Book Collecting Contest boasts record year

April 17, 2007

A record-breaking number of participants in the 2007 Student Book Collecting Contest made it an enormous success this year. Thirty students entered the contest – almost twice as many as the previous record.<separator></separator>“It was just a phenomenal year,” says Sharon Kozlo, administrative assistant at University Libraries.<separator></separator>Six graduate students were given awards, along with five undergraduate students. They will receive their cash awards at a reception April 19 at the University Club on the Tempe campus. The top graduate and undergraduate winner will continue on to the national level Oct. 12 in Seattle.<separator></separator>The winners are:<separator></separator>Graduate students <separator></separator>Best collection <separator></separator>• First place ($600) – Anthropology major Michael O'Hara, who entered his collection of books and maps on the Battle of the Little Bighorn.<separator></separator>• Second place ($300) – History major Matthew Garrett, who entered his Lewis and Clark Expedition collection.<separator></separator>• Third place ($200) – English major Adrienne Leavy, who entered her collection of a century of Irish social and cultural history.<separator></separator>• Honorable mention ($100) – Daniel Voica, an economics and math major at the Polytechnic campus, who entered a collection of books on economics and math.<separator></separator>Best essay <separator></separator>• First place ($250) – Christopher Schneider, a justice and social inquiry major, who had a collection focused on the transgenerational transmission of social science knowledge.<separator></separator>• Second place ($100) – Michel Zajac, an art and art history major, whose collection focused on the building of the Roman city of Pompeii, which he visited and did research for his thesis.<separator></separator>Undergraduate students <separator></separator>Best collection <separator></separator>• First place ($600) – Jamie-Brooke Forseth, a political science major, violin performance and English literature major, who presented a collection of books and music scores on Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz.<separator></separator>• Second place ($300) – Alexander Doss, political science, who had a collection on the Tamil civilization of India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore.<separator></separator>• Third place ($200) – Katherine Giovacchini, an English literature major, who presented a collection of science-fiction and books about and by women.<separator></separator>• Honorable mention ($100) – History major Marissa DeMartini, who presented her Cherry Ames Nurse Stories collection.<separator></separator>Best essay <separator></separator>• First place ($250) –Forseth's collection of books and music scores on Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz also took the top prize in this category.<separator></separator>• Second place ($100) – Brian Wilkins, a journalism and history major, who presented his collection on African-American history.

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