Awards

The Beta of Maryland Chapter makes up to three awards each year for academic excellence. All full-time juniors and seniors currently enrolled at Goucher College are eligible.

The basis of the award or awards (currently $75 each) is an outstanding piece of work completed as part of a course, internship, or independent work, excluding Senior Theses, done during the previous two semesters. Work should be submitted in the form in which it was graded, without corrections or revisions and with the instructor's marks and comments intact. Art, music, theatrical, and dance works are eligible.

Nominations may be made in one of two ways. Members of the faculty are requested to nominate students who have prepared work of distinctive merit in any field. The faculty member should first consult the proposed nominee and obtain the student's consent. Students may nominate themselves and ask the instructor of the course for a letter of recommendation. The paper or other work should then be sent to the Selection Committee in care of Ed Duggan, Office of Institutional Research. In either case, the faculty member should send a letter to the Selection Committee under separate cover indicating his or her support of the nomination.

The Chapter announces this competition, with due date and application procedures, in February or March. Awards are made at Goucher Celebrates in May.

The Brooke Peirce Phi Beta Kappa Prize Winners

Spring 2006:
Sarah Abdelnaby, "Public Opinion and the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan"
Megan Lundberg, "Dependence of Fertilization in Sea Urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, on Microfilament Formation and Internal Calcium Concentration"
Olga Maltseva, "Transition to Terrorism: A Study of Chechnya"
Jessica Silver, "La Goutte d'Or: Enjeux Identitaires d'un Quartier"

Spring 2005:
Christina Abel, "Emerson: Visions of a Bubble"
Kirsten Besheer, Noah Feldman, "The Cartesian Circle"
Christi Rutishauser, "Kruskal's algorithm"

Spring 2004:
Christina Abel, "Metadrama in Hamlet: An Illusion of Reality"
Nicole Baer, "Defining Authorship: 'Anxiety' in the Intertextual Relationship between Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul  and Haynes' Far From Heaven"

Tied:
Emily Copplestone, set design for Goucher play, The Newport Flower Convention
Michael Peddicord, "Democratization in Africa"

Spring 2003:
Chris Martin, "Dyscalculia"
Taryn Westendorf, "An Examination of the Linguistic and Visuospatial Abilities in Individuals with Williams Syndrome"

Spring 2002:
Morrigan K. Burns, "Understanding Robert: A Case Study"
Stacy Grimes, "The Metafictional Dimension of The Turn of the Screw"
Erin Long, "Chaotic Dynamical Systems"

Spring 2001:
Hannah Kosstrin, "The Authenticity of Dance Photography"