2008-2009 ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES STUDENT WINNERS

THE BOIT MANUSCRIPT PRIZE

Category: Drama
First Prize - Anneke Schwob '10, Humanities and Science, for Waiting Room
Second Prize - Long Lam '10, Mechanical Engineering, for Old Friend(s)
Honorable Mention - Jonathan Sue-Ho '09, Mechanical Engineering and Theater Arts, for Pirate vs Ninja

Category: Essay
First Prize - Jason E. Douglas '11, Materials Science and Engineering, for Who Am I: Essays in Quest of Identity
First Prize - Marguerite Siboni '10, Mechanical Engineering, for Inheritance

Category: Fiction
First Prize - Lindsay Johnson '11, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, for (There is) More Than the End
Second Prize - Minah Shahbaz '09, Chemical Engineering, for Limited Focus
Honorable Mention - Susan Shepherd '11, Biology, for A Study in Prudence
Honorable Mention - Anna Waldman-Brown '11, Physics, for The Curious Travels of Mira’s Elder Brother

Category: Poetry
First Prize - Renee Reder '10, Architecture, for La Roue de Paris
Second Prize - Seohyung Kim '10, Mathematics, for The Build-up: Writing on the margins
Honorable Mention - Sarah Campbell Proehi '09, Chemistry for Men in My Life, As of Late

DEWITT WALLACE PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC

First Prize - Matthew Meisner '11, Biology, for Pesticides: An American Tragedy
First Prize - Fangfei Shen '11, Physics, for The Biggest of the Particle Colliders – but the Baddest?
Second Prize - Anneke Schwob '10, Humanities and Science, for Engineering a Save
Honorable Mention - Chris Kennedy '10, Chemistry, for A Journey Through Darkness

ELLEN KING PRIZE FOR FRESHMAN WRITING

First Prize - Kelechi Nwosu '12, Undecided, for the essay Zero Beach
Second Prize - Aimee Harrison, '12, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, for the essay Chaos and Control
Honorable Mention - Jessica Lin '12, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, for the essay Third Eye

ENTERPRISE POETS PRIZE IN IMAGINING A FUTURE

First Prize - Tony Hyun Kim 09, Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Nevada Sanchez '10,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, for Video Acquisition Multi-touch Controller
Second Prize - Anna Waldman Brown '11, Physics, for Punctuality

PRIZE FOR WRITING SCIENCE FICTION

First Prize - Gillian Conohan '10, Humanities and Science, for Shroud of Sand
Second Prize - Susan Shepherd '11, Biology, for First Contact
Honorable Mention - Natania Antler '09, Physics, for Heavy, Man

ROBERT A. BOIT WRITING PRIZE

Category: Essay
First Prize - Marguerite Siboni '10, Mechanical Engineering, for Virginity Revisited
Second Prize - Kristin Uhmeyer '09, Aeronautics and Astronautics, for Playing with Matches
Second Prize - Cristen Blair Chinea '10, Architecture, for In Loisaida

Category: Poetry
First Prize - Sarah Campbell Proehl '09, Chemistry, for Fourteen Months
Second Prize - Liz Hanson '11, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, for Seven Days for Dan
Third Prize - Alexandra Corella '10, Biology, for A Day at the Beach

Category: Short Story
First Prize - Seohyung Kim '10, Mathematics, for Overdose
Second Prize - Anneke Schwob '10, Humanities and Science, for Lost Cause
Third Prize - Renee Reder '10, Architecture, for Blue-Gray

S. KLEIN PRIZE FOR WRITING

Category: Science Writing
First Prize - Genevieve Wanucha Graduate, Science Writing, for The Clearest Mirror: The Science of Laughing and Crying
Second Prize - Yuri Hanada '10, Biology, for Turning Off the Metastatic Switch

Category: Technical Writing
Second Prize - Tony Hyun Kim '09, Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for An Iterative Technique for
Solving the N-electron Hamiltonian: The Hartree-Fork Method
Second Prize - Annick Aubin Pouliot '09, Brain & Cognitive Science, for Polymerization Activity and Fidelity of H137C Pfu
DNA Polymerase

    
WHS PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING WRITING

First Prize - Clara Yuan '09, Biology, for Production of 2,3-butanediol in Escherichia coli
Second Prize - Eric Dow and Garrett Robinson, both '09, Aeronautics and Astronautics, for A Wing-Sail Array for
Tanker Applications
 Honorable Mention - Katrina Westerhof '10, Chemical Engineering, for Surface Modification of Quantum Dots for
 Tissue Targeting in Drug Delivery and Medical Imaging

VERA LIST PRIZE FOR WRITING ON VISUAL ARTS

First Prize - Seohyung Kim '10, Mathematics, for Imagining a Modern Community in Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading The People”
Second Prize - George Hansel '12, Undecided, for Nondeterminism and Self-Reference: a Fundamental Construct of Modernism