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MSIS Students Bring Ideas to Student Town Hall

The School of Information Sciences hosted a special Town Hall session Jan. 19 for MSIS students, giving them an opportunity to ask questions and bounce ideas off of key faculty and staff members. College of Communication and Information Dean Mike Wirth, Clinical Assistant Professor Ericka Patillo and Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May (current co-directors of SIS…
CCI’s 43rd Annual Research Symposium Presented in New All-Virtual Format

The College of Communication and Information’s Annual Research Symposium is returning for its 43rd year on March 1, 2021, in a brand-new format designed to not only be completely virtual, but also to better foster and facilitate audience interaction. “We’ve been paying attention this whole year to format and participation in all sorts of virtual meetings,…
Learn About a Lecturer: Kristin Chaffin

Lecturer: Kristin Chaffin Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Education: MSIS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do you teach at SIS? INSC 384, the database design course. This will be my second term teaching it; I taught it this past fall for the first time. It’s been a lot of fun to…
SIS Welcomes Assistant Professor of Practice Joy M. Doan to Faculty

Joy M. Doan has joined the School of Information Sciences this spring as an assistant professor of practice for the master’s program, and brings with her a wealth of experience as an administrator, practitioner, special subject librarian, and as an instructor. Her most recent position was as head of the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library at…
Student Spotlight: Joshua Melendez Enjoys that BSIS Major Embodies Tech and Creativity

Featured Student: Josh Melendez Hometown: Clarksville, Tennessee What drew you to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville? I’m originally from Clarksville, Tennessee, and I heard about UT from word of mouth and how great the program is and how the faculty and staff really care about students. During my high school time, I did dual enrollment…
Learn About a Lecturer: Jacob Kramer-Duffield Brings Media Analytics Experience to His Class

Lecturer: Jacob Kramer-Duffield Location: Brooklyn, New York Education: undergrad at Overland College in Ohio What do you teach at SIS? INSC 305 – Internet & Society. It’s sort of a survey course of how information science underlies a pretty broad range of structures and social situations within society and trying to make tangible a lot of stuff…
Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Receives ALISE Teacher of the Year Award

Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctoral degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class. “How I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was…
SIS, CICS Team Awarded $399K Sloan Grant to Study Early Career Researchers

As COVID-19 continues to affect the way people live, work, and learn around the world, researchers are beginning to gather data on how the pandemic is affecting society, and one such research team is from the College of Communication and Information’s Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) and the School of Information Sciences in…
SIS D&I Badge Encourages Students to Incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Into Their Work

From left: SIS Assistant Professor Carolyn Hank with the 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Badge recipients, Kelsey Collins, Elaine Posanka and Joseph Winberry. The School of Information Sciences faculty weaves diversity, equity, and inclusion into its curriculum and scholarship, and the SIS community as a whole strives to incorporate it in all other aspects of its…
Undergrad Holland Parkins First Ever SIS Student to be a CCI Land Ambassador

Junior Holland Parkins recently became the first ever College of Communications and Information Land Ambassador for the School of Information Sciences (SIS), a position in which she will represent the college and assist CCI with student recruitment, student retention, alumni relations, community outreach, and college events. What is a CCI Land Ambassador? The CCI Land…