{"658156":{"#nid":"658156","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC Awards Showcase Student Creativity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to our 2022 LMC Award winners, Victoria Chan, William Sheppard, Vinez Lyde, and Camille Trotman!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe annual LMC Student Awards recognize the exceptional writing and creativity of students across majors in School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EThe James Dean Young Award\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVictoria Chan, a second-year LMC major, won the James Dean Young Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe James Dean Young Award recognizes students majoring in LMC or Computational Media (CM) who write the best essay in any 2000-, 3000- or 4000-level class. The award comes with a $500 prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENihad Farooq, associate professor in LMC, nominated Chan for her paper, \u0026ldquo;Asian American Children\u0026rsquo;s Identity,\u0026rdquo; written for Farooq\u0026rsquo;s LMC 3202: Asian American Literature class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe judges commented on Chan\u0026rsquo;s sensitive analysis of childhood experience in Ocean Vuong\u0026rsquo;s semi-autobiographical novel,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOn Earth We\u0026rsquo;re Briefly Gorgeous\u003C\/em\u003E, and Julie Otsuka\u0026rsquo;s novel,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Buddha in the Attic.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EThe LMC Creative Writing Award\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilliam Sheppard, a fourth-year computer science major, won this year\u0026rsquo;s LMC Creative Writing Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe LMC Creative Writing Award goes to a student who has written the best creative writing text (poem, story, screenplay, play, novel, etc.) in any LMC or English class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBlake Leland, associate professor in LMC, nominated Sheppard for \u0026ldquo;a fine Imagist poem\u0026rdquo; written for Leland\u0026rsquo;s LMC 3226: Major Authors class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough LMC 3226 is a literature class instead of a class in creative writing, the judges agreed that Sheppard\u0026rsquo;s poem reveals his understanding of Imagist work.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EThe LMC Diversity in Creativity and Research Award\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVinez Lyde, a fourth-year chemical and biomedical engineering student, and Camille Trotman, a second-year LMC major, are this year\u0026rsquo;s LMC Diversity in Creativity and Research Award winners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe LMC Diversity in Creativity and Research Award goes to a student in an LMC, CM, or English class who has produced scholarly or creative work that prioritizes issues of diversity, social justice, cross-cultural engagement, and community outreach, from the local to the global.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso nominated by Farooq, Lyde and Trotman produced a multi-episode podcast called \u0026ldquo;Hidden in Plain Sight: Intersectionality of Being Black and a Woman\u0026rdquo; for LMC 2350: Introduction to Social Justice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe judges praised Lyde and Trotman\u0026rsquo;s ambitious project, which integrated their understanding of social justice and media.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Congratulations to our 2022 LMC Award winners!"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-05-12 16:00:30","changed_gmt":"2022-05-12 16:00:30","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658155":{"id":"658155","type":"image","title":"Victoria Chan, William Sheppard, Vinez Lyde, and Camille Trotman","body":null,"created":"1652370025","gmt_created":"2022-05-12 15:40:25","changed":"1652370025","gmt_changed":"2022-05-12 15:40:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"249486","name":"Students Honored with LMC Awards mp edits[25].jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Students%20Honored%20with%20LMC%20Awards%20mp%20edits%5B25%5D.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Students%20Honored%20with%20LMC%20Awards%20mp%20edits%5B25%5D.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":158950,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Students%20Honored%20with%20LMC%20Awards%20mp%20edits%5B25%5D.jpeg?itok=iLJj-ldI"}}},"media_ids":["658155"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167034","name":"student awards"},{"id":"190590","name":"lmc awards"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cwhittle9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}