SIS Assistant Professor Xiaohua (Awa) Zhu was awarded a 2019 Summer Graduate Research Assistantship grant from the University of Tennessee Office of Research and Engagement to continue pursuing her work on digital ownership and possession. School of Information Sciences master’s student Amy Moore will be the graduate student supported by the grant for the three-month […]
Twenty-four MSIS students attended the second annual SIS School Trip, which this year took place at the 2019 Tennessee Library Association Conference in Chattanooga. While students were given tours of information organizations in Nashville at the inaugural trip in 2018, the SIS Director’s Student Advisory Council suggested that this year’s trip be combined with the […]
When data are valuable products stored behind closed gates, monitoring those gates are people such as SIS alum Ole Villadsen (’15). Villadsen works at IBM as part of the cyber security team; his role is to support incident response investigations by providing intelligence support, and he is also building a database of threat information. “I […]
Featured student: Emily McCutcheon Location: Knoxville Education: BA in political science and history from Emory University; juris doctorate from University of Georgia Athens School of Law; currently in second semester of the first year in the MSIS program. Current jobs: I work at the Law Library of Congress as a remote content management internship. It […]
Faculty, students and many alumni from the School of Information Science will be participating in presentations at the Tennessee Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference, “Opening Hearts, Minds, Doors” April 24-26 in Chattanooga. Student Presentations Joseph Winberry: “Walking Together Through Open Doors: Successful Mentoring” panel, 8 a.m.-noon Wednesday; College and University Libraries Roundtable Meeting, 1:10-2 p.m. Thursday; […]
The School of Information Sciences is excited to announce its newest faculty member, Brian Dobreski, who will start teaching as an assistant professor this fall. Dobreski earned a bachelor’s of music from Nazareth College, and his master’s in library and information sciences from Syracuse University. He will receive his PhD in Information Sciences from Syracuse […]
SIS alum Jordan Kaufman (’18) has been awarded the Tenopir-King Research Excellence Award for 2019, which provides support to a recent SIS master’s graduate to work with SIS and Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir on research projects related to scholarly communication. Kaufman is currently a research associate at the Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) […]
Two SIS professors earned top honors for the College of Communications and Information at the recent University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2019 Research Awards Luncheon, which is sponsored by the Office of Research and Engagement. Chancellor’s Professor Suzie Allard was awarded the Research Spotlight Award, which, according to ORE, “Recognizes the top research scholar within each […]
