2018 WIC Culture of Writing Awards: Celebrating Writing in the Disciplines
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!
Spring 2018 WIC award winners
TEAM NOMINATION
| Student | Title of Paper | College/ Unit/ Nominating Professor |
| Blaise Gilbride Andrew Parmeter Roger Rodriguez-Ortiz Johnson Trieu |
Interactive Parts Storage System Project Specification | College of Engineering Unit: EECS Chair: Belle Bose Nominated by: Rachael Cate |
INDIVIDUAL NOMINATIONS
| Student | Title of Paper | College/ Unit/ Nominating Professor |
| Reiden Gustafson | Grant Proposal: PDX Resilience Farm | College of Agricultural Sciences Unit: Ag Ed/Ag Sci Nominated by: Becky Haddad |
| Lyndsey Dixon | Alternative Public Policy Approaches to Childhood Obesity | College of Agricultural Sciences Unit: Applied Economics Nominated by: Larry Lev |
| Erin Wever | AEC 410 Internship Report – My summer with the OSU Extension Service – Marion County, Mid-Willamette Valley Small Farms Program | College of Agricultural Sciences Unit: Applied Economics Nominated by: James Sterns |
| Holly Rysenga | Implications of Psittacines as Pets | College of Agricultural Sciences Unit: Animal Sciences Nominated by Giovanna Rosenlicht |
| Eliza Wilmes Smith | A Survey of Small Farmers to Assess Interest in a Food Hub in Oregon’s Mid-Willamette Valley | College of Agricultural Sciences Unit: BRR Nominated by: Katharine G. Field |
| Joshua Lynn Akins | Personal Ethical Action Plan | College of Business Unit: Management Nominated by: Ted Paterson |
| Siena Marion Harris | Challenge Paper 1 | College of Business Unit: Management Nominated by: Ken Crangle |
| Joel Goodman | Mars Rover Robotic Arm Design Proposal | College of Engineering Unit: MIME Nominated by: Sharon LeRoux |
| Philip Michael Roe | We Hear You Now | College of Liberal Arts Unit: Cascades/SWLF Nominated by Neil Browne |
| Annalise San Juan | Nature Viewed Through the Male Gaze | College of Liberal Arts Unit: English Nominated by: Ehren Pflugfelder |
| Jordyn C. Bateman | Your Fast Fashion Purchases May Lead To a Serious Crisis | College of Liberal Arts Unit: School of Arts and Communication-New Media Nominated by: Alina Padilla-Miller |
| Dominique Willard Argyres | The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Substance Abuse-Related Mortalities, 2013-2016 | College of Liberal Arts Unit: School of Public Policy Nominated by Camille Nelson |
| Elena Ramirez Robles | Planting the Seeds to Establish the Roots | College of Liberal Arts Unit: Ethnic Studies/School of Language, Culture, and Society Nominated by: Natchee Barnd |
| Nico Conahan | Washington R*dskins – a Comparative Critique | College of Liberal Arts Unit: Arts and Communications Nominated by: Deann Garcia |
| Lihani du Plessis | “A Monument to Jim Crow”: Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital | College of Liberal Arts Unit: History, Philosophy, and Religion Nominated by: Marisa Chappell |
| Rishi Seshadri | Personal, Musical, and Cultural: The Influence of Legacy, a Work-Concept, and Enlightenment Values in Haydn’s Late Oratorios | College of Liberal Arts Unit: Music Nominated by: Kimary Fick |
| Hannah C. Lea | ADHD Diagnoses and Prescription Rates of Methylphenidate among Children and Adolescents in the United States and Europe: Implications for Long-term Health Outcomes | College of Liberal Arts Unit: School of Psychological Science Nominated by: Anita Cservenka |
| Patrick Storment | The Impact of Religious Sympathy on Attitudes Toward Immigrants | College of Liberal Arts Unit: Public Policy Nominated by: Alison Johnston |
| Emily L. Wilcox | A Comparative Analysis of Black and White Subjective Social Class Identifications: Significance of Relationship for Income Level, Educational Level, and Occupational Type | College of Liberal Arts Unit: Sociology Nominated by: Rebecca Warner |
| Karen C. Granados | A Socio-Ecological Suicide Prevention Program: Peer-To-Peers, adapted from Sources of Strength, an Evidence-based Program. | College of Public Health and Human Sciences Unit: School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Nominated by: Aimee Snyder |
| Alexa Sakai | Proposal to Fund the Sex Trafficking Education Program | CASCADES College: Public Health and Human Sciences Unit: Human Development and Family Sciences Nominated by: Shannon Lipscomb |
| Jordan P. Pascua | What are you worth? A case for pay-for-play in the NCAA | College: Public Health and Human Sciences Unit: School of Biological and Population Health Sciences Nominated by: Jennifer Beamer |
| Danielle M. Stevens | Impacts of Tertiary Ligands in Catalysis in Thermostable Human Carbonic Anhydrase II by Site-directed Mutagenesis and Genetic Code Expansion | College of Science Unit: Biochemistry & Biophysics Nominated by: Kari van Zee and Ryan Mehl |
| Seth Gonzales | Derivation of Halide Bond Lengths through Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy | College of Science: Unit: Chemistry Nominated by: Chong Fang |
| Mark Rubin | GMOs are Safe: Why a Former Anti-GMO Activist Changed His Mind | College of Science Unit: Integrative Biology Nominated by: Meta Landys |
| Brandon Farmer | Behavior of a Tall, Narrow Structure Modeled as an Inverted Pendulum During Earthquakes With and Without the Inclusion of Vertical Ground Acceleration | College of Science Unit: Mathematics Nominated by: Nathan Gibson |
| Christopher May | Freezing a Softly Repulsive Fluid: Monte Carlo Methods and the Weeks–‐Chandler-‐Andersen Potential | College of Science Unit: Physics Nominated by Janet Tate |
| Zibigniew Sikora | Effects of solarization and water treatment on microbial communities in soil | College of Science Unit: Microbiology Nominated by: Walt Ream |
