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Library and Information Science Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Library and Information Science, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Recreational nastiness or playful mischief? Contrasting perspectives on internet trolling between news media and avid internet users , Yimin Chen

Discourse, Power Dynamics, and Risk Amplification in Disaster Risk Management in Canada , Martins Oluwole Olu-Omotayo

Folk Theories, Recommender Systems, and Human-Centered Explainable Artificial Intelligence (HCXAI) , Michael Ridley

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Exploiting Semantic Similarity Between Citation Contexts For Direct Citation Weighting And Residual Citation , Toluwase Victor Asubiaro

The Use of Intimate Partner Violence Websites: Website Awareness, Visibility, Information Quality, Perceived Usefulness, and Frequency of Use , Sze Hang Lee

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The General Artificial Intellect , Ramon S. Diab

The Public Library as Past Become Space , Greg Nightingale

Making Sense of Online Public Health Debates with Visual Analytics Systems , Anton Ninkov

Information, Employment, and Settlement of Immigrants: Exploring the Role of Information Behaviour in the Settlement of Bangladesh Immigrants in Canada , Nafiz Zaman Shuva

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Accessibility And Academic Libraries: A Comparative Case Study , Claire Burrows

The Information Practices of New Kadampa Buddhists: From "Dharma of Scripture" to "Dharma of Insight" , Roger Chabot

Narratives of Sexuality in the Lives of Young Women Readers , Davin L. Helkenberg

Strategic and Subversive: The Case of the Disappearing Diaphragm and Women’s Information Practices , Sherilyn M. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Informing care: Mapping the social organization of families’ information work in an aging in place climate , Nicole K. Dalmer

A Study of Six Nations Public Library: Rights and Access to Information , Alison Frayne

Information Freedoms and the Case for Anonymous Community , Rachel Melis

Academic Librarians and the Space/Time of Information Literacy, the Neoliberal University, and the Global Knowledge Economy , Karen P. Nicholson

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Expertise, Mediation, and Technological Surrogacy: A Mixed Method Critical Analysis of a Point of Care Evidence Resource , Selinda Adelle Berg

The E-Writing Experiences of Literary Authors , Kathleen Schreurs

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Understanding Collaborative Sensemaking for System Design — An Investigation of Musicians' Practice , Nadia Conroy

Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities , Lisa Di Valentino

Towards Evidence-Informed Agriculture Policy Making: Investigating the Knowledge Translation Practices of Researchers in the National Agriculture Research Institutes in Nigeria , Isioma N. Elueze

Different Approaches for Different Folks , Alexandre Fortier

Creating Context from Curiosity: The Role of Serendipity in the Research Process of Historians in Physical and Digital Environments , Kim Martin

Alternate Academy: Investigating the Use of Open Educational Resources by Students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria , Daniel Onaifo

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Contentious information: Accounts of knowledge production, circulation and consumption in transitional Egypt , Ahmad Kamal

Multilingual Information Access: Practices and Perceptions of Bi/multilingual Academic Users , Peggy I. Nzomo

Words to Live By: How Experience Shapes our Information World at Work, Play and in Everyday Life , Angela Pollak

Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives , James Ripley

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Africa: Investigating Information Access and Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Women-Owned Enterprises in Zambia , Daniel Mumba

Young adults reflect on the experience of reading comics in contemporary society: Overcoming the commonplace and recognizing complexity , Lucia Cederia Serantes

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Space, Power and the Public Library: A Multicase Examination of the Public Library as Organization Space , Matthew R. Griffis

Knowledge Organization Practices in Everyday Life: Divergent Constructions of Healthy Eating , Jill R. McTavish

Semantics-based Automated Quality Assessment of Depression Treatment Web Documents , Yanjun Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Making Sense of Document Collections with Map-Based Visualizations , Olga Buchel

A Critical Historical Analysis of the Public Performance Right , Louis J. D'Alton

Intellectual Property and Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation and Ideology , Michael B. McNally

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Information Practices of People Living with Depression: Constructing Credibility and Authority , Tami Oliphant

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Jeremy Gordon. Embodying the Future: Modeling Visually Guided Planning as Prospective Mental Simulation. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: John Chuang, Coye Cheshire, Steven Piantadosi, Giovanni Pezzulo. University of California, Berkeley. 2023.

Daniel Griffin.  Situating Web Searching in Data Engineering: Admissions, Extensions, Repairs, and Ownership . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: Deirdre K. Mulligan and Steven Weber. University of California, Berkeley. 2022.

Jonathan Gillick. Creating and Collecting Meaningful Musical Materials with Machine Learning . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: David Bamman. University of California, Berkeley. 2022.

Jonas, Anne. 2021. “Blank Slate: Freedom, Connection, and Accountability in U.S. Virtual Schools.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

Nitin Kohli.  Leveraging Differential Privacy While Attending to Social and Political Commitments . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Deirdre Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley. 2021.

Doris Jung-Lin Lee. Designing Automated Assistants for Visual Data Exploration . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Aditya G. Parameswaran. University of California, Berkeley. 2021.

Nick Doty. Enacting Privacy in Internet Standards . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Deirdre K. Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley. 2020.

Max T. Curran.  Sensor-Mediated Empathy: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Social Biosensing . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: John Chuang. University of California, Berkeley. 2020.

Richmond Y. Wong.  Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Deirdre Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley. 2020.

Howell, N. 2020. Emotional Meaning Making with Data. University of California, Berkeley.

Guanghua Chi. Migration and Social Networks: New Insights from Novel Data. Ph.D Dissertation. Advisor: Joshua E. Blumenstock. University of California, Berkeley. 2020.

Sarah Van Wart.  In search of a “fair explanation”: Helping young people to consider the possibilities, limitations, and risks of computer- and data-mediated systems . Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 2019.

Niall C. Keleher.  Economic Indicators and Social Networks: New approaches to measuring poverty, prices, and impacts of technology. Ph.D. Dissertation. Advisor: Joshua E. Blumenstock. University of California, Berkeley. 2019.

Sedenberg, Elaine. “Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data.” PhD Diss. University of California, Berkeley, 2019.  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s60w39f#main

Nick Merrill.  Mind-Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates: What People Think Machines Can Know About the Mind, and Why Their Beliefs Matter . Ph.D. Dissertation. Advisor: John Chuang. University of California, Berkeley. 2018.

Ishita Ghosh. Challenging the dominant narratives of a Digital Financial Inclusion. Ph.D Dissertation. Advisor: Jenna Burrell. University of California, Berkeley. 2018.

Khan, Muhammad Raza (2018). “Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata” PhD dissertation., University of California, Berkeley

Jennifer King. Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory. Ph.D Dissertation. Advisor: Deirdre Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley. 2018.

Sebastian Benthall.  Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: John Chuang and Deirdre Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley. 2018.

Galen Thomas Panger.  Emotion in Social Media . Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Steven Weber. University of California, Berkeley. 2017.

