5th Annual Julia Rogers Research Prize

Release date: December 09, 2008 |

The fifth annual Julia Rogers Research Prize competition is a charter participant in the new Goucher Student Symposium, to be held on Monday, April 6, 2009 in the library. The Student Symposium is an expanded opportunity to celebrate the multi-faceted talents of the Goucher student body. This event will encapsulate the Digital Arts Showcase and Contest and the Julia Rogers Research Prize, along with a new effort to recognize both research-based and creative works that stem from independent student-faculty partnerships.

The research prize competition, sponsored by the Friends of the Goucher College Library, retains its mission of awarding outstanding research by Goucher students using library resources.  The $250 prizes were first offered in 2004, in honor of Julia Rogers’ 150th birthday.  If you have produced work of which you are especially proud, please consider entering.  The categories are:
First year/Sophomore
Junior/Senior
Graduate

Instructions for Submission

To submit your research project as a candidate for one of these awards, you must provide the following:

• The paper itself.
  
  must include 5 or more pages of content. 
  
  must have been written for a course taken in 2008.
  
  must include a bibliography of at least 10 citations, written in a standard bibliographic format (MLA, APA, etc.)
  
  
• An essay of 250-300 words describing the research strategy, how library resources helped focus and direct the research, and what you learned about the research process.
  
  
• A cover sheet with your name, the title of the paper, and the name of the nominating professor. Your name and the professor’s should not appear anywhere in the main body of the submission.
  
  
• A letter of recommendation from the faculty member for whose course the paper was written. The letter must include a brief statement addressing the characteristics of the paper that distinguish it as an example of outstanding student scholarship and writing. Please arrange for the letter to reach the library in time to meet the deadline. 

To submit your paper, essay, and cover letter online, include them all in the same file. Go to http://www.goucher.edu/symposium, then select the “student” link. Your file may be sent electronically via this form.

If your professor wishes to submit the letter online, ask him/her to go to http://www.goucher.edu/symposium, select the “faculty member” link, then select the “Letter of Recommendation” link. The letter of recommendation may be sent electronically via this form.