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On June 4, following academic, athletic, and school awards were presented to students during the Senior Awards and Cum Laude ceremony. Inductees into the Hotchkiss Cum Laude Society were also honored and are listed below. 

As an investigative reporter, Caroline Yi Ling Chen '08 covered SARs, Ebola, and Zika before the arrival of COVID-19. "In January 2020, when my editor-in-chief first suggested that I take a look at this novel coronavirus coming out of China, I told him that there is a playbook for responding to these threats, and the question would be whether or not the U.S. was adequately prepared and could execute the playbook. As we then saw, a lot of things went off the rails. ..."

Virginia “Ginny” Faus P’10, instructor in chemistry and the Edward R. Tinker Chair, is one who doesn’t like to be in the limelight. But in May, the lifelong teacher accepted the 2021 Lufkin Prize on a virtual stage, when she spoke in a pre-recorded video shared with the Hotchkiss community.