To encourage and reward good writing in all disciplines, the University of Puget Sound awards Writing Excellence prizes on an annual basis, depending upon available funding.
Typically, a total of tenprizes ($250.00 each) are awarded:
- Two prizes in each category: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- One prize each for First-Year Seminars, Connections, and Graduate Programs
- One prize for a paper written on a topic related to race and pedagogy, regardless of the course in which it was written
For more information, please visit University of Puget Sound - Writing Excellence Awards.
Connections
The Affliction of Mercy Short: Psychological Explanations for her Actions and Theological Interpretations of the Episodes, Megan Burgmuller
A Leap of Faith: Necropolitical Subjecthood in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Carolynn Davies
"The Possibility of PTSD in Roman Soldiers Stationed at Vindolanda on the British Frontier", Emma Kelly
Of Wives and Witches: The Duality of Female Deviance in Puritan Moral Theology, Cassandra McMurry
Samual Willard: An Unreliable Narrator, Leah O'Sullivan
Examining the Ethics of Medical Process and Product Patents, Sara Pernikoff
Magic, Mysticism, and Race in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Hannah Williams
First Year Seminar
An Unexpected Benefit of Outlaw Emotions, Claire Bargman
Phuong's Caged Throne, Adam Braude
The Death of Romanticism in American Suburbia, Cody Chun
Sex, God, and Logic: The Power of John Humphrey Noyes' Defense of Bible Communism, Jack Corrigan
Acidic Relationship - Catostylus mosaicus and Trachurus novaezelandiae, Moira Gaffney
Separate and Unequal, Audrey Kaufman
Arachnophilia, Renee Meschi
Stone Butch Blues and Transmedicalism, Maia Nilsson
Anicia Juliana: The Rightful Ruler And Her Controversial Construction, Louisa Raitt
Restoring the Balance: Women as Gardians of Moral Boundaries in Herodotus' Histories, Arianna Scott-Zechlin
Frankenstein and the Meaning of Humanity, Anneke Taylor
Postmodern Bearings on Environmentalism, Rachel Visick
Graduate
Writing a New Story: Culturally Competent Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Julia Albright
Students at the Center, Progress in the Present: Integrating Frameworks for Justice-Oriented Learning, Ryan Baker
"Sometimes text is just text": Engaging students in meaning making in English language arts, Elizabeth Kirsch
Project Proposal: Brucellosis-Syria, Miles Looman-Nelson
Standard 5.2D, Abby McElligott
Inclusive Health Care Practices for People of Transgender and Gender Diverse Experience, Marissa McLellan
I’m African . . . Not African American, Olive Oyango
Socio-Cultural Awareness Project, Reflection Paper, Anna Riggs
"I'm not a pony and I'm not a dog, I'm a dancer:" An interview with a Stripper, Leanne Schaafsma
Direct Access in Washington State, Kayla Thaller
Healthcare Access for Montana’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Jenna Williams
Intersections of Identity and Cultural Competency: A White Teacher in a Tribal School, Diane Wright
The Korean American Dream, Hannah Yu
Humanities
"Devil's Claws": Phallic and Other Symbolisms of Poulaine Shoes, 12th-15th Centuries, Matthew Babor
A Chronic Tuberculosis: Carl Spitzweg and the Biedermeier, Benjamin Block
Leontyne Price: The Woman of Action behind the Facade of Passive Artistry, Emily Brothers
Edomdemo Ilidorom: Constructing the Language Duwen, Cody Chun
Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Marriage Implications for Women in the Reformation, Kelli Conley
Midnight's Children and Sacred Games: The Significance of Lost Stories, Sigrun Eide-Payne
Explaining the Red Guard Movement During the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Fox
The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership, Ian Greenfield
Solitary Confinement and Intersubjectivity: Social Liminality in Prison, Kylie Gurewitz
On the Dangers of Over-Inferring, Kevin Halasz
We Are Never New: “Transing” the time of music through the life and works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Dana Levy
The Radical Gospel: Ideological Continuity From The Protestant Reformation To The German Peasants’ War, 1517-1526, Cassandra McMurry
Identity and Agency in Totalitarian Regimes, Alex McNeil
From Nothing to Nothing: Merton's Modern Mysticism, Jeff Merrion
Standing Water, Maia Nilsson
Standardized Testing in American Public Schools, Isaac Olson
