Hoopes Prizes Awarded to Undergraduates and Thesis Advisers

Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes consist of $2,500 awards given to undergraduates and their advisers as recognition for excellence in scholarly work and research.

The prize winners are as follows:
Derrick N. Ashong '97-98 for "Songs We Can't Sing" - Penny Tucker
Jenny Drake Berrien '98 for "The Boston Miracle: The Emergence of New Institutional Structures in the Absence of Rational Planning" - Christopher Winship
Lucy Rake Bisognano '97-98 for "'What's Wrong With It?' and Other Lessons from the Living Artist: Minimal Intervention, Acceptable Deterioration, and Conservation Ethics for the Treatment of Contemporary Art" - John Shearman
Daniel Kalman Biss '98 for "Homotopy Theory with a View Toward Stable Computations" - Raoul Bott
Jennifer Louise Burns '98 for "Pregnant with Evil: The Aesthetics of Boston's Church of the Advent" - Brett Flehinger
Kirsten Valentine Cadieux '98 for "Perceptions of Vernacular New England: A Photographic Inquiry into the Making of Landscape" - Ellen Phelan
Chen-chen Cecilia Chang '98 for "Radicalizing Doubt: The Postmodern Contingencies of Burke, Nietzsche, and Mill" - Stanley N. Kurtz
YiLing Livia Chen-Josephson '98 for "A Catching of Happiness: The Structure of Epiphanies in the Poems of Philip Larkin and Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse" - Michael Soto
James Choi '98 for "The Value Line Enigma: The Sum of Known Parts?" - Andrew Metrick
Joshua Adam Corngold '98 for "The Traveling Salesman in Modern Jewish Literature" - Stephen Shoemaker
Michael Scott Cuthbert '98 for "Fragments of Polyphonic Music from the Abbey of S. Giustina: Codices, Composers, and Context in Late Medieval Padua" - Reinhold Brinkmann and Thomas Kelly
Max Diehn '97 for "Identification of ITK Interacting Proteins and Domains Required for ITK Tyrosine Phosphorylation" - Leslie Berg
Dina Dudkin '98 for "Gait Differences and Sexual Orientation: Evidence From Dynamic Point Light Displays" - Nalini Ambady
David Franklin Elmer '98 for "Logos as Eikon: Vision and the Written Word in Isocrates" - Gregory Nagy
Daniel Mark Engber '98 for "Slips of Grace, or Dan Engber's Coup de Grace" - Melissa Feuerstein
Mark Joseph Engler '98-99 for "Rights of the Poor, Rites of Liberation: Liberation Theology, Human Rights, and the Struggle in El Salvador" - Douglas Hicks
Amanda Patricia Fortini '98 for "Rewriting Hysteria: Shell-Shock in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Pat Barker's Regeneration" - Leo Damrosch
Elizabeth Ann Foster '98 for "Creating a Plus grande France: The Exposition coloniale internationale, Paris, 1931" - Ann Blair
Gopal Garuda '98 for "The Distributional Effects of IMF Programs: A Cross-Country Analysis" - Steve Radelet
Ehab Alfred Goldstein '98 for "An Improved Prosthetic ElectroLarynx Controlled by Pressure Variations and Electromyographic Signals" - Thomas A. McMahon
Anna Greka '98 for "From Molecular Cloning to Functional Expression: A Study of Recombinant GABAc Receptors" - Stuart A. Lipton and John Dowling
David Singh Grewal '98 for "Optimality and Evolution in Economics: Darwinism in the Study of Firms and Institutions" - Stephen Marglin
Daley Christie Haggar '98 for "Subplots: A Novella and Two Stories" - Brad Watson
Hsuan Lin Hsu '98 for "Frontier Negotiations: Ideology and Practice Along Buena Park's Entertainment Corridor" - William R. Handley
Sarah Elizabeth Jackson '98 for "The Ahk'uhun of Copan: A Study of the Non-Royal Elite and Their Inscriptions" - William L. Fash
Elizabeth Ann Kensinger '98 for "The Effect of Repeated Study/Test Trials on False Memories: An Investigation of College-Age And Elderly Adults" - Daniel Schacter
Justin Charles Kestler '98 for "Exquisite Contrast: Words and Music in the 'Sirens' Chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses" - Jonah Siegel
Jeremy Kleiner '98 for "Spectacles: Transparency, Representation and Politics in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Revolution, Situationism, and Postmodern Thought" - Patrice Higonnet
