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.- Ashley Vu (1st place, 2021) – “Eyes”
- Sweta Parajuli (2nd place, 2021) – “A Tale of Two Rooms”
- Felipe Joglar-Viera (1st place, 2020) – “First Day”
- Katie Thompson (2nd place, 2020) – “Disfellowshipped”
- Zhila Pirnazar (3rd place, 2020) – “I ‘S’ound Different”
- Kiya Lawler (1st place, 2021) – “With Great Power Comes No Responsibility: The Ways in Which Subordinate Groups Must Change Everything, While Dominant Groups Command Everything”
- Aleena Milburn (2nd place, 2021) – “Unsightly Struggles in the Subordinate College Life”
- 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”
- Gracie Berneche (1st place, 2021) – “Supersize the Media”
- Paola Veliz (2nd place, 2021) – “Lack of Empathy: The Crude Reality of the Nuisance Property Ordinance”
- 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”
- Jesse Seppi (1st place, 2021) – “Save the Bees to Save the World”
- Avery Shover (2nd place, 2021) – “The Relationship Between Bee Population Decline and the Four Spheres of Earth”
- Sean Youngstone (3rd place, 2021) – “Whither Germanizatsiya?: Kaliningrad as a locus of constructed memory, history, and identity”
- 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”
UNIV 112 contest winners: multimodal projects
- Allison Fletcher (1st place, 2021) – “Legacy” (video, author bio)
- Aleena Milburn (2nd place, 2021) – “The Valiant Green Train: A Story About Courage in a Whirlwind of Oppression” (video, author bio)
- Chloe Landry (3rd place, 2021) – “From Blindness to Sight” (video, author bio)
- 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)
UNIV 200 contest winners: multimodal translation, transformation or remediation project
- Abiola Ogungbade (1st place, 2021) – “‘Masking’ Our True Identities_ Do We Know Who They Are” (author bio)
- Robert Kendall (2nd place, 2021) – “EV Charger Map” (interactive story map; author bio)
- Amber Ekizoglu (3rd place, 2021) – “The Gatekeepers” (presentation, author bio)
- 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)
For several years, the department also honored the best in-class presentations as part of the annual VC-Utalk Student Speaker series, which took place in the spring term during the FI EXPO. See these public student presentations by clicking on the links below.
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