Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability & the Environment  

Sustainability recognizes the interactions between the environment, social justice and economics.[1]

Click to Enlarge. The three pillars, or spheres, are the 'triple bottom line' and require a balancing act.[2]

[1] Cornell University. "Cornell Sustainable Campus." 2006. http://www.sustainablecampus.
cornell.edu

[2] Vanderbilt University. "Sustainability at Vanderbilt." 2007. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/
sustainvu/who-we-are/what-is-sustainability.

Temple University Libraries is grateful to Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, for its support of the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability & the Environment.

The judging panel has selected the winners of the 2011-2012 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability and the Environment.

Congratulations to this year's winners!

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability & the Environment was established by Temple Libraries and Gale, a leading organization in e-research and educational publishing, to encourage undergraduate research and projects in the area of sustainability.

Established in the 2010-2011 academic year, two projects will be selected on an annual basis to receive an award of $1000.  The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability & the Environment will be offered for three consecutive academic years.

 Winning entries will exhibit originality, depth, breadth, or sophistication in the use of information resources; exceptional ability to select, evaluate, synthesize and utilize information resources in the creation of a project in any media; and will contribute to our understanding of sustainability, or contribute to improving or developing sustainable practices.

The submission deadline is March 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm!

 Students who submit award winning projects will be recognized at an award ceremony and reception to be held in the Lecture Hall of Paley Library.

Note: If your project is not on sustainability, you may be eligible to enter our other Library Prize competition!  See: http://guides.temple.edu/libraryprize

The winners of the 2010-2011 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability and the Environment are:

Tom Gallen, Jennifer Huber, Paloma Vila, “Harvesting Stormwater for Urban Farm Irrigation,” for Engineering 4296 with professors Joseph Picone and Robert J. Ryan

Derek T. Lichtner, “Can the Global Economy Afford to Preserve Biodiversity? The Econosphere-Biosphere Connection,” for Earth and Environmental Sciences 2096 with professor Laura Toran

Congratulations also to our Honorable Mention for the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability and the Environment:

Bonnie Evans, “Correlates of Intrinsic Extinction Risks of Lemur Species,” for Biology 4391 with professor Brent Sewall

Awards Ceremony: Lecture Hall of Paley Library on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, from 4pm to 6pm.

Sustainability covers a wide range of disciplines. Therefore, we encourage submissions on a wide range of topics. The following are examples of potential submissions (the list is not exhaustive):

• a plan to improve sustainability practices for a specific organization or community
• design of a system or redesign of a system to improve sustainable practices (i.e. solar powered car, wind farms etc.)
• overview of history of sustainability
• artistic work that captures view of sustainability
• analysis of the use of an alternative fuel
• analysis of policies that impact sustainability
• modeling of an environmental process
• collection and analysis of environmental data (i.e. climate data, field samples etc.)