Shoshana Brown, pictured with chemistry professor Claude Bernasconi, received special mention for her achievements. Brown received both Dean's and Chancellor's awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in the Division of Natural Sciences. She also received the Steck Award, honoring the finest senior thesis completed during each academic year. Her thesis is titled "A Kinetic Study of the Mechanisms and Structure-Reactivity Relationships Governing the Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of Activated Vinylic Substrates."