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George W. Bush '68, Doctor of Laws The 43rd president of the U. S., George W. Bush continues the University's commitment to public service. As governor of Texas, Bush used the interpersonal skills evident to his classmates to forge a bipartisan consensus on education, and campaigning under the theme of "compassionate conservatism," he became the second generation of his family to win the White House and the third to receive an honorary Yale degree. Richard J. Franke '53, Doctor of Humane Letters Businessman, philanthropist, and Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, Richard J. Franke '53 became the business community's most visible and effective public advocate for liberal education and the humanities. As president of the John Nuveen Company, Franke built a corporate culture that encouraged self-improvement, civic participation, and philanthropy, and as founder of the Chicago Humanities Festival, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 1997. Ellen V. Futter, Doctor of Humane Letters Administrator Ellen V. Futter has reshaped worthy institutions with energy, intelligence, and imagination. As president of Barnard College from 1980 to 1993, Futter strengthened the reputation of her alma mater, and as the current president of American Museum of Natural History, she completed major initiatives, including the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Evelyn Boyd Granville '49PhD, Doctor of Science Mathematician and teacher Evelyn Boyd Granville turned an early love of numbers into a path-breaking degree at Yale, becoming the nation's first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in pure mathematics. An early contributor to the U.S. space program, Granville has been an energetic teacher of students from elementary school through college, and an advocate for the importance of mathematics education. Arthur Mitchell, Doctor of Fine Arts Dancer and arts administrator, Arthur Mitchell has danced his way into the hearts of audiences around the world, from Broadway to the New York City Ballet and the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which he cofounded in 1969 and continues to guide. Using art as activism, Mitchell also mastered fundraising, administration, and dance education, training thousands of young dancers, many of them African-American. Robert E. Rubin '64LLB, Doctor of Laws Wall Street investment banker, Clinton administration economic adviser, and Secretary of the Treasury from 1995 to 1999, Robert E. Rubin helped develop and implement policies that turned a large fiscal deficit into a surplus and guide the nation to an expansion of unprecedented length. Rubin's expertise in international markets is widely credited with preventing the Asian financial crisis from inciting global panic. Dawn Upshaw, Doctor of Music Musician and educator Dawn Upshaw is a singer who has mastered both classical opera and America contemporary works. A charismatic performer with a repertoire that ranges from Baroque to Barber to Blitzstein, Upshaw has amazed audiences throughout the world, in concerts, with best-selling recordings, and on television. Harold E. Varmus, Doctor of Science Biologist, science administrator, and Nobel laureate, Harold E. Varmus has been a leader in basic research, public policy, and education. A specialist in cancer genetics and currently director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Varmus led the National Institutes of Health from 1993 through 2000, winning broad bipartisan support for biomedical research and long-term investment in the nation's scientific infrastructure. Patricia M. Wald '51LLB, Doctor of Laws Jurist and lawyer Patricia M. Wald serves in The Hague as the American judge on the 14-member International Criminal Tribunal, which hears the cases of those accused of wartime atrocities in the former Yugoslavia. Prior to this appointment in 1999, Wald had been a judge for 20 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and that Court's chief justice from 1986 to 1991. Samuel A. Waterston '62, Doctor of Fine Arts From his debut at age 6 in his father's production of Antigone, actor Sam Waterston has amassed an impressive number of television, film, and stage credits. With award-winning performances in such films as The Killing Fields, in the television series I'll Fly Away, and in the plays of Shakespeare, Waterston has offered compelling portrayals of complex characters from Abraham Lincoln to Jack McCoy that both entertain viewers and enlarge their moral view of the world. Sir Bernard A. O. Williams, Doctor of Letters Philosopher and teacher, Sir Bernard A.O. Williams, who was knighted in 1999, has trained an unsentimental eye on epistemology, personal identity, and ethics. A professor at Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley, Williams has authored more than a dozen books that examine the richness of experience, particularly the philosphical underpinnings of human nature and the commitments we make to ourselves, each other, and the truth. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon '81PhD, Doctor of Laws President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, Ernesto Zedillo helped create a new era of democracy and economic stability in his country. An economist and a government official , Zedillo was thrust into a leadership role in 1994 when his party's candidate for president was assassinated and he was tapped to run. Once elected, he initiated sweeping reforms that prevented a financial crisis and oversaw the recent transition to power of his successor in a contest considered the most open in Mexico's history.
