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Prize Winners 1999-2000   Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Mia Alvar ’00, a prize of $1500, for "Harmony House," for the best short story written by an undergraduate during the academic year. Academy of American Poets Award - to James Scott Fraser Wilson ’00 for a collection of poems Albert Alcalay Prize - to Jessica Golbus ’00, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in Visual and Environmental Studies workshop studio Rudolph Arnheim Prize - to Rajesh Kottamasu ’02 and Jennifer Wu ’00, 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 Helen Choate Bell Prize - to Deborah Gettleman G2, a prize of $2,500, for the best essay from 5,000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American literature - to Neal Dolan Ph.D. ’99, a prize of $5,000, for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a subject in American literature Lillian Bell Prize (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Laura Winthrop ’00, a prize of $500, as the undergraduate who has written the best paper on the Holocaust or other major 20th-century event involving human tragedy James Gordon Bennett Prize - to Curtis Joseph Mahoney ’00, income from the fund ($1,681.86), for his senior thesis entitled, "A Constitutionalist Theory of Appointment Politics: Assessing the Impact of Divided Government on Appointments to the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, 1953-1998," as an outstanding essay on some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. Philo Sherman Bennett Prize - to Nisha Agarwal ’00, income from the fund ($620.30), for her senior thesis entitled, "Five Fingers to Fist: Mobilization and Empowerment in a Low Income Bombay Community," as an outstanding essay discussing the principles of free government Francis Boott Prize - to Lansing McCloskey, a prize of $250, for his composition in concerted vocal music entitled "O Mira Novitas" Bowdoin Prize - Graduate English - to Mary Ellen Lennon G6, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "Art Strike Against Racism: New York Museums and African American Visual Artists, 1968-1971" Bowdoin Prize - Graduate Natural Sciences - to Joseph Roman G1, a prize of $3,000, for his essay entitled "The Whale Vanishes" Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate English - to Susannah Lang Hollister ’01, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "Squaring the Circle: Resolutions of the Lover’s Conflict with Nature in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets" - to Margot Lee Minardi ’00, a prize of $3,000, for her essay entitled "Between Dependence and Freedom: The Petition of Belinda, an African" Bowdoin Prize - Undergraduate Translation into Greek - to Timothy Wesley Pepper ’00, a prize of $1,000, for his translation into Classical Greek Boylston Prize for Elocution - to Joyce Imahiyerobo ’01, a first prize of $300 - to Ashley Evans ’02, second prize of $200 LeBaron Russell Briggs - Commencement Oration - to Justin M. Krebs ’00, a prize of $500, as the member of the graduating class of Harvard College who delivers the undergraduate English oration at the Commencement Exercises LeBaron Russell Briggs – Fiction Prize - to Erwin Rosinberg ’00, a first prize of $300, for "New World Order," as the best work of prose fiction by an undergraduate during the year - to John Alexander Burton ’01, a second prize of $200, for "Lorraine" Edward M. Chase Prize - to Jennifer Pitts G6, income from the fund ($3,347.59), for her dissertation entitled, "Nation, Rights and Progress: The Emergence of Liberal Imperialism, 1780-1850," as the best essay on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace by any student in the University David Taggart Clark Prize - Latin Oration - to Kathleen A. Stetsko ’00, a prize of $500, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement John Clive Prize - to Caitlin E. Anderson ’00, a prize of $75, for her essay entitled "Immigration and Informal Empire: The British in Argentina, 1860-1890," as the best History and Literature honors essay on a topic in the field of British history and literature Colton Prize - to Robert Ortiz ’00, a prize of $500, for excellence in the preparation of a senior thesis in the Department of History Coolidge Debating Prize - to David Cooper ’01, one-half the income from the fund ($1,968.49), as one of the best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates - to Allon Kedem ’02, one-half the income from the fund ($1,968.49), as