The 2019 Julian Clement Chase Prize for undergraduate writing about
Washington, DC is awarded to:
Adam Graubart, Human Services and Social Justice
for his research study,
"Pursuing Tzedek: D.C. Synagogues Building Movements for Social Justice."
Our congratulations to Adam for this honor. As a Human Services and Social Justice major, Graubart enrolled in many community engaged scholarship courses while at GW. He was also involved in local community organizing, and represented GW as the Campus Compact Newman Fellow.
Many community engaged scholarship courses include written assignments that could be submitted for the Chase Prize. Please encourage your students to do so.
The Julian Clement Chase Prize Award is named in honor of Sgt. Julian Clement Chase, a native of Washington, DC who graduated in 2008 from DC's Wilson High School. While serving with the United States Marine Corps, he was killed in action in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He was set to matriculate as a freshman GW in Spring 2013. He knew and relished his city. His family has established this prize in his honor to recognize others who explore DC with the intelligence and exuberance that he did.
The ceremony also kicked off the University Writing and Research Conference, during which undergraduates present research completed in their first-year writing courses. The conference takes place today.
