Established in 2006 in partnership with the Libraries Advisory Council,
OSU Libraries sponsors the Library Undergraduate Research Award
(LURA) to acknowledge and award OSU students’ use of library
resources to create outstanding scholarship. In the spring of 2014,
funds provided by the estate of Gilbert and Marie Cleasby endowed
the awards. Gilbert W. Cleasby was a well-respected ophthalmologist
in the Bay area. Marie Mendenhall Cleasby was a master gardener
who graduated from OSU in 1952 with a BS in home economics. The
Cleasbys’ gift guarantees that this program will continue to benefit
students in the future.
Typically there are two awards; $1000 scholarship awarded to an upper division undergraduate in the humanities
and $1000 scholarship awarded to an upper division student in social sciences/sciences/engineering from
Oregon State University. This year’s winners and the titles of their papers are:
Brittany Backen – “Coed Cheesecake”: The 1959 Wrestling Court and the Politics of the Marriage Market
at Oregon State College
Arlyn Y. Moreno Luna – Effects of Xanthohumol on Biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome in Obese Rats.
In 2013, the LURA program recognized these research papers and their authors: A Global Affair: Understanding
1960s Geopolitics through the New York World’s Fair by Hannah Mahoney; and Grapevine Leafroll Associated
Virus – 3 (GLRaV-3) Seasonal Titer Changes and Effects on Pinot Noir Fruit in Oregon by Sarah Wright.
LIBRARY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD
