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Graduating Tombras School student and Army National Guard Soldier Accomplishes Academic Goals
Army National Guard Soldier and nontraditional student Logan Korn is a senior at the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations. He transferred to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from Pellissippi State Community College where he studied business, economics, and history. Faculty in the Tombras School describe him as hardworking and a go-getter but he…
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UT Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society Initiates New Members
Nine students from the School of Journalism and Media and the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations were initiated into the Willis C. Tucker chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society on Monday. Friends and family gathered in the College of Communication and Information lobby on Monday to celebrate the newest cohort of students…
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Tombras School students travel to Washington State to attend PRSSA Leadership Assembly
Two Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations students had the opportunity to visit Seattle to expand their leadership skills at the 2024 Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Leadership Assembly. Juniors Drue Hamlet and Isabella Sucheski represented the Volunteer Chapter of PRSSA as the current vice president and PR director, respectively. During their…
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Bishop and Childers Appointed to CCI Associate Dean Roles
Two internal searches for associate deans who will further the strategic vision for the College of Communication and Information’s continuing growth have been concluded with exceptional candidates being appointed to each. Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations Professor and Interim Director of the School of Journalism and Media Courtney Childers will step into the…
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Graduating Senior Tucker Harlin Grateful For Hands-On Experiences In Journalism
Graduating senior Tucker Harlin (left) at the 2023 BlueCross Bowl in Chattanooga with Fox Sports Knoxville. Harlin helped broadcast the games live. Graduating senior Tucker Harlin always had an interest in sports. Not so much playing sports, but rather a fascination with what goes into covering sports. His interest led him to get involved in…
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Graduating Senior Ainslee Raasch Named CCI’s First TEGNA Producer-In-Residence
First-generation graduating senior Ainslee Raasch and her family regularly tune in to watch WBIR-TV, Channel 10. So, when she shared that she will work at the station this summer as a producer, they were overjoyed. “It was super, super exciting when I got the call that I had gotten this job with WBIR,” Raasch said.…
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SIS Director Receives High Honors from Alma Mater
School of Information Sciences Director Abebe Rorissa was recently awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award from his alma mater, the University of North Texas’s College of Information, Department of Information Science. Rorissa has been the director of the School of Information Sciences since July 2021. He also served as the associate dean of faculty affairs for…
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SIS Assistant Professor Explores How Research Data is Published and Reused
Assistant Professor Kai Li is an experienced information scientist and scholar who has worked for libraries and companies worldwide, in addition to higher education institutions. Li obtained a bachelor’s degree in history from Beijing Normal University, a master’s degree in information science from Syracuse University, and a PhD from Drexel University. During his studies, he…
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Student Media Organizations Announce Leadership Teams For 2024-2025 Academic Year
Junior Kylia Berry in the studio at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Student media organizations at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have announced their student leadership teams for the 2024-2025 academic year. The incoming student leaders for Ablaze magazine, The Daily Beacon, Lumos Media Services and The Volunteer Channel (TVC) were recently selected following a…
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Master’s Student Traci Lively’s Delayed Return to UT Turns into Pursuit of a PhD
Traci Lively entered the master’s program at the College of Communication and Information in 2004 but put it on hold when she was also accepted into the film studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fast forward several years and Lively is back in the CCI program, with a concentration in communication studies,…