Writing Contest Awards Announced

Brian Pool receives his award from VMI Superintendent Gen. J.H. Binford Peay ’62 III during the Institute Awards ceremony. -- VMI Photo by John Robertson IV.

LEXINGTON, Va., June 11, 2012 – Twelve cadets were selected by faculty judges for awards in the Institute Writing Program’s Academic Writing Contest. The awards were given in five categories and recognize outstanding written work produced throughout the 2011-2012 academic year.

First-year Composition

First – Tyler Hacker ’15, “Defying Gender Stereotypes for Women,” mentor Maj. Mary Beth Pennington.

First – Stephen Caskey ’15, “Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: Operation Ajax and Its Effects on Middle Eastern Relations,” Maj. Mary Beth Pennington.

Second – Rob Franzino’15, “Energizing Cameron Hall,” Lt. Col. Pennie Ticen.

Writing Across the Curriculum

First – Michael Singleton ’13 “’What is my nation?’: The Presentation of Emerging British Nationalism in Shakespeare’s Henry V,” Col. Emily Miller.

Second – Clark Irvine ’13, “’Raise Up My Standard First’: The Defense of the Alcazar (SCW) and the Battle of New Market (USA),” Col. Mary Ann Dellinger.

Third – Eric Alter ’14, “Michel Foucault’s Take on the Panopticon,” Maj. Mary Beth Pennington.

Third – Quinn Adams ’12, “A New U.S. Policy Towards Pakistan: Reviving Multilateral Peacemaking, Enhancing U.S. Soft Power, and a Foreign Policy for the 21st Century,” Brig. Gen. Charles F. Brower III.

Undergraduate Research

First – Cabell Willis ’14, “Self-Expression Under Cover: Identity Revealed Through the Cadet Cover at VMI,” Col. Christina R. McDonald.

Second – John E. Bolen ’14, “A Comparison of Soviet Field Regulations 1929 and 1936: The Development and Adoption of Deep Battle Theory as Soviet Military Doctrine,” Col. Geoff Jensen.

ePortfolio Project

First – Kayla Johnson ’13, “Southern Literature and Culture,” Col. Robert L. McDonald.

First – Cabell Willis ’14, “Writing Under Cover: An Ethnographic Study of Cadets, Their Literacy Practices, and the VMI Experience,” Col. Christina R. McDonald.

Institute Honors Program

First, humanities/social sciences – Brian Pool ’12, “Reel Freedom: The Military as ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in Spanish Cinema Since 1940,” Col. Mary Ann Dellinger.

First, engineering/science – Michael Everett ’12, “CFD Investigation of a Co-Flow Jet’s Effect on the Central Jet of a Concentric Nozzle System,” Maj. Ryan P. Taylor.

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