Events: April 2007 Archives

The Library Prize panel of judges has selected the recipients for the 2007 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

The judges were impressed with the variety of topics, the reflective essays on the library research process and the quality of research submitted.

$1000 Award Recipients in alphabetical order:

Joseph Basile
"Ending the 'Inhuman Traffic;' The Role of Humanitarianism in the British Abolition Movement."
History W387
Dr. Travis Glasson, History

Clay Boggs
"The Jews and the Pharisees in Early Quaker Polemic"
History 399
Professor David Watt, History

Matthew M. Rodrigue
"Rethinking Academia: A Gramscian Analysis of Samuel Huntington"
History H385
Professor Kathy Le Mons Walker, History

In addition, the following students were selected to receive Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order):

Michael Gieda
"The Civilian Conservation Corps; Conserving Discrimination"
History W386
Professor Sharon Ann Musher, History

Cherice D. Gordon
"Cervical Cancer: A Silent Threat in African-American Women"
Public Health W3321
Professor Sarah Bauerle Bass, Public Health

Stephanie L.S. Sikora
"The Great Escape: 21st Century American Politics and the Kyoto Protocol"
History W397 and H385
James Rogers, Political Science

Penelope Waite
"The Struggle for an Inclusive Vision of America: Lorin W. Brown, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Definition of American Identity"
American Studies 393
Professor Lisa Rhodes, American Studies

Please join us to celebrate at the Awards Ceremony and Reception this Friday! Come Meet the 2007 Winners and their sponsoring professors!

Date/Time: Friday, April 27th: 4:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony, 5:00 p.m. Reception

Location: Paley Lecture Hall

Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

-Gretchen Sneff

April 24th, 25th, 26th at 1pm in the Tech Center Green Room 205A

Save time on your papers, and throw out all those long citation guides. Learn to use Refworks, a web based application (free to Temple students, staff, and faculty!) that allows you to easily and quickly gather your citations and organize them for the creation of bibliographies and in-text citations in almost any format-- APA, MLA, Chicago, and more.

Questions? Contact Derik Badman.

April 10th, 11th, 12th at 1pm
Tech Center - Green Room 205A

Google provides fast but often ineffective results. Will you really impress your professor by citing a Wikipedia article as a source for a research paper? In this session a Temple University Librarian will discuss the pros and cons of using Google for academic research. Discover how to just as quickly access more appropriate sources without over relying on Google. This session will cover a new open source Wiki alternative, as well as some of the more traditional reference tools that have been digitized for easy web access.

Questions? Contact David Murray.

We regret to announce that the reading by Temple mathematics professor and bestselling author John Allen Paulos, originally scheduled for April 11th, has been canceled. The event will be rescheduled for Fall 2007, with a specific data and time to be announced at a later date.