UC Davis Library

Congratulations to our 2026 Lang Prize winners! These six amazing undergraduate Aggies are being recognized for their accomplished research using library resources:

Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

🌿 Alyssa Linehan, 1st Place, Racial Disparities in Pain Management

🌿 Sofia Wright, 2nd Place, Disrupting Carceral Logics in Schools

🌿 Rianna Herrera, 3rd Place, A Qualitative Analysis of Filipinx Americans’ Aspirations for Higher Education and Mobility

Science, Engineering & Mathematics

🌿 Angelina Ong, 1st Place, Preventing the Resurgence of Drug-Resistant Malaria

🌿 Camila Cancino, 2nd Place, Cuban Dogfish Wikifish

🌿 Ruth Selvaraj, 3rd Place, Effectiveness and Ethical Concerns of AI Chatbots

Learn about our winners and their projects: https://bit.ly/4e5u9dn
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Launched in 2017, the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research is funded by a bequest from the late UC Davis Professor Emerita of Botany, Norma J. Lang.

📷️ : Maya Lee
L-R: Rianna Herrera, Sofia Wright, Alyssa Linehan, Angelina Ong and Camila Cancino. Not pictured: Ruth Selvaraj.

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Five undergraduates pose together holding their Lang Prize certificates. A green poster with a black-and-white photo of Norma J. Lang is in the center between them. The UC Davis Library logo is visible on the tablecloth behind them.

It’s the centennial of America’s most famous highway, Route 66, and we’re revved up about our new exhibit: “Celebrating 100 Years of the Mother Road: Route 66."

Select materials from our Archives and Special Collections Department explore Route 66’s nostalgia, both celebratory and complex — from road trip adventures and diner recommendations to westward travel for migrant farm workers and Black motorists.

The Route 66 exhibit is located in the Shields Library lobby, to the left of the main stairwell, and will be on display through August 19.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4266zGQ

Poster design by Tim Silva.

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1. Cover of A Guide Book to Highway 66 by Jack D. Ritttenhouse on gold background with title and author's name in brown, illustration of stage coach, cactus and mountain, description of contents to get "most fun from your trip," and "Price $1.00."

Happy National Library Workers Day! 📚🤩

Today and everyday we celebrate library employees here at UC Davis and around the country (world, really) and the critical services they provide.

Here are a few of them!



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13 images of children in various settings who would go on to become amazing UC Davis Library employees.