The Sydney Prize is awarded monthly to a piece of journalism that exposes social and economic injustice. Winners receive a $500 honorarium and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel. To nominate a story, visit the Sydney website and fill out the submission form. Nominees should be aware that their name may be published alongside the winning article. Submissions are due by the end of each month.
The Sidney Hillman Foundation was founded in 1946 to honor the memory of Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America labor union, a predecessor organization of Unite Here and Workers United, SEIU. The Hillman Foundation annually awards monetary prizes to journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue investigative journalism and public service in the spirit of Hillman’s dedication to high ideals.
Awarded in memory of professor Philip Sidney Ardern, this prize promotes Old and Middle English literature study. Its scope, however, is not limited to this area – the committee will consider papers from other disciplines that best meet the prize’s criteria.
This prize was established in memory of the late Dr. Robert L. Wagman, a distinguished scholar in the fields of history, sociology and anthropology. The award is given to students whose research shows promise in these disciplines and demonstrates loyalty to high ideals.
The 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, seeks excellent short fiction that is loosely themed around the notion of travel. The first-place writer will receive $5000 in prize money and have their story published in Overland’s autumn 2024 issue; two runners-up will have their stories published online.
This year’s Sidney Prize celebrates the life and work of Dr. Sidney Altman, a chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with his team for discovering how RNA is translated into proteins. Their work challenged the long-held dogma that molecules could either carry information, like RNA, or catalyze chemical reactions, like proteins, but not both.
Art history major Sophia Jactel ’20 won the Sidney Thomas Prize for her paper “Domesticity and Diversions: Josef Israels’ The Smoker as a Symbol of Peasant Culture in Nineteenth-Century Holland.” Her work examined a painting from the Syracuse University Art Galleries.