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Student Spotlight: Amy Snyder Lands Fellowship with Library of Congress

Featured student: Amy Snyder Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education: Undergraduate degree in English and minor in art history from University of Virginia Why information sciences? I went to undergrad at the University of Virginia and was an English major over there and an art history minor. I started working in the small special collections library and…
Career Coach Bukky Abdul is Here to Help Undergraduate Students Find Career Success

Connecting students with possibilities for their future is truly a passion for Bukky Abdul, career coach for the College of Communication & Information at the Center for Career Development. “I love working with students to help develop themselves, and after my master’s program, I knew I wanted to do career coaching full time. This is…
BSIS Student Makayla Lerner Wins CCI Poster Competition with Research on Rural Communities Adopting Broadband

Makayla Lerner is the first undergraduate School of Information Sciences student to complete a practicum, and just this last week she won first place in the College of Communication and Information’s 44th Annual Research Symposium’s Research Poster Kaleidoscope contest. The research she presented in her poster stemmed from the practicum and undergraduate research assistantship work…
MSIS Student Sarah Calise Founds Nashville Queer History Digital Archive, Lands Deal to Write First Book on Nashville’s LGBTQ+ History

It’s easy to forget history, but even more so if no one preserves it. Sarah Calise, an archivist and a student in the School of Information Sciences master’s program, is someone who specializes in preservation. So when they saw the history of Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community slowly slipping away, they also saw an opportunity to make…
Alum Savanna Sims Manages Data at an Org to Help People Who are Experiencing Homelessness

Every day, data is gathered in 12 East Tennessee counties about one of its most vulnerable populations: people experiencing homelessness. All of this data is entered into the Homeless Management Information System, which at the Tennessee Valley Coalition for the Homeless (TVCH), is handled by MSIS alum Savanna Sims (’20). Sims started working at TVCH…
A Trio of Friends Journey Through Work and the MSIS Program Together

It’s not unusual for students to take a meandering path that ends with them entering the MSIS program—some wander a little, and others even make hard turns into a drastic career change. But rarely do those paths intersect the way that those of three current MSIS students have: Carolyn Shafer, Jenny Huffman, and William Judd. Not…
Alumnus Eric Dawson Steps Into Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Manager Position

Eric Dawson (’13) has been in the history-filled book stacks and climate-controlled rooms of the East Tennessee History Center ever since he was a student in the MSIS program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His experience there started in 2012 when he took on a practicum with Steve Cotham, manager at that time of…
Student Spotlight: Jessica Woofter on Databases and Data Analysis

Featured Student: Jessica Woofter Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education: Bachelor’s in General Studies with a focus on Business and Technical writing Career: Data Analyst at the University of Tennessee’s Environmental Health & Safety Why information sciences? I am definitely not a traditional student. I did not take a straight path to complete my college degree or…
SIS Launches Research Data Management Certificate Program

The School of Information Sciences recently added another graduate certificate to its offerings, the Research Data Management Certificate (RDMC). “At SIS, we tailor our programs to the workforce needs of employers and provide a relevant curriculum that benefits our students,” said SIS Professor and Director Abebe Rorissa. “The new Research Data Management Certificate and our existing certificate offerings in Health Informatics and Youth…
SIS Professor Dania Bilal Works with PhD Student & Others to Learn How to Use Social Robots to Help People with Dementia

SIS Professor Dania Bilal has explored research in recent years centered on artificial intelligence (AI) from an information sciences perspective, exploring how people interact with various AI and robot interfaces. She most recently partnered with doctoral student, Fengpei Yuan, and her advisor, Professor Xiaopeng Zhao, at the University of Tennessee Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering,…