2006-2007 ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES STUDENT WINNERS

Boit Manuscript Prize

Category: Drama
1st prize: Mei-Hsin Cheng '09, biology, Fredericksburg, VA - for Nerds and the City

Category: Essay
1st prize: Han Zhu '09, biological engineering, Canton, MI - for Memories of a Chinese-American
2nd prize: Jiao Wang '08, chemical-biological engineering and writing, Bronx, NY - for Transplanted: Eastern Sprout, Western Tree

Category: Fiction
1st prize: Minah Shahbaz '09, chemical engineering, Lahore, Pakistan - for "Of Hope and Beyond"
2nd prize: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Majd (Excerpt of a novel in progress)
Honorable Mention: Michael Obilade '08, brain and cognitive sciences, Owensboro, KY - for Soup, City, Well, Salt

Category: Poetry
1st prize: Dan Levine '08, aeronautics and astronautics, Boca Raton, FL - for Arena
2nd prize: Lisa Wang '09, chemical engineering, San Jose, CA - for The Persistence of Memory
Honorable Mention: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Epic of the Tiger Empress

 
Ellen King Prize for Freshman Writing

1st prize for essay: Marguerite Siboni '10, mechanical engineering - for Relatively Old
2nd prize for essay: Sarah Dupuis-Kornreich '10, writing - for L'amour C'est Comme Une Cigarette
Honorable Mention for essay: Jasmin Figueroa '10, chemical engineering - for Made in America

 
Enterprise Poets Prize in Imagining a Future

1st prize: Nancy Hua '07, mathematics and writing, Pittsburgh, PA - for People You Never Meet Again
2nd prize: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Sky Dreams

 
Prize for Writing Science Fiction

1st prize: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Kimi
2nd prize: Zachary Wissner-Gross, '07, physics and biology, New Hyde Park, NY - for The Modern League
Honorable Mention: Madeleine Sheldon-Dante '07, physics, Penn Valley, PA - for The Birds, the Bees, and the Breyers

 
The Robert A. Boit Writing Prize

Category: Essay
1st prize: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Reflections on Home
1st prize: Anna Wexler '07, brain and cognitive sciences - for Lights Out, New York
2nd prize: Matthew Petersen '09, aeronautics and astronautics, Summit, NJ - for About Time
3rd prize: Kaitlin Kamrowski '08, brain and cognitive sciences, Garden City, NY - for On How Love Floats Us and Sinks Us, Propels Us Forward and Holds Us Back
Honorable Mention: Joel Yuen '07, chemistry and mathematics, Mexico City, Mexico - for The Departures of Ramón

Category: Poetry
1st prize: Zachary Smith '08, biology, Brewster, MA - for There Are Holes in Everything
2nd prize: Samantha Weiss '08, chemical engineering, Lincoln, RI - for Reflections
3rd prize: Nancy Hua '07, mathematics and writing, Canton, MI - for Home and Away
Honorable Mention: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for First Things

Category: Short Story
1st prize: Nadja Oertelt '07, brain and cognitive sciences - for The Blue House
2nd prize: Joao Paulo Mattos Almeida '08, chemical biological engineering, West Harrison, NY - for Moment
3rd prize: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Ghosts on the Web
Honorable Mention: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Worlds Apart

 
S. Klein Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing

1st prize: Karen Lingyun Chu '08, EECS and mechanical engineering, State College, PA
- for Rhyming in Mandarin Chinese: A Study Based on Popular Song Lyrics
2nd prize: Raj Singh Graduate, Linguistics and Philosophy - for On the Optimal Design of Human Communication
Honorable Mention: William Buttinger '08, physics - for Verilog Implementation of a Digital Traffic-Light Controller
with User-Modifiable Timing Parameters

 
DeWitt Wallace Prize for Science Writing for the Public

1st prize: Derrick S. Boone, Jr. '08, chemical engineering, Clemmons, NC - for Quanta from Heaven
2nd prize: Anna Wexler '07, brain and cognitive sciences and writing - for From Neurons to Neighborhoods: Profile of a Salesman

 
Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies Prize for Engineering Writing

1st prize: Jonathan M. Long '08, EECS, San Antonio, TX - for A Programmable Traffic Light Controller