FAS Awards Prizes to Students

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

George Plimpton Adams Prize. Martin Jay Stone, PhD '96, a prize of $1,617.90, for his dissertation on a subject in the field of philosophy, "Three Essays in Philosophy and Law."

Albert Alcalay Prize. Elizabeth Alderman, a prize of a print by Mr. Alcalay, as one of the best students in a visual and environmental studies workshop studio.

Rudolph Arnheim Prize. Chloe Chao '96 and Cliff Chiang '96, a prize of Professor Arnheim's book Power of the Center, for the most outstanding project that achieves excellence through interdisciplinary effort or which demonstrates excellence in scholarly research integrated with visual communication.

Bechtel Prize in Philosophy. Aaron Philip Goldberg '96, income from the fund ($1,685.33), for his essay "Eliminativism about Qualia and Phenomenal Consciousness," judged to be the best essay under 10,000 words on any philosophical topic.

Bernhard Blume Award (for graduate students, awarded for the previous year). Fatima Naqvi-Peters, as the first-year graduate student whose major field is German and has attained an outstanding record in her coursework. Sara Paulson, as the second-year graduate student whose major field is German and has attained an outstanding record in her coursework.

Bernhard Blume Award (for a graduating senior). Rachel Siegel, as the graduating senior concentrator in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures who has written the best honors thesis, "Self, Sexuality, and Subversion: Egon Schiele's Early Self-Portrait," and whose performance in courses offered toward [her] concentration is of equal merit.

Francis Bowen Prize. Canh Vu '96, income from the fund ($1,426.54), for his essay "Aiding and Interfering: On the Permissibility of Suicide," as the best essay upon a subject in moral or political philosophy.

Emily and Charles Carrier Prize. Erin Kelly, PhD (November 1995), a prize of $1,617.90, for her essay on a subject in social, political, or moral philosophy, "Reasons, Motives, and Moral Justification: A Study of Moral Constructivism."

Edward Chandler Cumming Prize. Hugh Eakin '96, income from the fund ($1,664.91), for his essay "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and their Patronage," as the best senior thesis by a concentrator in history and literature.

Louis Curtis Prize. Zachary Taylor '96, a prize of $200, as a senior who has concentrated in any of the fields of concentration of which Latin forms a part and has shown evidence of excellence in courses in Latin. Eugenio Lao '97, a prize of $200, as a student who has concentrated in any of the fields of concentration of which Latin forms a part and has shown evidence of excellence in courses in Latin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize (formerly History and Literature Junior Prize). Mark Greif '97, a prize of $75, as the male member of the junior class at Harvard College concentrating in the field of history and literature who shows the greatest promise.

Lawrence J. Henderson Prize. Jeffrey Tong, a prize of books, for his honors thesis in biochemical sciences "Catalytic Mechanism of Fpg."

History and Literature Prize. Anne Decker '96, a prize for her essay "Learning to Work and Working to Learn: Thoreau, Harvard and Laborious Reading."

Jack Stein Teaching Fellow Prize. Charitini Douvaldzi, as the teaching fellow who "conducts undergraduate sections with the highest measure of pedagogical skills, linguistic proficiency, enthusiasm, and commitment to students' learning and welfare."

Esther Sellhom Walz Prize. Ayala Agranat, for a paper dealing with a scholarly subject in German or Scandinavian literature and philology.

Barrett Wendell Sophomore Prize. Chandler Arnold '98, a prize of $50, for his sophomore essay "Lithobolia: Casting Stones and Breaking Boundaries across Colonial New England," as the concentrator in history and literature who is the winner of the sophomore men's essay contest.