Thanks to a very generous gift from the Granader Family, Sweetland’s prizes for outstanding writing in First-Year and Upper-Level Writing Requirement courses receive a significant monetary award along with having their work published in a series that collects the prize-winning writing in two volumes, Excellence in First-Year Writing and Excellence in Upper-Level Writing. Writing Prize winners were recognized at a ceremony in April 2016.
First-Year Writing Prizes
Matt Kelley/Granader Family Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing
Thomas Aiello “Challenging Media Representations of the Global Refugee Crisis” nominated by Robyn D’Avignon, History 195
Caroline Rothrock “Walking into Eternity along Sandymount Strand: Regarding the Importance of Walking in the Works of James Joyce” nominated by Karein Goertz, RC 100
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Multilingual Writing
Hyunju Lee “What Can You Do on Your Own?” nominated by Scott Beal, Writing 120
Ran Ming “Females in STEM Need a Stronger Voice” nominated by Jing Xia, Writing 120
Granader Family Prize for Outstanding Writing Portfolio
Jaelyn Jennings https://jaejenn.wordpress.com/ nominated by Gina Brandolino, Writing 100
Alexis Low https://alexisclow.wordpress.com/ nominated by Julie Babcock, Writing 100
First-Year Writing Prizebook (pdf) | Amazon
Upper-Level Writing Prizes
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Sciences)
Ryan Levy “A Survey of Radioactivity Experiments” nominated by Hui Deng, Physics 441
Alexandra Peirce “How Universities are Trying to Prevent LGBTQ Sexual Assault” nominated by Julie Halpert, Environ 320
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Social Sciences)
Sonia Tagari “Drought in California as a Continuation of High Modernism,Utilitarianism and Social Inequality” nominated by Omolade Adunbi, AAS322/Environ 335
Nicole Vozar “A Comparison of Elite Egyptian and Roman Tombs” nominated by Robin Beck (Travis Williams GSI), ANTHRARC 386
Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (Humanities)
Bethany Canning “Dying in America” nominated by Paul Barron, Writing 420
Wake Coulter “Freeway in the Garden” nominated by Jennifer Metsker, ARTDES 399
Upper-Level Writing Prizebook (pdf) | Amazon
