College of Communication and Information

Tombras School of Advertising & Public Relations

Student News

  • Graduate Student Mackenzie Ostrom Reflects on Time as a Graduate Assistant, Lady Vol, and VFL

    Graduate student Mackenzie Ostrom is the kind of person whose engaging personality and knack for community building results in the office outings being named, “Macktivities.” In the year that she worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Office of Student Engagement, Ostrom implemented a weekly office lunch and regularly scheduled coffee…

  • Senior Faith Mtabo Found Her Passion in Public Relations

    Public relations suits Faith Mtabo perfectly, though this wouldn’t be a truth she would discover until after her third year at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Mtabo knew she wanted a marketable major to easily land a job after graduation, so she initially chose business analytics. The business courses didn’t resonate with her, but she…

  • Tombras School Grad Students Create Communications Plan for the Tennessee RiverLine

    Caption, from left: Professor Brad Collett, Sydney Sinewe, Tammy Castany, Winston Roberts, Muslimah Yusuff, Logan Judy, Professor Beth Foster, and Lila Honaker stand in the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center after the five graduate students gave a presentation on the communications plan they created for the Tennessee RiverLine. The Tennessee RiverLine was initiated by…

  • ADPR Welcomes Jasmine Fehr

    Jasmine Fehr is a first-year master’s student studying in the College of Communication & Information, with a concentration in Advertising. Jasmin runs track and cross country on the teams here at UT, Knoxville. Originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, she has lived in the U.S. for five years. This past spring, Jasmine completed her BA in Psychology…

  • Chazni Darden Named MAIP Fellow

    Chazni Darden, a senior advertising student in the School of Advertising and Public Relations was named as a MAIP Fellow for 2021. The Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) fellowship focuses on placing highly skilled BIPOC or multicultural students within the advertising industry. The highly competitive program combines real-world training and professional development through an immersive…

  • Jill Williams Joins ADPR

    We’re pleased to introduce to you our new ADPR student assistant, Jill Williams! Originally from Nashville, TN, she enjoys traveling, cooking, reading, and spending time outdoors. Jill attended UT for her undergraduate education where she received her bachelor’s in communication and information with a concentration in PR. Before graduating in May of 2020, she began…

  • Advertising PhD Student Analyzes Super Bowl

    Our very own Advertising PhD student, Alex Carter, has spent the past two years using the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center to understand how various social media platforms react to major events like last night’s Super Bowl. Especially in an event like the Super Bowl, companies use engagement on Twitter to measure the success of…

  • CCI Alumni Start VOLs Remote Internship Program for Students

    As many students around the country had their summer internship plans put on hold because of COVID-19 and economic uncertainty, the University of Tennessee’s New York City Alumni Chapter quickly organized a virtual internship program for future communicators.  The VOLs Remote Internship pilot program paired five interns from CCI with social media and digital communication…

  • PR Student Takes Inaugural Lollapalooza Class

    Senior public relations student Grant Mitchell had the opportunity to participate in Lollapalooza’s inaugural five-week class at DePaul University. During the class, he learned about networking in the music industry and the importance of learning from entry level positions. “When it comes to any industry, perseverance is key, and this class helped reinforce that for…

  • Senior ADPR Student Talks Summer Internships in a Pandemic

    As a result of attending the annual ADPR New York City networking trip in January 2020, Patrick Boyd landed a once-in-a-lifetime internship working in account management for FCB Health, a healthcare advertising company with a thriving internship program. Typically, FCB Health’s internship program brings opportunity for the interns to work in the heart of New…