We are happy to announce the winners of this year’s Armacost Library Undergraduate Research Awards: congratulations to CAS students Margaret Eronimous and Lindsey Jordan!
In the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, our congratulations go to Margaret Eronimous
for her ALURA submission in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
entitled, “An American Sound: Parallels in Popular Compositions and Land
Management in Depression Era North and Latin America.” Maggie began
work on this project in the fall of her junior year and has just
successfully defended the paper.
The
central claim of Maggie’s paper revolves around changing human
relationships with natural spaces and emerging attitudes and practices
around public lands developed in tandem with novel musical forms during
the 1930s and 40s in the Americas. Her work explores and defines
examples of how art imitated life in the form of popular music. In order
to do this, Maggie necessarily drew upon works in scholarship,
journalism, government reports, and musical scores and recordings.
Bravely navigating the waters of an emerging sub-discipline, she made
full and expert use of various information resources, including multiple
databases, print materials, and faculty across campus.
In Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, our congratulations go
to Lindsey Jordan for her paper, “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated
with Animal Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies within the Industry.” Lindsey
describes her paper as a “meta-analysis of mitigation opportunities.”
Her central question is: “How much would our total emissions decrease if
we applied technical mitigation strategies to the four processes in the
livestock lifecycle analysis?”
Lindsey
used a variety of sources including books, journal articles and
scientific research-based information from NGOs including the OECD and
the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization. From that
literature, Lindsey identified stages in the livestock lifecycle that
could be analyzed, and various mitigation strategies associated with
each. She synthesized content from those sources and concluded that
using a variety of strategies could result in a 45% reduction in carbon
dioxide emissions. That is a reduction of more than 3.2 gigatons
annually. A significant amount.
We’d also like to heartily thank the members of this year’s two selection committees, and all of the entrants. Winners from all years may be viewed in InSPIRe, our institutional repository. Congratulations to Maggie and Lindsey!
