Awards
I list the key awards and contributions I have made to my employers or awarded by professional organizations over the past three decades. They are categorized by recent academic awards, resulting from my post-doctoral research, within American University of Beirut, from my PhD years, and my professional career.
Recent Academic
Nominated for the AUB 2010 Teacher of the Year Award.
Workshop presentation featured in newspaper: "Moving from Paper to an Online Case Question Exam – Lessons Learned from INFO 200 Midterm", Inaugural Brown Bag Workshop - January 2010 (AUB website news note) (Lebanon Daily Star article)
2009 AMIA Diana Forsythe Award Finalist for "Enacting Computer Workarounds within a Medication Dispensing System" European Journal of Information Systems (top 10% of nominated papers) "Honors either peer-reviewed AMIA paper published in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium or a peer-reviewed article in the scientific literature that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe's work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences"
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) CAIS Most Popular (Top 10): October 2008 - August 2009 (as high as #2)
OCIS Division Best Paper Award - 2nd Runner Up for "Situated Practices of Computer Workarounds in a Hospital Medication System: A Case Study", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2008
IBM Center for Government Research Stipend for proposal "Overcoming E-Prescribing Adoption Challenges: Governments Shaping Innovation On Behalf Of Healthcare Stakeholders", 2007 (1 in 30 acceptance rate)
Post-doctoral Research
Paper in Journal of Digital Imaging (2006) was subject of brief interview published online in Diagnostic Imaging Magazine -- PACSweb
Radiological Society of North America infoRAD Certificate of Merit 2005 for "PDA Mobile Application for Distribution of Medical Images and Patient/Staff Tracking/Verification"
Radiological Society of North America infoRAD Certificate of Merit 2005 for "Patient Tracking and Facial Biometrics Integrated in a Clinical Environment for HIPAA Security Compliance"
Radiological Society of North America infoRAD Certificate of Merit 2004 for "The data storage grid: next generation fault-tolerant storage for backup and disaster recovery of clinical images"
American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut University Research Board Grant, Fall 2011
American University of Beirut University Research Board Grant, Fall 2009
American University of Beirut University Research Board Grant, Fall 2008
American University of Beirut Junior Faculty Research Leave, Fall 2007
Kolbe Research grant (in kind) for "Selecting Business Majors Using Kolbe-A Index" 2007
American University of Beirut Research Board Seed Grant "Location Tracking of Passive RFID Tags by Inference to Tracked WiFi Devices" 2006
PhD Years
MIS Quarterly Paper of the Year Award "Technology Adaptation: The Case of a Computer-Supported Inter-Organizational Virtual Team" (V 24, N 4, December 2000)
Rocketdyne Advanced Systems 1998 Team Award
Fellowship from The Aerospace Corporation 1992-1996
Professional
The Aerospace Corporation 1989 Group Achievement Award (top 1% of technical staff) for "sustained and continuing excellence in definition of an affordable Space Defense System architecture".
1985 Project Management Institute (PMI) International Student Paper Award for the paper "A Decision Support System for Mine Evaluations"