This collection contains reports and links to images of the three main areas in which The Ames Library presents awards:
1) Student Research Awards, 2) Student Art Purchase Awards, and 3) Faculty Open Educational Resource Exploration Grants.
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Submissions from 2023
27th Student Art Purchase Award: Lifelines, Gabriella Rogers, 2023
Submissions from 2022
26th Student Art Purchase Award: Self Portraits, Caroline Abenroth, 2022; Julie Palczynski, 2023; and Eren Ekinci, 2024
Open Education Exploration Grant: Michelle Cowin Gibbs, Michelle Cowin Gibbs
Open Education Exploration Grant: Leigh Moon, Leigh Moon
Submissions from 2021
25th Student Art Purchase Award: Serenade, Jazalyn Belz, 2024
Open Education Exploration Grant: Pennie Gray, Pennie L. Gray
Open Education Exploration Grant: Leah Nillas, Leah Nillas
2021 Faculty Discussion Panel on Exploring OER, OER panel, Illinois Wesleyan University
Open Education Exploration Grant: Greg Shaw, Greg Shaw
Special Student Art Purchase Award: The Corner Office, Lizette Toto, 2021
Open Education Exploration Grant: Joseph Williams, Joseph Williams
Submissions from 2019
24th Student Art Purchase Award: For Those Who Can't Even, Raya Hussein, 2021
Submissions from 2018
23rd Student Art Purchase Award: janet echelman's 1.8, Ania Bui, 2018
Submissions from 2017
22nd Student Art Purchase Award: Nothing Ever Happened, Naijun Qu, 2017
Submissions from 2016
21st Student Art Purchase Award: The Things They Made for Me, Justice Macklin, 2016
Submissions from 2015
20th Student Art Purchase Award: Khokhloma Birds, Masha Emmons, 2015
Submissions from 2014
19th Student Art Purchase Award: Octopot, Kate Robertson, 2014
Submissions from 2013
18th Student Art Purchase Award: Evasion, Dustin Springer, 2012
Submissions from 2012
17th Student Art Purchase Award: Revolution, Resolution, Amber Sipich, 2012
Submissions from 2011
16th Student Art Purchase Award: Fast Monster, Hallucinogenic Imposter, and Star Imposter, Victoria Poll, 2011
Submissions from 2010
15th Student Art Purchase Award: Series I Vases: Deconstruction, Katie Bergethon, 2010
Research Strategies Award Essay: The Boston Molasses Disaster, Samantha Geib, 2012
Submissions from 2009
Ames Library Research Award Essay: Las Bibliotecas Públicas y la Comunidad Latina, Rachel Miller, 2009
14th Student Art Purchase Award: Design and Music, Laura Murray, 2009
Submissions from 2008
13th Student Art Purchase Award: Golden Age, Christopher Killham, 2008
Submissions from 2007
12th Student Art Purchase Award: Railyards, Street Tenements I & II, and Urban Wilderness, Monica Wojtyna, 2007
Submissions from 2006
11th Student Art Purchase Award: Turning Over a New Leaf, Quinton Green, 2006
Submissions from 2005
10th Student Art Purchase Award: Three Ceramic Vessels, Kristy White, 2005
Submissions from 2004
9th Student Art Purchase Award: Mini Snake Charmer, Pattern, and Space Monkey with Hat, Kristen Carstensen, 2004
Submissions from 2003
8th Student Art Purchase Award: Artie, Anne Wirtz, 2003
Submissions from 2002
7th Student Art Purchase Award: Blowfish, Flower Story, and Forgotten, Katherine Ogden, 2002
Submissions from 2001
6th Student Art Purchase Award: Young Suburbanites, Alan Thorn, 2001
Submissions from 2000
5th Student Art Purchase Award: Thirty-Six Weeks, Eric Snowden, 2000
Submissions from 1999
4th Student Art Purchase Award: Untitled, Vince Fournier '99
Submissions from 1998
3rd Student Art Purchase Award: Courting, Anais Acuña '98
Submissions from 1997
2nd Student Art Purchase Award: Documents (II), Laura A. Kesselring, '97
Submissions from 1996
1st Student Art Purchase Award: Part of a Whole, Carolyn A. Sachay, '96