Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards
Launched in 2008 and funded by the Friends of Fondren Library, the Fondren Library Research Awards program recognizes students who demonstrate extraordinary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship. Students submitted their research project and an essay outlining how they used specific library tools and resources to do their research. For more information about the awards, see here
Recent Submissions
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Socialism and Representational Utopia: Club of the new social type
(2017)This paper studies the “Club of the New Social Type” by Ivan Leonidov in 1928, a research study project for a prototype of workers’ club. As a project in the early stage of Leonidov’s career, it embodies various sources ... -
Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and Black Civilian Informants in Texas, 1866-1868
(2017)The purpose of the paper is to examine the Obama Doctrine and establish a clearer definition of what it is by contextualizing it through the lens of other presidential doctrines, the schools of realism and idealism. In ... -
Richard Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie: A Culmination and Rejection of Nineteenth Century Philosophical Influences
(2017)The goal of this paper is two-fold: on one hand, exploring how Alpensinfonie both challenges and stays true to traditional symphonic idioms, and on the other, examining how it fits into Strauss’s compositional career, ... -
A Cry for the Lost: A Transitioning Native Worldview in Colonial California
(2017)Historically, people have used legends across cultures as a means of transmitting moral values and socializing the young while providing a source of entertainment and education to their listeners. Contemporary versions of ... -
Sustainability at Fondren Library
(2017)The purpose of this project was to broadly evaluate the environmental performance of Fondren Library, its spaces, and its practices. For this particular case study, I focused on energy use, featuring lighting, air conditioning, ... -
Between Borders: a comparative study of traditional and fronterizo migrants
(2017)My research project seeks to break down gendered generalizations along the U.S. - Mexico borderland to demonstrate the diversity of the borderland experience based on one’s location and gender and furthermore, to show how ... -
The Roles of Endosymbionts and Hosts in Adaptive Response to Stress
(2017)Endosymbiosis is such an intimate interaction that impacts on either partner may disrupt the other, which makes endosymbiotic species quite sensitive to environmental changes, such as elevated temperature, decreasing pH, ... -
Tet Offensive: How Lyndon B. Johnson Won the Battle but Lost the War
(2017)Historians have often depicted the relationship between freed African Americans and Freedmen’s Bureau Agents as being a relationship where African Americans often depended on bureau agents for protection, guidance in ... -
Research for Moot Court
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The Politics of Policy: The Obama Doctrine and the Arab Spring
(2017)The purpose of the paper is to examine the Obama Doctrine and establish a clearer definition of what it is by contextualizing it through the lens of other presidential doctrines, the schools of realism and idealism. In ... -
Examining the Stigmatization of Feminists in a Lab and Field Setting
(2017)Feminism has served as a catalyst that has allowed women to gain many essential rights. However, there is evidence indicating that individuals appearing to identify as feminists may be stigmatized (Anastosopoulos & Desmarais, ... -
Testing the Fidelity of English-Spanish Translations in Election Materials
(2017)The purpose of this research is to identify and test inconsistencies in language usage and meaning as they may appear in translated election material. Following amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the production ... -
A Dying Dream
(2017)This paper examines educational segregation and inequity in our country today. By researching the history of educational segregation in the United States, it becomes clear that since 1988 schools have resegregated, undoing ... -
Ostalgie: A Quiet Cultural Politic
(2017)This paper concerns Ostalgie, or nostalgia for the former East German state in 2007-2010. During those years, many Germans (primarily Ossis, or ex-citizens of the former GDR) valorized material goods from the years before ... -
Frostbite to Fevers
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Redmond McManus: A Biographical Portfolio
(2017)The aim of this project was to pick someone in history who would have been overlooked by history and reconstruct their lives through an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Even if the person had left ... -
The Horror of Natural History and Spenser's Bestiary of Extremophiles
(2017)This essay investigates a sea voyage in Book II of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, to which scholars have seldom paid much attention. I argue that the aquatic life forms the Knight of Temperance encounters on his journey ... -
Student Response to URM Representation Within Rice Faculty
(2017)This study focuses on Rice undergraduate student satisfaction in relation to faculty diversity at Rice. Specifically, we wanted to research the potential benefits and harms that the presence or absence of underrepresented ...
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