West Virginia University Libraries invites undergraduate students who wrote an exceptional humanities or social sciences research paper this 2024-25 academic year to submit their work for consideration for the Robert F. Munn Library Scholars Award.
This award is presented annually for outstanding research papers in the humanities or social sciences. Winners will be awarded $1,000 and publicly recognized by the University and the Libraries.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be a student enrolled at WVU as a full-time undergraduate student in good academic standing;
- Have conducted original research using resources from WVU Libraries and
- Have used this research to produce a paper that reflects individual work, not that of a group or class project.
The deadline to submit is Friday, June 6.
Students who wish to apply should submit:
- An electronic copy of their paper;
- A short reflective memo, no more than 500 words, describing how they used WVU Libraries and
- An abstract of no more than 100 words.
To apply for the award, email your paper, memo and abstract to the Robert F. Munn Library Scholars Award Coordinator Catherine Fonseca at catherine.fonseca@mail.wvu.edu.
About the Robert F. Munn Library Scholars Award
WVU Libraries and WVU Honors College established the Robert F. Munn Library Scholars Award in 2008 to honor Dr. Robert F. Munn, dean of library services from 1957-1986. The award goes to one or more students for an outstanding humanities or social sciences thesis based on original research using resources from WVU Libraries.