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The Waidner-Spahr Library Prizes for Excellence in Student Research: Research Prize for Sophomores or Juniors

About the Waidner-Spahr Library Research Prize for Sophomores or Juniors

The Library’s SO/JR prize recognizes a student who produces an exceptional research project during their sophomore or junior year. Projects should effectively use properly cited, independently selected research material to examine an engaging question.

Eligible research projects include but are not limited to research papers, multimedia projects, lab reports, position papers, posters, field research studies, etc. Students may submit their own work or have their work nominated by a professor or peer. Projects co-authored by two sophomore/junior students will be considered. The work must have been produced by a current sophomore or junior at any time when the student was a sophomore or a junior.

Submission deadline Wednesday, January 8, 2025. 

Sophomore or Junior Research Submission Form

2024 Research & Writing Awards Ceremony

Dickinson Celebrates Outstanding Research & Writing

Dickinson is proud to announce the winners of its annual FYS Excellence in Writing Award, the Prize for Excellence in First Year Research and the Research Prize for Sophomores or Juniors.

March 19,2024

Dickinson Research & Writing Prize WInners, 2023-24