Derek Bok Public Service Prizes

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The Derek Bok Public Service Prize is one of the prizes awarded by Harvard University during the annual commencement which happens in May. The award which is a cash prize along with a citation, medal given to graduating Harvard Extension School students. It was established entirely by gifts from members of the Harvard Extension School Alumni Association. The award recognizes creative initiatives in community service or long-standing records of civic achievement. [1] All degree and certificate candidates in the Harvard Extension School are eligible for the prize in the year of their graduation. [2] The Harvard Extension School instituted the Derek Bok Public Service Prize which honors the former President of Harvard University Derek Bok for his interest in encouraging public service by all Harvard students.

Bok taught law at Harvard beginning in 1958 and was selected dean of the law school there (1968–1971) after Dean Erwin Griswold was appointed Solicitor-General of the United States. He then served as the university's 25th president (1971–1991), succeeding Nathan M. Pusey. In the mid-1970s Bok negotiated with Radcliffe College president Matina Horner the "non-merger merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges that was a major step in the final merger of the two institutions. Bok recently served as the faculty chair at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard, taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. After fifteen years away from the Harvard presidency, Bok led the university on an interim basis from Lawrence Summers's resignation on July 1, 2006, until the beginning of the tenure of Drew Gilpin Faust on July 1, 2007.

Derek Bok Public Service Prize Winners [3]
Year of the AwardWinner(s)
2002Stephen Gendron

Michael Francis Maltese [4]

2003Jane Catherine Eppley

Elaine Victoria Grey [5]

2004Eileen Mary Weisslinger

Lucia Dentice-Clark

Ria Merrill Riesner [6]

2005Carole Y. Rein

Brent J. Sakoneseriiosta Maracle [7]

2006Betty King Cuyugan

Siza Mtimbiri

Oliver Orion Wilder-Smith [8]

2007James E. Constable

Jennifer Leigh Tucker

Jeffrey W. White [9]

2008Pierce Durkin

Roberto Guerra [10]

2009Hilary J. Blocker

Melissa Ekin Kizildemir

David Lichter [11]

2010Scott Michael Frasca

Diane Carol Hopson

Jonathan Igne-Bianchi

Macarena Morales Perez [12]

2011Miranda Vitello [13]
2012Nidal Al-Azraq [14]
2013 [15] N/A
2014David Joshua Havelick

David Robert Penn

Linda Powers Tomasso [16]

2015Sowmyan Jegatheesan [17]
2016Reima Yosif Shakeir [18]
2017Laura Ann Buso

Shalhavit Simcha Cohen

Karen M. Hudson Lounsbury [19]

2018Haili Cassaundra Francis

Enal Shawqi Hindi

Moshe Ohayon [20]

2019Donald Thomas Parker

Ramakrishna Raju

Justin Henry Williams [21]

2020 [22] Andrew Almazan Anaya [23]

Marilena Dania [24]

Bernadette O'Connell de la Flor [25]

2023Leonora Anyango

Heather Watkins

Weronika Jasmina Forts

Varnit Shanker [26]

2024Falechiondro Karcheik Sims-Alvarado

Daniel Kyoung-Youl Jang

Jaime Rolando (J.R.) Castillo [27]

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