The best work of the year from Focused Inquiry students. Submit your coursework from UNIV 111, 112, and 200 here to win prizes and publication.
Click on the plus (+) sign to open the category menu; click on the arrow to obtain a shareable link for each specific category.- Felipe Joglar-Viera (1st place, 2020) – “First Day”
- Katie Thompson (2nd place, 2020) – “Disfellowshipped”
- Zhila Pirnazar (3rd place, 2020) – “I ‘S’ound Different”
- Mary Williams (1st place, 2019) – “A Place in Pieces”
- Jhane Robinson (2nd place, 2019) – “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Cut off Your Hair”
- Jenna Werneth (Honorable Mention, 2019) – “Breathing 101: Coping with Mental Health Issues”
- Maya Charlton (1st place, 2020) – “Opportunity Cost: The Challenges of Having a Working-Class Identity in Academia”
- Eliana Espel (2nd place, 2020) – “Dear Council”
- Mikaela Peters (3rd place, 2020) – “Self-Perception in an Oppressive Society”
- Joseph Mustachio (1st place, 2019) – “Empowerment through Acceptance”
- Chaewon Lee (2nd place, 2019) – “Seeking Connection in Silence: The Rothko Room”
- Gabrielle Gurdin (Honorable Mention, 2019) – “May the Doors of this Synagogue Be Wide Enough”
- Arden Gentry (1st place, 2020) – “The Invisible Woman: Motherhood in America’s Prisons”
- Maya Charlton (2nd place, 2020) – “Facebook and the Violation of Privacy Rights”
- Cabell Willoughby Jones (3rd place, 2020) – “We Need Our Space: The Ethics of Space Warfare”
- Chaewon Lee (1st place, 2019) – “Miss Saigon: A Discussion of Ethics in Contemporary Musical Theater”
- Emma Claire Clark (2nd place, 2019) – “Resolving Conflict Between the Blackfeet and National Park Service at Glacier National Park”
- Chaewon Lee (1st place, 2020) – “David and Goliath, Or Are They?: An Evaluation of Artist and Market Tendencies in 1960s America”
- Madeleine Dugan (2nd place, 2020) – “A Cock in the System: How The Feminist Art Movement Revolutionized the Art World”
- Claire Garnier (2nd place, 2019) – “Race and Child Rearing: How Breastfeeding Disparity Affects African American Mothers and Their Children”
- Ashlyn Senger (Honorable Mention, 2019) – “The Great Unequalizer: Education Inequality in America”
UNIV 112 contest winners: multimodal projects
- Moira Snyder (1st place, 2020) – “Trust and Corruption” (website/montage; author bio)
- Andrea Chavez (2nd place, 2020) – “Unseen” (art work; author bio)
- Julie Lam (3rd place, 2020) – “My Grandparents” (video; author bio)
- Jaya Matteis (1st place, 2019) – “Brown and Blue” (comic)
- Chaewon Lee (2nd place, 2019) – “Valeria Luiselli on Language” (video)
- Octavia L. Christopher (Honorable Mention, 2019) – “Liberated Travels” (website)
UNIV 200 contest winners: multimodal translation, transformation or remediation project
- Gracie Tecala (1st place, 2020) – “New Families Can Live Tiny” (infographic/brochure; author bio)
- Haseb Alim (2nd place, 2020) – “Reading Matters” (video; author bio)
- Leonie Brightly (3rd place, 2020) – “Healing Hospital Interiors” (website; author bio)
- Michala Wildman (1st place, 2019) – “How Tattoos Improve Emotional Wellbeing for People Who Have Been Through Traumatic Events” (video)
- Joy Westkaemper (2nd place, 2019) – “You Can’t Tell Me I Don’t Exist – I’m Right Here” (video)
- Catherine Zalewski (Honorable Mention, 2019) – “How Accepting is America of Immigrants?” (infographic)
Each year the department also honors the best in-class presentations. Professors nominate students from their UNIV 111, 112, & 200 courses to re-present their work as part of the annual VC-Utalk Student Speaker series, which takes place each spring during the FI EXPO.
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