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2006-09 Winners of the Lance and Elena Calvert Undergraduate Research Award

About Calvert Awards

The University Libraries works in partnership with the Division of Research and Graduate Studies to present the Libraries' Awards for Undergraduate Research.

  • These awards recognize excellence in undergraduate research projects that incorporate the use of University Libraries' collections and demonstrate sophisticated information literacy skills on the part of the undergraduate researcher.
  • The award review committee considers the product of the research, but focuses on the research process: the demonstration of library research skills, adept use of library resources, and reflection upon the strategies utilized to investigate a research problem.
  • Winners receive a $1000 prize and public recognition of their excellent work.

2009 award winner

Group photo with winner holding framed award certificate.
Lance Calvert, Elena Calvert, Tyler Parry, Shanelle Parry, Carol Parry at the 2009 Undergraduate Research Awards reception

Tyler Parry

Essay: The Paradox of Progress: Hildegard of Bingen in the Age of Transition

Faculty sponsor: Elspeth Whitney, History

2008 award winners

Group photo of Lance and Elena Calvert standing with 2008 award winners.
(left to right) Elena and Lance Calvert with award recipients, Mark Wilson, Loretta Sargeant, and Claire White, at the 2008 Award Reception

Claire White

Essay: Commending Religion to All around Us: Baptist Church, 1780-1850

Faculty sponsor: Elizabeth White Nelson, History

Loretta Sargeant

Essay: All We Want Is Make Us Free: The Amistad Case

Faculty sponsor: David Tanenhaus, History

Mark Wilson

Essay: Problems with Gauker's Conditional Semantics

Faculty sponsor: Ian Dove, Philosophy

2007 award winners

Lisa Rios, Dean of Libraries with award winners Patricia Iannuzzi, Melissa Mezger and Heidi Ann Manlove at the 2007 Award Reception.
(left to right) Lisa Rios, Dean of Libraries Patricia Iannuzzi, Melissa Mezger and Heidi Ann Manlove at the 2007 Award Reception.

Heidi Ann Manlove

Essay: Hyperandrogenemia, Obesity and PCOS: Consequential Female Health, Reproductive Success and Behaviors from their Fetal Environment to their Granddaughter

Faculty sponsor: Peter Gray, Anthropology

Lisa Rios

Essay: The Children of the Anasazi Working Class: A Biocultural Study of Child Health on Black Mesa, AD 900-1150

Faculty sponsors: Debra Martin and Jennifer L. Thompson, Anthropology

Melissa Mezger

Essay: Student Attitudes about Alternative Energy Use at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Faculty sponsor: Timothy Farnham, Environmental Studies

2006 award winners

Christina L. Dykstra
Alexi K. Nedeltchev
Jacob T. Smigel

Christina L. Dykstra

Essay: The Physical and Social Factors Influencing the Development of Tradition and Ideology

Faculty sponsor: Dr. Barbara Roth

Alexi K. Nedeltchev

Essay: Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(pyridinium salt)s with Anthracene Moieties Exhibiting Both Lyotropic Liquid-Crystalline and UV Light Emitting Properties

Faculty sponsor: Dr. Pradip Bhowmik

Jacob T. Smigel

Essay: Conglobation in the Pill Bug (Armadillidium vulgare) as a Terrestrial Adaptation

Faculty sponsor: Dr. Allen Gibbs