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MSIS student wins first place in his division at CCI Research Symposium

February 23, 2024 by Kristen Gallant

From the sunny beaches of California to Norway’s northern lights and beyond, School of Information Sciences masters student Christopher Hastings is on a mission to find answers regarding mammoth ivory hunting in Siberia.  Hastings won first place at the 46th Annual College of Communication and Information Research Symposium in his division. His research presentation was […]

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MSIS Student Kelsey Badger Named Volunteer of Distinction: Extraordinary Professional Promise

April 1, 2022 by Hillary Tune

Kelsey Badger came into the School of Information Sciences master’s program with the honor of being accepted into the Collaborative Analysis Liaison Librarians (CALL) program, and she will continue that tradition of excellence with the honor of being named a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Volunteer of Distinction: Extraordinary Professional Promise. She’s also already accepted a position […]

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Student Elisha Jewell and Assistant Professor of Practice Joy Marie Doan Research How NFTs Can Benefit Libraries

March 25, 2022 by Hillary Tune

Libraries are often places of innovation, many times embodying the adage, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Sitting at the crossroads of technology and information access gives information sciences professionals a unique view of the world, and in the case of School of Information Sciences master’s student Elisha Jewell, a unique take on the blockchain […]

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BSIS Student Makayla Lerner Wins CCI Poster Competition with Research on Rural Communities Adopting Broadband

March 4, 2022 by Hillary Tune

Makayla Lerner is the first undergraduate School of Information Sciences student to complete a practicum, and just this last week she won first place in the College of Communication and Information’s 44th Annual Research Symposium’s Research Poster Kaleidoscope contest. The research she presented in her poster stemmed from the practicum and undergraduate research assistantship work […]

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MSIS Student Sarah Calise Founds Nashville Queer History Digital Archive, Lands Deal to Write First Book on Nashville’s LGBTQ+ History

March 4, 2022 by Hillary Tune

It’s easy to forget history, but even more so if no one preserves it. Sarah Calise, an archivist and a student in the School of Information Sciences master’s program, is someone who specializes in preservation. So when they saw the history of Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community slowly slipping away, they also saw an opportunity to make […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Student News, Student Research Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion

SIS Faculty, Students to Participate in ASIS&T 2021 Annual Meeting

October 8, 2021 by Hillary Tune

At the end of this month, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be well-represented at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Salt Lake City. It is at this conference that SIS Professor and Director Abebe Rorissa will move into the position of ASIS&T President-Elect Nov. 2, but many others from the SIS […]

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Paper by PhD Student Joseph Winberry & Associate Professor Devendra Potnis Wins ALISE Award

June 3, 2021 by Hillary Tune

When Joseph Winberry was still a master’s student at SIS, he was a graduate teaching assistant to Associate Professor Devendra Potnis and also assisted in research. Both Potnis and Winberry are interested in social innovation, social justice, and the role information sciences can play in both of those areas. Winberry was helping with Potnis’s research […]

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MSIS Student Charlie Mix is Putting Conservation on the Map

April 8, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Charlie Mix and Nyssa Hunt look at the “Cradle of Southern Appalachia” map. – Photo by Angela Foster, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Information is delivered in many forms, and for MSIS student Charlie Mix, maps are his deliverable of choice. Mix earned a bachelor’s degree in geography and went on to work for the National […]

Filed Under: Announcements, Featured Story, Student Research, Student Spotlight Tagged With: GIS

MSIS Student Claire Jordan to Conduct Fellowship Research on Misuse of Scientific Information

March 24, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Being in the MSIS program and part of the Collaborative Analysis Liaison Librarians cohort has opened up an entire new world of possibilities within the realm of information sciences for student Claire Jordan. “I thought I had a niche, specific focus, and then I learned about the CALL program and then I got here and […]

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MSIS Alum and Current CCI PhD Student Joseph Winberry (’19) Awarded Marva Rudolph Scholarship

March 11, 2021 by Hillary Tune

When he was growing up, Joseph Winberry (’19) spent a lot of time around his grandparents and their friends in a retirement community – he found himself drawn to older people, and it stuck. It was just a fluke, he said, that he eventually was hired for a job at the Knoxville-Knox County Office on […]

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