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 despite the obstacles posed by remote learning, and 37 awards were granted across 7 colleges. 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 | Nominating Major | Nominating Professor |
| Grace Burks | Attracting Pacific Northwest Pawpaw (Asimina Triloba) Pollinators Through Dual-Use Production Management | Agricultural Sciences | Agricultural Sciences | KJ Joseph |
| Katrina Doggett | The Racehorse Industry: ethical and welfare considerations of standard practices | Agricultural Sciences | Animal Sciences | Giovanna Rosenlicht |
| Erin Jackson | Starkey Experimental Forest and Range Prescribed Grazing Plan, Union County, OR | Agricultural Sciences | Rangeland Sciences | Claudia Ingham |
| Madeleine Reyes | Economic Analysis of Policy Options for Water Scarcity in California Agriculture | Agricultural Sciences | Agricultural and Food Business Management | Penny Diebel |
| Monica Vickers | Cost-benefit Analysis for Invasive Weed Control: The Case of Knotweed in Skagit County | Agricultural Sciences | Environmental Economics and Policy | Penny Diebel |
| Juriana E. Barboza Sagrero | Guinea pig model of mild hyperandrogenemia – is it a suitable model for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)? A pilot study. | Agricultural Sciences | BioResource Research | Katharine Field |
| Sarah Ellis | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Business Administration | Angelika Buchanan |
| Nicole Kotwasinski | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Business Information Systems | Angelika Buchanan |
| Tiffany Huestis | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Entrepreneurship | Angelika Buchanan |
| Katie Wallace | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Finance | Angelika Buchanan |
| Dhrushil Patel | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | International Business | Angelika Buchanan |
| Kendyl Druffel | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Management | Angelika Buchanan |
| Suzi McConnell | Personal Ethical Action Plan | Business | Marketing | Angelika Buchanan |
| Maria Baker | Cold Desert Climatology of the Patagonia Steppe in Argentina | CEOAS | Environmental Sciences | Andrea Allan |
| Christopher Egyed | Describing the Climate of the Lake Superior Basin: The Influence of Continentality and the Great Lakes on a Humid Continental Climate | CEOAS | Geography & Geospatial Science | Andrea Allan |
| Giulia Ann Wood | Determining Arctic krill spawning regions and impacts of warming on abundance and distribution | CEOAS | Ocean Sciences | Kim Bernard |
| Ranyu (Sienna) Shi | Neural Prosthetic Hand Design Impact Assessment | Engineering | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Rachael Cate |
| Rachel Villarreal | Connection to the Lan | Forestry | Forest Engineering | Jon Souder |
| Jay Sharpe | Cooperating to Address the Risk of Wildland Fire: A Policy Brief | Forestry | Forestry | Mindy Crandall |
| Alissa Liu | The Cultivation of Social Harmony: A Discussion of Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Styles and Popular Music | Liberal Arts | Music | Kimary Fick |
| Ana R. Pearse | Marina Abramović’s Rhythm O: Reimagining the Roles of Artist and Observer | Liberal Arts | Art | Lei Xue |
| Grace Knutsen | Colonial Combatants: Moroccan Soldiers in the Twentieth-Century French Army | Liberal Arts | History | Jonathan Katz |
| Tristan Mitchell | Scientific Realism and Trust as a Remedy for Coronavirus Vaccine Skepticism | Liberal Arts | Philosophy | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Kendrea Beers | Embodied Wisdom in Mahāyāna Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity | Liberal Arts | Religious Studies | Geoffrey Barstow |
| Shane Ania Louise Dela Cruz Ty | Individual Interventions for Social Justice | Liberal Arts | Ethnic Studies | Marta Maldonado |
| Rhythm Kristich | The Impact of Political Ideology on Aggression and Compassion | Liberal Arts | Psychology | Chris Sanchez |
| Maire K. Hargaden | Does Universal Early Childcare Affect Academic Outcomes? | Liberal Arts | Economics | Taylor Rhodes |
| Duncan Sean Kemp | The Economic Path Dependency of Foreign Extraction Duration: Why Colonialism Still | Liberal Arts | Political Science | Michael W. Trevathan |
| Whitney Thaler | Student Debt and the Alteration of Adulthood Independence | Liberal Arts | Sociology | Mark Edwards |
| Joshua Stickrod | Intertextual Revisionism: Recontextualizing The Eurocentric Literary Tradition In Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative | Liberal Arts | English | Megan Ward |
| Evaggelos Klonis | 100 Dinge: Wie entkommt man der hedonistischen Tretmühle? | Liberal Arts | German | Sebastian Heiduschke |
| Christina Jackson | Capital vs. Capability: Evaluation in Early Childhood Education | PHHS | HDFS | Kathleen McDonnell |
| Katie Sawtelle | Women’s Health Narratives: A Cervical Cancer Prevention Program for College-Age Women in Portland, Oregon | PHHS | Health Promotion & Health Behavior | Kari-Lyn K. Sakuma |
| Andrew McKelvey | Condensation of 4-tert-butylbenzophenone via Friedel-Crafts Acylation and Characterization of the Synthesized Product. | Science | Chemistry | Christine Pastorek |
| Jared Jensen | RESEARCH PROJECT: Mosquito Sensory Modulation — Effects of a striped pattern and olfactory cues on mosquito host-seeking behaviors | Science | Integrative Biology | Meta Landys |
| Genevieve Connolly | Using Euclidean Geometry to Construct Objects in the Elliptic Klein Disk | Science | Math | Tevian Dray |
| Richard Puro | Photodimerization of Organic Semiconductors in the Strong Coupling Regime | Science | Physics | Ethan Minot |
