Certificate Prize Recipients

The Katie Y. F. Yang Prize, named for a 1990 graduate of the Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management (CSS), is awarded annually to the international graduate of the program with the most outstanding academic record.

This year's recipient, Dr. Sujit Kumar Basu, is a citizen of India who holds a bachelor's in pharmaceutical sciences, a master's in pharmaceutical engineering from Jadavpur University, and a PhD in pharmaceutics from the University of Southern California. Basu undertook the CSS Program to learn management skills to complement his scientific studies. He is currently employed as a group leader for Altus Biologics, a company that develops protein crystallization products.

Presented for the first time in 2001, the Phyllis Strimling Award is named in honor of Phyllis Strimling, Director of the Radcliffe Seminars, whose responsibilities included the coordination of Radcliffe's former Management Program. The Phyllis Strimling Award recognizes the character and achievement of a CSS graduate who has used or is preparing to use the CSS experience for the advancement of women and society, and who has grown personally and professionally as a result.

The 2003 recipient of this award is Andrea C. Spence. In 1996 Spence founded Imani Circle, a support group for Caribbean-American women that emphasizes education. She has also been a participant since 1989 in Loves Herself Regardless, a nonreligious program that supports the spiritual leadership of women of African descent. She plans to use the business skills she developed in the CSS Program to begin a cultural and arts center for Boston's Caribbean-American community.

Presented for the first time this year, the Harold V. Langlois Outstanding Scholar Award recognizes a CSS graduate who has demonstrated exceptional academic accomplishment and promise as a manager. The recipient, Dr. David Ross Hurwitz, holds a BS in biology from the State University of New York-Albany and a PhD in genetics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Hurwitz is currently employed as Business Manager of Abcam, Inc., a British firm that develops antibodies for biotechnology researchers.

This year's recipient of the JoAnne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes exceptional teaching in the CSS Program, is Bayley Mason, who joined the CSS faculty in 1990 when he was Associate Director of Corporations and Foundations in Harvard's Development Office. He has taught two courses, CSS E-520 Development Communications and CSS E-142 Principles and Practices of Fundraising (with Scott Nichols). He has continued to teach in the program since his retirement from the Development Office in 1995. Mason is a committed and masterful teacher who consistently earns the highest student evaluations.