Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award

Phillip Dawkins, a graduating senior Political Science major, has received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. This highly-competitive, prestigious award is given to an outstanding graduating senior who has achieved distinction as an undergraduate researcher.

Under the suprevision of Classics Professor Ralph Gallucci, for his undergraduate research project Phillip pursued Homer's writings to determine what they reveal about the Greek Bronze Age. That research resulted in a paper that will be presented to an international conference and published in the conference proceedings.

Phillip has a near-perfect undergraduate grade-point average and will be graduating from the College of Letters and Science with Highest Honors, College Honors, and the Academic Excellence Award. He will also receive the Louis Leal Social Sciences Undergraduate Award for outstanding interdisciplinary achievement in the Social Sciences. He has been accepted to Harvard Law School.