Occasions Online 2016

Ocassions 2016 Cover, image of colorful view of skyscrapers from a skyscraper

Lower-Division Prize Winners

  • Casey Crowley,ÌýCreative Nonfiction, Winner
    "The Catalyst of Life"
  • Caia Dolan,ÌýDiversity, 1st Place Winner
    "Going Home: An Overview of Youth Homelessness in America"
  • Maanasa Srinivasan,ÌýDiversity, 2nd Place Winner
    "The Lunchbox"
  • Adan Orozco Balderrama,ÌýDiversity, 3rd Place Winner
    "Rooted"
  • Brigitte Beck,ÌýMultimodal, 1st Place Winner
    "Neuroscience Major"
  • Brent Assayagh,ÌýMultimodal, 2nd Place Winner
    "A Lost Item or A Painful Friendship?"
  • Julia Casey,ÌýFirst Year Writing, 1st Place Winner
    "Veggies in the Sky: How Vertical Farms Can Help Feed the World"
  • Kupaaikekaiao Thomas,ÌýFirst Year Writing, 2nd Place Winner
    "Who Are the Read Protectors?"
  • Shirley Ye,ÌýFirst Year Writing, Honorable MentionÌý
    "How Deceptive Packaging Causes Less Healthy Food Consumption"

Upper-Division Prize Winners

  • Bree Pyee,ÌýCreative Nonfiction, Winner
    "Forget-me-not"
  • Ellie Cohn,ÌýArts & Science, 1st Place Winner (tie)
    "Medical Ethics and Paternalism: A Response to Caplan’s Egg Freezing Critique"
  • Noah Stein,ÌýArts & Science, 1st Place Winner (tie)
    "215 Miles from Beaverhouse"
  • James Palick,ÌýArts & Science, 2nd Place Winner
    "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
  • Ben Feinman & Kyle Weatherbie,Business, 1st Place Winner
    "The Economics of the Olympics: Why the Olympics Need to Change"
  • Matthias Malojer,ÌýBusiness, 2nd Place Winner
    "HTC and Conflict Minerals: A Proposal to Improve HTC’s Procurement Operations"
  • Ben Grote,ÌýEngineering, 1st Place Winner
    "Modeling Multiphase Flows in a Novel Receiver for Concentrating Solar Power Plants"
  • Millicent Gabriel,ÌýEngineering, 2nd Place Winner
    "Great Hopes and False Expectations: The Misuse of Science to Market a Product"
  • Bruce Kirkpatrickj,ÌýEngineering, Honorable Mention
    "Don’t Trust Your Ears: Physical and Digital Sound Manipulation"