On May 10, 2007 the 2006-2007 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes Competition, chaired by Mr. William Corbett, Director of Student Writing Activities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, recognized the writing achievements of 28 students. The winners were chosen from 97 entries by 58 students in the categories of essay, drama, poetry, short story, fiction, science fiction, and scientific and technical writing.
1st prize: Mei-Hsin Cheng '09, biology, Fredericksburg, VA - for Nerds and the City
1st prize: Han Zhu '09, biological engineering, Canton, MI - for Memories of a Chinese-American
2nd prize: Jiao Wang '08, chemical-biological engineering and writing, Bronx, NY - for Transplanted: Eastern Sprout, Western Tree
1st prize: Minah Shahbaz '09, chemical engineering, Lahore, Pakistan - for "Of Hope and Beyond"
2nd prize: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Majd (Excerpt of a novel in progress)
Honorable Mention: Michael Obilade '08, brain and cognitive sciences, Owensboro, KY - for Soup, City, Well, Salt
1st prize: Dan Levine '08, aeronautics and astronautics, Boca Raton, FL - for Arena
2nd prize: Lisa Wang '09, chemical engineering, San Jose, CA - for The Persistence of Memory
Honorable Mention: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Epic of the Tiger Empress
1st prize for essay: Marguerite Siboni '10, mechanical engineering - for Relatively Old
2nd prize for essay: Sarah Dupuis-Kornreich '10, writing - for L'amour C'est Comme Une Cigarette
Honorable Mention for essay: Jasmin Figueroa '10, chemical engineering - for Made in America
1st prize: Nancy Hua '07, mathematics and writing, Pittsburgh, PA - for People You Never Meet Again
2nd prize: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Sky Dreams
1st prize: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Kimi
2nd prize: Zachary Wissner-Gross, '07, physics and biology, New Hyde Park, NY - for The Modern League
Honorable Mention: Madeleine Sheldon-Dante '07, physics, Penn Valley, PA - The Birds, the Bees, and the Breyers
1st prize: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Reflections on Home
1st prize: Anna Wexler '07, brain and cognitive sciences - for Lights Out, New York
2nd prize: Matthew Petersen '09, aeronautics and astronautics, Summit, NJ - for About Time
3rd prize: Kaitlin Kamrowski '08, brain and cognitive sciences, Garden City, NY - for On How Love Floats Us and Sinks Us, Propels Us Forward and Holds Us Back
Honorable Mention: Joel Yuen '07, chemistry and mathematics, Mexico City, Mexico - for The Departures of Ramón
1st prize: Zachary Smith '08, biology, Brewster, MA - for There Are Holes in Everything
2nd prize: Samantha Weiss '08, chemical engineering, Lincoln, RI - for Reflections
3rd prize: Nancy Hua '07, mathematics and writing, Canton, MI - for Home and Away
Honorable Mention: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for First Things
1st prize: Nadja Oertelt '07, brain and cognitive sciences - for The Blue House
2nd prize: Joao Paulo Mattos Almeida '08, chemical biological engineering, West Harrison, NY - for Moment
3rd prize: Gillian Conahan '10, undecided - for Ghosts on the Web
Honorable Mention: Farah Ghniem '07, civil and environmental engineering, Amman, Jordan - for Worlds Apart
1st prize: Karen Lingyun Chu
'08, EECS and mechanical engineering, State College,
PA
- for Rhyming in Mandarin Chinese: A
Study Based on Popular Song Lyrics
2nd prize: Raj Singh Graduate, Linguistics and Philosophy - for On the Optimal Design of Human Communication
Honorable Mention: William Buttinger
'08, physics
- for Verilog Implementation of a Digital
Traffic-Light Controller with User-Modifiable Timing
Parameters
1st prize: Derrick S. Boone, Jr. '08, chemical engineering, Clemmons, NC - for Quanta from Heaven
2nd prize: Anna Wexler '07, brain and cognitive sciences and writing - for From Neurons to Neighborhoods: Profile of a Salesman
1st prize: Jonathan M. Long '08, EECS, San Antonio, TX - for A Programmable Traffic Light Controller