one of the best speakers in the trial debates for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Intercollegiate Debates James Bryant Conant Prize - to David Kornhaber ’02, first prize ($1,000), as 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 Michael Aaron Kay ’01, second prize ($750) - to Julie Rattey ’02, third prize ($500) Edward Chandler Cumming Prize - to Nicholas R. Parrillo ’00, a prize of $2000, for his honors essay of the highest distinction entitled "Theodore Parker’s Condemnation of Daniel Webster: Slavery and the Fractured Paradigms of Political Culture" David Herbert Donald Prize - to Katherine Hurwich ’00, a prize of $500, as a graduating senior in the Department of History whose work in American history exemplifies the high standards of erudition, original thought, and elegant prose embodied in the career of David Herbert Donald Edward Eager Memorial Fund prizes of $1600 for the best creative writing, preferably in the juvenile field, by undergraduates in the English Department - to Irene Hahn ’00 for "Shooting" - to Rebekah Shoaf ’00 for "Heir to the Throne" - to James Scott Fraser Wilson ’00 for "Birdline and Smoke" - to Elizabeth Winthrop ’01 for "Boys" - to Erwin Rosinberg ’00 for "New World Order" - to Josh Lambert ’01 for "The Golem" - to Edward Boey ’00 for "Sand" - to Micaela Root ’00 for "Blood and Recollection" - to John Alexander Burton ’01 for "Lorraine" - to John Paul Rollert ’00 for "How We Say Things" - to Anna Fishko ’02 for "The Creation and Fall of Angels" Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - to Trygve Throntveit ’00, 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 William Scott Ferguson Prize - to Adina Gerver ’02, a prize of $500, for the best essay written in sophomore tutorial in the Department of History Eric Firth Prize - to Aparna Ravi, income from the fund ($1,463.50), for her senior thesis entitled "Combating Child Labor with Labels: Ideals Meet Interests," for the best essay on the subject of the ideals of democracy. Howard T. Fisher Prize - to Diana Hart Barnes, a prize of $2,000, for her work entitled "Urban/Industrial Pollution for the New York City-Washington, D.C. Corridor: Providing Independent Verification of Emission Inventories," for excellence in geographic information science William Plummer French Prize - to Kamil Elaine Redmond, a book prize to the undergraduate student who has collected the best personal library focusing on some aspect of African or African-American culture and history Sophia Freund Prize - to Matthew Strahl Levine ’00, 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 - to Susannah Lang Hollister ’01, a prize of $1000 and a silver medal for her poem "Kern" Leo Goldberg Prize in Astronomy - to Jacob Taylor ’00, a prize of $1000, for his senior thesis entitled "Hubble Space Telescope Study of Binary Systems in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397," in recognition of research promise. Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize For outstanding theoretical and experimental graduate students who have passed their qualifying oral examinations in the preceding year - to Carter Hall G4, a prize of $2,000 - to Marcus Spradlin G3, a prize of $2,000 Graduate English Commencement Oration - to Arese Ukpoma Carrington, SPH, a prize of $500, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at the Commencement Exercises Kate and Max Greenman Prize - to Katie Gallagher ’00, Anna Lumelsky ’00, Christopher Park ’01, and Steven Wu ’02, medals awarded to those students in Harvard College who participated in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debates Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize in Economics - to Nadarajan Chetty ’00, income from the fund ($2,991.18), for his outstanding thesis entitled "Business Investment Under Uncertainty: An Alternative Approach" Seymour and Ruth Harris Prize (Other Social Sciences) - to Nisha Agarwal ’00, income from the fund ($2,991.18), for her outstanding thesis entitled "Five Fingers to a Fist: Mobilization and ‘Empowerment’ in a Low-Income Bombay Community" - to Margot Minardi ’00, Honorable Mention, for her thesis entitled "A Rugged Maze: The Emancipation of Belinda and Chloe Spear" Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award - to Sameera Fazili ’00, a stipend of $750, for a junior or senior who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and promise - to Kamil E. Redmond ’00, Honorable Mention - to Elizabeth D. Chao ’01, Honorable Mention Harvard