Graduates honored with 2010 Golden, Firestone medals, and Kennedy prizes

A ceremony was held last week for 11 graduating students who were awarded the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts and 32 students who were awarded the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Four of the students also won the David M. Kennedy Honors Thesis Prize. The ceremony, which was hosted by Julie Lythcott-Haims, associate vice provost for undergraduate education, and the dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising, was held on June 12 in Paul Brest Hall at the Munger Graduate Residence. The Kennedy Prize is awarded to graduating students who have written outstanding honors theses in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. Students who receive the award have accomplished significantly advanced research in the field and have shown strong potential for publication in peer-reviewed scholarly works. Elizabeth Grace Davis, art and art history; "The Embodied Eye. Phenomenology, Photography and the Mosaics of Cappella Palatina"; Bissera Pentcheva and Bryan Wolf, art and art history.