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2021 SIS Student Service Award: Julia Proctor

Julia Proctor spent her time in the MSIS program staying very busy with extracurricular activities related to the School and information sciences – so it should be no surprise that she is being given the 2021 SIS Outstanding Service Award. Nonetheless, Proctor, said she was surprised to get the news but also “really happy.” Proctor…
2021 Academic Excellence Award: Cassidy Thompson

When Cassidy Thompson was in her former career as a teacher, she would never have imagined that she’d find her true passion in cataloging. But that’s exactly what Thompson, one of this year’s 2021 Academic Achievement Award winners, hopes to be doing after she graduates from SIS this spring. She was offered a cataloging job…
2021 SIS Academic Excellence Award: Hannah Gunderman

Hannah Gunderman came into the MSIS program with a doctoral degree in geography already under her belt – but she wanted to be a librarian and chose to pursue even more education to get there. Before she was even halfway through her program, Gunderman landed a position as a Research Data Management Consultant at Carnegie…
MSIS Student Karen Beal Awarded Gary R. Purcell Scholarship

Karen Beal is nearing the end of completing her MSIS program, a goal of hers that she’s had since high school. She had put it off for years and finally went for it, and now it has enhanced her current career and given her other options for the future should she wish to go down…
Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski Receives Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award

Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski has just wrapped up his second year at the School of Information Sciences, and despite one of those years being in a pandemic, he’s still managed to produce exceptional research that earned him the SIS 2021 Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award. In the last couple of years, Dobreski…
Empowerment Through Technology: Associate Professor Vandana Singh Given 2021 CCI Faculty Research Award

Associate Professor Vandana Singh wants her research to be a catalyst for change in the real world and therefore she pursues research topics that appeal to practitioners and advance the field of research. She has published about seventy journal articles and conference proceedings and that body of research has been recognized this year with the…
Julia Longmire Brings the Best of Advising to CCI

In all the years that Julie Longmire has been working in college advising, one thing has remained the same: she loves seeing the look a student gets when they are excited about their classes and imagining what their future will look like after graduating. Four months into her position as assistant dean for undergraduate programs…
Learn About a Lecturer: Christine Schmitz on ‘Writing for the Profession’

Lecturer: Christine Schmitz Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Academic Background: BA in journalism and public relations, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn.; MFA in creative writing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Career: My background started in journalism and then I was a college professor at a few different schools. As a grad student, I was teaching at University of…
Jonathan Habashey to Become One of the First SIS Undergraduate Majors to Graduate

Jonathan Habashey was one of the first students to join the undergraduate information sciences program when it started in fall 2019, and now he will be one of the first to graduate from it. Habashey likes talking to people and understanding how they think, but he also likes technology. He started out interested in computer…
MSIS Student Charlie Mix is Putting Conservation on the Map

Charlie Mix and Nyssa Hunt look at the “Cradle of Southern Appalachia” map. – Photo by Angela Foster, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Information is delivered in many forms, and for MSIS student Charlie Mix, maps are his deliverable of choice. Mix earned a bachelor’s degree in geography and went on to work for the National…