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The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes and honors excellence in undergraduate research at UCLA. If you are a current UCLA undergraduate student and can answer “yes” to the questions below, your project may be just what the selection committee is looking for!

• Did you use the UCLA Library collections for a research project or paper you completed for a course?
• Were there library resources that you came to know well and to appreciate because of your research?
• Did your skills as a researcher grow because of your use of library collections?
• Did pursuing your research using library collections and services help you to increase the scope, depth, and significance of what you learned?

Application Deadline

The application deadline for the 2012 prize is Wednesday, March 28.

Prize Categories and Amounts

The following four cash prizes will be awarded:

• Best in the Lower Division – $650
• Best in the Upper Division – $650
• Best Research using Library Special Collections – $350
• Best Research using Library resources related to Los Angeles – $350

Students enrolled in course GE 1ABC – The Global Environment can find research topic ideas in the College Library Reference resource exhibit
on the second floor of the Powell Library Building near the reference desk.

Stop by and take look and/or ask for assistance from the reference desk staff.

We look forward to seeing you!

Bibliography

Cuff, David J. The Oxford Companion to Global Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.

Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2007. Print.

Encyclopedia of Geography. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2010. Print.

Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. Los Angeles, Calif: SAGE, 2008. Print.

Europa Publications Limited. The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. London: Europa Publications, 1994. Print.

Grzimek, Bernhard, American Zoo and Aquarium Association, and Gale Group. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale. Print.

Grzimek, Bernhard, and American Zoo and Aquarium Association. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Print.

Sage Publications, inc. Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2008. Print.

Schreurs, Miranda A. Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press, 2007. Print. Historical dictionaries of religions, philosophies, and movements no. 80.

The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change: A Complete Visual Guide. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. Print.

The Oxford Companion to Global Change. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.