Corey Johnson, WSU instruction and assessment librarian and one of Whalen’s nominators, has worked with Whalen for 10 years through the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program .
In addition to being a proponent for library instruction, Whalen incorporates information literacy into her classes and assignments.
And if we can apply that very human quality of curiosity to asking research questions, we can begin to think about the ways in which some questions force us to dig deeper, to go beyond a superficial understanding, and produce complex answers.