"Architecture in the West of Ireland: The Art, the Land, and the People" by Sara A. Schaub won an SNL Student Excellence Award in 2008. Sara looks at the architecture in the Connemara region of western Ireland, considering how the local geology and environment, community planning needs, aesthetics influenced the architecture.
"Finding the Ties that Bind (Seeking Bernice)" by Bernice Grier Johnson won an SNL Student Excellence Award in 2007. In this work, Bernice Grier Johnson explores her own potential as a writer while anaylzing and reflecting upon the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.