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Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented “New Frontiers: Improving Longterm Care Through Health Information Exchange" at the International Conference on Health Informatics, as part of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies in Rome, Italy, on Feb. 22, 2016.

Kenneth Burhanna, 91�ֿ�’s 2015-2016 Provost’s Fellow and assistant dean of engagement and outreach for University Libraries, is one of the 17 top managers of academic research libraries selected for UCLA’s 2016 Senior Fellows Program. 

Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science, presented a paper titled “From Individual Contributions to Collective Intelligence: A Case of Cultural Heritage Institutions” at the Computer Supportive Collaborative Work Workshop in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 27, 2016.

Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, and Julaine Clunis, student in the School of Library and Information Science, (with Vladimir Alexiev) presented “Innovative Use of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) that are Published as Linked Open Data (LOD)” at the first Asian Networked Knowledge Systems Workshop.

Marcia Lei Zeng and Yin Zhang, School of Library and Information Science, presented (with Hongshan Li and Serhiy Polyakov) “Exploring Smart Data Approaches to the History of Innovation and Invention at Liquid Crystal Institute at 91�ֿ�,” on a Digital Humanities Panel at the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December 2015 in Seoul, Korea.

Alumna Maja Zumer, M.L.S. ’93, and Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented “Application of FRBR and FRSAD to Classification Systems,” at the 5th International UDC Seminar: Classification and Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery, in October 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented “Development, Aloha, and Non-Giving Among Polynesian Outlier Communities” at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in San Diego, California, on Feb. 12, 2016.

Leisa Gibbons, School of Library and Information Science, was awarded the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of School in Information Systems (ACPHIS) Ph.D. Medal for her doctoral thesis.

Denice Sheehan, Ph.D., RN, and Pamela Stephenson, Ph.D., RN, AOCNS, PMHCNS-BS, from the College of Nursing, participated in the 2016 Massachusetts General Hospital Workshop on Research Methods in Supportive Oncology in Boston, Massachusetts.