Monthly Prize - to Elizabeth Winthrop ’01, a prize of $500, as that student in the most advanced courses in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise Roger Conant Hatch Prizes - to Linus Lee ’00, a prize of $25 for "Palinode" - to Calvin Wei ’00, a prize of $25 for "Wind" Lawrence J. Henderson Prize - to Ryan L. Dorris ’00, a prize of books, for his honors thesis in Biochemical Sciences entitled "Tumor Cell Lines Resistant to Caspase-Mediated Apoptosis are Sensitive to CTL Attack, Granzyme Loading, and UV Irradiation" - to James L. Young ’00, a prize of books, for his honors thesis in Biochemical Sciences entitled "The Serpin P1-9 is an Endogenous Inhibitor of Interleukin-1ß-Converting Enzyme (Caspase-1) Activity in Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells" Clemens Herschel Prize - to Griffin Weber ’00, for the purchase of books, as a meritorious student registered in practical hydraulics History Prize (Junior) For the best research papers submitted in junior tutorial - to Michael Gerber ’01, a prize of $100 - to Roman Martinez ’01, a prize of $100 - to Rebecca Shapiro ’01, a prize of $100 - to Paola Tartakoff ’01, a prize of $100 History Prize (Senior) - to Garrett Moritz ’00, a prize of $100, for the best total record as a History concentrator by the end of the senior year Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting - to Diana I. Williams G3, first prize ($2,000), for her collection of books on race and ethnicity in 19th-century Louisiana - to Jason Vigna (HLS ’00), second prize ($500), for his collection of art and books about art - to Daniel S. Adler G5, second prize ($500), for his collection of books on the history of evolutionary theories Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (see end of list) Charles Edmund Horman Memorial Prize - to Irene Hahn ’00, 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 LeMenager, Ph.D. (November 1999), a prize of $3,104.20, for "Heavy Traffic: The American Nation in Narratives of Travel and Trade, 1810-1860" as 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 Helen Lee, a cash prize of $1,500, for her composition entitled Strands, judged the best composition in instrumental music by any University student Morris Kronfeld Prize - to Timothy Arnold ’00, a cash prize, as a graduating senior in the Department of Economics who has shown great academic improvement during his undergraduate years Hugh F. MacColl Prize - to Aaron Einbond ’00, a cash prize of $750, for his original music composition entitled "Chamber Symphony" Perry Miller Prize - to Margot Minardi ’00, a prize of $75, for her essay entitled "A Rugged Maze: The Emancipation of Belinda and Chloe Spear," as an outstanding honors essay on a topic in the field of American history and literature Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize - to Nick Boyadijev '01 and W. David Marx '01, a prize of approximately $1000 to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated both past meritorious achievement in the study of Japanese and the strong potential for future achievement in and significant contributions to a Japan-related field of endeavor Oliver-Dabney Prize in History (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Gloria Bruce ’00, a prize of $100 to be expended on books, as the senior who is judged to have the best overall record as a History honors student Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Sophomore) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Lindsey McCormack ’02, a prize of $75, for excellence in her sophomore essay entitled "Industrial Heroes: Cowboys, Gauchos, and Urban Audiences" Oliver-Dabney Prize in History and Literature (Junior) (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Jacqueline Newmyer ’01, 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 Kata Gellen ’00, a prize of $75, for her honors essay of high distinction entitled "Panes of Vision: Sight and Representation in Gottfried Keller’s Der grune Heinrich and Peter Handke’s Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied" Lucy Allen Paton Prize (a Radcliffe Fund) - to Matthew Strahl Levine ’00, a prize of $100, as the member of the senior class who has manifested the greatest promise in the humanities, based on grade-point average - to Eli Louis Diamond ’01, a prize of $50, as the member of the junior class who has manifested the greatest promise in the humanities, based on grade-point average Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies - to Josh Lambert ’01, a cash