Congratulations to 2nd Annual Library Undergraduate Research Award recipients

On Friday, March 28, 2008, the recipients of the Second Annual Louis J. Blume Library Undergraduate Research Award were recognized at the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The awards recognize student researchers who demonstrate skill and originality in the application of library and other information sources in a research project.

The First Place Award of $200 was granted to Rita Lopez for her project, "The Influence and Adaptation of the Japanese Noh Theatre in William Butler Yeats’s 'At the Hawk’s Well'." Faculty mentors for the project were Dr. Alice Kersnowski and Dr. Frank Kersnowski.

The Second Place Award of $100 was given to Kristin Taylor Leslie for her project, "Performance Theory in Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’." Faculty mentors were Dr. Richard Pressman and Dr. Alice Kersnowski.

We thank all the students who took the time and effort to submit an application and proposal for the Award. We encourage students who are eligible to apply next year for the Louis J. Blume Library Undergraduate Research Award.

Congratulations to Rita and Kristin!

Census Atlas of the U.S.

This colorful new publication from the Census Bureau puts all kinds of interesting statistics about the U.S. and its citizens in fascinating visual form. The first comprehensive population and housing atlas published by the Bureau since the 1920's, it contains almost 800 maps, most showing data to the county level. In addition, there are narrative highlights and useful charts further illustrating the diverse subjects: age and sex, race and Hispanic origin, living arrangements, language, income and poverty, education, migration, military service, and more.

Want to get a visual idea of how many children in the U.S. consider themselves to be of mixed race? check out page 36. How about a comparison of commuters leaving for work before 6 a.m. in 1990 and in 2000? Page 191. Need a visual idea of which Houston neighborhoods have a higher median income? You can see that on page 218. These are just some examples of the kind of information contained in the atlas.

The atlas is available for in-library use and it can be found on the bottom shelf (since it's too big to fit on the regular shelves) in the documents stacks near its classification number: C 3.205/8-3:29. And if you should need access to its maps from off campus, you can find a PDF version on the Census Bureau's website.