Kristine Haugen GS and Yeuh-Lin Loo GS were awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship - the highest annual honor the University bestows on graduate students - during Alumni Day festivities Feb. 24.
The Jacobus Fellowship, given before the last year of a student's graduate study, is awarded to one student in engineering and science and one in social sciences and humanities.
To determine the winners of the Jacobus fellowships, each of the 37 graduate departments nominates one student it considers outstanding.
A Graduate School committee then awards fellowships to the top 17 students from the pool, of which the two Jacobus Fellowships are the most esteemed.
Haugen, the recipient of the Jacobus Fellowship for the humanities, was informed of the honor last spring.
"It's a very great honor," Haugen said. "No one could achieve anything without the whole community, so it almost seems unfair to single anyone out. I'm very happy to be at Princeton."
Haugen's dissertation - "Cannons of Criticism: Richard Bentley (1662-1741) and the Philology of Revision" - explores the evolution of English literature and literary criticism in the 18th century, according to English professor Jonathan Lamb, who oversees Haugen's dissertation.
"She's about to make a pretty important statement about English literature as a whole," Lamb said.
According to Lamb, Haugen earned the award because of her "combination of considerable learning - she's a Latinist and a Greekist - and a lot of critical acuity."
The Jacobus Fellowship for physical science was given to Loo, who is working toward her doctorate in chemical engineering.
"I'm very honored," Loo said. "It's definitely a distinction."
Loo has been working with polymer crystallization in confined spaces. She has developed systems to restrict the crystals and then to study how crystallization precedes, her adviser, chemical engineering professor Rick Register, said.
"I think that what will really define [Loo's] work is her major contribution to the field [of polymer crystallization]," Register said.
Both students plan to complete their studies this year. Next year, Haugen said she will be an literature professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Loo plans to work for 15 months at Bell Labs, the core research division of Lucent Technologies, in the Condensed Matter Physics department. She is currently interviewing for university faculty positions.
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