prize, for his essay, "The Golem," as the student who submits the best essay, feature article, or short story on a Jewish theme Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Comparative Literature) - to Jack W. Chen G4, a first prize of $1,500, for his essay entitled "The Cry of Its Occasion: Lyric Self, Skepticism and Voice in Wallace Stevens’ Late Poetry" - to Louisa I. Shea, G4, a prize of $750, for her essay entitled "Wasted Time, Wasted Money: The Gift of Writing. A reading of Prouse’s A la recherche du temps perdu" Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Spanish Literature of the Golden Age) - to Adela Acevedo ’01, a prize of $2,000, for the best essay on a subject dealing with Spanish literature of the Golden Age (1492-1700) Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize - to Lionel Levine ’01, first prize ($365), for his Math Table talk entitled "Iterates of a Spiky Function" - to Dan Lee ’00, second prize ($200), for his Math Table talk entitled "Spinors in Mathematics" - to Lauren Williams ’00, second prize ($200), for her Math Table talk entitled "Efficient Methods for Almost Proving Things: Techniques from Theoretical Computer Science" Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics - to Christopher Slowe ’00, a prize of $100, for the graduating senior with the highest grade-point average in Physics George B. Sohier Prize - to Alexandra McCormack’00, a prize of $250, for her thesis entitled "Beating Sense Out of the Text: Kreisleriana, Sarrasine, Barthes," as the best thesis written an undergraduate presented for Honors in English or in modern literature and in certain cases History and Literature Barbara Miller Solomon Prize - to Christopher T. Boyd ’00, a prize of $75, for his honors essay of high distinction entitled "Philosophers and Theologians on the Intellect: The Averroist Controversy at the University of Paris in 1270" Adelbert W. Sprague Prize - to Ken Ueno, a prize of $425, for his orchestral composition entitled "Saturation and Purge" Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts - to Joseph Lin ’00, a prize of $1,000, in honor of the sum of activities of a graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts Sumner Prize - to Michele Swers G5, income from the fund ($9,996.64), for her dissertation entitled "From the Year of the Woman to the Republican Ascendancy: Evaluating the Policy Impact of Women in Congress," for the best dissertation written by any student in the University from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace Tau Beta Pi Prize - to Bo-June Hsu ’00, a prize of $50, to an undergraduate showing excellence in Engineering Sciences - to Wendy Seider ’00, a prize of $50, to an undergraduate showing excellence in Engineering Sciences Alexis de Tocqueville Prizes in Social Studies - to Nisha S. Agarwal ’00, a prize of $500, for her thesis of highest distinction entitled "Five Fingers to a Fist: Mobilization and ‘Empowerment’ in a Low-Income Bombay Community" - to Ari Lipman ’00, a prize of $500, for his thesis of highest distinction entitled "The Young Homeless: Employment, Housing, and Family Among Homeless 18-24-Year-Olds in the Boston Area" Toppan Prize - to Andrew Rudalevige G6, income from the fund ($3,432.74), for his dissertation entitled "Managing the President’s Program: Centralization and Legislative Policy Formulation, 1949-1996" as the best dissertation on a subject of political science. Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize - to David Horn ’00, first prize ($500), for his entry entitled "Collecting the Colonizer: Books on French Colonialism Between the Wars" - to David Mihalyfy ’02, second prize ($400), for his entry entitled "An Autographed Book Collection" - to Shawn Saler ’03, third prize ($300), for his entry entitled "All I Needed to Know, I Learned from Comic Books: My Collection of Graphic Novels" Philip Washburn Prize - to Adam Beaver ’00, a prize of $500, for the best thesis on a historical subject presented by a successful candidate for the bachelor’s degree with honors in the Department of History Barrett Wendell Prize - to Angus Burgin ’02, a prize of $75, for excellence in his sophomore essay entitled "Something in the Air and Something in Himself: Representations of Disease in Dickens’ Bleak House" John H. Williams Prize - to Nadarajan Chetty ’00, a cash prize, as the honors senior in Economics with the best overall record Lenore Wilson Prize - to Eva Furrow ’03, as a student in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies