Tyler Cox of Bainbridge Island was recognized for academic excellence during Bowdoin College’s 21st annual Honors Day.

Honors Day acknowledges the exceptional academic accomplishments of students and faculty, and was held on the academic year’s last day of classes, Wednesday, May 10.

Cox, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2017, received the American Association of Physics Teachers Learning Assistant Prize. Cox is earning a major in physics and a minor in Earth and oceanographic science.

Founded in 1794 in Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin is a highly selective college of approximately 1,800 students of distinction from across America and around the world. Notable alumni include 14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce (class of 1824), writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (both 1825), African-American newspaper editor John Brown Russwurm (1826), Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852), Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary (1877), former Senate Majority Leader, architect of the Ireland peace accord and U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George J. Mitchell (1954), former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (1962) and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979).