Undergraduate Essay Awards List
2024-25 Peter Rotter Writing Prize
| Name | Prize | Essay Title |
| Avery Ngo | 2025 Peter Rotter Writing Prize | “Beauvoir and Abortion” |
| Yueyang Liu | 2025 Peter Rotter Writing Prize | “Toxic Discourse: The Case of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA” |
| Zaid Bustami | 2024 Peter Rotter Writing Prize | “Wilshire Boulevard: A Tale of the Privileged and the Oppressed” |
| Max Davis-Housefield | 2024 Peter Rotter First-Year Writing Prize | “Proxima b and the Search for a Habitable World” |
| Elisa Di | 2024 Peter Rotter First-Year Writing Prize | “The Silent Symphony: Unveiling the Artistry of Punctuation in Prose” |
2024-25 Tom Davey Science Writing Prize
| Name | Prize | Essay Title |
| Manasi Vartak | 2025 Tom Davey Science Writing Prize | “Implementing Green Infrastructure Near Industrial Zones in Los Angeles County: A Versatile Initiative to Combat Food Insecurity” |
| Nathan Brice | 2024 Tom Davey Science Writing Prize | “The Edge of Memory” |
2024-25 Teague-Melville Writing Prize
| Name | Prize | Essay Title |
| Samuel Matsumoto | 2025 Teague-Melville Writing Prize | “The Role of Eugenics in the Scopes Trial” |
| Micah Hoffman | 2025 Teague-Melville Writing Prize | “On Writing” |
| Kiersta Donnelly | 2025 Teague-Melville Writing Prize | “Tucker Carlson’s Populist Playbook” |
| Catie Long | 2024 Teague-Melville Writing Prize | “Rewire, Reframe, Rewrite: Gender and Mechanicity in Thrilling Adventures and Hidden Figures” |
| Natalie Tsubamoto | 2024 Teague-Melville Writing Prize | “CAR T Cell Therapy – The future of cancer treatment?” |
| Victor Xie | 2024 Teague-Melville Writing Prize | “Embracing the Posthuman: Subverting Techno-Orientalism and Reclaiming Asian Futurity in Light from Uncommon Stars and Salt Fish Girl“ |