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Congratulations to Jenai Towuru, winner of the inaugural McDaniel Research Prize, as well as the other two finalists, Dessislava Krasteva and Estefania Luraschi.
On Wednesday December 3, the second round of the first ever McDaniel Research Prize played out before an audience of students, faculty, staff and guests in Room 224. After three excellent presentations, a jury composed of students and faculty members retreated to another room to pick the winner. The decision was hardly easy.
The three finalists included: Estefania Luraschi, Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of LINK-UP, Cameroon, as a Social Enterprise, a study comparing the dynamic social-entrepreneurship model of advocacy for the poor to the static traditional charity model; Dessislava Krasteva, Georgei Markov: A Playwright in a Totalitarian Regime, an account of the life of the Bulgarian playwright, a critic of a communist regime whose reach was such that he became an assassination victim outside of it; and Jenai Towuru, Was the 2008 Election a Realigning Election? a study of the historic 2008 presidential suggesting that, according to V.O. Key' s model of a realigning election, the changes among American voters are more evolutionary than revolutionary.
Estefania & Dessislava
Jenai & The jury
Members of the audience chat while awaiting the jury' s choice
The jury acknowledged the difficulty of their choice; in fact they needed more than half an hour of deliberation to come to a decision.
Dean Frenyo speaks with Jenai
After their choice was made, Dean Frenyo presented all three finalists with certificates of appreciation. Esti and Dessislava received fine books about the unknown treasures of Budapest. Jenai and a guest will enjoy a night on the town: a movie and the Rosenstein Restaurant, the best in the district.
Dessi, Esti and Jenai
We would like to congratulate all three of the finalists, as well as everyone else who submitted papers:
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Orsolya Bader
Examples of School Violence in Ferenc Molnár' s Novel The Paul Street Boys
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Clare Farrell
Women in American Society: A Half-Century of Change
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Victoria Hurney
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: An Analysis of Love versus Infatuation
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John Meyers
A Contemporary Example of Holocaust and Memory
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Jason Norton
American Election 2008: The Successful Strategy
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Hollen Vickery
Privacy and the Holocaust in the Age of Information
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Dadvey Zargaran
An Analysis of Swiss Direct Democracy
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