Recognition Round-Up

Brianne Baker (History of War and Violence/English Literature) and Ian Caskey (Writing: Fiction) had papers published in John Jay's Finest, Spring 2007 issue, a compendium of outstanding John Jay student writing from across the curriculum.

Kojo Davis (Ethics/Communication and Law) has received the first Candace J. Groudine Human Rights Award, which will give him both a scholarship and an internship in Human Rights in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Lippek received second place in the the Paul LeClerc Best Library Research Paper Award and was "honorably mentioned" for the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize and the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award, both through the Hunter English department. Her short story "Dead Wasps" was recently published in the Olive Tree Review. In addition, Lippek was accepted into the Central European University in Budapest, an elite study abroad designed for advanced undergraduate students (usually honors students), where she will complete her last year of college. Central European University, www.ceu-budapest.edu, is a US-style graduate university located in the heart of Budapest, Hungary with almost 1000 M.A. and Ph.D. students from nearly 70 countries. Lippek is one of a small group of students accepted for 2007-08, all coming from top U.S. universities and colleges including: Princeton (Woodrow Wilson School), Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, John's Hopkins, Bard, Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence, Denison, Scripps, and Lewis & Clarke. Students in this group who achieve and maintain a B+ average during the program are admitted to the CEU for their graduate studies.

La Shon Stockton (Social Work) was named one of “The Best People in NYC” by the Mayor’s Volunteer Center of NY for her extensive volunteer service to Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading victim assistance organization. Congratulations La Shon and Safe Horizon for being the “Best People in NYC!”

Camille Watson (Philosophy/Justice Studies) won the Humanities and Justice Award for an Outstanding Senior Thesis at John Jay College in Spring 2007.

Dulce Wechsler (Latin American Literature) received the Miguel de Cervantes Award from the Romance Languages department at Hunter College.