The School of Information Sciences was pleased to announce several awards at today’s Graduation and Awards Ceremony in the University Center ballroom. Dr. Bharat Mehra, the chair of the Student Affairs Committee, announced the awards. The School received a large number of scholarship applications this year and fielded many outstanding applications.
Congratulations to the following students for the following SIS awards.
Best paper: Samuel Jason Ezell
For “Information Behaviors, Practices or Styles: Implications for First Year Academic Information Literacy Instruction”
Best technical project: Margaret Anderson
For “User-Centered Assessment/Evaluation of Public Library Services: Sequoyah Regional Library System”
Most importantly, the School’s Top-Three Awards were announced.
Gary R. Purcell Award: Lisa Meidl
The Gary R. Purcell Award award honors the memory of the school's first director. The faculty present this award to a student who shows unusual promise as a leader in the field of information sciences, in research and innovation, intellectual activity and creativity and management. It is an award for overall excellence rather than excellence in any one particular area alone. For the purpose of this award, "leadership" is defined as the ability to make a significant change for the better for a group of people, a technology or institution, and to advance the intellectual discipline of the information sciences.
Outstanding Service Award: Sarah Culp
The purpose of the Outstanding Service Award is to recognize a student who has shown exemplary, continuous, dedicated, and voluntary service to the SIS community.
Academic Achievement Award: Burr Osoinach
The Academic Achievement Award recognizes a student for excellence in academic work, such as coursework, presentations, thesis, and/or manuscripts submitted for publication.
The SIS Outstanding Master’s Thesis goes to: Jamie Osborn
for her Thesis: “Factors Affecting the Use of Appalachian Children’s Literature Titles in Libraries located in the Central Appalachian Region, as offered by Librarians in the Central Appalachian Region.”
Scholarship Awards
The School of Information Sciences is also pleased to announce several scholarship awards. The School’s five winning scholarship recipients are:
- Carmen L. Moulton Fellowship: Jerianne Thompson and Allyson Rutherford
- Gary R. Purcell Endowment: Sarah Copeland
- H.W. Wilson Award: Lee Billings
- Glenn E. Estes Fellowship: Hannah Parris
- Information International Associates Scholarship: Susan Yowell
Congratulations to all of the recipients of the scholarships and awards.
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