Knight Prize & Award Winners 2022

Congratulations, 2022 prize and award winners!

 

SPRING 2022 AWARDS:

The Adelphic Award went to Anthony Huang for “The Grandeur of Obedience.” Honorable mention went to Zhu Liu for “Danimals Saving Animals? Yogurt Save Rhinos from Extinction!”

The Writing in the Majors Prize went to Natalia Pineros-Guerrero for “Estimating the Efficacy of Home Remedies to Control Fall Armyworm.” Honorable mention went to Sarah Kebaish for “Mango Bait for Nature’s Bloodsuckers: Anopheles Mosquitoes.”

The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Jackson Feldman for “The Great Depression and Floridian Tourism: Becoming the Sunshine State” and Ria Panchal for “The Meaning of Meaninglessness.” Honorable mention went to Sasha Smalls for “Error 404.”

The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Eunice Kang, student, and Bonnie Chung, instructor, for “Naked Desire.”

The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Wanheng Hu for “The Politics of ‘Autonomous Vehicles’: A Collaborative Research Project Responding to a CFP.” Honorable mention went to Joseph Lasky for “Research Proposal Sequence.”

The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Ria Panchal for “Are We Ready to Revisit Public Housing?”

 

FALL 2022 AWARDS

The Adelphic Award went to Wilson Kan for “The Egalitarian Debate of Immigration.”

The Spencer Portfolio Award for Students and Instructors was awarded to Skylar Bush, student, and Ksenia Pavlenko, instructor, for “Exploration in Female Portraiture in Photography.” Honorable mention was awarded to Daniel Merrell, student, and Kun Huang, instructor, for “Daniel Merrell Writing Portfolio.”

The Writing in the Majors Prize honorable mention went to Hannah Pryor for “Natural Selection and Speciation across Divergent Populations of the Yellow-rumped Warbler.”

The James E. Rice Prizes were awarded to Allison Kwon for “The Queerness of Living as an Asian-American” and Kevin Liu for “The Ineluctable Shortcomings of Retributivism.”

The Elmer Markham Johnson Prize went to Lisa Li for “Justice and Power: A Flawed System.”

The Gertrude Spencer Prize for Students and Instructors was awarded to Kate Thorpe, student, and Rachel Horner, instructor, for “Dissolution and Discovery at my First Apple-Fest in Ithaca.” 

The James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize was awarded to Stephanie Sang for “Assignment Sequence for The Braided Essay.” Honorable mentions went to Valerie Bambha for “Playing to Learn Assignment Sequence to Establish Writing Skills for the Social Sciences” and Michael Kowalski for “Positive Sustainability: Building the Conversation.”

The Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship was awarded to Kristie LeBeau for “Who Decides? Decision Making in the US Education System.” Honorable mentions went to Alexandra Cooperstock for “Education in the United States: Engines of Inequality, Ladders for Opportunity, and Striving for Change” and Stephen Fodroczi for “Ancient Underworlds, Fresh Hells.”

The Neil Lubow Prize was awarded to Jasmine Gill for “Celebrating Sin: The Myth of Medusa and its Rose-Tinted Lens” and Ty Oshima for “Twilight Swim: The Shinnecock Indian and the Blonde Hamptonite.”

The John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Handouts went to Rachel Horner for “Showing and Telling.”

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