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Six UO Students Honored for Undergraduate Research


April 2, 2009

Six University of Oregon students have been named winners of the 2009 Undergraduate Research Awards sponsored by the UO Libraries. The annual competitive program honors UO students who produced outstanding original research and scholarship in the previous calendar year using resources available through the UO Libraries. Each award carries a $1,000 scholarship.

To be eligible for the award, students are required to submit a research paper or project completed as part of their coursework at the UO, along with a recommendation from a UO faculty member. The awards are made possible by endowments established through the generous support of Milton C. and Barbara B. Sparks and Jon and Lisa Stine, as well as gifts from Walter and Gretchen Barger.

This year's award recipients will be honored for their achievements at an awards dinner, and electronic copies of their papers will be deposited in Scholars' Bank, the university's open access archive for University of Oregon research, publications, and supporting materials in digital form.

2009 Undergraduate Research Award Winners


Katherine Boom
"The Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna: Examining State Behavior under Binding and Nonbinding Accords"
Faculty Sponsor: Ron Mitchell, Department of Political Science
Course: Political Science 477: International Environmental Politics

Adam M. Lesh
"Saint-Victoire: The Enduring Motif"
Faculty Sponsor: Sherwin Simmons, Art History
Course: Art History 353: Modern Art, 1880-1950

Mike Lobel
"Indomitable Spirits: The Interrelationship Between the Women's Suffrage and the Prohibition Movements in Oregon from 1883-1914"
Faculty Sponsor: Peggy Pascoe, Department of History
Course: History 407 Seminar: Gender, Race, and Sex in U.S. History

John Rosman and Eric Rutledge (shared team award, $500 each)
"Reinventing Ed's Co-Ed" (film project)
Faculty Sponsor: Jon Palfreman, School of Journalism and Communication
Course: Journalism 410: Documentary Flux

Kiwako Sakamoto
"An Examination of the Time Series Evidence on AK-Style Endogenous Growth Models"
Faculty Sponsor: Jeremy Piger, Department of Economics
Course: Economics 607: Econometrics I-Time-Series Econometrics

All entries were judged by the Undergraduate Research Award Review Committee, which this year included Andrew Bonamici (chair), Associate University Librarian, Instructional Services, UO Libraries; Barbara Jenkins, Director, Instructional Services and Campus Partnerships, UO Libraries; and Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literature.

For more information on the Undergraduate Research Awards, visit http://libweb.uoregon.edu/general/libaward.html.


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