We salute the winners of the 2008 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, who will accept their awards at a reception May 14.

This year's winners are:

• Carine de la Girond'arc and Alina Xu ("The Comics of R. Crumb: A Mirror of the Artist's Times and Obsessions")
• My Chau ("The Power of Patterns: Double Ikat for Textile Exchange in India and Indonesia")
• Linda Nyberg ("The Collapse of Time: Decennial Anniversaries and the Experience of Time in the German Democratic Republic")
• Keith Orejel ("Bodies, Burials, and Black Cultural Politics: African American Funerals in the Civil Rights Movement").

For details of these projects, see the Library Prize website.