ASIS&T News

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Namali Suraweera, PhD, is the recipient of the 2025 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership. The award’s purpose is to recognize a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities. Dr. Namali Suraweera is an Academic Developer…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Indra Ayu Mckie, PhD, is the 2025 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award for their dissertation titled, “Co-experiencing conversational AI: An ethnographic exploration of embodied interactions with voice assistants.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose research…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Erin Canning is the recipient of the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award. The award’s purpose is to foster research in information science by recognizing the year’s most outstanding doctoral dissertation proposal while encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Rawan Almakinah, Lateef Ayinde, Jane Bartley, Hassan Mortada, and Le Yang are the recipients of the 2025 ASIS&T New Leaders Award. The award’s purpose is to engage and retain new members and to identify potential for new leadership in the Association. Rawan…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce Kyong Eun Oh as the recipient of the 2025 ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. Since 1980, this annual award has honored the unique teaching contributions of exceptional teachers of information science. Oh is an Associate Professor (Full Professor as of July 1)…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Candice Taylor has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award. The purpose of the award is to encourage student research and writing in the field of information science. Taylor’s paper entitled, “You Have to…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Lynn Silipigni Connaway, retired Executive Director, Research, OCLC, will receive the 2025 ASIS&T Research Impact Award sponsored by Rutgers University. The award makes more visible the dimensions of the societal contribution of Information Science and provides role models and examples for new…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Pamela McKenzie is the recipient of the 2025 Research in Information Science Award. The award recognizes an individual or team who has made an outstanding contribution to information science research. The award is for a systematic “program of research” in a single…

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić is the recipient of the 2025 Watson Davis Award for Service. The award recognizes an individual member of the Association who has shown continuous dedicated leadership in and service to ASIS&T and made substantial and lasting contributions to ASIS&T…