Giselle Bodden (B.A. ’12) has used her degree in a myriad of areas throughout the media industry from Los Angeles to Miami. She walked onto the Florida State campus with a variety of interests, but found that she particularly enjoyed the creative process of writing, shooting and editing a film. She explains, “Growing up, I was always fascinated …
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Alum Giselle Bodden Utilizes Media Production Degree as Media Planner at Discovery Communications
Alumna Amanda Green Improves Communities as Associate Director of Healthy Schools Program
Amanda Green (B.A. Media Studies, ’00) has used her experience at Florida State to help pave the way for a career dedicated to public service. While at FSU, she enjoyed serving the community as a member of national service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. After graduating, she accepted a job coordinating service projects as the Assistant Program Director (APD) with AmeriCorps*NCCC. It …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Professor Melissa Gross Publishes New Book
iSchool professor Melissa Gross recently published her new book, 5 Steps of Outcome-Based Planning and Evaluation for Public Libraries. Co-authored with Cindy Mediavilla and Virginia A. Walter, the book is intended to help librarians conduct solid community assessments and integrate outcome-based planning and evaluation (OBPE) into their work. Gross shares, “My co-authors and I recognized …
CONTINUE READINGSCSD Students and Faculty Prepare for 2016 Help Guatemala Hear Mission Trip
This March, Selena Snowden and a group of undergraduate Communication Science and Disorders students will travel to Guatemala for the second Help Guatemala Hear mission trip. The team will provide much-needed hearing services and hearing aids to the country’s impoverished communities where this kind of assistance is severely needed. The group will serve through Porch …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Hosts Spring 2016 Career Fair
The College of Communication & Information hosted its bi-annual career fair this past February 2. Dozens of local and national companies attended in search of talented interns and employees in the fields of communication, public relations, advertising, social media, digital media production, information technology, information security, web development and more. Donned in business professional attire …
CONTINUE READINGTwo CCI Faculty Members Earn Promotions
Two FSU faculty members were recently promoted. Toby Macrae, Ph.D. was promoted from an Assistant Professor to an Associate Professor with tenure and Jennifer Proffitt, Ph.D. was promoted from an Associate Professor to a full Professor. Macrae earned both his B.S. and M.S. in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Hosts Annual South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference
The College of Communication & Information and partners across the university held the 2016 South Asian Media and Cultural Studies Conference from January 21-23 at the Center for Global and Multicultural Engagement. The annual conference included presentations on media studies, culture, religion, politics, social issues and more. Both undergraduate and graduate students presented research papers, works in …
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