Houck receives 2015 Guardian of the Flame Faculty Award

As the only faculty recognition award by the FSU student body, members of Burning Spear, Inc. recognized faculty members across campus who have made a difference in advancing FSU as a leading higher education institution. Davis Houck, School of Communication professor, is one of the respected faculty members honored with this year’s award. Houck joined the College …

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Fall 2014 Newsletters are LIVE!

Both the Connection and Communicator newsletters are in mailboxes and inboxes this week. The Connection, CCI’s bi-annual alumni newsletter can be found on here, along with past issues dating back to 2009. The Communicator, the 22-page student and alumni newsletter, contains over 60 success stories of current and past students. Both current issues, as well as past issues, are …

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Lansford featured in Tallahassee Democrat & FSUNews

Kaitlin Lansford, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, has gained more attention for her 2014 New Century Scholars Research Grant. The story was picked up by Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee Democrat featured Lansford’s research news in their Campus Notes section, ‘Grant funds crowdsourcing research at FSU. Read the full article here: Tallahassee …

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McDowell Quoted on Topic of Net Neutrality

The term “Net Neutrality” has been discussed on all forms of media outlets. Last week, Stephen McDowell, Associate Dean and John H. Phipps Professor of Communication, joined the conversation. McDowell commented on Obama’s Internet proposal on an article for WFSU news. The article “Startups Love Obama’s Internet Proposal, But Cable Industry Calls It ‘Draconian,’” covers the …

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COMM Professor wins Best Documentary for “The Packinghouse”

Brian Graves, recent addition to the College of Communication & Information faculty, has a film that’s being screened and celebrated. The film, The Packinghouse, is a short documentary about the ghost tales surrounding an abandoned meat packing facility in Statesboro, Georgia. The urban legends date back to the early 1900s, with tales of an owner locking …

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Kaitlin Lansford, SCSD, awarded grant for Crowdsourcing

Florida State University’s School of Communication Science & Disorders Assistant Professor Kaitlin Lansford, is being recognized by the ASHFoundation, an extension of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Lansford will receive the 2014 New Century Scholars Research Grant for her proposal entitled “Use of Crowdsourcing to Assess the Ecological Validity of Perceptual Learning Paradigms in Dysarthria.” The $10,000 grant …

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