Featured Student: Matt Cowan
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Education/Career Background: I finished undergraduate in 2014 at the University of Alabama, where I studied geology. Between then and now, I worked largely in real estate and hospitality.
Why information sciences?
I came to the School of Information Sciences because I realized there’s such a gap in how many people understand so many processes and how they have access to those processes – I was interested in that blend of resource development and resource deployment. I’m a generally curious person, I like learning and I like when learning is easy, and finding things … Read more “Student Spotlight: Matthew Cowan Brings Knowledge Management to Cybersecurity”
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