2003 Essay Prize winners
2 February 2004
The winners of this year's Wellcome Trust/New Scientist Essay Prize have been announced. Tom Moorhouse at the University of Oxford won First Prize for 'Reintroducing Ratty', an essay about the conservation of water voles. Second Prize went to Isabel Jiminez Acquarone at Imperial College, London, while Maxine Holder at Imperial College and Mark Walton at the University of Oxford were joint Third Prize winners. The competition invites students working on a PhD in science, engineering or technology to write about their work in a style that would appeal to readers of New Scientist.
