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CCI Celebrates Faculty Promotions at Convocation
The College of Communication and Information honored seven of its faculty who earned promotions this year at the 2023 CCI Convocation. The work these faculty do, in their research, classrooms, and service work, will continue to make an impact on their fields and on future generations to come. Here’s a little bit about them: School…
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CCI’s Links up with World Data System as a Leader in Open Science Initiatives
Caption: Meredith Goins, director of World Data System, speaks with attendees at the World Data Systems Conference in Knoxville in summer 2023 A communication college working with the Department of Energy is not a very common occurrence. But the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has never been afraid of charting new courses, and the College of…
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SIS Alums Justin Blair and Kay P Maye Complete LEADING Fellows Program for Data Science
In 2022, two School of Information Sciences alumni took part in the LEADING Fellowship Program through Drexel University’s Metadata Research Center. Justin Blair and Kay P Maye were among the 26 fellows to complete a data science project under the mentorship of information science centers across the United States. Maye (’21) is currently the scholarly…
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Event Recap: MSIS Celebrates its 50th Anniversary of Accreditation
SIS faculty, students, alumni, staff, and friends joined together Friday, October 21, 2022, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the MSIS Program’s ALA Accreditation. Accreditation for an information sciences school means that the program adheres to the highest standards in the field and continues to keep apace of the advancements and innovation of the day.…
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Alumni Highlight: MSIS Alum Roger Justus Offered Dream Job on Graduation Day
Featured alumni: Roger Justus Current position and location: Data Services Librarian at Miami University Location: Oxford, Ohio In May of 2022, Roger Justus was playing the job search waiting game. He’d left behind his 25-year career in IT to find a vocation that would “feed his soul,” and friends and family had encouraged him to…
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Hannah Gunderman Given 2022 SIS Innovator’s Alumni Award
Videogames and information sciences may not sound like a natural fit, but Hannah Gunderman (’21) has found her niche at the crossroads of the two. She came into the MSIS program with a PhD in geography and a desire to be a librarian. Before she graduated with her master’s degree, she was hired on at…
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2022 SIS Distinguished Alumni Susan Jennings
Susan Jennings (’07) didn’t start out with the dream to be a librarian, but in hindsight, she believes it was pre-ordained. After all, she and her family were voracious readers, she was a library page in junior high school, and she drove her mother to the public library every Saturday where they’d spend an hour…
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PhD Alum Scott Sikes’ Earns 2022 CCI Outstanding Dissertation Award
At the core of Scott Sikes’ work, both research and professional, is observing and analyzing what people can do when they work together to make their communities and the world a better place. His dissertation, In Our Very Blood: The Use of Social media in the 2018 West Virginia Teachers Strike, follows that same thread.…
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Chad Lanctot on What it is Like Being a Veteran and a Student
It took a decade for Chad Lanctot to finish his undergraduate degree, and for good reason: Lanctot was in the U.S. Coast Guard and was taking online classes while he actively served. It was tough going but once he was done and retiring from the Coast Guard, he knew that more higher education was his…
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Student Spotlight: Kristina Larsen Becomes Rare Map Librarian After One Semester in MSIS
Featured student: Kristina Larsen Location: San Francisco, California Education: Undergraduate degree in studio art and sculpture from Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. What is your professional background? For my undergraduate degree I studied painting and sculpture at Hampshire College. After graduation, I didn’t have plans and went on a road trip with a friend to…