Denisse Rojas Maldonado, Guarini ’26 (MALS, Globalization Studies), was awarded the 2026 Byam Shaw-Brownstone Thesis Excellence Award for her thesis, Anatomy of an A.I. Arms Race: The U.S. and China Technological Dispute for A.I. Leadership, an analysis of the strategic …
Stephen Marchand, Guarini ’26 (MALS, Creative Writing, Fiction), was awarded the 2026 Byam Shaw-Brownstone Thesis Excellence Award for his thesis, ILL, a vivid, hallucinatory novel about a high school teacher on sabbatical in Lisbon, Portugal with his wife, grappling with …









