Occasions Online 2014

Ocassions 2014 cover, a yellow flower

Lower-Division Prize Winners

  • Leala Smith, Argument Category, 1st Place Winner
    "Paleobsession"
  • Bry Kring, Argument Category, 2nd Place Winner
    "The Contradiction Within Cosmopolitan: Is it Telling Us Something About Society?"
  • Hanna Le, Inquiry Category, 1st Place Winner
    "The Color of Justice: Culpability and Change in an Era of Punitiveness"
  • Zoe Pasternack, Inquiry Category, 2nd Place Winner
    "A New Kind of 'Natural' Design"
  • Travis Cobb, Narrative Category, 1st Place Winner
    "Of Dragons and Tips"
  • Kimberly Preston, Narrative Category, 2nd Place Winner and Diversity Award, 2nd Place Winner
    "Becoming Changing Woman"

Upper-Division Prize Winners

  • Emma Salditt, Business Writing Prize, 1st Place Winner
    "Subsidizing Inequality: The Socioeconomic Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican Corn Producers"
  • Kelsey Harbert, Diversity Writing Award, 1st Place Winner
    "Child Soldiers: More Than Meets The Eye"
  • Jesse Wisniewski, Upper-Division Arts & Sciences Prize, 1st Place Winner
    "The Hind"
  • Saikripa Radhakrishnan, Macksion Engineering Prize, 1st Place Winner
    "Identification of the Integrin Subunits Within Bovine Chondrocyte Cells for Tethering to PEG-thiol Hydrogels"
  • Emma Gardner, Creative Nonfiction, 1st Place Tie
    "Hole-y Devotion"
  • Zach Hykan, Creative Nonfiction, 1st Place Tie
    "Destruction Through a Screen"
  • J.P. Whitehead, Creative Nonfiction, 1st Place Tie
    "Maintaining Balance at Sea"