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Student honors celebration, May 4, 2022

Center for the Study of Ethics Essay Contest

First place: Alison Lawrence, “Black Lips Don’t Turn Blue”

Second place: Kyle King, “The Dilemma of Banned Books”

Third place: Meikeila Kincaid, “De-Extinction: Hopeful Dream or a Hopeless Nightmare?”

Honorable mention: Ben Finkenbine, “Bias in Medicine”

Honorable mention: Ally Magsombol, “The Fight Against the Line 3 Pipeline”

Arthur E. and Dorothy Dahl Leadership Scholarship: Ayradi Catron

Geifman Endowment “Response to the Holocaust” competition

First place: Lauren Anderson, short story, “From the Eyes of Art”

Second place: Josie Hathaway, essay, “We cannot afford to forget”

Third place: Ellen Weiss, painting and poem, “Confiscation of Souls” 

Honorable mention: Morgan Schroeder, essay, “The Forgotten Concentration Camps of 2022”

Hasselmo Prize for Academic Pursuit: Madison Watwood

Honor Council Service Recognition  
Rei Aoki
Jeremy Brown
Aubrey Lathrop
Rosalie  Looijaard
Joseph Marcucci
Azee Nguyen
Isabella Provinzino
Amartya Rajbhandary
Alyssa Twilbeck
Kara West

Audre Lorde Essay Award

Long analytical essay

First place: Kara West, “Queer Even in Safe Spaces: Homelessness, Shelter Failures, and the Queer Community

Second place: Madeline Schaefer, “Coming Out Culture and LGBTQ+ Teachers"

Honorable mention: Bethany Abrams, “Bisexuality in 21st Century Media

Short analytical essay

First place: Giselle Barajas, “Coming Out as a Queer Latinx"

Second place: Gavinya Wijesekera, “She Ain’t Sorry”

Honorable mention: Sofia Rubalcava, “Eradication of the Black Identity"

Personal/reflective prose essay

First place: Alison Lawrence, “Flippin’ Medicine: Reflection and Action in Medical Education”

Second place: Briana Kunstman, “At the Dinner Table”

Honorable mention: Audre Lewis, “My Intangible Orb of Dreams”

SAGA Art and Literary Magazine Awards

Art, first place: Carly Davis, “Something Borrowed”

Art, second place: Lainey Terfruchte, “The Golden Apple”

Art, third place: Jack Beemsterboer, “eden”

Art, honorable mention: Charlie Roiland, “spider”

Poetry, first place: Sarah Luepkes, “force-fed”

Poetry, second place: Lainey Terfruchte, “Dandelion Seeds”

Poetry, third place: Carly Davis, “Punch Drunk”

Prose, first place: Lexi Golab, “The Color Green”

Prose, second place: Hallie Weis, “the reckoning”

Prose, third place: Blake Traylor, “Misgivings”

Prose, honorable mention: Carly Davis, “Elegy at 30th and 18th”

Barbara Anderson Miller Award for Best All-Around Piece in the Magazine: Kath Neubauer, “Suite: Blue Heavens”

Cover art award: Christopher Ferman

2022 Texas Medical Center Summer Research Internship Program  
Moreen Akomea-Ampeh
Ella Aldridge
Lindsey Edwards
Ben Finkenbine
Kylie Jozwik
Madison Knutsen
Mary Clare Koebel
Alison Lawrence

John Le
Margaret Lukas
Alex Mortenson
Linh Nguyen
Jared Reiling
Lindsay Saulsberry
Isaiah Valentine
Chi Vu

Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research: Kara West, “Queer Even in Safe Spaces: Homelessness, Shelter Failures and the Queer Community”

24th annual Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

First place: Kaitlin Jacobson, “crooked smile”

Second place (tie): Moreen Akomea-Ampeh, “From the Child on the Battlefield”and Jessica Zabala, “An Anthem for the Kids who Flinch”