Center for Information & Communication Studies

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The Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) would like to welcome you to our website.  This website contains information related to our many projects and many services that we offer here at CICS.

We work closely with the University of Tennessee, the College of Communication and Information and local, national, and international agencies to provide outstanding service in executing our research and organizational mission.  

We hope that you find all of the information you are looking for in this website, but if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by using the contact information or by searching through our staff directory.

SIS Awarded IMLS Grant for LAMBDA

Dr. Ed CortezKNOXVILLE – Library Anchor Models for Bridging Diversity Achievements (LAMBDA) brings together the University of Tennessee’s School of Information Sciences and the Center for Literacy, Education & Employment with the San Diego County Libraries and other public libraries in California and Tennessee to provide education, training, workshops, and support materials to support library staff members who serve LGBTQ homeless youth.

CCI Creates Endowed Professorship; Carol Tenopir First Recipient

Dr. Carol TenopirCarol Tenopir, a Chancellor's Professor in the School of Information Sciences, is the first recipient of a new endowed professorship in the College of Communication and Information (CCI). 

The CCI Board of Visitors Professorship was made possible by generous gifts from donors, including current and former members of the college's Board of Visitors.

CCI Symposium Explores Communication Convergence

Augie Grant

“Communication and Information Research in an Age of Convergence” was the theme of the College of Communication and Information’s thirty-fifth annual Research Symposium on February 27 on the UT campus.

August E. “Augie” Grant, the J. Rion McKissick Professor of Journalism at the University of South Carolina, delivered the keynote address. He will speak on “Convergence and Disruption: The New Research Paradigms.”

Chancellor's Professor Carol Tenopir Selected as Quest Scholar of the Week

Dr. Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir, Chancellor’s Professor of Information Sciences, has been named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to its 2012 class of fellows.  She has also been named the UT Quest Scholar of the Week, http://quest.utk.edu/scholar-of-the-week/

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