This year’s Cynthia Krieser Award for Outstanding Freshman Writing was presented to pharmacy student, Kelsey Lock, by Dr. Robert Cummings, chair of Department of Writing and Rhetoric. Kelsey’s essay, “Gatorade: The Modern Day Water,” written during Shanna Flaschka’s WRIT 102 class, beat out many other entries for the award.
The Cynthia Krieser Award for Outstanding Freshman Writing is made possible by an endowment fund known as the Cynthia Krieser English Award Endowment fund, the purpose of which is to honor in perpetuity the late Cynthia Krieser and at the same time recognize outstanding first-year composition writing