 
Sarah Jane Caldwell
David Matthews Weaver
Jennifer H. Nou
Tomer Posner
Tucker Smith Capps
Alan Evan Schoenfeld |
Six members of the Class of 2002 were awarded prizes for superior academic work this year.
Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead presented the honors at the Senior Class Day exercises on May 26. The award-winning students carried special banners during the Commencement procession the following day. Their award citations follow.
The James Andrew Haas Prize is awarded annually to that member of the Senior Class in Yale College whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character and fundamental humanity is adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for his or her fellow students, inspiring in them a love of learning and concern for others. This year the prize is bestowed upon Sarah Jane Caldwell of Timothy Dwight College.
Sarah Caldwell's record includes outstanding intellectual achievement and extracurricular commitment. A double major, she has earned distinction in anthropology and exceptional distinction in ethnicity, race & migration. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa after six terms of enrollment, she graduates summa cum laude.
With a dedication that is inspiring, Ms. Caldwell has worked both in New Haven and in her home state of Kansas on issues of social justice. Since freshman year she has volunteered with the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, and helped establish Harmony Place, a community center founded by homeless men and women and Yale students. Next year she will teach for Teach for America in an elementary school in the Navajo Nation.
For her devotion to her studies and her service to others, Yale takes great pride in bestowing the James Andrew Haas Prize for 2002 on Sarah Jane Caldwell.
The Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize for the Senior majoring in the humanities who ranks highest in scholarship is awarded this year to David Matthews Weaver of Morse College.
David Weaver was elected to Phi Beta Kappa after six terms of enrollment and has earned distinction in his film studies major. He graduates summa cum laude with no grade lower than A- and 33 grades of straight A.
Hailed as a "brilliant" student of film by his teachers, Mr. Weaver has also made his mark at Yale as both an actor and a singer, in works ranging from the diaries of Noel Coward to the Yale College Opera's "Dido and Aeneas," in which he sang the role of Aeneas.
In recognition of his superlative achievements, Yale College is proud to award the Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize this year to David Matthews Weaver.
The Arthur Twining Hadley Prize, which honors the memory of the man who served as president of Yale from 1899 to 1921, is awarded annually to the senior in Yale College majoring in the social sciences who ranks highest in scholarship. This year the Hadley Prize is awarded to Jennifer H. Nou of Calhoun College.
Jennifer Nou earlier this year received the Marshall Scholarship for study at Oxford and was last year awarded Yale's Hart Lyman Prize, as the junior with the best record of intellectual and social accomplishment. Named to Phi Beta Kappa after four terms, she served as its undergraduate president this year. She graduates summa cum laude, with distinction in both economics and political science, having also won major departmental prizes in each. She has earned one grade of A- and 35 grades of straight A.
Ms. Nou established an umbrella organization in New Haven for agencies serving battered women. A champion debater, she has also tutored the same public school student during her four years at Yale.
In recognition of her exceptional record and promise of future success, Yale College proudly confers the Arthur Twining High Scholarship Prize this year upon Jennifer
H. Nou.
The Russell Henry Chittenden Prize is awarded annually to that Senior in Yale College majoring in the natural sciences or in mathematics who ranks highest in scholarship. This year's prize is to be awarded to Tomer Posner of Timothy Dwight College.
Completing his degree in just six terms of enrollment, Tomer Posner graduates summa cum laude with Distinction in Biomedical Engineering. He is elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Commencement and has earned, in all but one of his courses, the grade of straight A.
Mr. Posner has applied his talents and energies beyond the classroom and the laboratory, constructing sets for plays, serving as a counselor in the Yale Summer Programs, and inspiring others toward pride and participation in their residential colleges as Timothy Dwight's Ringer of the Bell.
In recognition of his academic accomplishments, Yale is proud to bestow the Chittenden Memorial High Scholarship Prize for 2002 on Tomer Posner.
The Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts for outstanding accomplishments in the creative and performing arts is awarded this year toTucker Smith Capps of Jonathan Edwards College.
Tucker Capps has developed into a filmmaker of widely recognized talent while compiling an overall academic record that earned him election to Phi Beta Kappa after six terms of enrollment. His work as a director and producer, as well as a theorist of film, has been favorably compared to the best undergraduate work in film of recent years.
Having studied at the National Film Academy in Prague in his junior year, Mr. Capps returned with a captivating short film, "Clockwork," which subsequently won awards at both the Ivy Film Festival and the New England Film Festival. His senior film project, "The Third Bank," has been praised by all for being so radically unlike an apprentice film.
For his remarkable achievements as a student at Yale and for his exceptional promise in the field of film, Yale College is proud to award the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts to Tucker Smith Capps.
The Alpheus Henry Snow Prize is awarded to that "senior who, through the combination of intellectual achievement, character and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done the most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship." This year the Snow Prize is awarded to Alan Evan Schoenfeld of Saybrook College.
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa after six terms of enrollment, Alan Schoenfeld has earned 44 course credits in Yale College, with 34 grades of straight A; he graduates summa cum laude with distinction in both the comparative literature and African American studies majors. For one of his senior essays he was awarded the Biancamaria Finzi-Contini Calabresi Prize in Comparative Literature, and for the other, he received the William Pickens Prize for the best senior essay on a subject related to the Black experience. He will continue his studies next year at the University of Cambridge with the support of a Gates Fellowship.
Mr. Schoenfeld's excellence in scholarship is matched only by the efforts he has made to promote the education of others. He has coordinated an SAT preparation and college counseling program for 100 New Haven public school students; tutored inmates for the GED at the New Haven Community Correctional Center; and has served as co-Coordinator of Dwight Hall's education network and then as co-coordinator of Dwight Hall itself. He sits on the board of directors for "Let's Get Ready!," a national non-profit organization which provides college preparation and counseling to high school students in under-resourced schools.
In recognition of his truly outstanding academic achievements, his contributions to the Yale and New Haven communities, and his selflessness, Yale College takes great pleasure in conferring the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize for 2002 upon Alan Evan Schoenfeld
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