F A C U LT Y & S T U D E N T N O T E S
Selected Awards and Accolades ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP
Michelle Kaarst-Brown, associate professor, continues her role as senior editor of the MIS Quarterly Executive, a journal focused on quality research published for the CIO and other executive audiences.
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor, completed her two-year term as president of the Association of Internet Researchers. She remains as past president for two years and continues to serve on the association’s executive committee. Jennifer StromerGalley
Barbara Stripling
Barbara Stripling, senior associate dean and associate professor of practice, was presented the American Library Association (ALA)’s 2017 Joseph W. Lippincott Award. The honor recognizes distinguished service to the profession of librarianship through outstanding participation in associations, notable published professional writing and other significant activities. Her service has included being president of the ALA, the American Association of School Librarians and the New York Library Association. She retired from the iSchool at the end of the 2017-2018 academic year.
HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS Michelle Kaarst-Brown
Rachel Ivy Clarke
PATENTS Joon S. Park, professor, was issued a U.S. patent for Role-based Access Control to Computing Resources in an Inter-Organizational Community, U.S. Patent US9,769,177 B2, September 2017.
JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS Joon Park
Kevin Crowston, associate dean for research and distinguished professor of information science, was named editor in chief of ACM Transaction on Social Computing (ACM.org). He also served as co-editor in chief of Information, Technology & People.
Jeffrey Fouts
Jeffrey Fouts, adjunct faculty member and director of instructional technology at the iSchool’s Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, presented a talk, “How A Faculty Center Can Help Foster Best Practices: Getting the iSchool at Syracuse University Into the 21st Century,” during the 2017 iConference in Wuhan, China.
Steven Sawyer, professor, was nominated to serve a three-year term as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. Kevin Crowston
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor, concluded a year’s term as associate editor for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a top journal for scholarship that advances theory around social behavior via digital media. In that time she reviewed more than 100 submissions and oversaw the revision process for approximately 40 submissions.
Steven Sawyer
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Rachel Ivy Clarke, assistant professor, was presented with the 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the iSchools Organization, an honor recognizing outstanding work in the information field. Nominations are solicited from the more than 80 institutions worldwide that comprise its members. Her dissertation, conducted at the University of Washington’s Information School, “It’s Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship” was honored at the 2017 iConference in Wuhan, China. Clarke also received the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)’s Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award. The award recognizes dissertations that deal with substantive issues related to library and information science. Her dissertation framed librarianship as a design discipline, rather than a social science one. Clarke also hosted a solo exhibition of her work, “The Invisible Maintenance of Bibliographic Data. The Maintainers II: Labor Technology and Social Order,” at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J.
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Caroline Haythornthwaite, professor and director, MS in Library and Information Science & MS LIS with School Media Specialization programs, was awarded the Association for Information Science and Technology (AIS&T)’s Research in Information Science Award for 2017. The honor recognizes an outstanding research contribution in the field of information science and achievements that have significant impact in the field from a systematic program of research in a single area.