Doctoral student “Joy” Joung Hwa Koo of the School of Library & Information Studies has been awarded a 2010-2011 Dissertation Research Grant from the Graduate School of The Florida State University. She was selected by a committee of representatives from FSU schools and colleges that offer doctoral degrees.

The grants are funded by the FSU Congress of Graduate Students, the Office of the Provost, and the Office of Research. They provide students with reimbursement for expenses incurred while doing dissertation research up to the amount of $750.

The title of Koo’s dissertation is “Adolescents’ Information Behavior when Isolated from Peer Groups: Lessons from New Immigrants Adolescents’ Everyday Life Information Seeking.”