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Hoang, Linh "Natural Language Processing to Support Evidence Quality Assessment of Biomedical Literature"

Morales, Myrna "Towards a theory of trust in libraries and democracy"

Cheng, Jessica Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic-based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies

Dinh, Ly Advances to network analysis theories and methods with applications in social, organizational, and crisis settings

Kacunguzi, Dianah Twinoburyo Knowledge Preservation Practices of Herbalists in Uganda: An Ethnographic Study

Lee, Lo Understanding Information Activities of Hobbyists in the Making of Arts and Crafts Across Space

Barbosa, Natã Miccael Exploring Algorithmic Realism in the Data Economy

Hao, Yun Towards a Better Understanding of Music Playlist Titles and Descriptions

Nance, Kinyetta Lashawn African Americans and mobile video: exploring Black cultural practice on Vine

Phelps, Kirstin Clare Collective Leadership for Community Action: A Case-Based Inquiry into Supporting Digital Literacy Initiatives

Rezapour, Shadi From User-Generated Text to Insight; Context-Aware Measurement of Social Impacts and Interactions Using Natural Language Processing

Roberto, Keller Raffaele Description is a Drag (and Vice Versa): Classifying Trans Identities

Samuel, Noah Oluwafemi Characteristics of Business Incubators Influencing Collaboration Among Member Startup Firms

Williams, DeAnza #BlackBoyYALit: Seeing Black Boys in 21st Century Young Adult Literature

Lee, Joo Ho Using Grant Applications to Measure the Evolution of Collaborative and Non-collaborative Research

Mishra, Shubhanshu Information Extraction from Digital Social trace Data with Applications to Social Media and Scholarly Communication Data

Strickland Bloch, Beth The Values and Ethics of Biomedical Engineering Practices in the Design of Novel Biotechnologies

Takazawa, Aiko Tutteli to Japan: a Case Study of Spontaneous Collaboration in Disaster Response

Willis, Craig Trust, But Verify: An Investigation of Methods of Verification and Dissemination of Computational Research Artifacts for Transparency and Reproducibility  

Cunningham, Paige Danielle Exploring Communication Patterns in Massive Open Online Courses

Gabb, Henry A, III An Informatics Approach to Prioritizing Risk Assessment for Chemicals and Chemical Combinations Based on Near-Field Exposure from Consumer Products

Jett, Jacob Guy Towards a General Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Aggregates: Four Case Studies from Our Bibliographic Standards

Jones, Jimi So Many Standards, So Little Time: A History and Analysis of Four Digital Video Standards

Kehoe, Adam Kyle Predicting Controlled Vocabulary Based on Text and Citations: Case Studies in Medical Subject Headings in MEDLINE and Patents

Lawrence, E.E. Reading for Democratic Citizenship: A New Model for Readers' Advisory

Martaus, Alaine Modeling Participatory Literacy (In Your Pants): An Analysis of Print and New Media Convergence in the Vlogbrothers' YouTube Videos

Sherman, Garrick T. Document Expansion and Language Model Re-Estimation for Information Retrieval

Choi, Kahyun Computational Lyricology: Quantitative Approaches to Understanding Song Lyrics and Their Interpretations

Witt, Steven W Making Internationalism Conscious: Libraries and the Transnational Propagation of the International Mind (1911-1951)

Ahmed, Shameem mHeath Literacy: Characterizing People's Ability to Use Smartphone-based Health-related Applications

Austin, Jeanie Lynn Libraries for Social Change: Centering Youth of Color and/or LGBTQ Youth in Library Practice

Baker, Karen

Data Work Configurations in the Field-Based Natural Sciences:Mesoscale Infrastructures, Project Collectives, and Data Gateways

D'Arpa, Christine "Procure, Propagate, and Distribute Among the People": The Information Service Functions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1862-1888

Fenlon, Katrina S. Thematic Research Collections: Libraries and the Evolution of Alternative Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities

Kim, Jinseok The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from Large-Scale Scholarly Data

Lucic, Ana Summarization of Biomedical Texts by Utilizing the Information Extracted from Comparative Sentences

Lugya, Fredrick Next generation catalogues: an analysis of user search strategies and behavior

Serbanuta, Claudia Voices from the Other Side of the Wall: The Case of Romanian Libraries of the 1970s and the 1980s

Smith, Mikki (Dawn) Print Networks and Youth Information Culture: Young People, Amateur Publishing, and Children's Periodicals, 1867-1890

Thomer, Andrea Site-based data curation: bridging data collection protocols and curatorial processes at scientifically significant sites

Thompson, Cheryl A. Data Expertise and Service Development in Geoscience Data Centers and Academic Libraries

Velez, LaTesha James E. Shepard and North Carolina Central University, the Man and the Message: a Context-Sensitive, Discourse Analysis of "God Bless Old North Carolina"

Bettivia, Rhiannon Encoding Power: The Scripting of Archival Structures in Digital Spaces using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model

Duffy, Damian Educational Hypercomics: Learners, Institutions, and Comics in E-Learning Interface Design

Leetaru, Kalev Hannes Can We Forecast Conflict? Forecasting Global Human Behavior at the Macro-Societal Level Using Surface-Level Emotional and Thematic Indicators For Remote Media-Based Population Assessment

Lenstra, Noah The Community Informatics of an Aging Society: A Comparative Case Study of Public Libraries and Senior Centers

Smith, Brittany Noell Motivation and Skill Acquisition in an Online Amateur Multimedia Community: A Case Study

Villa-Nicholas, Melissa Latinas in Telecommunications: Intersectional Experiences in the Bell System

Bloch, Naomi Deliberating Environmental Policy: Information Seeking and Use in Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committees

Chao, Tiffany Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research Data for Reuse

Ginger, Jeffrey Capturing The Context of Digital Literacy: A Case Study of Illinois Public Libraries in Underserved Communities

Luo, Yang The Genesis of Youth Services in Public Libraries in China, 1912-1937

Nappo, Caroline Marie Libraries and the System of Information Provision in the 1930s United States: The Transformation of Technology, Access, and Policy

Organisciak, Piotr (Peter) Design Problems in Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Crowd-based Data Collection

Sacchi, Simone What Do We Mean by “Preserving Information”? Towards Sound Conceptual Foundations for Digital Stewardship

Weber, Nicholas A Framework for Analyzing the Sustainability of Peer Produced Science Commons

Yeo, ShinJoung Behind the Search Box: The Political Economy of a Global Internet Industry

Dousa, Thomas M. Julius Otto Kaiser and His Method of Systematic Indexing: An Early Indexing System in its Historical Context

Rhinesmith, Colin The Social Shaping of Cloud Computing: An Ethnography of Infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois

Roberts, Sarah T.   Behind the Screen: The Hidden Digital Labor of Commercial Content Moderation

Sweeney, Miriam E. Not Just a Pretty (Inter) Face: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s ‘Ms. Dewey’

Comstock, Sharon L. A Case Study of Legitimate Literacies: Teens’ “Small World” and the School Library

Gaffney, Loretta Mary Intellectual Freedom and the Politics of Reading: Libraries as Sites of Conservative Activism, 1990-2010

Huggins, Sujin “How Did We Get Here?” An Examination of the Collection of Contemporary Caribbean Juvenile Literature in the Children’s Library of the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago and Trinidadian Children’s Responses to Selected Titles

