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<p style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I hope everyone’s Spring Quarter is off to a good start! Submissions for the annual Library Research Awards open on Monday, so I wanted to pass this info along</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<i> – Kira, your librarian <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The <a href="https://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward" target="_blank">
Library Research Award for Undergraduates</a> recognizes excellent undergraduate research and scholarship that demonstrates creative use of information research including UW Libraries resources. Selection of award recipients is determined by specific criteria
and is undertaken by a jury of faculty, academic staff, and library staff evaluators.
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The award is given to undergraduates who demonstrate outstanding ability to identify, locate, select, evaluate, and synthesize library and other information resources and to use them
in the creation of an original course project.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">Undergraduate students enrolled at any University of Washington campus (Bothell, Seattle, or Tacoma) anytime Spring 2023 - Spring 2024 are eligible to apply. The main categories for
awards are as follows :</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Upper Division Thesis - $1000<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
Upper Division Non-Thesis - $1000<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
Lower Division (students with fewer than 90 college-level credits) - $1000<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
Honorable Mentions - $500<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Separate award: <a href="https://www.washington.edu/populationhealth/" target="_blank">
Population Health Award</a> - $250</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The submissions will open on April 1st, 2024, and the deadline for submission is May 1st, 2024. For more information about this award, click
<a href="https://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward" target="_blank" title="https://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward">
here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Sally Pine & Deepa Banerjee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> Co Chairs- Library Research Undergraduate Awards Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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