Student Awards The Robert E. Lewis Award is presented to the seniors who have shown commitment and high ideals as participants in intramural sports. This year's winners, who played a wide range of intramural sports for their residential colleges, are Joanna Manders, of Branford, and Michael Gerber, of Ezra Stiles. Rhodes Scholar and philosophy major Luke Aaron Bronin, of Silliman, received the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, which is given to the senior who "has done the most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship." Timothy Dwight history major Elizabeth Austin Edmondson received the Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize, which is presented to the top scholar in the field of humanities. The James Andrew Haas Prize was awarded to Eyi A. Tuakli-Wosornu, of Timothy Dwight. Tuakli-Wosornu was cited as a senior whose "breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity" inspired in fellow students a "love of learning and concern for others." Psychology major Abha Khanna, of Berkeley, received the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize, which is given to the top scholar in the social sciences. Calhoun College's Samuel Isaac Elder, who majored with distinction in electrical engineering and music, received the Russell Henry Chittenden Prize as the top scholar in the natural sciences or mathematics. The Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts was given to Saybrook photographer Matthew Todd Jordan and Davenport theater studies major David Valdez. Eyi Tuakli-Wosornu, Michael Clifford Motto, and Anika Singh were selected as co-winners of the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize, an award given for commitment to public service. Eyi Tuakli-Wosornu, an American studies major in Timothy Dwight, was recognized for her work on African-American issues and service to the Afro-American Cultural Center. Michael Clifford Motto, an American studies and sociology major and head freshman counselor in Silliman, received recognition for his service as a tutor in New Haven's public schools, soup kitchens, and battered women's shelters. A winner last year of an Elm-Ivy award for service and advocacy, Anika Singh, an ethics, politics,and economics major in Branford, was honored for her work with the New Haven Housing Authority, the Homeless Advisory Commission, and the Hill Development Corporation. Writer, director, and singer Ashley Lucas, an English and American studies major in Morse, won the David Everett Chantler Award, which recognizes the qualities of courage, strength of character, overcoming adversity, and high moral purpose. Punter, receiver, and Academic All-American Eric Johnson, the most prolific pass-catcher in the history of Yale football, received the William Neely Mallory Award, as "the senior man who on the field of play and in life at Yale best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition." All-Ivy swimmer Meredith Bryarly was presented with the Nellie Pratt Elliot Award, which goes to "the senior woman whose excellence in the field of athletics and in her life best represents the ideals of sportsmanship and Yale tradition." Bryarly, an architecture major, swam in seven freestyle events, both individual and relay, and set numerous school records.
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Lucius Cross Medal Winners CalTech molecular and developmental biologist and teacher Elliot M. Meyerowitz '77PhD has conducted critical work in the genetic regulation of animal and plant development. Beginning with graduate research at Yale on the fruit fly's visual system, Meyerowitz put togther a number of elegant studies of Drosophila at Stanford and CalTech before investigating development in plants. These discoveries spurred a revolution in plant biology and have had important implications for agriculture. The scholarship of Stephen Owen '68, '72PhD has done much to make Chinese poetry known and accessible to generations of readers. Owen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard, is remembered for teaching Yale's famous "Literature X" courses in the 1970s, a watershed period that transformed literary and cultural criticism and showed how comparative and theoretical approaches to the study of Chinese poetry and poetics could open new interpretive territories. Cognitive psychologist Roger N. Shepard '55PhD has devoted his career to understanding how humans perceive and mentally represent the world around them. Now the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Stanford University, Shepard's research has applications in fields as diverse as cognitive science and marketing. His book Mind Sights has been an inspiration to students of cognition, and his artistry in portraying some of psychology's classic visual illusions has graced the walls of many offices and laboratories. Statesman
and economist Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon '81PhD served
as president of Mexico from 1994 until 2000, and brought the country
through a period of crisis and economic instability into an era
of recovery and political reform. (See above.)
Zedillo strengthened Mexico's democratic institutions and turned
over power last year in elections that many consider to have been
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