BECTON PRIZE. Henry Prentiss Becton Prize for exceptional achievement in engineering research: Wenjuan Zhu, "Hafnium Oxide and Hafnium Aluminum Oxide for CMOS Application." BEINECKE PRIZE. Frederick W. Beinecke Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Western American history: Jon Thomas Coleman, "Wolves in American History." BLANSHARD FELLOWSHIP. Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize, awarded annually for outstanding doctoral dissertations in the history of art: Elena N. Boeck, "The Art of Being Byzantine: History, Structure and Visual Narrative in the Madrid Skylitzes Manuscript"; and Douglas Robert Fordham, "Raising Standards: Art and Imperial Politics in London, 1745-1776." BLISS PRIZE. Harding Bliss Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Science, awarded to the outstanding student who completed his or her Ph.D. thesis during the current academic year and has done the most to further the intellectual life of the department: Stefano Russo, "The Study of Laminar High Pressure Spray Diffusion Flames." BOONE PRIZE. Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize, honoring the life and work of the first tenured African-American woman on the Yale faculty: Leigh Renee Raiford, "'Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare': History, Memory, and the Photography of 20th- Century African American Social Movements." BROUWER PRIZE. Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize, honoring the former chair of the Department of Astronomy, for a contribution of unusual merit to any branch of astronomy: Thomas Maccarone, "Constraints on Black Hole Emission Mechanisms." EGLESTON PRIZE. George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, awarded to a graduate or undergraduate research student who discovers new facts of importance for American history or reaches important new conclusions from existing data: Jon Thomas Coleman, "Wolves in American History"; and Claire Priest, "Currency Policies and the Nature of Litigation in Colonial New England." FIELD PRIZE. Theron Rockwell Field Prize, awarded for a poetic, literary or religious work by any student(s) enrolled in the University for a degree: Gabriel Reynolds, "A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu." FORD PRIZE. William Ebenezer Ford Prize for distinguished study or research in mineralogy: Walter Joyce. GATZKE PRIZE. Hans Gatzke Prize for the outstanding dissertation or dissertations in a Þeld of European history: Maya Ruth Jasanoff, "Collecting and Empire in India and Egypt, 1760-1830." GROSSMAN PRIZE. James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize, established in 2002 in honor of the late psychology student, for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in psychology embodying Grossman's creativity, use or incorporation of other disciplines, and clinical work with children: Matthew Nock, "Parent Participation in Child Psychotherapy: Predictors of Attrition and Evaluation of a Participation Enhancement Intervention." NICHOLAS PRIZE. John Spangler Nicholas '21 Ph.D. Prize for outstanding doctoral candidates in experimental zoology: Anna Dobrista, "Molecular Genetics of Odor Reception and Development in Drosophila"; Christine Horak, "A Novel Approach for Transcription Factor Target Identification: Studies of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Cycle and the Human B-globin Locus"; and Kristin Saltonstall, "Phylogeography of Phragmites australis in North America: A Historical Perspective on a Cryptic Invasion." ORVILLE PRIZE. Philip M. Orville Prize, awarded to graduate students in geology in recognition of outstanding research and scholarship in the earth sciences: Jeffrey Rahl and Tsuihiji Takanobu. PEYRE PRIZE. Marguerite A. Peyre Prize awarded by the Department of French: Joseph Acquisto, "(Mis)Reading Music: Rewriting French Symbolist Poetry." PORTER PRIZE. John Addison Porter Prize for a work of scholarship in any Þeld where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the project of general human interest: Lucy Chester, "Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary During the 1947 Partition of South Asia"; and Mark Oppenheimer, "Mainline Religion and Counterculture in America 1968-1975." SIMPSON PRIZE. George Gaylord Simpson Prize, awarded to graduate students and recent Ph.D. recipients for an exceptional paper concerning evolution and the fossil record: Krister Smith, "Rare taxa, biostratigraphy, and the Wasatchian-Bridgerian Boundary in North America"; and James B. Rossie, "Paranasal sinus anatomy of Aegyptopithecus: Implications for hominoid origins." WOLFGANG PRIZE. Richard Wolfgang Prize for the best doctoral thesis of a graduating chemistry student: Adrien Lavoie, "Catalytic Routes to Asymmetric Organic Compounds with Organometallic Reagents and Controlling Metal-Centered Chirality"; Haifeng Tang, "Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Ingenol"; and Justin Ernst, "The Design of Small Molecule Antagonists of Protein-Protein Interactions Based on Alpha-Helix Mimicry." WRIGHT PRIZE. Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for the outstanding dissertation in the field of history outside the United States or Europe: Nara Bales Milanich, "The Children of Fate: Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1857-1930." C O M M E N C E M E N T2 0 0 3 Yale Celebrates 302nd Graduation Baccalaureate Address Honorary Degrees Senior Class Day Teaching Prizes Scholastic Prizes David Everett Chantler Prize Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize William H. McKim Prize Athletic Department Awards Robert E. Lewis Award for Intramural Sports Wilbur Cross Medals Reception with President Richard C. Levin ROTC Commissioning Other Undergraduate Awards and Honors Graduate School Awards and Honors Commencement Photo Gallery Graduation: The Video T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S Yale Celebrates 302nd Graduation Trip expands Yale ties to South Korea Koplan elected as alumni fellow YSN researcher to head state's VA Department International festival returns June 12-28 Edelson named director of Yale Cancer Center ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS Xing Deng appointed as Eaton Professor of Plant Biology Pierre Hohenberg named to Eugene Higgins chair in physics Dieter Söll is designated as Henry Ford II Professor in MB&B Alumnus donates first novel by an African-American slave Reunion events to explore world's public health crises British Art Center acquisitions honor its founding 25 years ago 'Behold, the Sea Itself' showcases center's collection of marine art Graduate/Professional International Study Grants YCIAS offers Summer Institutes for educators Corrections Bulletin Home|Visiting on Campus|Calendar of Events|In the News Bulletin Board|Classified Ads|Search Archives|Deadlines|Bulletin Staff Public Affairs Home|News Releases| E-Mail Us|Yale Home Page