UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES
PhD Information Studies
PhD Newsletter Vol. 02 | No. 01
August 2012
A Note from our Director... In this issue:
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Note from the PhD Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie
New PhD Students: Shannon Barniskis, Inkyung Choi, Joel DesArmo Feature: Tefko Times Two New PhD Students: Ann Graf, Hye Jung Han, Jennifer Stevenson
Tefko Times Two (continued) “The Successes We Know”
Recent Scholarship: Publications, Conference Proceedings, Presentations
Recent Scholarship: Invited Speakers, Poster Sessions, Teaching & Awards
Recent Scholarship: Professional Service Student Milestones
Save The Date: Upcoming Events
I would like to congratulate our first doctoral graduates in Information Studies: Suyu Lin and Kun Lu. I would also like to congratulate our doctoral graduate in Urban Education Educational and Media Technology: Marta Magnuson. At the same time, I am excited to welcome six new students to join our SOIS PhD program in Fall 2012. SOIS began offering a PhD in Information Studies in 2008, and our doctoral program will have 24 students this year. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to the development and enhancement of our PhD program.
Here are some of the PhD program updates: - Our new student orientation will be held on August 28th, 2012. New students will receive key information about our PhD program and meet with our faculty members and existing students during the orientation. All students will participate in a discussion about how to enhance our PhD program during the orientation. - The SOIS Doctoral Degree Program Web site has been reorganized to incorporate all important information, and in particular, student resources. It includes the following elements: program information, student profiles, student resources—including videos from PhD workshops, and Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A) presentations, plus other research presentations and different forms that students need access to. - The SOIS handbook was updated to reflect the changes and clarifications of SOIS PhD program policy and faculty research interests. The SOIS brochure was modified to represent the change of curriculum requirements. - Three doctoral students (Edward Benoit, Chunsheng Huang, and Renee Kapusniak) received the SOIS Doctoral Research Award Grant Opportunity (DRAGO) this year. It was created to support small equipment purchases, supplies, travel in relation to conducting research, and participant recruitment in order to make research activities possible. - We are going to continue offering workshops to our doctoral students this fall (please check important dates in this issue). Students can go to our Web site to view the videos from previous workshops on Grant Writing, Preliminary Exams, Dissertation Proposal Writing, and Dissertation Writing. - Professor Wolfram will continue organizing the B2A colloquium presented by B2A fellows once per month during the fall semester.
School of Information Studies 2025 E Newport | NWQB 3rd Floor Milwaukee, WI 53211
Please send your comments and suggestions regarding our program to me (hiris@uwm.edu). We are in touch and you are in touch.
New PhD Students FA L L 2 0 1 2
Tefko Times Two: SOIS HOSTS PROFESSOR
Shannon Barniskis I live in Beaver Dam, WI, and am the director of a small rural library. I’ve worked in libraries for eighteen years, was a Youth Services Librarian for thirteen, and do consulting work in my “spare time.” I’m focusing on Information Policy, specifically in public libraries. I love making stuff, and have a clichelibrarian quantity of cats, kids and cardigans.
Inkyung Choi I’m from Seoul, South Korea, and did my MLIS at Syracuse University, New York. I believe studying the theory of classification, which is fundamental to organizing information, will become more necessary in the future. Along with that, I also would like to understand the impact of the way of organizing information on humans and societies. Personally, I love walking in fresh air and chatting with a delightful person.
Joel DesArmo I was born and raised in Milwaukee and received a bachelor’s degree in Information Resources and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from UW-Milwaukee. I will be studying information retrieval. Some of my research interests are in the areas of human computer interaction and mobile information. I like riding my bicycle, playing ping pong, and Scrabble.
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During the spring semester of 2012 SOIS was fortunate to have two visits from a well-known pioneer in the area of information retrieval. Professor Tefko Saracevic from Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information presented two lectures open to all but primarily geared toward doctoral students.
