GANNON UNIVERSITY POETRY
CONTEST 2022
First
Place: “Rituals”
by Jordan Seroka
M.S. Program in Physician Assistant
Second
Place: “Trees"
by Kathryn Dickey
Senior, Social Work major
Third
Place: “Suspicious Monsoon”
by Mohammad Arifful Islam
MBA Program in Business Analytics
Honorable Mentions:
“Trauma Gut”
by Kathryn Dickey
Senior, Social Work major
“Seeking”
by Sunil Kumar Mahato
Master of Science Program in Mechanical Engineering
“The Divide”
by Jordan Seroka
M.S. Program in Physician Assistant
“God Brought a Beach Towel”
by Breanna Womble
Junior, Theatre/Communications major
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL POETRY
CONTEST 2022
First place: "Chicken
(Lover)"
by Avantika Singh
Edgemont Junior-Senior High School
Scarsdale, NJ
Second place: "Earth
Boy"
by Marcel Rose,
Appomattox Regional Governors School
Petersburg, VA
Third place:
"Sarmale"
by Dana Serea,
Rutherford High School
Rutherford, NJ
Honorable Mentions: "The First Time"
by Harrison Jurenko
School of the Arts
Rochester, NY
"in blue blood our love shines bright"
by Jamie Nguyen
Homestead High School
Sunnyvale, CA
"To the
Roads" by Skyler Pulling
Spence School
New York, NY
"Kindergarten (2011)"
by Avantika Singh
Edgemont Junior-Senior High School
Scarsdale, NJ
RESEARCH
WRITING 2022
GRADUATE CATEGORY
First
Place (tie): “Glyphosate: Emerging
Issues and Human Health Effects”
by Susannah Harris
M.S. Environmental Science & Management program
“Cricket and Predictive Analysis Using Deep Neural Networking”
by Muhammad Usman
M.S. Computer and Information Science
Second
Place: “Occupational
Therapy Education in the Foster Care System”
by Elyse Kay
Occupational Therapy Doctoral program
Third Place: “The Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act: The Policy Process of Re-Inventing American
Health Care”
by Ethan Bennett
Master of Public Administration program
UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY
First
Place: “Examining the
Rhetorical Practices of W.I.T.C.H.”
by Madeline Bruce
Senior, English major
Second
Place: “Food Insecurity in
Context”
by Daniel Baker
Senior, Social Work and Foreign Language major
Third
Place (tie): “A Critical Anthology to
Accompany Laurie Halse Anderson’s Novel Speak”
by Melissa Carlson (Junior, English/Education, and Theology major)
Lia Eberlein (Sophomore, English major)
Ali Smith (Sophomore, English major)
Faith Williams (Junior, English/Education major)
“The Effects of Anxiety
Disorder on the Different Life Aspects of College
Students”
by My Ngo
Junior, Biology major
“Student
Homelessness in Pennsylvania”
by Faith Wilson
Junior, Social Work major
FRESHMAN CATEGORY
1st Place: “But I Want To: College Students Using
First-Person Pronouns”
by Emily Lynch
Sophomore, Theatre Design & Technologies major
2nd Place: “Differences in Academic Performance at
the University Level for Single-sex
and Coeducated Students”
by Stephen H. McCallum
Sophomore, Finance major
Third
Place: “Heart Attacks in Women”
by Mia Ambuski
Sophomore, Chemistry/Pre-Med major
JOURNALISM CONTEST
2022
News
First Place: “Mauro
transitions into president at Alfred State College”
by Madeline Bruce
Senior, English major
Op-Ed
First Place: “The
systemic roots of working an unlovable job”
by Anna Malesiewski
Sophomore, Journalism Communication/Digital Media major
Second Place: “The
importance of personal identity”
by Ali Smith
Junior, Secondary Education/English major
Features
First Place: “Push
to de-gender occurs in Spanish language”
by Ali Smith
Junior, Secondary Education/English major
Second Place: “Kerr
presented service learning award”
by Anna Malesiewski
Sophomore, Journalism Communication/Digital Media major
Reviews
First Place: “Swift
strikes emotional chord in Fans with ‘Red’”
by Lia Eberlein
Sophomore, English major
Second Place: “’Call
her Daddy’ masquerades as feminist”
by Anna Malesiewski
Sophomore, Journalism Communication/Digital Media major
Photo
First Place: I-Hack
Building
by Nadya Makay
Master of Business Administration graduate student
Sports
First Place: “Women’s
basketball team wins; men’s team struggles”
by Tim Corso
Freshman, Journalism Communication major
Second Place: “Women,
men capture close victories over UPJ”
by Tim Corso
Freshman, Journalism Communication major
Totem Art Award: “Comfort in the Sky”
by Leah Applebee
Senior, Psychology major