Khanal, Navadeep The Lens of Postcolonial Theory in LIS Research and Practice

Lim, Yeo Joo Seriously, What Are They Reading? An Analysis of Korean Children’s Reading Behavior Regarding Educational Graphic Novels

Noble, Safiya Umoja Searching for Black Girls: Old Traditions in New Media

Urban, Richard J. Principle Paradigm Revisiting the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle

Wickett, Karen Michelle Collection/Item Metadata Relationships

Chee, Brant Wah Kwong Exploring Machine Learning Techniques Using Patient Interactions in Online Health Forums to Classify Drug Safety

Chen, Minjie "Friends and Foes on the Battlefield": A Study of Chinese and U.S. Youth Literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1943)

Choi, Yunseon Usefulness of Social Tagging in Organizing and Providing Access to the Web: An Analysis of Indexing Consistency and Quality

Ruan, Lian J. Information-Seeking and Sharing Behaviors Among Fire Service Field Staff Instructors: A Qualitative Study

Rubenstein, Ellen L. "It's a Microcosm of Life": Weaving a Web of Information and Support in an Online Breast Cancer Community

Spelke, Kenneth A. Factors Affecting Selection of Learning Management Systems in Higher Education Institutions

Wei, Qin Information Fusion in Taxonomic Descriptions

Wright, Daniel T. Information and the Evolution of Codon Bias

Xiang, Xin A Network Approach to Topic Summary and Knowledge Discovery in Social Tagging

Zhang, Hong Personal Information Organization and Re-Access in Computer Folders: An Empirical Study of Information Workers

Gross, Benjamin M. Online Identifiers in Everyday Life

Hardy, Christa Valencia Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History

Healey, Paul Uncertainty Management in Reference Interactions with Pro Se Law Library Users

Hu, Xiao Improving Music Mood Classification Using Lyrics, Audio and Social Tags

Jones, M. Cameron Remix and Reuse of Source Code in Software Production

Nielsen, Anna L. Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls: Homefront Representations of the American Feminine and the Feminine Heroic during World War II

Zavalina, Oksana Lvivna Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application & Use

Choi, Heekyung A Qualitative Study of Student Perspectives and Experiences in an Information Technology Education

Cragin, Melissa H. Scientific Data Collections: Use in Scholarly Communication and Implications for Data Curation

Gretencord, Timnah Card From Outreach to Engagement: An Actor-Network-Theory Analysis of Attracting Spanish-Speaking Participants to Public Programming

Gruzd, Anatoliy Anatoliyovych Automated Discovery of Social Networks in Online Learning Communities

Jackson, Larry S. Website Structure

Kyrillidou, Martha Item Sampling in Service Quality Assessment Surveys to Improve Response Rates and Reduce Respondent Burden: The “LibQUAL+® Lite” Randomized Control Trial (RCT)

Linton, Norma J. Connecting: The Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Older Adults in a Retirement Community

Park, Sarah Y. Representations of Transracial Korean Adoption in Children's Literature

Rebaza, Claudia M. The Modern Coterie: Fan Fiction Writers as a Community of Practice

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Full texts of IS PhD Program students' dissertations are available online through the ProQuest service (accessible through the UNT Libraries Electronic Resources menu). In addition, starting 2005, UNT dissertations, including those of IS PhD Program students, are placed in the  UNT ETD repository  and available via the online UNT Libraries catalog.

Behpour, Sahar. Unsupervised Pre-trained Weight Initialization for the Convolutional Neural Networks Using Independent Component Analysis.  [Committee: Drs. M. Albert (Co-Chair), T. Xiao (Co-Chair), S. Hawamdeh, P. Grigolini]

Chen, Haihua.   A Systematic Investigation of Data Evaluation and Improvement for Machine Learning Systems.  [Committee: Drs. J. Chen (Co-Chair), J. Ding (Co-Chair), A. Cleveland, X. Liu]

Enamela, Pranathy.   Adoption of Wearable Devices by Older Adults.  [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Chair), G. Prybutok, B. O'Connor, H. Tarakci]

Jim, Cary.   K-12 Students' Digital Opportunity: Conceptualization, Analysis and Implications.  [Committee: Drs. H. Chang (Chair), S. Evans, J. Oppong, R. Henson]

Khader, Malak.   Development of the Big Bridge Data Across the Conterminous U.S. for Deck Condition Rating Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms.  [Committee: Drs. J. Allen (Co-Chair), S. Evans (Co-Chair), S. Miksa, C. Najour]

Klein, Janette.   Life Coaches, Communities of Practice, and Everyday Life Information Seeking and Practices: An Exploratory Case Study.  [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), B. Schultz-Jones, H. Chang, D. Alemneh, C. Wasson]

Mekala, Nithin.   Social Networking Sites Usage Behavior: Trust and Risk Perceptions.  [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Chair), G. Prybutok, B. O'Connor, F. Mirzaei, G. Gadgil]

Alasmari, Hanan.   Understanding the Diffusion of COVID-19-Related Information on Social Media.  [Committee: Drs. O. Zavalina (Chair), A. Cleveland, B. Schultz-Jones, D. Philpot]

Aljalahmah, Saleh.   The Status of the organization of knowledge in cultural heritage institutions in Arabian Gulf countries  [Committee: Drs. O. Zavalina (Chair), S. Miksa, D. Alemneh]

Almoqbil, Abdullah. Modeling Email Phishing Attacks. [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Co-Chair), R.Anderson (Co-Chair, external), S. Hawamdeh, A. Habib (external)]

Bank, Nicole .   At the Junction of Dissemination and Implementation: Facilitating Access to Behavior Analytic Research   [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), M. Vaidya (external), E. Ingvarsson (external)]

Farabough, Michelle .  PubMed Commons—What Happened on the Way to the Forum? Retrospective Explanatory Case Study Research and Lessons Learned from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Online Forum for Open Science. [Committee: Drs. B. Schultz-Jones, (Chair), S. Miksa, B. Martens (external)]

Floyd, Schenita .  Artificial Intelligence Teammates in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment from the Perspective of Women Engineers in the United States . [Committee: Drs. H. Chang (Chair), D. Smith, K. Johnson (external)]

Huerta, Jose.  Healthcare Data Science Applications with a Focus on Health Disparities   [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Chair), B. O'Connor, G. Prybutok (external)]

Hovious, Amanda .  An Information Theoretic Analysis of Multimodal Readability. [Committee: Drs. B. O’Connor (Chair), D. Smith, S. Warren, V. Shinas (external)]

Khan, Hammad .  Understanding the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) of Data Professionals in United States Academic Libraries. [Committee: Drs. Y. Du (Co-Chair), H. Chang (Co-Chair), J. Kim, J. Johnson (external)]

Roeschley, Ana . “Take the Trouble to Compile a Whole New World:” The Role of Event-Based Participatory Projects in Institutional Archives. [Committee: Drs. J. Kim (Chair), S. Miksa, J. Johnson (external), J. Bastian (external), J. Lee (external)]

