Congratulations to Camila Cancino!

By Lynette Williams Duman

Camila Cancino, a fourth-year Environmental Science and Management major and an undergraduate research assistant at the Aquatic Research Collective at the Center for Watershed Sciences, is the second place winner in the science, math, and engineering category for the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research!

The prize specifically awards students who use the UC Davis Library and its invaluable resources for unique research projects. Camila, as part her final project for the Biology and Conservation of Wild Fishes course, used library resources, and the expertise of librarians to write an updated Wikipedia page for the Cuban Dogfish (Squalus cubensis). 

Camila transformed the three-sentence Wikipedia page into a nine page, meticulously researched, open-access resource for all to use. Congratulations to Camila for her award and for contributing to accessible fisheries research!

Resources

Camila’s page for the Lang Prize: https://library.ucdavis.edu/lang-prize/winners/camila-cancino/

Camila’s wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuban_dogfish&oldid=1322066154