Pratt-Severn Award Student Paper Award Recipients
Evaluated by the same rigorous standards as papers submitted for the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, the best student research paper is judged on technical competence, the significance of findings, originality, and clarity of expression. The Award recognizes the outstanding work of a current student in a degree-granting program in the information field and has been sponsored by Pratt Institute since 1996.
The recipients of the Pratt-Severn Best Student Research Paper Award are:
Year
Recipient
2023
Xinyue You
Social VR: A Promising Platform for Enhancing Mental Wellness among College Students
2022
Jesse Ludington
Social Media as Archival Practice and Paradigm Shifter in United States Death Care
2019
Matthew Weirick Johnson
Dating Apps, Categorical Fields, and Health Information Sharing: Exploring the Utility of Dating Application Features Related to HIV, STIs and PrEP for Promoting Regular Testing and PrEP Usage
2018
Ella Milken Detro
A Librarian’s Guide to Algorithmic Bias
2017
Natalie Ornat
Reading for your Life: The Impact of Reading and Writing During the Siege of Sarajevo
2016
Deidre Alyse Whitmore
Seeking Context: Archaeological Practices Surrounding the Reuse of Spatial Information
2014
Curt Arledge
Filled-in vs. Outline Icons: The Impact of Icon
2013
Hilary Zelko
Reasoning About Relevance
2012
April Lynne Earle
Design of an Application Profile for the St. John's University Oral History Collection
2011
Brooks Breece
Local Government Use of Web GIS in North Carolina
2009
Katie O'Leary
Information Seeking in the Context of a Hobby: A Case Study of a Young Adult with Asperger's Syndrome
2008
Ann K. Irvine (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Natural Language Processing and Temporal Information Extraction in Emergency Department Triage Notes
2005
Mary Gabehart
An Analysis of Citations to Retracted Articles in the Scientific Literature
2004
Tori Orr (Drexel University)
Review of Literature: Representing Personal Histories in a Social Context
2002
Elizabeth Zogby (Drexel University)
Representing Oral History: Challenges and Opportunities for Content-Based Retrieval
2001
Brian Hilligoss (University of North Carolina)
The Role of Web Home Page Information Elements in User-Site Orientation Efforts
2000
Karen Weaver (University at Albany, SUNY)
Cataloging Internet Resources at MIT and UC San Diego Libraries
1999
Kelly Maglaughlin (University of North Carolina)
Use of Relevance Criteria
1997
Melinda Axel (Drexel University)
Data Warehouse Design for Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery Research
1995
Jin Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
A Tool for the Visualization of Information Retrieval
1990
Charlotte Weise (University of Pittsburgh)
An Examination of Two Computational Approaches to Reasoning by Analogy
1989
Dale Boles (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
The Effect of Subject Matter Familiarity on Inter-Indexer Consistency, Number of Index Terms Supplied and Indexer Use of Author Terminology
1992
Corinne Jorgensen (Syracuse University)
Problem Statements and Information Need
1988
Charlotte Weise and Stuart McLean (University of Pittsburgh)
DIGRESS: A Deductive Interface to a Relational Database
1987
Dudee Chiang (University of Illinois)
Application of Bradford Distribution to Online Search Results: An Online Bibliometric Study
1986
P.F. Anderson (University of Michigan)
Technological and Non-Technological Gatekeepers: An Overview of the Literature
1985
Becky Brass (University of Minnesota)
Structural Analysis as as framework for Understanding and Coping with the Threat of Special Library Mortality
1984
Susan Hayles (University of Minnesota)
Memory Functions in Reference Search Strategies: Observations from Verbatim Accounts of Searches in Process
1982
Donna Rubens (University of Minnesota)
Cognitive Strategy and the Search Process: A Four-Fold Dual Context Memory Representation
1981
Christine L. Borgman (Stanford University)
Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Human Interaction with Computers
1980
Janet L. Chapman (Drexel University)
A State of Transition Analysis of Online Information-Seeking Behavior
1979
Brigitte Huybrechts (University of Maryland)
The Impact of Information on the Decision-Making Process
1978
Virginia Kosanovic (University of California, Berkeley)
A Statistical Survey of Chemical Engineering Journals: In-House Library Use, Citation Analysis and the Use of Parameter Weighting for Ranking and Evaluation
1977
Judy Chow (University of California, Los Angeles)
A Radical Pattern Assembling Method for Creating Kanji (Chinese Ideographs) for an Online Japanese Bibliographic Information Retrieval System
1976
Patricia J. Zimmerman (Case Western Reserve University)
Principles of Design for Information Systems
1974
Linda C. Smith (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Systematic Searching of Abstracts and Indexes in Interdisciplinary Areas
1973
Suzanne M. Strong (Ohio State University)
An Algorithm for Generating Structural Surrogates of English Text
1972
Vera Melnyk (Syracuse University)
Man-Machine Interface: Frustration
1996
Mark Spasser (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Enacted Fate of Undiscovered Knowledge