Announcements
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Paper by PhD Student Joseph Winberry & Associate Professor Devendra Potnis Wins ALISE Award
When Joseph Winberry was still a master’s student at SIS, he was a graduate teaching assistant to Associate Professor Devendra Potnis and also assisted in research. Both Potnis and Winberry are interested in social innovation, social justice, and the role information sciences can play in both of those areas. Winberry was helping with Potnis’s research…
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2021 SIS Best Paper Award: Jesse Morris
Jesse Morris has been simultaneously working in a data management position at Oak Ridge National Lab while taking classes in the MSIS program for the last four years. One of the benefits of this has been aligning class projects with work she’s doing at her job. That’s the case for the paper she wrote that…
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2021 SIS Gary R. Purcell Award: Kay P Maye
Kay P Maye never really noticed how information flowed and shaped the world prior to entering the MSIS program, but now he sees it everywhere, in everything he does. He’s particularly interested in how everyday people find information and how they judge whether or not it is good or bad information. “I foresee myself either…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…