2025-26 Winners
The Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023-24 Library Research Scholarship Award. The Award is designed to recognize and reward exemplary library research skills. Students submit a research paper or presentation that they have completed for a PCC course together with reflections on their process. Librarians review the submissions, looking for evidence of excellent research skills and strong information literacy. Information literacy is one of PCC’s General Education Learning Outcomes and an information literate student possesses crucial skills to succeed both in and out of the classroom.
Winners, listed alphabetically below, were each awarded $250 scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year.
Larisa Perez Larisa's paper on Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine and Patient Care for her Honors 101 course with instructor, Eric Aldrich, integrated scholarly research, information from advocacy organizations, and ethical concepts in a balanced examination of issues surrounding the practice of physician assisted death. In her reflections, she discussed how she used Library tools and services to help her find and incorporate multiple perspectives, "including those of patients, healthcare professionals, and ethicists". Larisa took advantage of resources such as databases, citation and research guides, and one on one help from a librarian to conduct her research and deliver an excellent paper.
Bhupendra Sen Thakuri Bhupendra's winning paper on How Wearable Technologies Can Transform Mental Health Support on College Campuses was written for Tony Sovak's Writing 102 course. In the paper, Bhupendra integrates both information he gleaned through local interviews and also material from articles in scholarly and trade journals. In his reflections, he discussed his use of Library resources and also his creative application of emerging AI technology to help him analyze data he collected through interviews. He demonstrated his ability to evaluate, select and synthesize information to develop a well supported paper on a locally relevant topic.