We want to recognize the hard work and accomplishments of our faculty and staff during the 2024-2025 academic year. Watch as the listings on this page increase.
Amie Freeman was the recipient of the iSchool Adjunct Teaching Award. The honor was announced at the annual Deans' and Directors' Lecture and is given to an adjunct faculty who excels in the classroom and in the profession.
Vanessa Kitzie and Travis Wagner (Ph.D. alum) won the Association of Library and Information Science Education's (ALISE) Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition for their paper "In Many Ways, You're This Person Who's Providing Light”: Theorizing Embodied Responses to Information Absence within LGBTQIA+ Communities." They will present the paper at the ALISE 2024 Conference in Portland, Oregon in October.
Rachel Williams won the ALISE Pratt Severn Faculty Innovation Award, which honors innovation by full-time faculty members, or a group of full-time faculty members, who incorporate evolving information technologies in the curricula of accredited master’s degree programs in library and information studies. The award was established in 1996 and includes a $1,000 cash award. Williams' project focused on using VR training to teach library science students mental health first aid through learning deescalation techniques.
Ehsan Mohammadi was accepted into the USC Propel Research Mentorship Program. This one-year training program is designed to prepare faculty for securing federal grants. The application process is highly competitive, and acceptance into this program signifies the university’s recognition of exceptional research capabilities.
Jenna Spiering (PI) - Extending School Librarian Preparation Through Transitional Mentorship with Early Career School Librarians - $374,194
Vanessa Kitzie (PI) - Leveraging National Library Partnerships to Develop a Community-Driven Online LGBTQIA+ Consumer Health Guide - $249,980
Feili Tu-Keefner (PI), Brett Robertson (Co-PI) - Project Library PREPARE: Planning, Response, Emergency Preparedness, and Resilience Education - $249,721
Dick Kawooya (PI) - Fostering Information and Knowledge Access in the Digital Environment: A Situational Analysis of Legal-regulatory Frameworks in ARIPO Region University of Cape Town, South Africa , grant from the International Development Research Centre - $100,000