Stegmair, Juergen. A Quantitative Approach to Improve Understanding of Cyberbullying in Early Middle School. [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Chair), G. Prybutok (external), B. O’Connor, D. Peak (external)]

Wu, Anping .  Sustaining Multilinguality:  Case Studies of Two Multilingual Digital Libraries . [Committee: Drs. J Chen (Chair), O. Zavalina, J. Kim, L. Lin (external)]

Alomran, Amal.   The Use of Smartphone Applications for Learning Purposes Among Saudi Students.    [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), B. Schultz-Jones, H. Chang, H. Alomran (external)]

Boyce, LeAnn .  Examination of Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors: Case Studies of Online Health Communities in COPD Patients.   [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Co-Chair), G. Prybutok (Co-Chair), A. Cleveland, J. Philbrick (external)]

Drayden, Craig .  Factors that Affect HIPAA Compliance: A Bibliometric Study .  [Committee: Drs. A. Cleveland (Chair), D. Smith, Y. Artis (external)]

Chong, Miyoung.  Twitter and the Affordance of Public Adgenda-Setting: A Case Study of #MarchForOUrLives .  [Committee: Drs. J. Ding and T. Everbach (Co-Chairs), B. O'Connor, G. Nesbitt (external)]

Eaves, Tresia.   Information Seeking Behaviors of Transitioning Veterans When Job Hunting in North Texas.    [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), B. Schultz-Jones, B. Dervin (external)]

Jones, Elizabeth.   Using Diagnostic Decision Support Systems to Reduce Diagnostic Error in Oklahoma Critical Care: A Survey of Critical Care Physicians.     [Committee: Drs. A. Cleveland (Chair), J. Chen, J. Kim, B. Wiskur (external)]

Kizhakkethil, Priya.   Document and Information Experience in Virtual Zenanas: An Exploration of a Diaspora Small World.    [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), O. Zavalina, B. O'Connor, G. Burnett (external)]

Onye, Uriel.   Social Disruptions in Nigerian Public Universities: A Study on the Impact of Strikes on Students’ Information Behavior.    [Committee: Drs. Y. Du (Chair), S. Miksa, B. O’Connor, B. Vinson (external)]

Phillips, Mark.   Exploring the Use of Metadata Record Graphs for Metadata Assessment.    [Committee: Drs. O. Zavalina (Chair), J. Chen, C. Caragea (external)]

Rosellini, Amy.  Factors Impacting Performance Measurement and Knowledge Transfer in a Training Environment.   [Committee: Drs. S. Hawamdeh (Chair), J. Allen, R. Busby (external)]

Zavalin, Vyacheslav.   Are we there yet? Exploration of Functional Readiness of Existing RDA MARC21 Subject Metadata for Meaningful Conversion to BIBFRAME and Support of Linked Data.    [Committee: Drs. B. O’Connor and S. Miksa (Co-Chairs), B. Schultz-Jones, M. Nazarova (external)]

Zimmerman, Tara.  Examining Human Information Behavior on Social Media: Introducing the Concept of Social Noise.    [Committee: Drs. S. Hawamdeh (Chair), H. Chang, J. Johnson (external), C. Brown (external)]

Alkahtani, Latifah  The Impact of Sociocultural and Information Communication Technology Adoption Factors on the Everyday Life Information Seeking Behavior on Saudi Students in the United States​ .  [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), Y. Du, O. Zavalina, G. Prybutok (external)]

Alsmadi, Duha.   Information Sharing and Storage Behavior via Cloud Computing: Security and Privacy in Research and Practice and Users’ Trust.   [Committee: Drs. Hawamdeh (Chair), G. Oyarce, H. Chang, B. O'Connor, D. Alemneh (external)]

Asher, Donna.   An Analysis of Student Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness for Instructors Who Teach the Same Course in the Same Semester in Both Online and Face-to-Face Formats .   [Committee: Drs. Y. Du and H. Totten (Co-Chairs), V.A. Clark, (external)]

Habib, Abdulrahman.   A Smart Tale: An Examination of Smart City Phenomenon Through the Lens of a Case Study .    [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Chair, external), B. O'Connor, D. Peak (external)]

McGowan, Michael (Todd). A Study of Perceptions and Intent to Adopt and Embrace Technology Used in Teams in the Workplace .   [Committee: Drs. Oyarce (Chair), B. O'Connor, V. Prybutok (external)]

Zhang, Yuan.   A Fabric of Entropy: A Discussion on the Meaning of Fractional Information .  [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), H. Chang, R. Anderson (external)]

Alfarhoud, Yousef.   Influence of Social Media on Decision Making of The Kuwait National Assembly Members: Case Study .  [Committee: Drs. Hawamdeh (Chair), G. Oyarce, H. Chang, B. O'Connor, D. Alemneh (external)]

Durr, Angel.   Data Becomes Information: An Exploration of Partnership Opportunities for Data Science and Information Science .  [Committee: Drs. N. Evangelopolous (Chair, external), S. Hawamdeh, B. O'Connor, J. Kim]

Gadgil, Guruprasad.   Analyzing Tradeoffs between Privacy Concerns and Active Social Media Presence of 18-30 Year Old College Students.   [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Co-chair, external), D. Peak (Co-chair, external), B. O'Connor]

Hadidi (Hoyt), Rachel .    Exploration of Knowledge Creation Structures within Makerspaces: A Mixed Methods Case Study of Dallas Makerspace and its Users.   [Committee: Drs. B. Schultz-Jones (Chair), S. Miksa, M. Wheeler, L. Pasquini (external)]

Halwani, Marwah: An Examination of the Evolution of Big Data and its Business Applications.   [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Co-chair, external), D. Peak (Co-chair, external), B. O'Connor, N. Evangelopoulos (external)]

Hopkins, Mark.   A Study of Physicians’ Serendipitous Knowledge Discovery: An Evaluation of Spark and the IF-SKD Model in a Clinical Setting .  [Committee: Drs. O. Zavalina (Chair), R. Herrington (external), E. Workman (external), L. Southmayd (external)]

Imhonde, Benjamin. A Model of Treatment Compliance Behavior of the Patient with Chronic Disease in the Age of Predictive Medicine: The role of Normative Beliefs .   [Committee: Drs. Hawamdeh (Chair), A. Cleveland, J. Philbrick]

Kabashi, Artemida.   Information Seeking in the Developing World: A Case Study of Information Seeking Behavior of College Students and Instructors in Vlore, Albania .  [Committee: Drs. M. Wheeler (Chair), A. Cleveland, B. O'Connor, D. Alemneh (external)]

McMullin, Shelly.   The Correlation Between Information Literacy and Critical Thinking of College Students: An Exploratory Study .  [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), J. Marino, L. Schamber (external)]

Mumah, Jenny. Where are the Women in the Ebola Crisis? An Analysis of Gendered Reporting and the Information Behavior Patterns of Journalists Covering a Health Outbreak .    [Committee: Drs. T. Everbach (Chair, external), S. Miksa, D. Alemneh (external)]

Reyes, Brenda.   A Grounded Theory of Information Quality in Web Archives .  [Committee: Drs. J. Chen (Co-Chair), O. Zavalina (Co-Chair), S. Miksa, K. Masten-Cain (external)]

