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    • CCI’s 43rd Annual Research Symposium Presented in New All-Virtual Format

      The College of Communication and Information’s Annual Research Symposium is returning for its 43rd year on March 1, 2021, in a brand-new format designed to not only be completely virtual, but also to better foster and facilitate audience interaction. “We’ve been paying attention this whole year to format and participation in all sorts of virtual meetings,…

    • Learn About a Lecturer: Jacob Kramer-Duffield Brings Media Analytics Experience to His Class

      Lecturer: Jacob Kramer-Duffield Location: Brooklyn, New York Education: undergrad at Overland College in Ohio   What do you teach at SIS? INSC 305 – Internet & Society. It’s sort of a survey course of how information science underlies a pretty broad range of structures and social situations within society and trying to make tangible a lot of stuff…

    • Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Receives ALISE Teacher of the Year Award

      Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctoral degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class. “How I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was…

    • SIS, CICS Team Awarded $399K Sloan Grant to Study Early Career Researchers

      As COVID-19 continues to affect the way people live, work, and learn around the world, researchers are beginning to gather data on how the pandemic is affecting society, and one such research team is from the College of Communication and Information’s Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) and the School of Information Sciences in…

    • SIS D&I Badge Encourages Students to Incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Into Their Work

      From left: SIS Assistant Professor Carolyn Hank with the 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Badge recipients, Kelsey Collins, Elaine Posanka and Joseph Winberry. The School of Information Sciences faculty weaves diversity, equity, and inclusion into its curriculum and scholarship, and the SIS community as a whole strives to incorporate it in all other aspects of its…

    • Undergrad Holland Parkins First Ever SIS Student to be a CCI Land Ambassador

      Junior Holland Parkins recently became the first ever College of Communications and Information Land Ambassador for the School of Information Sciences (SIS), a position in which she will represent the college and assist CCI with student recruitment, student retention, alumni relations, community outreach, and college events. What is a CCI Land Ambassador? The CCI Land…

    • Learn About a Lecturer: Chris Cunningham Uses Business Analytics Background in Classroom

      Lecturer: Chris Cunningham Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi Education: Undergraduate degree in history with a social studies concentration, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; MLIS, UNC Greensboro; PhD, University of South Carolina; currently working on an MBA from Kent State University. What classes do you teach at SIS? I am currently teaching INSC 514, technology foundations. I’ve also taught…

    • MSIS Student Spotlight: Adam Hembree Pursues Interest in Public Librarianship and Archives Pathways

      Featured student: Adam Hembree Location: Knoxville, TN Education: Bachelor’s in Spanish and interdisciplinary studies, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia; Master’s degree in applied linguistics from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Career/Background: After I did my undergrad, I worked my way up at Rosetta Stone to being an area manager in Hampton Roads, Virginia,where I’m from, and it got…

    • Alum Laura Creekmore Puts the Data Behind E-commerce

      For every single product you search for while shopping online, there are layers of data that led you to it. Granular data that has been dug up, categorized, standardized, and recorded by teams of people – people like Laura Creekmore (’17). Creekmore is vice president of content operations at Chicago-based Syndigo, and leads a team…

    • CCI Scripps Convergence Lab Provides a Safe, Quiet Space for Students

      So much has changed for students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the past few months – just as it has around the world, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But some things have stayed relatively the same, just with a few tweaks, and the decade-old Scripps Convergence Lab in room 402 of the Communication…