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PhD Spotlight: Dick Kawooya Finds Success in the US After Graduating from SIS

August 21, 2019 by Hillary Tune

When Dick Kawooya first traveled from Uganda to the United States in 2001 to study library science, he had only expected to stay for one year. Now, Kawooya is an associate professor and just finished a year as interim director of the School of Library and Information Science College of Information and Communications at the University […]

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