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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY The Two Hundred Sixty-Sixth Commencement The Fourth of June Two Thousand Thirteen The Order of Exercises Princeton University The Two Hundred Sixty-Sixth Commencement The Fourth of June Two Thousand Thirteen Page 2 Processional 2 Invocation 2 Greeting 2 Latin Salutatory Oration 3 Secondary School Teaching Prizes 4 Bachelor Degrees, Certificates, and Departmental Honors Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science in Engineering Certificates of Proficiency Departmental Honors 21 Undergraduate Awards, Prizes, and Commissions Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi Tau Beta Pi Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence General and Departmental Prizes Athletic Prizes Commissions and Military Awards Major Scholarships and Fellowships 33 Valedictory Oration 33 Advanced Degrees Master of Arts Master of Fine Arts Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies Master in Finance Master of Architecture Master in Public Affairs Master in Public Policy Master of Science in Engineering Doctor of Philosophy 40 Graduate Student Fellowships and Awards 44 The President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching 45 Retirements 46 Honorary Degrees 48 Remarks by the President of the University 48 Benediction and Alma Mater 48 Recessional 48 A Commentary on Commencement 1 Processional Invocation and Greeting The audience will please rise when the faculty marshals enter. Chief Marshal for University Convocations Alison L. Boden Douglas W. Clark Dean of Religious Life and Dean of the Chapel Marshals for Advanced Degrees Angela N. Creager Shirley M. Tilghman Adam Finkelstein President of the University Marshals for Bachelor Degrees Richard A. Register J. Nicole Shelton Candidates for Advanced Degrees Latin Salutatory Oration Marshal for Band and Bachelor Degrees Katherine T. Rohrer Amelia Bensch-Schaus Candidates for Bachelor Degrees The Latin salutatory is awarded by vote of the faculty to one of the highest-ranking Marshals for Faculty and Administration candidates for bachelor degrees. The special qualifications of a student as salutatorian Claire F. Gmachl are taken into account, as well as scholastic standing. Robert A. Kaster The Faculty and Administrative Officers Salutatio Associate Chief Marshal Sandra L. Bermann Habita in Comitiis Academicis Princetoniae Marshal for Recipients of Honorary Degrees In Nova Caesarea a.d. Non. Iun. and Trustee Escorts die IV Iunii Sanjeev R. Kulkarni Anno Salutis MMXIII Recipients of Honorary Degrees and Anno Academiae CCLXVI Trustee Escorts Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem; dea, in bucolicis pratis The Trustees and Trustees Emeriti homines homo canam. Processional Guests Saluto te primum, elata pastor, praeses Tilghman, quae curavisti multos Mace-Bearer greges prosperrimos. Quoniam nos sumus tuus grex ultimus, certabimus ut Jeff E. Nunokawa monumenta digna te simus. Quasi ultima re gesta, o dea tempestatum, has The Principals: cicadas huc nos salutatum advocavisti. Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel Secundo verto ad vos et vos saluto, curatores nostri fideles, qui eminus nobis Deborah K. Blanks providetis. Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel Vos quoque cano, celebres professores: plus satis nostris animis pastus Alison L. Boden paravistis, et vos naiades qui in adsiliente scholae Wilsoniensis luditis flumine Dean of the College et vos dryades qui incolitis Orientalem illam Pinum. Valerie A. Smith Dean of the Graduate School Et nunc nostros parentes saluto: nos educavistis et nobis has pascuas emistis William B. Russel haud parvo pretio! Quod si nos cum essemus infantes exposuissetis, sane hi Dean of the Faculty boni pastores nos gratuite recepissent! David P. Dobkin Vestra benignitate, quattuor annos per hos silvestres colles pererrabamus Provost — etsi nos Forbesienses pererrabamus valde latius ceteris. Hi tamen Christopher L. Eisgruber idylliorum agri hederati non manent semper idem atque intacti, sed loca University Orator mutata deserimus. Multos post annos pacis, arma redierunt ad viam sacram David G. Offensend mysteriaque scholae Wilsoniensis omnibus aperta sunt. Denique vehiculum Chair of the Board of Trustees of illud avitum paene perditum est — sed ecce antiquum Dincium vicit et vivit. Princeton University Kathryn A. Hall Prius coluimus aras diversorum deorum, sive Athenae Poliadis sive Aesculapii President sive Clius: dehinc autem universi nos committemus sanctissimis ritibus Shirley M. Tilghman Dionysi. Marshal for the Principals Paul B. Muldoon Ipsas olim portas ingressi sumus ut oves, iam egrediemur ex eisdem portis impavidae et impavidi luparum avidarum saevarumque tempestatum: Marshal for Processional Guests and Trustees Simon E. Gikandi egrediemur ut tigres Princetonienses. 