Three students from the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences have won this year’s Louis Agassiz Prize for Writing Excellence.<\/p>\n
Michael Collins<\/strong>, a biology major, won first prize of $1,500.\u00a0Abraham Feinberg<\/strong>, a physiology major won second prize, $1,000, and environmental science major\u00a0Ben Williams<\/strong>\u00a0won third prize, $500. The three were selected from more than 40 essays submitted from across campus.<\/p>\n The Louis Agassiz Prize is awarded annually to the winner of an essay competition for undergraduates. Prize winners were selected by an eight-person editorial board representing both the sciences and the humanities. It included alumni and faculty members.<\/p>\n This year’s topic was “The Limits of Scientific Knowledge,” and essays were judged on originality of ideas, persuasiveness, clarity and elegance of language.<\/p>\n The winning essays can be found\u00a0online<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"