FYE Prize
Candace Carlucci Backus '66 FYE Prize in Honor of Student Academic Achievement in
the First-Year Experience
The First-Year Experience Prize, supported with the generosity of Candace Carlucci
Backus ’66, will be awarded annually to up to three projects by first-year students
in recognition of exceptional scholarly or artistic achievement in the fall’s Scribner
Seminars.
During the spring semester, the First-Year Experience Office will solicit nominations
from the previous fall’s Scribner Seminar instructors. Nominations may be either for
individual or collaborative projects, and may include any kind of exemplary work –
written, visual, or performative.
Congratulations to the Class of 2026 First Year Experience Backus Prize Winners!
Maia Haiduc-Dale (’26), Natalie Jones (’26), and Sayuri (Saya) Pfeiffer (‘26) are recipients of the 2022-23 Candace Carlucci Backus Prize for their outstanding work in their Fall 2023 Scribner Seminars.
Class of 2026 FYE Backus Prize Winners:
Maia Haiduc-Dale, for their painting and essay "Science in Fiction" from the Scribner Seminar Dynamics of Chaos, with Professor Rachel Roe-Dale
Natalie Jones, for her stop motion video We Grow from the Scribner Seminar Picturing Time, with Professor Sarah Sweeney
Sayuri (Saya) Pfeiffer, for her paper "Liberalism Recontextualized: An Examination of the Applications of Liberalism in the Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Movements of the 1970's" from the Scribner Seminar Liberalism, with Professor Jennifer Delton
Congratulations to the Class of 2026 FYE Backus Prize Nominees!
Elliot Bamford ('26), nominated by Professor John Michael DiResta
Lila Glanville ('26), nominated by Professor Siobhan Hart
L Hurysz ('26), nominated by Professor Casey Schofield
Tess Malloy ('26), nominated by Professor Siobhan Hart
Leila Turet ('26), nominated by Professor Greg Pfitzer