Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes go to undergraduates and their supervisors as awards for excellence in scholarly work and research.

The prize winners are as follows:

Genevieve Elisabeth Abravanel '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled "Making Waves and All That Jazz: Talking, Dying, and Dying to Talk in Virgina Woolf's The Waves and Toni Morrison's Jazz" -- John Henriksen

Brent Averbach '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis entitled "Summer's End for Woodwind Nonet" -- Michael Gandolfi

Vlatko Balic '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis entitled "Angular Analysis of the Ds+--0p+ Decay" -- Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto

David Paul Bonita '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Upregulation of Tyrosine Kinase Signaling by Oncogenic Mutants of CBL: Implications for CBL's Physiological Function" -- Hamid Band

Aaron B. Brown '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis entitled "A Decompositional Approach to Computer System Performance Evaluation" -- Professor Margo Seltzer

Caprice Antionette Corona '97, $2,500, for her senior

thesis entitled "Representations of Ethnicity in the Chicano/Latino Rap Music and Hiphop Culture of Los Angeles, California" -- Professor Kay Shelemay

Willow Dawn Crystal '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled "Saharan Passages: Toward a Critical Conception of Desert-Space" -- Camille Lizarribar

Elizabeth Anne Davis '96-97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled "'Revolution in the Culture -- Markets of Niamey, Niger'" -- Professor J. Lorand Matory

Jennifer Rebecca Davis '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled "The Conception of Kingship in Charlemagne's Capitularies" -- Professor Michael McCormick

Mayanthi L. Fernando '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Freedom and Hijab: Negotiating for Autonomy Between the Two Competing Discourses of Liberalism and Traditional Islam" -- Alan Keenan

Marshall Fordyce '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "'An Exploration of Violence in Elgeston Square'" -- Jim Yong

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Mark Reiling Freeman '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "The Appropriation of Sacrifice: Postwar Japan and the Image of the Kamikaze" -- Herbert Bix

Alyse Lynne Freilich '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Building Upon the Past: Autobiographical Claims on National

Identity in Three American Crises" -- Terry Aladjem

Jessica Freireich '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Holding a Mirror Up to Victorians: Shakespearean Characters in the Nineteenth Century" -- Anne Fernald

Jeffrey Nathan Gell '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Are Corporate Governance Mechanisms Substitutes?

Pay-To-Performance Incentives and Bank Relationships in Japan" -- Professor Brian Hall

Mia Reinoso Genoni '96-97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled " 'There's No Other': Repositioning Identity and

Identification in the Works of Samuel Beckett and Lorna Simpson (Through Each's Other)" -- Michael Soto

Matthew Aaron Gentzkow '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Land Tenure Security in Jamaica: The Role of Legal and Customary Norms in the Small-Farming Sector" -- Professor C. Peter Timmer

Joshua C. Greene '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "The Existence of Hilbert Schemes" -- Professor Brian Conrad

Mark Jason Greif '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "The American Transformation of the Holocaust, 1945-1965" -- Thomas Augst

Mary Jeun Hahn '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled

"If We Must Die: The Meaning of Race to Members of an African-American Gang" -- Professor Caroline Boyes-Watson

Cameron Edward Half '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "'Reprotectionism' in Russia and Estonia: The Retreat from Free Trade in the Post-Socialist Transition" -- Henry Hale

Elizabeth Harman '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion" -- James Pryor

Andy Ting Hu '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis entitled

"The Effects of Genetic Polymorphisms in Xenobiotic Metabolism on

Susceptibility to Spontaneous Abortion" -- Xiping Xu

Laura Claire Johnson '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "'Hope'" -- Robb Moss

Julie Chun Kim '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled

"The Archival Performance of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee" -- Professor Shannon Jackson

Gene Koo '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis entitled

"Representing Chinatown: Power and Legitimacy in Boston's Chinese

Community" -- Patrick Joyce

Leah Joy Kronenberg '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled " 'Virgil's Mezentius: The Humanity of Impietas' " -- Professor

