The Ruth and Ted Braun Awards for Writing Excellence at Saginaw Valley State University have been established to create incentives for outstanding student writing and opportunities for student writers to be recognized and published.
Judging is conducted within each division by committees appointed within that division.
| College of Education |
| Shawn J. Holliday Just Do It: Three Steps on the Yellow Brick Road Student Teaching at White Pine Middle School |
| Crystal M. Lange College of Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Jaclyn M. Richardson Finding Room for Spiritualism in Occupational Therapy |
| College of Science, Engineering & Technology |
| Matthew Defever Conduction and Contact Resistance |
| Graduate Programs |
| Chi-feng (Tom) Tsai The Corporate Sponsorship of Multimedia Software and Computer Hardware in Higher Education |