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Around the QuadsCollege Honors 78 Students at Awards and Prizes CeremonyBY JOAN KANEBefore a crowd of faculty, administrators, alumni, students and proud family members, the College honored 78 outstanding students with prizes for academic achievement at the annual Columbia College Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, held in Low Library Rotunda on May 19. Dean Austin Quigley congratulated the students, saying, “The academic expectations and requirements of Columbia College are difficult. Surviving and striving, and being able to excel as a student who sets standards, is excellent indeed.” Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis noted that the King’s College charter included the goal of “the Instruction and Education of Youth in the Learned Languages and Liberal Arts and Sciences.” The awardees, she said, carry forth the charter, embodying a “truly liberal arts education.” Yatrakis also recognized the College’s alumni. “The alumni who have donated the awards have connected three communities: the students and faculty, alumni, and family and friends,” she said. Before presenting the awards for special achievement, Yatrakis identified several outstanding recipients: a student who recently published a book, a fellowship recipient who has balanced philosophy with the marching band, and a winner who requested that the cash award be donated to UNICEF.
The honorees represent the wide variety of interests of College students. Lila Dupree ’03 will use her Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship (awarded for a creative research project) to continue working with KwaMashu Community Advancement Project (K-Cap), a youth theater group in a black township northeast of Durban, South Africa. Dupree studied in Durban during her junior year. “After an early lecture on the role of developmental theater in South Africa, I became very interested in the concept of using theater in an educational way,” she said. Dupree wants to produce a work that addresses South African-U.S. relations. “I would like the youth to come up with their own interpretations of the subject and create an original production,” she said. Dupree considers the fellowship a jumping-off point: “The goal of the project is to create a 40-minute music and dance production that, ideally, would tour in the U.S.” Miriam Stone ’03 received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, a cash prize awarded to a senior who has demonstrated “excellence of the highest standards of proficiency in performance, execution or composition.” Stone recently published her first book, At the End of Words: A Daughter’s Memoir (Candlewick Press, 2003), which comprises poems and essays about her mother and her mother’s death. At the ceremony, one of Stone’s professors, Leslie Woodard, director of the undergraduate creative writing program, applauded Stone’s award. “I’m delighted. The recognition is well-earned.” The awards were presented in four categories: special achievement, sciences and mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Awards ranged from fellowships in support of graduate study to cash prizes. Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Nicholas Christie-Blick presented prizes in science and mathematics, including the national Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Chemistry. Professor of Classics Gareth Williams presented the humanities prizes, and Professor of Sociology Karen Barkey presented the prizes in social sciences. More information about the College’s awards and prizes is available in the Columbia College Bulletin.
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