ASIS&T News
The ASIS&T Board of Directors is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 Board of Directors Election. With a total of 492 ballots submitted (41% of eligible voters), the results are as follows: President-Elect: Naresh Agarwal: 256 Votes Heidi Julien: 233 Votes 3 Write-In Votes Director-at-Large: John Budd: 216 Votes Dan Wu: 272 Votes…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Jeonghyun “Annie” Kim, PhD of the University of North Texas is the 2020 recipient of the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. The award’s purpose is to recognize the unique teaching contribution of an individual as a teacher of information science. Professor Kim…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Professor Pertti Vakkari is the 2020 recipient of the ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award. The award’s purpose is to recognize an individual or individuals for an outstanding research contribution in the field of information science. The award is for a systematic…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Professor Diane H. Sonnenwald, Emerita Professor and Emerita Head of School of the School of Information and Communication Studies at the University College Dublin is the 2020 recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the Association. The…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Aylin Ilhan, a doctoral student in the Department of Information Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is a 2020 recipient of the ASIS&T Cretsos Leadership Award. The award’s purpose is to recognize a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Hussein Haruna of the University of Hong Kong is the 2020 recipient of the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award from ASIS&T for his dissertation titled “Improving Sexual Health Education for Adolescent Students Using Game-Based Learning and Gamification.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding recent…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Saguna Shankar of the University of British Columbia is the 2020 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award for her dissertation proposal titled, “Caring for Information Practices: An Inquiry into Visions of Data, Digital Technologies, and Migration.” The award’s purpose is…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Nadia Caidi of the University of Toronto is the 2020 recipient of the Watson Davis Award for Service. The award’s purpose is to recognize an individual member of the Association who has shown continuous dedicated leadership in and service to ASIS&T…
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in Minneapolis, at the hands of police brutality and, as a community, ASIS&T grieves with his family and so many other families who have suffered as a consequence of racism and injustice. We stand in solidarity with those speaking up for justice on the…
JASIST Special Issue on “Digital Humanities (DH)” This special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) mirrors the increasing worldwide attention on Digital Humanities (DH), “a discipline in its own right” (Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth, 2004, xxiii). It is noticeable that DH has generated a paradigm shift at the intersection…