Alumni News
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40 Under 40: Alumnus Josh Ward Uses Radio Career To Build Community Connections In His Hometown
Alumnus Josh Ward (’07) was recently inducted into the Volunteer 40 Under 40 Class of 2024, which recognizes alumni under the age of forty who have excelled personally and professionally since completing their degree. Play No. 1. Several Tennessee Vols fans can recall this iconic play from the 1995 game at Neyland Stadium when Peyton…
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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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CCI Alumnus to host guest lecture presentation for SIS
College of Communication and Information alumnus Kevin Mallary is ensuring everyone is included in the conversation through his research on disabilities and accessibility. Mallary is an assistant professor of library and information studies at Old Dominion University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication at Wake Forest University and earned his PhD in…
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40 Under 40: Alumna Heather Melton Lives the Volunteer Creed Every Day
Alumna and Volunteer 40 Under 40 Class of 2024 inductee Heather Melton (‘06) works as the executive director of the Kidney Foundation of the Greater Chattanooga Area helping hundreds of individuals. Pictured from left to right are foundation staff members Genna Parker, Kirbee Hutchins, Melton, and Susannah Shaver. For more than a decade, alumna Heather…
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Tarwater, WVLT Wins Emmy® Awards For Documentary On Clemency For Cash Scandal
School of Journalism and Media Assistant Professor of Practice Brittany Tarwater (‘09) won Midsouth Regional Emmy® Awards for her work on the WVLT News Original Documentary, A Tennessee Waltz: Ray Blanton’s Last Dance School of Journalism and Media Assistant Professor of Practice Brittany Tarwater (‘09) isn’t sure what made her take author Keel Hunt’s book…
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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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40 Under 40: Alumna Erin Exum Finds Passion and Success Through Sports Communication
As a child, alumna Erin Exum (‘10) dreamed about becoming a sideline reporter. This dream brought the Florida native and fervent Tennessee Vols fan to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to study journalism. However, not long after, she realized being a reporter was not her calling after all. But, that didn’t deter her from finding…
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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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40 Under 40: Alumna, Award-Winning Broadcaster Heather Waliga Proud To Serve East Tennessee
Alumna Heather Waliga (‘06) co-hosts 10News Today for WBIR-TV and Fox43 News This Morning in Knoxville. She joined the team in March 2018. Pictured, from left to right are: Morning News Anchor Abby Ham, Meteorologist Rebecca Sweet and Waliga. Knoxville native and alumna Heather Waliga (‘06) was thrilled to accept the anchor position at WBIR-TV…
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Communication Studies Alumna and Restaurant Owner Anna Myint is a 2024 Volunteer 40 Under 40
Anna Myint (‘08) owns and manages International Market, a business her parents opened in Nashville in 1975—the first Thai restaurant and market ever in the city. It has introduced Thai cuisine to generations of Nashvillians and, after closing the old relocation and opening a new one, landed on Southern Living’s The South’s Best New Restaurants…