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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I am pleased to announce that the this year’s Siegel Prize goes to HASTS graduate student Xaq Frolich for his paper “<i>Imagining Consumers, Constituting Subjects: Making Sense of “Consumer Confusion” and the history of U.S. Nutrition Labeling.” </i></span><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Benjamin Siegel Prize of $2500 is offered to the MIT student submitting the best written work on issues in science, technology, and society. The prize is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any school or department of the Institute. The prize was established in 1990 by family and friends of the late Benjamin Siegel (S.B. 1938, Ph.D.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In the words of the prize committee: “The nutritional information labels that adorn every piece of packaged food sold in this country have become mundane and familiar to American consumers. Their familiarity, however, obscures a fascinating origin story. In this superb paper that articulates serious archival work and a sensibility for recent STS theories Xaq shows how the labels came to be. Their existence, content, and format are all the result of fierce battles not just about science and public policy, but also about notions of who consumers are, what they want to know, and what they <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>can understand. Xaq proves that STS scholarship can illuminate current public policies and help understand the complex set of scientific and social issues that agencies like FDA face when they design standards for the American public.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The committee also named a runner up, Ms. </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Isabelle Anguelovski, a grad student in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning for her paper “<i>Understanding</i> <i>the Dynamics of Community Engagement of Corporations in Communities: The Iterative Relationship Between Dialogue Processes and Local Protest at the Tintaya Copper Mine in Peru.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>In the words of the prize committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“Facing increasing scrutiny of their activities, mining companies and other heavy industries have become increasingly willing to engage in dialogue and other deliberate processes with the community groups that are affected by their activities. Even though these efforts seek to address the concerns of community members, some community activists actively resist the new deliberative spaces. In this insightful analysis of the interactions between the company BHP Billiton and the communities around the Tintaya mine in Peru, Isabelle shows how this resistance was not an effort to undermine the dialogue, but to ensure that proper attention was paid to specific concerns. Isabelle’s paper deftly integrates a range of theorists with her interviews of key participants in order to broaden our understanding the dynamics of corporation-community interactions in settings of environmental conflict.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Please join me in congratulating Xaq and Isabelle on this well-deserved honor. Also thanks to David Jones and Vincent Lepinay for their service the prize committee. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Well done, Xaq and Isabelle! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>