Students, alumni and faculty members of the Gateway PhD program are making waves in our global communities. Their research and contributions have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. We are proud to highlight their notable accomplishments. 

• Dr. Africa Hands, University of Buffalo, received the 2023 ALISE Research Grant Competition for the Positioning LIS Students for Career Success project.
• Krista McCracken was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship. Valued at $80,000 CDN to support their PhD research entitled “Indigenous Control of Information and Indigenous Community Identity Formation.”  
• Dr. Lettie Conrad was selected as a recipient of a Faculty of Science Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis for 2022 from the Queensland University of Technology.
• Stephen Abrams was awarded a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in July 2021, for his doctoral study, A Communicological Critique of Evaluative Norms for Digital Preservation Success. This $3,000 award is given by Beta Phi Mu, the international honor society established to recognize and encourage scholastic achievement among library and information studies students.
• Dr. Africa Hands, a 2018 Gateway PhD program graduate and currently assistant professor at East Carolina University, received an Early Career Development grant of $213,303 from IMLS. She will investigate the ways in which public libraries in Central Appalachia support the college literacy of nontraditional prospective students through information and services. More information.
• Dr. Clarence Maybee, Associate Professor, Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies, was named the W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Information Literacy in February 2021. More info: www.lib.purdue.edu/our-awards/booker-chair 
• Dr. Niloufar Sarraf received a 2019 QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, given in recognition of her outstanding contribution and the standard of excellence demonstrated in higher degree research practice. Dr. Sarraf’s dissertation is entitled Mapping the Neural Activities and Affective Dimensions of the ISP Model: Correlates in the Search Exploration, Formulation, and Collection Stages. Her supervisory team was Dr. Sylvia Edwards, Dr. Ian Stoodley, and Dr. Virginia Tucker. Congratulations, Nilo!
• Dr. Kim Morrison received a QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2018, given in recognition of the outstanding contribution made to her chosen discipline and the standard of excellence demonstrated in higher degree research practice. Dr. Morrison’s dissertation is entitled Counter-story as Curriculum: Autoethnography, Critical Race Theory, and Informed Assets in the Information Literacy Classroom. Her supervisory team was Dr. Sylvia Edwards, Dr. Christine Bruce, and Dr. Virginia Tucker. Congratulations, Kim!
• Dr. Karen Kaufmann was awarded a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in 2017. This award is given by Beta Phi Mu, the international honor society for library and information science and information technology. Way to go, Karen!
• Dr. Clarence Maybee received a QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2015. It is in recognition of excellence demonstrated in higher degree research practice, and for his contribution to the LIS discipline. The committee chooses the recipients for this prestigious award from all dissertations completed across the university during the year, and places him in the top 5% of successful doctoral candidates for 2015. Drs. Kristen Rebmann, Christine Bruce, and Mandy Lupton were members of Clarence’s supervisory team. Well done, Clarence!
• Professor Emeritus Bill Fisher has been named adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology. Adjunct appointments at QUT are honorary postings designed to involve “distinguished and talented professionals and academics in teaching and research activities.” Professor Fisher has been involved with the Gateway PhD program since its inception. 
• Dr. Cherry-Ann Smart was selected as a 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing International Fellow. One of a handful to be chosen from over 100 applicants, the honor includes membership to the Society, access to a mentor, and travel and attendance at the 38th Annual Meeting that took place in Vancouver, Canada from June 1-3, 2016. The Society for Scholarly Publishing is “a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.” Dr. Smart’s research focuses on services to international and foreign students in academic libraries. Congratulations, Cherry-Ann!