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The winning papers are published in the Chicago Biological Investigator (CBI).
2011-2012
1st place
Unidentified Flowering Objects: Science Education, Environmental Education, and the Mysteries of the Backyards
By Noah Weisz
2nd place
Devil Transmissible Facial Tumors
By Annie Wang
2010-2011
1st Place
Eating Like Cavemen
By Anna Griffith
2nd Place
Radiation Dose and Cancer Risk from CT Scans
By Jeremy Bancroft Brown
2009-2010
1st Place
Karl Popper and Antarctic Ice: The Climate Debate and its Problems
By Peter Borah
2nd Place
The Oceanic Acid Trip: Why CO2
By Michael Roytburd
2008-2009
1st Place
The discovery of the polymerase chain reaction: A scientific (and personal) journey
By Laura Felley
2nd Place
Could Not the Race of Men Be Improved?
By Laurel K. Mylonas-Orwig
2007-2008
1st Place
Combating the Spread of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Question of Research and Public Reaction
By Laura Felley
2nd Place
Sellout
By Conor Hughes
2006-2007
1st Place
Climate Change and Coral Bleaching
By Eric Chan
2nd Place
Colliding Interests: The Future of Particle Physics
By Bihui Li
2005-2006
1st Place
The Survival of Science: What Scientists must do to defuse the evolution controversy
By Stephen Brusatte
2nd Place
After Petroleum: The transition to a New Transportation Fuel Source
By Daniel Isaac Wolf
2004-2005
1st Place
Kin
By Bihui Li
2nd Place
Engineers of our own Disaster: Dike Construction, Land Reclamation, and their Hidden Consequences
By Stephen Brusatte
Both papers have been published in the Chicago Biological Investigator (CBI), vol 2 (2) Spring 2005.
2003-2004
1st Place
Craig Segall Lost Worlds: The Late Pleistocene Extinctions and the Modern Crisis
2nd Place
Stephen Brusatte Continents Adrift and Sea-Floor Spreading: The Revolution of Plate Tectonics
CONTACT INFORMATION
Barbara Kern
702-8717
The John Crerar Library, Office 129
crerar-prize@lib.uchicago.edu
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/crerar-prize/
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