FSU Wellness Communication Research Center Awards Nearly $24,000 in Seed Grants 

The Wellness Communication Research Center at Florida State University has awarded nearly $24,000 in funding through its 2026 Assistant Professor Seed Grant Competition to support emerging research examining the ways communication shapes health, wellness, and human experience. The seed grants support innovative research addressing emerging issues in wellness communications while helping faculty develop projects that …

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A Summer Well Spent: Highlights from the iSchool Team

Written by Jeremiah Coca Summer may be a quieter time on campus, but across the Florida State University (FSU) School of Information (iSchool), our faculty and students continued to grow, review and present research, and engage in conversations that can shape the future of information science. A major focus this summer was the rapidly evolving …

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From Jordan to FSU: Dr. Sana Tibi Helps Strengthen Early Education Through IREX Grant

Faculty Spotlight School of Communication Science & Disorders FROM JORDAN TO FSU Dr. Sana Tibi HELPS STRENGTHEN EARLY EDUCATION As a graduate of a Jordanian public university and a native Arabic speaker, I have long been committed to advancing educational opportunities for children across the Arab world.

For Dr. Sana Tibi, an associate professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, the opportunity to help advance early education in Jordan brings together two important parts of her life: her connection to the country where she grew up speaking Arabic, and her academic career studying how children learn to read the language.  Tibi and Stephanie …

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Jiwoo Seo Presents Research Paper at the 24th DCMI Conference in South Korea

Jiwoo Seo, a School of Information (iSchool) doctoral student, presented her research paper, “Motivations for Participating in Biomedical Ontology Communities within Human-AI Collaboration,” at the 24th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Initiative (DCMI) in Seoul, South Korea.  “Since I am originally from Seoul and have lived there for most of my life, the …

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iSchool doctoral candidates Yuanying Pang and Lovinta Atrinawati present at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics

Continuing their research from the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC), Florida State University School of Information (iSchool) Ph.D. candidates Yuanying Pang and Lovinta Atrinawati presented their work at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Information (ICHI), where it was accepted as a full paper.  “It’s exciting to have our research published and accepted into …

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Dr. Kelly Farquharson and doctoral student Alexis Moser present research at the 33rd SSSR

Dr. Kelly Farquharson, speech-language pathologist, professor, and director of the Children’s Literacy and Speech Sound (CLaSS) lab at Florida State University, presented her research poster, Phonological profiles of children with speech sound disorders: Preliminary data from one academic year, with doctoral student Alexis Moser at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific …

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SCOM Faculty Receive Top Paper Award at International Conference in South Africa 

A Florida State University School of Communication (SCOM) research team earned international recognition for a paper examining how people navigate health information and risk.  Authored by Dr. Elizabeth Ray, doctoral candidate Trayana Kaleycheva and Dr. Felicia Jordan Jackson, the study received a Top Paper Award from the International Communication Association’s Public Relations Division. Selected through …

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