At the commencement reception of the Regional Studies East Asia Program, Ava Bush (RSEA '25) received a 2025 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Thesis Award for her thesis "Disentangling the Taizōkai Mandala: A Gendered Matrix of Enlightenment and Ritual Union," advised by Prof. Yukio Lippit, Department of History of Art and Architecture. This award recognizes RSEA students for research that demonstrates the high standard of excellence encouraged by the late Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History and past chairman of the RSEA Committee. Ava is also the 2023-25 recipient of the Albert and Teruko Craig Fellowship in Japanese Studies.