{"id":11920,"date":"2020-07-01T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2021-04-19T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:51:43","slug":"winners-of-the-2020-bonnie-w-oldham-library-research-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2020\/07\/01\/winners-of-the-2020-bonnie-w-oldham-library-research-prize-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 2020 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine R. Burke<\/strong> is the winner of the 2020 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Undergraduate Upper-level category<\/strong>, which is awarded to the winning project completed in a 200- to 400-level course.<\/p>\n

Kat is a 26-year-old Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania native currently enrolled part-time in the Philosophy program, who submitted the project \u201cTowards an Ethics of Gendered Difference,\u201d completed in the course PHIL 382: Care Ethics in Japanese Film, taught by Prof. George Aulisio. For her research, Kat\u2019s starting point was two primary works on the ethics of care which she read through the lens of gender-expansivity; this process then led her first to the Library\u2019s Philosophy and humanities databases, and then to the Library\u2019s interlibrary loan request platforms through which she was able to track down the key sources cited in the primary works that served as her project\u2019s focus.<\/p>\n

Kat learned valuable lessons about research and writing by immersing herself in sources both adjacent and central to the focus of her project; she shares in her description of research,<\/p>\n

\u201c…immersing myself in the works of those who had already parsed texts like those I was focusing on shed light on how one can boil down key concepts from a given work and where one\u2019s focus should lie in philosophical texts.\u201d Commenting on the ease of use of our interlibrary loan services, she notes, \u201cUsing these services made me really understand that even though research is rigorous and often challenging, the tools we have at our disposal help to make it a much more efficient \u2013 and enjoyable \u2013 process.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sponsoring faculty Prof. George Aulisio observed that Kat \u201clearned the importance of digesting philosophy slowly, re-reading at length the ideas of philosophers until everything is fully comprehended\u201d as well as \u201cthe value of carrying on an academic discussion (i.e., Scholarship as Conversation)\u201d and \u201chow much value that adds to one’s own knowledge and knowledge creation.\u201d<\/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. The Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize was fully endowed in 2019 and consists of a prize of $500 awarded to winning projects in each of the three categories: Undergraduate Foundational (100-level projects), Undergraduate Upper-level (200- to 400-level projects), and Graduate.<\/em><\/p>\n

An Honorable Mention award in the Undergraduate Upper-level category was presented to Sarah White, a sophomore Biology and Philosophy double major, for the project, \u201cConstrained Women, Authoritarian Men, and Gender-Based Medical Treatments: Unequal Gender Roles and a Tragic Descent into Madness in Charlotte Perkins Gilman\u2019s \u2018The Yellow Wall-paper\u2019,\u201d completed in the course ENLT 265J: The American Literary Experience for Dr. Leonard Gougeon.<\/p>\n

Liam Mulvaney<\/strong> is the winner of the 2020 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Graduate category<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Liam is a graduate occupational therapy student from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, who submitted to the competition the project \u201cHistorical Analysis: A Century of Progress in Adaptive Equipment,\u201d completed in the course OT 501: Leadership in Occupational Therapy, taught by Dr. Marlene Morgan. For this project, Liam took advantage of the Library\u2019s digital resources, including CINAHL, PubMed, and ProQuest Central, as well as the Library\u2019s physical resources, such as the print books on reserve, microfilm, and various foundational Occupational Therapy journals, in order to research and conduct a historical reflective analysis of adaptive equipment in the field of Occupational Therapy.<\/p>\n

He notes that the online library research guide for this course as well as the library staff were especially helpful as he conducted the complex research for this project. In his description of research, he shares that \u201ccitation chasing\u201d was the most beneficial advanced research technique he learned and applied in this project, and that he<\/p>\n

\u201cbecame a better student and researcher as a result of the library\u2019s staff and resources.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sponsoring faculty Dr. Marlene Morgan commended Liam for his use of patents and illustrations of adaptive equipment in his project, and praised his project by noting that \u201cSystematic reflection of how leadership in OT has successfully created and sustained a meaningful role in the development and use of adaptive equipment in the past will provide us with strategies to face the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honorable Mention awards in the Graduate category were presented to Melissa Busch, graduate student in the Occupational Therapy program, for the project, \u201cOccupational Therapy in the Hospital,\u201d also completed in the course OT 501: Leadership in Occupational Therapy for Dr. Marlene Morgan; and to group partners Emily Gilinger, Tyler Huggins, Brian Gargiulo, and Joshua Taylor, graduate students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program, for their project, \u201cRecreational Activities Impact on Activity and Participation in Persons with Parkinson\u2019s Disease: A Systematic Review,\u201d completed in the course PT 772\/773: Scientific Inquiry II\/III in Physical Therapy for Dr. Ren\u00e9e Hakim.<\/p>\n

Eryn Boken<\/strong> is the winner of the 2020 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize in the Undergraduate Foundational category<\/strong>, which is awarded to the winning project completed in a 100-level course.<\/p>\n

Eryn is a sophomore Kinesiology major from Los Angeles, California, who submitted to the competition the project \u201cCoronavirus Concerns for the U.S. Economy,\u201d completed in Prof. Dawn D\u2019Aries Zera\u2019s WRTG 107: Composition course. She primarily used the EBSCOhost database Academic Search Elite and the CREDO Reference search tool to search for information about the 2019 novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and through this process found that studying the economic impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that spread in 2002 was a valuable research strategy for better understanding the current impact of the developing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. She also focused her search strategy as she went, taking keywords from initial articles she found and using them to run subsequent searches in the databases for more information about her project\u2019s focus.<\/p>\n

Eryn eloquently captures the research process in her description of research when she shares:<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at where my research first began, how it developed, and the bibliography I ended with, I noticed the journey I had to take throughout the process. I was constantly learning something new each time I entered the database portal and therefore had to adjust the information I wanted to use accordingly. Especially with all the tools the library has to offer us, where you begin the research is certainly not where you will end.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sponsoring faculty Prof. Dawn D\u2019Aries Zera says of Eryn that \u201cShe seemed to get a lot of joy out of the discovery involved with research \u2014 following leads and paths to get answers. This student kept turning over rocks to find more information and wasn’t satisfied with just the first thing that turned up. The thing about this particular issue, too, is that the information was true news, and therefore kept changing \u2014 sometimes within the same day!\u201d<\/p>\n

Honorable Mention awards in the Undergraduate Foundational category were presented to sophomore Psychology major Brayden Druger for the project \u201cPreliminary Military Health Screenings: Are They Worth It?\u201d completed in WRTG 107: Composition for Prof. Dawn D\u2019Aries Zera; and to first-year Biology major Sydney Youngblood for the project \u201cTo Heal or To Kill,\u201d also completed in WRTG 107: Composition for Prof. Dawn D\u2019Aries Zera.<\/p>\n

Due to the impact of COVID-19 on the Spring semester, in lieu of an in-person awards reception prize winners were mailed their awards at the end of May.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Congratulations to all of our honorees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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