Awards
Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
- SIG USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award, 2017
- SIG Publication-of-The-Year Award, 2008. Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory. Medford, New Jersey: Information Today.
- SIG-of-the-year Award, 2003. (Served as chair of SIG USE in 2002/2003).
Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
- Teaching Excellence Award, 2007
University of Tennessee, College of Communication and Information
- The Carol Tenopir Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions. 2022. A special award given in celebration of the School of Information Sciences celebration of its 50th Anniversary of ALA accreditation
- Distinguished Administrative Service Award. University of Tennessee 2015-2016.
- Research Achievement Award, 2007.
- Research Achievement Award, 2003.
Recognition
- University of Tennessee, NOTES from the Chancellor, KUDOS List. (September 7, 2016).
- Featured in Tennessee Today, University of Tennessee. Google Faculty Research Award recipient. Link
- University of Tennessee, Quest Scholar of the Week (November 2014). Link
- Faculty Trailblazers: CCI Spotlights Bilal, Caudill, February 19, 2015. Link
- Interviewed and featured on YouTube by the media in Bogota, Colombia following an invited conference presentation (November 2010) . Link
- Interviewed and featured in Scoop Magazine (College of Communication and Information) about research project on children with autism (spring 2010).
- Interviewed and featured in School Library Journal. Topic: Children’s use of the Web (May 2005).
- Interviewed by Discovery Education about children’s information seeking, needs, and system design (May 2005).
- Interviewed by Andrew Trotter, staff writer for Education Week who quoted me as an expert on children’s use of the Web in this article: Web searches often overwhelm young researchers: New search engines aimed at children’s needs seek to clear confusion. December 1, 2004.
- Children’s use of the Yahooligans! Web search engine. I. Cognitive, physical, and affective behaviors on fact-based tasks, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (7), 646-665, was among the top ten most cited articles across the University of Tennessee system in 2004. The same article has been placed in the top 1% within its field, according to Essential Science Indicators (http://isiknowledge.com).