1st Annual Library Prize Winners

Thanks to the Friends of the PCC Libraries who sponsored eight $100 prizes for outstanding student research papers. PCC Faculty teaching credit classes submitted papers for consideration in two categories: Humanities and the Sciences.

Submitted papers were from regular class assignments, not special projects
On each campus, papers were read by a group of three judges: a faculty member, a librarian, and the dean of instruction
Papers were judged on: quality and range of research, quality of writing, originality or interest, and organization and content

Cascade

Leah Hinson (Humanities)
Title: Violent protesters or reactionary police?
Heather J. Webb (Science)
Title: Organs for sale or rent

Rock Creek

Brittney McAlmond (Humanities)
Title: A cake in the chain
Comment: This is a paper that displays well how to combine personal interest in a topic with detailed research, resulting in an essay that has both academic depth and a human side.
Tammie Cresto (Science)
Title: Where the wild things are: an introduction to wildlife rehabilitation
Comment: This paper has fewer sources in the bibliography, but the sources are integrated well with the author's thought and personal knowledge. The in-text citations are done properly; the essay is readable and flows smoothly. The sources quoted are various: newspaper articles and a book, both online and print. The key to the quality of this paper is the synthesis of secondary source materials with the author's thoughts.

Sylvania

Lindsay Mayer (Humanities)
Title: The electoral college: the best system?
Jacques von Lunen (Humanities)
Title: A call for Indian unit
Annessa Morey, Sara Day-Brewer, Stacy Larsen, and David Wickham (Science)
Title:The effects of sodium chloride (NaCl) solution on the growth of tomato plants (lycopersicon esculentum)
Angela LoSasso (Science)
Title: A geologic history of the Columbia River Gorge from the late Eocene to present

Honorable Mention:

Tram Thi Phuong Nguyen (Humanities)
Megan Glore (Humanities)