{"id":10916,"date":"2018-05-14T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2018-05-16T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:18:49","slug":"winners-of-the-2018-bonnie-w-oldham-library-research-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2018\/05\/14\/winners-of-the-2018-bonnie-w-oldham-library-research-prize-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 2018 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maura C. Burns is the winner of the 2018 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Undergraduate Upper-level category, which is awarded to the winning project completed in a 200- to 400-level course. <\/span><\/p>\n

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David Dzurec, Associate Professor of History; Brian Conniff, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Maura C. Burns, Research Prize Winner; Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library; and Donna Witek, Information Literacy Coordinator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maura is a senior History major with minors in Biology and Biochemistry from Jessup, Pennsylvania, who submitted to the competition her paper \u201cMedicine in the American Revolution,\u201d completed in the course HIST 490: Senior Seminar on the American Revolution, taught by Dr. David Dzurec. In her description of research she explains, \u201cI learned that the University of Scranton website connects to a network of libraries and resources that helped me form the backbone of my paper.\u201d Maura goes on to rightly note that \u201cjust like history, research is unpredictable,\u201d and that \u201cresearch is a learning experience in and of itself,\u201d things she learned through conducting the research for this project.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Weinberg Memorial Library inaugurated the prize in 2011 to recognize excellence in research projects that show evidence of significant knowledge of the methods of research and the information gathering process, and use of library resources, tools, and services. In 2017, the prize was named for Professor Emerita Bonnie W. Oldham, who founded the prize at the University in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention awards in the Undergraduate Upper-level category included Catherine McManus, a junior Biology major with a minor in Political Science, as well as group partners Luis Melgar, a senior Exercise Science major with minors in Spanish and Theology, and Julianne Burrill, a junior Exercise Science major. <\/span><\/p>\n

Emily Dineen is the winner of the 2018 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Graduate category. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Donna Witek, Information Literacy Coordinator; Emily Dineen, Research Prize Winner; Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library; Marlene Joy Morgan, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy; and Victoria Castellanos, Associate Dean of the Panuska College of Professional Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emily is a graduate occupational therapy student from Bethel, Connecticut, who submitted to the competition her project \u201cHistorical Analysis,\u201d completed in the course OT 501: Leadership in Occupational Therapy, taught by Dr. Marlene Joy Morgan. For this project Emily researched sensory integration intervention in pediatric occupational therapy, and of her research process she said, \u201cI was able to literally see the progression of the sensory integration approach and of the profession itself,\u201d calling it a \u201chistorical immersive experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

New in 2018, the Library has created a third category to recognize research excellence and learning in the first year. Nicole Cavanaugh is the winner of the 2018 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Undergraduate Foundational category, which is awarded to the winning project completed in a 100-level course. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Donna Witek, Information Literacy Coordinator; Brian Conniff, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Nicole Cavanaugh, Research Prize Winner; and Charles Kratz, Dean of the Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nicole is a first-year Accounting major from Dallas, Pennsylvania, who submitted to the competition her paper \u201cThere\u2019s No Gain in the Globalization Game,\u201d completed in Prof. Dawn D\u2019Aries Zera\u2019s WRTG 107: Composition course. To complete her research, Nicole took advantage of the Library\u2019s Research Services, made available to students at the Research Services desk on the second floor of the Library. It was there that she learned of the vast amount of information available through the Library. As she puts it in her description of research, \u201cA few clicks from the university homepage and I was connected to thousands of media sources, books, magazines, articles, journals, and more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention awards in the Undergraduate Foundational category included group partners James P. McKane Jr., a first-year History major, and Alana Siock, a first-year French major, as well as Sydney Vanvourellis, a first-year Physiology major.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prize winners were honored at a reception on Thursday, May 10, 2018 in the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Memorial Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

Information about the Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize can be found on the website: <\/span>http:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/libraryresearchprize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations to all of our honorees!<\/span><\/p>\n

Please consider giving to the Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize Endowment Fund, ensuring that the prize will be awarded in perpetuity. <\/span><\/i>Make your gift directly to the fund here.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maura C. Burns is the winner of the 2018 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Undergraduate Upper-level category, which is awarded to the winning project completed in a 200- to 400-level course. Maura is a senior History major with minors in Biology and Biochemistry from Jessup, Pennsylvania, who submitted to the competition her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[869,296,674],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-bonnie-w-oldham-library-research-prize","tag-library-research-prize","tag-research-prize"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10926,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}