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Received with technical glitch. --gw Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:32:50 -0400 From: "Edwards, Anne" <[log in to unmask]> Shelagh K. Genuis, a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, whose dissertation committee was chaired by Dr. Heidi Julien, now Director of SLIS at The University of Alabama, has won the prestigious 2011 ASIS&T ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award. The ProQuest award recognizes an outstanding recent doctoral candidate whose research contributes significantly to an understanding of some aspect of information science, and the prize is intended to encourage new Ph.D.s to participate in professional associations, through provision of travel assistance to the ASIS&T conference and an opportunity for the awardee to present the winning research. Dr. Genuis was chosen from 20 finalists, and her dissertation is titled "Making sense of evolving health information: Navigating uncertainty in everyday life." Look for her at this year's ASIS&T conference in New Orleans in October, 2011.