2017 Strasser Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Strasser Writing Prize competition!  We have one first place winner, and an unprecedented THREE runners-up!

1st Place:

Kaarish Mariar
Freshman
“Cubism: The Exception to Plato’s Banishment of Artists”
Written for Prof. Trullinger’s Origins class

Runners Up:

Emily Law
Sophomore
“Perversion of the Equality Principle in Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron.”
Written for Prof. Dworkin’s  Origins class
Madeline Rundlett
Sophomore
“Hegemonic Masculinity in Sport: How does society challenge the development of women’s sports through socialized gender norms?”
Written for Prof. Trullinger’s Origins Class
Henry Betts
Senior
“Constitution’s Clandestine Conquest”
Written for Prof. Saidel’s “The Embodied Mind” class
The first place winner will receive a $100 gift cards and the runners up will each receive $50 gift cards. Congratulations!

2015 Strasser Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Strasser Writing Prize competition!  We have one first place winner, and two runners-up!

1st Place:

Jacob Greenblatt
Freshman
“Buddhism & Environmental Ethics”
Written for Origins with Prof. McManus

Runners Up:

Brooke Talbot
Senior
“Memorializing Disease: The Public Contribution to the FDR Memorial Wheelchair Statue”
Written for  Prof. Gamble’s Epidemics in American History class
Lacy Myrman
Sophomore
“’Us’ and ‘Them’”
Written for Prof. Dworkin’s Individualism class
The first place winner will receive a $100 gift cards and the runners up will each receive $50 gift cards. Congratulations!

Last Chance to Win [Strasser Writing Prize]

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The UHP is accepting your entries for the 2014 Strasser Writing Prize!
The Strasser prize awards a grand prize of $100 and two runner-ups of $50 to the best papers written in any Honors course over the past year.  You can only enter one paper, so make sure it’s your best!
Submit your entry online after reading the full rules (which have changed from last year).  This year’s deadline for entries is Friday, January 24th, 2014.

You’ve already written the paper, now submit!

2013 Strasser Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Strasser Writing Prize!  Of all the entries, these three papers were selected as the best by a committee of Honors faculty reading through several rounds of elimination!
The winner is awarded a $100 gift card, and each runner up is awarded a $50 gift card.
Once again, congratulations!!
Winner:
Katie Winters – “Clinical Studies of Aphasia: The Role of Language in Social Death”
Runners up:

Jonah Lewis – “Beauty Isn’t Skin Deep: The Media’s Beauty Standards and African American Women’s Self-Actualization”
Kathryn Cote – “Turn Loose the Horses: Revealing the True Nature of Dysart’s Tragedy Through Nietzschean Philosophy”

Last Chance to Win [Strasser Prize]

You’re running out of time to submit your best paper to the Strasser Writing Prize!
UHPers can win a grand prize of $100 or one of two runner-up prizes of $50. You can only enter one paper from any UHP course during the past year, so make sure it’s your best!
Submit your entry online after reading the full rules (which have changed from last year).  This year’s deadline for entries is Friday, March 1st, 2013.
You’ve already written the paper, now submit!

Excellent Writer? Win Cash! [Strasser Prize]

Have you entered the 2013 Strasser Writing Prize!
UHPers can win a grand prize of $100 or one of two runner-up prizes of $50. You can only enter one paper from any UHP course during the past year, so make sure it’s your best!
Submit your entry online after reading the full rules (which have changed from last year).  This year’s deadline for entries is Friday, March 1st, 2013.
You’ve already written the paper, now submit!

Enter the Strasser Writing Prize

The UHP is now accepting your entries for the 2013 Strasser Writing Prize!
The Strasser prize awards a grand prize of $100 and two runner-ups of $50 to the best papers written in any Honors course over the past year.  You can only enter one paper, so make sure it’s your best!
Submit your entry online after reading the full rules (which have changed from last year).  This year’s deadline for entries is Friday, March 1st, 2013.
You’ve already written the paper, now submit!