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Library research award applications open Thursday

Feeling proud of your research paper? Consider applying for the library’s research award, which has a $200 prize!

April 30, 2025
Credit: Will Merchant and Andrew Hall, Monumental Pushpin, 2025

Applications for the James J. Kopp Library Research Award will be accepted from December 11 through December 21 at 11:59 p.m. (Pacific).

Students in Bibliographic Research in Writing classes are invited to submit their final projects along with a short accompanying essay about their process. Students in current Fall BRW classes are eligible to apply; all eligible sections are listed below.

Every year, two winners receive $200 in recognition of their excellent work and growth as researchers.

More information at https://library.lclark.edu/events/kopp-awards

 

 

Fall 2025 Bibliographic Research in Writing courses:

  • ART-201, Modern European Art
  • ART-361, Modern China
  • ENG-276, Animals & Animal Rights in Lit
  • ENG-333, Major Fig: Modernists/Memoirs
  • FREN-340, The Power of the Pen
  • HIST-232, Indigenous Peoples/North Am.
  • MUS-124, The Symphony
  • MUS-162, History of Western Music I
  • PHIL-102, Introduction to Philosophy
  • PHIL-103, Ethics
  • PHIL-207, Indian Philosophy
  • PHIL-214, Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL-241, Data, Privacy, and Ethics
  • PHIL-307, Recent Continental Philosophy
  • PHIL-314, Ethical Theory
  • POLS-201, Research Methods Political Sci
  • POLS-255, Law, Lawyers, and Society
  • RELS-224, Jewish Origins
  • RELS-341, Religions of the Northwest
  • RELS-350, Soc/RelWorldE.JudsmChrstn
  • RELS-441, Religions of the Northwest
  • RHMS-301, Rhetorical Criticism
  • SOAN-204, Reading “Texts”
  • SOAN-205, Research Theory and Design
  • WLL-140, Fairy Tales Across Cultures

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