Outstanding students honored at Class Day 2016

Eleven graduating seniors were honored on Class Day with awards for their academic and athletic accomplishments and for their character. The honorees are listed below, in the order the prizes were given during the Class Day ceremony on May 22 on the Old Campus.

Eleven graduating seniors were honored on Class Day with awards for their academic and athletic accomplishments and for their character. The honorees are listed below, in the order the prizes were given during the Class Day ceremony on May 22 on the Old Campus.


The Nellie Pratt Elliot and William Neely Mallory Awards

Awarded to a senior woman who, on the field of play and in her life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition.

Eva Fabian of Pierson College

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Awarded to the senior man who, on the field of play and in his life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition.

Justin Sears of Silliman College

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The Nakanishi Prize

Awarded to two graduating seniors who, while maintaining high academic achievement, have provided exemplary leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic relations at Yale College.

Sebastian Medina-Tayac of Davenport College (left)

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Eshe Sherley of Morse College

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The James Andrew Haas Prize

Awarded annually to “that member of the senior class in Yale College whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity shall be adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for his or her fellow students, inspiring in them a love of learning and concern for others.”

William Tanner Allread of Trumbull College

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The Louis Sudler Prize

Awarded to graduating seniors for excellence in the performing and creative arts.

Rebecca Brudner of Branford College (right)

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Monica Hannush of Pierson College

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The Warren Memorial Scholarship Prize

Awarded to the senior majoring in the humanities who ranks the highest in scholarship.

William August Theiss of Berkeley College

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The Arthur Twining Hadley Prize

Awarded annually to the senior in Yale College in the social sciences who ranks the highest in scholarship.

Connie Lu Wang of Timothy Dwight College

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The Russell Chittenden Prize

Awarded annually to the senior in Yale College majoring in the natural sciences or mathematics who ranks the highest in scholarship.

Charles Gunnar Kinzig of Berkeley College

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The Alpheus Henry Snow Prize

Awarded to that senior who “through the combination of intellectual achievement, character and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done the most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship.”

Aaron Benjamin Berman of Saybrook College

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