Award

Daniel Gastfriend ’13, the co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values, the vice president of Princeton Social Entrepreneurship Initiative and a member of the Princeton Footnotes, was named the sole University recipient of the Truman Scholarship.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored The Daily Princetonian with its top award for student journalism for the paper’s March 2011 series “The Arming Question.” The three-part series investigated the controversy surrounding arming Public Safety officers.

Eric “Ricky” Silberman ’13 was named the national winner of the sixth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off on Wednesday, taking home a grand prize of $25,000 in cash and prizes after preparing his dish alongside four other finalists for a live audience in New York City.

All five finalists were given one hour to prepare and present their original recipes in front of seven judges and an Upper West Side audience of family, friends, Jewish community members, media and Manischewitz employees. Entries were judged — in order of importance — on taste, ease of preparation, appearance, originality and creativity.

Ann-Marie Elvin ’12 and James Valcourt ’12 have been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest distinction that can be given to an undergraduate, the University will announce today.

The Pyne Prize was established in 1921 and is given annually to the senior who exemplifies qualities of academic excellence, leadership and strength of character.

Wilson School professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman and Wilson School professor Alan Blinder ’67 were among four economists named to the American Economic Association’s list of 2011 Distinguished Fellows.