The “Research Thing” Prize sponsored by the Coates Library seeks to highlight the rigorous and reflective research methods of our Trinity University students, while also recognizing the creative and innovative ways that research is involved in their work. Browse the winning selections and notable mentions below. Research submissions can be found in the Digital Commons. For more information on the awards, visit the Research Awards page.
Grand Prize Winners
Other Submissions
Noelle Barrera
Ethos of the Underground: Precarious Communities in San Antonio DIY Music
Raquel Belden
Royal Tombs at Ur Research Project
Isabel Chiriboga
Red Card: The European Refugee Crisis
Moraima Rodriguez Guerrero
KDM1A Inhibition Enhances Chemotherapy Response in Glioblastoma
Claire Nakayama
Democracy Revoked: How Foreign Relations and Domestic Opinion Led to the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Julianna Rak
Humanity Betrayed: The Clinton Administration’s Failure to Intervene in the Rwandan Genocide
Claire Siewert
Richard Rolle: Revisions Made to Reflect the Spiritual Growth of a Specific Reader
Adam Chiang Toler
Religious Addiction
Megan Uren
How 13 Seconds Changed History: Macrocosm and Microcosm Interpretations of the Kent State Shooting and its Influence
Brook Yung
Red-Lavender Colorblindness: Institutionalized Oppression and Gay Life in America
Committee's Special Citations
Credits for Images
Woman with Child in Tanzania Image by Nevit Dilmen (File:People in Tanzania 2195 Nevit.jpg retrieved from Wikimedia Commons and used under CC BY-SA 3.0 license – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People_in_Tanzania_2195_Nevit.jpg)
Japanese Internment Detainees Image by War Relocation Authority (File:Japanese internment detainees.jpg retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, public domain – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_internment_detainees.jpg)
Nyamata Memorial Site, skulls. Nyamata, Rwanda by Fanny Schertzer (File:Nyamata Memorial Site 13.jpg retrieved from Wikimedia Commons and used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nyamata_Memorial_Site_13.jpg)
Kent State Massacre © 1970 Valley News-Dispatch by John Paul Filo (File:Kent State massacre.jpg retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, fair use license – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_State_massacre.jpg)
Tom of Finland’s “Untitled” (from “Circus” series), pencil on paper. (Museum of Contemporary Art)