FAS Awards Prizes to Students

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has awarded the following academic prizes to students:

Jeremy Belknap Prize. Diane Marks '99, income from the fund ($1,126.74) for her composition "L'Evolution de Deux 'Jeunes Filles Rangees,' " the best French composition written by a first-year student in Harvard College.

James Gordon Bennett Prize. Alice Gibbens Ristroph '96, income from the fund ($1,054.68), for her thesis "Disembodied Selves: The Conception of the Individual in the U.S. Supreme Court Abortion Decisions," as an outstanding essay on some subject of "American governmental, domestic, or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest."

Philo Sherman Bennett Prize. Brian Garsten '96, income from the fund ($388.98), for his senior thesis "Just Speech: Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias," as an outstanding essay "discussing the principles of free government."

LeBaron Russell Briggs -- Commencement Oration. John Heller, a prize of $300, as the member of the graduating class who will deliver the undergraduate English dissertation at Commencement Exercises.

David Taggart Clark Prize -- Latin Oration. Alexander Kozak '96, a prize of $300, as the student selected to make the Latin Oration at Commencement Exercises.

Eric Firth Prize. Thaddeus B. Kousser '96, income from the fund ($917.75), for his thesis " 'Treating' the Poor: Parties, Interest Groups and Generosity in State Medicaid Provisions," as an outstanding essay on the subject of "the ideals of democracy."

Albert M. Fulton Prize. Jill Anne Corcoran '96, income from the fund ($658.56), for her thesis "Beyond The Bell Curve and g: Rethinking Ability and its Correlates," awarded annually to the senior who submits the best thesis in the field of sociology.

Graduate English Commencement Oration. Yellow Light Breen, HLS '96, a prize of $300, as the graduate student who delivers the Graduate English Part at Commencement Exercises.

Clemens Herschel Prize. Michael E. Ginsberg '97, income from the fund ($200), for the purchase of books, for meritorious students registered in practical hydraulics.

Philip Hofer Prize for Art and Book Collecting. A cash prize awarded every two years for a collection of works of art or books which best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination exemplified by Philip Hofer. Brian Koh '95, first prize of $2,000 and a certificate, for his collection of materials relating to the symphonic conductor Carlos Kleiber. William Pannapacker, graduate student, a second prize of $1,000 and a certificate, for his collection of publications relating to Walt Whitman. Honorable mentions to Jun Song '96 and Kathleen Gallagher, graduate student.

Morris Kronfeld Prize. Julian Cheng '96, a cash prize, as a graduating senior in the Department of Economics who has shown great academic improvements during his undergraduate years.

Susan Anthony Potter Prize (Romance Languages). Miriam Burgos '98, a prize of $2,000, for her essay "Analisis de 'La esclava de su amante' dese un punto de vista femenino."

Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize for the best papers presented before the Mathematics Table. Moon Duchin '96-97, a first prize of $272.94, for her paper "I just gotta be me: Distinguishing Graphs." Daniel Reuman, a second prize of $136.47, for his paper "Dividing a Square into Triangles: An introduction to p-adic absolute values."

Sales Prize. Dimetrios Spiliotis '96, income from the fund ($1,429.43), for the best undergraduate scholar in Spanish, "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition."

Tau Beta Pi Prize. Linsey C. Marr '96, a prize of $100, to the undergraduate showing excellence in engineering sciences.

Visiting Committee Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize. Samuel J. Martland '96, a first prize of $300, for his essay "Chilean Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries."

Philip Washburn Prize. David Fagundes '96, income from the fund ($1,215.99), for his honors thesis "Instituting Authority, Facilitating Peace: A Study of the Consistory Court of Ely, 1374-1382" as the best thesis on a historical subject.

John H. Williams Prize. Ramin Taloui '96, a cash prize, as the honors senior in economics with the best overall record.

Allyn A. Young Prize. Ramin Taloui '96, a cash prize and a book on economics to be chosen by the recipient, for his honors thesis "The Bias of Technical Change in Japanese Manufacturing, 1899-1938."