Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
The Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship, a $1,500 cash award sponsored by Thomson Reuters, fosters research in information science by encouraging and assisting doctoral students with their dissertation research. Established in 1981, the scholarship recognizes outstanding proposals for doctoral dissertations submitted by graduate students who have completed the course work for their doctoral degrees.
Past recipients of the Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship:
| 2012 | Lori McCay-Peet, "At the Intersection: Investigating the Qualities of the Serendipitous Digital Environment and the Serendipity-Prone Person" |
| 2011 | Amber Cushing, "Possession and Self Extension in Digital Environments: Implications for Maintaining Personal Information" |
| 2010 | Jaime Snyder, "Image-Enabled Discourse: An Investigation of the Creation of Visual Information as Communicative Practice" |
| 2009 | Heather Piwowar, "Foundational Studies for Measuring the Impact, Prevalence, and Patterns of Publicy Shared Viomedical Research Data" |
| 2008 | Christina M. Finneran, "Factors that Influence Users to Keep and/or Leave Information Items: A Case Study of College Students' Personal Information Management Behavior" |
| 2007 | Philip Edwards, "Mapping Scholars' Decision Processes and Factors that Influence How they Publish and Distribute their Work" |
| 2006 | Heather O'Brien |
| 2005 | Svetlana Symonenko (Syracuse University) |
| 2004 | Meng Yang (University of North Carolina) |
| 2003 | Jiangping Chen (Syracuse University) |
| 2002 | Joan Bartlett (University of Tononto) |
| 2001 | Alesia A. Zuccala (University of Toronto) |
| 2000 | Anne R. Diekma (Syracuse University) |
| 1999 | Brian Detlor (University of Toronto) |
| 1998 | Karla Hahn (University of Maryland) |
| 1997 | R. David Lankes (Syracuse University) |
| 1996 | Abby Goodrum (University of North Texas) |
| 1995 | William Moen (Syracuse University) |
| 1994 | Corrine Jorgensen (Syracuse University) |
| 1993 | Sam G. Oh (Syracuse University) |
| 1992 | Deborah Gillaspie (University of Chicago) |
| 1991 | Diane H. Sonnewald (Rutgers University) |
| 1990 | Cynthia Lopata (Drexel University) |
| 1989 | Ingrid P.Y. Hsieh-Yee (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 1988 | Stephanie W. Haas (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 1987 | Barbara Wildemuth (Drexel University) |
| 1986 | Elizabeth D Liddy (Syracuse University) |
| 1985 | Gail Thornburg (University of Illinois) |
| 1984 | Danny P. Wallace (University of Illinois) |
| 1983 | Barbara A. Rapp (Drexel University) |
| 1982 | Susan Bonzi (University of Illinois) |