CCI in the News

SLIS wins 2012 ALA Student Chapter of the Year Award

April 10, 2012

TALLAHASSEE (April 9, 2012) — On Friday the American Library Association (ALA) New Members Roundtable congratulated The Florida State University ALA Student Chapter as the winner of its 2012 Student Chapter of the Year Award. The annual award is presented to one of the 57 national chapters in recognition of outstanding contributions to the American [...]

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Adams to participate in Veterans’ Entrepreneurship panel

April 9, 2012

Dr. Jonathan Adams, Associate Professor at the School of Communication, has been invited to participate in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) on the Venture Pitches panel. The Venture Pitches and judging will be held at the Residence Inn on Gaines St. on April 17, 2012 from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans [...]

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AP story quoting CCI’s Jeanette Castillo on social media’s role in Trayvon Martin case published around the globe

March 26, 2012

Dr. Jeanette Castillo, an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Communication, was quoted in an Associated Press story about social media’s role in publicizing the Trayvon Martin shooting. The AP story has been picked up worldwide. A Google search of “Trayvon Martin” and “Jeanette Castillo” yields 25 pages of results, almost all [...]

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FSUComm alum shatters glass ceiling, makes Forbes’ list of world’s billionaires

March 9, 2012

Spanx entrepreneur Sara Blakely, a 1993 Communication graduate and member of FSU’s national championship debate team,  is featured on the cover of the March 26, 2012, issue of Forbes magazine. She is the youngest woman to make this year’s list of the world’s billionaires “without help from a husband or an inheritance.” Read the article. In [...]

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Three articles by FSU-SLIS authors in JASIST, March 2012

February 23, 2012

Research articles by two SLIS faculty members and one doctoral graduate are among those in the March 2012 issue (Volume 63, Issue 3) of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology: Dr. Sanghee Oh (Assistant Professor, FSU-SLIS). The characteristics and motivations of health answerers for sharing information, knowledge, and experiences in [...]

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Castillo interviewed on students, social media & election

January 25, 2012

Dr. Jeanette Castillo, an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Communication, was interviewed for a story on students using social media to stay informed in this year’s election, as well as to voice their opinions on the issues and the candidates. Listen to the story on FSU Headline News.

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Lustria serves on development of FL Health Disparities Research Agenda

December 8, 2011

SLIS associate professor Mia Liza A. Lustria, PhD served as the group leader of the Health Promotion Work Group as part of the development of Florida’s Health Disparities Research Agenda, which outlines a research plan to achieve health equity for all Floridians. Below is a recent press release about the initiative. TALLAHASSEE – State Surgeon [...]

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Everhart in news article on Ohio school library closures

November 28, 2011

Dr. Nancy Everhart’s comments were referred to in a Nov. 29, 2011, online article in The Columbus Dispatch, “Cutbacks shut elementary’s library, threaten middle school’s.” Read the article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/11/26/cutbacks-shut-elementarys-library-threaten-middle-schools.html  

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ICT Student is CCI Senator

November 22, 2011

Ashley Dias is a Senior from South Florida majoring in Information Communication and Technology. She is a member of the Ravishing Rho Kappa Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated and holds an executive board position (Public Relations Chair) for her 2nd consecutive term with the organization. She is also the newly elected Public Relations [...]

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Danielle Brimo, Laura Gingrich, Lindsey Leacox and Laurie Beth Swineford successfully defended their dissertations this fall 2011

November 21, 2011

Danielle Brimo (Major Advisor: Dr. Kenn Apel): Examining the contributions of Syntactic Awareness and Syntactic Knowledge to Reading Comprehension Laura Gingrich (Major Advisor: Dr. Julie Stierwalt): Relation Among Age, Gender, And Oral/Palatal Dimensions On Anterior And Posterior Lingual-Palatal Pressures In Healthy Adults Lindsey Leacox (Major Advisor: Dr. Carla Jackson): Young English Learners’ Cognate Sensitivity on [...]

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