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History awards

Best Paper--1st prize

Benjamin Kochan '05, history, Brookline, Mass., for "Fire in the Sky: Electrifying Boston's Horse-Drawn Streetcars"


Best Paper--2nd prize

Morgan A. Sonderegger '04, physics, Berkeley, Calif., for "Linguists, Teachers and Soldiers: The Military Language Schools of World War II"
Jacob V. Bouvrie '03, EECS, Arlington, Mass., for "Ten Thousand Miles, Ten Thousand Days: War Crimes and the American Experience in Vietnam"

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 4, 2003.

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