Recipients of the Pope Prize '80 Award
2023
Noa Greenspan '23
English
Article: “Before You Stomp”
2022
Harrison Shapiro '22
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Article: “How Can America Stop Lawsuits for Derailing Self-Driving Cars? Vaccines and Light Aircraft May Hold the Answer”
2021
Jasmine Lu '21
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Article: "Constructing & Comparing Microbiome Networks for Healthy and Ear Mite-Infected Santa Catalina Island Foxes," "Predatory Publishing" and "Parasite Got your Tongue?"
2020
Ben Weissenbach
Article: “Traveling Treeline"
2019
Madelyn Broome
Physics
Article: "Where is the Water?"
2018
YiYi (Jessica) Li
Chemistry
Article: "The Unspoken Epidemic of Trauma in Trenton’s Inner-City Youths"
2017
Steffen Seitz
Philosophy
Article: "The Wine Menu from Hell: The Schmidt Insect Sting Pain Index"
2016
Rebecca Tang
Molecular Biology
Article: "Manjul Bhargava: The Midas of Mathematics"
News article: "Reflections from the Ebola Crisis: The fall of vaccine development"
Opinion Article: "In Defense of Angeline Jolie"
2015
Dayton Martindale
Astrophysics
Three submissions: "Begging for Planets", "HAT in Hand", "Star Cross'd Part I, and Star Cross'd Part II".
2014
Lauren Wyman
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Profile of Professor Tullis Onstott entitled "Finding the Hell-Worm"
2013 - 3 Winners
1st Prize
Tara Thean
Collection of journal entries entitled "Scientist at Work: A Bottlenose Dolphin Field Journal" and an article "Citizen Calls"
2nd Prize
Emily Trost
For two submissions, a profile of Gerta Keller entitled "Dirty Science" and a class paper "As the Smoke Still Rises"
3rd Prize
Jeffrey Chen
For two submissions, a profile of Dr. Frances Ashcroft entitled "Love, Fran: The Spark of a Lifelong Diabetes Researcher," and an article "A Sea Creature that can outlive you...Three times over."
Honorable Mention
Maia ten Brink
For her profile of Michael Graziano entitled "Michael Graziano: Experimental Writer"
Abigail Greene
For her profile of Janet Monge entitled "Skeletons in our Past: One Anthropologist's Quest to Make Human Evolution Accessible to us all."