http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_atlas
First Prize: $10,000
3 Second Prizes: $2,000
5 Third Prizes: $1,000
Plus cash awards to finalists and semifinalists
Essay on an Atlas Shrugged topic; see website for this year’s topic.
Open to all registered college students.
Deadline is mid-September.
www.eliewieselfoundation.org/prizeinethics.aspx
First prize: $5,000
Second Prize: $2,500
Third Prize: $1,500
Honorable Mentions: $500 each
The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest is an annual contest designed to challenge college students to analyze the urgent ethical issues confronting them today. Topics are suggested each year, but students are free to write about any topic as long as it pertains to ethics.
Open to juniors and seniors.
Deadline is early December.
http://www.essaycompetition.org/index_1
Prizes of $5,000 and $1,000
Essay topics change each year. In 2008 the topic was, "What can you do to shape the city of your dreams?"
Open to anyone 18-25 years of age.
Deadline is mid-March.
Undergraduate
2008 National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship Recipients - Paul Anderson '08 and Matthew Olexa '07
2008 Fulbright Scholarship Recipient, Austria - Kathleen Bradley '08
2008 Fulbright Scholarship Recipient, Russia - Omar Mohamad '08
2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Recipient - Gregory Stoddard '10
2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention - Matthew Dornfeld '09 and Boris Tadchiev '09
2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention - Nicholaus Parziale '08
2008 Patricia Kerr Ross Award - John Wilson '08
2008 Union of University Professionals College Scholarship - Tsz Ting Tam '10
2008 USA TODAY All-Academic Team Honorable Mention - Sebastian Rodriguez '08
2007 Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship Recipient - Eralda Mema '08
2007 Math for America Fellowship Recipient - Zenon Borys '07
2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Scholarship Recipient - Daniel Eisenberg '05
2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Scholarship Recipient - Matthew Gervais '06
2006 Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship - Bess Greenberg '01
J. W. Saxe Memorial Prize - Norah Garber '05
Truman Scholar - Ravi Gupta '05
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Junior Fellowship - Alina Tourkova '04
Graduate
2008-2011 Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship and 2008 Whitney Museum Internship - Jennifer Kennedy (Art History)
2008 NIH Predoctoral Fellowship - Casey Schofield (Psychology)
2008 Thayer Fellowship - Deborah Poe (English)
2008 Fulbright Scholarship Recipient, Germany - Stewart Anderson (History)
2008 Fulbright Scholarship Recipient, Paraguary - Katherine Arnoldi (English)
2008 Fulbright Scholarship Recipient, Finland - Geoffrey McGovern (Political Science)
2008 Fulbright Scholarship Recipient, Mexico - Julie Vandusky (Political Science)
2008 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant - Bilge Firat (Anthropology)
2008 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant - Amy Groleau (Anthropology)
2008 IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunity Fellowship and a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant - William Pavlovich (Anthropology)
2008 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant - Jeremy Wilson (Anthropology)
2008 Chilean Government Predoctoral Fellowship - Mario Laborda (Psychology)
2007-2008 Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellowship Award - Natasha Becker (Art History)
2007 Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant - Jennifer Bauder (Anthropology)
2006-2009 EPA Graduate Research Opportunities Doctoral Fellowship - Rebecca Urban (Biology)
2006-2007 Junior Residential Fellowship, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Turkey - Deniz Karakas
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