About the University Libraries Lance and Elena Calvert Award for Undergraduate Research
With the support of a generous endowment from Lance and Elena Calvert, the University Libraries Lance and Elena Calvert Award for Undergraduate Research recognizes excellence in undergraduate research projects that incorporate the use of University Libraries' collections and demonstrate sophisticated information literacy skills on the part of the undergraduate researcher. The award review committee considers the product of the research, but focuses on the research process: the demonstration of library research skills, adept use of library resources, and reflection upon the strategies utilized to investigate a research problem. Winners receive a cash prize and public recognition of their excellent work.
2011 Award Recipients
The Chinese in Northern Mexico: Immigration, integration, and discrimination in Mexican society, 1882-1940, Yesenia M. Alaniz
The Effect of response format on syllogistic reasoning, Adam S. Billman
Dynamic decision making and race games, Shipra De
2010 Award Recipients
It hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war: General Sherman's campaigns through Atlanta, Georgia, and the Carolinas and how they impacted the Civil War, Thomas J. Birmingham
Human rights abuses in 1970s Argentina, Vanessa Gomez
American hypocrisy in foreign policy: Operation FUBELT and the overthrow of salvador allende, David G. Huggins
The Age of Aquarius: The reorientation of NASA after 1969, Junichi Miyamoto