We will be celebrating the winners of the Libraries' Research and Writing Awards and their achievements at a special awards reception coinciding with Duke Family Weekend.  All are invited to join us for refreshments as we honor the winners and hear from them about their work.

Lowell Aptman Prize
Recognizing excellence in undergraduate research using sources from the Libraries’ general collections.

• Third- and Fourth-year winner:  Seth Kessler for “Great Trading Path and the Piedmont Environment,” completed as part of Dr. Robert Buerglener’s Information Science + Studies seminar and building on work he did in Dr. Hannah Conway’s Environmental History seminar.
• Honors Thesis Winner: Robert (Bo) Aldridge for “Crowdsourcing Empire: Compliance, Autonomy and Disobedience in the Canada Company’s Planned Towns during the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century,” supervised by Dr. Phil Stern, History.

Chester P. Middlesworth Award
Recognizing excellence of analysis, research, and writing in the use of primary sources and rare materials held by the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

• Best Course Paper: Alex Niang for “‘We Have No Set of Ethics’: Race and the USIA in the Eisenhower Era,” nominated by Dr. Nancy MacLean 
• Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Megan O. Corey  for “Custodians of the Color Line: Dallas Walton Newsom and the Black Janitors at Trinity College, 1850-1830,” nominated by Dr. Thavolia Glymph

Ole R. Holsti Prize
Recognizing excellence in undergraduate research using primary sources for political science or public policy.

• Andrea Reyes Guillen for “Civil War Interventions: The Determining Conditions Behind Why States Differ in their Support Methods,” nominated Dr. Kyle Beardsley. 
• Hannah Auddino for “From Public Houses to For-Profit Facilities: The Creation, Regulation, and Privatization of the American Nursing Home,” nominated by Dr. Margaret Humphreys.

Rudolph William Rosati Creative Writing Award
Recognizing outstanding creative writing by first year students and sophomores.

• Lillian Sturhahn for “Man on Fire”
• Diego Yunchang Ge for “Letter from a Camp”

The William Styron Creative Writing Award
Recognizing outstanding creative writing by juniors and seniors.

• Tonya Hu for “Corpus”
• Sancia Milton for “Four White Horses”