Friday, January 15, 2016                                                                   

Inside CCI – Available online at http://www.cci.utk.edu/insideCCI.

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COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION

Associate Dean for Research and SIS Professor Suzie Allard and CS Associate Professor Courtney Wright are two of seven faculty members selected from across the campus to deliver a lecture for the spring semester Honors Faculty Lecture Series. Wright will deliver her lecture, “Embracing opportunities: Conflict management and difficult dialogues,” on January 21, 2016 at the Baker Center. Allard will deliver her lecture, “Team Science: Tackling science brick by brick,” on February 4, 2016.

SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES

Associate Professor Bharat Mehra’s presentation, “A community engagement framework to apply action research and further social justice and social equity for underserved populations,” was part of a panel, “Strategies for change: Qualitative LIS research methods and furthering social justice,” during the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, January 5-8, 2016. He also served as a judge of the conference’s 2015-2016 Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition.

Mehra and Associate Professor Vandana Singh’s paper, “A social justice framework to further community engagement in Pakistan’s information management and library professions,” was presented by conference organizers and published in the conference proceedings at the International Conference on Information Management & Libraries, Department of Information Management, University of Punjab, Quaid-i-Azam Campus, Lahore-Pakistan, November 10-13, 2015.

Mehra, Assistant Professor Wade Bishop, and Robert Partee (SIS master’s student) will present a poster paper that will also be published in the conference proceedings, “Community partnerships to further the role of rural public libraries in small business economic development: A case study of Tennessee,” during the iConference 2016: Partnership With Society, March 20-23, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Assistant Professor Devendra Potnis’ activities at the 2016 ALISE Conference included:

• Serving as a judge for the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition, and
• Moderating a session on School Media Education/Leadership Education.

Assistant Professor Wade Bishop presented findings from a research project, “Harvesting information partnerships for geospatial data education and outreach (HIPGEO),” at the winter meeting of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation along with SIS students Jeni Trimmer and Lara Marler.

Bishop’s co-authored paper with Tony H. Grubesic (Arizona State U.) and Theresa Parrish (MS/IS ’14), “Collaborative development and assessment of student learning outcomes for LIS electives,” was published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 

Assistant Professor Carolyn Hank gave a talk, “The impact of digital curation tools and projects in the classroom,” at CurateGear 2016: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 14, 2016. The talk shared on results from a study undertaken with Assistant Professor Awa Zhu. 

JOURNALISM & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Professor Barb Kaye was named a faculty fellow by National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) and will attend NATPE’s annual conference in Miami, Florida, January 19 – 21, 2016. The goal of the Faculty Fellowship Program is to expose the educational community to current television issues and practices, and to foster improved communication and cooperation between educators and the industry.

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