1999 - 2000
ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES
THE BOIT MANUSCRIPT PRIZE
Category: Drama
First Place: 'Sandcastles; Empty' by Thomas Cork, from Cambridge, Massachusetts - a Senior in Theater Arts and Chemistry.
Second Place: 'Even the Cha-Cha' by Debora Lui from Great Neck, New York - a Sophomore in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Honorable Mention: 'Museum' by Sarah G. Gensheimer, from Wharton, New Jersey - a Senior in Chemical Engineering.
Category: Essay
First Place: 'The Last Road to Boston' by Yanni Kosta Tsipis, from Cambridge, Massachusetts - a Junior in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning.
Category: Fiction
First Place: 'The Green Sunrise and other stories' by Soyoung Jung - a Senior in Materials Science and Engineering.
Category: Poetry
First Place: 'Lilikoi' by Moana Minton, from Cambridge, Massachusetts - a Junior in Writing.
Second Place: 'Inside Pandora's Box' by Rodin O. Entchev, from Brookline Massachusetts - a Sophomore in Aero/Astro.
THE DEWITT WALLACE PRIZE FOR SCIENCE WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC
First Place: 'Suppose You Were in Hell: A Paper on Infinite Sets' by Candice Shizu Kamachi - a Senior in Mathematics.
Second Place: 'Message in a Bottle' by Sanmidh Chakrabarti, a Junior in Civil and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Honorable Mention: 'I Shall Please' by Paul Peng - a Freshman in Chemistry.
THE ELLEN KING PRIZE FOR FRESHMAN WRITING
First Place: 'Refugee' by Margaret Douglass - a Freshman in Biology.
THE LOUIS KAMPF PRIZE IN WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES
First Place: 'Ordinary' by Rebecca Loh - a Junior in Brain & Cognitive Sciences.
Second Place: 'The Shadow Woman: Who is Mary Gordon? A Discussion on an Author's Feminist Identity' by Megan Galbraith - a Junior in Mathematics and Computer Science
THE PRIZE FOR WRITING SCIENCE FICTION
First Place: 'Seed's Day' by Kris Schnee, from York, Pennsylvania - a Senior in Biology.
Second Place: 'Childcare Providers' by Clifton Leigh, from Brookline, Massachusetts - a Senior in Chemistry.
Honorable Mention: 'Broken' by Anthony Julian - a Senior in Writing.
THE ROBERT A. BOIT WRITING PRIZE
Category: Essay
First Place: 'The Traitor' by Albert Chan, from Syracuse, New York - a Junior in Mechanical Engineering.
Second Place: 'Islam and Islamic Geometric Art' by Carl Steinbach from Sudbury Massachusetts - a Junior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Third Place: 'Developing Haiti' by Sanjay Basu - a Sophomore in Brain & Cognitive Sciences.
Honorable Mention: 'Should We Allow the Sale of Transplantable Organs?' by Ying Zhang - a Senior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Category: Poetry
First Place: 'Freestyle' by Talia Kingsbury, from Sierra Vista, Arizona - a Senior in Mechanical Engineering.
Second Place: 'Ronen' by Hilarie C. Tomasiewicz, from Milford, Connecticut - a Junior in Buiology.
Third Place: 'Salt, Clay and Polymers' by Soyoung Jung - a Senior in Materials Science and Engineering.
Honorable Mention: 'Tender Works' by Helen Lee - a Senior in Architecture.
Category: Short Story
First Place: 'Winters' by Ehren Foss - a Sophomore in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Second Place: 'Integrity' by Kris Schnee, from York, PA - a Sophomore in Biology.
Third Place: 'To Chopped-Up Frogs' by Jennifer K. Son - a Sophomore in Biology.
Honorable Mention: (tie)
'Coming Around' by Talia Kingsbury, from Sierra Vista, Arizona - a Senior in Mechanical Engineering and
'Ladybug' by Robert P. Ziemian, from Westwood, Massachusetts - a Senior in Environmental Engineering.
THE S. KLEIN PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WRITING
First Place: 'Curtailing Tobacco's Global Threat' by Jason H. Wasfy, from Great Falls, Virginia - a Junior in Chemical Engineering.
Second Place: 'Randomized Vertex Cover' by Abraham Flaxman, a Senior in Mathematics.
THE WHS PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING WRITING
First Place: 'Modeling of Drag Reduction by Polymers in Crude Oil Pipelines: Effect of Injection and Mixing of the Polymeric Additive' by Sarah G. Gensheimer from Wharton, NJ - a Senior in Chemical Engineering.
Second Place: 'Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging: A Review of Non-Invasive Techniques to Observe Mechanical Characteristics of Biological Tissues' by Sripriya Natarajan - a Senior in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