Shakeri, Shadi.   Modeling Information Seeking Under Perceived Risk.   [Committee: Drs. N. Evangelopoulos (Chair, external), O. Zavalina, S. Hawamdeh, B. O'Connor, S. Miksa]

Spence, James .  A Comparison of Major Factors That Affect Hospital Formulary Decision-Making By Three Groups of Prescribers .  [Committee: Drs. A. Cleveland (Chair), J. Chen, O. Zavalina, W. Heck (external)]

Stark, Hillary. The Influence of Visual Sources of nutrition-Oriented Information on Young Adults' Dieting Efforts .   [Committee: Drs. V. Prybutok (Chair, external), B. O'Connor, C. Blankson (external), P. Connors (external)]

Ammarukleart, Sujira:  Factors Affecting Faculty Acceptance and use of Institutional Repositories in Thailand   [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Co-chair), J. Kim (Co-chair), O. Zavalina, D. Alemneh (external)]

Baker, William A.:  Controlled Vocabularies in the Digital Age: Are They Still Revelant?  [Committee: Drs. G. Oyarce (Chair), B. O'Connor, W. Senn (external)]

Tmava, Ahmet:  Investigating Factors that Affect Faculty Attitudes Towards Participation in Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA,IR)​   [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), O. Zavalina, D. Alemneh (external)]

Alahmad, Badr:  Costly Ignorance of Job Seekers: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia   [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), R.Anderson (external), G.Knezek (external)]

Albannai, Talal:  Conversational Use of Photographic Images on Facebook: Modeling Visual Thinking on Social Media . [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), R.Anderson (external), I.Klaver (external)]

Albar, Ali:  Development of an Instrument to Measure the Level of Acceptability and Tolerance of Cyber Aggression : Mixed-Methods research on Saudi Arabian Social Media Users .  [Committee: Drs. G. Oyarce (Chair), S. Hawamdeh, Y. Du, S. Squires (external)]

Alshara, Mohammed.  Customers' Attitude toward Mobile Banking Applications in Saudi Arabia .  [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), G. Oyarce, R.Anderson (external)]

Azogu, Olajumoke.   What are they Doing up There? A Uses and Gratification Study of Small and Medium Enterprises Cloud Use .  [Committee: Drs. J. Chen (Chair), S. Hawamdeh, S.Smith (external)]

Bomar, Shannon:  From the Outside in: A Multivariate Correlational Analysis of Effectiveness in Communities of Practice .  [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), E. Figa, J. Hetzel (external)]  

Cantu, Brenda:  The Effects of Student-Perceived Instructor Demotivating Bahaviors on Doctoral Students' Information Seeking Behaviors.   [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), Y. Du, M. Ward (external)]

Elwani, Nabil:   The Information Behavior of Individual Investors in Saudi Arabia . [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), B. Schultz-Jones, V.Prybutok (external)]

Harrelson-Hubbard, Diana:   Rated M for Monkey:  An Ethnographic Study of Parental Information Behavior When Assessing Video Game Content for their Children .   [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), B. Moen (external), C. Wasson (external)]  

Helge, Krystyn:   Impetus for First, Second and Third Year Law Student Information Seeking Behavior, and Perception of Common Knowledge and Citation .  [Committee: Drs. Y. Chandler (Chair), D. Alemneh (external), M. Abbe (external)]   

Johnson, Barbara:  Modeling Cognitive Authority Relationships.   [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), S. Miksa, O.Zavalina, L. McLaughlin (external)]

Norris, Tiffany:  Journalist as Information Provider: Examining the One-Voice Model of a Corporate Sports Account .  [Committee: Drs. B. Schultz-Jones (Chair), J. Kim, O. Zavalina]

Stewart, Sarah:  Understanding the Information Seeking of Pre-Kindergarten Students: An Ethnographic Exploration of their Seeking Behaviors in a Preschool Setting .  [Committee: Drs. E. Figa (Chair), D. Smith, C. Vires (external)]  

Sykes, Jason:  Poststructuralist Critical Rhetorical Analysis as a Problem Analysis Tool: A Case Study of Information Impact in Denton's Hydraulic Fracturing Debate .  [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), R.Anderson (external), I.Klaver (external)]

Walczyk, Christine.  Building an Understanding of Library Culture through International Service Learning.   [Committee: Drs. S. Warren (Chair, external), B. Schultz-Jones, A. Kim]

Weaver, Margaret.     The Role of the Strength in the Diffusion of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information among Yoga Practitioners.   [Committee: Drs. B. Schultz-Jones (Chair), J. Hilbun (external), L. Henry (external)]

Buchanan, Paul:   Information Structures in Notated Music: Statistical Explorations of Composers' Performance Marks in Solo Piano Scores . [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), M.Wheeler, R.Anderson (external)]

Dankasa, Jacob:   Information Use Environment of Religious Professionals: A Case Study of The Everyday Life Information Seeking Behavior of Catholic Clergy in Northern Nigeria . [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), E. Figa, L. Heinrich (external)]

Hasenyager, Richard :  Convenience to Cataloger or Convenience to the User?: An Exploratory Study of Cataloger's Judgment . [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Co-Chair), O.Zavalina (Co-Chair), B. Schultz-Jones, J. Abbas (external)]

Knudson, Ryan :  Automatic Language Identification for Metadata Records: Measuring the Effectiveness of Various Approaches . [Committee: Drs. J. Chen (Chair), B.O'Connor, R.Mihalcea (external), H. Ross (external)]

Linkins, Kathy:   Modeling the Role of Boundary Spanners-in-Practice in the Nondeterministic Model of Engineering Design Activity   [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor (Chair), E.Figa, R.Anderson (external), I. Klaver (external)]

Obitade, Peter :  An Examination of the Role of Corporate Governance Structure in the Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems : An International Perspective . [Committee: Drs. M. Wheeler (Chair), C.Koh (external), T.Mantecon (external)]

Polyakov, Serhiy :  Enhancing User Search Experience in Digital Libraries with Rotated Latent Semantic Indexing  . [Committee: Drs. N. Evangelopoulos (Co-Chair, external) and W. Moen (Co-chair), Dr. J.Chen]

Priyanto, Ida :  Readiness of Indonesian Academic Libraries for Open Access and Open Access Repositories Implementation: A Study onIndonesian Open Access Repositories Registered in OpenDOAR . [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), J.Kim, D.Alemneh (external)]

Ruthledge, Hannah :  Patient Family and Hospital Staff Information Needs at a Pediatric Hospital: An Analysis of Information Requests Received by the Family Resource Libraries . [Committee: Drs. S. Miksa (Chair), A.Cleveland, G.Knezek (external)]

Algarni, Mohammed :  The Use of Social Media in Informal Scientific Communication Among Scholars : Modeling the Modern Invisible College . [Committee: Drs.S. Miksa (Chair), B.Schultz-Jones, T.Tyler-Wood]

Hall, Nathan :  Faculty Attitudes towards Institutional Repositories . [Committee: Drs.B. O'Connor (Chair), A.Cleveland, S.Warren]

