Funded through a bequest from University alum and Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood, the 59th annual contest bestowed awards in fiction, essay, poetry and drama/screenplay writing.
The winners for this year's Hopwood contest are:
The winners of the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry are:
Dr. Robert Williams, adjunct professor of health policy in the School of Public Health, has received the 1996 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Excellence in Research Award.
The $10,000 award is for his research article, "The Costs of Visits to Emergency Departments," published in the New England Journal of Medicine on March 7. The award will support continued research in the University Department of Health Management and Policy.
Can you make time in your life for a child who needs you?
Washtenaw County Family Independence Agency needs foster homes to provide care for children who have been removed from their natural families because of abuse or neglect.
The agency needs black and white families for children of all ages, with a special need for brothers and sisters to be placed in the same home. Families who understand drug abuse and sexual abuse are needed.
Black families willing to provide long-term foster care or to adopt children of all ages are especially encouraged to help. WCFIA also needed homes for children ages 12-18 and for pregnant or parenting teenagers.
The agency will sponsor a foster parent-adoption training program beginning Sept. 16 from 7-9 p.m. at the Family Independence Agency, 22 Center St., in Ypsilanti.
Call Barbara Ford at 481-2010 for more information.
International Publications, a publishing firm in Los Angeles, is sponsoring a national college poetry contest open to all college students in the United States.
The top five finishers in the contest will win cash prizes, and winning poems will be published in International Publications' 40th edition of "American College Poets Anthology." The anthology is a collection of contemporary poetry authored by college students representing every state in the country.
For contest rules, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to International Publications, P.O. Box 44044-L, Los Angeles, Calif. 90044.
The contest's deadline is Oct. 31, with an initial fee of $3 and an additional $1 fee for additional poems.
- Compiled from staff reports.