PhD Workshop: How to Write a Dissertation The first presentation “PhD Workshop: How to Write a Dissertation” occurred in April. His second visit, part of the Doctoral Seminar in Information Retrieval class in May, was entitled “The Successes We Know and Teach, but what are the Failures of Information Retrieval?” Both sessions were recorded and are available for viewing on SOIS’s iStream Web Portal (https://www4.uwm.edu/sois/resources/it/iStream/ istreamportal.cfm). Dr. Saracevic’s lecture on how to start, write, and complete a dissertation was full of useful and practical information as well as humorous quips. Saracevic, an expert on the process, has been on approximately 100 dissertation committees as Dr. Tefko Saracevic & Dr. Iris Xie either chair or member, which he comically equated to “proof of what an empty life I have.” Nevertheless, he relayed the most common problems students encounter when undertaking such a huge project, and then offered his words of wisdom: “If a dissertation seems like an overwhelming task, well it is…what’s the big deal.” And “If it seems like a solitary project, that’s because it is: doing a dissertation is solitary work.” He also pointed out some of the less daunting aspects. For example, he showed how a dissertation is very structured work: there is a format that must be followed even though minor deviations are allowed in some areas. In other words, having this kind of mandatory outline is something which can be counted on. Next, he moved on to what he calls the Three Immutable Laws or “Tefko’s Laws”:
by Tina Jayroe
New PhD Students FA L L 2 0 1 2
SARACEVIC
Ann Graf Tefko’s Laws Tefko Law #1: What is the purpose of graduate school? Audience Member: to help you develop your skill set to conduct research. search. Audience Member: to qualify you to go on and do something else like teaching for example. Audience Member: to prepare you to have a background to advance research. Saracevic: No! You are all wrong. The purpose of graduate school is . . . to graduate! You are here for one reason and one reason only and that is…….TO GET OUT!
Tefko Law #2: What is the only way to graduate? Audience Member: Do what they tell you to do. Saracevic: No. Audience Member: Finish your dissertation. Saracevic: That’s it! You don’t have to do what they tell you to do, YOU HAVE TO FINISH YOUR DISSERTATION (and you better publish some papers along the way too).
Tefko Law #3: What kind of dissertation is required? Saracevic: One that is acceptable. Not acceptable in China, not acceptable in Taiwan, but acceptable to your institution and your faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
While the preceding were presented in a humorous manner, what Saracevic refers to as “the nastiest questions of all” and the questions he always asks are: Where are you going to get the data? How are you going to get the data? and What are you going to do with the data? He disclosed that what he looks at when reviewing theses is a paragraph or two of the introduction, he then skips the literature review, and proceeds directly to the methods. What he cares about is how the student connected the questions (or hypotheses) to the methods. He also stated that results are the heart of the thesis, and that the weakest parts of people’s dissertations are often the discussions and conclusions because the students are tired or out of time by that point. Thus, he advocated working “non-linearly” and communicated how some people write results first. He warned not to concentrate on the literature review as a way of avoiding the other sections and instead he recommended “starting in the middle; the rest will follow naturally.”
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I am from Milwaukee and received my MLIS at SOIS in 2011. I will be studying information organization and hope to incorporate photography and/or bibliography work into my studies. I have developed a large bibliography on the history of Milwaukee for the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee project ongoing in the UWM History department and hope to be able to use this data in upcoming research. I have four kids, ages 13 - 19, two of whom will be students with me at UWM this fall!
Hye Jung Han I am from South Korea. I received my MLIS from SOIS in 2012. I am interested in children’s information retrieval, children’s digital libraries and children’s digital literacy. I am very happy to begin my PhD Program at SOIS -- thank you for giving me a chance to introduce myself to you all.
Jennifer Stevenson Since 2005 I have been working in the world of museums, libraries, and archives. Recently, I have moved into the world of digital archiving and information literacy, teach at Edgewood College and work as a digital archivist at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison, Wisconsin. My research interests are invested in the field of information studies. Specifically, web based learning, digital libraries, new and social media, and information literacy. I am interested in information retrieval and the social impacts of information and communication technology amongst different user groups.
