During the Commencement procession on May 23, the recipients of the top five academic prizes will have the privilege of carrying an official flag or banner. The winner of the Warren Memorial Prize carries the American flag. The winner of the Russell Henry Chittenden Prize carries the Connecticut flag. The winner of the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize carries the Yale College banner. The winners of the Sudler Prize carry the president’s banners. Finally, the winner of the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize carries the Yale University banner.
Nellie Pratt Elliot Award
Awarded to a senior woman who, on the field of play and in her life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition
William Neely Mallory Award
Awarded to a senior man who, on the field of play and in his life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition
Nakanishi Prize
Awarded to two graduating seniors who, while maintaining high academic achievement, have provided exemplary leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic relations at Yale College
James Andrew Haas Prize
Awarded to that senior whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity shall be adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for his or her fellow students, inspiring in them a love of learning and concern for others
Warren Memorial Prize
Awarded to the graduating senior majoring in the humanities who ranks highest in scholarship
Arthur Twining Hadley Prize
Awarded to the graduating senior majoring in the social sciences who ranks highest in scholarship
Russell Henry Chittenden Prize
Awarded to the graduating senior majoring in the natural sciences who ranks highest in scholarship
Louis Sudler Prize
Awarded to two graduating seniors for excellence in the performing or creative arts
Alpheus Henry Snow Prize
Awarded to the senior who, through the combination of intellectual achievement, character, and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an admiration for the traditions of high scholarship