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  • SIS Professor Dania Bilal Gets IMLS Grant to Create Institute on Artificial Intelligence

    SIS Professor Dania Bilal, along with collaborators at two other universities, received a $208,142 Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to create the IDEA (Innovation, Disruption, Enquiry, Access) Institute on Artificial intelligence (AI). “We’re very excited about receiving this grant, as you know IMLS is very competitive. AI is one of the top three…

  • SIS Alumni, Faculty, Students Focus on Research at Empirical Librarians 2020 Conference

    SIS and Chancellor’s Professor Suzie Allard delivers the keynote at the Empirical Librarians 2020 conference in Knoxville. The Empirical Librarians conference is a small event that allows librarians to learn more about research, and how to support original research. The 2020 conference was hosted in Knoxville Feb. 27-28. Several SIS students, alumni and faculty attended…

  • SIS Director and Professor Diane Kelly Named as iSchool Chair-Elect

    SIS Director and Professor Diane Kelly was recently elected incoming chair-elect for the iSchools organization. She will serve two years as chair-elect beginning in March 2020 at the iConference in Sweden, and will work alongside Gobinda Chowdhury, professor of information science and chair of the iSchool at Northumbria University, who is iSchools incoming chair. Her two-year…

  • SIS Director Diane Kelly Serves as Honorary Coach for UT Football Team

    SIS Director Diane Kelly was the honorary coach for the University of Tennessee football team in its game versus The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nov. 2 – a game the Vols won 30-7. This coaching assignment wasn’t just a simple walk onto the field; Kelly first took a tour of the Anderson Training Center…

  • SIS Clinical Associate Professor Cindy Welch as a Faculty Innovator

    SIS Clinical Associate Professor Cindy Welch was chosen by the University of Tennessee’s Teaching & Learning Innovation to be a Teaching Innovator for 2019. “When it comes to Teaching & Learning Innovation, I never say no because they’re so great at what they do,” Welch said. TLI provides support to faculty members, teachers, and staff…

  • SIS Associate Professor Vandana Singh to be Honored for Her Service & Research Work

    Associate Professor Vandana Singh’s work over the past few years is being recognized by several outlets – both for the extensive service she has undertaken, and for her research. She will receive the College of Communication & Information Service Award in October, for which she was nominated due to her service in creating the successful…

  • SIS Director Diane Kelly Completes Term as Chair of Top Information Retrieval Organization

    SIS Director Diane Kelly recently traveled to Paris and wrapped up a fruitful three years as chair of ACM SIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval). She ushered in a new chair at the 2019 ACM SIGIR Conference, which Kelly said is the oldest, and most distinguished, information retrieval conference. Kelly…

  • A Long Journey: SIS Assistant Professor Awa Zhu on Earning Tenure, and More

    Assistant Professor Xiaohua (Awa) Zhu recently earned tenure and will be promoted to associate professor Aug. 1. She’s been with the School of Information Sciences since 2012. She will also be awarded the 2019 College of Communications and Information Faculty Teaching award in the fall. We are taking a look back at Zhu’s journey to…

  • SIS, Director Diane Kelly Partner in PhD Training Grant

    Director Diane Kelly and the School of Information Sciences are participating as a partner organization in a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network grant. The grant was recently awarded to a team of eight researchers working in institutions located in five different European countries including Austria, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. The University of…

  • SIS Assistant Professor Zhu Awarded Summer GRA Grant

    SIS Assistant Professor Xiaohua (Awa) Zhu was awarded a 2019 Summer Graduate Research Assistantship grant from the University of Tennessee Office of Research and Engagement to continue pursuing her work on digital ownership and possession. School of Information Sciences master’s student Amy Moore will be the graduate student supported by the grant for the three-month…