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Reminder: Dec. 20 deadline for faculty and staff achievement awards

The nomination deadline for the 2017 Faculty and Staff Achievement Awards is on Tuesday, Dec. 20. These awards are a great way to recognize faculty and staff who go beyond their basic duties to bring about positive and lasting change to the university and/or the community. Please consider making a nomination!

2017 Faculty and Staff Achievement Awards
This is your chance to recognize colleagues who go “above and beyond!” All Penn State faculty and staff are encouraged to nominate a fellow Penn Stater for an award.

The six awards that comprise the Faculty and Staff Achievement Awards are the following:

To make a nomination or to view descriptions, eligibility requirements, and the intended purpose of the awards, please go to awards page located on the Office of Human Resources website.

At the time of making a nomination, nominators will be asked to upload a letter of support and list the names of up to three additional individuals who will provide documentation that supports the nomination.

– submitted by Rob Harris, Human Resources

Libraries offer $1,250 award for outstanding undergraduate thesis

The Penn State University Libraries announce the third annual competition for the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis. The competition aims to find the best thesis submitted by an undergraduate student in consultation with his or her adviser. The winner will receive an award of $1,250 and second place $750 and third place $500. Undergraduate students graduating in summer 2013, fall 2013, or spring 2014 and from all Penn State locations are eligible for the spring 2014 award.

Students must submit an online application, have a statement of support submitted by a Penn State faculty member, and provide a copy of their final thesis. The competition includes a review of the submitted theses by a faculty jury and an oral presentation by the students chosen as finalists.

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Student Indigenous Knowledge Research Awards—call for proposals

Penn State University Libraries and the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) announce a call for proposals for the 2nd annual Student Indigenous Knowledge Research Awards. Application deadline is March 1, 2014. Two awards of up to $2000 will be presented. All full-time Penn State students, undergraduate and graduate at any Penn State campus, including Penn State World Campus, are eligible to apply. Research, to be conducted between April 2014 and January 2015, must be related to approved undergraduate coursework (e.g. capstone courses) or honors, masters or doctoral thesis topics. This is a competitive award process and proposal requirements are available at icik.psu.edu/psul/icik/IKGrants.html.

The awards are funded by the University Libraries’ Marjorie Grant Whiting Endowment for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledge. The endowment was created in 2008 with a gift from the California-based Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment, established after Whiting’s death in 1995 as a way of preserving the scientific and humanistic legacy of a woman whose long and successful career as a nutritional anthropologist contributed to an understanding of the cultural interface between diet and health among people around the world.

For more information, please contact Helen Sheehy, head of the Social Sciences and Maps Libraries, at hms2@psu.edu or 814-863-1347 and Amy Paster, head of the Life Sciences Library, at alp4@psu.edu or 814-865-3708.

Award created for Undergraduate Research in Sustainability and the Environment

Penn State’s University Libraries announce an “Award for Undergraduate Research in Sustainability and the Environment,” open to Penn State students at all campus locations, including the World Campus. Penn State’s Social Sciences Library, Cengage Learning and the Penn State’s Sustainability Institute have partnered to award a total of $4000 to Penn State undergraduates to be presented on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, 2014.

sustainability researchDeadline for submitting application, paper or project and supporting materials is March 31. Two $1,000 prizes and four $500 prizes will be awarded. Award money was provided by Cengage Learning and the Penn State’s Sustainability Institute.

Both traditional papers (text) submissions and multimedia projects are eligible. In addition to the research project, students are required to submit a nominating letter from a faculty member, an essay outlining their research methods, plus a bibliography of works consulted. Librarians and other appropriate faculty and staff will judge the submissions based on the research strategy essay, nominating letter, and technical criteria. Full details are available at www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/socialsciences/sustainability_award.html#about. Continue reading →

Nominate a deserving co-worker for annual achievement award

Nominations for the University’s annual Faculty and Staff Achievement Awards, which recognize outstanding employees, are now being sought.  The deadline is January 8, 2014. The awards are:

The Barash Award for Human Service
The McKay Donkin Award
The Award for Administrative Excellence
The Staff Excellence Award
The Support Staff Award
The Dr. James Robinson Equal Opportunity Award

The on-line nomination form and a description of each award are available on the OHR website at http://ohr.psu.edu/employee-and-family-resources/fsaa/. Nominations must be for a specific award, and supporting documentation should support the criteria of that award.

Please take this opportunity to think about the extraordinary contributions of our colleagues, both to the Libraries and to the University, and honor them with a nomination.

Penn State team wins the 2013 AgNIC Partner of the Year Award

AgNic Group

Representing the University Libraries, left to right, are Amy Paster, Helen Smith, Sherry Lonsdale, and Wayne Ellenberger. Not pictured: from the University Libraries is Linda Klimczyk and from the College of Agricultural Sciences are Jan Scholl, David Abler, and Bruce Grinder. Photo by Wilson Hutton

A Penn State team has won the 2013 AgNIC Partner of the Year Award that recognizes outstanding contribution to the vision and goals of the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC).

Since becoming a member in 1999, Penn State has demonstrated leadership and innovation as an AgNIC partner. Penn State supports AgNIC subject websites in the areas of Home Gardening and Turfgrass and of particular note are two additional sites: Expanded Foods and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and Youth Development. These resources are the products of a highly successful collaboration between the Penn State Life Sciences Library and the College of Agricultural Sciences, with support from the USDA and the National Agricultural Library through a specific cooperative agreement.

EFNEP, which has been in existence for forty years, educates low income families in the areas of nutrition, food preparation, and food management. The AgNIC site provides a database of professional and graduate research studies conducted about the program.

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March 18 deadline reminder for student thesis application

Undergraduate students are reminded that submission of the online Student Thesis Application and the faculty support statement for the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award are due March 18. Final thesis submission will be April 8.

Details, including submission forms, are available at: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/admin/thesisaward.html

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Undergraduate thesis award nominations due March 18

Advisers and undergraduate students are reminded that March 18 is the deadline to submit nominations for the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, including the Student Thesis Application and the Faculty Statement of Support, available at www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/admin/thesisaward.html Final thesis submission will be April 8.

The winner will receive an award of $1,000, second place $500 and third place $250. Undergraduate students graduating in summer 2012, fall 2012, or spring 2013 from throughout Penn State are eligible for the spring 2013 award. Continue reading →