Student Highlights

Ph.D. student and Ifill Operations Specialist

Jennifer Sunoo

’21MS received the ASIS&T New Leaders Award 2021. As one of the five awardees, Sunoo will be mentored by a longtime ASIS&T member and attend the annual meeting in October 2021.

Michelle Laflamme

’22MS, School Library Teacher concentration student, is a 2021 recipient of the Massachusetts School Library Association Audrey Friend Scholarship.

Master’s student

Rae Enzie ’22MS

was a Junior Fellow with the Library of Congress in Summer 2021, where they worked on the National Book Festival.

Kylie Baker ’21MS

released her debut novel, Keeper of the Night, published by Inkyard Press/ HarperCollins, October 2021. The novel has received a starred review from Kirkus.

Kelsey Ford ’22MS

advises a teenhosted literary podcast called Bridges & Books in which teens interview award-winning and NYT Bestselling authors of young adult literature. Ford and the teen podcasters were recently featured on the “We Need Diverse Books” blog and were selected to present at three conferences in the fall of 2021: the YALSA Symposium, the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference, and the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English & Language Arts Conference. Ford was also named the 2021-2022 American Library Association liaison for the Young Adult Library Services Association.

SLIS student Melissa Grasso ’24MS was awarded the 2021 Tom and Roberta Drewes Scholarship by the American Library Association. The $3,000 scholarship is awarded to a library support staff worker who is pursuing a master’s degree in library and information science. Grasso currently works as a library assistant in the Boston College Law Library.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

COMMENCEMENT AWARDS

In May of 2021, SLIS faculty virtually celebrated the recipients of the 2021 Commencement Awards. These students were honored because of their service and leadership within SLIS.

Kim Lauren Pereira

’21MS received the 2021 Estelle Jussim Award for the Visual Arts. This award was created to acknowledge the photographic arts, film in communication, and their role as it relates to the fields of museums and cultural heritage.

Matthew Hewes

’21MS received the 2021 Terry Plum SLIS West Leadership Award. This award was first presented in 2004 by the LIS faculty and administration at SLIS West to an outstanding student in the SLIS west campus who best exemplifies the leadership values of academic excellence, community building, services, and commitment to the success of other students and the program.

Jennifer Sunoo

’21MS was awarded the ASIS&T Student Chapter for the Outstanding Information Science Student Award.

Mary Millage ’20MS

received the 2021 Kenneth R. Shaffer Outstanding Student Award. The award is given each year to a student whom the faculty has identified as outstanding and possessing great leadership potential.