Current Undergraduate News
Request Duke Participation in U-Grad History Journal
Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History is currently soliciting submissions for the Fall 2008 issue. Any questions you have may be addressed to reb2123@columbia.edu or cujh@columbia.edu
Undergraduates and professors, please submit papers to the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. Articles submitted to the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History may be either research or historiography papers. All undergraduate papers submitted to the Journal must be nominated by a faculty member for recognition as outstanding and exemplary undergraduate scholarship. All nominated papers will be posted on the website of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History, at cujh.columbia.edu. From the many nominated papers, the editors select five to six articles to be published in the Journal, and three authors are invited to the Herbert Aptheker Undergraduate History Conference at Columbia University to give talks on the papers published in the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. The authors invited to the History Conference receive an honorarium of at least one-hundred-and-fifty dollars.
Perkins Libraries' Durden Prize
Perkins Libraries will be awarding the Durden Prize for the first time this fall. The prize honors undergraduates who make effective use of Duke's general library collections and services and demonstrate excellence in research, including outstanding analysis, evaluation and synthesis of sources.
The Durden Prize, named in honor of Robert F. Durden, professor emeritus of history, will be awarded annually to one undergraduate in each of three categories: first and second year students; third and fourth year students; and fourth year students writing honors theses. Applicants will supply copies of the papers or projects they wish to submit for competition, cover sheets (form may be found online), faculty statements of support (again, form my be found online) and 500-word essays on their research strategies. Winning papers will be selected by a committee of faculty and librarians and will be announced in fall 2008. The three winning students will be honored at a reception during Parents and Family Weekend in October 2008 and will receive cash prizes of $1000.
Award guidelines and entry forms may be found online at http://library.duke.edu/research/awards/. If you have additional questions about this award, feel free to contact Emily Daly at emily.daly@duke.edu.
Good Luck!