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Student Writing Excellence Award Winners

The Writing Across the Curriculum Committee would like to recognize and congratulate all the winners of the 2011 undergraduate student writing awards (alphabetical by name of department/school/program).  For past winners, click here.

For more information about the goals and history of the Student Writing Excellence Awards, as well as information about how to institute awards in your department, click here.

 

Anthropology

Thomas Rhys Williams Award for Outstanding Anthropology Honors Thesis

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Young Park

Art History

Osher LIfelong Learning Institute Award for Excellence in Art Historical Writing

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Meredith Parnes

Art and Visual Technology

Senior Design Project Writing Award

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Ayn Roberts

AVT 395 Writing Intensive Course Writing Award

  • Kirsten Balaban and Ekaterina Khvostova

Bachelor of Individualized Study

Outstanding Research Proposal Award

  • Miyuki Nies

Biology

Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Scott Dean, Samantha Oester, and Eric Schiffhauer

Communication

Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Alexandra Ramage

Computer Science

Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Mary Greer and Jonathan McMahon

College of Health and Human Services

CHHS Excellence in Writing Award

  • Health Administration and Policy:  Ribaha Farooq
  • Global and Community Health: Danielle M. Gatling
  • Nursing:  Jeanna M. Hale
  • Social Work: Sagan L. Jones

Criminology, Law and Society (formerly Administration of Justice)

Writing Excellence Award

Outstanding Paper Award

  • Christina Lee Lauderdale

Economics

The James Buchanan Award

      • Liya Palagashvili (1st place), Christopher Sheekey (2nd place), Madeline Eldridge (honorable mention)

The F. A. Hayek Award

      • Joseph Ward (1st place), Meg Patrick (2nd place), Vu Dinh (honorable mention)

The Vernon Smith Award

      • Sean Malone (1st place), Youyou Zhang (2nd place), Husaina Baraya (honorable mention)

English

Outstanding Honors Thesis

  • Courtney O'Brien and Blake Silver

History

Winslow Hatch Award

  • Megan A. Fowler

Philosophy

Writing Prize in Philosophy

  • Eric Reynolds

Physics

PHYS 407 Writing Award

  • Etienne Rouly

Psychology

Dept. of Psychology Excellence in Writing Award

  • Matthew R. Caputo and Tania M. Moreno
 

School of Management

SOM 301 Writing Award

  • Evelyn Bussmann, Aaron Funkhouser, Nataliya Olson, and Anna Singh
School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism

RHT Excellence in Writing Award

  • Sarah Frye

Spanish

Excellence in Writing in the Major

  • Rosalila Mastriano

Systems Engineering

Excellence in Undergraduate Writing

  • Angela N. Leese

Theater

Award for Excellence in Writing for Theater

  • Miranda R. Rawson
 

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