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Senior paper prize: 1,000 Euros for your academic excellence听
The Sin-ming Shaw 鈥�65 Award for Excellence, which carries a monetary prize of 1,000 euros, is conferred each year on a graduating senior for an outstanding final paper. The intention is to inspire you to think across disciplines and to combine creativity and academic rigor in your work.
AUP alumnus Sin-ming Shaw is a former member of AUP鈥檚 Board of Trustees and a recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Service Alumni Award. He also worked as a professional investor and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford, Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. The Award for Excellence was established on his initiative in 1997 and many outstanding students have benefited from it in the decades since. 听
Recent winning papers include:
- Yelena Menard: 鈥淚ndigenous Rights Beyond International Law: Sami of Sweden and the Challenge of Legal Recognition in Domestic Court鈥�
- Paulina Trigos:听鈥淪ue帽os y Quimeras / Dreams and Chimeras - A Memoir"
- Lynn Elhadjali: "Shifting Tides: The Unheard Tales of Syrian Refugees in the Face of Lebanon鈥檚 Water Crisis"
- Jasmine Cowen: "Japanese Buddhist Funerary Rites in听America: Internment, Integration, and the Negotiation of Japanese-American Identities,"听and William Ihrig:听Outside Impressionism: Naturalist Responses to Modernity,鈥�
- Anita Maksymchuk 听鈥淎 Critical Analysis of ICT4D* in Sub-Saharan Africa through a Comparison of Modernization Theory鈥�
- Lilly Schreiter听"Demain and its Network: A Magazine's Fight Against the Great War"
Audrey Michels, the 2016 winner, said: 鈥淔or me, applying for the Sin-ming Shaw Award was a culmination of my three years at AUP and a chance to put my best and most passionate work in front of a committee of people I respect and admire. I grew so much and had so much fun creating my senior thesis with Professor Gilbert that the opportunity to share our work with others, alongside the papers of my incredible peers, was a fantastic way to celebrate what we鈥檇 all achieved that year. Winning was wonderful and I received many kind words from professors and friends after the ceremony, but participating was even better.鈥�
Your submission should have been written or produced for an upper-level course during your last two regular undergraduate terms at AUP prior to graduation. In order to enter, you only need to submit a paper you have already written.
Good luck! The faculty looks forward to reading your submissions.
How is the prize awarded?
The award is given for a senior paper that meets the award criteria for academic rigor and creativity. A selection committee composed of members of the faculty will choose the awardee.听
GUIDELINES FOR THE SIN-MING SHAW 鈥�65 AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
- You may submit only one paper for the prize;
- Your submission should have been written or produced for an upper level course (numbered 3000 or above) during your last two regular undergraduate terms at AUP prior to graduation
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TO APPLY FOR THE AWARD, SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING:听
- A digital copy of your paper
- An unofficial transcript that includes your most recent grades.
Please send your documents to Brenda Torney in the Office of Academic Affairs (btorney
aup.edu). They must be in her hands no later than听May 7, 2021. Please make sure that you provide the Office with an address, telephone number or e-mail where you can be contacted.
The Sin-ming Shaw 鈥�65 Award for Excellence Faculty Review Committee looks听forward to your participation and to reviewing your intellectual accomplishments.听
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PREVIOUS SIN-MING SHAW 鈥�65 AWARD RECIPIENTS:
- 2024 鈥� Yelena Menard: 鈥淚ndigenous Rights Beyond International Law: Sami of Sweden and the Challenge of Legal Recognition in Domestic Court鈥�
- 2023 鈥撎齈aulina Trigos:听鈥淪ue帽os y Quimeras / Dreams and Chimeras - A Memoir"
- 2022听鈥� Lynn Elhadjali: "Shifting Tides: The Unheard Tales of Syrian Refugees in the Face of Lebanon鈥檚 Water Crisis"
- 2021听鈥� Jasmine Cowen: "Japanese Buddhist Funerary Rites in听America: Internment, Integration, and the Negotiation of Japanese-American Identities,"听and William Ihrig:听Outside Impressionism: Naturalist Responses to Modernity,鈥�
- 2020听鈥� Anita Maksymchuk 听鈥淎 Critical Analysis of ICT4D* in Sub-Saharan Africa through a Comparison of Modernization Theory鈥�
- 2019 鈥撎齃illy Schreiter听"Demain and its Network: A Magazine's Fight Against the Great War"
- 2018 鈥� Sarah Thomas:听"Sexual Dissidents in US Asylum Law." Read the full 2018 Committee Award Statement (pdf) including all听honorable mentions
- 2017 鈥� Kendra Mills: 鈥淭hree Contradictions of Women鈥檚 Rights in Rwanda: Redefining Identity, Power, and Elitism鈥�
- 2016 鈥� Audrey Michels: 鈥淎 Lost Generation of Lost Boys鈥� and Amanda Skaar: 鈥淭he Malagasy Sovereign Rating鈥�
- 2015 鈥� Jerusalem Parsons 鈥淚 & I: Irigaray, Writing, and Female Identity鈥�
- 2014 鈥� Dana Kianfar: 鈥淗andshake Application鈥� and Monica Sellidj: 鈥淭he Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute鈥�
- 2013 鈥� Lucile Culver: 鈥�(De)-Constructing Knighthood: An Examination of the Spatiality of Chivalry in听Sir Gawain and the Green Knight听and听The Romance of Tristan鈥�
- 2012 鈥� Mona Reiserer: 鈥淚llustrating David Grossman鈥檚听Momik鈥� and Alban Demiraj and Anas Bouzoubaa: 鈥淐an Collecting Autonomous Mobil Robot鈥�
- 2011 鈥� Sophia Bogner: 鈥淜afka and the Fly Bottle鈥�
- 2010 鈥� Lilyana Yankova: 鈥淰irginia Woolf and the Art of Collage鈥�
- 2009 鈥� Jan Steyn: 鈥淭he Guilty Goddess of My Harmful Deeds鈥�
- 2008 鈥� Caroline Klaeth Eriksen: 鈥淐ompulsory Religious Education in Norwegian Public Schools 鈥� Violating the Human Rights of Minorities and Trespassing the Margin of Appreciation鈥�
- 2007 鈥� Julie Leitz: 鈥淏ilingualism as a Lifestyle Factor: The Protective Effect of Speaking Two Languages鈥�
- 2006 鈥� Maya Stoilova: 鈥淚mages of the Middle Ages in听A la Recherche du temps perdu鈥�
- 2005 鈥� Elif Eren 鈥淪woosh: Nike and the Paradigm of Consumer Belief鈥�
- 2004 鈥� Caroline Laurent: 鈥淲riting the Holocaust: the Self, the Real, and Trauma鈥�
- 2003 鈥� Anna Kazantseva: 鈥淲ebgeni, a Website Generating Tool for AUP Student Publications鈥�
- 2002 鈥� Nils Schott: 鈥�Peut-on imaginer un repas sans Badoit ?听The Genre of the Catechism, Ulysses and the Failure of Epiphany鈥�
- 2001 鈥� Alex Kunadze: 鈥淭he Student Government Network Broadcasting and Communication System鈥�
- 2000 鈥� Lauren Anderson
- 1999 鈥� Karyn Heavner听
- 1998 鈥� Natalia Lechmanova, Leigh Thomas, Katrin Wirth
- 1997 鈥� Monica Heslington, Marta Lee Perriard, Jason Wood