Ph.D. Program in Information Studies - Student Features

2008 Research Paper Competition Winner:

The Doctoral Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2008 Ph.D. Student Research Paper Competition. The Award (and $150 stipend) goes this year to David S. Byrne for his paper, "The RX for Information Overload in the Legal & Medical Professions"

This paper was presented at the May 1, 2008 Doctoral Colloquium.

Student Publications

Leatrice Ferraioli: "An Exploratory Study of Metadata Creation in a Health Care Agency. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, V40, No. 3/4 (October 2005), 75-102."

Selenay Aytac: "Multiligual Information Retrieval on the Internet: A Case Study of Turkish Users. The International Information & Library Review, 37 (2005), 275-284."

John DiMarco: Web Portfolio Design and Applications. Idea Group Publishing, Inc. December 2005.

Previous Student Conference Presentations

Annual Meeting of the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE), January 16-19, 2006, San Antonio:

Paula Maurino: "A Discussion of Student-to-Student Interaction Focuses on Student Satisfaction With Online Classroom Discussions and the Environment’s Effectiveness in Promoting the Social/Cultural Learning Emphasized in Activity Theory and the Social Computing Paradigm"

John Sullivan: "Designing a Major Municiple Police Department's Command and Control Structure: How Distributed Cognition Can Enhance Interagency Coordination in Crises Management"

DISSERTATION TITLES OF RECENT PH.D. GRADUATES

Thomas Virgona (Ph.D. awarded May 2008) "September 11, 2001: A Study of the Human Aspects of Disaster Recovery Efforts for Wall Street Financial Service Firms."

Sheryl Schoenacher (Ph.D. awarded May 2008) "The Information Gathering Behavior of main Street Merchants and the Effect of Social Capital on Information Access."

Alon Friedman (Ph.D. awarded May 2008) "Concept Map as "Sign": The Influence of Pierce and Saussure on Concept Mapping in Knowledge Organization."

Rose Ann Ferrick (Ph.D. awarded May 2008) "Factors Affecting Technology Adoption in the Editorial Process of Adult Trade Book Publishing"

James P. Smith (Ph.D. awarded May 2007)
Academic Library Web Portals: Does the Use of Images Influence Users' Perception of the Use Experience?

Paula Maurino (Ph.D. awarded May 2007)
Online Threaded Discussions: Purposes, Goals and Objectives.

Joni Lelchuk (Ph.D. awarded May 2007)
An Investigation into the Auditory Enhancement of Text on a Cancer Health Website - The Impact on the User's Comprehension, Recall and Retention of Information, and the Believability of the Information.

Angela Heath (Ph.D. awarded May 2007)
An Exploration of the Motivations, Behaviors and Effects of Frequent Contributors in Online Communities of Interest.

Joseph Kasten (Ph.D. awarded December 2006)
Knowledge Strategy Drivers: An Exploratory Study.

James Stenerson (Ph.D. awarded May 2006)
The Heuristic Value of Lewis Mumford's Metaphor "Megamachine" in a Digital-network Society

Jacqueline L. Ram (Ph.D. awarded May 2006)
Human Factors and Ergonomics: Analyzing Synergy

Donna M. D'Ambrosio (Ph.D. awarded May 2006)
Development of an Expansible Taxonomy of Software Requirements Nomenclature: Viewing the Elicitation Process as Communicative Discourse

Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo (Ph.D. awarded May 2005)
Contextual Perspectives of Information for Home Care Nurses: Towards a Framework of Nursing Information Behavior

Alexie Oulanov (Ph.D. awarded May 2005)
User Perception of the Usability and Performance of Translingual Features of a Russian Financial Web Site

Leonard J. Ponzi (Ph.D. awarded May 2003)
Knowledge Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

Maureen Mackenzie (Ph.D. awarded May 2003)
The Accumulation of Information by Line Managers Within a Business Environment and the Resulting Cognitive Savings Account

Mikel Breitenstein (Ph.D. awarded May 2003)
Toward an Understanding of Visual Literacy: Examination of Conference Papers of the International Visual Literacy

Joette Stefl Mabry (Ph.D. awarded May 2001)
A Social Judgment Analysis of Information Satisfaction and Information Source Preferences Among Professionals: A Hypothesis-Generating Exploratory Study

DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS

Julie B. Kessler: Health Information Management and Medical Informatics, Separate or Overlapping? A Bibliometric Analysis of Recent Trends in the Development of Electronic Medical Records.

Christine Marchese: Impact of Organizational Environment on Knowledge Representation and Use.

DOCTORAL STUDENTS' ANNUAL RESEARCH COMPETITION

2008 Winner: David S. Byrne "The Rx for Information Overload in the Legal & Medical Professions."

2007 Winner: Gali Yemini-Halevi "Towards a Psychosynthesis Approach to Information Visualization: Using Mandela Symbolism for a User-Centered Design."

2006 HONORABLE MENTION: Gali Y. Halevi, Blogs as an Academic Communication Tool, and Ellen Tufano, Models for Instructional System Design and Their Application to University Faculty Development Programs.

2006 WINNER: David Jank. An 18th Century Internet: Knowledge Organization and Information Representation in the Colonial Williamsburg Historic Restoration.

2005 HONORABLE MENTION: Wendy Ford. Case Study Analysis of Discourse Structure in Open-Ended Interviews: Ex-Slave Narratives from the Library of Congress. Joe Kasten. Decision-making in Logistics: An Ontology of Required Knowledge.

2005 WINNER: David Jank. Toward a Bibliographic Examination of the Published Literature in Systems Analysis and Design: A Descriptive Analysis and Conceptual Taxonomy.

2004 HONORABLE MENTION: Paula Maurino. The Context of Student/Teacher Interaction in Distance Learning

2004 WINNER: Sheryl Schoenacher. Orality and Literacy in a Suburban Town Community: An Ethnographic Study of the Incorporated Village of Farmingdale

2003 HONORABLE MENTION: Angela Heath. Tracking the Progress of Research on Electronic Collaboration in Two Related Discourse Communities

2003 WINNER: Leatrice Ferraioli. An Exploratory Study of Metadata Creation in a Health Agency

2002 HONORABLE MENTION: Leatrice Ferraioli. Genres, Personal Metadata and Private Knowledge

2002 WINNER: Joni Lelchuk. Taxonomy of Visual Humor

2001 WINNER: Donna M. D'Ambrosio. Toward an Ontology for Information Systems Requirements in Systems Analysis