Kira Doaks (left) and Kaytlyne Povlik won the John Sr. and Kimlyn Patishnock Information Literacy Award Grand Prize of $500. Members of the Patishnock family — John Sr., Kimlyn and John Jr. — were on hand for the awards ceremony.

The University Libraries presented five awards at the Undergraduate Research Exhibition on April 6 to recognize scholarly work based on a foundation of careful background research and literature review.

The John Sr. and Kimlyn Patishnock Information Literacy Award Grand Prize of $500 was awarded to Kira Doaks and Kaytlyne Povlik for their poster, “Shining the Light on the Unspeakable: Giving a Voice to the Lonely World of Microagressions.”

The Information Literacy Awards were given as follows:

First Place, $250: Katrina Eckel, “An English Governess in the Great War: The Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp”

Second Place, $200: Sarah Kidder, “The Micronutrient Zinc in the Case of Diarrheal Disease”

Third Place, $150: Brianna Yates, “Gene-Environment Interactions between the Androgen Receptor Gene and Parent Spousal Status on Age at Menarche and Risky Sexual Behavior in College-Age Women”

Honorable Mention, $100: Phoebe Canagarajah, “Diabetes Perceptions and Management in Senegalese Patients and Family Caregivers”

Student Sarah Kidder, second place winner, also was on hand at the ceremony to receive her award from Rebecca Miller and with congratulations from Rob Pangborn, dean of Undergraduate Education, and Penn State President Eric Barron.

A special thank you to all the Libraries’ volunteer judges!

Carmen Cole
Vanessa Eyer
Janet Hughes
Lori Lysiak
Glenn Masuchika
John Meier
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Peterson
Nathan Piekielek
Emily Rimland
Nonny Schlotzhauer
Amy White