2016 UT Social Media Week Highlights UT Social Media Week, March 28-31, 2016 proved to be the most interactive in the event’s five-year history. Over 700 students and faculty attended the week’s events. On Twitter at #UTSMW16, a series of tweets provide highlights of the week from the perspective of students, faculty, staff and presenters. Find out more
Buzzfeed Science Editor Virginia Hughes Delivers Hill Lecture Virginia Hughes, acclaimed science editor for Buzzfeed News, gave the 24th Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture on March 29, 2016. Hughes spoke to a capacity audience on “In Defense of Clickbait.” Find out more
UT’s Tenopir Receives Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair Honor Carol Tenopir, a Chancellor’s Professor and CCI Board of Visitors Professor in the School of Information Sciences, has been selected as the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies for the 2016-2017 academic year. The position is considered one of the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Find out more
Alum’s Gift Powers CCI’s New Social Media Command Center On March 31, 2016 CCI opened its new Adam Brown Social Media Command Center, where faculty, staff and students will be able to employ the same leading technology Fortune 100 companies worldwide use to publish, engage and analyze their social media marketing activities. Find out more
Foster’s Research Featured at Spring 2016 Mic/Nite ADPR Associate Professor Beth Avery Foster’s March 10, 2016 Mic/Nite presentation was titled, “Exploring the effects of visual appeals in an HPV prevention campaign: An eye-tracking study.” A video of Foster’s presentation will be available soon. Find out more
Com Studies Students Visit Washington, D.C. Twenty students from the School of Communication Studies (CS) were in Washington, D.C. February 27 – March 2, 2016 to visit government agencies and network with UT alumni. Find out more
CCI Faculty/Staff Support UT’s Big Orange Family Campaign The Big Orange Family (BOF) Campaign, held annually to invite UT Knoxville faculty and staff members to make an annual financial gift to UT, is now complete. See how CCI faculty and staff stepped up in this year’s campaign. Find out more
CCI Connects! Howe, Neely, Thornburg, Moussa For many, the college experience includes laying the foundation for lifelong friendships and relationships with faculty mentors. CCI alums re-connect at events such as Social Media Week, CCI/UT alumni events and beyond. Take a look at these two very different stories of CCI grads re-connecting. Find out more
Alumni News: Maynor, McNeely, Sellers Read the latest news about Ashley Maynor (MS/IS ’13), Mark McNeely (BS/JEM ’70) and Tim Sellers (BS/AD ’88). Find out more
Faculty News: Brotman, Geidner, Gross, Haley, Paskewitz, Rentsch, Taylor and Tenopir CCI faculty members Stuart N. Brotman, Nick Geidner, Peter Gross, Eric Haley, Emily Paskewitz, Joan Rentsch, Maureen Taylor, Carol Tenopir and Peiling Wang all have news to share. Find out more
Five Tips on Managing Risk Communication Advertising and Public Relations Associate Professor Michael J. Palenchar’s research focuses on risk communication. His five tips are based on his professional and academic experience and his research.Five tips for March
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