Dinkelspiel Award
Excerpt from the Stanford Report, June 8, 2004
Dinkelspiel Award
The Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award, named after the president of the Board of Trustees who served from 1953 to 1958, recognizes distinctive contributions to undergraduate education or the quality of student life at Stanford. This year's recipients are Sarala V. Nagala, a senior in the Public Policy Program; H. Jazmin Quill, lecturer in the Psychology Department; Vivian Fu-Ning Wang, a senior in the Management Science and Engineering Department; and Adrienne Jamieson, the Mary Lou and George Boone Centennial Director of the Stanford in Washington Program.
Nagala was cited for enthusiastic
leadership of the Stanford Pre-Law Society, promoting interaction among undergraduates,
faculty and elected representatives; for her role in the creation of the student-initiated
public policy course, The Supreme Court in Our Lifetime, and for accommodating
the overflow of interested students; for her thoughtful mentoring and friendship,
and for the joy she brought to her role as head peer academic coordinator
in Junipero House; and for her outstanding scholarship, intellectual curiosity
and generosity in service to others.
Quill was cited for her leadership
in program development and curriculum design as co-director of the Psychology
One Program; for her commitment, infectious enthusiasm and unequivocal joy
in teaching; for creating an environment for graduate students that supports
and encourages excellence in teaching as well as scholarship; and for her
extraordinary effect on Stanford undergraduates, inspiring within them intellectual
excitement and a passion for the study of psychology.
Wang was cited for her enthusiasm
first as a Cantor Arts Center student guide and later as coordinator of the
Student Guide Training Series, and her commitment to sharing with others her
deep appreciation for the university's collections; for increasing awareness
of the Cantor Center among undergraduates through her coordination of the
innovative "First Thursdays"; for her singularity and excellence as an
artistic "techie," bridging
her seemingly disparate interests in management science and engineering and
art history; and for the grace, good humor and quiet radiance she brings to
all her endeavors.
Jamieson was cited for extraordinary leadership of the Stanford in Washington Program (SIW), where she has developed an engaging learning environment for all students and directed a dedicated and hardworking staff; for her relentless pursuit of excellence, strengthening the SIW Council, expanding the physical facility, establishing a new distance learning center and developing the most well-respected residential academic program in the nation's capital; for her balance of compassion and professionalism in teaching and the enthusiasm and excitement she conveys in her seminars on policy making in Washington or press and politics; and for her many roles—as professor, academic adviser, resident fellow, internship coordinator, tour leader and resident diplomat.
