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  • MSIS Alum and Current CCI PhD Student Joseph Winberry (’19) Awarded Marva Rudolph Scholarship

    When he was growing up, Joseph Winberry (’19) spent a lot of time around his grandparents and their friends in a retirement community – he found himself drawn to older people, and it stuck. It was just a fluke, he said, that he eventually was hired for a job at the Knoxville-Knox County Office on…

  • Student Spotlight: Jesse Morris Uses Environmental Science Background and Information Science Skills at Her ‘Dream Job’

    Featured Student: Jesse Morris Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education/Career Background I got my undergraduate degree in life sciences and environmental studies from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. After I graduated I did a couple of random things – I did some pharmaceutical research and was a GIS technician – and then I fell into being…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Learn About a Lecturer: Anna Sandelli Teaches Librarians to Teach

    Lecturer: Anna Sandelli Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education: MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do you teach at SIS? This is my first semester teaching within SIS, and I’m teaching INSC 538, User Instruction. It’s  really a class for people interested in library instruction, working with adult learners, and curious about learning…

  • 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: Kristin Chaffin

    Lecturer:  Kristin Chaffin Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Education: MSIS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill What do you teach at SIS? INSC 384, the database design course. This will be my second term teaching it; I taught it this past fall for the first time. It’s been a lot of fun to…

  • SIS Welcomes Assistant Professor of Practice Joy M. Doan to Faculty

    Joy M. Doan has joined the School of Information Sciences this spring as an assistant professor of practice for the master’s program, and brings with her a wealth of experience as an administrator, practitioner, special subject librarian, and as an instructor. Her most recent position was as head of the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library at…

  • Student Spotlight: Joshua Melendez Enjoys that BSIS Major Embodies Tech and Creativity

    Featured Student: Josh Melendez Hometown: Clarksville, Tennessee What drew you to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville? I’m originally from Clarksville, Tennessee, and I heard about UT from word of mouth and how great the program is and how the faculty and staff really care about students. During my high school time, I did dual enrollment…

  • 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…