characterization of the SIRT1 and SIRT6 Mammalian Homologs of yeast Sir2 (Silent Information Regulator-2): Senescence and DNA Damage Sensitivity -- Professor Frederick Alt -                          to T. Josiah Pertz, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Jewgrass Boys: Bluegrass Music's Emergence in New York City's Washington Square Park, 1946-1961 -- Professor Lizabeth Cohen -                          to Lindsey Powell, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Thinking About Thoughts: Neural Correlates of Belief Attribution -- Ms. Rebecca Saxe -                          to Richard Powell, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Green Guilt: Conceptualizing Environmental Reparations -- Professor Sheila Jasanoff -                          to Karl Procaccini, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Class Warfare? An Analysis of Class Rhetoric in Presidential Campaigns from 1932 - 2004 -- Dr. Terri Bimes -                          to Sabeel Rahman, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Development, Empowerment, and Political Space: The Depoliticization of the NAO Sector in Bangladesh -- Professor Ajantha Subramanian -                          to Alexandra Rosati, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Context-sensitive Discounting in Two Non-human Primates -- Professor Marc Hauser -                          to Eli Rosenbaum, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Commissioning A Response to Political Gerrymanders: A Six-State Study on the Partisan and Electoral Impacts of Congressional Redistricting Mechanisms -- Mr. Daniel Hopkins -                          to Joshua Isaac Rosenbloom, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Rethinking the Place of Science in the Spanish Silver Age: "Cultural Synthesis" at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, 1910-1936 -- Mr. Jean-Francois Gauvin -                          to Jacob Hale Russell, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled "Eased with Being Nothing": Monologues, Soliloquies, and the Poetry of the Vulnerable in Richard II -- Ms. Kathleen Peterson -                          to Stephanie Safdi, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled How They Wrote America: Anzia Yezierska and the Discourse of Pluralism -- Professor Louis Menand -                          to Gregory Santoni, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Landscape-Scale Spatial Variability of Carbon in Live and Dead Biomass in the Tapajos National Forest, Brazil -- Professor Steven Wofsy -                          to Laura Schubert, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Liberty, Equality, Anxiety -- Professor Patrice Higonnet -                          to Stephanie Sherman, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled A Mighty Girl, Fat, Magnificent!: The Freak Show Fat Lady, Obesity Discourse, and the Gaze in the United States, 1840-1940 -- Ms. Orit Halpern -                          to Ilana Sichel, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled From Poetry to Propaganda: Zionist Film and Ideology -- Professor Avi Matalon -                          to Ben Smith, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled An Experimental Determination of Characteristics of KL meson related hadronic showers in the Electromagnetic Calorimeter at the BABAR Detector -- Professor Masahiro Morii -                          to Brad Smith, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled The Results of Political Compromises in Education: The Effects on Student Achievement of Charter Schools in Milwaukee -- Mr. Martin West -                          to David Sola-Del Valle, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Structure-function studies of TRPA1, a thermo-and mechano-sensitive ion channel -- Professor Rachelle Gaudet -                          to Julia Stephens, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Imperial Relations: Transnational Community and Women's Education in British India, 1870-1900 -- Professor Judith Surkis -                          to Vaughn Tan, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Leverage -- Professor Theodore Bestor -                          to Elisabeth Theodore, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled A Law of Necessity: The British Empire and Martial Rule in Ireland and the Punjab, 1919-1921 -- Professor Charles Maier -                          to Nellwyn Thomas, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled The Psychological Consequences of Eliminating Affirmative Action: Effects of Policy, Attitudes, and Candidate Quality on Evaluations of Black Applicants -- Professor Mahzarin Banaji -                          to James Weatherall, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Effective Field Theory and the Pragmatics of Explanation -- Professor Peter Galison -                          to Gretchen Weingarth, a prize of $2500 for her submission entitled Taking Race Out of the Equation: The Effect of Changing Classroom Poverty Concentrations on Student Achievement -- Professor Caroline Hoxby -                          to Thomas Wolf, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Gatekeepers of the Abyss: History and Utopia in the Writings of Trilling, Reisman, and Marcuse, 1950-1972 -- Professor James Kloppenberg -                          to Oussama Zahr, a prize of $2500 for his submission entitled Diva in Furs: Spectatorship as Masochism in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca -- Professor Daniel Albright -                          to Jennifer Graff, an honorable mention for her submission entitled Determinism and Classical Physics: An Analysis of Newtonian Physics, Special Relativity, and General Relativity -- Professor Peter Koellner -                          to Honor Hsin, an honorable mention for