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Library Research Award for Undergraduates
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The University Libraries, in cooperation with the Undergraduate Research Program, sponsors the "Library Research Award for Undergraduates" competition, which recognizes University of Washington students who produce significant inquiry requiring use of information resources, the library and its collections.
Copyright for the works in this collection is held by the indivdual authors.
Recent Submissions
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)Globalization is a dynamic, transboundary force challenging the Westphalian model of state-dominated geopolitics that has dominated world affairs for nearly 400 years. Equally problematic to state-centric ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)In this paper, I coupled case details with quantitative analysis to examine features of widowhood and womanhood in New Netherland. I did so by examining the records of the Orphan Chamber, a court that would ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)Cable companies’ historical dominance in the TV market is eroding away with the rise of telephone companies and streaming video providers offering similar services. Consumers who value cost, content, and ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)In this project I attempt to shed light on an array of interacting syntactic phenomena relating to the so-called morphological passive in Swedish. Its morpheme, -s, has been assumed to be a voice morpheme, but ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)Over the past decade, Ai Weiwei has emerged as a prominent artist activist in China. He is recognized across the globe for his dissident perspectives and large-scale art projects. Noted for his pro-democratic ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)Since 2012, a novel coronavirus named Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, has infected 491 people and killed 147 in 18 countries— a case fatality rate of almost 30%—twice as high as the ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)The figure of the mala or “bad woman” is present in much of Ancient Greek and Latin literature. In this context, being a mala means being a woman who participates in the process where an older woman advises a ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)This essay reads several of the pieces in a Southern African AIDS narrative anthology, and attempts to uncover a space of possibility for representing HIV, which, as Brown reminds us, is a prerequisite to ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)My research explores the means by which identities of “non-white” Habesha (Ethiopian and Eritrean) immigrants are negotiated through the use of media, community spaces, collectivism, and activism. As immigrant ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)The Arctic is a changing ecosystem that supports a wide diversity of organisms. Multi-year ice in the Arctic is declining due to warming temperatures and being replaced by thinner first year ice. This change ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)“Retelling Exodus” focuses on one group amongst thousands of French Canadians expelled from Acadia, modern-day Nova Scotia, by the British in 1755 as the French and Indian War intensified. By 1790, many of the ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)This paper asks: why do United States policymakers continue to support the militarization of the international drug war despite criticism from human rights advocates and a failure to meet its stated goals?” ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)The state of Washington, and King County in particular, have a reputation for vocal public concern over issues of the environment, and a quick look at popular ballot initiatives in the state over the last ...
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(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish astronomer and Catholic canon, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. His monumental work, De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium (“On the Revolutions of ...
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(2006-05-22)This group of seven students admirably traversed the vast resources of a variety of libraries on campus to produce two excellent projects, a written report and a DVD film. Their essays clearly reflected their growth through ...
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(2013-03)In 1948, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and a coalition of other maritime unions went on strike, bringing the United States’ West Coast Ports to a standstill for 95 days. Despite facing increasing ...
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(2012-03)The compulsion to collect, view and medicalize curious anatomy was evident in the proliferation of popular anatomy museums, the formation of institutional collections of pathology and the particular of freakshows in the ...
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(2013-06)This thesis explores the varying ethical perceptions of water use in Oman. For many populations living in the hyper-arid Arabian Peninsula, cultural and religious values require that people strictly limit their water use. ...
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(2012)My intent is to explore three Bollywood films and the depictions of Indian life that they offer, especially as they relate to attitudes toward women and girls. The ideals held up within each film will be discussed side by ...
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(2012)In this paper I conduct a discourse analysis of the Development paradigm to understand how aid workers control the production of knowledge around women of the Global South. In exploring how the development apparatus depicts ...