Iris Lan '98 for "Finding Choreography for Igor Stravinsky's Tango (1940)" - David E. Cohen
Rern Tze Lau '96-97 for "Understanding Central and Peripheral Autonomic Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Control During REM Sleep" - James Quattrochi
Adam Jeremiah Levitin '98 - "Mi Yimalel - Who Will Retell?: Zionist Conceptions of Jewish History and the Ideal of the New Hebrew" - Jay Harris
Daniel Phillippe Mason '98 for "Population Dynamics of Mixed-Species Plasmodium Falciparum-Plasmodium Malariae Blood-Stage Malaria Infections in Humans" - William Bossert
Peter Biek McIntyre '98 for "Effects of Brook Trout on Mid-Appalachian Stream Communities" - John Cadle and Henry Wilbur
Kelsey Williams McNiff '98 for "Confronting the Whirlwind: How a Group of Young Protestants Became Resisters in Vichy France" - David Blackbourn
Nina Ariel Mitchell '97-98 for "The Patriot Movement and the Quest for Legitimacy" - Timothy Alborn
Timothy Mueller '98 for "The Development and Application of a Computationally Efficient Method for the Generation of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images" - Cynthia M. Friend
Cristian Pop-Eleches '98 for "Transition in Romania: Three Essays on Private Sector Development" - Andrei Shleifer
Judith Quinones '98 for "Irish Pub Sessions: Let's See What the Craic Is" - Carol M. Babiracki
Julia Raiskin '98 for "Rushing to be Russian: Psychotherapy in a Transforming Moscow" - Arthur Kleinman
Abigail Rebecca Rezneck '98 for "Desegregating a Canon, a City, and a Country: The Struggles for Membership and Leadership in Washington, D.C., 1944-1954" - Linda Elizabeth Prince
Youngju Ryu '98 for "Home at Last: Incest and Spatial Systems in Edith Wharton's Summer and Henry James's Watch & Ward" - Sophia Padnos
Abhinav Seth '98 for "Development of a Calcineurin-Mediated Protein Dimerization System" - Stuart L. Schreiber
Ellen Rachel Shustorovich '98 for "Domestic Politics in International Trade: France's Defense of Culture and Agriculture" - Judith Vichniac
Jennifer M. Soriano '98 for "Matrix of Modernization: The IUD and The Evolution of Philippine Family Planning" - Eric D. Kupferberg
Nara Chi Sun '98 for "Metabolic Activity of Chemoautotrophic Bacteria in the Intact Symbiosis of Riftia pachyptila, the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm" - Colleen Cavanaugh
Toma Tasovac '98 for "Negation as the Presence of Absence in the Works of Ivo Andric" - Julie Buckler
Aurelio Amilcare Teleman '98 for "Studies on the Segregation and Architecture of the Bacterial Chromosome" - Richard Losick
Jonathan Thierman '98 for "Surgical Probe for the Detection of Pulsing Blood Vessels and Embedded Lesions" - Roger Brockett
Dustin Elliott Thomason '98 for "That's the Way it is When You Got Nothin: Fighting Structural Violence among Women with HIV" - Amy Farber
Julianna Sophia Tymoczko '97-98 for "The p-Components of the Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres" - Joseph D. Harris
Cristina Laura Vatulescu '98 for "The Museum of Arrested Thought: Metamorphoses of Censorship and Prison in Bulgarov, Steinhardt, and Beyond" - Svetlana Boym and John Henriksen
Bradley Luckard Whitman '98 for "What Might Have Been: How Lower Foreign Tariffs Would Have Prevented the Decline of Victorian Britain" - Jeffrey G. Williamson
Patrick Joseph Wrinn '98 for "Time-Share' Units in the Paleolithic: Faunal Evidence for Hominid Subsistence and Carnivore Activity at Mugharet el 'Aliya, Tangier, Morocco" - Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard Meadow
Benjamin Frederick Zaitchik '98 for "Evolutionary Studies in the Poaceae" - Elizabeth Kellogg
Alex Zakaras '98 for "Composing the Self: Edmund Burke and the Ethics of Interpretation" - Pratap Mehta

Undergraduates who have received Honorable Mention are as follows:
Curtis Robert Chong '98 for "Catalytic Chelators: Mechanism and Implications for Drug Design" - David S. Auld
Omri Traub '98 for "Quality and Speed in Linear-Scan Register Allocation" - Michael D. Smith