The Humanities Department Congratulates the Winners of the 46th Annual Writing Contest for Full-Time Undergraduates
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| [from left] Maureen Flanagan (Humanities Department Chair), Greg Pulliam (Humanities Department, Associate Chair), Hannah Rosenthal, Kunoor Ojha, Jeffrey Wigen, Utsav Pankaj Gandhi, Dorson Williams, Simon Brauer, Monica Samelson, Scott Michael Slone, Dalia Paola Arce, Grant Mosey, Michael Gosz (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education) |
| An informal lunch reception for all entrants and awarding of prizes was held on Wednesday, April 20. The Lewis Department of Humanities Undergraduate Writing Contest prizes for fiction and non-fiction are named for Edwin H. Lewis, an English Professor at the Lewis Institute, one of the forerunners of IIT, from 1895 until 1936. Among other classes, Professor Lewis taught Shakespeare, and apparently looked an awful lot like him, too. It is said that students would come to campus just for his lectures, often without even being enrolled. The poetry prize was established in 1965 by retiring IIT English Professor Mollie S. Cohen. Professor Cohen was a native Chicagoan, and attended Lewis Institute before doing graduate work at the University of Chicago and at the Sorbonne in Paris. During her time as a professor at IIT, she worked closely with women students and international students. Awards to student writers in the following categories were presented by Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Michael Gosz and faculty in the Humanities Department. |
FRESHMAN ESSAY PRIZE
1st: Scott Michael Slone (MMAE)
An Invention and Its Profoundness
2nd: Utsav Pankaj Gandhi (CHBE)
Children of a Lesser God
3rd: Dorson Williams (MMAE)
What I Learned In HUM 106 and How I Will Apply This Knowledge In My Future
EDWIN H. LEWIS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
1st: Monica Samelson (MBB)
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Kuhn's Normal Science in Evolutionary Theory
2nd: Kunoor Ojha (PSYC)
Better or Worse: A Comparative Look at the Current and Past Regimes of Equatorial Guinea and Turkmenistan, and the Perceived Versus Actual Conditions in Each
3rd: Simon Brauer (PSYC)
Technologies in the School Environment: The Application of E-Books and SMART Boards
EDWIN H. LEWIS PRIZE FOR FICTION
1st: Grant Mosey (ARCH)
The View from the Hilltop
2nd: Jeffrey Wigen (ARCH)
Wool and Walleye
3rd: Scott Michael Slone (MMAE)
Backstage
MOLLIE COHEN POETRY PRIZE
1st: Dalia Paola Arce (ARCH)
Where It Meets...
2nd: Jeffrey Wigen (ARCH)
The Shadow Poems
3rd: Hannah Rosenthal (ARCH)
Another Birthday: My Window; Smiling Backwards and Forward; Beckoned
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