Student Achievement

THE JOB MARKET FOR OUR GRADUATES

The Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology Program prepares graduates for careers in academic and research institutions. Our graduates work at leading universities (in information science, library science, computer science, and information systems departments) or in premier research organizations such as O.C.L.C.

Our graduates can be found on the faculty of universities around the world, including the University of Michigan, University of Arizona, University of North Carolina, University of Illinois, University of Texas, Indiana University, University of Washington, University of Montreal, and National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Other graduates have successfully pursued careers as managers in, and consultants to, information-related industries. However, if you are primarily interested in a career as an information professional, you may find one of our master's programs or our Doctorate of Professional Studies in Information Management more appropriate.

STUDENT AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

We are proud of our students' many accomplishments. Our Ph.D. instructors consistently win prizes for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at Syracuse University. Our students bring home many other awards, grants, and prizes. Many have received national awards for best dissertation proposal, best dissertation, or best research paper--an achievement unmatched by any other program. Several graduated PhD students have received awards for teaching, including Chancellor's awards at the universities at which they have been hired. Two have won the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Teacher of the Year Award.

RECENT DISSERTATION/PAPER TITLES AND AWARDS

Coordinating Across Boundaries: Improving Patient Care Teams, Saira Naim Haque, 2008, Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women.
Image-Enabled Discourse: Towards an Exploratory Analytic Framework, Jaime Snyder, 2008, ASIS&T Student Travel Award.
Factors that Influence Users to Keep and/or Leave Information Items: A Case Study of College Students’ Personal Information Management Behavior,Tina Finneran, 2008, ISI Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award.
Democratizing Global Communication? Global Civil Society and the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society,Brenden Kuerbis, 2007, Honored Paper, International Communication Association.
Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch and Correct Translations, Anne Diekema, 2003. ASIST/ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship, Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Question Typologies for Digital Reference, Jeffery Pomerantz, 2003. Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Certainty, Uncertainty and the Role of Topic and Comment in Interpersonal Information Seeking Interactions, Kyunghye Yoon, 2002. Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Comparing the Perceived Problems of Distributed and Centralized World Wide Web System Managers: A Modified Goal Theory Approach, Kristin Eschenfelder, 2001.
An Investigation of Modes of Access for the Retrieval of Emotional Content of Pictures, Jee Yeon Lee, 2001.
Discretionary Behavior of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Supported Ad Hoc Task Groups, Nor Shahriza Abdul Karim, 2001.
Understanding Intermediation In A Digital Environment: An Exploratory Case Study, Silvia Barcellos Southwick, 2001. VRD Conference Student Paper Award.
Information Problem-Solving in Personal, High-Stakes Situations, Claire Urfels, 2000.
Chronological information Extraction SyStem (CHESS), Woojin Paik, 2000.
Exploring Web Users On-line Optimal Flow Experience, Hsiang Chen, 2000.
Use of Human Intermediation in Information Problem Solving: A Users Perspective, Makiko Miwa, 2000.
Assessing the Consequences of Federal Information Technology Management Policies on Federal Agency Practice, John Beachboard, 1999.
The Use of Computer-Mediated Communication Systems by Programmers, Chatpong Tangmanee, 1999.
Information Technology and Electronic Commerce: Attributes of Emerging Online Business, Joanne Silverstein, 1998.
Building and Maintaining Internet Information Services, Richard David Lankes, 1998. ASIST/ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship.
The Information Use Environment: A Descriptive Study of Agriculturists in the Developing Country of Trinidad and Tobago, Hannah Francis, 1998.
The Development of ANSI/NISO Z39.50: A Case Study in Standards Evolution, William E. Moen, 1998. ASIST/ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship.
The Impact of Information Resources Management on Federal Agency Strategic Objective Attainment: An Empirical Analysis, John Bertot, 1996. Helen M. Eckard Award, National Center for Education Statistics and the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Image Attributes: An Investigation, Corinne Jorgensen, 1996. ASIST/ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship and the ASIST Pratt-Severn Best Student Research Paper Award.
Managers and Information in Organizations: Towards a Structurational Concept of the Information Use Environment of Managers, Howard Rosenbaum, 1996. ASIST/ UMI Doctoral Dissertation Award.
An Examination of the Perceptions and Practices of Information Resources Management in Large Organizations from the Canadian Private Sector, Pierrette Bergeron, 1995.
The Use of Computer Networks in Aerospace Engineering, Ann Peterson Bishop, 1995.
User Responses to Constraints in Computerized Design Tools, Donald Day, 1995.
Electronic Networks and the Reward Structure of Academic Science, Philip Doty, 1995. Council on Library Resources/Kellogg Foundation Dissertation Award.