- occupational therapy
- Class of 2017
- Franklin Square, NY
Christina Gavalas of Franklin Square Receives Library Research Prize
2016 Jul 14
Christina Gavalas of Franklin Square, and Marjorie Toron, Marlboro, New Jersey, received The University of Scranton's 2016 Library Research Prize for Undergraduate Students.
The University's Weinberg Memorial Library inaugurated the prize in 2011 to recognize excellence in research projects that show evidence of significant knowledge of research methods and the information gathering process, as well as the use of library resources, tools and services.
Charles E. Kratz, dean of the library and information fluency, announced the 2016 Library Research Prize winners and honorable mention recipients at a reception held in May in the Heritage Room of the Weinberg Memorial Library.
The undergraduate category winners, Gavalas and Toron, submitted a literature review that they completed for OT 494: Evidence-Based Research on the efficacy of using weighted vests on children with autism and ADHD. This is the first time that a group project was selected as the library's prize winner. In their application essay, they noted that an information literacy session by a librarian gave them "a better understanding of how to utilize several different databases to their maximum potential." They also used the interlibrary loan system to obtain articles that weren't available full-text in the library's holdings and the collaborative spaces available in the library for their project. Both students will continue their education at Scranton in the fall as graduate students in the Occupational Therapy Program.