The Sweetland Center for Writing is pleased to announce the winners of the Sweetland Prize for Outstanding Writing Portfolio, the Matt Kelley Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing, and the Sweetland Prizes for Excellence in Upper Level Writing:

Sweetland Prize for Outstanding Writing Portfolio

From WRITING 100: Trishanya Raju, "trishanya.wordpress.com" (nominated by Paul Barron)

From WRITING 100, Grace Yan Sun, "gracesunwriting100.wordpress.com" (nominated by Simone Sessolo)

Matt Kelley Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing

From LHSP 125: Yardain Amron, "When the Silence Settles" (nominated by Tim Hedges)

From LHSP 125: Amelia Brown, "Ink" (nominated by Tim Hedges)

Sweetland Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (sciences)

From Earth 442: Molly Blakowski, "Wind-driven dust transport in the Transantarctic Mountains and Antarctic Dry Valleys" (nominated by Sarah Aciego)

From Earth 442: Carrie Glauner, "Identifying Channel Migration Directionality in the agricultural, low relief setting on the River Raisin" (nominated by Sarah Aciego)

Sweetland Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (social sciences)

From PolSci 411: Hayley Sakwa, "Fresh Food Financing Initiative: A Replicable Practice in Detroit?" (nominated by Joel Clark)

From AAS 495: William Benjamin Rogers, "Mines, Migration and the Confluence of Disease: The Story of South Africa" (nominated by Adam Ashforth)

Sweetland Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing (humanities)

From Writing 300: Rachel Kalayjian, "To Find a Voice" (nominated by Lila Naydan)

From English 340: Sam Walker "Ezra Pound, Aura, and the Memory of Time-Past" (nominated by John Whittier-Ferguson)

A special thanks to Sweetland lecturers serving as the chairs of the Sweetland prize committee.