The University Libraries’ Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research recognizes undergraduate students who have demonstrated excellence and innovation as part of an original course-related research project that utilizes library resources. This research not only represents a creative use of the libraries’ intellectual resources but also demonstrates a high level of critical thinking and application of information literacy concepts as part of the research process. Two individual awards and one group award are offered each year.
Awarded Projects from 2023
Study of Fashion and Politics, Jacqueline Arena
A Fault in Democracy: The Disenfranchisement of Voters, Kylie Cooper and Razan Elsir
Resistance through Existence: The Choctaw Gift to the Starving Irish in 1847 as an Act of Agency Assertion and Cultural Preservation, Sophia Gaffney
Awarded Projects from 2022
State Governments that Champion Renewable Energy, and Why, Xanthe Plymale
Wanderer Above the Sea of Desolation: The Romantic Ruin in Contemporary Dark Fantasy, Steffi Santos
Awarded Projects from 2021
AIDS, ACT UP, and Activism Within The Albany Community, Kimberly Eastlick
Awarded Projects from 2020
Helen Quirini’s Confrontation: McCarthyism and its Effect on the United Electrical Workers Union, Sabrina Flemming
The Albany Birth Justice Storytelling Project, Emily Tineo, Jessica Ramsawak, Jae Rosenberg, Stephany Solis, Sarah Valdez, Dynito (Didi) Wiles, Tianna S. Brown, Mahalia Cummings, Ola Kalu, and Chloe Anne Blaise