her submission entitled Toward the Molecular Architecture of Neural Networks Mediating Innate Aggressive Behavior in the Mammalian Brain -- Professor Catherine Dulac -                          to Lindsey Baker, an honorable mention for her submission entitled Genome-Scale Analysis of Nucleosome Positions in Mutants of the Yeast SWI/SNF Complex -- Dr. Oliver Rando George Arthur Knight Prize -                          to Jose-Luis Hurtado, an award of $3151.96 for his composition entitled De relieve doble Harold Langlois Award -                          to David Fleming, CSS, an award of $1,000 Doris Cohen Levi Prize (A Radcliffe Fund) -                          to Johanna (Jojo) Karlin, ’05, a prize of $750 Hugh F. MacColl Prize -                          to Derrick Wang, ’06, for his musical composition entitled Playground Perry Miller Prize -                          to Stephanie Sadfi, ‘05 David Mumford Prize -                          to Gabriel Carroll, ‘05 -                          to Ian Le, ‘05 Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Sophomore) (a Radcliffe Fund) -                          to Emily Simon, ‘07  Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Junior) (a Radcliffe Fund) -                           to Catherine Monticchio, ‘06 Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Senior) (A Radcliffe Fund) -                          to Katherine O’Neill, ‘05 Reginald H. Phelps Prize Awarded on the basis of “academic achievement and character” to outstanding graduating students receiving Bachelor’s degrees in Extension Studies -                          to Israel Meir, ALB, a first place award of $1,500 -                          to James K. Song Jr., ALB, a second place award of $1,000 -                          to Matthew S. Reid, ALB, a third place award of $750 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 Chris Van Buren, ’05, an award of $750 for his essay entitled Subtle Poetry 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 -                          to Cristina Vatulescu, an award of $1500 for her essay entitled The Politics of Estrangement: Tracing Shlovsky’s Devise through Literary and Policing Practices Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age -                          to Vanda La Mata, an award of $1500 for her essay entitled Una Lectura Intertexual y Anacrónica de la Poesía de Quevedo: Un Ejercicio Académico  Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize Awarded for the best paper presented before the Mathematics Table -                          to Ronen Mukamel, a first place prize for a talk entitled Four Things You Can Do in the Hyperbolic Plane that Your Parents Couldn’t in the Euclidean -                          to Mike Hamburg, ’06, a second place prize for a talk entitled Compass and Straightedge Constructions for Projectile and Orbital Motion -                          to Adam Levine, for his talk entitled Word-Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups Thomas Small Prize Awarded on the basis of “academic achievement and character” to two outstanding Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies degree recipients -                          to Benjamin (Ben) H. Leeming, an award of $1,250 -                          to Christine Donata de Maupeou, an award of $1,250 George B. Sohier Prize -                           to Abdur Sabar, ’05, an award of $250 for his essay entitled Phenomonology and the Enigma of Meaning Barbara Miller Solomon Prize -                          to Brian Distelberg, ‘05 Adelbert Sprague Prize -                          to Tolga Yayalar, an award of $1565.30 for the original musical composition entitled sînthome Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in German -                          to Anjeana Hans (GSAS), an award of $1,000 Phyllis Strimling Award -                          to Levani Lipton, CSS, an award of $500 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts -                          to Michael Donahue, ’05, an award of $1,000 -                          to David Mahfouda, ’05, an award of $1,000 The Sumner Prize -                          to Lily Tsai, Ph.D., June ’05, an award of $4,000 for her dissertation entitled The Informal State: Governance, Accountability, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China Tau Beta Pi Prize -                          to Mervin John, ’05, Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies -                          to Michael Kalin, ’05, an award of $500 for his essay entitled Living as a Vocation -                          to Jeslyn Miller, ’05, an award for $500 for her essay entitled How Shall we Sing in a Foreign Land?  A Study of the Afro-Cuban Religion of Regla Ocha as "Living Continuity", Uprooted and Transplanted in New York and New Jersey The Toppan Prize -                          to Travis Smith, Ph.D., June ’05, an award of $5,000 for his dissertation entitled On the Generation of New Natures Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize -                          First Prize ($1,000) to Loren Bienvenu  ’07, for his entry entitled Shining through the Ashes: A Collection of Beat Literature -                          First Prize ($1000) to Brian Distelberg ’05, for his entry entitled An Interesting Trio of Writers: Books By and About Edward Everett Tanner III -                          Third Prize ($500) to Kate Ward ’05, for her entry entitled Women’s Spaces and Social Safety: American Etiquette and Lifestyle Manuals, 1846-Present Esther Sellholm Walz Prize -                          to  Pascale LaFountain (GSAS) a prize of $1,000 awarded to the best graduate essay dealing with a scholarly subject in German literature and philology entitled “kennen Sie dieses SCHÖNE land”?: Spatial Alienation and the Media in Elfreide Jelikek’s Die Liebhaberinnen" Philip Washburn Prize