Horne, Stephanie :  Identifying Key Success Factors for the Implementations of Enterprise Content Management Systems . [Committee: Drs.S.Hawamdeh, O. Zavalina, M. Jones]

Masten, Kathryn :  Toward a Grounded Theory of Community Networking . [Committee: Drs.L. Schamber (Chair), C. Caragea, R. West, H.Rosenbaum (external member)]

Morgan, Deanne :  Assessing Terrorist Cyber Threats: Creating a Functional Construct . [Committee: Drs.B. O'Connor (Chair), B. Chilton, A. Yayla (external member)]

Pettit, Alex :  Development and Validation of an Instrument to Operationalize Information System Requirements Capabilities . [Committee: Drs.L. Kappelman (Chair), R.Pavur, B.O'Connor]

Prybutok, Gayle :  An Integrative Model of eHealth Communication: A Study of 18-30 Year Old College Students . [Committee: Drs.A. Cleveland (Chair), B.O'Connor, C. Koh]

Senn, William :  An Empirical Study of Quality and Satisfaction with a Focus on Creating a Parsimonious Measurement Instrument in an Information Space . [Committee: Drs.G. Oyarce (Chair), A.Clark, V. Prybutok]

Spiker, Chance :  Exploring Factors that Lead to Perceived Instructional Immediacy in Online Learning Environments . [Committee: Drs.S. Miksa (Chair), B.Richardson, K. Anderson-Lain]

Stephens, Wendy :  The Influence of Engagement with Graphic Narrayive Text Formats on Student Attitudes towards the School Library . [Committee: Drs.Y. Du (Chair), J.Hilbun, L. Lin]

Sutcliffe, Tami :  Exploring Naming Behavior in Personal Digital Image Collections: The Iconology and Language Games of Pinterest . [Committee: Drs.B. O'Connor (Chair), L.Schamber, S. Miksa]

Van Bebber, Marion :  The Denial of Relevance: Biography of a Quest(ion) Amidst the Min(d)fields -- Groping and Stambling . [Committee: Drs.B.O'Connor (Chair), J. Duban, J. Kearns]

Altunbas, Fuat:   Social media use in policing: a study of Dallas-Fort Worth Area City Police Departments . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), G.Oyarce, S.Warren]

Bone, Tonda:   Bridging the theory-to-practice gap: a mixed methods study exploring the effects of a graduate online learning environment modeled on a community of practice framework . [Committee: Drs. E.Figa (Chair), B.Schultz-Jones, L.Smith (external member from UIUC)]

Can, Ahmet:   Organizational justice perception and its effects on knowledge sharing: a case study of forensic experts in the Turkish National Police . [Committee: Drs. S.Hawamdeh (Chair), G.Oyarce, M.Davis]

Gupta, Kailash:   Seeking information in managing mass fatalities: a case study of the Haiti 2010 earthquake . [Committee: Drs. N.Moro (Chair), A.Cleveland, G. Oyarce]

Kim, EunGi:   Implications of punctuation mark normalization on text retrieval . [Committee: Drs. W.Moen (Chair), B.O'Connor, C.Wasson]

Kurtenbach, John:   Adolescent task management: multitasking and social media in the student search process . [Committee: Drs. B.Schultz-Jones (Chair), L.Lin, D. Smith]

Lee, Jisu:   Graduate students' collaborative information seeking in a group-based learning setting . [Committee: Drs. L.Schamber & J.Kim (Co-chairs), Y.Du]

McMillan, Tyson:   Web information behaviors of users interacting with a metadata navigator . [Committee: Drs. G.Oyarce (Chair), L.Lin, R.Alex]

Muwanguzi, Samuel:   The Adoption of Open Source Software In Uganda: A Pragmatist Approach To The Formation of A National Information Policy For A New Technology  . [Committee: Drs. B.Moen (Chair), L. Schamber, B. Richardson, L.Lin]

Reed, Richard:   The Information Politics Assessment Scale (IPAS): Developing and Testing An Instrument to Measure and Identify the Information Politics of Organizations  . [Committee: Drs. Grant MIles (Chair), Robin Henson, L. Schamber]

White, Mel:   Information Seeking Behaviors in a Population of Assistive Mobility Device Users . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), A. Cleveland, B.Davenport]

Cox, Trissa:   Factors associated with behavioral intention to disclose personal information on geosocial networking applications . [Committee: Drs. L.Schamber (Chair), S.Miksa, L.Patton]

Eren, Murat:   Knowledge-sharing practices among Turkish peacekeeping officers . [Committee: Drs. G.Oyarce (Chair), A.Celik, B.O'Connor, S. Hawamdeh]

Oyarce, Sara:   In pursuit of image: how we think about photographs we seek . [Committee: Drs. B. O'Connor(Chair), R.Anderson, J.Iaia]

Pan, Xuequn:   The role of tasks in Internet health information searching of Chinese graduate students . [Committee: Drs. A.Cleveland (Chair), D.Cleveland, J.Chen, C.-L.Chng (external member from Kinesiology department]

Philbrick, Jodi:   A study of the competencies needed of entry-level academic health sciences librarians . [Committee: Drs. A.Cleveland (Chair), Y.Chandler, L.Thompson, R. Wilhelm]

Sharber, Shelli:   Blogging and tweens: communication portal to reading selection and engagement . [Committee: Drs. E.Figa (Chair), C.Thomas, B.Schultz-Jones]

Vassilieva, Elena:   Web content authorship: academic librarians in web content management . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), R.Busby, S.Hastings]

Alajmi, Mohammad:   Modeling students' perceptions of Web 2.0 technologies adoption in Kuwait . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), G.Oyarce, A.Rorissa]

Angchun, Peemasak:   Factors related to the selection of information sources: a study of Ramkhamhaeng University Regional Campuses graduate students . [Committee: Drs. P.Turner (Chair), L.Lin, D.Alemneh]

Cakar, Bekir:   Factors affecting police officer’s acceptance of GIS technologies: a study of the Turkish National Police . [Committee: Drs. M.Ruiz (Chair), G.Oyarce, B.Hunter]

Chuenchom, Sutthinan:   User-centered evaluation of the quality of blogs . [Committee: Drs. J.Chen (Chair), M.Ruiz, S. Warren, O.Zavalina]

Lewis, Elise:   Image representation and interactivity: an exploration of utility values, information-needs and image interactivity .[Committee: Drs. S.Miksa (Chair), P.Turner, T.Crews]

Snow, Karen:   A study of the perception of cataloging quality among catalogers in academic libraries . [Committee: Drs. S.Miksa (Chair), W.Moen, S.Hall-Ellis]

Tombul, Fatih:   The impact of leadership styles and knowledge sharing on police officers’ willingness to exert extra effort to provide better security: a study in the riot unit of the Turkish National Police . [Committee: Drs. J.Chen (Chair), G.Oyarce, B.O'Connor]

Xu, Hong:   Factors affecting faculty use of learning object repositories: a case study of orange grove and Wisc-Online . [Committee: Drs. W.Moen (Chair), H.Totten, L. Schamber, C. Wasson]

