Undergraduate Research Project Contest (MU)
The MU Libraries Undergraduate Research Paper Contest seeks to recognize and reward outstanding research conducted by undergraduate students at the University of Missouri. Any undergraduate in any discipline is invited to enter the contest, which is judged by a cross-disciplinary panel of librarians, members of The Friends of the MU Libraries, and MU faculty members. The MU Libraries Contest is different from other research paper contests in that it judges not only the paper itself, but also the research process and the student’s ability to articulate his/her experience conducting research. It is also unique opportunity for undergraduate students to present their research to an audience.
Winners:
- First place winner: Jared Rubenstein. Nazi Propaganda in American Universities from 1933 to 1938
- Second place winner: Sasha Goodnow. Missouri Statewide Lake Assessment Program
- First place winner: Kathryn Colvin. Hamlet and his solution : "How All Occasions" as objective correlative on page and screen
- Second place winner: Zoe Korte. Love laws : trauma and transgression in Morrison and Roy
- First place winner: Abbey West. Saratoga spells British defeat
- Second place winner: Devon Terry. Arno Breker’s Wounded Man : capturing the essence of Totalitarianism
- 2020 Undergraduate Research Project flyer
- First place winner:Ashley Anstaett, Phong H. Nguyen, and Andrew J. Greenwald. Conceptual design of microfiber removal using pressure-swing filtration [not available in MOspace]
- Second place winner: Erielle Jones. Fly like an eagle : the success of STOP-ERA in the Missouri Senate 1977 [not available in MOspace]
- First place winner: Beckie Jaeckels. Written in stone : a critical look at the nation's dealings with racial discussion in 2017.
- Second place winner: Autumn McLain. Jonathan Swift, misanthropy, and "The Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms."
- First place winner: Victor Topouria. The fabric road to power : geography of the textiles trade along the new Silk Road and China’s path to geopolitical dominance through the textiles supply chain. [Not available in MOspace]
- Second place winner: Samuel Mosher. The suppression of the African slave trade in The Illustrated London News. [Not available in MOspace]
- First place winner: Leslie Howard. The sand castle: an extended family of inspiration.
- First place winner: Rebecca Honeyball. An examination of vocal fry in the context of peer bonding, authority and perceptions of self. [Not available in MOspace]
- Individual project winner: Emily Voss. Consanguineous Marriage in Bangladesh. [Not available in MOspace]
- Group project winner: Read Hall History Collective (Christopher Bowen, Bryan Buer, Alexander Deckard, Christopher Fernandez, Andrew Holden, Adam Kleinerman, Russ Kohl, Bethany Korte, Meghan Moore, Daniel Neuhaus, Melissa Ryder, and Michael Williams.). All My Blood and Treasure: The Civil War and Divided Loyalties in Little Dixie, Missouri. [Not available in MOspace]
- First place winner: Nathaniel Schuster. Alma's betrayal and Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10.
- Second place winner: Donald Glen Cole. "...In view of impending conflict...": the role of Southern Christianity in sectionalism, secession, and Southern defeat.
- First place winner: Alexandrina Dimitrova. Svatbarska muzika and chalga: the fusion of music genres that contributes to a social change.
- Second place winner: David Lamble. The patriarchal gentleman: gender roles of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century American women through the mind of Thomas Jefferson.
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Recent Submissions
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Nazi Propaganda in American Universities from 1933 to 1938
(2023)One of the prizes for the 2023 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Jared Rubenstein. -
Missouri Statewide Lake Assessment Program [video]
(2023)One of the prizes for the 2023 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this video by Sasha Goodnow. -
Amphibious, ambiguous, anguished : Chicana emotion represented in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek"
(2022)One of the honorable mentions for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Audrey Dae Bush. -
Hamlet and his solution: "How all occasions" as objective correlative on page and screen
(2022)One of the prizes for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Kathryn Colvin. -
Love laws : trauma and transgression in Morrison and Roy
(2022)One of the prizes for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Zoe Korte. -
University Libraries Undergraduate Research Project Contest, 2020 flyer
(2019)Flyer for the University of Missouri Libraries Undergraduate Research Contest, which recognizes and rewards outstanding student research. -
Arno Breker's Wounded Man : capturing the essence of totalitarianism
(2019)One of the prizes for the 2020 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Devon Terry. -
Saratoga spells British defeat
(2019)One of the prizes for the 2020 Undergraduate Research Project Contest was awarded for this paper by Abby West. -
Written in stone : a critical look at the nation's dealings with racial discussion in 2017
(2017)One of the prizes for the 2018 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Beckie Jaeckels. -
Jonathan Swift, misanthropy, and "The Voyage to The Land of The Houyhnhnms"
(2017)One of the prizes for the 2018 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Autumn McLain. -
The sand castle : an extended family of inspiration
(2015)The first place prize for the 2015 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Lelise Howard. From the first paragraph: "You never know who is going to walk in and change your life. Sometimes there ... -
"...In view of impending conflict..." : the role of Southern Christianity in sectionalism, secession, and Southern defeat
(2012)The second place price for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Donald Glen Cole which examines the role of religion prior to and during the Civil War. -
Alma's betrayal and Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10
(2012)The first place prize for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Nicholas Schuster which examines the final symphony composed by Gustav Mahler. -
The patriarchal gentleman : gender roles of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century American women through the mind of Thomas Jefferson
(2011)The second place price for the 2011 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by David Lamble which examines Thomas Jefferson's beliefs about the importance of a woman's domestic role in American ... -
Svatbarska muzika and chalga : the fusion of music genres that contributes to a social change
(2011)The first place prize for the 2011 Undergraduate Research Paper Contest was awarded for this paper by Alexandria Dimitrova which examines the emergence and development of two contemporary genres of Bulgarian music and their ...