WSU Libraries Honors Carol Anelli, Three Honors Students as Award Winners at Ceremonies April 21
PULLMAN, Wash. —The Washington State University Libraries will present its Faculty Excellence Award and four Student Research Excellence awards at a noon-1 p.m. ceremony Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in the Terrell Library Atrium. Four of the awardees are from the WSU Honors College.
Carol Anelli, professor of entomology and faculty in the Honors College, was selected as the faculty award recipient. According to her nomination, she is a strong advocate for information literacy (one of WSU’s Six Goals of the Baccalaureate) and in her honors’ classes she continually “challenges her student’s to hone these skills.” She has worked with the Libraries consistently over the years, served on committees, and worked with librarians to create research-based learning activities.
Each year the faculty of the WSU Libraries in Pullman nominate a faculty member from outside the libraries. Award recipients exhibit a combination of the following qualities:
· Encouraging students to use the Libraries
· Personal use of the Libraries
· Personal support of or contributions to the Libraries’ collections or services
· Interaction and cooperation with library faculty
· Service on library-related committees
Four Student Research Excellence Award winners will also be honored Wednesday. Undergraduates submit substantial research papers written during the previous year (2009 in this case). The papers are judged by a team of faculty librarians based on evidence of advanced and original use of library resources and collections; of exceptional ability in locating, selecting, evaluating and synthesizing research materials; of significant personal learning and development of a personal agenda of research and inquiry; and of overall quality of the project, including clarity of expression, quality of writing style, and content that illustrates use of a broad range of sources and research materials and that contributes to or suggests future directions for research. /p>
Selected as runners-up from the submissions are, from Honors: Caryssa Gilmore, for “Biblical Reading in 17th Century England;” Kara Mowery, “Mary Richardson Walker: A Case Study of the Female American Missionary Experience in the Early 19th Century;” and Katherine Rempe, “Legislating Memory: A Review of Spain’s Ley de la Memoria Historica.”
A fourth student, Kearby Chase, was named winner of the $1,000 prize for his paper entitled “There Is Unrest in the Forest: The Industrial Workers of the World in the Northwest Timber Industry, 1909-1930.” It was submitted for his History 300 class.
A reception and refreshments will follow the awards ceremony; the public is invited to all events.
For more information please contact Lara Cummings, instruction librarian, at 335-8071, or lursin@wsu.edu.
CONTACT: Lara Cummings, Instruction Librarian, WSU Libraries, 509-335-8071, lursin@wsu.edu