On September 19, 2022, Florida State University and Florida A&M University presented an advanced screening of Till, a film which chronicles Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955 while on a trip to Mississippi.
CONTINUE READINGCategory: CCI Faculty News
News about the faculty of all schools comprising the the FSU College of Communication & Information
CCI Faculty Member Joins Panel During Advanced Screening of Till
Director of FSU STEM Libraries and ISchool Alumnus Renaine Julian Secures $471,847 Grant
Renaine Julian (B.S. Political Science ‘07, M.S. Urban and Regional Planning ‘11, MLIS ‘14), Director of STEM Libraries, has recently secured a $471,847 grant for the FAIR Facilities and Instruments Research Coordination Network in collaboration with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado Boulder. As Director of STEM Libraries, Julian leads …
CONTINUE READINGDr. Richard Waters Joins the School of Communication
This semester, Dr. Richard Waters joined the School of Communication’s faculty as an Assistant Professor.
CONTINUE READINGShuyuan Metcalfe and Xiuwen Liu Awarded U.S. Air Force Project to Identify “Deepfake” Image Manipulation
FSU faculty members Dr. Shuyuan Metcalfe (School of Information) and Dr. Xiuwen Liu (Department of Computer Science) are currently working on exciting research to identify “deepfake” images. The recently awarded Project Aletheia from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) allows FSU investigators to develop machine learning (ML) models that will detect digitally manipulated images. The research …
CONTINUE READINGAssociate Professor Malia Bruker Directs Powerful 360-Degree Film Threshold
Malia Bruker, an Associate Professor of Digital Media Production at CCI, directed as well as headed the cinematography and editing of the film Threshold which has screened multiple times across the US and Europe. Bruker described the film saying, “Threshold is a 360-degree dance film that opens a portal into the transformational journey of four …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Professor Awarded IMLS Grant
iSchool’s Dr. Besiki Stvilia wins the IMLS grant for his exploratory research project in collaboration with Texas A&M University.
CONTINUE READINGCCI Welcomes New Faculty Member Yasmeen Hamza
Dr. Yasmeen Hamza joins SCSD this Fall as an Assistant Professor. An MD by training, Hamza practiced clinically for five years as an audiovestibular specialist before completing her Ph.D. and transitioning into academia.
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