Library Awards and Scholarships

The Max R. Traurig Library at CT State Naugatuck Valley supports student research, and the library wants to honor the best! Each fall, CT State Naugatuck Valley students are invited to submit an original research paper with the following attributes:

• The paper must be the student’s own work, and any use of AI tools must be cited by the student as part of the submitted paper.
• The paper must have been submitted for credit during the spring, summer, or fall semester of that calendar year.
• The paper was written for a course offered through Naugatuck Valley - Waterbury, Danbury, or online.
• All sources must be cited using a standard citation format (MLA, APA, AMA, or Chicago/Turabian).
• Web resources cited must be of high quality (consider authorship, bias, currency, etc.).

Library staff may be consulted for research assistance. The two (2) winning papers or projects will be awarded $500 at the college’s Honors Night ceremony each May. The winning students permit the Max R. Traurig Library at CT State Naugatuck Valley to publish their paper on its website.

A successful application must include the following:

• Your paper or project (acceptable file formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf);
• A copy of the assignment;
• Your name, college e-mail address, and phone number;
• The title of your paper;
• The course name, number, and CRN this paper was written for;
• The name of the professor who assigned and graded your paper;
• An accompanying paragraph (no fewer than 500 words) reflecting on:
  • your research strategies and
  • how you applied library resources and tools (including AI tools and help from librarians where applicable) while working on your paper.

Applications will be rated using this rubric.

The 2024-25 Evaluation Committee is comprised of 3 members of the library staff and 4 faculty members:

• Andrea Glidden, Library
• Jaime Hammond, Library
• Tom Leszczynski, Math
• Sarah Perez, Human Services
• Kevin Ramer, Math
• Chris Rempfer, English
• Jenna Stebbins, Library