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  • Colin McCarl

    Colin McCarl is from the small rural town of St. Thomas Pennsylvania. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the United States Marines. Serving eight years on active duty as an explosive ordnance technician, spending over three years in Afghanistan. For the last several years he has worked as a first responder and a…

  • Mary Yancey

    Senior communication studies major, Mary Logan Yancey, won the Extraordinary Community Service Award at the 2020 Chancellor’s Honors Banquet. Though the awards ceremony was canceled this year, the annual spring program honors students, faculty, and staff on the University of Tennessee campus for professional and academic achievement, as well as community service. • Yancey participated…

  • Ireland Rowe

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville Commencement “For the longest time I wondered where I would go to college. The thought of having to decide where I wanted to go was overwhelming and I did not expect it to come so soon. I grew up in Nashville, TN and never even thought about UT as an option.…

  • Student Spotlight-Grace Bosworth

    Grace Bosworth is a Junior at the University, studying Communication Studies not only through the College of Communications. Grace studied abroad in Ireland through CMST and through an independent study with department head, Dr. Haas. Through the 2019 CMST study abroad Grace learned organizational skills through communication, immersed herself into the beautiful culture of Ireland,…

  • Student Spotlight-Jonathan Johnson

    Jonathan Johnson is graduating second in his class this December with a major in Communication Studies and a minor in Political Science. He is from Sevierville, TN and always dreamed of being a Volunteer. He went on two trips to Washington DC with the Communication Studies, where he later called home during a summer internship…

  • Student Spotlight Gabi Abbatemarco

    Gabi was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee and graduated from Bearden High School. She is a Phi Mu sister here at UT. Gabi has always enjoyed working with and helping others and she feels that Communication Studies has allowed her to do that. “Being a Communication Studies major, I feel that it has allowed…

  • Charles J McClung Public Speaking Contest Winners

    Fall 2019 located at the Cox Auditorium November 20, 2019. Jessica Peters pictured far right took First place.

  • Student Spotlight-Brooke Houser

    Born and raised right here in Knoxville, Brooke Houser graduated from CAK! Brooke started her collegiate career majoring in Audiology and Speech Pathology, but after beginning employment at Anthropologie her junior year, she began to realize her passions were found elsewhere, in people, fashion, writing, and relationships. So, she found Communication Studies which provided her…

  • Student Spotlight – Maura Lamb

    Maura Lamb was born and raised in Knoxville,TN. She attended Milligan College in Johnson City,TN her freshman year, then transferred to UT Sophomore year. She worked at Chick-fil-A for 7 years (started at the age of 14) where she was a supervisor and marketing team member. “What I love about UT is that it is…