Library News
Six earn Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity
Posted on April 19th, 2014
Pictured from left to right are Kadija Robinson-Stallings, a senior majoring in studio art; Heather Lamb, a junior majoring in English; Jenna Carlson, a graduate student in dietetics; Marissa Sutera, a graduate student in business administration; Lauren Hunt, a senior majoring in elementary and special education; and Erin Smith, a junior majoring in art.
The Library Advisory Board of Booth Library honored six students as winners of the 2014 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity.
The graduate student award recipients were Jenna Carlson of Oak Park, Minn., for her paper, Comparison of Weight-Loss Programs, and Marissa Sutera of Oak Lawn for her paper, Fostering Intercultural Competencies through Global Awareness and Immersion.
Undergraduate student award recipients were: Lauren Hunt of Bloomington for her paper, Examining the Historical Representation of Native Americans within Children’s Literature; Heather Lamb of Morris for her paper, Altered Recurrence in ‘To the Lighthouse’; and Erin Smith of Oswego for her artwork, Pop Pop Perry. Kadija Robinson-Stallings of Chicago received an honorable mention for her artwork, In Living Color.
The Booth Library Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity program promotes and recognizes excellence in student research. The program encourages students to enhance their studies by utilizing the wealth of information available at Booth Library and other research venues.
All entries were original works completed by Eastern students within the last 12 months. The award recipients were selected on the basis of excellence, creativity and the use of research resources.
A digital copy of award entries will become part of the Library’s institutional repository, The Keep, found here.
