2015 Awards Ceremony

WRTC Outstanding Minor, Daniel Vieth, receives award April 23, 2015

The School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication's 2015 Awards Ceremony and Reception took place on Thursday, April 23, 2015 in the JMU Festival Ballroom.

The following students received recognition:

Outstanding Student Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student: Brooke Covington

Outstanding Major Student: Charity O’Connor

Outstanding Minor Student: Daniel Vieth

Madison Writing Awards

First Place Winner: Rachel Palkovitz

Second Place Winner: April Pickens

Honorable Mention: Melvin Scott Bouboulis

Honorable Mention: Austin Shifflett

Scholarship Winners

Write of Passage Scholarship Winner: Gabriel Lee

Kessler-Arasanyin Scholarship Winner: Allison Capley

Whitten Maher Scholarship Winner: Lauren Hunt

Lexia Online Journal

Dylan Owens: On Dealing with Life

Jackie Brennan: On Wordsmithing and Chaplin and Misplacement of the Soul

Tyler Morris: The Writer's Room: From Coffee Shop to Small Screen

Bea Chua: Confessions of a Part-time Baker

Peter Belechak: Candy Crush Saga and Society: How One Game Has Exploited Our Technological Dependence to Achieve Unprecedented Success

Katherine Sederstrom: Art for Consumers' Sake

Daniel Vieth: The Impact of Sports Metaphors on the Media and Public Sphere

Stephanie Pasewaldt: A Healthy Mind

Giuliana Macaluso: Life, Death, and Somewhere in Between

Kristen Baker and Marta Vucci (co-authors): L.E.G.O.: Leave Everyone's Gender Out

Eryn Mann: Dog Food: Cooking as a JMU Student