2007 Braun Awards
Tenth Annual Braun Awards Publication

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.

Kevan Umberfield, Ryan Joseph, David Deckett, Jennifer Deitsch

Multi-media Undergraduate

"The Threat From Below: Social Change After the American Revolution" 
(video plus bibliography)

Brad Jarvis, Assistant Professor of History, Nominator

Kayleen Schumacher
College of Business and Management

"If Brazil Can Do It, Why Can't We?:  The Use of Alternative Fuels in Brazil and the United States"
George Puia, Dow Chemical Chair in Global Business, Nominator
Jennifer Empkie
College of Science, Engineering, and Technology

"Methods of Spermatogenesis in Freshwater Mussels"
Sally Shepardson, Instructor of Biology, Nominator
Brian Bittner

College of Science, Engineering, and Technology

"Analysis of Reproductive Structures of Venustaconcha Ellipsiformis and Pyganodon Lacustris"
Sally Shepardson, Instructor of Biology, Nominator

Dana Corning
College of Nursing and Health Sciences

"Multiple Sclerosis:  Finding Health Within a Chronic Illness"
  Mary Graiver, Associate Professor of Nursing, Nominator
Kayleen Schumacher
College of Education

"Action Research:  Establishing Ethics"
  Frank Dane, Finkbeiner Endowed Chair in Ethics, Nominator
Jenna Zulauf
General Education

"Stairway to Sin:  An Uncharacteristic Breach in Dickens' Didactic Style"
  Dan Cook, Assistant Professor of English, Nominator