Nichols receives first award for medieval research

Andrea Nichols, doctoral student in history, is the first recipient of the James Arthur Vineyards Medieval and Renaissance Studies Award. Nichols, from East Bend, North Carolina, will use the award to conduct research on the history of books owned by Elizabethan prisoners in the Tower of London, the marks made by the prisoners inside the books and the marks scratched into the prison cell walls. The award also will help with her travel expenses to present her findings at the Gloriana Society Conference in November in London.