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Tefko Times Two:
SOIS HOSTS PROFESSOR SARACEVIC
Developing ideas, he stated, can come from: long walks in the woods; interacting with others; a mentor (which he claimed was extremely difficult to find); and experimenting, observing, and thinking about what you read. He recommended keeping a diary or log with software tools such as Evernote (evernote.com), and writing those entries in a way that could be useful for inclusion in the paper later. He said to adhere to ethical issues, milk the results, and ultimately, publish your dissertation as a peer-reviewed article(s) or book: “The
dissertation is not finished until it is peerreviewed. . . . Nobody will read your dissertation except other desperate students like you. Nobody will cite your dissertation either. But, if you write an article, they will cite your article.” His final advice? Publish. Publish. Publish. Even if you have to write bad papers, because when you are seeking employment in the field, he guaranteed, you will be judged on the number of publications you have.
“The dissertation is not finished until it is peer-reviewed. . . . Nobody will read your dissertation except other desperate students like you. Nobody will cite your dissertation either. But, if you write an article, they will cite your article.” Dr. Tefko Saracevic, Guest Lecturer
The Successes We Know and Teach, but what are Photo: Tefko Saracevic the Failures of Information Retrieval? imitates Gerry Salton In the Successes and Failures of IR lecture, the focus was on how significant problems of the field (any field) become worthwhile questions for research. Dr. Saracevic began by saying “When I’m talking about the failures, I’m also talking about the opportunities that all of you have.” He moved us through a historical timeline of information retrieval starting with the coinage and definition of the term by Calvin Mooers to the precision and recall experiments of Cyril Cleverdon to the methods, measurements, and algorithms tested by TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) today.
paper I think, ‘by God he was right, I didn’t know what I was talking about.’ We just don’t have ASIST conferences like that anymore…”
vate companies (such as software, search engine, and drug) conducting research on their own and not necessarily with academic information institutions.
Some of the successes of IR he noted were that TREC has created a global community involved in evaluation methods—with the last conference having about “120 teams from 20 or 30 countries.” And he praised the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) conference as a successful venture calling one of their workshop’s objectives “perfect research questions”:
Other failures are the lack of participants in the transformative/translationar educational grants offered by the NSF and NIH, and the need to address interaction in IR studies. And he noted the absence of standardized and universal metrics and models for interaction research.
During his talk Saracevic shared personal experiences from the early years of IR, for example how his first real research question entailed delving into what caused (physical piles of) documents to be deemed not relevant to the people who were judging them. He also told stories of interactions with other pioneers such as Nicholas Belkin and Gerard Salton—describing the latter as an animated character who always had flailing arms when he spoke. He mentioned the time he was presenting one of his early papers at an ASIST conference and Salton, who was in the audience, yelled out “BUT TEFKO! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!” Saracevic then confessed: “When I look back on the
He mentioned the failures of IR which include a lack of attendance amongst SIGIR, ACM, ASIST, and TREC conferences, and the current trend of research becoming “proprietary IR”—that is, pri-
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Saracevic’s main point was expressed as a metaphor: “In the age of Google we have a Model T Ford: We are not addressing interaction in IR.” He claims the methods being used to measure relevancy or satisfaction or usefulness of the information retrieved by systems is old-fashioned, outdated, and does not consider all the elements that make up Human Information Interaction; however, these failures, if considered and appropriately addressed, can turn out to be the great successes for the field. Thanks to SOIS’s Research Group for Information Retrieval (RGIR) for sponsoring Tefko’s IR talk.
Recent Scholarship Chapter & Monograph Publications Fox, M. J. & Olson, H. A. (In Press). Feminist epistemologies and knowledge organization. In H. Lee & R. Smiraglia (Eds.), Cultural Frames of Knowledge, (79-98).