who has done superior work in the area of printmaking Wister Prize - to Aaron Einbond ’00, income from the fund ($835.89), as the senior concentrating in Music who has the highest record in his field of concentration Allyn A. Young Prize - to Han Ping Davin Chor ’00, a cash prize and a book on economics to be chosen by the recipient, for his outstanding thesis entitled "Skilled and Unskilled Wages in a Globalizing World: New Cross-Country Evidence (1968-1998)" Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes To undergraduates and their supervisors, awards for excellence in scholarly work and research - to Nisha S. Agarwal '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Five Fingers to a Fist: Mobilization and 'Empowerment' in a Low-Income Bombay Community" -- Mr. Sanjay Reddy - to Stephanie Ajudua '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Effects of Three Novel Genetic Polymorphisms in Association with Lead Toxicity" -- Dr. Xiping Xu - to John Baxindine '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "'The Trouble With Candide': Analysis of an Operetta" -- Professor Reinhold Brinkmann and Dr. Michael Shinagel - to Randy Bell '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "It's Only a Tattoo" -- Mr. Ross McElwee - to Eliza Block '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'If A then B': The Context Dependence of Indicative Conditionals" -- Professor Stuart Shieber and Professor Irene Heim - to Thalia Chantziara '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Pindaric Scheme: To What Extent Does It Deserve Its Name?" -- Professor Calvert Watkins - to Nadarajan Chetty '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Business Investment Under Uncertainty: An Alternative Approach" -- Professor Martin Feldstein and Professor Jerry R. Green - to Han Ping Davin Chor '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Skilled and Unskilled Wages in a Globalizing World: New Cross-Country Evidence (1968-1998)" -- Professor Jeffrey G. Williamson - to Rodrigo Cruz '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "In the Name of Hemispheric Defense: The Economic Repression of German Nationals in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica during World War II" -- Mr. Oliver Dinius - to Paul Dilley '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "On Visible Voices and Seeing with the Mind: The Interaction of the Oral and the Visual in the Early Christian Revelation Dialogue" -- Professor Helmut Koester - to Jacqlynn Duquette '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Imaginary Conversations: The Role of Talk in Pushkin's Historical Oeuvre" -- Professor Stephanie Sandler - to David Edeli '99/00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Flaming Democracy: 'Plurinationality' and the Politics of Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon" -- Dr. Theodore Macdonald, Jr. - to Benjamin Edelson '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Studies in Chemical Genetics: Functionalization of Polystyrene Resin with a Carbamate Connected, Flouride-Cleavable Linker and Preparation of Library Demonstration Compounds via a Novel Tandem Mitsunobu-Nitrone Cycloaddition Reaction" -- Dr. Michael Foley - to David William Foster '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Supreme Court Swan Songs: Evaluating Game Theoretic Models Through Last Period Behavior" -- Professor Jerry R. Green and Professor Kenneth Shepsle - to Michael Grunwald '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Jouissance and the Boundaries of Language: Kant, Lacan, and the Postmodern Space for Religion" -- Professor David C. Lamberth - to Daniel Hopkins '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Soviet Eclipse: Ideology and the Evolution of the USSR's Domination of Republican Spain, 1936-7" -- Dr. David Brandenberger - to Sara Jablon '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Insatiable Work of Art: Inspiration, Representation, and Self-Destruction in Zola's L'Oeuvre" -- Dr. Dorota Ewa Badowska - to Jamie Jones '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "The Lyric Land in Poems by Seamus Heaney and Elizabeth Bishop" -- Professor Elaine Scarry - to Jarasa Mangkorn Kanok '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Reinventing Babel: American Children's Literatures in German, Spanish, Thai, and English" -- Professor Marc Shell - to Joseph Carney Krupnick '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Reconsidering Religiosity in America: An