Award Guidelines
Pratt-Severn Best Student Research Paper Award
Evaluated by the same rigorous standards as papers submitted for the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, the best student research paper is judged on technical competence, significance of findings, originality and clarity of expression. The Award recognizes the outstanding work of a current student in a degree-granting program in the information field and has been sponsored by Pratt Institute since 1996.
Past recipients of the Pratt-Severn Best Student Research Paper Award:
| 2012 | April Lynne Earle "Design of an Application Profile for the St. John's University Oral History Collection" |
| 2011 | Brooks Breece "Local Government Use of Web GIS in North Carolina" |
| 2009 | Katie O'Leary "Information Seeking in the Context of a Hobby: A Case Study of a Young Adult with Asperger's Syndrome" |
| 2008 | Ann K. Irvine (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| 2005 | Mary Gabehart "An Analysis of Citations to Retracted Articles in the Scientific Literature" |
| 2004 | Tori Orr (Drexel University) |
| 2002 | Elizabeth Zogby (Drexel University) |
| 2001 | Brian Hilligoss (University of North
Carolina) "The Role of Web Home Page Information Elements in User-Site Orientation Efforts" |
| 2000 | Karen Weaver (University at Albany,
SUNY) "Cataloging Internet Resources at MIT and UC San Diego Libraries" |
| 1999 | Kelly Maglaughlin (University of
North Carolina) "Use of Relevance Criteria" |
| 1997 | Melinda Axel (Drexel University) "Data Warehouse Design for Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery Research" |
| 1996 | Mark Spasser (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign) "The Enacted Fate of Undiscovered Knowledge" |
| 1995 | Jin Zhang (University of Pittsburgh) "A Tool for the Visualization of Information Retrieval" |
| 1992 | Corinne Jorgensen (Syracuse
University) "Problem Statements and Information Need" |
| 1990 | Charlotte Weise (University of
Pittsburgh) "An Examination of Two Computational Approaches to Reasoning by Analogy" |
| 1989 | Dale Boles (University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill) "The Effect of Subject Matter Familiarity on Inter-Indexer Consistency, Number of Index Terms Supplied and Indexer Use of Author Terminology" |
| 1988 | Charlotte Weise and Stuart McLean (University
of Pittsburgh) "DIGRESS: A Deductive Interface to a Relational Database" |
| 1987 | Dudee Chiang (University of Illinois) "Application of Bradford Distribution to Online Search Results: An Online Bibliometric Study" |
| 1986 | P.F. Anderson (University of Michigan) "Technological and Non-Technological Gatekeepers: An Overview of the Literature" |
| 1985 | Becky Brass (University of Minnesota) "Structural Analysis as as framework for Understanding and Coping with the Threat of Special Library Mortality" |
| 1984 | Susan Hayles (University of Minnesota) "Memory Functions in Reference Search Strategies: Observations from Verbatim Accounts of Searches in Process" |
| 1982 | Donna Rubens (University of Minnesota) "Cognitive Strategy and the Search Process: A Four-Fold Dual Context Memory Representation" |
| 1981 | Christine L. Borgman (Stanford
University) "Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Human Interaction with Computers" |
| 1980 | Janet L. Chapman (Drexel University) "A State of Transition Analysis of Online Information-Seeking Behavior" |
| 1979 | Brigitte Huybrechts (University of
Maryland) "The Impact of Information on the Decision-Making Process" |
| 1978 | Virginia Kosanovic (University of
California, Berkeley) "A Statistical Survey of Chemical Engineering Journals: In-House Library Use, Citation Analysis and the Use of Parameter Weighting for Ranking and Evaluation" |
| 1977 | Judy Chow (University of California,
Los Angeles) "A Radical Pattern Assembling Method for Creating Kanji (Chinese Ideographs) for an Online Japanese Bibliographic Information Retrieval System" |
| 1976 | Patricia J. Zimmerman (Case Western
Reserve University) "Principles of Design for Information Systems" |
| 1974 | Linda C. Smith (Georgia Institute of
Technology) "Systematic Searching of Abstracts and Indexes in Interdisciplinary Areas" |
| 1973 | Suzanne M. Strong (Ohio State
University) "An Algorithm for Generating Structural Surrogates of English Text" |
| 1972 | Vera Melnyk (Syracuse University) "Man-Machine Interface: Frustration" |