We at the James Madison Program are very pleased to announce that Avi Attar '25, one of our superb Undergraduate Fellows, has been named a co-winner of Princeton University's 2025 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize. Established in 1921, the Pyne Prize is awarded to the senior "who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership." It is the highest distinction conferred by Princeton University upon an undergraduate student. Attar is the fourth James Madison Program Undergraduate Fellow to receive the award in the past decade. 

In the University's original announcement, Attar said the Pyne Prize is a “great honor” that serves as a reminder of the opportunities he has been afforded inside and outside the classroom at Princeton.

“Since coming to Princeton, I’ve had a wealth of opportunities, from taking classes with world-class professors and inspiring classmates to extracurricular exploration and travel,” he said. “This prize is a reminder of those opportunities and the professors, classmates and other members of the Princeton community who made them possible.”

Read the full announcement from Princeton University.