Undergraduate and graduate students from across the College of Communication and Information, the School of Advertising and Public Relations and the School of Journalism and Electronic Media were recognized on Monday April 16 at the College’s 2018 Honors Convocation. More scholarships and recognition, including those from the School of Communication Studies and the School of Information Sciences, will be published in the May issue of Circle Park News.
On November 9, 2018, the annual CCI Awards and Scholarship Donor Appreciation Banquet will honor the scholarship donors and recipients. The student awards presented at the Convocation ceremony were as follows:
CCI Awards
Graduate Research Award – Iman Tahamtan
Dissertation Award – Mirjana Pantic (PhD/C&I ’17)
Teaching Award – Xu (James) Zhang
Advertising & Public Relations Awards
J. Carroll Bateman Award – Jordan Vines
Sammie Lynn Puett Award – Austin Byerly
Outstanding Advertising Graduate – Joshua Oliver
Journalism & Electronic Media Award
Top JEM Graduate – Beverly Banks
The student scholarships presented at the Convocation ceremony included the following:
CCI Scholarships
Karl & Madira Bickel Scholarship – Alissa Sommerfeldt, Heather Davis, Noah Litton, Rachel Belcher
Anne Holt Blackburn Scholarship – Johnesha Harris, Ashley Hendrix
Breaking Away Scholarship – Andrew Capps, Jennifer Brown
Myron G. Chambers Scholarship – Chelsea Babin
Coca-Cola Minority Scholarship – Samantha LaVoi, Jessica Fenn, Alisa Ivanitskaya
James Lawrence Fly Scholarship – Abigail Jones, Amy Carlson
J. Harbison Memorial Scholarship – Lilli Tillman
Michael Steven Head Memorial Scholarship – Rebecca Myers
Donald G. Hileman Scholarship – Nicole Painter
Charles & Tonya Holmes Scholarship – Nicholas Stokes
Herbert H. Howard Scholarship – Joseph Shaw
Sharon Price John Scholarship – Andrew Kochamba
Sally Holder Johnson Scholarship – Jennifer Brown, Sydney Tindell, Erin Piper
Bernard King Scholarship – Monique Freemon, Kashif Graham
Wallene Threadgill Leek Schoalrship – Isaac Ward
Ronald D McMahan Memorial Journalism Scholarship – Savannah Smith
Sally J. McMillan Graduate Scholarship – Michael Driver, Daria Tyschenko
Edward J Meeman Scholarship – James Zhang, Xin Ling, Jing Su, Jacob Teetzmann, Timothy Lee
Charley & Alexia Poe Scholarship – Jacob Albright
Carol Poston Scholarship – Andrew Kochamba
John Robert Randt Scholarship – Reid Guthrie, Caitlyn Jordan
Reeder-Siler Graduate Fellowship – Samantha LaVoi, Adam Crawford, Megan Wade, Nicholas Sarafolean
Nancy Jane Shirley Scholarship – Christopher Salvemini, Jessica Etheridge, Lindsey Owen, Mason Butler
David Lee & Tina Smith Scholarship – Ying Xiong, Minsoo Kim Minsoo, Jason Stamm
Jerry H. Whitener Scholarship – Adolfo Felix, Danielle Smothers
Alan & Wendy Wilson Scholarship – Sarah Rindermann, Will Backus, Braden Lype
Cleveland and Nadine Young Scholarship – Albany Campbell
Advertising & Public Relations Scholarships
Bohan Advertising Scholarship – Andrew Kochamba
Bohan Advertising Scholarship – Madison Duncan, Joan Hargett, Andrew Kochamba, Hunter McClure, Rylie McClurg, Matthew Meyers, Bailey Morris
Karen & Frederick Buchsbaum Scholarship – Sarah Rindermann, Mariah Reid
Jody Chambers Scholarship – Alyssa Brown, Abigail McGee
Conaway Advertising Scholarship – Ashley Hendrix, Julia Dergunov, Molly Vermillion
Charles Davis/Greater Knox Ad Club – Melissa Esposito, Tina Marie Grande, Hannah Lagoski, Nicole Maestri
Julian & Virginia Harriss Memorial Scholarship – Cameron Miller, Delaney Reece
Richard Joel Scholarship – Hunter McClure, Rylie McClurg, Matthew Meyers, Stephanie Lewis
Chuck & Aprill Jones Advertising Scholarship – Madison Duncan
Mark A. & Janis V. McNeely Scholarship – Reagan Homan, Natalie Hill
Randy & Glenda Neely Scholarship – April Damron
Eugene & Sammie Lynn Puett Scholarship – Hannah Whitson
Sellers Advertising Scholarship – Rebecca Myers
Avron Spiro, Jr. Advertising Scholarship – Nicole Maestri, Molly Vermillion
Ronald E. Taylor Advertising Scholarship – Joan Hargett
Charles P. Tombras, Sr. Scholarship – Bailey Morris
Journalism & Electronic Media Scholarships & Awards
Frederick T. Bonham Journalism Scholarship – Kelli Mitchell
Frederick T. Bonham Journalism Scholarship – Laurenz Howard
Tutt & Elizabeth Bradford Journalism Scholarship – Shelby Whitehead, Sarah Plemmons
Janet Fay Breazeale Memorial Scholarship – Jared Sebby
Nat Caldwell Scholarship – Holly Fahy
John P. Hart Scholarship – Anslee Daniel
Holt/Howard Broadcasting Scholarship – Haley Stafford
JEM Faculty Scholarship – Allie Clouse, Marina Trikones
Nellie D. Kenyon Scholarship – Elizabeth Dayhuff
Kelly Leiter Scholarship – Alexia Little
Harry Moskos Scholarship – Andrew Capps
Lindsey Nelson Scholarship – Haley Harbin
Scripps Howard/Ernie Pyle Memorial Scholarship – Justin Crawford
Tom Siler Scholarship – Tyler Wombles
East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists Scholarship – Savanna Jacoby, Jacob Albright
Tom Sweeten Memorial Journalism Scholarship – Addie Morton
Claude A. Tomlinson Scholarship – Eva Herinkova
Broadcasting Department Scholarship – Marcella Tocco
Georgiana Fry Vines Scholarship – Lauren Claxton
John Ward Sports Broadcasting Scholarship – Alyson Parris