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The scholarship selection committee will not discriminate against research projects completed by individuals or teams, said Bonamici, but the $3,000 allocated will only be distributed amongst four winning projects. If a team wins an award, the $1,000 or fccrnn mnct creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship,” according to the University libraries’ Web site. The libraries will allocate $3,000 for the awards — two $1,000 scholarships will be given as well as two $500 hon orable mention awards. The scholar ship money will be valid for the win ners’ 2005 spring term tuition. University librarians Deb Carver and Andrew Bonamici said the scholar ships, formally called the Undergradu ate Library Research Awards, are a step toward preserving and distributing ex emplary undergraduate research that has extensively utilized the libraries’ collections, resources and services. “I think what’s important about a good university education is that all undergraduate students have the op portunity to do research, whether it’s in the lab, in the library or out in the field,” Carver said. “So much excellent student work never makes it past the grading,” said Bonamici, chair of the scholarship’s se lection committee. “After the grades are in nobody reads it anymore. ” Undergraduate students create and IN BRIEF Oregon senate confirms education board nominees The Oregon Senate recently con firmed two of Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s nominations for the State Board of Higher Education. Tony Van Vliet, a retired Oregon State University pro fessor and former state senator, and Adriana Mendoza, an Eastern Oregon University student, were confirmed Nov. 17. Their terms will continue through June. Van Vliet served as the District 35 state senator from 1975 to 1995. Dur ing his tenure in the state legislature, he served on the Emergency Board, according to an Oregon University System press release. He also served on Education and Human Resources Subcommittees, and was on the said that win ning projects will be placed in the Univer sity of Oregon Scholars’ Bank, which FOR MORE IN FORM ATI Interested in applying for the Undergraduate Library Research Awards? The application deadline is Jan. 14,2005. For more information, visit www.libweb.uoregon.edu. ed among the team. Bonamici, Carv er and Watson said part of the funding for this year’s award comes from Carver described as an electronic bank for intellectual output. Watson said that the winning projects will be avail able to use as academic resources. Besides placement of winning proj ects in the Scholars’ Bank, the relative ly light amount of extra work needed to apply is the award’s other attraction. “I know how busy students are,” Bonamici said. “We don’t want to cre ate extra assignments for people.” The research projects, which must have been assigned in 300 or 400 level UO classes during winter, spring or fall of 2004, are already done, or will be, by the end of this academic term. Stu dents that utilized any of the Universi ty of Oregon libraries to create excel lent research projects are encouraged to apply after discussing it with their professors, library representatives said. “The scholarship committee is hoping to see “A plus-type projects,” ed for two library freshman seminar classes. The rest of the support comes from leftover funds from a freshman seminar class taught by Vice President for Student Affairs Anne Leavitt. Bonamici and Carver said they are excited about the libraries’ ability to self-fund the 2005 awards. “I am confident that we will find support for this,” Bonamici said. “We have it out there as one of our campaign priorities,” Carver said. “We are trying to raise one hundred thou sand dollars.” Carver said that the inaugural self funding of the research awards was a strategy designed to make the Under graduate Library Research Awards more marketable to future donors. “We wanted to go ahead and do this because we’d have a demonstration. We’d have something to show to a donor,” Carver said. state’s Environmental Quality Com mission for eight years , according to the Oregon University System Web site. During the 1991 legislative ses sion, he was co-chair of the Ways and Means Committee. State Board of Higher Education President Henry Lorenzen said Van Vliet will serve as a vital link between the state board and the legislature. “He’ll be a good conduit for (the board) in relaying the feelings of the legislature back to the board and the Chancellor’s Office,” Lorenzen said. Additionally, Van Vliet was a pro fessor of forestry at OSU for more than 30 years before retiring in 1991. He also served as director of the Ca reer Planning and Placement Center, according to the OUS Web site, and received a number of awards for his teaching while at OSU. Mendoza is a business adminis tration major at Eastern Oregon Uni versity in La Grande, minoring in Spanish. Mendoza is now one of two board members to hail from eastern Oregon — Lorenzen is from Pendleton. “Adriana brings a important view point which is that of a student in a Eastern Oregon regional college,” Lorenzen said. More importantly, added Loren zen, was the perspective that Men doza will bring as a regional college student. Regional colleges are the smaller OUS campuses in more ru ral areas such as Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon Uni versity and Western Oregon University. “(Mendoza’s) perspective is im portant because the strength of the board is that it draws form various backgrounds and various points of view,” Lorenzen said. — Moriah Balingit " S -J Self-service DVD & Games Rental New titles everu week Check it out in the bottom level of the EMU Prices start at $2.00 for 2 dags
