Awards

Dean Lingley and Annapurni Subramaniam each received a $600 award to attend the “Text Mining with HathiTrust” workshop (set for June 6) at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Conference 2019.

The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association has selected Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Associate Professor Clarence Maybee as the 2019 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award. The Librarian Recognition Award was created to recognize an individual’s contribution to the development, advancement, and support of information literacy and instruction.

Bethany McGowan and Ilana Stonebraker were selected to receive a Research Data Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM). The $20,000 grant award for the project, “Understanding Rates of Attrition in Biomedical Data Challenges: A Study of Failure,” will enable them to provide research data management training to students. The workshops are part of a larger research project through which McGowan and Stonebraker will conduct a study to understand rates of attrition in biomedical data challenges.

Presentations

Richard Bernier presented “An Introduction to Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented)” at the Society of Indiana Archivists Annual Meeting, April 26, Terre Haute, IN.

Carly Dearborn presented “Preserving Complex Digital Objects” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Matt Hannah presented “The Landscape of Modern Theses” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. He also served as the moderator for the panel discussion, “Challenges and Culture” at the ETD Symposium.

Jean-Pierre Hérubel presented the closing keynote talk “The Doctoral Dissertation: Observations, Perspectives, Protean Nature?” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Nicole Kong presented “Geographic Information Out of Research” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Shirley Li presented “Evaluating Geoportal Performance using Web Analytics” at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7, Washington, D.C.

Justin Race served on the panel during the panel discussion “Challenges and Culture” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Michael Witt presented “Guiding Graduate Students in Data Management in Practice” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Witt has also been selected as a keynote speaker for ETD 2019, the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Nov. 6-8, 2019, at the Universidade Portucalense, Oporto, Portugal.

David Zwicky presented “Peppytides” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Publications and Media

Chao Cai

Cai, Chao, et al. “Three Genes Define a Bacterial-Like Arsenic Tolerance Mechanism in the Arsenic Hyperaccumulating Fern Pteris Vittata.” Current Biology, vol. 29, no. 10, May 2019, p. 1625–1633.e3. www.cell.com, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.029.

Chao Cai was also interviewed for the article, “How One Fern Can Soak Up So Much Arsenic — And Not Die,” which appeared in Purdue Today.

Kendall Roark was interviewed for the article, “Humanities Central in Development of Emerging Critical Data Studies Field,” which appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of “THiNK,” a magazine published by the Purdue University College of Liberal Arts.