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The Writing Prizes

1996 - 1997
ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES

THE LOUIS KAMPF PRIZE IN WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES
First Place: Lily Koo for "Interrupted Beginning"

THE ELLEN KING PRIZE FOR FRESHMAN WRITING

First Place: Russell A. Miller for "Mrs. Beezin's Soul" (Short Story)
Honorable Mention: Helen Lee for "a potpourri" (poetry)

THE BOIT MANUSCRIPT PRIZE
Category: Drama
First Place: Lawrence K. Chang for "Copper Spaghetti"
Second Place: Dena E. Cohen for "Rainy Day Women #12 & 53"

Category: Essay
First Place:
Guang-Ien Cheng for "Experiencing Donne's An Anatomy of the World"

Category of Fiction
Honorable Mention:
Marc Lebovitz for "The Sandman"
Honorable Mention to Anthony Julian for "Apocalypse (Chapters 1-3)"

Category of Poetry
Honorable Mention:
Sripriya Natarajan for "Sketches"

THE ROBERT A. BOIT WRITING PRIZE

Category: Essay
First Place:
Amy Marie Smith for "Weeds and Tea, Skills and Lore"
Second Place: Guang-Ien Cheng for "Factory Smoke and Free Will"
Third Place: A. Arif Husain for "Case File: Aristotle vs The Republic of Plato"

Category of Poetry
First Place:
Geoffrey Warner for "Five Short Poems"
Second Place: Christina L. Kalb for "Modern Medicine"

Category of Short Story
First Place:
Karyn January Cheng for "Permanent"
Second Place: Anthony J. Young-Garner for "Eclipse"
Third Place: Robert Marcato for "The Esposito Treatment"
Honorable Mention: Rigel Stuhmiller for "I ... I"

THE DEWITT WALLACE PRIZE FOR SCIENCE WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC
First Place: Jennifer Murphy for "Love, Hate and Faster Hardware"
Second Place: Christine Chen for "Crohn's Disease"
Honorable Mention: Christina L. Kalb for "Recreating the Charles"
Honorable Mention: Guang-Ien Cheng for "The Catholic Church and Human Evolution"

THE WRITING AND HUMANISTIC STUDIES PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING WRITING
First Place: Federico Bernal for "Approaches toward the Construction of the Ring System in CP-225,917"
Second Place: Jay Sethuraman for "Linear Programming brings Marital Bliss"
Second Place: Jenny Yung Liu for "The Isolation of a Human Homolog C131 of the D. melanogaster white gene"
Honorable Mention: Genevieve Konopka for "Pick's Disease: A comparison with Alzheimer's Disease and normal aging"

THE S. KLEIN PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WRITING
Second Place: Brigette A. Burnell for "Coral Bleaching"

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