Thirty-one CCI students and one faculty member earned 40 total awards at the annual Chancellor’s Honors Banquet, which was held April 16.
Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir was named the Macebearer, the University of Tennessee’s highest faculty honor celebrating a distinguished career and a commitment to students, scholarship, and society. Tenopir’s research in information sciences has been cited more than 10,000 times and has garnered more than $10 million in funding.
Senior Journalism and Electronic Media major Elizabeth Longmire was one of just seven graduating seniors who earned the university’s highest student honor of Torchbearer.
Below is a listing of all CCI award winners:
Macebearer
• Carol Tenopir, SIS Chancellor’s Professor/BOV Professor/CCI Interim Associate Dean for Research

Torchbearer
• Elizabeth Longmire, JEM

Top Collegiate Scholar
• Abby Bower, JEM

Extraordinary Academic Achievement
• Abby Bower, JEM
• Dara Carney-Nedelman, CS
• Emily Caylor, CS
• Loren Gilbert, PR
• Sophie Grosserode, JEM
• Joan Hargett, AD
• Cara Hunter, PR
• Callie Johnson, PR
• Katherine Matthews, PR
• Matthew Meyers, AD
• Alyson Parris, JEM
• Kane Smith, CS
• Sarah Wilbanks, AD

Extraordinary Professional Promise
• Jacob Albright, JEM
• Jorden Albright, JEM
• Katherine Armitage, CS
• Hailley Baker, AD
• Peyton Cantrell, PR
• Dara Carney-Nedelman, CS
• Anslee Daniel, JEM
• Loren Gilbert, PR
• Jamie Greig, PhD C&I
• Sophie Greig, JEM
• Joan Hargett, AD
• Cara Hunter, PR
• Andrew Kochamba, AD
• Katherine Matthews, PR
• Hunter McClure, AD
• Matthew Meyers, AD
• Chelsea Ott, PR
• Lindsey Owen, MS C&I
• Cassandra Ray, PhD C&I
• Kane Smith, CS
• Fiona Sparks, PR
• Chelsea Trott, CS
• David Wall, AD
• Hannah Whitson, PR