Princeton seniors David Amelemah, Zachariah Sippy and Jack Thompson awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize

Princeton University seniors David Amelemah, Zachariah Sippy and Jack Thompson have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.

Amelemah, a chemical and biological engineering major from Amityville, New York, will aim to understand a messenger RNA processing method called post-loading at the University of Sydney. Sippy, a history concentrator from Lexington, Kentucky, will research and report on constitutional and political developments in the Southern Cone, especially the ongoing Chilean constitutional reform process, from Santiago. Thompson, a joint concentrator in Spanish and Portuguese and international studies from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, will travel to São Paulo to work at the intersection of public policy and healthcare in Brazil.

The Labouisse Prize, which awards $35,000 to each recipient, enables graduating seniors to engage in a project that exemplifies the life and work of Henry Richardson Labouisse, a 1926 Princeton alumnus who was a diplomat, international public servant, and champion for the causes of international justice and international development. Labouisse’s daughter Anne Peretz and family established the prize in 1984. It is administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).

Read the full article on the PIIRS website.