FSU MLIS Alum Sally Smollar Announced Finalist of School Librarian of the Year Award

MLIS graduate Sally Smollar has been selected as one of two finalists for the 2015 School Library Journal School Librarian of the Year Award. This annual award, sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing, selects K-12 library professionals based on their exemplary use of 21st century tools and services in ways that encourage students to foster multiple literacies. Smollar …

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PhD. Student Pablo Correa Wins Bronze Award for Film

Communication PhD. student Pablo Correa recently won a Bronze Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival for his film, The Isadore Mizell Family Legacy. The film shows the history of the Mizell family, one of the founding black pioneering families of Ft. Lauderdale. The Mizell family contributed to black Fort Lauderdale through health, education …

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Student Ashley Tressel Earns Award for Paper, “Media and Drone Strikes: Understanding Newspaper Tutorials”

This fall, Media & Communication Studies student Ashley Tressel received the Competitive Communication Scholarship Student Top Paper Undergraduate from the Florida Communication Association (FCA) for her paper, “Media and Drone Strikes: Understanding Newspaper Tutorials.” The paper focused on the increased use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, since 2008 and examined the issues that are emphasized by the …

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Dr. Art Raney Attends International New Media Forum in Shanghai

Dr. Art Raney recently delivered a keynote address at the 2015 International New Media Forum in Shanghai, China. This was the second time the event has been held and the second time he has been given this honor. The forum was sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the International Communication Association. One of only …

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iSchool Professor Melissa Gross Receives Excellence in Online Teaching Award

Melissa Gross of FSU’s School of Information recently received the Excellence in Online Teaching award from the Office of Distance Learning (ODL) for teaching Information Needs of Children. Gross won the award after the ODL reviewed how her teaching evaluations and strategies have demonstrated superior methods of instruction and engagement of students as learning partners. Gross teaches research methods …

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CCI Welcomes Two New Additions to the Advising Team

The College of Communication & Information welcomes two new advisors! Sandi Dedrick graduated from FSU in 2011 with a B.S. in Dietetics and went on to earn her Master’s in Social Work in 2014. Previously, she has worked at an in-patient psychiatric hospital, a residential facility for women undergoing substance abuse/mental illness, as a clinician …

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