GSLIS doctoral candidates Tiffany Chao, Noah Lenstra, and Nic Weber have been honored with 2015 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships from Beta Phi Mu, the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Up to six recipients are selected each year for this prestigious award, a national competition among doctoral students who are working on their dissertations. The amount…
Seven GSLIS master's students have been named 2015 Spectrum Scholars by the American Library Association (ALA). Established in 1997, the Spectrum Scholarship Program was created to promote diversity among graduate-level library school students. Each master's-level scholar receives $5,000 from the ALA as well as over $1,500 toward professional development opportunities. In addition, GSLIS provides…
GSLIS alumnus Connell Gallagher (MS '78) was honored earlier this month with a Lifetime Achievement Award given by the University of Vermont (UVM) Center for Research on Vermont. Gallagher worked at UVM from 1970 until he retired in 2006. During his career there he served as manuscripts librarian, university archivist and curator of manuscripts, and director of research collections. Gallagher…
GSLIS master’s student Jhani Miller is the winner of the 2015 Emerging Leader Award given by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center. Each year, the center recognizes achievements made in a number of noteworthy areas by members of the LGBTQ campus community, including students, faculty, and staff.
Miller was nominated for the Emerging Leader Award by GSLIS Senior…
Mark W. Sorensen (MS ’98), official Macon County historian, received the Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS) Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, April 25, in a ceremony in the House of Representatives’ Chamber of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. The award was presented during the annual ISHS awards presentation to the state’s best history teachers, authors, and museum…
Doctoral candidate Noah Lenstra (MS ’09, CAS ’11) was recently honored with the University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. One of six award recipients for the 2014-2015 academic year, Lenstra was recognized for his work in community informatics, specifically in Champaign and East St. Louis.
Lenstra has worked closely with Champaign’s African-American community to…
Zahra Mohaghegh, GSLIS-affiliated faculty member and assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE), has been honored with the 2015 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Engineering at Illinois.
Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke has been selected to receive the University YWCA’s 2015 Leadership Award in Education in recognition of her work in social justice and higher education.
The annual award honors individuals or organizations whose work supports the mission of the YWCA, which is “dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity…
Katharine C. Chandler (MS ’06), reference librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia Rare Book Department, has been selected to receive the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Western European Studies Section (WESS) / Slavic and East European Section (SEES) De Gruyter European Librarianship Study Grant for her project “Whimsical Penwork: The Carthusian Graduals of the…
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced Sidney E. Berger (MS ’87) as winner of the 2015 ABC-CLIO Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for Rare Books and Special Collections, published by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This award recognizes books that assist library professionals or information specialists in areas of management, technique, and education.
In addition to his…
