by the 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 WIC Culture of Writing Awards in the disciplines.
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 continued 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!
| Team Awards | Paper Title | College | Unit | Nominating Professor |
| Bradi Marie Van Atta & Abigail Noel Nagel | Northwest Buddies | Public Health and Human Sciences / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences / Lori McGraw |
| Rihana Louise Debler, Charisa Collyn Hohman, & Breanna Wells-Tyrell | Family Health and Wellness Grant Proposal | Public Health and Human Sciences / Human Development and Family Sciences (OSU Cascades) / Shannon Lipscomb, Jenna Goldsmith |
| Individual Awards | Paper Title | College | Discipline| Nominating Professor |
| Callie Daddario | Expiration Date Education: A Movement to Decrease Food Waste | Agricultural Sciences | Agricultural Education and Agricultural Sciences | Becky Haddad |
| Kate Brazelton | What is the most ethical method of tail docking in lambs? | Agricultural Sciences | Animal & Rangeland Sciences | Claudia Ingham |
| Tyler Gustafson | Alternative Policy Approaches to Pesticide Use | Agricultural Sciences | Applied Economics | Larry Lev |
| Alberto Gonzalez | Sustainability Assessment of Boise Firefighters IAFF Local 149 | Agricultural Sciences | Crop and Soil Science | Deanna Lloyd |
| Andrew Chione | New discovery leads to a whole new meaning of “trash fish” | Agricultural Sciences | Fisheries & Wildlife | Brian Sidlauskas |
| Elizabeth Puttman | Use of Platelet Rich Plasma for the Treatment of Subclinical Endometritis in Beef Heifers | Agricultural Sciences | BioResource Research | Kate Field |
| Hamza Molvi | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Marketing | Ted Paterson |
| Shreya Melkote | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Business Information Systems | Jon Broome |
| Macey Hsu | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Accounting | Angelika Buchanan |
| Eliza Adams | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Finance | Angelika Buchanan |
| Tony Penoyer | Mobile Pedestrian Target: Block Design Validation
Mechanical Structure and Motors |
Engineering | School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Rachael Cate |
| Annie Dutchover | The Loving Embrace | Forestry | Tourism, Recreation and Adventure Leadership (TRAL) | Andrew Hawley |
| Danil Thorstensson | Final Paper | Liberal Arts | Philosophy | Joseph Orosco |
| Scott T. Harrington | Religion as a Common-Sense Category | Liberal Arts | Religion | Courtney Campbell |
| Chanti Manon-Ferguson | Learning Outcomes: Native American Assimilation and Activism | Liberal Arts | Ethnic Studies | Natchee Barnd |
| Rebekah Richardson | The Most Wonderful Letters: Leonard Bernstein’s Piano Anniversaries | Liberal Arts | Music Education | Kimary Fick |
| Peter T. Young | The Lords of Longitude – How Social and Political Structures influenced the Longitude Problem | Liberal Arts | History | Jacob Hamblin |
| Annie L. Cao | Physicians and Treating Addiction in Patients | Liberal Arts | School of Psychological Science | Frank Bernieri |
| Marcus Trinidad | Criming going off the rails: Examining the relationship between light rail stations and crime in Porland, OR | Liberal Arts | Economics | Camille Soltau Nelson |
| Brianne Nordin | The Gender Wage Gap and Education | Liberal Arts | Political Science | Christopher Stout |
| Shannon Nicole Pastori | Does Knowing Someone Who has Taken Their Own Life Increase Support for Gun Control? | Liberal Arts | Sociology and Psychology | Rebecca Warner |
| Addie Howell | Politics, Memes, and Culture Jamming: Meme Culture’s Potential to Engage Youth in Politics | Liberal Arts | Speech Communication | Trischa Goodnow |
| Kristin Yeomans | Screen Time: A Community-based HIV/AIDS Reduction Program in Multnomah County, based on PROMISE for HIP, an Evidence-based Intervention. | Public Health and Human Sciences | School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences | Aimee Snyder |
| Jenna Beyer | Probing the effects of post-translational modifications at a regulatory serine in LC8 using non-canonical amino acids” | Science | Biochemistry and Biophysics | Lauren Dalton |
| Jorie Casey | Regulatory Phosphorylation of LC8 Dimerization through Genetic Code Expansion | Science | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Lauren Dalton |
| Cocoro Andrew Nagasaka | Preparation and Characterization of Zeolite 5A: Analysis with PXRD, TGA, INAA, Porosimetry, and SEM-EDX. | Science | Chemistry | May Nyman |
| Jade Sentker | Embryonic stem cell research: invaluable and ethical | Science | Integrative Biology | Meta Landys |
| Sara Tro | Comparing the Polynomial Chaos Debye Model to the Original Debye Model | Science | Mathematics | Nathan Gibson |
| Sydney Kristine Wardan | Grant Proposal Prospectus: Hepatitis C Vaccine Study | Science | BioHealth Science | Kate Field |
| Bailey Burk | Soil solarization can improve agricultural yield by limiting growth of unwanted organisms and altering microbial diversity without use of soil fumigation | Science | Microbiology | Walt Ream |
| Brennan Douglas | Chiral Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals and Classical Field Theories | Science | Physics | Ethan Minot |
| Trevor A. Whitaker | Freeze Stage Analysis of an Indirect Freeze Desalination System | Honors College | Mechanical Engineering | Deborah V. Pence |
| Tessa Barone | Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fanfiction’s Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe | Honors College | English and History | Rebecca Olson |
| Benjamin Nicholas | Genetic and morphological evidence suggests cryptic speciation within Torrent Sculpin, Cottus rhotheus, across the Pacific Northwest | Honors College | Fisheries & Wildlife | Brian Sidlauskas |