Journal Publications Fox, M. J. (2012). Book Reviews [Review of Szostak (2003, 2004)]. Knowledge Organization, 39(4), 300-303. Fox, M. J. & Reece, A. M. (Forthcoming). Which ethic? Whose morality: An analysis of ethical standards for the organization of information. Knowledge Organization, (40). Fox, M. J. & Graf, A. M. (2011). Research and opinion: Mining the collective, reconsidering warrant [Review of Lynn Howarth presentation]. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 49(6), 543-544. Mauger, J. (2012). Collection management, conceptual anachronisms, and CIPA. Progressive Librarian, (38/39), 2533. Thiele, J. & Moyer, J. E. (2012). Bobcatsss 2012 conference report, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. New Library World, 113(5-6), 304-306. Xie, I. & Benoit, E. (Forthcoming). Search result list evaluation versus document evaluation: Similarities and differences. Journal of Documentation.
Conference Proceedings Fox, M. J. (Forthcoming). Gender and social tagging. In K. Raghavan (Ed.) Tenth International ISKO Conference, August 4-7, 2012, Mysore, India. Jayroe, T. J. (2012). Tags, homonyms, and the manifestation of intentionality. In Canadian Association of Information Science Conference Proceedings, May 31–June 2, 2012, Waterloo, Ontario.
Conference Presentations Anderson, K. D., Benoit, E., & Powell, A. (2012, April). Mind the gaps: Leveraging networks to learn. Presented at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC), Grand Rapids, MI. Beak, J. (2012, April). Vygotsky’s theory in LIS. Presented at the SLIS/SOIS Student Research Forum, Madison, WI. Benoit, E. & Ramdeen, S. (2012, July). Wait, wait, don’t tell me where I put that!: Research management software demonstration and discussion. Presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), Los Angeles, CA. Benoit, E. (2012, August). Scrolls to scrolling: The shared heritage of digital collections. Presented at the Sixth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA 6), Austin, TX. Fox, M. J. (2012, August). Communities of practice, gender and social tagging. Presented at the Tenth International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference, Mysore, India. Fox, M. J. & Reece, A. M. (2012, June). Which ethic? Whose morality?: An analysis of ethical standards for the organization of information. Presented at The Second Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization, Milwaukee, WI. Hoffman, A. (2012, May). Rewiring Rawls: Social justice, technology, and the information society. Presented at the Fourth ICTs and Society Conference: Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in the 21st Century Information Society, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Jayroe, T. J. (2012, May). Tags, homonyms, and the manifestation of intentionality. Presented at the Canadian Association of Information Science Conference, Waterloo, Ontario. Kapusniak, R. & Joo, S. (2012, April). Exploring user engagement and system support in applying search tactics. Presented at the SLIS/SOIS Student Research Forum, Madison, WI.
PhD Information Studies
Martinez-Avila, D., Fox, M. J., and Olson, H. A. (2011, October). Intersectionality in users of library knowledge organization systems: Lessons learned from the misrepresentation of Latina lesbians. Presented at the First Annual Conference of International Society for Knowledge Organization, Brazil Chapter, Brasilia, Brazil. Mauger, J. (2012, April). CIPA: Internet filtering as collection management. Presented at the SLIS/SOIS Student Research Forum, Madison, WI. McCleer, A. (2012, April). Color blindness & censorship: The dismantling of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program. Presented at the Real Faces of Latin America and Latino/a Worlds, Third Annual La Crosse Area Latina/o Collaborative Workshop on Teaching, Service and Research, La Crosse, WI. McCleer, A. (2012, June). Ethnic studies under fire: The role of publishers, librarians, teachers, and activists. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA. Ocholla, D. N., Ocholla, L., Olson, H. A., Glover, J. R., & Guimaräes, J. A. (2012, August). Cataloguing and classification education and training in library and information science/studies in South Africa, USA and Brazil. Presented at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Congress, Helsinki, Finland. Proferes, N. (2012, February). The political economy of reputation online: Karma, Reddit, and the Knowledge Factory. Presented at the Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Smith, T. S. (2012, March). Smith’s Gaming Information Retrieval Model. Presented at the Information Fluency Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. Tirilly, P., Huang, C., Jeong, W., Mu, X., Wolfram, D., Xie, I., & Zhang, J. (2012, August). On the consistency and features of image similarity. Presented at the Fourth Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIIX), Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Kapusniak, R. & Thiele, J. (2012, May). Wisconsin Public Library Consortium: Access and navigation. Presented at Wisconsin Library Association Support Staff and Circulation Services Annual Professional Development Conference, Appleton, WI. Fall 2012
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PhD Recent Scholarship Information Studies
