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UO Libraries' Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence (LAURE)
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Undergraduate education at the University of Oregon occurs in an environment where teaching, research, and service are integrated and mutually enriching enterprises. Many undergraduates already engage in the UO's research processes by working in laboratories and in the field. The LAURE program (formerly the Undergraduate Research Award) is intended to recognize students who demonstrate extraordinary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship.
Successful projects will:
- Make extensive, creative use of library services, resources, and collections in any format.
- Demonstrate effective application of information literacy and fluency principles:
- determining information needs
- evaluating and analyzing information
- managing, organizing, and synthesizing information
- applying information in the context of the research project
- communicating information in formats appropriate to an academic audience
- making responsible use of information by providing appropriate and accurate citations and credits
- Show evidence of significant personal knowledge in the methods of research and inquiry.
- Demonstrate originality of thought, mastery of content appropriate to class level, clear writing, and overall quality of presentation.
For more information, consult the LAURE Research Guide
Recent Submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-21)This case study examines a cameo ring featuring Hermaphroditus. The use of this cameo has been theorized by The Getty as amulatory or related to Hermaphroditus cult. However, the common uses of similar rings, subject ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022)Residents of Grants Pass, Oregon, may have known their rural community was changing when five lesbians from Montreal settled outside the town in 1974 and established WomanShare, an all-female lesbian separatist collective. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)Where there is colonial power, there is Indigenous resistance. Latin America offers many case studies for an analysis of Indigenous cultural survival, historically and to the present day. While some have received considerable ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)People with disabilities are at increased risk of experiencing severe COVID-19 outcomes and should receive vaccinations and boosters to mitigate risk. However, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been previously observed in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)The purpose of this research is to document the failed Morgan-Nicolai Door Factory strike of 1988-90 with a specific focus on those in the community who would use the strike as a catalyst for the development of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05)Anthropological and historical scholarship on cultural change in colonially subordinated cultures has often stressed deculturation—cultural loss and degradation—as a consequence of colonialism. This paper disputes that ...
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Investigating Variations in Unemployment Between North and South Spain and Associated Implications (University of Oregon, 2022-06)Unemployment rates in Southern Spain have long been significantly higher than in Northern Spain, negatively affecting Spain’s national unemployment rate. This has led Spain to have one of the highest unemployment rates ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-01)Within a hegemonic Western discourse, Hawai‘i is largely considered an aesthetic tourist destination. It is perceived to be a vacation haven, bountiful in opportunities for real estate, commodification, and gentrification. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)Neurons are electrically excitable cells that transmit information throughout the nervous system with high speed and accuracy. This is largely facilitated by their specialized morphology, with dendrites receiving diverse ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)An increase in global immigration has resulted in humanitarian crises across the world as countries struggle to respond to the growing number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving at their borders. Understanding the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-06)The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of overdose deaths. In response, harm reduction programs commonly distribute the opioid antagonist naloxone directly to drug users so that they can act as first responders ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)While many are aware of the inputs required to maintain food production at an industrial level in the United States, we seldom reflect on the profound significance of a food system that is so deeply rooted in what Matthew ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020)This thesis aims to examine the limitations of the Walt Disney Company’s attempts at including diverse representations of marginalized people in their popular films, including Aladdin (1992), Pocahontas (1995), The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020)This essay focuses on the evolution of sexuality identity markers on the Southern Oregon Lesbian Lands. Research derived from the University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives serves to display the means by which ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)Previous studies have shown a link between survivors’ stroke severity and family caregiver burden, however other factors may contribute to this burden. Burden specific to post-stroke dysphagia and the consequences of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)Within a hegemonic Western discourse, Hawai‘i is largely considered an aesthetic tourist destination. It is perceived to be a vacation haven, bountiful in opportunities for real estate, commodification, and gentrification. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019)The intersection of environmental and reproductive justice illustrates the inherent connection of physical and ecological health. Approaching reproductive justice primarily as an issue of environmental justice allows for ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019)Determining time since death (post-mortem interval or PMI) is an essential part of medico-legal death investigations. PMI can give investigators important information about time of death and may help answer questions about ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Brands and advertising agencies have always used the cultural energy of social movements to connect to new audiences and promote their products. Academics have written a large body of critique about the intersection of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-29)The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic was the most devastating Ebola outbreak in history which killed over 10,000 people. During the outbreak, the WHO led efforts to design the best method to test the potential treatments quickly. ...