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Bonnie Carroll Honored for Long-Time Support of CCI and SIS
Bonnie Carroll may have recently retired from Information International Associates (IIA), the information and scientific data management company she founded decades ago in Oak Ridge, but the long-time supporter of the College of Communication and Information is not yet done with data or with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was recently honored by CCI…
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MSIS Student Kelsey Badger Named Volunteer of Distinction: Extraordinary Professional Promise
Kelsey Badger came into the School of Information Sciences master’s program with the honor of being accepted into the Collaborative Analysis Liaison Librarians (CALL) program, and she will continue that tradition of excellence with the honor of being named a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Volunteer of Distinction: Extraordinary Professional Promise. She’s also already accepted a position…
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Student Elisha Jewell and Assistant Professor of Practice Joy Marie Doan Research How NFTs Can Benefit Libraries
Libraries are often places of innovation, many times embodying the adage, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Sitting at the crossroads of technology and information access gives information sciences professionals a unique view of the world, and in the case of School of Information Sciences master’s student Elisha Jewell, a unique take on the blockchain…
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Student Spotlight: Amy Snyder Lands Fellowship with Library of Congress
Featured student: Amy Snyder Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Education: Undergraduate degree in English and minor in art history from University of Virginia Why information sciences? I went to undergrad at the University of Virginia and was an English major over there and an art history minor. I started working in the small special collections library and…
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Career Coach Bukky Abdul is Here to Help Undergraduate Students Find Career Success
Connecting students with possibilities for their future is truly a passion for Bukky Abdul, career coach for the College of Communication & Information at the Center for Career Development. “I love working with students to help develop themselves, and after my master’s program, I knew I wanted to do career coaching full time. This is…
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BSIS Student Makayla Lerner Wins CCI Poster Competition with Research on Rural Communities Adopting Broadband
Makayla Lerner is the first undergraduate School of Information Sciences student to complete a practicum, and just this last week she won first place in the College of Communication and Information’s 44th Annual Research Symposium’s Research Poster Kaleidoscope contest. The research she presented in her poster stemmed from the practicum and undergraduate research assistantship work…
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MSIS Student Sarah Calise Founds Nashville Queer History Digital Archive, Lands Deal to Write First Book on Nashville’s LGBTQ+ History
It’s easy to forget history, but even more so if no one preserves it. Sarah Calise, an archivist and a student in the School of Information Sciences master’s program, is someone who specializes in preservation. So when they saw the history of Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community slowly slipping away, they also saw an opportunity to make…
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Alum Savanna Sims Manages Data at an Org to Help People Who are Experiencing Homelessness
Every day, data is gathered in 12 East Tennessee counties about one of its most vulnerable populations: people experiencing homelessness. All of this data is entered into the Homeless Management Information System, which at the Tennessee Valley Coalition for the Homeless (TVCH), is handled by MSIS alum Savanna Sims (’20). Sims started working at TVCH…
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A Trio of Friends Journey Through Work and the MSIS Program Together
It’s not unusual for students to take a meandering path that ends with them entering the MSIS program—some wander a little, and others even make hard turns into a drastic career change. But rarely do those paths intersect the way that those of three current MSIS students have: Carolyn Shafer, Jenny Huffman, and William Judd. Not…
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Alumnus Eric Dawson Steps Into Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Manager Position
Eric Dawson (’13) has been in the history-filled book stacks and climate-controlled rooms of the East Tennessee History Center ever since he was a student in the MSIS program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His experience there started in 2012 when he took on a practicum with Steve Cotham, manager at that time of…