Investigation of the Psychological and Socioeconomic Effects of Personal Religious Involvement" -- Professor Christopher Winship - to Ilana Kurshan '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Mind Reading: Literature in the Discourse of Early Victorian Phrenology and Mesmerism" -- Dr. Linda Schlossberg - to Julie Lau '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Peptide Release from and Peptide Loading on HLA-DR Proteins" -- Professor Jack Strominger - to Linus Lee '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Walking the Sky: Lyrics and Hymns by Linus" -- Professor Forrest Gander - to Nora Lehmann '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Oases" -- Professor Chris Killip - to Jacob Lentz '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Mind-Body Problem: An Analysis of the Ascension of Jesse Ventura and the 1998 Minnesota Gubernatorial Election's Implications for Theories of Celebrity Politics, Third Parties, and Voting" -- Professor Andrea Campbell - to Oliver Lewis '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The True Space of Pleasure: Spatial Conflict in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers and Arcadia" -- Mr. Eric S. Wilson - to Ceen-Yenn Cynthia Lin '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Trends in Ozone Smog" -- Professor Daniel J. Jacob - to Daniel Loss '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Attack Dog or Lapdog? Understanding the Behavior of the American Press" -- Mr. Bertram Johnson - to Jacob Lurie '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Simply Laced Lie Algebras and their Minuscule Representations" -- Professor Benedict Gross - to Tricia Michels '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'Patients Like Us': The Quality of Publicly Funded Health Care for Pregnant Teenagers" -- Professor Peter V. Marsden and Professor Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good - to Margot Minardi '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "A Rugged Maze: The Emancipation of Belinda and Chloe Spear" -- Dr. Elisabeth Nichols and Professor Laurel Ulrich - to Siddharth Mohandas '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "A Puzzling Peace: Evaluating the Role of Norms and Identity in Maintaining Regional Order in Southeast Asia" -- Professor Alastair Iain Johnston - to Caitrin Moran '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Growth at All Costs: The Intersection of Science and Politics in the Planning of the Los Angeles Water Supply" -- Professor Daniel P. Schrag - to Garrett Moritz '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Slavers and the Squadron: Efforts to End the Illegal Atlantic Slave Trade, 1807-1866" -- Mr. David Nickles - to Nora Brennan Morrison '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Grand Operas: Chicagoan and Parisian Interpretations of the Totalizing Art, 1860-1895 (A Case Study of the Auditorium and Opéra Garnier)" -- Professor Patrice Higonnet - to Arif Nathoo '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Identification and Characterization of Novel Neuropeptide Genes in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans" -- Dr. Anne Hart - to Mary Nicklin '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Mapping the Myth: America's Continent and the Fulfillment of Virginia's Pacific Dream" -- Dr. Timothy Milford - to Jason North '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Controlling Apollo: Management and Computer Automation During the Apollo Program" -- Dr. Hugh Slotten - to Matthew Ozug '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "'Silence is Spoken Here': The Experience of Silence at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani" -- Ms. Margaret Izutsu - to Nicholas Parrillo '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Theodore Parker's Condemnation of Daniel Webster: Slavery and the Fractured Paradigms of Political Culture" -- Professor Lawrence Buell - to Dasa Pejchar '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Teaching Society in the Classroom: A Study of Early-Childhood Education in China and Japan" -- Professor Merry I. White - to Emma Phillips '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Transforming Identities: An Ethnography of Change in a Cuban Market" -- Mr. Brian Palmer and Professor William F. Fisher - to Matthew Povich '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The First SOHO/UVCS Doppler Radial Velocity Measurements of the Slow Solar Wind Speed in a Coronal Streamer" -- Dr. John