In recognition of her outstanding career contributions, Gwen Gray, the business, economics, and entrepreneurship librarian at the University of Missouri, has received the 2025 BRASS Excellence in Business Librarianship Award from the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.
At the University of Missouri, Gray focuses on providing professional mentorship to students. She contributes to the university’s translational research funding, community engagement, training, and mentorship programs in entrepreneurship, including the Entrepreneur Quest Student Accelerator, the Mizzou Venture Mentoring Service, and the Entrepreneurship Workshop Series. Her research specialities include accountancy, agricultural economics, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality management, management, marketing, and textile and apparel management.
Gray received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a second master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.