The Research Award is an annual award given to Western Washington University undergraduates who demonstrate outstanding library research in the writing of papers for courses taught across the colleges. It recognizes excellence in undergraduate research papers based on significant inquiry using library resources and collections and learning about the research discovery and information synthesizing process. Visit the Research Award site for additional information.
2020
Brutus the Usurper: Discordance and Resolution in Jacques-Louis David’s Roman Tableau, Jessamyn Irvine
Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Understanding Mass Violence through an Investigation of Masculinity in the White Nationalist Movement, Paige Chun Lai Toop
Public Perceptions of #MeToo Gay Male Sexual Assault Disclosure: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Facebook Comments, Eleanor Young, Rowan Salton, and Hanna Estes
2019
Chinese Roots, Foreign Branches: Forestry as Self-Strengthening in the Late Qing, Emily Bunker
American Political Culture and Sarah Palin: Motherhood, Femininity, and Masculinity in the 2008 Presidential Election, Maggie Newhouse
Regendering Iraq: State Feminism, Imperial Feminism, and Women’s Rights Under Sanctions, Samia Saliba
2018
Media Coverage of Transgender People Through Danica Roem’s Election Coverage, Asia Fields
Change in the Usage of 老 in Chinese Vernacular Literature, Matthew Taylor Horn
Intention and Action: Facebook Unfriending Habits Following the 2016 Presidential Election, Madelyn Marritt
2017
Framing the Frat Boy: An Analysis of Frames Used in Coverage of Campus Rape by The New York Times, Christina Becker
A New Look at the Constitutional Convention and State Ratifying Conventions: How Reason and Interest Played a Role, Nicole Carroll
The Grammaticalization of "Because" in Standard English, Jeffrey Guptil
2016
Preventing Anorexia in Adolescents Through Empowerment and Education (PAATTEE), Mimi Boumatar, Emma Hefton, Alex Johnston-Thomas, and Dillon van Rensburg
Feminist Identification with the White Supremacy Movement, Marissa Hall
Shunga: Erotic Art in the Tokugawa Era, Rachael Redjou
2015
Computational Chemistry in Rational Material Design for Organic Photovoltaics, Andrew Hoffman
Responding to Sex Workers’ Rights as Workers’ Rights: Reducing Sex Trafficking in the Dominican Republic, Corena Sharp
Taking Back Birth: Alternative Birth Professional Empowering Women in Childbirth, Ashley Weyers
2014
The Impact of the Recent Global Financial Crisis on Microfinance Sustainability, Kristine Farwell
Evolution of the Y-Chromosome in Primates, Audrey Marsh
The Plague, the Poor, and the Problem of Medicine, Celina Muñoz
Race Representations in Children’s Picture Books and Its Impact on the Development of Racial Identity and Attitudes, Jenna Wilson