We were able to offer five prizes for this year’s participants. In random prize draws, Jordan Droira, a Graduate Student in Philosophy, won a $25 OU Bookstore Gift Card for a close call with his Zotero backups. A.D., a recent OU graduate, won a 2 TB Hard Drive for a tale of battle between Microsoft Word and finals.
People’s Choice for Instagram went to Leann Monaghan, a Graduate Student in Microbiology & Plant Biology. Leann detailed her close call with data loss in the lab. She was saved only by having more than one backup, as we recommend with the 3-2-1 rule. Leann won a 2 TB External Hard Drive.
Dolly’s devoted social media followers pushed her to victory in the tie-breaker voting round. Congratulations to Dolly, who won a 2 TB External Hard Drive. Meelyn, as the runner-up, won a $25 OU Bookstore Gift Card. We’re all winners when we back up our research files!
Start thinking of how you will tell your tale of loss or a close call next year. You could win your own external hard drive to improve your file protections! One of last year’s winners and a finalist this year, Meelyn Pandit, says:
“My PhD dissertation focuses on how singing activity varies across local climate conditions across the great plains. To do this I set up automated microphones to record a few minutes of every hour in the morning during the spring and summer. With this much audio data, I needed a way to store the data easily and to transfer data in the field. The LaCie Rugged Hard Drive was an amazing award because it fit both of these requirements and it is able to store the majority of my dissertation, with room to spare! Without it, I would have to resort to storing data entirely on the cloud or split it among multiple, smaller hard drives. This gift from the OU Libraries allows me to actually do my research without worrying about costs or inconvenient data loss.”
