{"id":10297,"date":"2025-04-02T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/?page_id=10297"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:11:48","slug":"accolades","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/home-2\/the-words-march-2025\/accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"Accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Ahlaam Abdulwali \u201925<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For this month\u2019s accolades, we\u2019re featuring two seniors: Yvonne and Natalie! As always, congratulate your peers in person for their achievements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Pollock \u201925 was invited to present her English capstone at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/cas.stthomas.edu\/departments\/areas-of-study\/communication-studies\/research-conference\/\">Undergraduate Communication Studies and English Conference<\/a>. The theme of this year\u2019s conference is \u201cThe Art of Storytelling,\u201d and it will take place on April 25th, 2025 at the University of St Thomas. Congrats, Natalie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.27.48\u202fPM-1024x777.png\" alt=\"Natalie Pollock '25 posing outside on a picnic blanket\" class=\"wp-image-10325\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.27.48\u202fPM-1024x777.png 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.27.48\u202fPM-300x228.png 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.27.48\u202fPM-768x583.png 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.27.48\u202fPM.png 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yvonne Moreira-Andrade \u201925 had her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/why-generation-z-embraced-donald-trump-young-voters-election-99c59054#comments_sector\"> opinion piece<\/a> published on the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Student View page. She wrote this piece in Professor Jim Dawes and Professor Joe Linstroth&#8217;s course titled &#8220;Writing to Change Minds.&#8221; Yvonne says that they \u201chave been learning to write op-eds and opinion pieces and are encouraged to submit to WSJ&#8217;s future view prompt every week.\u201d Congrats, Yvonne!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.28.24\u202fPM-1024x744.png\" alt=\"Yvonne Moreira-Andrade '25 posing outside in the snow on Macalester's campus\" class=\"wp-image-10327\" style=\"width:467px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.28.24\u202fPM-1024x744.png 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.28.24\u202fPM-300x218.png 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.28.24\u202fPM-768x558.png 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-at-3.28.24\u202fPM.png 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to Yvonne and Natalie for taking the time to share their achievements with us! If you would like your achievements to be featured in the next issue of <em>The Words<\/em>, add a submission to this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeTQwXG0mHZYsV_Uh8rvRNoAP7cvKSGXBmmRn-uk-m-NOKekA\/viewform\">google form<\/a>!<br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ahlaam Abdulwali \u201925 For this month\u2019s accolades, we\u2019re featuring two seniors: Yvonne and Natalie! As always, congratulate your peers in person for their achievements Natalie Pollock \u201925 was invited to present her English capstone at the upcoming Undergraduate Communication Studies and English Conference. 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