AROUND THE QUADS
2007 Academic Awards and Prizes
Among the highlights of graduation week is the Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, at which students are recognized for their academic achievements. Many of the best and the brightest study at Columbia these days, and to be outstanding among your peers is to be outstanding indeed, Dean Austin Quigley told the students, family members, faculty and administrators who gathered in Low Rotunda on May 14 for this years ceremony. Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis referred to educational pioneer Mortimer Adler 23s concept of learning how to learn for a lifetime and said, We are here to honor and recognize our students who have learned how to learn, and who have excelled. They represent what comes of inspired teaching and devoted learning. Following are the recipients of 2007 Academic Awards and Prizes.
Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis (left) and Dean of the College Austin Quigley (right) presented the 2007 George Edward Woodberry Prize for best original poems to Jennifer Allis Kane 07 and Daniel Jonathan Shapiro 07.
PHOTO: CHAR SMULLYAN
Special Achievements To Be Noted
Presented by Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis
The Harry J. Carman Fellowship
Eleonora Ilkova Encheva 07
The George William Curtis Prize in Oratory
Daniel Edward Amrhein 09
The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship
Andrew Justin Floyd 09
The Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship
Demetri Albert Blanas 07
The Joshua A. Feigenbaum Prize in Literature Humanities
Sara Brooke Doskow 09
The Solomon and Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellowships
Danielle Slutzky 08
Robert Joseph Wile 08
The Wallace A. Gray Prize in Literature Humanities
Ori Charles Druks 09
Anna Miriam Phillips 09 (Honorable Mention)
Ashley Marie Regazzi 09 (Honorable Mention)
The Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize
Claire Nicole Lackner 07
The Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize in the Humanities
Peter Belz Wiegand 08
The Holthusen-Schindler Endowment Fund
Alex Jonathan Feerst 98
Jonathan Paul Truppman 07
The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowships
Susanna Cecilia Berger 07
Timothy Edward Shenk 07
The Richard Lewis Kohn Traveling Fellowship
Anna Cherepanova 09
Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowships
Tlacael Miguel Esparza 07
Amy Kwon Kang 09
Steven Andrew Kramer 08
Peter Liou 07
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar 08
Carl PE Rosenthal 07
Kathryn Pardue Smith 09
Caleb Finney Van Der Swaagh 09
The Arthur Rose Teaching Assistantship
Justin Adam Fiske 08
The James P. Shenton Prize in Contemporary Civilization
Maxim L Pinkovskiy 08
Julia Coyner Robinson 08
Madison Elizabeth Condon 08 (Honorable Mention)
Laura Rebecca Peskin 08 (Honorable Mention)
The Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Erik Suter Lindman 07
The David B. Truman Alumni Award
Jonathan David Blitzer 07
Salutatorian
Nicholas James Klagge 07
Valedictorian
Claire Nicole Lackner 07
Prizes in Science and Mathematics
Presented by Professor Shahid Naeem, department of ecology, evolution and environmental biology
The Computer Science Department Award
Jonathan Michael DePeri 07
The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize
Claire Nicole Lackner 07
The Russell C. Mills Award in Computer Science
Liat Aharon 07 GS
The Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize
Atanas Valeryev Atanasov 10 (first-year recipient)
So Eun Park 09 (sophomore recipient)
Dmytro Karabash 08 (junior recipient)
The John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Mathematics
Ilya Vinogradov 07
Prizes in the Social Sciences
Presented by professor Michael Stanislawski, the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History and associate director, Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies, department of history
The Charles A. Beard Senior Thesis Prize in History
Edward Gellis Fox 07
The Chanler Historical Prize
Matthew Robert Christiansen 07
The Albert Marion Elsberg Prize
Christopher John Szabla 07
The Lily Prize in History
Elisabeth Sara Fink 07
The Garrett Mattingly Prize
Julian Louis-Cohen Arato 07
The Sanford S. Parker Prize
Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar 07
The Edwin Robbins Summer Research Fellowships in History
Andrew McKay Flynn 08
Ana Lise Feliciano Hansen 08
The Edwin Robbins Summer
Research Fellowships in Political Science
Sloan Bailey Holzman 08
Ruthzee Louijeune 08
The Romine Prize
Abigail Sarah Friedman 07 (thesis)
Edward Gellis Fox 07 (seminar paper)
The Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship in American Politics
Jennifer Lynn Tromski 07 GS
William John Wetzel 08 GS
The Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
Maria Jose Delgado Coelho 07
The Taraknath Das Foundation Award
Nandini Chandrasekaran 07
The Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
Lauren Prinz Pardee 07
Prizes in the Humanities
Presented by Professor Patricia Grieve, the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of the Humanities and director, literature and humanities department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Daniel Jonathan Shapiro 07
The Senior Thesis Prize in Art History and Archaeology
Amanda J. Anderson 07 GS
The Lea Baechler Prize
Daniel Jonathan Shapiro 07
The Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Memorial Prize
Isabel Bussarakum 07
The Dino Bigongiari Prize
Ethan A. Marcovici 07
The Seymour Brick Memorial Prize
Julia Gayle Kite 07
The Karen Osney Brownstein Writing Prize
Anne Frances Berke 07
The Bunner Prize
Jonathan David Blitzer 07
The Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize
Addison Stofle Anderson 07
The Earle Prize in Classics
Andrew Strand Ollett 07
The James Gutman Prize in Philosophy
Jeffrey Raymond Gallow 07
The John Vincent Hickey Prize
Swetha Regunathan 07
The Adam Leroy Jones Prize in Logic
Owain Rhys Evans 08
The Jonathan Throne Kopit Prize in Logic and Rhetoric
Lauren Lisabeth Valle 09
The Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Ethan A. Marcovici 07
The Philolexian Prize Fund
Katarzyna Kozanecka 07
The Benjamin F. Romaine Prize
Andrew Strand Ollett 07
Adam Benjamin Parker 07 GS
The Ernest Stadler Prize for Excellence in the Study of Classical Antiquity
Francesca Caroline Butnick 07
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Prize
Robert Dean Kohen 08
The Deutscher Verein Prize in German
Joyce Hon Hau 07
The Susan Huntington Vernon Prize
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs 07
The Richmond B. Williams Traveling Fellowship
David Anton de Bary Nee 08
Julian Thomas
Smith-Newman 08
The George Edward Woodberry Prize
Jennifer Allis Kane 07
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