News from Simmons University
- iSchools News
- Jul 21
- 2 min read
Faculty Spotlight SLIS Professor Named Outstanding Information Science Teacher
Professor Kyong Eun Oh has been named the 2025 winner of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award.
“[Professor Oh] has expended considerable effort and focus into serving her students by employing innovative teaching approaches and making herself more accessible as a professor,” says School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Director Sanda Erdelez. “Professor Oh works to make complex concepts accessible, interesting, and relevant to her students; this is a skill that many professors do not have, and Professor Oh has made a concerted effort to cultivate it for the benefit of her students.”
Faculty Spotlight SLIS Faculty Member Receives Research Grant
Professor Naresh Agarwal has received the 2025 Bob Williams Research Grant from The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).
This grant is “awarded to an outstanding research proposal exploring the history of information science and technology.” Agarwal’s proposed project, entitled “Weaving the History of the Information Science Field Through the Life Journeys of ASIS&T Past Presidents,” will explore how their life journeys helped shape the information science field. The award is named after Dr. Robert V. Williams (1938–2017), the architect of numerous library and information science and archival studies programs at the University of South Carolina.
Alumnae/i Feature
SLIS Alumnus Reexamines Misinformation
“Some people just never want to leave the library,” says Matthew Connor Sullivan ’24PhD. “[When exploring the library stacks,] you encounter one source after another, which propels more questions and enables your research to go deeper. I find this whole process fascinating.”
Sullivan is a Librarian for Collection Development and Assessment at Harvard University’s Widener Library. We spoke with him about his interdisciplinary approach to library and information science (LIS) research and the formative mentorship he received at Simmons.
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