College of Communication and Information

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  • Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski Receives Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award

    Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski has just wrapped up his second year at the School of Information Sciences, and despite one of those years being in a pandemic, he’s still managed to produce exceptional research that earned him the SIS 2021 Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award. In the last couple of years, Dobreski…

  • Empowerment Through Technology: Associate Professor Vandana Singh Given 2021 CCI Faculty Research Award

    Associate Professor Vandana Singh wants her research to be a catalyst for change in the real world and therefore she pursues research topics that appeal to practitioners and advance the field of research. She has published about seventy journal articles and conference proceedings and that body of research has been recognized this year with the…

  • 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…

  • Learn About a Lecturer: Christine Schmitz on ‘Writing for the Profession’

    Lecturer: Christine Schmitz Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Academic Background: BA in journalism and public relations, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn.; MFA in creative writing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Career: My background started in journalism and then I was a college professor at a few different schools. As a grad student, I was teaching at University of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…