ER&M Class of 2020 is featured on YaleNews! Check out the story of this accomplished and largest cohort of ER&M students yet here!

Congratulations to ER&M seniors who won well-earned university-wide prizes and academic distinctions on Class Day 2020! These accomplished students include Janis Jin and Emily Almendarez, who received the Nakanishi Prize; Maslen Ward won the Henry H. Strong Prize and the Richard Schoenberg Prize; Janis Jin received the John Hubbard Curtis Prize; Shamsa Derrick and Christian Fernandez received the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize; Yuki Hayasaka received Honorable Mention for the William Prize; and Matty Motylenski received the William H. McKim Prize.

In addition, Ben Levin, Mary Miller, and Maslen Ward graduated with Cum Laude distinction; Shamsa Derrick, Janis Jin, and Julia Kahn graduated with Magna Cum Laude distinction; and Marisa Vargas-Morawetz graduated with Summa Cum Laude distinction. The ER&M community is so proud of our amazing students! Read more about these students and the honors that they received here.

ER&M senior, Christian Fernandez, is featured in YaleNews! The piece, “Yale College 2020: Meet Some of the Graduates”,  profiles Christian along with thirteen other graduating seniors from Class of 2020. Read and be inspired by Christian’s amazing story here!

On Monday, April 27, the ER&M Program hosted our annual Senior Presentations and Celebration event on Zoom with 75 people in attendance! Professor Albert Laguna emceed the event and ten of our seniors presented their excellent work. Following a slideshow featuring faculty tributes honoring the largest class yet in ER&M history, senior Janis Jin offered a thoughtful class reflection. Professors Ana Ramos-Zayas and Alicia Schmidt Camacho rounded out the event with their words of appreciation and admiration to the graduates and those who have made ER&M a wonderful community.  Check out the slide show honoring our graduating seniors here!

This year, 26 ER&M seniors undertook semester- and year-long research and creative projects. Here are the titles of their work.

Senior Presentations and Celebration Event 2020 Program.

Join us on Monday, April 27, 2020, 11:30am-1:00pm (EST) to celebrate our graduating seniors! Detailed agenda to follow.