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Academic Awards and Prizes
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Dean James J. Valentini and Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn B. Yatrakis were on hand to congratulate the students at the 2016 Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, held on May 17 in Faculty House. Not all of the following awards were announced at the ceremony, but all were given.
Special Achievements
Presented by Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis
Harry J. Carman Fellowship
Nicholas Lyon ’16
Class of 1939 Summer Research Fellowship
Jordan Berkeley Brewington ’17
Dorthy Dan Fang ’17
Emmalina Glinskis ’17
Alexandra Jeanne White ’17
Jonathan Brandon Young ’17
Julian Nebreda-Bello ’18
Xavier Pladevall ’18
Peter Fayssoux Richards ’18
Ankita Saxena ’18
Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship
Zoey Poll ’16
Henry Evans Prize
Reva Aisha Do Espirito Santo ’16
Dennis Zhou ’16
Solomon and Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellowship
Mennaallah Elsayed ’17
Anna Jessurun ’17
Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize
Alexander Remec ’16
Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship
Eliav B. Grossman ’16
Brian Trippe ’16
Richard Lewis Kohn Travelling Fellowship
Alexa Economacos ’18
David B. Truman Alumni Award
Gabriella Zacarias ’16
Salutatorian
Zoey Poll ’16
Valedictorian
Felix Jin ’16
Prizes in the Core Curriculum
Presented by Professor Julie Crawford, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Joshua A. Feigenbaum Prize in Literature Humanities
Emily Yeh ’18
Wallace A. Gray Prize in Literature Humanities
Bryan Kim ’18
Amy Wang ’18
Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize in the Humanities
Akiko Uemura ’17
Jonathan Throne Kopit Prize in Logic and Rhetoric
Elise Gout ’19
James P. Shenton Prize in Contemporary Civilization
Jingwei Xu ’17
Prizes in the Creative and Performing Arts
Presented by Professor Julie Crawford, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Smita Sen ’16
Karen Osney Brownstein Writing Prize
Michael Abrams ’16
Emma Miller ’16
Smita Sen ’16
George William Curtis Prize in Oration
Danny Amir Haidar ’18 - Informative
Riley Jones IV ’18 - Persuasive
Roy Donahue Peebles III ’18 - Persuasive
Philolexian Prize Fund
Bindu Bansinath ’18
Serena Solin ’16
Austin E. Quigley Prize
Emilia Lirman ’16
Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship
Jeremy David Corren ’17
Samuel Norman Klein-Markman ’17
Sophie Laruelle ’17
Yong Abraham Murray ’17
Anne Monique Pace ’17
Alec Hon ’18
Olivia Kapell ’18
David Acevedo ’19
Jessica Rose Edgar ’19
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Ella Maria Coon ’16
Reva Aisha Do Espirito Santo ’16
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Prize
Emily Burns ’17
Seymour Brick Memorial Prize
Bryant Kong Yao Chan ’16
Kalman Victor ’16
Richmond B. Williams Travelling Fellowship
Michael Abolafia ’17
Gulino Malina ’17
Anneliese Mesa-Jonassen ’17
Prizes in Science and Mathematics
Presented by Professor John Parsons, Department of Physics
Richard Bersohn Prize
Gregory Cleveland ’16
Computer Science Department Award
Elijahu Ben-Michael ’16
Anna Lawson ’16
The Herbert Deresiewicz Summer Research Fellowship
Gillian Carling ’17
Thomas J. Katz Prize
Gabrielle Lovett ’16
Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize
Vahe Galstyan ’16
Russell C. Mills Award
Reza Nayebi SEAS’16 Christopher Yan SEAS’16
Professor Vam Amringe Mathematical Prize
Nguyen Dung ’18 (sophomore)
Srikar Varadaraj ’17 (junior)
John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Mathematics
Samuel Nicoll ’16
Bridges and Sturtevant Prize in Biological Sciences
Felix Jin ’16
Samuel Kim ’16
Prizes in the Social Sciences
Presented by Professor Shamus Khan, Department of Sociology
Charles A. Beard Prize in Political Science
Nicholas Lyon ’16
Charles A. Beard Prize in History
Stanislaus Conze ’16
Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize
Nicolas Sambor ’16
Chanler Historical Prize
Abigail Chew ’16
Taraknath Das Foundation Award
Megan Hartman BC’16
Jinwei Xu ’16
Albert Marion Elsberg Prize
Wallace Teska ’16
Myra Kraft Prize for Exceptional Practical Experience in Human Rights Advocacy
Haley Zovickian ’17
Myra Kraft Prize for Superior Academic Achievement in the Study of Human Rights
Ella Every-Wortman ’16
Lily Prize in History
Maris Hubbard ’16
Garrett Mattingly Prize
Maya Barad ’16
Sanford S. Parker Prize
Adriano Fernandes ’16
Omeed Maghzian ’16
Sanford S. Parker Summer Research Prize
Jeffrey Beck Gortmaker ’17
Camille Hyinji Houle ’17
Luis Sanchez ’17
Jesse Alexander Silbert ’17
Srishti Sinha ’17
Edwin Robbins Academic Research and Public Service Fellowship
Pater Kalicki ’17
Catalina Piccato ’17
Martin Ridge ’17
The Grant Squires Prize in Sociology
George Joseph ’16
Romine Prize
Siran Jiang ’16
Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship in American Politics
Sarah Kuranga ’17
Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
Sarah Thompson ’16
Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
Maxwell Schwartz ’16
Prizes in the Humanities
Presented by Professor Julie Crawford, Department of English and Comparative Literature, on behalf of Professor Elizabeth Irwin, Department of Classics
Senior Thesis Prize in Art History and Archeology
Eleanor Goerss ’16
Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Memorial Prize
Eli Jonas Aleinikoff ’16
Bunner Prize
Dylan Isaac Furcall ’16
Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize
Alyssa Hubbard ’16
Earle Prize in Classics
Ridge Montes SEAS’16
John Vincent Hickey Prize
Serena Solin ’16
Adam Leroy Jones Prize in Logic
Bryce Harlan ’16
Benjamin F. Romaine Prize Fund
Ridge Montes SEAS’16
Ernest Stadler Prize for Excellence in the Study of Classical Antiquity
David Blackman ’16
Erin Larson ’16
Susan Huntington Vernon Prize
Alexi Thomas ’16
Deutscher Verein Prize in German
Tae Ho Kim ’16
James Gutmann Prize in Philosophy
Lu Zhou ’16
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