Congratulations to our Library Research Award winners!

The winners of the Winesett Awards for Library Research were announced Friday, April 25:

Upper Division: Meredith C. Jones, “‘Unshored, Harborless Immensities’: Cetology, Gender, and Sexuality in ‘Moby Dick’” Sponsor: English Professor Timothy Poland

Lower Division: Kelly Drake, “The Nature of Friedrich’s Ataxia.” Sponsor: Biology Professor Orion RogersWinners receive a $500 prize.

Finalists:

Upper Division

• Adam M. Farmer, “The Effects of Financial Incentives on Embryo Donor Demographics” Library Essay. Sponsor: Biology Professor Joel B. Hagen
• Rebecca Huvar, “‘The Soul That Dares and Defies’: The Influence of Walt Whitman on Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’” Sponsor: English Professor Timothy Poland
• Lindsey Putt, “Franz Marc’s ‘Fate of the Animals’” Sponsor: Art Professor Roann Barris
• Tosha Rachelle Taylor, “Parables of Suffering: Violence and the Prodigal Son of Flannery O’Connor’s Novels” Sponsor: English Professor Donald Secreast

Lower Division

Kevin Hatton, “Pseudorca Crassidens- False Killer Whale.” Sponsor: Biology Professor Karen Francl. Winners and finalists will have their papers and projects published in the Archives of the Winesett Scholars.