[Soasiastudents] 2010 Library Research Award for Undergraduates Winners

[Deepa Banerjee]

*Subject: 2010 Library Research Award for Undergraduates Winners
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UW Libraries awarded 10 grand prize winners and 4 honorable mentions for
their outstanding information research skills this year.  Please join us in
congratulating our students.

WINNERS- SENIOR THESIS

   - Reed Buchanan (History), "Hydrologic Regimes: Notions of Flooding in
   the Puyallup River Valley"
   - Lukas McKinley (International Studies), "Yes to Polenta! No to
   Couscous!: Constructed Identities and Contested Boundaries Between Local and
   Global in Northern Italy’s Gastronomic Landscape"
   - Laura Pierson (International Studies, Spanish), "Kings of Bachata:
   Aventura, Migration and Dominican Nationalism in a Transnational Context"
   - Garrett Strain (Economics, International Studies, Mathematics),
   "Neighborhood and Nation in Neoliberal Times; Urban Upheaval, Resistance,
   and National Identity in Buenos Aires, Argentina"

WINNERS- SENIOR NON-THESIS

   - Jaime Barker (History, Political Science), "Yellowstone: Consuming
   “Natural” Landscapes"
   - Katie Schmidt (Political Science, Communication: Journalism), "Global
   Warming Policy in the United States: A Climate of Confusion"
   - Roderick Yang (Biology, History), "Invention to Nutrition"

WINNERS- NON-SENIOR

   - Gennie Gebhart (Honors), "Convinced by Comparison: Lutheran Doctrine
   and Neoplatonic Conviction in Kepler’s Theory of Light"
   - Ana Lottis (International Studies), "The Sourmetal Smell: A Study of
   Structural Violence in Brazil"
   - Jennifer Robinson-Jahns (Community, Environment, and Planning),
   "Rainier Brewery: Landmark of Our Industrial History"

HONORABLE MENTIONS

   - Alison Bilow (History, Anthropology), "The Bantu World and the Star:
   Domestic Servants and Racial Respectability in the 1930’s South African
   Press"
   - Andrew Schwartz (Biology), "Memories Inked, A History Remembered:
   Salvadoran Immigrant Gang Tattoos in Los Angeles"
   - Gordon Waite (International Studies), "Evolution of Dialogue in Early
   Sound Film"
   - Monika Fischer (Comparative Literature, Comparative History of Ideas),
   "Orchid Nutrition and Development with Mycorrhizae"

Student photos, project details, and program criteria are available on the UW
Libraries' Web site <http://guides.lib.washington.edu/researchaward>.
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Deepa Banerjee
South Asian Studies Librarian
Reference and Research Services
University of Washington Libraries
Phone: 206-685-1433
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