Booth Library Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity

The Library Advisory Board of EIU's Booth Library has announced the 2012 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity.

Graduate student award recipients are: Philip Mohr for "Housing E.I.'s G.I.s and Married Students: The Story of Trailers, Barracks and Apartments at Eastern Illinois University"; Ashley McHugh for "King's Theatre Queens: Three Successful Women in the Early Classical Era"; and Ayaka Hisanaga for "The Relationship Between Dialectical Self and Hedonic, Eudaemonic and Social Well-Being." Undergraduate student award recipients are: Elizabeth Surbeck for "Comics for Children?"; Emily Schumacher for "Drinking Games Among College Students"; and Terri Strong for "A Dark Place of the Earth: London and the Roots of Urban Gothic." Hanna McHugh was selected to receive Honorable Mention for "Clean Water in Haiti."

The student award recipients will be honored at a reception to be held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in Booth Library's Witters Conference Room (Room 4440). Each of the students will speak briefly about their entries, and receive recognition for their achievement. Everyone is invited to attend.

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 information 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.