Student News -- Academic Honors, Prizes, and Awards
Congratulations to Michael Rose for placing second in a national writing competition!
Michael Rose has won a national distinction, having been named one of four runners-up in the prestigious essay competition, the 2007 Norton Scholar’s Prize. Rose, an undergraduate at UB majoring both in English and in Film Studies, won this honor for his essay, “Chaucer’s Reading of Petrarch: A Dialogic Criticism.” Rose’s essay uses the Clerk’s avoidance of declaring Boccaccio as his actual source as a launching pad for a discussion of class- and gender conflicts at the heart of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Rose’s essay offers nuanced readings both of the The Clerk’s Tale and of the socio-cultural background shared by Chaucer, the Clerk, and his dual (and dueling) sources, Boccaccio and Petrarch. Showing a keen sense of the history of criticism of Chaucer, Rose provides in his essay a fresh perspective powerful enough to gain his own critical acclaim. Kudos to Michael Rose.
A special congratulations to the graduates of our class of 2007!
Marina Blitshteyn - Honorable Mention for the Academy of American Poets Prize, and winner of “The Skin I am In” essay contest.
Daniel Chappell - Winner of the Cook, Hammond, Logan Prize for poetry.
Yonghee Cho - Winner of the Cook, Hammond, Logan Prize for poetry and fiction.
Brian Danielak - Recipient of the CAS Outstanding Senior Award, and winner of the Capen Prize from Phi Beta Kappa.
Christopher Drellow - Winner of the Houpt Prize for excellence and proficiency in the work of the English Department, and the winner of the Axlerod Memorial Award for poetry.
Jordan Gerow - Winner of the Axlerod Memorial Award for poetry.
Justin Haag - Winner of the “Story of the Year” Award.
Alexander Johnston- Winner of the English Department Essay Contest for the best critical essay written in a U.B. undergraduate English course.
Jungmin Kim- Winner of the Scribblers Prize for the best piece of creative writing by an undergraduate woman, and Honorable Mention for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for fiction.
Jenna Meyer- Winner of the Friends of the University Libraries Prize.
Maura Pellettieri- Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for fiction.
Peter Rizzo - Winner of the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, and winner of the “Story of the Year” Award.
Mary Sarsfield- Honorable Mention for the Scribblers Prize.
Balbir Singh - Winner of the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Kelly Warth - Winner of the Leroy Smith Memorial Prize for excellence in journalism.
