Find iSchool at ALISE 2015!

Join Florida State University School of Information faculty, staff, students and alumni at ALISE 2015 in Chicago, Illinois from January 27-30, 2015! Here’s where you can find us at ALISE: Tuesday, January 27 6:30pm – 9:00pm Works In Progress Poster Session and Opening Reception Grand Ballroom, Floor 8 Jon Hollister – FSU iSchool doctoral student,”Mirror …

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20 Questions with Mark Zeigler

What was your first job?  Mowing lawns as a kid. Stetson Assistant Alumni Director as an adult. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it?  Trying. Where did you grow up? Venice, Florida. What is your favorite class you’ve taught? Speech. What is your favorite place to grab dinner in …

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Dr. Gary Kreps to Lecture 2/6

February 6th from 12-1, Dr. Gary Kreps of George Mason University will be delivering a lecture, “Communication Research to Promote the Health of Vulnerable Populations” in the Louis Shores Building, Room 006. Dr. Kreps’ research examines health communication, health promotion, health informatics, multicultural relations, social organization, and applied research methods, with a major focus on reducing …

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Meet COMM Alumna: Sophia Danvers Aarons

This summer, Sophia Danvers-Aarons will have worked for Cisco Systems for a decade, marking 16 years as a technology marketing professional. Her career’s journey started in the Communications program at Florida State, a formative time that she says helped her to develop the skills and the mindset to reinvent herself and innovate in her current role. …

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5 FSU & CCI women honored at KKG Leadership Academy

In 1996, Becky O’Brien graduated with a degree in Communication and jumped straight into her Master’s, which she received in 1997. Almost two decades later, she was invited to the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Leadership Academy this past September. At the leadership academy, she met five strangers. Those strangers, Sharon Snodgrass Pennekamp (’76), Andrea Stanford …

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Meet iSchool Alumnus: Erik Hazzard

Erik Hazzard is a man who goes for the (garnet and) gold. From his time at the School of Information at Florida State University to his leap to San Francisco and his start-up adventures – Erik is on the move. Tallahassee to San Francisco While studying in the Information Technology program at FSU, Hazzard worked …

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iSchool Conferences – Spring 2015

The Spring 2015 semester brings another round of conferences. Florida’s iSchool will be well represented at the international, national and state level. Warren Allen will be attending the Consortium for the Sciences of the Sociotechnical, iConference 2015, and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing. Wonchan Choi will be attending ALISE and …

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