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Scholarships award excellent
library resources application
The University libraries will distribute the four awards,
which total $3,000, for spring 2005 tuition
BY ROBERT FOGARTY
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
The University libraries announced
last week the creation of four new
scholarships aimed at students who
“demonstrate extraordinary skill and
complete noteworthy research every
year, Bonamici said. Some projects
“can be of such excellence that they
should be preserved and get broader
distribution.”
Carver and colleague Mark Watson
Bonamici said.
The awards will be considered on a
metit based evaluation, Carver said.
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
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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
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