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Current and Previous Ricco Ethics Award Winners
The Winners for 2025 are:
1st Place Graduate Winner ($5,000) - “Cleared for Safety: A New Flight Path for Aviation Ethics” by Shravya Sharath, a graduate student majoring in Business Analytics in Ryan College of Business.
1st Place Undergraduate Winner ($5,000) - “Clear Skies, Clouded Ethics” by Linh Tra, a sophomore majoring in Psychology in the Honors College/College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences.
2nd Place Undergraduate Winner ($2,000) - “The Unerring Myth: How Aviation's Culture of Perfection Undermines Safety and Humanity" by Travis-Pota-Birkhoff, a freshman/sophomore with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Violin Performance in the College of Engineering.
The Winners for 2024 are:
1st Place Graduate Winner ($5,000) - “Companions on a Journey: Human-Almond Relations in California” by Ben Larsen, Philosophy, Toulouse Graduate School
1st Place Undergraduate Winner ($5,000) - “Navigating the Currents: Ethical Considerations in California's Water Resource Management” by Linh Tran, Freshman, CLASS, Psychology
The Winners for 2023 are:
1st Place Graduate Winner ($5,000) - “We're All in This Together: The Ethics of Care and CEO Pay-Cuts” by Sara Tonge, Teaching fellow and doctoral candidate, Philosophy and Religion, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences and Toulouse Graduate School
1st Place Undergraduate Winner ($5,000) - “An Ethical Standard Raising the Minimum Wage” by Kiana Kawahara, Junior, Flute Performance, College of Music
2nd Place Undergraduate Winner ($2,000) - “Corporate Welfare and Stoic Virtue” by Connor Kokora, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
The Winners for 2022 are:
1st place - undergraduate ($5,000) - “Cybersecurity on a College Campus Case Study” by Davis Anderton, a junior in Media Arts in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
2nd place - undergraduate ($4,000) - “Ethics in Protests” by Abbie Cunningham, a sophomore in Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
1st place - graduate ($5,000) - “A Look at Goodman College's Cybersecurity Issues through Logic Conflict, Servant Leadership Model and Cyber Curriculum” by Kendra Schaffer, graduate student in International Sustainable Tourism