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During the ceremony, which took place on April 9 in the Feliciano School of Business, awards were given for outstanding work in First-Year Writing as well as in other Public and Professional Writing (PPW) classes. Outstanding students in the PPW major were also inducted into the Pi Epsilon Pi national honor society and we celebrated our fabulous Writing Studies interns.

First-Year Writing Exemplary Essay Awards went to Marcel Camargo for their WRIT105 essay “Bathroom Bills Don’t Promote Safety, They Encourage Fear,” to Breanna Fabi for her WRIT106 essay, “Chic, Sharp, and Shifting: Exploring Gender Fluidity in A Simple Favor,” and to Xavier Lighten for his WRIT106 ethnographic study, “A Study of American Cuisine: Ethnography Through the Lens of a New American Steakhouse.” Honorable Mentions were given in WRIT105 to Monica Morales for her essay, “In the Motion There’s Meaning,” to Jaylene Espinoza for her WRIT106 essay “Unverified, Unchecked: The Digital Panic of the Blue Whale Challenge,” and to Sophia Chernyshova for her WRIT106 ethnographic study, “Peanuts, Tree Nuts, and Dualism.”

The Outstanding Multimodal Composition award was given to First-Year Writing student Aixa Zavaleta for her video PSA project, “Importas,” while an Honorable Mention was given to Aaron Abitbol for his YouTube video, “Road to Recovery.”

Awards were also given for outstanding work in the Professional and Public Writing major courses. The Award for Excellence in Social Media Writing went to Emily Santos for her Social Media Content for Micro Internship with One Square Mile: Early College Program in Paterson, NJ. Awards for Excellence in Professional Writing went to Ana Alvarado and Alexia Rosario for their Recipe Cards & Social Media Content, created for their Micro Internship with CUMAC, in Paterson, NJ. Last but not least, the Award for Excellence in Public Writing went to PPW intern Kira Paul for her Op-Ed: The STEM Teacher Pipeline is Waning. We Can Rebuild It.