The Sydney Prize is an award bestowed upon investigative journalists who expose social injustices within the United States. The prize honors Sydney Price, founder of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America – now Workers United, SEIU. Nominations for the 2025 Sydney Prize can be submitted here.
This prize is an annual monetary award in memory of Sidney Cox, professor of English at Dartmouth from 1927-1952 who dedicated himself to encouraging students to think creatively and critically about the world they lived in. The competition is open to any undergraduate work written in English that meets Cox’s high standards of originality and integrity – for him personally as well as in his writings.
First prize will receive a cash award of $500, while two runners-up will be published in Overland magazine’s next issue. The competition is open to writers worldwide; the winning entry should portray or take up the voice or experience of an underrepresented identity or group. In order to qualify for consideration for the Neilma Sydney Prize, writers should subscribe for one year at discounted rate to Overland and submit original short fiction themed loosely around travel.
Sidney Altman won a share of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking discovery that RNA can carry information like DNA while catalyzing chemical reactions like proteins even without having an accompanying protein present – shattering long-held dogma that molecules either carry information or catalyze chemical reactions, but never both simultaneously. This research challenged long-held beliefs that molecules either carry information or catalyze chemical reactions but never both at once.
The Prize recognizes annually the best book published in North American scholarship about Christianity during a given calendar year by a North American scholar on this topic. Dr. Emily Michelson of University of St Andrews won this year with her work Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance (Princeton University Press 2022).
SHOT presents this award in memory of Dexter Chemical Corporation founder and SHOT’s Leonardo da Vinci Award recipient in 1988, in his honor. The prize consists of both cash and plaque.
The Sydney Prize aims to foster deeper reflection and consideration from HLS students regarding their chosen profession, its place within society, and any challenges it faces today. Papers may address any topic related to law and legal profession, including but not limited to these: