The College of Communication and Information, the School of Advertising and Public Relations and the School of Journalism and Electronic Media’s best students were recognized on Apr. 15 at the College’s 2013 Honors Convocation. Below is a list of students and the awards/scholarships they received.
On Nov. 8, the scholarship recipients and the scholarship donors will be invited to a special dinner in their honor. The dinner will be held at the Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville.
CCI Graduate Student Awards
- Nate Evans – CCI Outstanding Graduate Research Award
- Scott Eldredge – CCI Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
- Julie Winkelstein – CCI Outstanding Dissertation Award
CCI Graduate Student Association Awards
- Margaret Grigsby – GSA Outstanding Masters Student Award
- Betsy Dalton – GSA Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
Advertising and Public Relations Awards
- Outstanding Advertising Graduate – Krista Bowman
- Sammy Lynn Puett Public Relations Leadership Award – Kalee Harryman
- J. Carroll Bateman Public Relations Award – Jennifer Gosciniak
Journalism and Electronic Media Awards
- Outstanding Journalism and Electronic Media Graduate – Jessica Campbell
- Outstanding Broadcast Student – Alice Mitchell
- The Tennessee Journalist Student of the Year Award – Jennifer Brake
- SCOOP Magazine Student of the Year Award – Christy Cleger
- Best in TV News Award – Reanna Mortensen
- Best in Media Sales Award – Johnny Rook
- WUTK Student of the Year Award – Graham R. Smith
- Best in TV Production Award – Richard “Alex” Thomason
We congratulate all of our outstanding undergraduate and graduate students for their achievements and are very grateful to those who made these scholarships possible!
| Students | Scholarships |
| Dallas Abel | Society of Professional Journalist Scholarship |
| Rilwan Balogun | Zack Binkley Memorial Scholarship |
| Katherine Banks | Avron Spiro Scholarship |
| Andelyn Barclay | Nat P. Caldwell Public Service Scholarship & Myron Chambers Scholarship |
| Kristen Barnett | Knoxville News Sentinel Journalism Scholarship |
| Joyce Anne Benzi | International Journalism Scholarship |
| Jessica Biggard | Charles B. Davis Scholarship |
| Madeleine Bishop | John P. Hart Scholarship in Broadcasting |
| Rachelle Blake | Tom Siler Scholarship |
| Theresa-Rose Bolen | Charles B. Davis Scholarship |
| Jennifer Brake | Georgiana Fry Vines Scholarship |
| Kate Brimer | Darrel Holt and Herbert Howard Broadcasting Scholarship for Graduate Students |
| Christie Ann Caldwell | Lindsey Nelson Scholarship |
| Jackie Cameron | Jerry Whitener Scholarship |
| Jessica Campbell | Scripps Howard/Ernie Pyle Scholarship |
| Cecelia Chai | John Robert Randt Scholarship |
| Hyuk Jun Cheong | Sally J. McMillan Scholarship |
| Caitlyn Cline | Nellie Kenyon Scholarship |
| Leslie Paige Cox | BMI Foundation Inc./ Joseph Carriere Scholarship |
| David Doyle | Michael Steven Head Scholarship |
| Scott Eldredge | Faye Julian Scholarship |
| Mark Freeman | John Robert Randt Scholarship |
| Elizabeth Anne Graves | Jody Chambers Scholarship |
| Lauren Gregg | Ron Taylor Scholarship and the Carol Poston Scholarship |
| Taylor Hathorne | John Ward Sports Broadcasting Scholarship |
| William Housley, Jr. | David Lee & Tina Smith Scholarship |
| Deborah Ince | Scripps Howard Foundation 2013 Summer Internship |
| Ilwoo Ju | Edward Meeman Fellowship in International Communication |
| Kelsey Keny | Society of Professional Journalists Scholarship |
| Chloe Kidd | Faye Julian Scholarship |
| Marion Kirkpatrick | H. Wayne & Betty B. Hudson Scholarship |
| Kyle Knell | Claude A. Tomlinson Scholarship |
| Abby Knight | Tutt & Elizabeth Bradford Scholarship and the Ronald McMahan Memorial Scholarship |
| Kayla Lingerfelt | David Mould Scholarship |
| Caitlin McCleary | Leslie Meredith Williams Scholarship |
| Shayla McDaniel | Bernard King Scholarship and Jody Chambers Scholarship |
| Jodi McDaniels | Reeder-Siler Scholarship |
| Sandra McLean | Sally Holder Johnson Scholarship |
| Alice Mitchell | Edward B. Fabacher, III Scholarship |
| Molly Morgan | James Wolfkiel Scholarship in Photojournalism |
| Benjamin Murphy | Tom Sweeten Scholarship Fund |
| Andrea Overby | McNeely, Pigott & Fox Scholarship and the Myron G. Chambers Scholarship |
| Johnny Parker | Coca Cola Minority Scholarship |
| Ivanka R. Pjesivac | Edward Meeman Fellowship |
| Danijela Radic | Edward Meeman Fellowship |
| Caroline Reeves | Richard Joel Scholarship |
| Kaitlyn Rice | Janet Faye Breazeale Memorial Scholarship |
| Alexis Riggs | Wallene T. Leek Scholarship and Julian & Virginia Harriss Scholarship |
| Deborah Robbins | Lowell Blanchard Scholarship Fund |
| Chris Samoray | Karl and Madira Bickel Scholarship |
| Garth Seiderman | Sally Holder Johnson Memorial Scholarship |
| Mary Cathryn Suhocki | Journalism and Electronic Media Faculty Scholarship and Scripps Howard Foundation 2013 Summer Internship |
| Elizabeth Smith | Anne Holt Blackburn Scholarship |
| Emily Smith | McNeely, Pigott & Fox Scholarship and the James Lawrence Fly Scholarship |
| Samantha Smoak | Faye Julian Scholarship |
| Maggie Solomon | Harry Moskos Scholarship |
| Trevor Stokes | Kelly Leiter Scholarship |
| Diane Tate | Leslie Meredith Williams Scholarship |
| Kermisha Tate | Leslie Meredith Williams Scholarship |
| A. Robert Veronesi | Journalism and Electronic Media Faculty Scholarship |
| Joshua Ward | United Press International Award for Sports Scholarship |
| Patrick Wells | Wallene T. Leek Scholarship and the Christopher Grabenstein Scholarship Fund |
| Dylan Wilkes | Kelly Leiter Scholarship |