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Student Spotlight: Josh Borycz Finds Purpose in Scientific Data Management

February 20, 2019 by SIS Staff

MSIS student Josh Borycz in BrazilStudent Spotlight features one our current School of Information Sciences Master students. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, careers, locations and academics, and we want to highlight who they are and why they chose the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Information Sciences master’s program.

Featured student: Joshua Borycz

Location: Knoxville, TN

Education: Bachelor of science in chemistry and mathematics from Hope College in Holland, Mich.; master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota; and PhD in chemistry from the University of Minnesota.

Filed Under: Announcements, Featured Story Tagged With: chemistry, data management, Josh Borycz, Student Spotlight

Student Food Insecurity Addressed by New SIS Food Box Program

February 13, 2019 by SIS Staff

Books, tuition, housing, utilities – these all add up for college students, and recent studies show that about a third of students find themselves choosing between necessities. Often, this means making food a low priority, resulting in food insecurity. When someone suffers from food insecurity, it means they don’t know where their next meal is […]

Filed Under: Announcements, Featured Story Tagged With: food pantry, food scarcity, SIS Food Box

Alum John Wilkin wins Hugh C. Atkins Memorial Award

February 13, 2019 by SIS Staff

SIS Alum John Wilkin (’86) was recently honored with the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award for his outstanding accomplishments as an academic librarian. He is the Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award is jointly sponsored by the Association of College […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Hugh C. Atkins Memorial Award, John Wilkin

SIS & CCI Townhall Bridges the Gap

February 6, 2019 by SIS Staff

Rachel Fleming-May, Diane Kelly, Dean Michael Wirth, Joseph Winberry and Hannah Brandon at the Town Hall

A dean, a school director, and a graduate studies director walk into a room—it’s not the beginning of a bar joke, but rather the events that unfolded on the evening of Feb. 5, 2019 in Patrick Auditorium. Michael Wirth, dean of the College of Communication and Information, Diane Kelly, director of the School of Information Sciences, and Rachel Fleming-May, director of SIS Graduate Studies, came together to participate in a joint CCI/SIS Townhall event with students in attendance via Zoom and in person.

Filed Under: Announcements

Alum Dorothy Ogdon Takes Libraries Into the Future with Technology Resources, Services

February 5, 2019 by SIS Staff

Virtual reality, 3D-printing, models of brains and bones – these are just a few of the things that Dorothy Ogdon (’07) is dealing with on a regular basis. And she’s a librarian. Of course, she’s not your typical librarian. Currently she is the emerging technologies librarian at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. It’s a new […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Alumni Article, tech, Virtual Reality, VR

New SIS Exit Requirements Focus on Program Effectiveness

February 1, 2019 by SIS Staff

In 2018, The Graduate School at the University of Tennessee eliminated its requirement that master’s students complete a capstone project or examination in order to graduate, allowing individual graduate programs to decide what – if any – exit requirements they’d ask master’s students to complete.  As a result, SIS faculty voted to eliminate the MSIS […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: exit requirements, program outcomes, student learning collection

Student Spotlight: First-generation Student Sarah Gonzalez Speaks About Her Love of Data

January 22, 2019 by SIS Staff

Sarah Gonzalez, MSIS studentStudent Spotlight: Student Spotlight features one of our current School of Information Sciences Master students. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, careers, locations, and academics, and we want to highlight who they are and why they chose the University of Tennessee, Knoxville SIS program.

Featured student: Sarah Gonzalez

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Current job: Sponsored programs coordinator at the University of Tennessee’s Office of Research and Engagement.

Past job(s): Has worked at UT for more than 15 years, in positions including: accounting specialist at the College of Social Work; assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Diversity; administrative services assistant at the Haslam College of Business.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion

Student Spotlight: How Sophie Howard Found Her Way to SIS and Archives

January 15, 2019 by SIS Staff

Featured student: Sophie Howard Location: Birmingham, Alabama Current job: Appraisal archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, in Montgomery, Ala. Family: My mother and father have always encouraged me to find a career and life that makes me happy, and I feel they have encouraged me throughout this process because they can see […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: archives, Sophie Howard, Student Spotlight

SIS Edges Closer to Approval for Undergraduate Information Sciences Major

January 11, 2019 by SIS Staff

Tennessee and the rest of the country will need more information sciences professionals in the coming years – in fact, information-related careers expect around a 20-percent job growth rate in the next decade. As the vast amount of data being created due to technological advances increases, the need to collect, curate and organize that data also […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Undergraduate information sciences major

SIS & CICS Postdoc Assistant Hannah Gunderman Awarded American Geographical Society Library Research Fellowship

January 10, 2019 by SIS Staff

Geography and information sciences will collide during the upcoming fellowship grant that Hannah Gunderman, a postdoctoral research associate with SIS and the Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) and an SIS masters student, will soon attend. She pitched a project that blends both of her passions – geography and information sciences – to the […]

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: CICS, Fellowship, GIS, Grant, postdoctoral, SIS

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