Undergraduate Student Award Winners

Congratulations to the Writing Studies 2023-2024 undergraduate award winners in our First-Year Writing and Undergraduate programs! We are very proud of our students and the excellent writing we received from them. The award recipients are presented below including their area of study/interest, the award they received, and the title of the work for which they received the award:

Perry Clifton (they/them)
Interests:  Studies in Cinema and Media Culture
First-Year Writing Scott Jacobson Spirit Award- “The People vs. Spotify: an amateur analysis” 

Evan Peterson (he/him)
Interests: Finance
First-Year Writing Student Writing Award - “Exploring the Integration of AI in the Music World” 

Lindsey Oh (she/her)
interests: Computer Science
First-Year Writing Student Writing Award - “HIT THE RINK! The Groovy History of Wheeled Skating” 

Carson Nida (he/him)
Interests: Political Science major
First-Year Writing Student Writing Award - “Exploring Drug Decriminalization in the United States: Criminalization to Rehabilitation”

Amanda Rognerud (she/they)
Interests: Mortuary Science major
First-Year Writing Student Writing Award Honorable Mention - “Modernizing the Deathcare System” 

Autumn Viker (she/her)
Interests: Technical Writing and Communication major
Coakley Ames Writing Excellence Award - “Mollusks vs Machines: The Destructive Nature of Seabed Mining” 

Congratulations students!