Falls Church Student, Sarah Elizabeth Weinberg, Receives Two Awards at Graduation from Wellesley College

WELLESLEY, MA (05/30/2012)(readMedia)-- Sarah Elizabeth Weinberg from Falls Church, VA graduated from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science on Friday, May 25 and received two senior prizes from the College. A total of 66 senior prizes were awarded to members of this year's graduating class, which totaled just over 600 students.

Weinberg received The Jacqueline Award in English Composition, which was established by Eleanor and Rosamond Peck in memory of their sister Jacqueline, Class of 1934 and is assigned with "particular reference to the ability of the student to write with delicacy and beauty of expression as well as power," and The Mary Ann Youngren Memorial Award in Critical Reading which was established in 1981 by Diana Lissauer Fraid to be awarded for the essay which best demonstrates a detailed responsiveness to the shape and substance of a work or works of English literature.

Wellesley College is one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the country. The College attracts a talented and diverse student body, with nearly 2,400 undergraduate students from 49 states, the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, and 71 countries. Wellesley is known for excellence in education, gifted faculty, a beautiful campus, a unique campus culture, and for the thousands of accomplished, thoughtful women it has sent out into the world for over 140 years who are committed to making a difference.

A Wellesley education fosters in undergraduate women the highest standard of readiness for the "real world," in terms of their ability to think, to act, and to contribute meaningfully and effectively in their chosen areas of interest. The academic community places a high value on rigorous, probing inquiry, and creative, cross-discipline thinking, and it takes a collaborative approach to scholarship, encouraging students to question, debate, and refine their points of view, not only with each other, but with our world-class faculty members, often by working directly with them on groundbreaking projects.

Home to leading-edge institutions such as The Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, the Knapp Social Science Center, the Davis Museum, The Newhouse Center for the Humanities, and the world-renowned Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley's resources attract attention and scholars from around the world.

Wellesley College is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, approximately 12 miles outside of Boston.

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