In an era of short attention spans and clickbait headlines, longform journalism and thought pieces remain effective ways of informing, inspiring and challenging readers. The Sidney Prize honours writing that is both rigorous and well-crafted, and it is awarded monthly to an outstanding piece of journalism from any publication. The winner is honoured with a $500 honorarium and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel. Nominations are due the last day of each month and can be submitted either for your own work or someone else’s.

Awarded in memory of Sidney Wertimer, a natural teacher and storyteller who taught economics at Hamilton for 52 years. He was a native of Buffalo, NY and graduated valedictorian from Nichols School in 1938 and earned his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in 1952.

Each year the Sydney Peace Prize – sponsored by the City of Sydney – honours leading global voices who promote ‘peace with justice and nonviolence’. It is presented to the laureate at a special lecture and award ceremony hosted by the City of Sydney at Sydney Town Hall. Past laureates have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and Joseph Stiglitz.

This annual prize is open to female, graduating engineers who have passed their BEng on any of our engineering programmes and demonstrate a combination of academic achievement, personal attributes or contribution to student/society life. The aim of the prize is to inspire female engineering students and allow them to follow their passion and achieve their career dreams.

Each year this prize is awarded to an individual, organization or institution that has shown leadership in the development of the humanities, arts, and social sciences at the local, national or international level. It is named in honor of Professor Sydney Hook, a distinguished American philosopher who was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a dedicated champion of the liberal arts.

The Physicist and Artist Prize, established in 2023, recognizes individuals or groups who have made significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics and who use their work to communicate science to broad audiences. The 2023 recipient of this prize is physicist and author, Dr. Sidney Perkowitz, for his enduring commitment to connecting art, the media, and literature to physics.

This prestigious prize is named in honor of the late Sidney Cox, professor of English at Dartmouth from 1927 to 1952. A committee of his former students and friends administers the competition, which annually awards a $100 prize to “that piece of undergraduate writing that most nearly meets those high standards of originality and integrity he cherished for his own writing and that he set for his pupils.” The committee is currently chaired by Robert Frost ’96 and A. B. Guthrie, with Budd Schulberg ’36 serving as honorary chairman and active chairman. The prize is supported by donations from Cox’s family. The committee considers manuscripts of any length, and a judge is chosen yearly from the members living in Hanover.