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 [...]
Katelynn Lemons is the Grand Prize winner of last week’s National Library Week Trivia Contest. She won a 1 GB iriver MP3 Player. Tiffany Buck won the second-place prize of a beautiful print of McConnell Library. Both contestants had perfect answers. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! The theme was “Learn the Radford University [...]
As part of this week’s National Library Week celebration, library patrons were invited to play a guessing game — how many “bookworms” are in the jar?
Congratulations to Elaine Fenwick, who won the game with her guess of 27 worms. (There were actually 29 worms in the jar.) Elaine won the jar of worms (Twizzlers) and [...]
Yesterday, we celebrated our second-annual McConnell Day, in honor of the birthday of Dr. John Preston McConnell. Library patrons were invited to guess how many gummy bookworms were packed into a jar. Three people correctly guessed 75 worms. After a drawing, Theo McCloskey (pictured at left) was declared the grand prize winner. He received the jar of [...]