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HomeUndergraduate Library Research Award Winners Announced
March 28, 2005
The University of Oregon Libraries has announced the winners of its inaugural Undergraduate Library Research Awards competition for 2005. The new program honors UO undergraduates who produced outstanding original research and scholarship during the 2004 calendar year using resources available in the UO Libraries. The two top awards carry a $1,000 scholarship prize, with two $500 scholarships awarded for honorable mention.
To enter the competition, students must have written their papers as part of their UO coursework and must supply a letter of support from a UO faculty member.
Alletta Brenner, a student in the Clark Honors College, took a $1,000 scholarship award for her paper entitled “The Good and Bad of That Sexe: Monstrosity and Womanhood in Early Modern England,” written for an Historical Epistemology seminar taught by Daniel Rosenberg, assistant professor of history in the Clark Honors College. Brenner, a senior from Forest Grove, Oregon, majors in history and in women’s and gender studies.
The second $1,000 scholarship award went to Dunya Chirchi, a senior majoring in political science from Beaverton, Oregon. Her research paper, “The Combined Success of the International Tropical Timber Agreements,” was written for an International Environmental Politics class taught by Ronald Mitchell, associate professor of political science.
Lacey Ehrenkranz, a senior from Warren, Oregon, was awarded a $500 honorable mention scholarship prize for her paper entitled ”Ovid Transformed: The Dynamics of Sexual Positioning in Titian's Poesie.” Ehrenkranz, who majors in both art and art history, wrote her paper for a Critical Approaches to Art History class taught by James Harper, assistant professor in art history.
A $500 honorable mention award also went to Lezlie Frye, who authored “As Trans as Trans Could Be,” written for her Transgender Issues class and then expanded as her thesis paper overseen by Elizabeth Reis, assistant professor in women’s and gender studies. Frye, from Chicago, is a senior majoring in women’s and gender studies.
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Papers and Interviews Available
The award recipients’ papers have been deposited in Scholars’ Bank, a newly established digital archive of UO research and scholarship, and can be viewed online at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/313.
Professor Steven Shankman recently interviewed first-prize recipients and their nominating professors for the statewide UO Today cable talk show.
Other media coverage of the award and the 2005 winners includes "Four UO students awarded in research paper contest," by Eva Sylwester in the May 6, 2005, issue of the Oregon Daily Emerald.
2006 Awards
Submissions of entries for 2006 Undergraduate Library Research Awards will be accepted until January 31, 2006. Undergraduates should review the requirements for the awards before submitting papers, and UO faculty members are encouraged to nominate student papers for consideration in each year’s competition.
Complete information on the awards, along with entry requirements, is available at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/general/libaward.html.