[Asis-l] Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2015

[Boland,Kerry]

Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2015

Several members of the Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (CCI)<http://www.drexel.edu/cci> community will be participating in workshops, panels and poster presentations at this year’s 78th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (Nov. 6-10, 2015).

In addition, CCI Professor Denise Agosto will be presented with the 2015 ASIS&T Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award<http://drexel.edu/cci/about/press-room/news/2015/September/denise-agosto-wins-2015-thomson-reuters-outstanding-information-science-teacher-award/> at the meeting’s Annual Awards Luncheon on Tues., Nov. 10 at noon.

The following CCI faculty, professional staff and doctoral students (listed in bold) will be participating in the Annual Meeting:

Monday, Nov. 9


-          1:30 p.m. – Paper: Controlled Vocabularies for Scientific Data: Users and Desired Functionalities
Authors: Yue Zhang (Doctoral Student), Adrian Ogletree (Research Project Manager), Jane Greenberg (Alice B. Kroeger Professor), Chelcie Rowell


-          3:30 p.m. – Panel: Standing Out in the Academic LIS Job Market: An Interactive Panel for Doctoral Students
Panelists: Rajesh Singh, St. John’s University; Karen Miller, University of South Carolina; Lorraine Richards (Assistant Professor), Drexel University; Nicole A. Cooke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Carolyn Hank, University of Tennessee; Barbara H. Kwasnik, Syracuse University; Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University. Moderator: Naresh K. Agarwal, Simmons College


-          6:30 p.m. – President’s Reception Featuring Posters

“’Nothing as practical as a good theory.’ Does Lewin’s Maxim Still Have Salience in the Applied Social Sciences?”
Author: Katherine W. McCain (Professor Emeritus)

“Culture and Information Architecture: A Study of American and Arab Academic Websites.”
Authors: Houda El Mimouni (Doctoral Student), Drexel University, and Craig MacDonald, Pratt Institute

“A Scientometric Comparative Study of Single-walled and Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes Research.”
Authors: Geet Lahoti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meen Chul Kim (Doctoral Student), Drexel University; and Jan Youtie, Alan L. Porter, Chuck Zhang, Ben Wang and Diana Hicks, all of Georgia Institute of Technology

“Quantitative Exploration into the Diffusion Process of Creative Ideas in Economics: Nobel Prize Laureates.”
Authors: Meen Chul Kim, Qing Ping, Yongjun Zhu and Yuanyuan Feng (All Doctoral Students)

“Does Author Affiliation Reputation Affect Uncitedness?”
Authors: Wen Lou, Wuhan University, China, and Jiangen He (Doctoral Student), Drexel University

Tuesday, Nov. 10


-          8:30 a.m. – Panel: Impact-Driven Work: Tearing Down the Firewalls between Research and Practice
Panelists: Denise E. Agosto (Professor), Drexel University; Denise A.D. Bedford, Georgetown University; Michael Khoo (Assistant Teaching Professor), Drexel University; Delia Neuman (Professor),Drexel University


-          3:30 p.m. – Panel: Cultural Diversity in LIS Research: National and International Communities as Context
Panelists: Denise Agosto (Professor), Drexel University; Bella Jing Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China; Kristene Unsworth (Assistant Professor, ASIS&T SIG-IEP Chair), Drexel University; Jenny Bossaller, University of Missouri; Deborah Turner (Assistant Professor), Drexel University

Please visit the 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting program webpage<https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/program/> for more details and a complete schedule of events.


Kerry Boland, MS
Writer/Editor

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