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The Writing Prizes

1998 - 1999
ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES

THE BOIT MANUSCRIPT PRIZE
Category: Drama
First Place: 'CONVERSE' by Viengvilay Oudonesom, from Houston, Texas - a Senior in Aero/Astro and Writing.

Category: Essay
First Place: 'MONUMENTAL SACRIFICE: THE DESTRUCTION OF PENNSYLVANIA STATION AND THE CREATION OF NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS' by Eric J. Plosky, from Syosset, New York - a Senior in Urban Planning.
Second Place: 'MISS HAVISHAM AND THE UNDERGROUND MAN' by Jennifer Zhou, from Houston, Texas - a Senior in Biology and Literature.
Honorable Mention: 'CONTEMPORARY FIRES' by Joaquin Sebastian Terrones, from Canada - a Senior in Literature.

Category: Fiction
Honorable Mention:
(tie)
'THEN, THAT, US' by Mark Meier, from Carlisle, PA - a Senior in Foreign Languages
'IN SEARCH OF THE MISHELLEY MAHACHUCK' by Dennis J. Evangelista (author), from Freehold, NJ - a Senior in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Rigel Stuhmiller (illustrator), from Rancho Santa Fe, California - a Senior in Architecture.

THE DEWITT WALLACE PRIZE FOR SCIENCE WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC
First Place: 'CONTROLLING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH' by Orli G. Bahcall, from Princeton, NJ - a Senior in Biology.
Second Place: 'THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON LAMBICS' by David Ratliff, from Rutland, MA - a Senior in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Honorable Mention: 'THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE' by David J. Hamby, from Cambridge, MA - a Senior in Architecture.

THE ELLEN KING PRIZE FOR FRESHMAN WRITING
First Place: 'LEARNING TO LISTEN' by Chia-Hao La, from Ridgefield Park, NJ - a Freshman in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Second Place: 'MOB JUSTICE' by Nathaniel K. Choge, from Kenya, Africa - a Freshman in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

THE PRIZE FOR WRITING SCIENCE FICTION
First Place: 'SAVIOR' by Michael L. McComas, from Nashua, NH - a Senior in Humanities and Engineering (Writing).
Second Place: 'THE DEATH DUEL' by Chris Deards, from Odessa, Texas - a Senior in Aero/Astro.

THE ROBERT A. BOIT WRITING PRIZE
Category: Essay
First Place: 'SPRING HILL' by Jennifer Burns, from Boston, MA - a Junior in Urban Studies and Planning.
Second Place: 'WHAT MY FATHER SAID AND WHAT I HEARD' and 'PRUNING' by David Hu, from Rockville, MD - a Sophomore in Mechanical Engineering.
Third Place: (tie)
'BUILDING A DECK' by Dennis J. Evangelista, from Freehold, NJ - a Senior in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
'SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: WHY STRONGER SCIENCE CAN'T REPLACE POLITICS IN POLICYMAKING' by Priya Narasimhan, from Flemington, NJ - a Sophomore in Mathematics.

Category: Poetry
First Place:
'INDEPENDENCE, IOWA' by Anna Dirks, from Boston, MA - a Senior in Humanities and Engienering (Writing).
Second Place: 'COLLECTED NERD LOVE SONGS' by Dennis J. Evangelista, from Freehold, NJ - a Senior in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
Third Place: 'VIEW FROM HERE' by Perkin Shiu, from Menlo Park, CA - a Senior in Biology and Literature.
Honorable Mention: 'LES FEUILLES MORTES' by Joaquin Sebastian Terrones, from Canada - a Senior in Literature.

Category: Short Story
First Place: 'SEEDS' by Anna Dirks, from Boston, MA - a Senior in Humanities and Engineering (Writing).
Second Place: 'COYOTE MORNING' by Brett McKenzie Winton, from Durham, NC - a Sophomore in Mechanical Engineering and Writing.
Third Place: 'MONI' by Nabeela Alam, from Bangladesh - a Sophomore in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Honorable Mention: (tie)
'A WIND IN MONTANA' by Michael L. McComas, from Nashua, NH - a Senior in Humanities and Engineering (Writing)
'HOW IT FEELS TO BREAK SOMETHING' by Alison Wood, from Loundonville, NY - a Sophomore in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

THE S. KLEIN PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WRITING
First Place: 'HOMOCYSTEINE AND ITS ROLE IN VASCULAR DISEASE' by Alice Wang, from Cambridge, MA - a Junior in Chemistry.

THE WHS PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING WRITING
First Place: 'LAYER WAVINESS IN S2/8552 THICK TAPER LAMINATE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES' by Scott Lieberman, from Cambridge, MA - a Junior in Materials Science and Engineering.
Second Place: 'DESIGN OF AN AUTOMATED WEB SERVER REPLICA SYSTEM' by Gaurav Tewari, from India - a Junior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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