Prizes, Awards and Fellowships
Each year one or two senior concentrators are recommended for a special prize at graduation. This award recognizes outstanding academic achievement in the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies concentration. In 1995 the award was renamed in memory of Karina Palmira Lago’95, an outstanding student and exemplary human being, who passed away on November 6, 1995. The prize was endowed in December, 1997 by a generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Small ’63, P ’97.
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2011- Joshua M. Marcotte and Brianna L. Medeiros
2009- Gabriela G. Scarritt
2008- Benjamin Patterson Brown
2005- Eric Marlis Noble - 2004- Patrick Andrew Browne
- 2003- Emily E. Witt
- 2002- Robert Patrick Newcomb
- 2001- Kate Ellen Gulbransen
- 2000- Laurence Blakely
- 1999- Elizabeth Domingues Matos and Adele Edelen Nelson
- 1998- Monica Teixeira de Sousa
- 1997- Leigh H. Scott and Martin S. Small
- 1995- Karina P. Lago
- 1994- Benjamin D. Goodman and Meredith M. Persily
- 1993- Grace E. Mitchell
- 1992- Cara S. Joseph
- 1991- Adam D. Culbreath and Jacob C. Miller
- 1990- Loral Patchen
- 1989- Joshua Sens
- 1988- Paul M. Zimmerman
- 1987- Maureen E. Comfort and Ianna Raim
- 1986- Andrew H. Talal
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies concentrators have also competed favorably for national fellowships and university-wide honors. Among recent graduates, Ianna Raim ’87 was awarded a Rotary Fellowship; Jacob C. Miller, Adjoa F. Jones de Almeida ’95, Lissett Ferreira ’99, Elizabeth Matos ’99, Lucia Duncan ’99 and Eric Noble ’05 were awarded Fulbright Scholarships. Karina P. Lago ’95 was awarded an Emery Fellowship. Leigh H. Scott ’97 was awarded a Howard Swearer Fellowship. Ianna Raim ’87, Joshua Sens ’89, Cara S. Joseph ’92, Grace E. Mitchell ’93, Katarzyna S. Stanclik ’93, Alejna M. Brugos ’94, Benjamin D. Goodman ’94, Kristen M. Jackson ’94, Vicki A. Mayer ’94, Adjoa F. Jones de Almeida ’95, Karina P. Lago ’95, Martin S. Small ’97, Daniel Perlin ’97.5, Monica Teixeira de Souza ’98, Adele E. Nelson ’99, Kea E. Schwiebert ’99, Rebecca R. Cohen ’02, Robert P. Newcomb ’02, Karina D. Satlman ’02, Beatriz F. Arantes ’03 and Patrick Browne ’04 were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. A large number of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies concentrators have graduated "magna cum laude."
Students planning to apply for fellowships should make their intention known to the Concentration Advisor as early as possible to avoid missing deadlines.