2002-2003 ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES STUDENT WINNERS

The Boit Manuscript Prize

Category: Drama
1st Prize: Daniel Katz, a Senior in Mathematics and Theater Arts - for Three Struggles
2nd Prize: Kaia Dekker, a Freshman in Physics - for Enchantment
Honorable Mention: Max Goldman, a Junior in Mathematics - for Surface of the Water

Category: Essay
1st Prize: Jolene Singh, a Sophomore in Biology - for Tales of Toast and Tea
1st Prize: Jeffrey D. LeBlanc, a Senior in Mathematics - for A Journey Through China
2nd Prize: Margaret Shyr, a Senior in Chemical Engineering - for Don't Throw Away Face
Honorable Mention: Marissa Raymond, a Senior in Brain and Cognitive Science -
for An Exercise in Fortitude

Category: Poetry
1st Prize: Arthus Musah, a Junior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -
for The Orange Sun Captured Inside the Mango

 
Dewitt Wallace Prize for Scientific Writing for the Public

1st Prize: Nnennia Ejebe, a Junior in Chemical Engineering - for As Prescribed on T V
2nd Prize: Marissa Raymond, a Senior in Brain and Cognitive Science - for Misconceptions
of the Mexican American Family - A Case of the Misuse of Cultural Competency

Ellen King Prize for Freshman Writing

1st Prize for short story: Kaya Shah, a Freshman in Architecture and Physics - for Monkeys Upstairs
2nd Prize for essay: Alma E. Rico, a Freshman in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences - for AmeXican
Honorable Mention for essay: Brian Goodness, a Freshman in Economics - for Behind The Beauty
Honorable Mention for drama: Ingrid E.B. Lawhorn - for The Women's Room

 
Prize for Writing Science Fiction

1st Prize: Wendy Cook, a Senior in Engineering - for How to Become a Galaxy Class Poker Professional
2nd Prize: Burhanuddin A. Baki, a Senior in Mathematics - for Heaven, Hell, and Love: A Parable
Honorable Mention:  Alison Klesman, a Senior in Physics - for Beta

 
The Robert A. Boit Writing Prize

Category: Essay
1st Prize: Deborah Pan, a Senior in Chemistry - for Grandma's Story
2nd Prize: Ruimin He, a Junior in Electrical Engineering - for Mosquito
3rd Prize: Amy Fisher, a Sophomore in Brain and Cognitive Science - for present absence
Honorable Mention: Michael Wongchaow art, a Junior in Biology - for Small Friends

Category: Poetry
1st Prize: Daria Lymar, a Senior in Electrical Engineering - for Staying the Night
2nd Prize: Sarah Shin, a Junior in Architecture and Urban Planning - for Identity
3rd Prize: Anna Kuperstein, a Sophomore in Writing and Mathematics - for In Search Of

Category: Short Story
1st Prize: Michelle A. Naderman, a Junior in Mathematics - for Outliving Liz
2nd Prize: Arthur Musah, a Junior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - for ACCRA
3rd Prize: Burhanuddin A. Baki, a Senior in Mathematics - for Short Story about Fire
Honorable Mention: Amy Fisher, a Sophomore in Brain and Cognitive Science - for pieces

 
S. Klein Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing

1st Prize: Sameer Shah, a Senior in Science, Technology and Society and Mathematics -
for Biosociality & Usenet: A Dialogue of Cyberculture
2nd Prize: Derrick Carpenter, a Junior in Mathematics and Computer Science -
for Studies on the Causes of Homosexuality and Their Influences on Gay and Lesbian Law
Honorable Mention: Alexis Dieter, a Senior in Brain and Cognitive Sciences - for Mechanisms of Learning and
Memory: Involvement of the Primary and Supplemental Motor Cortexes, the Cerebellum and REM Sleep in Motor Learning

 
Writing and Humanistic Prize for Engineering Writing

1st Prize: Luxiou Chen, a Senior in Computer Science - for Program Management - for Small Embedded Hardware
2nd Prize: Aadel Chaudhuri and Ragunath Vijaykumar, both Seniors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -
for Frequency and Behaviour of Action Potentials in Response to a Long Duration Membrane Current in the
Hodgkin-Huxley Model
Honorable Mention: Margaux Daly, a Senior in Chemical Engineering - for Verification of a Correlation Between
Total Resistance to Heat Transfer and Flow Rate in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger

 
Vera List Prize for Visual Arts

1st Prize: John Wallach, a Senior in Chemistry - for Artistic Vision as the Key to Kafka's The Trial And Woolf's To The Lighthouse
2nd Prize: Evan Pruitt, a Sophomore in Architecture - for Transcending Time