The 2024 recipients of the McLeod Writing Prize are Amelie Maltz from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts for "The Greenspace Gap: Environmental Racism and Park Disparities along the Delmar Divide", Lydia Marie Pita from the College of Arts and Sciences for "A (Review) Bomb Representation of A Post-Apocalyptic Queer Romance", and Alex Bonham Walsh from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts for "Gender Representation in Modern Children’s Media: The Disguised Damsel in Distress".
The McLeod Writing Prize was created to encourage first-year students to begin engaging in research in the early stages of their undergraduate careers; to understand that scholarship is a creative form of expression that can reach others in real and meaningful ways; and most importantly, by fully participating in the process of research and writing, to see themselves as scholars in the making. Two prizes are awarded each year; one to a student in the College of Arts & Sciences, and one to a student in McKelvey School of Engineering, Olin Business School, or Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
