$750 awarded to the first-place student group and $250 to the second-place group for demonstrating excellence in professional writing produced in English 3304. Honoraria are also awarded to the instructors.

First-place winners 

• Jane Parry
• Zach Leder
• Ansley Scott
• Jack Lammert
• Colin Langan

Second-place winners

• Alaina Doklovic
• Emily Swick
• John Ostrowski

This $4,500 award is given to an undergraduate student and is to be used for the improvement of their professional writing abilities. Candidates must be majoring in any science, technology or engineering discipline and minoring in professional writing in the Department of English. 

Winner 

• Jacob Claggett

Awarded to the best essay or nonfiction book chapter by an undergraduate student.

Winner

• Manny Heilman

Honorable Mentions

• Maddie Conley
• Cynthia Lynn Schneider

First place $600; second place $300; third place $150 for the best short story by an undergraduate. 

First-place winner 

• Cynthia Lynn Schneider 

Second-place winner 

• Liam Nigro

Third-place winner 

• Sanjana Ranade

First place $750; second place $350; third place $200 for the best piece of creative writing (any genre) by an undergraduate woman. 

First-place winner 

• Margaret Livingston

Second-place winner 

• Piper Womelsdorf

Third-place winner 

• Jade Josie

$1,500 for the best group of poems by any Ohio State English major.

Winner

• Cynthia Lynn Schneider

This $100 award, also called the Arthur Rense Prize, honors the best poem or group of no more than three poems. Submissions are open to graduate and undergraduate students. 

Honorable Mention

• Ty Williams

This $11,000 scholarship is awarded to an Ohio State English major who has demonstrated a serious interest in Creative Writing. It may be used for tuition and fees, room and board, and other educational expenses. This scholarship has been generously provided by author R.L. Stine, an Ohio State English alumnus (B.A. 1965) and award-winning author of children’s horror stories including the famous Goosebumps series. 

Winner 

• Nalijah Daniels

Honorable Mention

• Sarah Grace Smith

$100 recognizing outstanding student digital media project(s) completed in an undergraduate course in the Department of English.

Winners

• Halle Deutsch
• Liz Hardy
• Lucy Marchese
• Richard Sanders

Awarded to a researched essay that best demonstrates excellence in analysis, use of researched materials and academic form.

Winner

• Thomas DeFoor  

Awarded to an outstanding Symposium project that extends research to new audiences through multimodal composing.

Winner

• Ryan Kuederle

he Lord Denney’s Players Shakespeare Prizes recognize critical and scholarly writing by undergraduates enrolled in introductory and advanced Shakespeare courses in the English department. The winners of these awards will each receive a $200 scholarship. 

Introductory Shakespeare Prize Winner

• Molly Sheridan

Advanced Shakespeare Prize Winner

• Joey Clegg

Open to undergraduate students of all colleges and majors throughout the university, the Lord Denney’s Players sonnet competition is designed to encourage creative expression modeled on Shakespeare’s most famous poetic form.

1st Place Winner

• Lindsay Rogers, "The Constants"

2nd Place Winner

• Jade Josie, "From the Deep"

Honorable Mention

• Lindsay Rogers, "A Silent World"

This scholarship recognizes an excellent English major who demonstrates financial need. Preference is given to students who graduated from high schools in the Appalachia region and students who are first-generation college students, students who have overcome substantial educational or economic obstacles, or students who have experience living or working in diverse environments. The recipient of this award receives a $2250 scholarship.

Winners

• Xarles Bryan
• Abigail Christiansen

The Robert N. and Sharon S. Gandee Endowed Scholarship awards $1,000 to a junior or senior English major with a declared Pre-Education concentration who is a graduate of public high school, who demonstrates financial need and who demonstrates leadership abilities.

Winner

• Chloe Merriman

The $500 Sena award is designed to recognize and encourage excellence in English studies at the undergraduate level. It is awarded to a student who shows tremendous potential as an English major.

Winner

• Piper Womelsdorf

This scholarship recognizes excellence in an English major from an under-represented Ohio State student population. 

Winner 

• Jayasree Sunkireddy 

The Denney Award is the most prestigious award offered by the Department of English. This $500 prize goes to the most outstanding graduating English major.

Winner

• Brittany Halley

Honorable Mention

• Ruby Napora
• Nate Super

Nominees

• Amber Alexander
• Ema Davis
• Em Deimling
• Meredith Gehrlich
• Flavia Fernandes Lobato
• Amy Mabey
• Deepal Nadar
• Cynthia Lynn Schneider
• Piper Womelsdorf

Named in honor of Ohio State Emeritus English Professor David Frantz, this annual award recognizes the most outstanding thesis completed by an English major during the previous three semesters. The writer of the winning thesis receives $500.

Winners

• Jeremiah Jackson
• David Martz

This annual award is designed to recognize critical and scholarly writing by undergraduates enrolled in upper-level courses offered by the Department of English at The Ohio State University. The winner of this award will receive a $500 scholarship.

Winner

• Anna Sherman

Recognizes excellence in composition at the undergraduate level.

Winner

• Nate Super

The Arnold and Frances Shapiro International Scholarship was established by the late Arnie Shapiro, professor of English at The Ohio State University from 1962-1991, and his wife, Fran, to help English majors and minors study abroad through the department's study abroad programs. Individual awards are available up to $1,000.

Winners

• Emily Cunningham
• Nalijah Daniels
• Katie Koenig
• Brian O'Rourke
• Sofia Racevskis
• Casey Ziegler

The English Prize for Best Scholarship on Social Justice is given to the best academic paper or multimodal project produced in a Department of English undergraduate course in the past year. Submissions should demonstrate a critical engagement with issues of diversity, justice, and/or equity in their study of literature, rhetoric, narrative, or folklore. Projects may take the form of written essay, digital essay, creative work, or any other mode of scholarly or creative expression. The winner of this award will receive a $100 honorarium.

Winner

• Nate Super

The Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum is an annual event that showcases research projects from the brightest undergraduates at Ohio State. Since 1995, the Denman family has supported this forum, and continue to promote Ohio State as alumni.

The Denman Forum provides an opportunity for graduating student researchers to share their research endeavors with the broader community.  This is our only competitive poster forum in which winners are recognized in each category as determined by faculty reviewers.  Reviewers look for students to be able to effectively communicate their research process and results to a non-specific audience in both their written poster content and accompanying oral presentation.  During the Denman Forum, we celebrate not only the hard work of these students, but also the dedication of their faculty research mentors.

Accepted

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