Yale-Bound Achutha Raman Shines At D-S Senior Awards Night

Parents and faculty gathered at the Dover-Sherborn Regional High School Lindquist Commons auditorium last night to honor the hardest working students at the school.

Dover-Sheborn High School’s very own Renaissance Man, Achutha Raman, took home top honors; the National Merit Award, U.S. Presidential Scholar Award, Principal’s Leadership Award, English, French and Biology and other scholarships and community based awards. 

Dover-Sherborn Regional High School headmaster Denise Lonergan said when presenting three of the awards to Raman: “He is in the top one percent,” of students in the nation and said it was “no surprise,” when she handed him his second award, and upon handing Achutha his third award, she said, “I don’t know what more I can say about him.”

Raman is taking some time off before he heads to Yale University in the fall of 2012. He plans to stay in the area in order to finish his novel and then will head off to teach in France.

He has also been spending the past four years working on an epigenetics project, a field of research that examines the effect of the environment on one’s genes and their descendants.

Throughout the night students were congratulated by teachers, leaders of the community and families with scholarships in memorium of academic and community minded loved ones. 

Afterwards parents, students and teachers gathered in the lobby of Lindquist Commons for refreshments.