Minnetonka Student, Gauri Shambhavi Subramani, Awarded Two Senior Prizes at Wellesley College Commencement

WELLESLEY, MA (05/30/2012)(readMedia)-- Gauri Shambhavi Subramani from Minnetonka, MN graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and English from Wellesley College last week and received two senior prizes. Commencement was held on Friday, May 25. A total of 66 senior prizes were awarded to members of this year's graduating class, which totaled just over 600 students.

Subramani received The Mary C. Lyons Prize for Writing, which is awarded to a senior for an outstanding story, scholarly study, or essay reflecting topical interest and showing literary distinction and The Three Generations Prize for Writing in The Social Sciences, which is a prize given for an excellent paper in the social sciences, excluding honors theses. Excellence is defined as a full and complex argument, clearly stated and well supported by evidence; argumentation that is clean and comprehensible to any intelligent reader. The Three Generations Fund is the gift of the late Judith Stern Randal, her daughter Judith Randal Hines, and her mother Sybil Cohen Stern.

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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