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New SIS Exit Requirements Focus on Program Effectiveness

In 2018, The Graduate School at the University of Tennessee eliminated its requirement that master’s students complete a capstone project or examination in order to graduate, allowing individual graduate programs to decide what – if any – exit requirements they’d ask master’s students to complete. As a result, SIS faculty voted to eliminate the MSIS…
Student Spotlight: First-generation Student Sarah Gonzalez Speaks About Her Love of Data

Student Spotlight: Student Spotlight features one of our current School of Information Sciences Master students. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, careers, locations, and academics, and we want to highlight who they are and why they chose the University of Tennessee, Knoxville SIS program. Featured student: Sarah Gonzalez Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Current job:…
Student Spotlight: How Sophie Howard Found Her Way to SIS and Archives

Featured student: Sophie Howard Location: Birmingham, Alabama Current job: Appraisal archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, in Montgomery, Ala. Family: My mother and father have always encouraged me to find a career and life that makes me happy, and I feel they have encouraged me throughout this process because they can see…
SIS Edges Closer to Approval for Undergraduate Information Sciences Major

Tennessee and the rest of the country will need more information sciences professionals in the coming years – in fact, information-related careers expect around a 20-percent job growth rate in the next decade. As the vast amount of data being created due to technological advances increases, the need to collect, curate and organize that data also…
SIS & CICS Postdoc Assistant Hannah Gunderman Awarded American Geographical Society Library Research Fellowship

Geography and information sciences will collide during the upcoming fellowship grant that Hannah Gunderman, a postdoctoral research associate with SIS and the Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) and an SIS masters student, will soon attend. She pitched a project that blends both of her passions – geography and information sciences – to the…
Learn About a Lecturer: Rebecca Vargha Brings a Varied Background to Specialized Information Agencies & Services Course

Location:  Durham/Chapel Hill, NC Academic  Background:  Bachelor’s degree in English literature from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.; master’s degree in library science from UNC, Chapel Hill Current position: I am the head librarian at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science. It’s a fairly rare model these days, back in…
LaVerne Gray: New SIS Lecturer, Lifetime Pursuer of Knowledge

Strong African-American women have been present for almost all of the pivotal moments in LaVerne Gray’s career–both professionally and academically. These were the women she wrote about in her doctoral classes at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and for her dissertation, “In a Collective Voice:  Uncovering the Black Feminist Information Community of Activist Mothers in…
AGU Meets in D.C., SIS Faculty and Students Participate

Several faculty and students attended the 2018 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C. this past week. SIS Associate Professor Wade Bishop and master’s student Rose Borden gathered information for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) project, “Informing Science Data Help Desk Staffing through Transaction Analysis,” which is based on research supported…
SIS Student Sharra Rosichan Uses GIS to Aid Vulnerable Populations

SIS student Sharra Rosichan is the type of person who will teach herself something that she’s interested in – such as how to write code, design websites or read maps. She was a voracious reader at a very young age – reading before talking, and consuming chapter books by the time she was four years…
SIS Faculty Participates in ASIS&T 2018 Conference

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) recently held its annual conference in Vancouver, and some of the School of Information Sciences’ faculty had a hand…