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Information Integrity Institute Postdoc Matthew Craig Attends Social Science Foo Camp at Meta
Matthew Craig, postdoctoral research associate at the Information Integrity Institute, was one of 150 select people invited to the 2025 Social Science Foo Camp at Meta headquarters in Palo Alto, California in early February. The event, often referred to as an “unconference” due to its unstructured schedule, allows attendees to determine topics on the spot…
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Communication Studies Senior Donté Mullins Aims for Great Heights in the Sports Industry
“When it comes to the sports industry, so many people want to work in it. I just want to make sure that when my resume comes across the table, it’ll be something you haven’t seen before,” said Donté Mullins, a senior and communication studies major at the College of Communication and Information. Mullins has an…
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Vol 40 Under 40 Amy Donahue Flexes Communication Skills Across Industries
Even though Amy Donahue (’09, ’11) grew up less than an hour away from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, moving to the larger city and bustling campus was very different from her small, rural hometown of Jellico, Tennessee. But the two-time College of Communication and Information alumnus acclimated to city life on a large campus,…
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Vol 40 Under 40 Courtney Holder Leads in Higher Ed
The experiences Courtney Holder (‘10, ‘12) had as an undergraduate majoring in communication studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, made such an impact she chose a career focused on giving higher education students the same type of formative experiential opportunities she had. Holder currently serves as the assistant director of Stamp Student Union, director…
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Tennessee Speech and Debate Society a Chapter in Alumni’s Love Story
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, alumni Lillia Poveda King (’21) and Codey King (’21) met in eighth grade and later became high school sweethearts in their hometown of Seymour, Tennessee. Today, the now-married couple live in Washington, DC, as research analysts pursuing the career goals that first started to bloom in each of them around the same…
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Junior Sana Boghani is Blazing a Path to a Career in Public Health Communications
When junior Sana Boghani first came to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she immediately began investigating opportunities on and off campus that could benefit her long-term goals and interests. She declared her major in communication studies as an incoming freshman, but the academic and extracurricular endeavors she’s undertaken since becoming a Vol have helped develop …
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40 Under 40: Rebekka Freeman Terrell Finds the Path to Success isn’t Linear
When Rebekka Freeman Terrell (’09) moved from Memphis across the state to attend the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she committed fully to being a Volunteer. Even when life threw her curveballs, she took them in stride and turned those challenges into learning experiences that ultimately grew her knowledge and skills. It’s this pragmatism, grit, and…
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CCI Faculty Brittany Tarwater in Class of 2025 Volunteer 40 Under 40
From the moment Brittany Tarwater (‘09, ‘13) stepped into the College of Communication and Information to where she is today in her career, there’s been a network of supportive faculty pushing her to succeed. She didn’t realize when she arrived at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus on her 18th birthday that CCI and UT would…
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Online Master’s Student Jordan Morgan Publishes the ‘ABCs of Knoxville’
Though Jordan Morgan grew up loving to read and write, communications wasn’t her first pick as a career—but she found her way back to it eventually. While her undergraduate degree is in biology and she spent time in a lab, life happened, and she began writing and managing social media so she could work from…
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JEM Professor Amber Roessner Provides Expert Commentary in Wake of President Jimmy Carter’s Death
As the nation mourns the death of President Jimmy Carter, who died December 29, 2024, Professor Amber Roessner is being called upon by news media to share her perspective on the life and legacy of the longest-lived United States president. A School of Journalism and Media professor, Roessner met the 39th president in 2014 before publishing her…