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Princeton gives highest awards to top undergraduate, graduate students

Seniors Abbie Liel and Lillian Pierce received the University's Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, and graduate students Howard Keeley and Melissa Miller were named co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 23. These are the highest honors Princeton awards to students.

The Pyne Honor Prize, established in honor of Moses Taylor Pyne of the class of 1877, is the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. The Jacobus Fellowship, which supports the final year of graduate study, is awarded to two students -- one in the humanities or social sciences, the other in engineering or science -- whose work has displayed the highest scholarly excellence.

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Four students received the University's highest honors during Alumni Day, Feb. 23. The winners include (from left) Jacobus Fellowship recipients Melissa Miller and Howard Keeley, and Pyne Honor Prize recipients Lillian Pierce and Abbie Liel.

photo: Denise Applewhite