Top honors go to students with stellar records
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Jacobus Fellowship recipient
Kristine Haugen ENG spoke about her research on the
intellectual and cultural history of 17th- and
18th-century England. |
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Yueh-Lin Loo CHE (center),
Jacobus Fellowship winner, attended the awards
luncheon with her husband, Philip Chew (left) and
her thesis adviser, Richard Register, professor of
chemical engineering. |
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Pyne Honor Prize winner Adam
Friedman '01 (right) sang "Old Nassau" with his
father, Charles Friedman '67, at the conclusion of
the program. |
Pyne Prize
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. It is awarded annually to a member of the senior class who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership.
Friedman, a straight-A student in the molecular biology department, is working on his thesis with Nobel-laureate Eric Wieschaus. It will examine the role of the regulation of a molecular pathway known to be mutated in a variety of human cancers.
He also has interned in a developmental neurobiology laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for three summers, where his research on the development of the mammalian eye was praised as an "absolutely amazing tour de force" by the hospital's acting chief of the genetics division.
Friedman has displayed his talents in other venues as well. He played leading roles in several campus productions, including "Noises Off" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." As president and general manager of Theatre Intime, Friedman helped lead a major fund-raising and renovation project. He also is a founding member of the Performing Arts Council, has served as a resident adviser in Forbes College, and has led volunteer projects for the Mercer County Head Start Child Development Program through the Student Volunteers Council. Next year, Friedman will begin a joint M.D./Ph.D. program. He is the son of Charles and Ruth Friedman of Tupelo, Miss.
At the awards ceremony, President Shapiro thanked Friedman for his "remarkable legacy to Princeton in the sciences and in the arts."
Jacobus Fellowships
The Jacobus Fellowship, which supports the final year of graduate study, has been awarded since 1905 to students whose work has displayed the highest scholarly excellence. Fellowships are awarded to two students one in the humanities or social sciences, and the other in engineering or science.
Haugen, a doctoral student in English from Downers Grove, Ill., received her bachelor's degree in classical studies from the University of Chicago, where she was named the most outstanding senior in the classics department and the humanities division. At Princeton, her work also crosses the disciplines, and Haugen is known for her scholarship throughout the English, history and classics departments.
Haugen has received the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for Research Abroad in the Humanities, which she used for classical studies at the Warburg Institute in London and to research material for her dissertation. Her dissertation will focus on Richard Bentley, a controversial 17th-century scholar who is most renowned for his translation of Milton and work as an editor.
She has published many articles, including one on "Ossian and the Invention of Textual History," which won a prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas in 1998. "Intellectually poised and exceptionally surefooted, Kristine is already gaining a reputation as an outstanding scholar and teacher," Shapiro said.
Loo, a doctoral student in chemical engineering from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was the first student to receive B.S.E. degrees in both chemical engineering and materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. At Princeton, her graduate work has focused on key aspects of structure formation in complex polymers. She has received the Frank Padden Award, given to the most outstanding graduate student by the Division of Polymer Physics of the American Physical Society.
Loo has co-written a manuscript that will be published in Physical Review Letters this spring and has presented at national meetings of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
"Lynn has impressed her teachers and colleagues with her inquisitive mind, her love for research, and her drive and dedication," Shapiro said.
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