Library Research Awards

2025 Library Award Winners
 

2025 Library Award winners with Dean Scott Walter

The University Library collaborates with partners in the divisions of Academic Affairs, Research and Innovation, and Student Affairs and Campus Diversity to support undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activities (RSCA), alongside our support for RSCA activities pursued by graduate students, faculty, and other members of the SDSU community. If you would like to schedule a consultation with a librarian as part of a new or ongoing RSCA project, please contact your liaison librarian

As part of the SDSU Student Symposium (S3), one of more students are selected to receive a Library Award, which is given in recognition of a project presented at S3 demonstrating effective and/or creative use of library resources and collections, "including, but not limited to printed resources, databases, primary resources, and materials in all media." Library Award winners are encouraged to submit their S3 project to the library's institutional repository. 

2026 Winners

Read more about the 2026 Library Award winners.

  • Daniela Hernandez (College of Education), "Hot Take: Can AI be Used for STEM Servingness?"
  • Elizabeth Nguyen (College of Education), "Gatekeeping in STEM: Sense of Belonging Among Students in Introductory Biology and Chemistry."
2025 Winners

Read more about the 2025 Library Award winners.

  • Sudha Singh (College of Health and Human Services), "A Program Evaluation of SDSU's Health Expo."
  • Claudia Pruitt (College of Education), "Transformative Teaching: Mentoring Preservice Secondary Math Teachers in Trauma-Informed Pedagogy."
  • Jamey O’Neill (College of Sciences), "CarD-T: An Automated Pipeline for the Nomination and Analysis of Probable Human Carcinogens."
  • Arwa Alkhawaja & Velia Huerta (joint) (College of Education), "Examining the Impact of Racial Trauma on Mental Health in Minority Youth."
  • Leticia Camacho (College of Health and Human Services), "En Busca de Provecho: Exploring the Relationship Between Food Deserts and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Among Latinas."
2024 Winners

Read more about the 2024 Library Award winners.

