DOE CSGF Essay Contest
The DOE CSGF launched its annual essay contest in 2005 to provide an opportunity for current and former fellows to write about their work with a broader, non-technical audience in mind.
The competition, open to DOE CSGF fellows and alumni, requires participants to author a brief essay on a topic of personal importance, written for a non-science audience. The purpose of this competition is to encourage better communication of computational science and engineering and its value to society to non-expert audiences.
From the contest's inception through the 2008-2009 academic year, winning essays were presented in the electronic journal Compose. As of 2010, this information has been published in DEIXIS magazine.
Read more about essay contest rules and selection criteria.
Recent Winners
Read winning essays by selecting the issue you wish to view [PDF format]. Each includes photographs of the winning authors.
2010-2011
Overall Winners (Published in DEIXIS)
- Kenley Pelzer: "Can Peeling an Onion Cure Cancer?"
- Hayes Stripling: "On the Quantification of 'Maybe': A Niche for Computation"
Emerging Writer Winners
- Joshua Hykes: "A Pencil Sketch of Computing Progress"
- Paul Loriaux: Untitled Essay
- Douglas Mason: "Bit by Bit, Note for Note"
- Paul Sutter: "Studying the Cosmos, One Universe at a Time"
Learn more about past winners and read their essays.
