The results of the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award 2025 have recently been announced. Yuting Huang, a graduate of the School of Information Management, has become one of the two global winners with her research on the digital literacy of rural residents in China. This marks the first time that a student from Wuhan University has won this international award, and also the first time that a student from an Asian university has received this honor.

Yuting Huang was an undergraduate student majored in Library Science at Wuhan University, enrolled in 2014. She then pursued a combined master's and doctoral program in the same major starting from 2018, and obtained her Doctor of Management degree in 2023. Currently, she teaches at Xiangtan University.

Since its establishment in 2013, the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award has annually collected nominations from member universities on a broad scale. The review committee conducts two rounds of rigorous evaluation based on research questions, methodologies, and design. The two dissertations with the highest overall evaluations are awarded the first and second prizes respectively, in recognition of outstanding doctoral research achievements in the field of information. For the 2025 award, a total of 25 official nominations were received from iSchools member universities around the world, with 30 experts in the field participating in the review process. The finalists came from the University of California, Berkeley, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Washington, Wuhan University, and the University of Toronto.