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...Cozzens gave a tour of his room, with walls covered in fun tack, posters, and drawings. On his desk was evidence of the Hoopes prize he recently won for his thesis on Arab rap music. He, like many other Co-opers, has taken time off during college: Cozzens traveled to Syria to study Arabic...
...very interested to hear his advice to Harvard undergrads, what sort of careers they should be considering, and what knowledge they need to be leaders,” he said. Bernanke was a star economics student in his undergraduate years at Harvard, winning the John H. Williams Prize for the most outstanding senior in the department, as well as an award for his thesis, entitled “An Integrated Model for Energy Policy.” “We’re proud to count him among our graduates,” said Stock...
...administrator who happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I am a fledgling writer who tries to be nice to colleagues and filled some vacancies in a decent school paper. I don’t think it would matter if I won a Nobel Prize or started believing in Zen Buddhism; my roommates would still make a mess and still make fun of me. I will be klutzy and cry easily, and will love my friends and family no matter how many Harvard diplomas I receive. I am glad that these are constants...
...Hoopes Prize winner Elizabeth B. David ’08 said she credited her adviser, history professor David R. Armitage, “100 percent” for her success. “He pushed me to find the argument, to pull out my own ideas and not bury them in historiography,” she said...
...Hoopes Prize is hardly an ideal measurement of a successful thesis. Students in concentrations like MCB, many of whom work on thesis research in labs at the Medical School, are at a disadvantage, since their advisers may be unfamiliar with the prize. Science concentrations also tend to have later due dates, meaning that a thesis could remain unfinished when nominations are asked for. Often graders read outside their home discipline, making professors feel unqualified judges of the scholarship...