Raymond - to Benjamin Railton '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Revolt and Reinvention Re-Viewed: American Attitudes Towards the Past in History and Historical Fiction" -- Mr. Mark Rennella - to Aziz Rana '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Rousseau and the Reenchantment of Modernity" -- Professor Stanley Hoffmann - to Rebecca Reider '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'Raise Your World More Splendid than Before': Biosphere 2 and the Making of Nature, Science, and Social Order" -- Professor Sheila Jasanoff - to Erwin Rosinberg '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Without Baedeker: Travel and Transformation in the Italian Novels of E.M. Forster" -- Professor Robert Kiely - to Patricia L. Santos '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Selling Sex and Women: Testing the Impact of Markets under the Theory of Commodification" -- Professor Benjamin M. Friedman - to Galit Sarfaty '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Globalizing the Local and Localizing the Global: The Cross Lake Cree's Campaign for Self-Government" -- Professor David Maybury-Lewis - to Nitzan Shoshan '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Magic, Ethnicity, and Class in Contemporary Israel" -- Mr. Ori Dasberg - to Katherine Sigelman '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Conversing With Pebbles: Miniature Space in Twentieth-Century Poetry" -- Ms. Melissa Feuerstein - to Derek Smith '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Next Strategic Confrontation: Controlling the Proliferation of Dual-Use Satellite Systems" -- Professor Stephen Rosen - to Jennifer Stager '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'Let No One Wonder at This Image': Phoenician Funerary Iconography in Classical Athens" -- Professor Albert Henrichs - to Gregory Sulkowski '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Origins of Mathematical Knowledge: Spontaneous Abilities in Rhesus Macaques" -- Professor Marc Hauser - to Daniel M. Sussner '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Methexis: The Politics of Female Allegory and the 1871 Paris Commune" -- Professor Patrice Higonnet and Dr. Erika Dreifus - to Samuel Tepperman-Gelfant '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "'Looked Upon by Many as a Minister': The Conversion of Samson Occom" -- Professor Sacvan Bercovitch - to Robin Wasserman '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Tuning In: Timothy Leary, Harvard, and the Boundaries of Experimental Psychology" -- Mr. Eric D. Kupferberg - to Griffin Weber '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Using Tactile Images to Differentiate Breast Tissue Types" -- Professor Robert Howe - to Hannah Weiss '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Managing Mutiny: The Removal of Indian and Eurasian Women from Domestic Closure in British Mutiny Novels" -- Professor Lynn Festa and Dr. Abby Wolf - to James S.F. Wilson '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Upshore" -- Professor Peter Sacks - to Laura Winthrop '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Institutional Resistance: L'Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants and the Evolution of Jewish Resistance in Vichy France, 1940-1944" -- Mr. Joel Rainey - to Emily Wong '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "'To Serve and Not to Rule': The Missionary Predicament in India Between the Wars" -- Professor Susan Pedersen - to James Young '00, a prize of $2,500, for his Senior Thesis entitled "The Serpin PI-9 is an Endogenous Inhibitor of Interleukin-1ß-Converting Enzyme (Caspase-1) Activity in Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells" -- Dr. Peter Libby - to Flora Zhang '00, a prize of $2,500, for her Senior Thesis entitled "Fractures: Revisiting Old Master Drawings" -- Ms. Nancy Mitchnick Honorable Mention - to Enko Kiprilov '00, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Characterization of the Molecular Determinants of HIV-1 gp120 CD4 Independence and Differential Neutralization Sensitivity of CD4-independent and Wild-Type ADA Envelope Glycoprotein" -- Dr. Joseph Sodroski - to David Roddenberry '00, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images of Tetris in Dense Amnesics" -- Dr. Robert Stickgold - to Beini Zhou '00, Honorable Mention, for his Senior Thesis entitled "A New Forward-Secure Digital Signature Scheme with a Key-Evolution Paradigm" -- Professor Silvio Micali Last updated 8/15/00