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Stephanie Walker to be One of the First Undergraduate Students to Earn Her Bachelor’s Degree in the New SIS Major This Spring

While Stephanie Walker is excited to be on the verge of graduating from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with her undergraduate major in information sciences, the senior said it is also a bittersweet moment. “I look back and almost wish I could have discovered information sciences sooner. I just feel like I spent a good…
SIS Graduate Program Takes Top Spot in SEC, 10th Overall Nationally

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School of Information Sciences was ranked as the 10th best in library and information sciences programs in the 2022 US News and World Report graduate school rankings report released March 30, 2021. The new rankings also mean that the SIS library and information sciences program now takes the top slot among…
MSIS Student Claire Jordan to Conduct Fellowship Research on Misuse of Scientific Information

Being in the MSIS program and part of the Collaborative Analysis Liaison Librarians cohort has opened up an entire new world of possibilities within the realm of information sciences for student Claire Jordan. “I thought I had a niche, specific focus, and then I learned about the CALL program and then I got here and…
MSIS Alum and CICS Assistant Director Amy Forrester on Her Interdisciplinary Career

What do marine biology, sustainability, marine policy and management, data repositories, commercial information management, project management, information sciences, and publishing all have in common? These are all fields MSIS alumna Amy Forrester (’16) has worked in throughout her career. It’s fitting that she stepped into the role of assistant director of the Center of Information…
MSIS Alum and Current CCI PhD Student Joseph Winberry (’19) Awarded Marva Rudolph Scholarship

When he was growing up, Joseph Winberry (’19) spent a lot of time around his grandparents and their friends in a retirement community – he found himself drawn to older people, and it stuck. It was just a fluke, he said, that he eventually was hired for a job at the Knoxville-Knox County Office on…
Student Spotlight: Jesse Morris Uses Environmental Science Background and Information Science Skills at Her ‘Dream Job’

Featured Student: Jesse Morris Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education/Career Background I got my undergraduate degree in life sciences and environmental studies from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. After I graduated I did a couple of random things – I did some pharmaceutical research and was a GIS technician – and then I fell into being…
Alumna Rachel Gammons Finds Her Calling in Academic Libraries and Information Literacy

When Rachel Gammons (MSIS ’12) had to teach her first synchronous class online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she pulled herself back to a few years ago when she was in the MSIS program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, so she could extract the parts of her experience that made her feel connected to…
Alum Anna Galyon on Working at One of the ‘Coolest Places in the World’ – ORNL’s Library

Even the most skilled and advanced researchers in the world need to be able to access other information to support their work. So, when researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab need a journal article or technical manuscript, they know where to go: the ORNL library. The library was established in 1943, with a history dating…
SIS Assistant Professor Ben Horne to Moderate Panel on Social Media and the Rise of Extremism

SIS Assistant Professor Ben Horne has focused much of his research on how misinformation and disinformation spreads online – a topic that has been pushed to the forefront this past year as internet conspiracy theories and extremism have been connected to the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. While it may be a fairly new…
Learn About a Lecturer: Anna Sandelli Teaches Librarians to Teach

Lecturer: Anna Sandelli Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education: MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do you teach at SIS? This is my first semester teaching within SIS, and I’m teaching INSC 538, User Instruction. It’s really a class for people interested in library instruction, working with adult learners, and curious about learning…