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Two Women Professors at American Institutions Honored for Excellence in Information Science

The Association for Information Science and Technology has recently announced the recipients of several awards in recognition of scholars who have made outstanding contributions to information science and technology teaching, research, and advocacy. Among the recipients are two women professors based at American institutions.

Heidi Julien, professor of information science in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo in New York, has received the 2025 Award of Merit. The honor is the association’s lifetime achievement award, presented to individuals whose work has advanced the field of information science.

As a scholar, Dr. Julien specializes in digital literacy, information literacy, information behavior, and research methodologies. She first joined the University at Buffalo in 2013 as chair of the department of information science, a role she held for six years. Earlier in her career, she was a professor and director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Alabama.

Dr. Julien received her bachelor’s degree in secondary social studies and English and her master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Alberta in Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Kyong Eun Oh, professor of library and information science at Simmons University in Boston, has received the 2025 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. The honor is presented to individuals who have made unique and exceptional teaching contributions in information science.

A Simmons faculty member since 2013, Dr. Oh recently achieved the rank of full professor on July 1. She also serves as director of the Ph.D. program in library and information science. Her courses at Simmons center on information organization, meta data, and statistics. In her own research, she focuses on personal information management, human information behavior, and information organization.

Dr. Oh received her bachelor’s degree in English language and literature and library and information science and her master’s degree in library and information science from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She holds a Ph.D. in communication and information from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

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