Invited Speaker Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, April). GrandFamily housing with a branch library: A case study in mixed-use development at the Milwaukee Public Library. Brown bag presentation conducted at the Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, June). Basic copyright…Understanding your rights and the rights of others. Presented at BlogHer Food Conference, Seattle, WA. Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, July). Social media law. Presented at Bloggers and Brands Summit, Chicago, IL. Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, August). Protecting your blogging rights, respecting those of others. Presented at BlogHer, New York, NY. Sabbar, C. and Zitron, E. (2012) Understanding SOPA and PIPA Proposed Legislation. Radio interview on WGTD Morning Show, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Thiele, J. (2012, August). E-content reading trends. Webinar presented for Nicolet Federated Library System, WI. Wadsworth, S. & Fox, M. J. (2012, March). The 1893 woman’s building library database: Out of the ashes, onto the internet. Presented at the “Out of the Attic and Into the Stacks”: Feminism in LIS Unconference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
Poster Sessions Beak, J. (2012, January). LCSH vs. tags from LibraryThing in fiction genres. Poster presented at the ALISE Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas. Glover, J. (2012, May). A look at the library cataloger’s desktop: Examining how experiences shape the process: A pilot study. Poster presented at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Qualitative Research Poster Session, Milwaukee, WI. Huang, C. (2012, April). Users’ features of image similarity. Poster presented at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Student Research Poster Day, Milwaukee, WI.
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Jayroe, T. J. (2012, March). Mental models and HCI: Where are we now? Poster presented at the Information Architecture Summit, New Orleans, LA. Jeong, W. & Huang, C. (2012, April). Locating information science: Changes in Ph.D. dissertations during the past four decades. Poster presentation at the SLIS/ SOIS Student Research Forum, Madison, WI. McCleer, A. (2012, April). The dismantling of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program: A case study and critical analysis. Poster presented at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Student Research Poster Day, Milwaukee, WI. McCleer, A. (2012, May). Uncovering the information needs & interests of refugee communities: A qualitative study. Poster presented at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee Qualitative Research Poster Session, Milwaukee, WI. Sabbar, C. (2012, April). What difference does language make? Poster presented at the Carthage College Celebration of Scholars, Kenosha, WI. Sabbar, C. (2012, April). When language causes shifts. Poster presented at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Student Research Poster Day, Milwaukee, WI. Thiele, J., Kapusniak, R., & Moyer, J. E. (2012, August). Browsing for leisure reading in the digital environment: A case study. Poster presented at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Congress, Helsinki, Finland.
Teaching Benoit, E. (Spring 2012). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: L&I SCI 682, Digital Libraries. Huang, C. (Spring 2012). Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: L&I SCI 571, Information Access and Retrieval. Joo, S. (Spring 2012). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: BSIST 440, Information Architecture II.
Sabbar, C. (Spring 2012). Carthage College: Introduction to Business and Technology. Thiele, J. (Summer 2012). American Library Association: Young Adult Readers’ Advisory Services eCourse.
Awards Barry-Kessler, L. (2011). Are you gonna eat that? Making and queering a feminist critique of the exclusion of recipes from U.S. copyright law. 3rd Place, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Women’s Studies Student Research Paper & Project Contest, Milwaukee, WI. Benoit, E. (2012). Beta Phi Mu, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Benoit, E. (2012). Doctoral Research Award Grant Opportunity, School of Information Studies, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Benoit, E. (2012). Doctoral Student Travel Award, Archival Education and Research Institute. Fox, M. J. (2012). Information Organization Research Group conference support for travel to Mysore, India for International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference. Hoffman, A. (2012). Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme participant. Oxford Internet Institute. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, July 9-20. Kapusniak, R. (2012). E-books and the user interface: The interactions between users and OPAC systems. Doctoral Research Award Grant Opportunity, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. McCleer, A. (2012). The dismantling of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Program: A case study and critical analysis. Ph.D. Student Research Award, University of WisconsinMilwaukee School of Information Studies Student Research Poster Day, Milwaukee, WI. McCleer, A. (2012). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Roberto Hernández Center scholarship for Latino Nonprofit Leadership Program, Milwaukee, WI.
