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SIS 2020 Best Thesis, Paper, and Projects Awards
Every year, the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences recognizes students for specific academic achievements. These include best thesis, best project, and best paper awards. Best Thesis Award Scott Shumate “My thesis is a participatory research study analyzing the impact of a computer system migration on the employees and processes of a non-profit organization.”…
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Our 2020 SIS Special Student Awards
Special Student Awards Each year the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences gives several awards in recognition of achievement, and for students’ contributions to the information professions and to information sciences scholarship. These are our 2020 special student awards and recipients. The Gary Purcell Award honors the memory of Gary Purcell, the school’s founding…
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Meredith Goins: SIS Alum, Lecturer, and Doctoral Student Receives TLA Honor Award
Meredith Goins (’00), an SIS alum, doctoral student, and a new SIS lecturer, was recently recognized by the Tennessee Library Association with the TLA Honor Award. This award is given to people who have made significant contributions to librarianship at either a state or national level. Goins has spent the last 20 years volunteering in…
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SIS 2020 Alumni Innovator’s Award: Wendy Cornelisen
SIS alum Wendy Cornelisen (‘07) is a big picture, out-of-the-box kind of person. This mindset is why her career trajectory took her from a reference librarian position all the way to her current job as Georgia’s assistant state librarian for library innovation and collaboration – and it’s also why she is the recipient of the…
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SIS Faculty Award Recipients: Associate Professors Awa Zhu and Devendra Potnis
SIS Associate Professor Awa Zhu was awarded the 2020 SIS Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award for the cumulative research she has done over the past two years. “I was so excited. I don’t have a lot of publications, so I was very surprised, and [SIS Director Diane Kelly] said that the award…
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SIS 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient David Johnson
Fayetteville Public Library has long been the Arkansas city’s center, a hot spot for learning, special events, and other communal gatherings. In 2005, it won the Library of the Year award sponsored by Library Journal and Thompson/Gale Publishers – the smallest library ever to earn that accolade, said the library’s current director, SIS alum David…
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Student Jessica Giles Creates Map to Track People’s Movements During the Pandemic
One of the reasons student Jessica Giles entered the MSIS program was to learn how to better represent data through visualization for her job as an associate data engineer at Intermx in Atlanta, Georgia. She had hoped to gain skills that would allow her to put data and statistics into an easy-to-consume format for the…
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Alum Andrew Grissom: Librarian at Nonprofit That Helps Advance Women in the Workplace
When Andrew Grissom (’15) entered the MSIS program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he had imagined himself working in an academic library setting. He loved the idea of helping others with research, as well as getting a chance to conduct his own research. But his career took a surprise turn when an interest in…
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SIS Alumni Share How Their Organizations Are Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic
We know that everyone’s lives have been impacted by this pandemic, and just as we have adjusted our work and support for students here at the School of Information Sciences, many of our alumni have had to drastically change everyday operations. We reached out to some of our alums to see how they and their…
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SIS Students, Staff Step Up and Embody the Volunteer Spirit
SIS Student & Staff Member Hillary Tune (featured at 0:29) sews face masks for Knox Makes Masks During this time, people are coming together (while staying apart), and doing what they can to support and inspire their community. The members of the SIS community are no different; alumni, faculty, students, and staff are already…