Current Scholarships & Fellowships Recipients

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2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Yalonda Green 
  University of Kentucky
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  Mallory Nygard 
  Indiana University, Bloomington
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Chelsea Brantley
  East Carolina University
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Julie Edwards, Alpha Chapter 
  To pursue a certificate in Sustainable Community Development through Village Earth/Colorado State University

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Christopher Hollister, Librarian at the University Libraries, University of Buffalo
  To will support a project involving collaborating with the University at Buffalo's partner institution in Singapore to mitigate the costs of course textbooks

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Kathy Brennan
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dissertation Title: “Loan Me the Money: How Cognitive Abilities and Financial Knowledge Influence Consumers' Online Searching Behaviors”
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  Karen Kaufmann
  Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/San Jose State University (SJSU)
  ​Dissertation Title: “Socio-Cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Academic Work”
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  Emily Lawrence
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: “Reading for Democratic Citizenship: A New Model for Readers' Advisory”
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  Andrea Thomer
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: “The Role of Data Collection Protocols and Practices in Site-Based Research and Curation”
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  Emily Vardell
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dissertation Title: “Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions”
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  Yongjun Zhu
  Drexel University
  Dissertation Title: “Graph-based Interactive Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems”