Student Highlights

KatyBelle Edwards

KatyBelle Edwards is a new graduate of fall 2021 with an M.S. in Learning Technologies, focusing on Project Management and Workforce Performance. During her time in the program, she became very involved in the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), serving as a Philanthropic Consultant to the ISPI Board, gave a presentation on Philanthropic Best Practices in an Age of Disruption at the 2021 Performance Improvement conference, and was accepted to present at the 2022 Performance Improvement conference in Nashville, TN on organizational change management. She was also a recipient of the Dr. Roger Ditzenberger Scholarship, and she works in university advancement at UNT.

Irhamni

Irhamni is an international student from Indonesia in the Ph.D. Information Science program. Becoming a Ph.D. student and exploring the nature of Information Science has been one of his dreams since he was in his bachelor’s program. He left his job as a policymaker in The National Library of Indonesia even though he was in a very comfortable position as a bureaucrat and made critical policy for developing the national library of Indonesia’s strategic programs. In 2020 he was awarded the Fulbright scholarship and a UNT College of Information Scholarship - Law Librarian and Legal Informatics Scholarship. The scholarship matches with his current interest in government publication and open government data, particularly involving government agencies through their libraries.

kYmberly Keeton

kYmberly Keeton is a PhD Student in Information Science, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research deals with African American Community Archives in Texas, and she is interested in learning more about digital preservation with regard to her research and how it will play a role in her doctoral research. Recently, she was published in What’s Emerging in the Field, Essays from Museum Computer Network, article entitled: Perspective: In the Time of COVID-19 | Still Black See and in the Library Journal article entitled: 23 and We: Contemporary Genealogy Services. She is very proud of the debut of her PhD work through a virtual platform: B G L A M – Black Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums.

Marty Heaton

Marty Heaton is a PhD Information Science student with a concentration in Linguistics. His passion is documenting endangered languages. On a trip to Oman, he decided to learn a local language but found that the language was unwritten. Have you ever wondered how someone can learn an unwritten language as a second language without living in the area where it is spoken? Marty’s important research has found a way and has focused on documenting endangered languages. His research is developing an application to document unwritten languages through voice to text, which has combined technical skills he has learned in the information science class with his linguistics background.