Student Milestones Professional Service 2012 Beak, J. Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; Assistant Conference Chair at The Second Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization, Milwaukee, WI. Benoit, E. Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; Editor, SOIS PhD Newsletter. Fox, M. J. Editorial Assistant/Reviewer, Knowledge Organization.
Dr. Suyu Lin Suyu Lin successfully defended her dissertation, and she accepted an offer as a tenure-tracked assistant professor at Department of Library, Information & Media Studies, College of Education, Chicago State University.
Jayroe, T. J. Videographer and Planning Member, Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit; Advisory Board Member and Tweeter, Rocky Mountain Land Library; Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG-Digital Libraries; Admissions & Records Policy Committee Member, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Editor, SOIS PhD Newsletter.
Dr. Kun Lu Kun Lu successfully defended his dissertation, and is in the process of obtaining a faculty position in one of the top Universities in China starting in Fall.
Kapusniak, R. Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; PhD representative, SOIS Research Committee; Library Services to an Aging Population Committee Member, Reference Services Section, Reference and User Services Association. McCleer, A. President, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Representative, SOIS Doctoral Program Committee; PhD representative, SOIS Diversity and Equity Committee; Editor, SOIS PhD Newsletter; Assistant Coordinator, “Out of the Attic and Into the Stacks�: Feminism in LIS Unconference; Scholarship and Awards Committee Member, Joint Conference of Librarians of Color; Library Services to the Spanish Speaking Committee Member, Reference Services Section, Reference and User Services Association. Smith, T. S. 2013 Information Fluency Conference Planning Committee Member, University of Central Florida Information Fluency Initiative.
Dr. Marta Magnuson Marta Magnuson successfully defended her dissertation, and is currently working at Carthage College as an instructional technologist.
Edward Benoit III successfully defended his preliminary examination. Chunsheng Huang and Soohyung Joo successfully defended their dissertation proposals. Chunsheng Huang left for Taiwan at the end of July. After completing data analysis she will come back to finish her dissertation. She can be reached at huang22@uwm.edu while in Taiwan.
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Save the Date!
brown bag presentations
PHD WORKSHOPS NWQ B 3511 Lunch will be provided.
B2A Presentations will take place on the second week of each month.
“How to Successfully Publish Journal Articles”
Wednesdays | 12:30 - 1:30pm | NWQ B 3511
Presented by Dr. Hope Olson and Dr. Jin Zhang September 19 | 12:30 - 2:00pm
“How to Successfully Obtain Faculty Positions” Presented by Dr. Kim Anderson and Dr. Wilhelm Peekhaus October 17 | 12:30 - 2:00pm
“How to Enrich Dissertation by Reading” Presented by Dr. Wooseob Jeong and Dr. Joyce Latham November 14 | 12:30 - 2:00pm
2025 E Newport Ave NWQB 3rd Floor Milwaukee, WI 53211
The SOIS PhD Newsletter is published twice a year by the SOIS PhD student body. Contributions (articles, letters, photos, etc.) are welcomed. Please send updates to the PhD Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie (hiris@uwm.edu). EDITORIAL BOARD Tina Jayroe, PhD Student, Chief Editor Adriana McCleer, PhD Student, Editor
Liza Barry-Kessler, PhD Student, Editor Dr. Iris Xie, PhD Program Director
Art Direction & Design: Rebecca Hall & Gabriella Tato Photography: Natalie Puariea & UWM Photographic Services
Doctoral Committee - Spring 2012 Dr. Margaret Kipp (Chair) Dr. Iris Xie, PhD Director Dr. Wilhelm Peekhaus
Dr. Gwat-Yong Lie, Non-voting ex-officio Adriana McCleer, PhD Student Linda Barajas, Admissions Coordinator