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Tombras School Professor Travels to China Connecting with PR Professionals
Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations Assistant Professor of Practice Joseph Stabb spent his winter break on the other side of the world. From December 2, 2023, to January 10, 2024, Stabb was traveling across China building a relationship between the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations and Liaoning University in Shenyang, China.…
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Tombras School Alumna Returns to Campus to Encourage Students to Follow their Goals
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, alumna Karen Freberg (‘11) moved across the country on several occasions to chase her academic and athletic career goals. Freberg’s mom is a professor in psychology and her dad is retired but he also was in marketing and taught marketing. “I actually thought I would go in as a pre-med major.…
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Tombras School’s Assistant Professor Oluseyi Adegbola combines political marketing and public relations in his research
Originally from Nigeria, Assistant Professor Oluseyi Adegbola found his passion for teaching while watching his father connect with his students in the classroom as a college professor. “After school I would go to his office, and sometimes he would be teaching. Out of curiosity, I would wander into the class and watch him teach, and…
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Tombras School Alumni help create commercial for Super Bowl LVIII
It’s an advertiser and marketer’s big dream– to have a commercial play during the big game. For Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations alumni Hayley Howell (’16) and Patrick Wells (’14), that dream came true. The pair work in Brooklyn, New York, for Orchard Creative, a full-service advertising agency. Howell is an Account Director…
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Tombras School Alumni Lee and Erin Freeman Celebrate Their Love After Meeting at UT Over Two Decades Ago
Lee (’02, ’15) and Erin (’02) Freeman did not meet one another until their final year at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but they had similar reasons why they wanted to attend UT —game days on Rocky Top. They first met in an advertising class before both graduated from the Tombras School of Advertising and…
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UT Alumna to host guest lecture series for the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations
Chandra Hayslett (‘97) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning communications executive and vice president of communications at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, but when she first stepped foot onto the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus, her eyes were on a different field of study. “I wanted to be a doctor,” Hayslett said. While in…
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JEM and ADPR Students Learn About Careers in New York City
The week before classes started this spring, a cohort of College of Communication and Information (CCI) students packed their bags and headed to New York City to visit agencies and media outlets to gain insight into their future careers. This year’s trip included students from the School of Journalism and Media and the Tombras School…
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Three Volunteers Recognized at Volunteer PRSA Communicator of the Year Awards Ceremony
Caption: Drue Hamlet (left), Chancellor Donde Plowman (middle), and Cole Pawlaczyk (right) at the 2024 Volunteer PRSA Awards Ceremony. Three Volunteers were recognized for their remarkable work in the fields of marketing, public relations, and communications, at the Volunteer Public Relations Society of America’s 2024 Communicator of the Year Awards Ceremony. The recipients included University…