Dean James J. Valentini and Dean of Academic Planning and Administration Lisa Hollibaugh were on hand to congratulate the students at the 2018 Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, held on May 15 in Faculty House. The following awards were announced at the ceremony. A number of other awards were not announced at the ceremony but were still given.
Special Achievements to be Noted
Presented by Dean of Academic Planning and Administration Lisa Hollibaugh
Harry J. Carman Fellowship
Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship
Henry Evans Travelling Fellowship
- Thomas Nielsen ’18
- Jesse Thorson ’18
Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize
Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship
- Nathan Katkin ’18
- Angela Vettikkal ’18
David B. Truman Alumni Award
Salutatorian
Valedictorian
Prizes in the Core Curriculum
Presented by Julie A. Crawford, the Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities, and the Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature and Humanities
Joshua A. Feigenbaum Prize in Literature Humanities
Wallace A. Gray Prize in Literature Humanities
Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize in the Humanities
James P. Shenton Memorial Prize in Contemporary Civilization
- Mercedes Fissore-O’Leary ’19
Jonathan Throne Kopit Memorial Prize
Prizes in the Creative and Performing Arts
Presented by Julie A. Crawford, the Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities, and the Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature and Humanities
Seymour Brick Memorial Prize
Karen Osney Brownstein Writing Prize
George William Curtis Prize in Oration
- Informative
Danny Amir Haidar ’18 - Persuasive
Jason Bowen ’21
Austin E. Quigley Prize
- Antonia Georgieva ’18
- Lexi Yue Wang ’18
The Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
The Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Prize
George Edward Woodberry Prize
Prizes in Science and Mathematics
Presented by Frederik Paerels, Professor of Astronomy
Richard Bersohn Prize
Computer Science Department Award
- Bryan Kim ’18
- Michele Lin ’18
- Jill Shah ’18
Thomas J. Katz Prize
Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize
Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize
- Quang Dao ’20
- Myeonhu Kim ’20
- Matthew Lerner-Brecher ’20
John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Mathematics
Bridges and Sturtevant Prize in Biological Sciences
- Felix Rozenberg ’18
- Alexandra Tabachnikova ’18
- Luis Valencia ’18
Prizes in the Social Sciences
Presented by Adam Reich, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Charles A. Beard Prize in History
Charles A. Beard Prize in Political Science
Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize
Chanler Historical Prize
Albert Marion Elsberg Prize
- Samuel Henick ’18
- Edward Crouse ’18
Garrett Mattingly Prize
Lily Prize in History
Sanford S. Parker Prize
- Guillermo Carranza Jordan ’18
Romine Prize
- Senior Thesis
Brendan Moore ’18 - Senior Seminar
Lindsey Cohen ’18
Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
Myra Kraft Prize for Superior Academic Achievement in the Study of Human Rights
Prizes in the Humanities
Presented by Katja Vogt, Professor of Philosophy
Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
- Rebecca Michelle Teich ’18
Senior Thesis Prize in Art History and Archaeology
Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Memorial Prize
Dino Bigongiari Prize
Bunner Prize
Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize
Earle Prize in Classics
Arthur E. Ford Poetry Prize
- Rebecca Michelle Teich ’18
James Gutmann Prize in Philosophy
John Vincent Hickey Prize
- Rebecca Michelle Teich ’18
The Adam Leroy Jones Prize
Benjamin F. Romaine Prize
Ernest Stadler Prize For Excellence in the Study of Classical Antiquity
- Henry Thomas Doran ’18
- David Swanson ’18
Deutscher Verein Prize in German
Susan Huntington Vernon Prize