Driven by Research
The College of Communication and Information’s Research and Innovation Center (RIC) supports and conducts research that benefits the public as well as private organizations, governmental agencies, and corporations.
What we do at the CCI Research and Innovation Center
Within CCI:
- Serve faculty, staff and student research activities
- Provide services to enhance research collaborations
- Facilitate research processes such as filing for human subject research approvals
- Support all activities related to successfully finding, winning, and using funding for sponsored research
Beyond CCI:
- Offer best-of-class applied research to find answers for the information and communication problems identified by organizations
- Provide expertise that includes user experience research, information systems and database design/evaluation, information management, data management
- Effective organizational communication, scientific communication, and science publishing
- Facilitate research across disciplines and across agency borders
History of the Research Innovation Center
1989
The Center for Information Studies is established by the School of Information Sciences faculty to be a focal point for research related to information systems and services.
2003
Carol Tenopir appointed director of The Center for Information Studies .
2004
The Center for Information Studies is renamed to the Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS). The mission is expanded to become the primary research arm of the College of Communication and Information to assist with all externally funded research initiatives and to work closely with CCI faculty members.
2014
Suzie Allard appointed director of CICS.
2018
The User eXperience Lab and the Message Effects Lab become a UT core facility administered by CICS .
2022
The center is re-envisioned as CCI Research & Innovation Center (RIC) to align more closely with the strategic goals and mission of CCI.
2023
The CCI Innovation Labs is created. It reimagines CCI lab resources and services including the User eXperience Lab, Message Effect Lab, and The Adam Brown Social Media Command Center to provide the flexibility to bring new capacity to the college.
2023
The Information Integrity Institute is created. It brings CCI expertise to support the reliable and accurate representations of information that are founded on ethical principles, and individual access to credible information. Catherine Luther, Minnie Doty Goddard Distinguished Professor, is named as founding director of the Institute.