2023 Winners
2022 Winners
  • Emma Tsztoo (College of Sciences), "Employee Experience with Digital Transformation: From Culture Readiness to Active Participation."
  • Jacqueline Erdkamp (College of Health and Human Services), "Effects of Exercise Intensity on Cardiometabolic Health in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI): a Systematic Review."
  • Samantha Rae (College of Sciences), "The Association Between Economic Stress and Episodic Memory."
  • Christine Jacobites (College of Arts and Letters), "The World’s First Attempt at Monotheism? A Closer Look at Akhenaten’s Religious Reforms."
2021 Winners
  • Christopher Nguyen, "How do Vietnamese-speaking children acquire English grammar?"
  • Jenny O'Connor, "Stroop Effect Highlights Deficits in Cognitive Control in Binge Drinkers."
  • Jessica Pereira, "Syndemic on São Vicente Island: Tracking the Dengue Fever and SARS-CoV-2 Co-Outbreaks."
  • Victoria Telles, "Cultural Adaptations of Interventions to Improve Obesity-related Health Outcomes among Latino Youth: A Systematic Literature Review."
  • Marisa Torres-Ruiz, "Faces and Places of Research: Factors that Influence Participant Engagement in Research Among Latinx Communities."  
2020 Winners
  • Michelle Harrison, (Speech Language and Hearing Sciences), "Is Reading Attitude related to Oral Reading ability in Monolingual Vietnamese Speaking Children?"
  • Alec Whitson, (History), "Yesterday's Brew: Beer and Society in San Diego, 1860 - 1920."
  • Victoria A. Davis, (Psychology), "Cultural Factors the Influence African American/Black Women's Adherence to Breast Cancer Treatments: A Review of the Literature."
  • Albert Contreras Jr. (History), "Edna and Lois: A Look at the Lives, Times, and Writings of a Mother and Daughter in National City."
2019 Winners
  • Sara Fakhoury (History), “Jewish Immigrant Children in 20th-century America:  Dangling between Two Worlds.”
  • John Gove (History), “Activism on the DL: The Gay Liberation Front at SDSU.”
  • Brittany Prince (Health Management and Policy), “The Quality of Care Delivery for Patients Living With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Who Are Diagnosed With Cancer: a Systematic Review.”
  • Tyler Linvill (Public Health and Latin American Studies), “Rompiendo Fronteras: A Qualitative Investigation of Mentors and Gang-Involved Youth in Cali, Colombia.”
  • Amanda Farr (Public Health), “Use of Community Based Participatory Research among Queer Adolescents.”
2018 Winners
  • Nicholas Parker, "We Shall Overcome: The Fight for African-American Equality in 1960's San Diego."
  • S.L. Kay, "Whose Jerusalem: The evolution of a religious city into a political hot topic."
  • Tiffany Duong, "A Nucleophilic Atroposelective Kinetic Resolution of Selective Pyrrolopyrimidine Kinase Inhibitors."
  • Leah Hails, "Transitioning Subsistence Patterns, Meat Preservation and the Nate Harrison Site."
  • Polly Card, "Men of Colour at Community College: Using Film Based Ethnographies to Visualise Student Experiences."
2017 Winners
  • Andrea Alvarado,"The GenX Files: The Search for Masculinity in 1990s America."
  • Anni Perheentupa Mackey,  "The Story Seems to Wear the Stamp of Truth: Verisimilitude, Science Fiction, and H. Rider Haggard's She."
  • Sim Quinzon, "Specific Purpose English Communication System for Seniors: A Follow-Up Study with Native Speakers of Somali."
  • Dechao Zhu,  "Structural Bioinformatic Analysis of Phage Capsid Proteins as Environmental Indicator."
2016 Winners
  • Angela Risi (English/ Psychology), "The Politics of ‘Representation’ In Underground Queer Comics"
  • Beau Bennett (History), " "Guttural German”: Herbert Marcuse, the Media, and Student Radicalism in San Diego During the 1960s."
  • Patricia Fernandez (Educational Leadership), "Dual Language Immersion Program Equity and Access: Is there equity for all students?"
  • Christopher Czarnecki (Psychology), "Effects of Meditative Breathing on Cognition."
2015 Winners
  • Kristine Taniguchi, "Regional impacts of urbanization on stream channel geometry: Importance of watershed size and channel particle size."
  • Mengxi Tian, "Immune Mechanisms and Racial Disparities in Colon Cancer."
  • Marley A Hilleger, "Investigating Phage-encoded blaCTX-M1 in Influent and Effluent Samples from Wastewater Treatment Plants."
  • Whitney C Oleman, "The Effects of Ambient Sounds vs. Lyrical Music on Attention."
2014 Winners
  • Suzanne Genshock (History), "The Transmission of Contraceptive Knowledge from Greece and Rome to the Islamic World and Back Again."
  • Erin Whitford (Women's Studies), "Gay Rights and the Fight for Mental Acuity."
  • Michael Lancaster (History), "Love Thy Neighbor: A History of Tolerance, Acceptance, and Celebration of Homosexuality within the Christian Tradition."
  • Christy Thornton (Public Health), "Using Imagery to Increase and Maintain Self-Efficacy during a Weight-loss Intervention."
2013 Winners
  • Kayli Dalton (Exercise Physiology & Nutritional Sciences), "Testing the Role of Physical Acceptance in the Exercise and Self-Esteem Model in College Students."
  • Laura Frutos (Psychology), "Is X-ray Florescence Imaging, a Valid Measure in Examining Differences in the Metal Concentrations of Postmortem and Resected Brain Tissue?"
  • Kristi Hendrickson (Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences), "You can look but don’t touch: the real-time dynamics between infant visual and haptic behavior."
  • Alyssa Deline (Chemistry), "Synthesis and Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles with Different Capping Agents and Shapes."