Awards fete student work
The achievements of Princeton's students were noted and celebrated at the Sept. 10 Opening Exercises. Four undergraduate prizes were awarded in recognition of academic excellence and, in honor of the Graduate School's centennial, tribute was paid to two graduate students who won fellowships.
Freshman First Honor Prize
Peggy Hsu, a member of the class of 2003, received the Freshman First Honor Prize, which recognizes exceptional academic achievement in the work of the freshman year.
Hsu, a graduate of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa., is an A.B. candidate pursuing premedical studies. She has a strong interest in chemistry and molecular biology. On the strength of her outstanding freshman record, she also received both the Manfred Pyka Memorial Prize in Physics and the President's Award for Academic Achievement.
Outside of the classroom, she has participated in the Manna Christian Fellowship and plays the violin.
George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize
The prize awarded to a member of the junior class in recognition of exceptional academic achievement in the work of the sophomore year was given to Abbie Liel.
The class of 2002 member is a graduate of the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Ore. Liel, a B.S.E candidate, is concentrating in civil and environmental engineering as well as earning a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School. She received the President's Award for Academic Achievement in both her freshman and sophomore years, and placed second in the competition for the Class of 1883 English Prize for Freshmen in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
A bassoonist in the Princeton University Orchestra, Liel also provides computer assistance at the computing and information technology help desk.
George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize
Vance Serchuk, a member of the class of 2001, was awarded the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for exceptional academic achievement in the work of the junior year.
A graduate of John Jay High School in Katonah, N.Y., he is concentrating in history and pursuing certificates in Russian studies, European cultural studies and Slavic languages and literatures. His senior thesis focuses on the political, social and architectural history of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the city, in the context of the Moscow Jewish community at the end of the 19th century.
Serchuk devotes his energy outside the classroom to the American Whig-Cliosophic Society. He also has been a Princeton Law Journal editor and two-time president of Mock Trial. At present, he is a peer adviser in Wilson College and co-executive director of Princeton Model Congress.
Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award
The Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award is given to the undergraduate who, at the end of the junior year, has achieved the highest academic standing for all preceding work at the University. This year's recipient is Jared Kramer of Atkinson, N.H., a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and member of the class of 2001.
Kramer, a B.S.E. candidate in computer science, has special interests in the study and design of algorithms -- the area in which he will do his independent study -- and in the principles of intelligent software design.
Kramer has won the Class of 1883 English Prize for Freshmen in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Freshman First Honor Prize and the President's Award for Academic Achievement in both his freshman and sophomore years.
He is treasurer of the Princeton University Glee Club and a member of the Human Values Forum.
Graduate fellowships
The Graduate School annually awards honorific fellowships to more than a dozen research doctoral degree candidates in the last year of their enrollment. On the basis of departmental nominations, a faculty committee recommends individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their scholarship and give promise of exceptionally distinguished careers.
Manfred Laubichler, a graduate student in the history of science, received the Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Vienna with a master's degree in zoology and studied in the doctoral program in biology at Yale before coming to Princeton in 1996.
His thesis is titled "Between Philosophy and Experiment: A History of Theoretical Biology, 1900-World War II." He has more than eight research publications to his name as well as numerous book reviews, and has served twice as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has led precepts in his home department, as well as in molecular biology and in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Jayanthi Wolf, a graduate student in molecular biology, received the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship. A native of Sri Lanka, she graduated summa cum laude from Susquehanna University with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry.
Since entering Princeton in 1996, she has twice won awards for the quality of the precepts she has led in her department. She also has been a visiting scholar at the Curie Institute in France. Her dissertation is titled "Intracellular Trafficking of CD1, A Novel Antigen-presenting Protein."
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