2012 Winners

First year writing program category
First Place Winner

  • Emily McDowell '15
  • For her paper "Faulty Evidence" (English 2)

001-099 level course category
First Place Winner

  • Julia Richieri ‘15
  • For her paper "From Sengoku to Sexy: How Japanese Culture is Preserved in Anime" (Japanese 81)

100-199 level course category
First Place Winner

  • Jacob Denney '13
  • For his paper "The Service of the Mashpee Indians in the American Revolution" (History 193)

001-099 level course category
Second Place Winner

  • Karen Chen ‘13, Khanin Yu ‘13, Avinash Asthana ’12 and Sean Nilan ‘12 (not pictured) For their video "The Critical Period of Language Acquisition" (Psychology 64)

100-199 level course category
Second Place Winner

  • Allister Chang '12
  • For his paper "The Opening of Galleries at the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1766" (History 193)

001-099 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Molly Weinstein '14
  • For her paper "Indian Gaming: A 'New Buffalo' or a 'Trojan Horse?': The Socioeconomic Effects of Gaming Enterprises on American Indian Populations" (Political Sciences 13)

001-099 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Alex Wallach Hanson '14
  • For his paper "The Silver 'Lie:' How Mass Transit Choices Altered Two Communities in Boston" (Political Sciences 13)

100-199 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Caroline Sherrard '14 and Anna Lyons '15
  • For their paper "The Impact of the 1849 Cholera Epidemic on the Boston Irish" (Sociology/Community Health 108)

100-199 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Karen Chen '13
  • For her paper "African-American Multiple Birth Infants and Retinopathy of Prematurity" (Biology 193)

100-199 level course category
Honorable Mention

  • Lauren Godles '12
  • For her paper “When The Ties Don’t Bind: Gendered Social Networks Among Latino Immigrants in East Boston” (Sociology 102)