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Undergraduate Research Award Winners Announced
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 4/6/09
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, COMMUNICATION ASST., (413) 545-0162
First Annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award
Amherst, MA - The Friends of the Library and the Library's Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) are pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award. The award recognizes excellence in the use of primary sources, creativity and originality, and clarity and effectiveness of writing.
Eric M. Dorrington is the winner of the First Place Award of $750 for his paper "Lebanese Historical Memory and the Perception of National Identity through School Textbooks." Dorrington received the award at the Friends of the Library's seventh annual Dinner with Friends on April 4. Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Rob Cox, Provost Charlena Seymour, and Friends of the Library President Dodie Gaudet '73 made the award presentation.
Recipients of the two Honorable Mention awards of $250 are Amy Couto '09 for "Treaty of Canandaigua: The Political Necessity of Peace" and Phil Jensen '09 "We Are History, We Are Legend: Perspectives of American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War."
The winning papers will be posted on the SCUA web site: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/ and added to the University Archives.
The award is intended to recognize and call attention to the importance of Special Collections and University Archives in the Du Bois Library and its rich archive of primary resources. The award also recognizes high achievement in undergraduate research and writing and the outstanding academic potential of UMass Amherst undergraduates.
A primary source is a record of an event, an occurrence, or a time period produced by a participant or observer at the time, such as letters, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, photographs, scrapbooks, etc., or the historic records (archives) of an organization (such as correspondence, memoranda, minutes, annual reports, etc.).
For more information contact: Rob Cox, Head of Special Collections, 413-545-6842, askanarc@library.umass.edu.
Last Edited: 22 April 2009
