The Sidney Prize

Sidney Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in Australia. It is awarded each year to students of the University of Sydney who achieve exceptional results in their studies in Australian Literature. The prize is worth $10,000.

Established in 1930 from a gift of 1000 pounds by Dr H.M. Moran of Macquarie Street, Sydney, in memory of his sister. Awarded for proficiency in 3000-level units of Italian.

The 73rd annual Hillman Prizes for journalism have been announced, honoring the New York Times for its extraordinary investigation into Haiti’s colonial debt; ProPublica/New Yorker’s feature on the privatization of hospice; and More Perfect Union’s agenda-setting videos explicating corporate greed. The judging panel also selected a book – Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners by historian Kate Carte (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press) – for its outstanding contribution to the study of slavery, race and law in America.

Named for the former president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, who fought for a better America and a progressive industrial democracy, this monthly award honors outstanding socially-conscious journalism that fosters economic and social justice. The judges are committed to the ideals of Sidney Hillman, whose dedication to working people was the motivation for the founding of the Foundation in 1946.

Each year the foundation honours a nominee who promotes peace with justice and human rights through non-violent action. Past winners include Julian Burnside and Noam Chomsky. This year the Sydney Peace prize has been awarded to the Black Lives Matter movement, led by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, following the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the US.

This industry prize is designed to assist Master of Moving Image students with the cost of their final project. It will be awarded to the most creative and original short fiction piece themed loosely around the notion of travel. Judges Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh have chosen a shortlist of eight pieces from over 500 entries and have selected the winner and two runners-up.

The Prize is named in memory of Sidney Cox, a Dartmouth graduate who exerted a powerful generative influence upon hundreds of his students in and out of class. A committee of his friends has been soliciting funds to establish an annual prize for that piece of undergraduate writing which most nearly meets the high standards of integrity and originality which he set for himself and for his students. Donations may be sent to the committee at 1 Occom Ridge, Hanover, N.H. Checks should be made out to Dartmouth College.