Faculty Spotlight

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Faculty Focus: Wade Bishop Named Belmont Forum Human Dimensions Champion

    School of Information Sciences Associate Professor Wade Bishop has been named the 2018-19 Human Dimensions Champion for Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures & Data Management. The Belmont Forum, according to its website, is an agency, “Established in 2009 as an international partnership of 25 national science-funding agencies and science councils across the world that supports global environmental…