On March 25, 2019, iSchool Alumna Chelsea Eagle (’13 B.S. Information, Communication, and Technology) started a new position as a senior manager of communications at Walt Disney World. Here, Eagle leads a team that partners with stakeholders to “develop and implement communication that both supports the company’s business objectives and engages internal and external audiences,” …
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News about (and for) the alumni of the schools comprising the FSU College of Communication & Information
Chelsea Eagle: iSchool Alumna and Senior Manager of Communications at Walt Disney World
Remembering Ann Conn: CCI Alumna and Passionate Renaissance Woman
Ann M. Conn received a Master’s Degree in Speech Communication from Florida State University, a Bachelor’s in English from FSU, and graduated from Leon High School in 1951. Although she passed away on December 14, 2018 at age 85, Ann Conn’s legacy as a freethinker and artist will live on in the hearts of those …
CONTINUE READINGMeet Daniel Phelps: iSchool Alumnus and Program Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Information Systems Program in Qatar
In 2007, Daniel Phelps (’97 B.A. Arts and Sciences, ’98, M.S. Information Studies, ’05 Ph.D. Information) moved to Doha, Qatar as part of a two-year contract with SEI/CERT, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center administered by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). While he was there, CMU developed the Information Systems Program at the Qatar campus, which …
CONTINUE READINGFive iSchool Alumni Serve on FLA Board of Directors
Keeping with one of the Core Values of their alma mater, five FSU School of Information alumni serve and lead in their profession as members of the Florida Library Association Board of Directors. Five of the eleven members of the Board of Directors earned a degree from FSU: President: Eric Head (’03, M.S. Information Studies) …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Alumna is a Candidate for American Library Association Council
FSU CCI Leadership Board member and School of Information alumna Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer is a candidate for the American Library Association (ALA) Council. “It has long been a dream of mine to be a member of ALA Council,” says Kathleen. “The opportunity to influence the direction of ALA, as well as to weigh in on matters of social …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Alumnus Named Belmont Forum Human Dimensions Champion
Wade Bishop, Associate Professor for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been named the 2018-19 Human Dimensions Champion for Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures & Data Management. Bishop (’10, Ph.D. Library & Information Studies) has been able to present research at destinations such as Botswana for International Data Week, as well as Australia for the International …
CONTINUE READINGSindy Chapa Publishes & Presents Work on Hispanic Marketing
Dr. Sindy Chapa, an assistant professor at the FSU School of Communication, recently presented her work at the Hispanic/Latino Media & Marketing (HLMM) conference. The work Chapa presented at HLMM is a chapter of the recently published book, Latinx Voices: Hispanics in the Media in the U.S. Her chapter provides a general overview of the Hispanic …
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