Fannie Lou Hamer’s Sunflower County Filmmaker’s Workshop Features CCI Faculty and Alumni

Sunflower County Filmmaker’s Academy (SCFA) is an organization that hosts a 5-week long filmmaker’s workshop for high school students interested in film with the help of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The second-ever workshop was held from June 21 to July 3rd, 2021. Over 20 students worked on intense documentaries and learn technical camera skills, all …

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Maternal Healthcare Application for Haitian Women Receives Best Paper Award

iSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Yolanda Rankin and her team received the Best Paper Award in the Analytics track for the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2021). The paper titled, “Implementing community-based participatory design and mixed methods to capture and analyze mental models of no/low literate users” is a joint research effort with …

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CCI Professor and Graduate Student Publish Paper on Synthetic Data in AI

College of Communication and Information Professor Dr. Johnathan Adams alongside graduate student Ava Dodd had their paper titled “The Role of Synthetic Data in Aerial Object Detection” accepted to the International Conference on Marine, Aviation, Transport, Logistics and Trade to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The paper is a culmination of the past two years …

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Christy Chatmon Selected for National Science Foundation for Graduate Education Virtual Research Bootcamp

Christy Chatmon, Instructor and Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University, was recently selected for the National Science Foundation Florida Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate virtual research bootcamp running from July 11th to the 16th. “The National Science Foundation’s Florida Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP) research bootcamp, hosted by Florida A&M …

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FSU College of Communication and Information Establishes Professorship honoring Dr. Jay Rayburn

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Amanda Wood, APR, Florida State University Foundation (850) 645-8844; awood@foundation.fsu.edu TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida State University College of Communication and Information announced the creation of a new professorship in honor of the late Dr. Jay D. Rayburn II, who passed away on Monday, July 12. Today, September 21, would’ve been …

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Researchers Explore Second-Language Acquisition Through Video Games

Four researchers of different disciplines have come together to study the impact of video gaming on second-language learning. This project was headed by FSU researchers Dr. Yolanda Rankin (School of Information) and Dr. Sana Tibi (School of Communication Sciences and Disorders). Titled “Designing a Socially Interactive Video Game,” this study was part of an internal …

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