Graduate Program

 Friends of the late Richard Herrnstein, Edgar Pierce Professor of Biology, established a prize in his honor which is awarded annually to a Harvard graduate student for a completed dissertation in the natural or social sciences.  The criteria for the award are "excellent scholarship, originality and breadth of thought, and a commitment to intellectual independence necessary to pursue a particular line of inquiry requiring perseverance and courage." The Herrnstein prize is awarded to Blackwell for his dissertation, "Essays in Political Methodology."