Information Sciences Associate Professor Peiling Wang has won the 2005 Outstanding Information Science Teacher award co-sponsored by the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) and the Institute for Scientific Information.
The award recognizes “demonstrated sustained excellence in teaching information science.” Two faculty from the School of Information Sciences (SIS) have been awarded this prestigious award; Carol Tenopir received the award in 1993. The award carries a cash prize and an administrative stipend.
“Dr. Wang is well deserving of this award by demonstrating that excellence in teaching and excellence in creative and scholarly work go hand in hand,” said SIS Director Ed Cortez.
“Her sustained record of teaching shows that she has a command of the subject, effectively organizes course materials, continuously updates them, and presents them cogently with enthusiasm and vitality. More importantly, Dr. Wang inspires in students independent, original thinking and creative work. Her ability to respond to a diverse student body is well known to students and colleagues alike.”
Dr. Wang will be recognized at the ASIS&T annual conference in November.
Dr. Wang’s teaching and research focus are in the areas of database management, research methods, data mining, the organization of information, and information retrieval. She was recently the recipient of a 2005 OCLC/ALISE Research Grant Award. Dr. Wang is on the Editorial Board of the Library & Information Science Research and reviews for several journals and conferences.
For more information about the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), visit http://www.asist.org.
For more information about the School of Information Sciences, visit http://www.sis.utk.edu.
