By WIC Team
WIC and participating units strive to foster a commitment to excellence in undergraduate student writing and recognize the value of writing across the disciplines with the annual Culture of Writing Awards.
Participation in the Culture of Writing Awards has thrived since 2006 as students earn recognition and cash awards through either individual or team writing projects. This year, participation continues to be strong. WIC would like to thank all participating units for their continued desire to recognize and reward outstanding student writing.
Congratulations to this year’s awardees!
| Student Name | Paper Title | College/Unit | Nominating Professor |
| Zoe Kilmer | Unprecedented Retreat of Columbia Glacier Relative to the Last Millennium | BioResource Research | Kate G. Field |
| Jacob Parsons | Our Bumblebees Are Disappearing: the Neonicotinoid Connection | Crop and Soil Science | Jennifer Parke |
| Rachel Zmolek | Exploring In-home Therapies to Increase Physical Activity for Children with Cerebral Palsy | Kinesiology | Jessica Hamm |
| Patrick Thomas Flynn | Undecidability for Higher Dimensional Knots | Mathematics | Clayton Petsche |
| Mady Liu | The Effects of Antibacterial Soap on Human Health | Microbiology | Jeneva Anderson |
| Aiden Koll | Who Supports the Legalization of Marijuana? The Impact of Liberalism and Age on Attitudes Surrounding Legalization of Recreational Marijuana | Sociology | Kelsy Kretschmer |
| Kendal Schwabrow | Ethical Concerns of Animal Experimentation | Animal Sciences | Giovanna Rosenlicht |
| Brock Kocyan, Cody Cowdin, David Stitch | Project Summary: Smart Solar Disconnect | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Rachael Cate |
| Ashley Price | Goodness and Failure Defining Humanity | English | Jennifer Richter |
| Aneesa Field | A New Outlook to an Ongoing Debate: Affirmative Action through the Lens of Asian Americans | History | Marisa Chappell |
| Tania Mendez, Caroline Brown | Malheur on the Move | Human Development and Family Sciences | Lori A. McGraw |
| Allison Daley | The Paradox of Facebook: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Social Support Online and Face-to-Face | Psychology | Frank Bernieri |
| Jeremy Meinke | Single-Molecule Analysis of a Novel Kinesin Motor Protein | Physics | Janet Tate |
| Ethan Palioca | Effect of Magnetic Field and Magnetite Nanoparticle on Power Production of Microbial Fuel Cells | Bioenergy | Kate G. Field |
| Makenzie Ellet | Project Proposal: Multi-Use Facility | Construction Engineering Management | Joe Fradella |
| Amy Wyman | Individual Design Report: Coast Guard Base for Galveston, Texas | Civil Engineering | Shane Brown |
| Caitlyn Douglas | “Girl Power”: A look at Eighteenth-Century Feminism in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro | Music Performance | Kimary Fick |
| Hannah Larue | A Multi-Level Intervention Program for Breast Cancer Self-Screenings and Mammography Use in Native Alaskan Women | Public Health | Sheryl Thorburn |
| William Young | The Effects of UV Irradiation on the Biosorption of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles to Heterotrophic Biomass | Honors College | Jeffrey Nason |
| Claire McMorris | Corporate Oregon: A Narrative Study of Measure 97 | Honors College | Michael Jones |
| Christopher Bahro | Vibrational-Rotational Spectoscopey of HCl/DCl Gas | Chemistry | Chong Fang |
| Jordan Coelho | A Culture-independent Approach to Studying the Effects of Solarization on Soil Microbial Communities Using PRC and Illumina MiSeq | Microbiology | Walt Ream |
Awardees in Bio Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering are not published at the request of the nominating faculty.
