The Library Congratulates Our 2009 Student Winners!

16^th Annual Paul LeClerc Competition for Best Research Papers

This competition is divided into three categories, with Barnes & Noble gift certificates of $100 for First Prize and $50 for Second Prize in each category.

100-level Category

1st Prize	Phoebe Oglesbee, Essay untitled. Submitted by Carol Weir. ENG 120.
2nd Prize (tie)	Anna Sinyavskaya, Salem village: The Controversial Witch Hunt. Submitted by Prof. Regina Banks. ENG 120. Sameer Khan,New York at the Frontier of the political abolishionist movement, 1780-1840 Submitted by Prof. Bernadette McCauley. Hon 151.

Undergraduate Category

1st Prize	Elizabeth Hornick, Tommy Wilhelm's factured Identity Submitted by Prof. Carol Weir. Eng 399
2nd Prize	Daniel Robinson, The Relationship between Nazism and Christianity: The Merging of Nazism and Protestanism?. Submitted by Prof. Benjamin Hett. HIST 384.

Graduate Category

1st Prize	Malorie Ferrick, Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request: An Evaluation of the Risks and Benefits.. Submitted by Prof. Dee Burtoni. Physical Therapy 710.
2nd Prize	Shari Perkins, A King or No King: Reflections of Charles I. Submitted by Prof. Claudia Orenstein. Theater 751.

 

The Charlotte Katz Millenson Competition

This competition, sponsored by The Friends of Hunter College Library, is divided into two categories, with Barnes & Noble gift certificates of $100 for First Prize and $50 for Second Prize.

Undergraduate

1st Prize	Jennifer So Young Lee, for her essay on Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, by Atul Gawande.
2nd Prize	Walter Adler,, for his essay on The Colonizer and the Colonized, by Albert Memmi.

Graduate

1st Prize	Elke Wiess, for her essay on Cursed in the Blood, by Sharan Newman.
2nd Prize	Rebecca Kreinen, for her essay on To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

1^st Annual Photo contest

1st Prize	Lulu Dong
2nd Prize	Rebecca Kish
3rd Prize	Vedesh Persaud