SIS News Archive

Drs. Suzie Allard, Bharat Mehra, and Vandana Singh at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences have scored a triple play of grant awards from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) totaling over $1.6 million for the next four years.

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Jinfang Niu speak on “Perceived Documentation Quality of Social Science Data,” Friday, June 19, from 11:15 – 12:00 in Communications Bldg. Room 420. Dr. Jinfang Niu is visiting the School to grow acquainted with its students and faculty as she considers a visiting academic appointment for the 2009-2010 academic year. Due to increased student interest, the School seeks to strengthen its archives and records management areas.

It's that time of year and, of course, the deadline is tight (June 30). Yes, it's time to nominate someone whom you feel has good ideas and would represent your alumni well.

In front of some 75 alumni and friends, the School of Information Sciences Alumni Board announced its Distinguished Alumnus for 2009, along with its inaugural Innovator’s Award, at the School’s Alumni & Friends Day on March 7 at the UT Hoskins Library.

Dr. Mike Pemberton (’75) was honored with the School’s Distinguished Alumni award for 2009, and James Staub (’04) was honored with the inaugural Innovator’s Award.

The School of Information Sciences was pleased to announce several awards at today’s Graduation and Awards Ceremony in the University Center ballroom. Dr. Bharat Mehra, the chair of the Student Affairs Committee, announced the awards. The School received a large number of scholarship applications this year and fielded many outstanding applications.

Congratulations to the following students for the following SIS awards.

Best paper: Samuel Jason Ezell

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Bill Michener, the director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, speak on the DataONE (Observation Network for Earth) project, which represents a “new virtual organization whose goal is to enable new science and knowledge creation through universal access to data about life on earth and the environment that sustains it.”

A webcast of the event is now available.

The School of Information Sciences’ Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature is pleased to cosponsor the venerated May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture on April 18, 2009, at the Children's Defense Fund Haley Farm in Clinton, Tenn. A webcast of the event is available.

Walter Dean Myers, author of award-winning fiction, poetry and nonfiction for children and young adults, will deliver the lecture.

The School of Information Sciences Alumni Board invites you to join former classmates, favorite faculty members, and graduate students for the SIS Alumni & Friends Day on March 7, from 1 – 4 p.m. at UT Hoskins Library Delivery Hall on the UT campus.

 
The School of Information Sciences invites you to its first Research Forum of 2009. Dr. Ben Shneiderman will present “Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery” on Friday, January 30, from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. in Communications Bldg. 321A. Dr. Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. This presentation will be webcast.

The School of Information Sciences Alumni Board is pleased to announce an inaugural award to be given to School alumni at the upcoming SIS Alumni & Friends Day on March 7, from 1 – 4 p.m. to be held at the UT Hoskins Library Delivery Hall, 1401 Cumberland Avenue.

Alumni and friends of the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences are invited to join the SIS Alumni Board's yearly Homecoming Brunch on Sunday, November 9, from noon - 1:30 p.m. at the UT Visitors’ Center* in Knoxville.

The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences is pleased to announce that its Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature has been selected as one of the sponsors of the venerated May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture next April 18, 2009, at the Children's Defense Fund Haley Farm in Clinton, Tenn.

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Dietmar Wolfram speak on Indexing Consistency Across Multiple Indexers/Taggers on October 14, from 12:30 - 2 p.m. Dr. Wolfram will present an empirical study of measuring information representation for retrieval by traditional indexing approach and by new social tagging practices.

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Carol Kuhlthau present the annual Thomson Scientific Lazerow Memorial Lecture to be held on October 8, from 7:00 - 8:00 pm in the UT Hodges Library Auditorium. Her talk, “Guided Inquiry:  Application of Information Seeking Research in pre K-12 Education in the 21st Century,” will present a dynamic, integrated approach to teaching curriculum content, information literacy, and strategies for learning.

The School of Information Sciences is pleased to announce that our renovated and newly named Dewey’s Den & Commons (DDC) is open for student use. While designing the lab, SIS technology coordinator Cindy Lancaster ensured that the technology and the furniture in the new lab blended together to become not only accessible to everyone but attractive, and even inspiring. The DDC is designed to support student social networking and collaborative learning.

The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences is pleased to announce that the John Tyson Minority Scholarship is now a fully endowed scholarship fund that will begin offering a qualified student a partial scholarship starting fall 2009.

Last month, an anonymous donor made good on a promise to match $10,000 that has been raised by school supporters since last summer. Our school would like to thank the many graduates and donors who stepped forward to make this matching program a success. The school has had a vibrant response from our graduates and friends since the matching proposal appeared in the fall 2007 newsletter, and we could not have endowed this important scholarship without this support.

The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences is pleased to announce that it has hired two new faculty members. Both incoming assistant professors, Dr. Cindy C. Welch and Dr. Vandana Singh, are recent graduates of the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Welch will serve as the Youth Services Specialist and will coordinate the school library media track, which was left open after the retirement of Dr. Jinx Watson.

The School of Information Sciences will sponsor a retirement party for Dr. Robinson on May 3 from 2 - 4 pm at the UT Visitor's Center, formerly the University Club.

The University of Tennessee’s School of Information Sciences Alumni Board recognized Pat Powell with the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2008.

Alumni Board President Chrissie Anderson Peters presented this honor to Powell, Senior Vice-President of Business Development at Information International Associates (IIa), at the school’s Alumni & Friends Day on March 8.

Three faculty candidates are visiting the School of Information this
month and interviewing for the faculty position that replaces Dr. Bill Robinson. Below are the links to and schedules of each candidate's presentations.