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 nine prizes ($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
For more information, please visit University of Puget Sound - Writing Excellence Awards.
Conference Proceedings
Writing a New Story: Culturally Competent Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Julia Albright
Aesthetics, Ethics, and Narratives of Race in the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cody Chun
Connections
The Affliction of Mercy Short: Psychological Explanations for her Actions and Theological Interpretations of the Episodes, Megan Burgmuller
Of Wives and Witches: The Duality of Female Deviance in Puritan Moral Theology, Cassandra McMurry
Samual Willard: An Unreliable Narrator, Leah O'Sullivan
First Year Seminar
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
Separate and Unequal, Audrey Kaufman
Arachnophilia, Renee Meschi
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
Graduate
"Sometimes text is just text": Engaging students in meaning making in English language arts, Elizabeth Kirsch
Standard 5.2D, Abby McElligott
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
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
Humanities
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
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
On the Dangers of Over-Inferring, Kevin Halasz
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
Standardized Testing in American Public Schools, Isaac Olson
Subtle Irony in Personal Growth: Beethoven and Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphonies, Megan Reich
Postmodern Evaluation for an Inclusive Future, Andrew Rodgers
Jihad and Just War: A Comparative Analysis, Nico Romerijn-Stout
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
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
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
Microbial Fuel Cells: Mitochondria aren’t the Powerhouse of this Cell, Kyle Reinke
The Neurobiological Determinants of Creativity, Abby Scurfield
The Effect of Aerial Exposure Temperature on Balanus balanoides Feeding Behavior, Gracie Thompson
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
Race and Pedagogy
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
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
Risk Factors for Youth Anxiety: The Role of Parenting Behaviors, Andrew Fox
Choices in an Interdependent Economic Environment: Inequity Averson and Bargaining Games, Andrew Galbraith
China’s Confucian Makeover, Rachael Gary
Internal Instability and Technology: Do Text Messages and Social Media Increase Levels of Internal Conflict?, Lucas Henken
Corruption and Consequences: Illegal Logging in Southeast Asia, Mike Knape
American Political Polarization, Alex McNeil
Woodrow Wilson's Place in Political Time: A Critique of Stephen Skowronek's The Politics Presidents Make, Alex Plant
Unipolarity and Its Benefits, Peter Russell
The Seductive Orchid, Ardea Smith
Online, On the Couch, or On the Move: The Contours of the Evolving Video Market, Morgan Taylor