Student News
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SIS Student Awarded Scholarship Enabling Her to Receive US Passport and to Study Abroad
Incoming School of Information Sciences senior Sinit Eyob was recently gifted the opportunity to study abroad in Valencia, Spain, thanks to multiple scholarship opportunities provided by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Eyob is originally from Eritrea, Africa, but moved to Ethiopia when she was three and to the United States when she was six. She’s…
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Land Grant Films, East Tennessee PBS JobPop! Series Wins Four National Telly Awards
Alumnus Seth Reynolds filming Tennessee Valley Authority’s robot dog Spot fora JobPop! video on becoming a programmer. Land Grant Films and East Tennessee PBS won four national Telly Awards for JobPop!, an innovative video series targeted at third through sixth graders and aimed at workforce development. Land Grant Films is a documentary production program in…
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Students Traveling to Paris to Cover the 2024 Paralympics for the USA TODAY Network
The school has partnered with the USA TODAY Network to cover the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. Traveling to do so are: Professor Nick Geidner, Caleb Jarreau, Lukas Vysniauskas, Ryan Beatty, Griffin Hadley, Professor Erin Whiteside, Avery Bane, Catherine Ligon, Gabriel Jackson, Kylia Berry, Lillian Van Alsburg (not pictured) and Aman Misra (not pictured). Catherine Ligon,…
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WUOT, The Daily Beacon, JEM Faculty Win Big At East Tennessee SPJ Awards
CCI media outlets and college alums won big at the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ (ETSPJ) Golden Press Card Awards this past May. From the left: Professor Mark Harmon, WUOT reporter Jacqui Sieber, CCI graduate student Alexis Bishop, graduate student Nick McNeese, Beacon photographer Edward Cruz, Knoxville News Sentinel reporter and…
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PhD Grad James Cartee Hopes to Help College Students Attain Mental Health Services
James Cartee has been in the business of communication for a while now and has even been teaching in the field at higher education institutions for several years. But, four years ago, he decided it was time to take the next step and follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and father and become a…
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Online Master’s Grad Melissa Espinales Celebrates Being a Volunteer
Distance education student Melissa Espinales was so thrilled to graduate with a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, that she, her parents, and husband all flew here from Texas for the Graduate Hooding Ceremony. “You’re not going to tell me that I’m not coming, I’m graduating with my master’s!” Espinales exclaimed a few…
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Graduating PhD Candidate Jessica Barfield to Teach at iSchool
As technology advances, new problems will always arise, both technical and societal. It is the latter that drew Jessica Barfield into the world of human-computer interaction (HCI). She successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this spring that delved into how humans are biased towards social robots depending on their perceived gender or ethnic identity, and she…
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SIS Senior Honored for Academic Achievements After Finding Interest in UX Design
As a graduate of Bearden High School, Sarah Yeow knew she wanted to go to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but she wasn’t sure exactly what she wanted to study. Now, as a graduating senior from the School of Information Sciences, Yeow has a better understanding of what she wants to do in the career…