Richard Thomas

Serena Kay Mayeri '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "The Difference Discrimination Makes: Substantive Equal

Protection and the Virginia Military Institute Case" -- Ellen Herman

Ethan Mollick '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis entitled

"Foundations of Sand: Moore's Law and the Semiconductor Industry" -- Peter Buck

Sarawan Murray '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis entitled

"'Map-makers' and 'Sea-Discoverers': Images of Cartography in the Poems of John Donne" -- Sarah Gore

Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer '97, $2,500, for his senior

thesis entitled "The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase" -- Dusan Makavejev

Bethany Grace Otuteye '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "The Impact of Social Identity on Information Distribution Within Groups" -- Professor Nalini Ambady

Daniel Matthew Paskowitz '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Isolation and Characterization of Mutations in the spoIIAB of Bacillus subtilis that Block Activation of the Sporulation Sigma Factor o F" -- Professor Richard Losick

Matthew Louis Pearl '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "The Dante Club: A Re-assessment of the emergence of Dante in Nineteenth Century America" -- Vincent LoLordo and Professor Lino Pertile

Jedediah Spenser Purdy '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Essays in Flesh and Bone: Montaigne in Liberal Moral

Consciousness" -- Professor Pratap Mehta

Michael A. Rescorla '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Forcing, Atoms, and Choice" -- Professor Charles Parsons

Daniel Prugh Roeser '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Domesday Economy: An Analysis of Economic Development" -- Professor Jeffrey Williamson

Sapna Sadarangani '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Something 'Strange and Precious': Family, Woman, and Nation in the Republic of Ireland" -- Professor Mary Steedly

Matthew Richard Saunders '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Painted Page" -- Professor Ellen Phelan

Kathryn Elizabeth Shea '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Machiavelli's War on Religion: The Methods and Motives of

Secularization" -- Professor Harvey Mansfield

Joshua Marc Shulman '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "A Genetic Analysis of Drosophila Dishevelled Reveals Distinct Roles in Planar Polarity Specification and Wingless Signal Transduction" -- Professor Norbert Perrimon

Rachel Emma Silverman '96-97, $2,500, for her senior

thesis entitled "Translating Race: Race Types, Blood Types, and Taxonomy in Twentieth Century Anthropology" -- Eric Kupferberg

Marco Benjamin Simons '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Palaeobotanical Nitrogen Isotopes and the Classic Maya Collapse: Exploring Nitrogen Dynamics in Ancient Soils Through Nitrogen Ratios in Archaeological Maize" -- Professor Nikolaas van der Merwe

Vikaas Singh Sohal '97, $2,500, for his senior thesis

entitled "Why Are There Multiple Modulatory Systems in Cortex? A

Mathematical Approach to Neuromodulation of Cortical Learning and Recall" -- Professor Michael Hasselmo

Julie Chi-hye Suk '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Poetry of Flesh: Double Consciousness in the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude" -- Professor Barbara Johnson

Gilbert Jason Doyle Sutherland '97, $2,500, for his senior

thesis entitled "The Referendum in European Integration and Democratic Theory: The Danish and French Referenda on the Maastricht Treaty, 1992-1993" -- Basilios Tsingos

Hirohisa Alexander Tanaka '97, $2,500, for his senior

thesis entitled "Search for Neutrino Oscillations Via Tau Decay to Rho

Resonance" -- Professor Sanjib Mishra

Christopher Francis Terrio '97, $2,500, for his senior

thesis entitled " 'The Greatest Book in the World': Toward Virginia Woolf's Literary Phenomenology" -- Professor William Handley

Rebecca Eden Wolfe '97, $2,500, for her senior thesis

entitled "Telling Tales, Making Meaning of Mentoring" -- Marshall Ganz

Honorable Mention

David N. Merrill '97, Honorable Mention, for his senior thesis

entitled "Deception in a Lycaenid -- Ant Mutualism" -- Professor Naomi Pierce