Eight students were awarded prizes in the 2018 Common Reader Essay Contest, in response to Hope Jahren's Lab Girl. Here are the winners:

• First place: Valerie Light, an Honors Program student and Communications Interest major from Marietta, GA

• Second place: Liam Festa, an Honors Program student and Exercise Science major from New York, NY

• Third place: Samantha Baron, an Honors Program student and Agriculture & Natural Resources major from San Jose, CA

• Fourth place: Hannah Braun, an Honors Program student and Economics major from Huntington Station, NY

• Honorable Mention: Natalie LoBello, a Environmental Science major from Pottstown, PA

• Honorable Mention: Lauren White, a Medical Diagnostic Interest major student from Beverly, MA

• Honorable Mention: Sierra RyanWallick, an Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation major from Landenberg, PA

• Honorable Mention: Kyra Giakas, an Honors Program student and International Business Studies major from Newark, DE

For further information, including the published winning essays, please visit: https://fys.udel.edu/