College of Communication and Information

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  • Alum Donna George on Traveling Varied Information Sciences Paths

    Shelving assistant, library branch manager, business analyst and now, director of product development – these are some of the job titles SIS graduate Donna George (’01), has held throughout her career. The first job she ever had was at her neighborhood public library, and she loved it. While her peers were working in typical teen…

  • 2019 SIS Hooding Ceremony Celebrated 61 Graduates

    Friends and family packed a recital hall at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on May 10 – all excited to watch their loved ones cross the stage and graduate from the School of Information Sciences master’s program at the annual SIS Hooding Ceremony. Sixty-one students graduated with their master’s in information sciences from the fall…

  • Lisa Ladd Heads to ALA with Marcellus Turner Student Travel Scholarship

    MSIS student Lisa Ladd is the 2019 Marcellus Turner Student Travel Scholarship Award winner, and she’s thrilled that it will fund her trip to the American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C. this June. Though she has attended the ALA conference in the past in her capacity as a library professional, she has never gone…

  • 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…

  • 24 MSIS Students Attend TLA Conference via the Annual SIS School Trip

    Twenty-four MSIS students attended the second annual SIS School Trip, which this year took place at the 2019 Tennessee Library Association Conference in Chattanooga. While students were given tours of information organizations in Nashville at the inaugural trip in 2018, the SIS Director’s Student Advisory Council suggested that this year’s trip be combined with the…

  • Student Spotlight: Kashif Graham Finds New Calling in Theological Librarianship

    Featured student: Kashif Graham Location: Nashville Education: Bachelor’s of Arts in English literature, and Spanish from Lehman College (City University of New York); Master of Arts in Church Ministry from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Cleveland, Tennessee; will graduate Spring 2019 with an MSIS degree. Current job: I moved to Nashville to start working at Vanderbilt Divinity School Library…

  • Faculty and Students Participate at TLA 2019 Conference

    Faculty, students and many alumni from the School of Information Science will be participating in presentations at the Tennessee Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference, “Opening Hearts, Minds, Doors” April 24-26 in Chattanooga. Student Presentations Joseph Winberry: “Walking Together Through Open Doors: Successful Mentoring” panel, 8 a.m.-noon Wednesday; College and University Libraries Roundtable Meeting, 1:10-2 p.m. Thursday;…

  • SIS Announces Newest Addition to Faculty, Brian Dobreski

    The School of Information Sciences is excited to announce its newest faculty member, Brian Dobreski, who will start teaching as an assistant professor this fall. Dobreski earned a bachelor’s of music from Nazareth College, and his master’s in library and information sciences from Syracuse University. He will receive his PhD in Information Sciences from Syracuse…

  • SIS Alum, CICS Research Associate Jordan Kaufman Given Tenopir-King Research Excellence Award

    SIS alum Jordan Kaufman (’18) has been awarded the Tenopir-King Research Excellence Award for 2019, which provides support to a recent SIS master’s graduate to work with SIS and Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir on research projects related to scholarly communication. Kaufman is currently a research associate at the Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS)…

  • SIS Professors Suzie Allard, Carol Tenopir Honored with Research Awards

    Two SIS professors earned top honors for the College of Communications and Information at the recent University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2019 Research Awards Luncheon, which is sponsored by the Office of Research and Engagement. Chancellor’s Professor Suzie Allard was awarded the Research Spotlight Award, which, according to ORE, “Recognizes the top research scholar within each…