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The 2023-2024 award recipient is Aden L Haas for the paper, “Causes and Effects of Deteriorating Political Discourse”, submitted in fulfillment of requirements for English Composition, under the direction of Joshua Kohan, an assistant professor the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.
The 2023 - 2024 Second-place winner is Leah Grace Barcomb for the paper, "What are the Effects of Diet on Adolescent Mental Health" submitted in fulfillment of requirements for English Composition, under the direction of Sara Kennedy, assistant professor in the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.
The 2022 - 2023 award recipient Lukas Donaghue for the paper “Bloomberg from Business to Politics to Climate Change Activism,” submitted in fulfillment of requirements for English Composition under the direction of Sushmita Chatterji, a professor in the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.
The 2022 - 2023 Second-place winner is Kiva Block Sprissler for the paper, “Why Nurses Quit: Factors Contributing to Burnout,” submitted in fulfillment of requirements for English Composition under the direction of Sara Kennedy, assistant professor in the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.
The 2021 - 2022 award recipient. Amanda Grace Witherell for the paper, “How Does Routine Caffeine Use Affect the Health of Its Consumers, submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for English Composition I, under the direction of Assistant Professor, Sara Kennedy.
The 2020 - 2021 award recipient: Roo Hicks for the paper, "A Look Into Transgender History, And the Way It’s Been Erased" submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for English Composition I by Assistant Professor Anthony L. Podlaski
The 2019 - 2020 award recipient: Yang Liu for the paper, "The Declining Fertility in China" written under the direction of Instructor Joshua Kohan for English Composition for Foreign Born.
The 2018 - 2019 award recipient: Sabine Huebner for the research paper, "Effects of Misunderstood Plastic Wonder for the Oceans and the World!" written under the direction of Instructor Joshua Kohan for English Composition for Foreign Born.
2018-19 Honorable Mention awarded to Meredith Grace Youngmann for the paper, "Bronte the Babe" written in fulfillment of the requirements of English Composition for Associate Professor Basia Reynolds.
The 2017 - 2018 award recipient: Averi Panichi for the paper, "Substitutions for Animal Research: Aiding the 3Rs and Benefitting All" submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for English Composition I by Assistant Professor Anthony L. Podlaski.
The 2016-17 award recipient: Thomas Michael Smith for the paper, "Few New Antibiotics: Even in the Face of Antibiotic Resistance" submitted in fulfillment of requirements for English Composition, under the direction of Assistant Professor Sara Kennedy.
The 2015 - 2016 award recipient: Sydney Phillips for the research paper "Juror Exclusion" submitted by Dr. Ann Geisendorfer in fulfillment of the requirements for Criminal Justice Capstone Seminar.
2015 - 2016 Honorable Mention awarded to Jennifer Edwards for "The Amazing World of Play" submitted by Eileen Mahoney in fulfillment of the requirements for Techniques of Teaching Through Play, and Rebecca Inglis for "Automation: The Debate of Innovation" submitted by Anne Dearing in fulfillment of the requirements for English Composition II.
The 2014 - 2015 award recipient: Matt Sterlina for the paper on scientist Lord William Thomson Kelvin in fulfillment of the requirements for Chemistry I, nominated by Dr. Danica Nowosielski.
The 2013 - 2014 award recipients: Katie M. Burns for the English Composition II paper "Postsecondary Correctional Education: Reducing Recidivism Through Educational Empowerment" submitted by Associate Professor Anne Dearing; and Melissa Stark for the English Composition I paper, "What Causes Led to the Uprising in Syria?" submitted by Associate Professor Sushmita Chatterji.
The 2012 - 2013 award recipient: Erin Sawyer for the paper "Stuck in the Middle: Middle Class Voting Behavior and its Determining Factors" submitted by Associate Professor Sushmita Chatterji of the English, Modern Languages and English as a Second Language Department.
The 2011 - 2012 award recipient: Seth Robinson for the paper, "Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles." He was nominated by Assistant Professor Danica Nowosielski of the Biology, Chemistry and Physics Department.
The 2010 - 2011 award recipient: Max Popiel.
The 2009 - 2010 award recipient: Julene Eayrs.
Dr. Joseph J. Bulmer • 1929 - 2006
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