President’s Writing Awards 2009 Winners
April 06, 2009
The Committee for the President’s Writing Awards is pleased to announce the 2009 winners. We would like to thank everyone who encouraged students to enter and to all of the volunteers who helped judge the entries.
Personal Essay
1st Place: Bernice Olivas
“The House of Mirrors:
Perception, Point of View, and the Personal Essay”
2nd Place: Cody Cornwall
“Suffer for Your Craft”
Critical Analysis
1st Place: George Fenton
“Twenty Bucks Says He’s
Bluffing”
2nd Place: Allison Wall
“The Sun is But a Morning Star”
Research-Based
1st Place: Anile Nina
“International Students
Awareness and Use of Counseling Services”
2nd Place: Phillip Price
“Appropriating History: Hugo
Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution”
First Year Writing
1st Place: Bryan Grasmick
“The Illusion of Power”
2nd Place: Kyley Trausch
“Breast Cancer Ethnography”
Multilingual First Year Writing
1st Place: Mingzi Cui
“Creating My Life with Both
Hands”
2nd Place: Eunwook Chang
“How Can I Teach to Get Them?”
Writing in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
1st Place: Richard Cox
“The Use of Hammett Values in
the Modeling of Oxidative Potential Shift in Substituted Thiophenes and the Thermodynamic Connection”
2nd Place: Andrew Weigel
“Soil Water Repellency and
Ground Cover Effects on Runoff and Erosion in Response to Prescribed burning of a Steeply-Sloped Sagebrush Hill Slope