Guclu, Idris:   Information-seeking behavior of police officers in the Turkish National Police . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor & L. Schamber (Co-Chairs), M.Ruiz, S.Ozeren]

Yildirim, Idris:  Information-seeking behavior of digital evidence examiners . [Committee: Drs. L.Schamber (Chair), B.O'Connor, G.Oyarce]

Baker, Rebecca Dawn:   Comparing the readability of text displays on paper, e-book readers, and small screen devices . [Committee: Drs. C.Norris (Chair), D.Ennis-Cole, B. O'Connor, R. Pavur]

Carroll, Margaret Aby :  Using financial rankings to identify characteristics of libraries serving highly profitable private law firms: implications for evidence-based librarianship . [Committee: Drs. Y.Chandler (Chair), A.Cleveland, L.Taylor, L.Enoch]

Demircioglu, Mehmet:   Information seeking behavior of crime scene investigators in Turkish National Police . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), M.Ruiz, S.Ozeren]

Kilic, Osman:   Information literacy skills in the workplace: a study on police officers . [Committee: Drs. J.Chen (Chair), M.Ruiz, J.Hilbun, L. Schamber]

Odabasi, Mehmet:   User acceptance of North Central Texas Fusion Center Systems by law enforcement officers . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), J.Chen, S.Terrell]

Slagle, Tisha:   The situational small world of a post-disaster community : insights into information behaviors after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Slidell, Louisiana . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), D.McEntire, H.Totten]

Tatil, Serkan:   Effects of tasks on information-seeking behavior in a police work environment in the context of criminal intelligence . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor (Chair), J.Chen, S.Ozeren]

Thomas, Julie:   Information censorship : a comparative analysis of newspaper coverage of the Iyllands-Posten editorial caricatures in cross-cultural settings . [Committee: Drs. B.O'Connor & F.M. Land (Co-Chairs), J.Lambiase]

Wyatt, Erin:   Middle school students in virtual learning environments . [Committee: Drs. E.Figa (Chair), B.O'Connor, G.Bush]

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Alkhaledi, Reem . Electronic Health Record Systems and Cyber Hygiene: Awareness, Knowledge and Practices Among Physicians In Kuwait.

Alvarado, Angela . Information Seeking Behaviors of Rural Community-Based Hospice Social Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding.

Atolagbe-Olaoye, Abidemi . Collaborative information behavior of agile teams during new product development.

Fard, Fariba. Data Evaluation and Improvement for Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Gadi, Abdullah. Optimizing Information Security Systems by Understanding Factors Impacting Cybersecurity Controls on Mobile Devices and Smartphones.

Lewis, Paulette.  Assessing Factors Affecting IVF Consumers’ Behavioral Intention to Use Visual Analytics Technology.

Livingston, JoAnn . A Case Study of the Information Seeking Behavior and Social Network Patterns of Adult Female Probationers in a Rural County, Texas.

Parker, Natalie. The Agency of Non-human Actors within the School Library.

McCotter, Melody . Impression to Expression: Non-Visual Image Access.

Miller, Erin.  Relevance Criteria and Online Video: An Exploratory Study.

Upchurch, Eric. Key Challenges of Transdisciplinary Information Flow and Effective Knowledge Transfer Between Expert and Novice.

Victor, Elise .  Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Civil Litigation: A Comparison of Plaintiff and Defense Expert Witness Qualifications.

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As human interaction and cultural expression continue to be facilitated digitally, the workings of digital technologies, their impact and their uses need to be understood. Our doctoral degree in information science will provide the opportunity to study these issues in depth. A PhD in information science will give you the opportunity to develop sophisticated quantitative and qualitative research skills to equip you to delve into the complex information problems facing humanity and contemporary organizations.  The information field is changing rapidly, and offering myriad opportunities for future scholars of information science. This program is best suited for those interested in exploring research questions in information science, looking to fill a faculty position in the field, or who are working to enhance leadership experience in libraries.

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Why information science at ub.

The features of our program include:

• a curriculum that addresses the rapid and ongoing changes in the information science field
• a residency period of one week each year for students to interact directly with their peers, as well as with the faculty
• it is one of only two online information science doctoral programs in North America

Program Overview

Program goals.

• Graduates will have a broad understanding of the theories of information science, as well as theories from cognate disciplines which have been applied in information science.
• Graduates will have a broad understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods, which are commonly applied in information science research.
• Graduates will demonstrate deep and broad knowledge of one or more domain topics within information science.
• Graduates will demonstrate the ability to execute research in their domain area using appropriate methods and theory.

Program Coursework

Master's degree (30-36 credits).

Upon acceptance into the doctoral program, you are allowed to transfer credits from your master's degree program.

Core Courses (14-18 credits)

LIS 601 Qualitative Methods in Information Science LIS 602 Quantitative Methods in Information Science LIS 603 Theoretical Foundations of Information Science LIS 604 Statistics I LIS 605 Statistics II

Electives in Discipline (9 credits)

Specialization will occur through elective courses and, where appropriate, independent study elective courses.

Qualifying Requirements

You will work with your advisor to assemble a dissertation committee conforming to UB graduate guidelines. The committee composition must reflect the intellectual diversity of the Department of Information Science, and must be approved by the director of the PhD program. The committee may include one external member.

You will decide on a research topic and produce a short research proposal (dissertation prospectus) that includes the research questions to be pursued; a short literature review; a description of one or more possible theoretical frameworks that will inform the research; and a summary of the methods expected to be applied. Your research proposal is expected to be approximately 20 pages in length.

You will pass an oral examination on the background knowledge required to conduct the research in your proposal. The committee will provide a written list of topics to be covered in the examination. This requirement must be met no later than the end of the fourth semester in the program (for full-time students). Upon successful completion of the oral examination, you may file for candidacy.

Dissertation (12-18 credits)

The final dissertation will be a refinement and expansion of the your dissertation prospectus. Your final dissertation must be completed by the end of the sixth semester in the program (for full-time students). You will defend your fully publication-ready dissertation at a public defense that will include an oral examination by your PhD committee.

Program Handbook

Doctoral student directory, graduate assistantships.

Assistantships are available in a variety of areas that change from year to year. Compensation for positions ranges from hourly pay only to a stipend to tuition remission plus a stipend. Generally, assistantships require 20 hours of work per week. The application process for assistantships is separate from the program admission process. Assistantship opportunities are posted for the following academic year in mid-January, from offices on campus such as Campus Living, Career Services, Student Engagement, Intercultural and Diversity Center, among others. While assistantships are limited, new opportunities become available throughout summer and into the fall semester.

Application Requirements

In an effort to make the application process more equitable, the GRE/MAT is no longer required for admissions consideration. If you still plan to take the GRE/MAT exam, you can send your scores through the testing agency, and they will automatically be added to your application; however, they are not required for admission consideration to this program.

You must have a bachelor's and master's degree. 

We have a small program that values strong faculty and student relationships. Before applying, explore our faculty’s research interests by viewing our Research Centers, Institutes and Profiles  and Faculty Directory . Feel free to contact faculty with similar interests to yours to see if they are taking on new students. If you are unsure who to contact, Program Director Dr. Amy VanScoy ( [email protected] ) is happy to discuss your interests and recommend faculty to talk to.

