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AROUND THE QUADS

College Honors 78 Students at Awards and Prizes Ceremony

Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis congratulates Claire McDonnell ’05 (left) on winning the Lily Prize in History as Dean Austin Quigley watches. PHOTO: LAURA BUTCHY ’04 SOA

The best and brightest in the College’s classrooms were honored for their achievements at the annual Awards and Prizes Ceremony, held in Low Library Rotunda on May 16.

Dean Austin Quigley and Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis presided over the ceremony, which was attended by several hundred faculty, administrators, students, alumni and proud family members. “At the heart of a great research university like Columbia is the idea of academic inquiry,” said Yatrakis. “We are here to honor students who have excelled in the art of academic inquiry this year.”

Awards ranged from fellowships to support graduate study to cash prizes and were presented in four categories: special achievement, science and mathematics, social sciences, and the humanities. Presenting the awards, in addition to Yatrakis, were David Helfand, professor of astronomy; Jack Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer professor of international relations; and Christia Mercer, professor of philosophy.

Following is the complete list of winners.

Awards for Special Achievement
Presented by Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis

Solomon & Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellowship
Talia Falk ’06
Igor Volynets ’06

Wallace A. Gray Prize in Literature Humanities
Jonathan Blitzer ’06
Evan Heller ’06 (Honorable Mention)
Noam Zerubavel ’06 (Honorable Mention)

Albert Asher Green Memorial Award
Ramsey McGlazer ’05

Holthusen-Schindler Endowment Fund
Mary Morales ’01

Euretta J. Kellet Fellowship
Jacob Hupart ’05
Alexander Zachary ’05

Richard Lewis Kohn Travelling Fellowship
Mehmet Bahadir ’07
Andrea Derricks ’07

Rapaport Summer Music Fellowship
Jeffrey Brown ’07
Christopher Chorney ’06
Jae Yeon Kim ’06
Alicia Kravitz ’05
Carl Rosenthal ’06
Laura Usiskin ’05
Alan Watson ’06

Arthur Rose Teaching Assistantship Award
David Myers ’06
Daniel Paluch ’06

James B. Shenton Prize in Contemporary Civilization
Julia DiBenigo ’06
Emily Conroy ’06 (Honorable Mention)
Tenke Zoltani ’06 (Honorable Mention)

Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Francisco Angones ’05
Andrew Colom ’05 (Honorable Mention)

Salutatorian
Alexander Prescott-Couch ’05

Valedictorian
Ramsey McGlazer ’05

Prizes in the Sciences and Mathematics
Presented by Professor David Helfand, Astronomy

Computer Science Department Award
Naiqing Gu ’05E

Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize
David Krohn ’05
YuQi Matthew Xia ’05

Russell C. Mills Award in Computer Science
Leia Bispham ’05
Avraham Shinnar ’05

I.I. Rabi & V. Kann-Rasmussen Prize in Mathematics
Mark Xue ’05

Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize
Mikhail Shklyar ’08 (First-year Recipient)
Ilya Vinogradov ’07 (Sophomore Recipient)
Florian Sprung ’06 (Junior Recipient)

Josh Dash Van Buren Prize in Mathematics
Bhargav Bhatt ’05E

Prizes in the Social Sciences
Presented by Professor Jack Snyder, Political Science

Charles A. Beard Senior Thesis Prize in History
Merlin Chowkwanyun ’05

Chanler Historical Prize
Steven Attewell ’05

Albert Marion Elsberg Prize
Caitlin Verrilli ’05

Lily Prize in History
Claire McDonnell ’05

Garrett Mattingly Prize
Jacob Hupart ’05

Sanford S. Parker Prize
Aidan Wakely-Mulroney ’05

Edwin Robbins Summer Research Fellowship
Emily Conroy ’06 (History)
Kristen Loveland ’06 (History)
Aditi Chokshi ’06 (Political Science)
Montse Ferrer ’06 (Political Science)

Romine Prize
Jessie Handbury ’05
Menahem Namer ’05

Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship
Kwame Spearman ’06

Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
Ankush Khardori ’03, ’05L
Gwyneth McClendon ’05

Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
Mark Shawhan ’05

Prizes in the Humanities
Presented by Professor Christia Mercer, Philosophy

Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Matthew Harrison ’05

Senior Thesis in Art History & Archaeology
Emily Beeny ’05

Lea Baechler Prize
Gemma Sieff ’05

Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Memorial Prize
Ben Parker ’05

Dino Bigongiari Prize
Scott Hartman ’05
Ramsey McGlazer ’05

B’nai Zion Foundation Award
Laura Pisoni ’06

Seymour Brick Memorial Prize
Michael Crowley ’05

Bunner Prize
Nikil Saval ’05

Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize
John-Paul Young ’05

George William Curtis Prize in Oratory
Jonathon Posen ’06 (Persuasive)
Ronald Towns ’08 (Informative)

Earle Prize in Classics
Phyllis Lee ’05

Arthur E. Ford Poetry Prize
Nicholas Bredie ’05

Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize in Humanities
Mary Johnson ’06

Jonathon Throne Kopit Memorial Prize
Peter Brennan ’08

Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
Isabelle Levy ’05
Francesca Pomara ’06

Philolexian Prize Fund
Esinam Bediako ’05

Philolexian Centennial Washington Prize
Andrew Liebowitz ’06

Peter M. Riccio Prize
Lauren Romine ’06
Caitlin Prendergast ’06

Benjamin F. Romaine Prize
Stephen Distini ’05

Van Rensselaer Prize
Janet Min Lee ’06
Yvette Siegert ’05

Susan Huntington Vernon Prize
Ryan Gaglio ’06

Richmond B. Williams Travelling Fellowship
Melanie Brazzell ’06
Cara Spitalewitz ’06

George Edward Woodberry Prize
Jessica Fjeld ’05

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