Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards
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About the Scholarships
The Library has established the following polices and procedures for the establishment of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards based on funds from the estate of Ms. Anita Crites Crawford.
Three scholarships will be given each year, two to undergraduate students and one to a graduate student, as follows:
- $1,500 to a sophomore or junior at SIUC in the Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences disciplines.
- $1,500 to a sophomore or junior at SIUC in the Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies disciplines.
- $2,000 to a graduate student at SIUC in any discipline.
The awards will be given for papers or other creative work that is based on creative and exceptional use of library resources. (more specific criteria is provided below).
The 2025 scholarship process will be announced in early Spring 2025.
Past Winners
2024
Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Award!Shalini Gupta (Graduate Student Award), "Investigation of HERG1a Potassium Channel Modulation of Calcium Concentration in the Murine Skeletal Muscle C2C12 Cell Line"
Porsche Garrett (Undergraduate Award in the Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences), "A Critical History of Three Death Poems"
Elana Qasem (Undergraduate Award in the Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies), "Neural Activation Patterns During Socially Transmitted Aggression"
2023
Congratulations to the 2023 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Award!Aeneise Coopwood (Graduate Student Award), "The Child Apprenticeship System During the Reconstruction Era"
Dorcas Brou (Undergraduate Award in the Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences), "Searching for Freedom: An Investigation of Form in Japanese Storytelling and Animation"
Sophia Aaflaq (Undergraduate Award in the Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies), "Assessing the Generalizability of Early Life Stress Effects on Aggression"
2022
Congratulations to the 2022 winner of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Award!
Joshua Christian (Graduate Student Award) - "Serenity in the Cracks"
2021
Congratulations to the 2021 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards!
Valeria Beltran (Undergraduate Award in the Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences) - "The Benefits of Dating Apps"
Grant Snow (Undergraduate Award in the Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies) - "Entrepreneurial Theory Based in Schumpeter and Knight"
Taylor Mogavero (Graduate Student Award) - "Ecosystem Responses of the Everglades to Landscape Alteration"
2020
Congratulations to the 2020 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards!
Francesca Burkett (Undergraduate Student Award - Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences) - “His hands and feet: Lewis Tappan and the AMA”
Cydney Goodrum (Undergraduate Student Award in Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies) - “How we hear through the functions of the outer, middle, inner ear, and central auditory pathway”
Brian Mccarty (Graduate Student Award) – “Finding oneself in print: Robinson Crusoe, metonymy, and the ideologically constructed self”
2019
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards!
Julia Cicero (Undergraduate Student Award - Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences) - “'Go Set a Mockingbird’ – What Lee’s Novels Teach Us About Race”
Ethan Dittmer (Undergraduate Student Award in Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies) - “Evaluating Hunter Surveys at Oakwood Bottoms Greentree Reservoir in Southern Illinois”
Ryan Crawford (Graduate Student Award) - “A Neurocognitive Writing Model: Recursion, Plasticity, and the Reconstruction of Memory”
2018
Congratulations to the 2018 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards
Darrin Reinhardt (Undergraduate Student Award - Humanities, Fine Arts, or Social Sciences) - “Finding your family in the Civil War: Identity formation in Southern Illinois”
Elyse Hickey (Undergraduate Student Award in Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies) - “How zoological studies and semiotic analysis can form a symbiotic relationship via firefly flash pattern in relation to cognitive abilities”
Ethan Stephenson (Graduate Student Award) - “Convenient death and imperial implications in R.L. Stevenson’s ‘The Suicide Club’”
2017
Congratulations to the 2017 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards
Vineeth Kanteti (Undergraduate Award - Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies) - “Preparation of High Strength Concrete using Meta-kaolin and Investigating its Freeze-Thaw Resistance”
Bryan Jenks (Undergraduate Award - Humanities, Fine Arts or Social Sciences) - “The SNFC in the Civil Rights Movement in Carbondale, Illinois”
Samaneh Jafari (Graduate Student Award) - “Teaching with Primary Sources”
2016
Congratulations to the 2016 winners of the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards
Mary Sophia Hall (Undergraduate Award - Sciences, Engineering, or Applied Technologies) - “Solar-Powered Water Purification System with Energy Storage”
Naomi Tolbert (Undergraduate Award - Humanities, Fine Arts or Social Sciences) - “Unequal Access: Factors Contributing to the Disproportional Respresentation of Marginalized Groups within Study Abroad Programs”
Liana Kirillova (Gradate Student Award) - “When Affirmative Action is White: Italian Americans in the City University of New York, 1976-Present”
About Emma Smith Hough
Emma Smith Hough began teaching at Murphysboro Township High School in 1928 as an English teacher. She later taught business classes and became the school librarian. She received a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and an M.S. from SIU. She retired from the Murphysboro school district in 1963 and then took over as head librarian at the Sallie Logan Public Library in Murphysboro.