Submit your completed online application, which includes:

• Application fee:  A $50 non-refundable application fee, submitted electronically through UB's ePayment system.
• Contact information for at least three individuals  who will each be asked to provide an electronic recommendation letter. You should ask individuals who can assess your achievements and potential as a student and a researcher. If there is no individual who can evaluate your achievements as a student, you may want to enroll in a course, such as LIS 575: Research Methods. The prof for this course could serve as an academic reference for your application.
• Unofficial transcripts  from all colleges attended. (UB transcripts are automatically submitted for current UB students and alumni.)
• Sample of academic writing  (e.g., article, essay, thesis)
• Statement of research interest: The statement of research interest should be a concise statement about your academic and research background and future interests. Please be specific in explaining how the course offerings and faculty expertise of this program fit your educational and career objectives. Be sure to include the specific faculty you would like to work with and why. We consider a 1000-word statement as an appropriate length. Finding the right doctoral program requires that doctoral candidates specify and describe their research interests so they can evaluate whether there is a good fit between what they want to study and faculty research expertise. Start by reviewing our faculty directory and faculty web pages and once you are familiar with faculty research areas, read some of the faculty publications that you find most interesting. That will help you determine if there is a good fit between your scholarly interests and what our faculty members are currently researching. Everyone knows that grade point average and letters of reference are important in the decision-making process; however, alignment with faculty research interests and the academic program can often be a determining factor in admission decisions.
• Statement of educational and career goals: The statement of educational and career goals should outline your reasons for applying to this program. Please include a candid analysis of your long- and short-term professional objectives and indicate how this program will help you achieve your objectives. Your statement should be at least one to two pages in length.
• Resume or CV

Faculty Interview:  After applications are submitted and reviewed, qualified candidates will be contacted for an admission interview with the faculty.

Former/Maiden Name:  Please provide us with your former/maiden name if you have one. When requesting transcripts, please ask the sending institution to indicate your current name and former/maiden name.

Admission Decision: The admission decision will be communicated to you as soon as review is complete. The decision is based on a number of factors and is the result of a thorough and deliberate process. All decisions are final and cannot be appealed.

In order to qualify for the in-state residency tuition rate, you are required to provide residency documentation indicating you have lived in New York State (NYS) 12 months prior to your semester start date.

If accepted, you will need to upload 3 documents to qualify for the in-state tuition rate. See Required Documents for Residency Application  for more information. 

• Official original proof of your degree
• A copy of your passport biographical page
• TOEFL minimum score is a 250 for a computer based test, 600 for a paper based test and 79 for the Internet based test
• IELTS Academic Test minimum score is 6.5 overall
• PTE minimum score is 55 overall
• DET minimum score is 120 overall
• Financial documentation  — International graduate applicants must document their ability to pay for all costs incurred while studying in the U.S.
• An official bank statement

All financial forms and supporting documentation with required signatures must be uploaded with your application, and must be dated within one year of your intended enrollment date.

Program Faculty

Samuel Dodson

Assistant Professor Information Science

Department of Information Science Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo 524 Baldy Hall (North Campus) Buffalo, NY 14260–1000 Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: 716-645-1488

Email: [email protected]

Africa S. Hands

Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: 716-645-1412

Email: [email protected]

Saguna Shankar

Department of Information Science University at Buffalo 549 Baldy Hall (North Campus) Buffalo, NY 14260–1000 Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: 716-645-1481

Email: [email protected]

Amy VanScoy

Associate Professor Information Science

546 Baldy Hall North Campus Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: 716-645-1487

Email: [email protected]

Jianqiang Wang

528 Baldy Hall North Campus Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: 716-645-2412

Email: [email protected]

Brenda L. Battleson White

Clinical Associate Professor Information Science

545 Baldy Hall North Campus Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: 716-645-1486

Email: [email protected]

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Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Our top-ranked programs attract stellar students and professors from around the world, who pioneer the frontiers of information science and technology with broad impact on society. Underlying our success are a strong tradition of collaboration, close ties to industry, and a supportive culture. Explore our vibrant and dynamic community through this website or in person.

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Why pursue a bachelor’s degree in materials science and mechanical engineering.

Mechanical Engineering is critical to the success of many human enterprises. It plays a central role in the generation and distribution of energy, transportation, manufacturing, and infrastructure development. Nearly every product or service in modern life has been touched in some way by a mechanical engineer.

At Harvard College, students choose a "concentration," which is what we call a major. All prospective undergraduate students, including those intending to study engineering and applied sciences, apply directly to  Harvard College . During your sophomore spring you’ll declare a concentration, or field of study. You may choose from 50 concentrations and 49 secondary field (from  Harvard DSO website ).

Students can pursue a degree with an emphasis in mechanical engineering through the following concentrations:

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Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering is a discipline of engineering that uses the principles of physics and materials science for the analysis and design of mechanical and thermal systems. The objectives of the Mechanical and Materials Science and Engineering Track of the Engineering Sciences A.B. program are to provide students a solid foundation in mechanical engineering study within the setting of a liberal arts college for preparation for a diverse range of careers in industry and government or for advanced work in engineering, business, law, or medicine.

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Mechanical Engineering concentrators receive a foundational education in a discipline central to challenges in energy, transportation, manufacturing, robotics, and the development of public infrastructure. Mechanical Engineering deals with the study and application of mechanical and thermal systems and covers a range of subtopics including mechatronics and robotics, structural analysis, thermodynamics and engineering design including the analysis of mechanical systems using finite element methods, the science of new materials, and devices for micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) and biological and nanotechnology applications.

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Eco-friendly volatile additive enabling efficient large-area organic photovoltaic module processed with non-halogenated solvent †.

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a State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China E-mail: [email protected]

b Intelligent Optics & Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing Research Institute of Zhejiang University, Jiaxing, Zhejiang 314041, China

c Hangzhou Microquanta Semiconductor Co. LTD., Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China

The pursuit of sustainable manufacturing for organic solar cells (OSCs) has prompted the exploration of environmentally friendly, non-halogenated solvents. However, contemporary OSCs processed with these solvents often require the inclusion of toxic halogenated additives to optimize photovoltaic performance. In this study, we devised a processing method that incorporates not only a non-halogenated solvent but also a non-halogenated additive. The introduction of the eco-friendly menthol (MT) effectively mitigates detrimental disordered aggregation during film formation by leveraging its strong polarity to enhance acceptor crystallization, thereby optimizing the donor–acceptor morphology. These advancements ultimately lead to more efficient exciton dissociation and charge carrier transport, resulting in the realization of large-area organic photovoltaic modules (19.31 cm 2 ) with a notable power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.74%. To the best of our knowledge, this PCE represents the highest reported value for large-area modules processed with non-halogenated solvents and is comparable to state-of-the-art organic photovoltaic modules processed with conventional halogenated solvents. This research underscores the significant potential of fully non-halogenated processing in achieving sustainable manufacturing for high-performance OSCs.

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