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Dear CCI—faculty, staff and students. The energy and enthusiasm you brought to CCI’s 44th Annual Research Symposium made it a vibrant showcase of our research across the college. It was exciting to see the work of our faculty and our undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. We are truly a community of scholars and the work we are doing is extending knowledge in our disciplines and into society. Drum roll please as we announce our research winners: Student Research Stars First Place: Scott Greeves Second Place: Jessica Barfield Third Place: Amanda Womac Research Poster Kaleidoscope First Place: Makayla Lerner (presenter), Dr. Sreedhar Upendram, Isabella Baxter Second Place: Shelby Luttman Third Place: Sarah Devereux We also recognize: Trivia Winner Amanda Womac Student Session Participation Winners (sponsored by SIS) Makayla Lerner, Scott Greeves *Winners will be hearing from Amy Forrester for details. Thanks to our judges who represented our schools and our students and faculty: Kelsey Badger Carolyn Hank Jiangen He Joy Jenkins Chad Lanctot Anna McClure Emily Pritt Curry Wilson We also greatly appreciate the work of our session moderators (including the trivia sessions!) Tori Bertram Sarah Devereux Brian Dobreski Beth Meko Laura Miller Matthew Pittman Personally, I really enjoyed having the opportunity to moderate the faculty RAP session. Special thanks to the CCI Research Advisory Committee (RAC) which has representatives from each school and students from our CCI programs. The RAC has been busy this academic year on many projects including this one, and I appreciate all their great ideas and commitment to CCI’s research culture! Kelsey Badger Courtney Childers Brian Dobreski Anna Franklin Jiangen He Joy Jenkins Laura Miller Emily Pritt Curry Wilson Suzie Allard, chair The Research Symposium could not be staged without the event organizing skill and hard work of the CICS team and other amazing CCI staff members: Amy Forrester Dan Green Ruth McCue Ann Hensley Songhee Kim John McNair Beth Meko Karen Zach Thanks to all – I hope you start planning now to join us next year : ) Suzie Suzie Allard, Ph.D. Chancellor’s Professor, School of Information Sciences CCI Board of Visitors Professor Associate Dean for Research, College of Communication & Information Director, Center for Information & Communication Studies University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Drive | 423 Communications Building| Knoxville, TN | 37996-0341 | USA T 865.974.1369 | F 865.974.7878 | E [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | W http://cics.cci.utk.edu<http://cics.cci.utk.edu/>/