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Fernando Avíles-García won the inaugural Lucio Caputo Senior Thesis Prize “for an outstanding thesis on the literature, language, culture, economy, history, politics or society of Italy.” He grew up bilingual in English and Spanish, and he fell in love with Italian during summers in Sicily.