Faculty and Staff Accolades (2021-22)

 

Margaret Lam, Physical Sciences & STEM Data Librarian

Diana Tippett, Development Assistant

  • Received her Master of Science in Information Science, with a concentration in Health Informatics, University of North Texas (August 2021)

Trevor Watkins, Teaching and Outreach Librarian

  • Presenter, A Model for Detecting and Rejecting Trolling in Conversational AI. 2022 ALA Annual Conference- Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: From training to Innovation (Presentation and Panel Discussion) 
  • Poster - Linsinbigler, V., Gourlay, K., Mattson, J., Watkins, T. (June 2022) Food for Thought: Connecting with Faculty Through Informal Learning. The Innovative Library Classroom 
  • Presenter (invited), "Researching Behind and Beyond the Paywall," NEOACM's Remote Tech Talk 101, (March 2022)
  • Presenter, It takes a Village: Building Mason-Library's Orientation Conversational Agent through conversational marketing and human-machine interaction techniques using a multi-agent approach. SIG-AI Workshop at ASIS&T 2021, Salt Lake City, Utah (October 2021)
  • Participant & IMLS Fellow, IDEA (Innovation, Disruption, Enquiry, Access) Institute on Artificial Intelligence (July 2021)