2 Secondary School Teaching Prizes Recognition, by Provost Christopher L. Eisgruber, of recipients of prizes for distinguished secondary school teaching in the State of New Jersey. Medha Jayant Kirtane Robert O’Boyle Ridgewood High School Hopewell Valley Central High School Teacher of Social Studies Teacher of Art In a technological age when students are accustomed This gifted artist is calligrapher to the Pope, and the to instant gratification, Medha Kirtane teaches them to cardinal rule in his teaching is to confront his students value periods of puzzlement as learning experiences. She with the power and passion that art can depict. In doing presses them to develop precise arguments and informed so, Robert O’Boyle reveals to them his own passion for perspectives. Her classroom at Ridgewood High School is art and for his community. He deftly wields his brush a marketplace for discourse, a haven in which to question not so his students at Hopewell Valley Central High accepted truths. In her courses her students act out the School will see what he sees, but so they will truly see turning points that changed history, and in the process for themselves. He also opens their eyes through art learn how to change the course of their own histories, discovery trips abroad, but whether in Italy or New and to become agents for a better world. Jersey, his goal is to prepare his students for journeys of self-discovery. John McAllen Point Pleasant High School Deane R. Stepansky ’73 Teacher of Mathematics Nutley High School Teacher of Latin At Point Pleasant High School, proof of John McAllen’s effectiveness as a math teacher is in the numbers: Her students at Nutley High School call her “Magistra,” AP calculus students have quadrupled during his a master at using Latin language and culture to shed tenure. In a former career as a mechanical engineer, light on the age in which they live. Known for her he developed life-saving biomedical devices. Now he ability to coax even students of uncertain promise to uses that experience to show his students how math can succeed, Deane Stepansky uses the classics to ignite describe and improve the physical world. He encourages their intellectual curiosity and elevate their thinking to them to take calculated risks, but above all he teaches a higher level. They sing her praise in their epic poems perseverance. In the course of proving a theorem, he lets about her. But it is perhaps the fact that her former them prove to themselves that they can succeed. students have dedicated a Facebook page to their Latin teacher that speaks most eloquently to the lasting impact she has had on their lives. 3 Bachelor Degrees Presentation to the president, by Dean of Raymond Auduong, School of Architecture Adeline Latimer Stokes Brown, Psychology the College Valerie Smith, of candidates for Rina Priya Ayob, Psychology Anne Margaret Brown, Classics bachelor degrees; conferral of the degrees Joshua Adam Bachner, Woodrow Wilson Marguerite Elena Skinner Brown, Woodrow School Wilson School by the president. James Michael Badwick, Economics Ricardo Alexander Brown, Anthropology Molly Petersmeyer Bagshaw, Sociology Jefferson Whitaker Brown Jr., Politics Ewon Baik, Politics Nicholas Joseph Broz, Sociology Bachelor of Arts Alexandra Elaine Rabb Bailin, Psychology Rachel Ashley Buckle, Psychology DEGREE AWARDED Nathan Trilling Baird, Economics Andrew Sean Budnick, Geosciences 22 SEPTEMBER 2012 Mary A. Balzer, History Julia Mauro Bumke, History Alexandra Sarah Lauren Baptiste, Politics Erin Winton Burns, Psychology Carrie Ann Carpenter, Anthropology Brandon David Bark, Classics Nicholas Michael Burton, Geosciences Joanne Hannah Chong, Physics Diana Christine Barnes, Comparative Donald Joseph Butterworth, Politics Sebastian Alexander Franco, Molecular Literature Bodo Pascal Bützler, Philosophy Biology Nora Sokolow Barnett, Psychology Erin Elizabeth Byrne, French and Italian Miriam Virginia Bound Geronimus, Ecology Gavriel Matan Barnhard, Near Eastern Studies Victoria Lauren Cadiz, Philosophy and Evolutionary Biology Brian Joseph Barrett, Economics Christopher Ross Cadman, Ecology and DEGREE AWARDED Paige Therese Barrett, Religion Evolutionary Biology 26 JANUARY 2013 Benjamin Nevis Barron, Comparative Elizabeth P. Cai, Psychology Timothy Francis Campion, Mathematics Literature Caitlin Louise Caldwell, Sociology Jonathan Lee Christensen, Psychology Samantha Lauren Batel, Woodrow Wilson Phoebe Gray Caldwell, Economics School Peter Wirtz Callahan, History DEGREE AWARDED Jared David Joseph Bauman, Economics Wynne Anderberg Callon, Woodrow Wilson 6 APRIL 2013 Timothy Irish Bauman, Woodrow Wilson School Kalie Alice Bartholomew, Sociology School Anuncia Feliz Acuña Camacho, Economics Gabriel David Crouse, Philosophy Zachary Giacomo Pittaluga Beecher, Woodrow Rana Elyse Campbell, Sociology DEGREE AWARDED Wilson School Christina