SILS Doctoral Student Honors & Awards

Our doctoral students have won several awards for their research efforts, professional activities and educational accomplishments. This page lists some of these honors.

Jennifer Arns

• American Library Association. EBSCO Conference Scholarship 1998
• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship Award, 1999-2000, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH

Ron Bergquist

• Beta Phi Mu: The International Library and Information Studies Honor Society

Ron Brown

• National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Education Grant, 2001-2003.
  

Benjamin Brunk

• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship Award, 1999-2000, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH

Andre Burton

• National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Education Grant, 2000-2002
• Lester Asheim Scholarship 2000- 2001, 2002-2003
  

Teresa Church

• National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Education Grant, 2001-2003
  

Sheila Denn

• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship Award, 1999-2000, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH
• Alpha Epsilon Lambda: the honor society of graduate and professional school students. UNC Chapter. [Inducted on April 14, 2000 in recognition of "distinguished leadership, scholarship and intellectual development, contributions to the academic department and university, and ethical behavior." Only 44 students were selected out of more than 9,000 eligible during the 1999-2000 academic year]
  

Meredith R. Evans 

• National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Education Grant, 2000-2002
• Lester Asheim Scholarship 2000- 2001, 2002-2003
  

Pnina Fichman-Shachaf

• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship Award, 2001-2002, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH

Gary Geisler

• Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation Fellowship , 1999-2000
• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship Award, 1999-2000, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH
• EDUCAUSE Medal Award, Celtic Art & Cultures Project (1999)
• National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Japan Fellowship (Summer, 1999)
• Co-Investigator for Chancellor’s UNC Instructional Technology Grant (Spring, 1998)
• R.A. for Chancellor’s UNC Instructional Technology Grant (Spring, 1997)

Seung-Lye Kim

• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship, 2001-2002, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH
• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2001, Beta Phi Mu

Wen-Chin Lan

• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship, 2001-2002, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH
• Smith Graduate Research Fund Grant, 2000, The Graduate School, UNC-CH
• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2000, Beta Phi Mu
• Louis Rond Wilson Scholarship Fund, 1995-1996, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH

Bin Li

• Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship Award, 1999-2000, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH
• Sheila Suen Lai Scholarship of Library and Information Science, 2000, Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)

Kelly Maglaughlin

• Best Master's Paper Award (2000): "The Use of Relevance Criteria in Partially Relevant Documents."
• The 1999 Pratt-Severn Student Research Award, for her Master's paper entitled: "The Use of Relevance Criteria in Partially Relevant Documents."

Debbie Travers

• Research Fellowship in Medical Informatics, National Library of Medicine (2000)

Katherine Wisser

• Beta Phi Mu: The International Library and Information Studies Honor Society