Leadership Awards and Accolades

Jennifer StromerGalley

Barbara Stripling

Kevin Crowston

Selected Awards and Accolades

ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP 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. 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.

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 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. Steven Sawyer, professor, was nominated to serve a three-year term as a memberof theeditorial board of theJournal of the Association of Information Systems. 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.

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.

Michelle Kaarst-Brown

Rachel Ivy Clarke

Jeffrey Fouts

Caroline Haythornthwaite

HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS 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 theUniversity of Washington’s Information School, “It’s NotRocketLibrary 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.

Jeffrey Fouts, adjunct faculty member and director of instructional technology at the iSchool’sFaculty 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.

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.

Jeff Hemsley

Jeff Hemsley, assistant professor, had his artistic data visualization, “Occupy the Amendment,” presented at the China Visualization Conference Art Exhibition in Qingdao, China, an international/ invitational exhibition.

Hemsley also was chosen by the graduate class of 2017 as recipient of the annual Jeffrey Katzer Professor of the Year Award for graduate-level faculty. The honor is one designated each year at the School of Information Studies commencement ceremonies.

Bei Yu

Jian Qin, professor, had her book, Metadata, 2nd edition (authored with Marcia Lei Zeng), named a2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.The selection to that list recognizes her work as among the best scholarly titles reviewed byChoice, the publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) organization. The status is awarded to only about 10 percent of some 6,000 works Choice reviews each year, providing the highest recognition of the academic library community. Jian Qin Ping Zhang

Bryan Semaan

Murali Venkatesh

Bryan Semaan, assistant professor, served as a visiting professor in the information science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall 2017 semester. He also was chosen as a participant in The Consortium for Science of Sociotechnical Systems Leadership Retreat Participant 2017.

Murali Venkatesh, associate professor and director of the iSchool’s Community and Information Technology Institute, was selected by the graduating class of 2017 as the recipient of the year’s Jeffrey Katzer Professor of the Year Award for undergraduate classes. The award is presented annually by members of the undergraduate graduating class at the School of Information Studies commencement.

Lu Xiao, associate professor, with co-authors Taraneh Khazaei and Robert Mercer, had their paper, “Writing to Persuade: Analysis and Detection of Persuasive Discourse,” judged as one of four finalists for the Best Completed Research Paper(i.e., Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper) at 2017 iConference in Wuhan, China. Bei Yu, Katchmar-Wilhelm associate professor and faculty lead for the CAS in Data Science, had her paper, “CORA: A Platform to Support Citation Context Analysis” (written with School of Information Studies analyst Yatish Hegde and doctoral student Yingya Li) named the Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper award for the iSchools Organization’s iConference 2017.

Ping Zhang, professor, completed two distinctive administrative assignments for Syracuse University as one of two University Provost’s faculty fellows in 2017. She helped plan and initiate a universitywide testbed for outreach to all university faculty on the issue of defining a voluntary resolution agreement for a case related to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). She worked on that initiative with Syracuse University’s senior associate vice president for operational excellence and the director and staff of the SU Office of Disability Services.

Zhang also served as a team co-chair for the Middle States Decennial Self-Study, a comprehensive review of all aspects of Syracuse University, including operations, services and governance that is coordinated centrally by the Provost’s Office. The self-study focused on the university’s compliance with the Middle States Standards for Accreditation, Requirements of Affiliation, and Accreditation-Relevant Federal Regulations. Zhang co-chaired a team reviewing the university’s adherence to guidelines for Standard VII Governance, Leadership and Administration.