July/August 2009
Around the Quads
2009 Academic Awards and Prizes
Dean Austin Quigley (far left) and Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn B. Yatrakis (far right) congratulate salutatorian Mollie Schwartz ’09 and valedictorian Emily Clader ’09 at the 2009 Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, held on May 18 in Low Rotunda. PHOTO: DANIELLA ZALCMAN ’09The Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, at which students
are recognized for their academic achievements, is a highlight of graduation
week. Dean Austin Quigley and Dean
of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis were on hand to congratulate the students
at the ceremony, held on May 18 in Low Rotunda. Yatrakis, along with several
noted faculty members, presented the awards. Following are the 2009 recipients.
Special Achievements
Presented by Kathryn B. Yatrakis, dean of academic affairs
The Harry J. Carman Fellowship
Gabrielle Apollon ’09
The George William Curtis Prize
Persuasive:
Tiffany Dockery ’09
Informative:
Scott St. Marie ’10
The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship
Eric Lukas ’09
The Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship
Matthew Franks ’09
Sean Udell ’11
The Solomon and Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellowship
Sajaa Ahmed ’10
Sarah Rahaman ’10
The Wallace A. Gray Prize in Literature Humanities
Leah Goodman ’11
Rebecca Clark ’11 (Honorable Mention)
Catherine Kaelin ’10 (Honorable Mention)
The Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize
Kyle Jurado ’09
The Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize
Rachel Vishnepolsky
’10
Danielle Charles ’09
Kinara Flagg, ’06, ’11L
Erin Meyer ’09,
The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowships
Rudi Batzell ’09
Daniel Blank ’09
The Richard Lewis Kohn Traveling Fellowship
Joshua Wan ’11
The Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowships
Daniel Adams ’10
Brigid Babbish ’12
Stephanie Chou ’09
Theo Di Castri ’12
Kurt Kanazawa ’11
Sarah Kim ’11
Maryam Parhizkar ’09
Edward Poll ’11
Jonathan Sapp ’09
Julie Schoonover ’11
Mark Sim ’12
Caleb van der Swaagh
’09
The Arthur Rose Teaching Assistantship
Allon Brann ’10
The James P. Shenton Prize in Contemporary Civilization
Jordan Hirsch ’10
Evelyn Symington ’10 (Honorable Mention)
Stephanie Wu ’10 (Honorable Mention)
The Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Tara Tannenbaum ’09
The David B. Truman Alumni Award
Alidad Damooei ’09
Salutatorian
Mollie Schwartz ’09
Valedictorian
Emily Clader ’09
Prizes in Science and Mathematics
Presented by James J. Valentini, Department of Chemistry
The Richard Bersohn Prize
Mollie Schwartz ’09
The Computer Science Department Award
Michael Rand ’09
The Thomas J. Katz Prize
David Yang ’09
The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize
Willy Chang ’09
The Russell C. Mills Award
Eliane Stampfer ’09
Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize
Shenjun Xu ’12 (first-year recipient)
Jiayang Jiang ’11(sophomore recipient)
Atanas Atanasov ’10 (junior recipient)
The John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Mathematics
So Eun Park ’09
Prizes in the Humanities
Presented by Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
The Academy
of American Poets Poetry
Prize
Marissa Brodney ’09
The Senior Thesis Prize in Art History and Archaeology
Peter Gallotta ’09
The Lea Baechler Prize
Ryan Alberts ’10
The Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Memorial Prize
Elizabeth Tarras ’09
The Dino Bigongiari Prize
David LoVerme ’09
The Seymour
Brick Memorial Prize
Shaday Stewart ’09
The Karen Osney Brownstein Writing Prize
Crystal Kim ’09
Elizabeth Straus ’09
The Bunner prize
Maxwell Tobin ’09
The Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize
Giuseppe Castellano
’09
The Earle Prize in Classics
Rachel Anderson ’09
The Arthur E. Ford Poetry Prize
Yitian Fu ’10
The John Vincent Hickey Prize
Max Friedman ’09
The Adam Leroy Jones Prize in Logic
Rohan Sud ’09
The Jonathan Throne Kopit Prize in Logic and Rhetoric
Emelyn Lih ’11
The Helen and Howard Marraro Prize
Melissa Lombardi ’09
The Philolexian Centennial Washington
Prize
Adam Hoffman ’10
The Philolexian Prize
Daniel Feldman ’09
The Benjamin F. Romaine Prize
Rachel Anderson ’09
The Earnest Stadler Prize for Excellence in the Study of Classical
Antiquity
Shoshana Streiter ’09
The Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Prize
Danielle Jones ’09 GS
The Deutscher Verein Prize in German
Douglas Driscoll ’09
The Susan Huntington Vernon
Prize
Andrew Lyubarsky ’09
The Richmond
B. Williams Traveling Fellowship
Isla Hansen ’10
Lucy Tang ’10
Prizes in the Social Sciences
Presented by Professor Priscilla Ferguson, Department of Sociology
The Charles A. Beard Prize
Ayla Bonfiglio ’09
The Charles A. Beard Senior Thesis Prize in History
Sonia Tycko ’09
The Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize
Ion Mihailescu ’10
The Chanler Historical Prize
Eric Lukas ’09
The Albert Marion Elsberg Prize
Rudi Batzell ’09
The Lily Prize in History
Samuel Daly ’09
The Garrett Mattingly Prize
Alexander Statman ’09
The Sanford
S. Parker Prize
Kyle Jurado ’09
Brendan Price ’09
The Edwin Robbins Academic Research AND Public Service Fellowship
Courtney Chin ’10
Jamie Johns ’10
Kate Redburn ’10
Adam Sieff ’11
The Romine Prize
Melissa Lombardi ’09
Jisung Park ’09
The Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship in American Politics
Amelia Green ’10
The Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
Nicholas Kelly ’09
The Taraknath Das Foundation Prize
Shakeer Rahman ’09
The Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
David Feith ’09
Robert Sockin ’09