Events: April 2006 Archives

Please join the Libraries on Friday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of Paley Library for the awarding of the 2nd Annual Library Prizes for Undergraduate Research. Everyone is encouraged to attend the reception.

Winners of the 2nd Annual $1,000 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, Temple University (in alphabetical order)

Ryan Drummond
"Interstate Station Stop: A Voyage into the
American Frontier Myth"
Architecture 442
Professors John J. Pron, primary advisor
Sneha Patel, secondary advisor
Kate Wingert-Playdon
Kate Cleveland

Steven J. Horowitz
"As Boundaries Fade: The Social Contract in Cyberspace"
Philosophy 298
Professor Paul Taylor, Philosophy

Symbol Lai
"Defining Abolitionism: Antislavery Resistance among
Philadelphia's African American Community and Women."
History W397
Professor Elizabeth Varon, History

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
These will receive $100 bookstore gift certificates.

Denene Michele Wambach
"Crimes Against Civil Liberty: An Analysis of the United
States Government's Involvement in Guantanamo Bay."
Political Science 391
Professors Mark Pollack & Megan Mullin, Political Science

Victoria White
"Queer Race in Herman Melville's Billy Budd"
English 282
Professor Suzanne Gauch, English

The Library Prize was established by the Temple University Libraries to encourage more and better use of its resources and collections, to advance information literacy, and to promote academic excellence at Temple University. Hearty congratulations to all students who submitted their applications into the competition.

The awards reception for the 2nd Annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research will be held in Paley Library's Lecture Hall at 4:30p.m. on Friday, April 28th.

The winning students will be present to receive their awards, accompanied by their sponsoring professors. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Everyone is invited.

Direct questions to Gretchen Sneff at 215-204-4724 or gretchen.sneff@temple.edu

--Derik A Badman

"Imaging Culture" is the title and visual anthropology is the subject of the current exhibit on the main floor of Paley Library, from April 10 -- May 31, 2006.

Photography books, cameras, stereoscope photos and other items from the library's collections and from the Visual Communication Laboratory of the Department of Anthropology are on display. The exhibit was designed to accompany the Mediating Practices conference held at Temple University on April 11-14, 2006 and was prepared by Anabelle Rodriguez Gonzalez, a Visual Communications student, in collaboration with librarian subject specialists Jenifer Baldwin and Gregory McKinney, and Tom Whitehead and Carol Ann Harris of the library's Special Collections department.

The Mediating Practices conference sponsors are Temple University's Graduate School, The College of Liberal Arts, the School of Communications and Theater, the Center for the Humanities, and the Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar (PCMS).

-- Carol Ann Harris