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2001-2002 ILONA KARMEL WRITING PRIZES Photographs of Awards Dinner Category Place Title of Submission Student Name/From Class THE BOIT MANUSCRIPT PRIZE Essay Second Life Lessons Jenny Lin Senior Biology Second Z: Salvucci's Charles River Crossing Tamam Mango Junior Urban Studies and Planning Management Fiction Second Sylva Kelly Clancy Senior Physics Honorable Mention Suspended Fourth Blake Stacey Freshman Physics Poetry First Catch Moana Minton Senior Writing THE DEWITT PRIZE FOR SCIENCE WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC First X-Ray Vision: The Mirrors of the Chandra Telescope Samidh Chakrabarti Freshman Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Sciences First How I See the World Winnie Yang Senior Humanities and Engineering Honorable Mention Computer Vision - Not Just a Summer Project Elizabeth Rouse Senior Brain & Cognitive Sciences THE ELLEN KING PRIZE FOR FRESHMAN WRITING Essay First My Grandmother's Tears Jolene Singh Freshman Biology Second Politics and the Misuse of Religion Anna Kuperstein Freshman Mathematics- Honorable Mention Tightening the Knot Flora Amwayi Freshman Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honorable Mention The Growing Impersonality of Communication Stephen Lee Freshman Electrical Engineering and Computer Science THE PRIZE FOR WRITING SCIENCE FICTION First Akujunkan Alison Klesman Junior Physics Second Rodney Jovan Hsu Junior Economics Honorable Mention Blue Prophet and Out Of the Blue Kris Schnee Senior History and Architecture Honorable Mention Papyrus Fragment 497728, Newly Translated Blake Stacey Freshman Physics THE ROBERT A. BOIT WRITING PRIZE Essay First Move Jeffrey Dumas LeBlanc Junior Mathematics Second On Waking Kevin R. Lang Senior Mechanical Engineering Third Where Are You Going To? Jose C. Rivera Senior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honorable Mention Daddy's Girl Jovonne J. Bickerstaff Senior Urban Studies and Planning and Writing Poetry First Poison Ivy, Untitled, Dating Services in Arlington Amanda Bligh Senior Mechanical Engineering Second Chronicles of Maturity's Cost Aaron Parness Sophomore Mechanical Engineering Third Sizing it Up Allison Lewis Sophomore Writing Honorable Mention Within these Restrictions Hanyin Lin Senior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Short Story First Missing Daddy Jovonne J. Bickerstaff Senior Urban Studies and Planning and Writing Second The Gate Osman M. Bakr Junior Materials Science and Engineering Third Bread Nathaniel K. Choge Senior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honorable Mention Substitute Teacher Chris Kelly Senior Mathematics Honorable Mention art school Rachel Dillon Sophomore Writing THE S. KLEIN PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WRITING First Cause of Death of Cholinergic Neurons in Alzheimer's Disease Danielle Guez Junior Brain & Cognitive Sciences THE VERA LIST PRIZE FOR WRITING ON THE VISUAL ARTS First Chiaroscuro Effects Tina Lin Senior Architecture THE WRITING AND HUMANISTIC STUDIES PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING WRITING First Techniques for Speeding Web Access in the Developing World Samidh Chakrabarti Junior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Science Second Isolation and Sharing with Segments Marion Jones Junior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honorable Mention Soap Bubbles and Films Carlos Gomez-Uribe Senior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics

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