Sixty years ago today, African-American teenager Emmett Till was murdered after flirting with a white woman. Today, FSU Professor Davis Houck announces an app featuring Mississippi landmarks integral to Till’s story. Dr. Davis Houck first heard Till’s name when he was an undergraduate and has since dedicated much of his work to telling Till’s …
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Professor Davis Houck Creates ‘Emmett Till Trail’ App
20 Questions with Malia Bruker
20 Questions with Malia Bruker What was your first job? Right after I got my BA from FSU I got an unpaid internship at Free Speech TV in Colorado. I moved in with a family to nanny because I had no money for rent. Within 2 months the internship turned into a very intense job …
CONTINUE READINGDuBard’s Advanced Systems Design Named on Inc.’s Fastest Growing List
Inc. Magazine, a publication focused on growing companies, recently released it’s annual list of 5,000 fastest-growing private sector companies in the United States. On that list were three Tallahassee-based companies, including Advanced Systems Design (ASD). Dr. John DuBard, Director of the Project Management Center at Florida State University, is the company’s Founder and President. ASD ranked 2,223 …
CONTINUE READINGMeet Christine Nieves: CCI’s Entrepreneur in Residence
Christine Nieve‘s bright smile and seemingly endless energy will be a common sight in the College of Communication and Information starting this Fall. Christine has been hired as CCI’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). She brings her extensive experience as a communicator, network-waver and catalyst for change to CCI, with aspirations to further the College’s students and faculty. …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Welcomes New Faculty
This Fall, the College of Communication and Information welcomes four new faculty to the CCI team. Jinghui (Jove) Hou (Assistant Professor) joins CCI with a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California. Previously, she served as a Visiting Scholar/Adjunct at the University of Arkansas’ Department of Communication and Department of Marketing. …
CONTINUE READINGHarlow Honored at AEJMC
In August, thousands will travel to San Francisco for the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Among those attending is School of Communication’s Summer Harlow. Harlow will be honored at AEJMC for her dissertation, Liberation Technology? Toward an Understanding of the Re-appropriation of Social Media for Emancipatory Uses among Alternative Media Projects in El …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Kathy Burnett Keynotes in India
The 2nd International Conference on Innovation Driven Librarianship (ICIDL) took place June 11-13 at SRM University in India. Dr. Kathy Burnett, Director of the School of Information and F. William Summers Professor, delivered the keynote address. The conference was organized by the Central Library at SRM University, in association with the Korea Society for Information Management and the …
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