FYE Prize
Candace Carlucci Backus '66 FYE Prize in Honor of Student Academic Achievement in
the First-Year Experience
The First-Year Experience Prize, supported with the generosity of Candace Carlucci
Backus ’66, will be awarded annually to up to three projects by first-year students
in recognition of exceptional scholarly or artistic achievement in the fall’s Scribner
Seminars.
During the spring semester, the First-Year Experience Office will solicit nominations
from the previous fall’s Scribner Seminar instructors. Nominations may be either for
individual or collaborative projects, and may include any kind of exemplary work –
written, visual, or performative. The FYE will then contact nominees and ask them
to submit a sample of work from their Scribner Seminar. A committee of faculty will
establish the criteria, review the submissions and make up to three awards. The successful
prize recipients will agree to share their work in a presentation during the college’s
annual Academic Festival, which occurs the day after classes end in May. FYE Prize
Winners will be acknowledged that same evening at the annual Honors Convocation. The
recipients will also present their work the following fall semester on the Saturday
of Celebration Weekend.
First-year students are encouraged to approach their Scribner Seminar instructors
and ask them to consider submitting a nomination in their name. The Office of the
FYE welcomes nominations of students whose work was truly exceptional and worthy of
community-wide recognition.
Congratulations to the Class of 2015 FYE Prize Winners:
- Julietta Cole '15 – “Nature Journal Entries”
Professor Jennifer Bonner, Seminar: Life in the North Woods - Mayumi Kohiyama '15 – “The Importance of Literacy in Pre-Civil War Slavery”
Professor Rebecca Johnson, Seminar: Reading Minds - Eleanor Wood '15 – “A First Grade Lesson”
Professor Daniel Nathan, Seminar (London): "The British Past in Film"
