2004-2005 ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES STUDENT WINNERS

Boit Manuscript Prize

Category: Essay
1st prize: Anna Wexler '07, brain and cognitive scienses, Fair Lawn, NJ - for (Ad)Ventures: Essays on Travel
2nd prize: Matthew R,. Burns 05, writing, Duxbury, MA - for More Than Words: A Biography of Daniel Francis Burns
Honorable Mention: Jiji Gu 07, materials science and engineering, Syosset, NY - for Closer: Natural
Selection and the Invisible Hand

Category: Fiction
1st prize: Adora Asala 04, writing, Nigeria, Africa - for Omi (novella in progress)
2nd prize: Caroline Fu '05, biology, Stafford, TX - for Truth in Chile Verde and Almond M&Ms, and other short stories
Honorable Mention: Grace Lin 05, biology, Beverly, Hills, CA - for Daughters and Sons: A Collection

Dewitt Wallace Prize for Scientific Writing for the Public
1st prize: Uta Maeda '07, brain and cognitive sciences, Bel Aire, KS - for A Pill a Day Keeps Forgetfulness Away
2nd prize: Benjamin Lee '07, biology, Cupertino, CA - for Discovering Newton
Honorable Mention: Yin Ren '06, electrical engineering and computer science, Windsor, ON, Canada - for
Designer Babies: Marvel or Mistake?

Ellen King Prize for Freshman Writing
2nd prize for short story: Mary-Irene Lang '08, Physics, Los Altos Hills, CA - for At a Desk
2nd prize for essay: Emilie “Jaime” T. Heffernan ’08 - for The One Beneath
Honorable Mention for essay: Nivair H. Gabriel '08, Pittsburg, PA - for Confirmation of Faith
 

Writing Science Fiction
1st prize: Madeliene Sheldon-Dante '07, physics, Penn Valley, PA - for Astep
2nd prize: Elizabeth Zellner '06, materials science and engineering, Fayettteville, NC - My Boyfriend's Back...
Honorable Mention: Christopher Walsh '05, brain and cognitive sciences, Saratoga Springs, NY - Deputy
 

The Robert A. Boit Writing Prize

Category: Essay
1st prize: Anna D. Bergren '05, mathematics, Laurel, MD - for Throwing punches and cutting deals:
saving Boston's CITGO sign
2nd prize: Matthew R. Burns '05, writing, Duxbury, MA - for Grace
2nd prize: Jessica Young '06, writing, Pleasantville, NY - for Seeing the Big Picture
3rd prize: Victoria Y. Fan '06, mechanical engineering, Honolulu, HI - for Care and Hope for the Dying
3rd prize: Theresa Shyr '05, biology, Lafayette, LA - for Wearing the Pants

Category: Poetry
1st prize: Jessica Young '06, writing, Pleasantville, NY - for Days Go By
2nd prize: Nadezhda Belova '05, brain and cognitive sciences, Brooklyn, NY - for Unrelated
3rd prize: Matthew Burns '05, writing, Duxbury, MA - for Never Barren

Category: Short Story
1st prize: Jocelyn Rodal '06, literature, Davidson, NC - for Clementine
2nd prize: Adora Asala '04, writing, Nigeria, Africa - for An Experiment with the Female Anopheles Mosquito
3rd prize: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Learning to Breathe Under Water
Honorable Mention: Anita Kris '06, materials science and engineering, Merced, CA - for Dangerous Heights

S. Klein Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing

1st prize: Ying (Jean) Zheng '06, mechanical engineering, Ann Arbor, MI - for Optimizing Proximity
Heating Parameters of Silicon Wafers
2nd prize: Shauna Mei '04, management, Bellevue, WA and Craig Rothman '05, electrical engineering and
computer science and biology, King of Prussia, PA - for Diffusivity as a Function of pH for an Uncharged Solute
Honorable Mention: David M. Foxe, First Year Graduate Student, Architecture, Sussex, WI - for Construction and
Change in the Structures of Romanesque Churches in the Bourbonnais
Honorable Mention: Stephen Lee '05, biology, Pittsburg, PA - for RHG expression and interaction with DIAP 1
in apopotosis of drosophilia S2 cells

Writing and Humanistic Prize for Engineering Writing
1st prize: Ragu Vijaykumar '05, electrical engineering and computer science, Pittsburg, PA - for Microencapsulation
of Mineral Oil with Gelatin-Acacia
2nd prize: Muyinatu Lediju '06, mechanical engineering, Brooklyn, NY - for Identifying Unlabeled Containers Using
Sound Velocity Measurements