Occasions Online 2016

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

Lower-Division Prize Winners

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

Upper-Division Prize Winners

  • Bree Pyee, Creative Nonfiction, Winner
    "Forget-me-not"
  • Ellie Cohn, Arts & Science, 1st Place Winner (tie)
    "Medical Ethics and Paternalism: A Response to Caplan’s Egg Freezing Critique"
  • Noah Stein, Arts & Science, 1st Place Winner (tie)
    "215 Miles from Beaverhouse"
  • James Palick, Arts & 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, Business, 2nd Place Winner
    "HTC and Conflict Minerals: A Proposal to Improve HTC’s Procurement Operations"
  • Ben Grote, Engineering, 1st Place Winner
    "Modeling Multiphase Flows in a Novel Receiver for Concentrating Solar Power Plants"
  • Millicent Gabriel, Engineering, 2nd Place Winner
    "Great Hopes and False Expectations: The Misuse of Science to Market a Product"
  • Bruce Kirkpatrickj, Engineering, Honorable Mention
    "Don’t Trust Your Ears: Physical and Digital Sound Manipulation"