Convocation

The Graduate School confers numerous awards to students and mentoring awards to three faculty members at its Commencement Convocation ceremony each spring.

The 2006 convocation address was delivered by Marie Boroff, the Sterling Professor Emerita of English.

The following faculty members received the 2006 Graduate Mentor Award:

Michael Della Rocca
Professor of Philosophy

Teresa Treat
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Peter Parker
Professor of Physics

2006 Student Prize Winners

Marston Anderson Prize
Takeshi Watanabe
Mariko Shigeta Schimmel

Henry Prentiss Becton Prize
Lafe F. Spietz

Frederick W. Beinecke Prize
Scott Kleeb

Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize
Andrew Joseph Perchuk

Harding Bliss Prize
Giuliano Amantini

Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize
Kimberly Juanita Brown
Rebecca Rae Peabody

Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize
Katherine Rhode

George Washington Egleston Historical Prize
Serena Mayeri, Rebecca Davis

Estwing Hammer Prize
Garrett Leahy

Miguel Ferreyros Memorial Award
Alder Keleman

Theron Rockwell Field Prize
Anthony Keith Welch

William Ebenezer Ford Prize
Zhicheng Jing,
Megan Andrews

Hans Gatzke Prize
Wendie Schneider
Kathleen Cambor

James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize
Natalie Tronson

Academic Excellence in International Relations Award
Stefanie Pleschinger
Jason Kelly

Elias Loomis Prize
Erik Thomson

John Spangler Nicholas Prize
Casey Dunn
Erika Edwards
Tessa Burch-Smith
Hubert Lam
Shawn Straszewski-Chavez
Tomomi Tsubouchi

Philip M. Orville Prize
Ian Miller
Krister Smith

Marguerite A. Peyre Prize
Ronan Chalmin
Alexandre Limoges
John Ryan Poynter

John Addison Porter Prize
John Douglas Tuxill

George Gaylord Simpson Prize
Julia A. Clarke
Ian Miller

George Trimis Prize
Tavneet Suri

Richard Wolfgang Prize
Anthony Chianese
Eric Diken
Sarah Reisman

Arthur and Mary Wright Prize
George Trumbull