2022 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize Winners

The winners of the 2022 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize competition are announced.
2022 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize Honorees (from L to R): Amanda Lauren Serafin, Honorable Mention; Corinne Rose Smith, Winner; Gabrielle Allen, Winner; and Alexis Angstadt, Honorable Mention. Not Pictured: Colleen Berry, Jamie Hreniuk, Bryan Gorczyca, and Nicholas Capobianco, Winners; and Sarah Boyle, Honorable Mention.
2022 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize Honorees (from L to R): Amanda Lauren Serafin, Honorable Mention; Corinne Rose Smith, Winner; Gabrielle Allen, Winner; and Alexis Angstadt, Honorable Mention. Not Pictured: Colleen Berry, Jamie Hreniuk, Bryan Gorczyca, and Nicholas Capobianco, Winners; and Sarah Boyle, Honorable Mention.

George Aulisio, Dean of the Weinberg Memorial Library, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize competition.

Undergraduate Upper-level Winner: Gabrielle Allen, for the project, The Effects of Exercise on Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder: An Evidence Review, completed in OT 350: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods for Dr. Ann Romanosky

Graduate Winner: Colleen Berry, Jamie Hreniuk, Bryan Gorczyca, and Nicholas Capobianco, for the project, The Effectiveness of Complementary/Alternative Medicine for Pain Management in Postpartum Women: A Systematic Review, completed in PT 773: Scientific Inquiry III for Physical Therapy for Dr. Renée Hakim

Currently celebrating its 11th year, the Weinberg Memorial Library inaugurated the prize in 2011 to recognize excellence in research projects that show evidence of significant knowledge of the methods of research and the information gathering process, and use of library resources, tools, and services. In 2017, the prize was named for Professor Emerita Bonnie W. Oldham, who founded the prize at the University in 2011. 

The Bonnie W. Oldham Library Research Prize was fully endowed in 2019 and consists of a prize of $500 awarded to winning projects in each of the three categories: Undergraduate Foundational (100-level projects), Undergraduate Upper-level (200- to 400-level projects), and Graduate. This year’s winning projects and descriptions of the research process submitted by student winners will be deposited into the University of Scranton Student Scholarship digital collection this summer.

Undergraduate Upper-level Honorable Mentions

A special thank you to the judges of this year’s competition: Amye Archer, Deborah Budash, Marzia Caporale, Marian Farrell, Eugeniu Grigorescu, Michael Landram, Bonnie Markowski, Bill Miller, Ian O’Hara, Sylvia Orner, and Sheli Pratt-McHugh.

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