{"id":581130,"date":"2010-05-27T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T12:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=47512"},"modified":"2010-05-27T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T12:19:42","slug":"extension-school-recognizes-outstanding-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581130","title":{"rendered":"Extension School recognizes outstanding grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Commencement, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Extension School<\/a> recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes. Recipients may demonstrate outstanding initiative, character, and academic achievement; show dedication to the arts or public service; or in regard to faculty, be lauded by their students for excellence in teaching.<\/p>\n<p>One honor, the Dean\u2019s Prize for Outstanding Master of Liberal Arts Thesis, is awarded to a student whose graduate thesis embodies the highest level of imaginative scholarship. Through the years, A.L.M. thesis advisers from across the University (all of whom must have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard<\/a> teaching appointments) have been singularly impressed with the work produced by their Extension School advisees: \u201ctremendous body of work \u2014 better than many doctoral theses I\u2019ve seen\u201d; and \u201can important contribution \u2026 it should be published\u201d; and on one biotechnology student, \u201cthe most impressive master\u2019s student I have encountered \u2026 at Harvard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Dean\u2019s Prize for Outstanding Thesis, there are four major academic prizes \u2014 the Phelps, Crite, Langlois, and Small prizes \u2014 as well as the Bok, Aurelio, Yang, and Wood prizes. Faculty are awarded the Bonanno, Conway, Fussa, and Shattuck awards.<\/p>\n<p>To see a list of 2009-10 Harvard Extension School prize and award recipients, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/2009-10\/news\/honors-prizes.jsp\">Extension School Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes. Recipients may demonstrate outstanding initiative, character, and academic achievement; show dedication to the arts or public service; or in regard to faculty, be lauded by their students for excellence in teaching. One honor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}