Black Female Objecthood, Sexuality, and Necropolitics in Afrofuturism: An Examination of Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, Hayley Rathburn
Subtle Irony in Personal Growth: Beethoven and Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphonies, Megan Reich
L'Opéra-Comique et Les Maisons de Débauche: Prostitution and Power in Mid-Eighteenth Century Paris, Audrey Reiss
Postmodern Evaluation for an Inclusive Future, Andrew Rodgers
Jihad and Just War: A Comparative Analysis, Nico Romerijn-Stout
Who Do You Say That I Am?: Race, Iconography, and Jesus in Twenty-First Century America, Kristina Sinks
A Killing Doom and Immortal Song: Death and Kleos in Homer’s Iliad, Laura Wolff
The Death of Nature and the Rebirth of Gaia: Organicism, the Mechanical Philosophy, and Feminized Nature, Kylie Young
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Forward Genetics: Histidine Auxotrophs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Mei-Lani Bixby
Investigating Antimicrobial Properties of Sceloporus virgatus Eggs Using Scanning Electron Microscopy, Grace Elliott
Effect of canopy cover and specific leaf area on endophyte diversity in Rhododendron macrophyllum and Acer macrophyllum, Jesse Hughes
Stable isotope ecology of the endangered Grevy's zebra (Equus Grevyi) in Laikipia, Kenya, Lydia Kleine
Using Behavior and Demographics to More Accurately Model Habitat Selection in Bighorn Sheep, with Implications for Conservation Corridors, Bethany Llewellyn
Orchid Fragrance Complexity as a Mechanism for Euglossine Bee Pollinator Specialization, Lucille Moore
Morphological and trophic differences between kelp crabs (Pugettia producta) inhabiting kelp and pilings”\, Sarah Mueller
Examining the effect of soil potassium level on sugar content in radishes (Raphanus Sativus), Elizabeth Olpin
Improving Exercise Induced Hypoglycemia in Insulin-Dependent Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Madison Orton
Modeling Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories, Spencer Racca-Gwozdzik
Actuarial Ruin Theory, Haley Reed
Microbial Fuel Cells: Mitochondria aren’t the Powerhouse of this Cell, Kyle Reinke
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Determine Temporal Trends in Illicit Stimulant Use in Seattle, Rosie Rushing
The Neurobiological Determinants of Creativity, Abby Scurfield
The Effect of Aerial Exposure Temperature on Balanus balanoides Feeding Behavior, Gracie Thompson
The Role of MMP-2 on Collagen Degradation in Skeletal Muscle after Functional Overload in Adult Mice, Chaylea Tome
The effect of hunger level on the choice between feeding and courtship opportunities in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata), Alisa Wallace
Global Gene Expression Analysis of the Reversed Gravitropic Response of the lazy-2 Mutation in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), Talitha Wilson
The Microbiome Obesity Connection: Investigating Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Nuclear Receptor Activation, Martina Worden
Race and Pedagogy
Aesthetics, Ethics, and Narratives of Race in the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cody Chun
The Story of Slow Violence, Zeno Deleon Guerrero
Voice of the Voiceless: The Project of Black Identity in Carrie Mae Weems's From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Emma Ferguson
Diving Into the Deep: Exploring the Liberatory and Healing Potential in Afrofuturistic Fantasy, Sowmya Kannan
William Grant Still: The Complex Career of a Complicated Composer, Aric MacDavid
The History of Gynecology Through an Intersectional Lens, Madeleine Williams
The Racial Value of “Bad Art”, Miles Z
Social Sciences
Reframing the Reality of African American Women at Risk for HIV/AIDS Using an Ecological Model, Sara Adkins
A Landlocked Bolivia: Disputes between Bolivia, Peru and Chile, Ben Armstrong
It's Complicated: A Literature Review of Happiness and the Big Five, Lilly Bengtson
Comparing Predatory Versus Affective Violence and Examining Early Life Stress as a Risk Factor, Liz Berg
Out of Place: Gangs Delinquency, and Identity Formation in Los Angeles and Central America, Katherine Buckley
Exploring the Ostensibly Subversive Nature of the Effeminate Gay Male, Matthew Byrne
White Gold: Tracing the Ilicit Elephant Ivory Trade, Holden Chen
Carbon Fiber Mountain Bikes: A Journey Through the Global Economy on Two Wheels, Bradford Dillman