FSU Forensics Team Starts New Year Continuing Success

The Forensics Team at Florida State University started 2019 continuing the success they had during the 2018 Fall semester. This past weekend, the team attended and won two tournaments hosted by Southeastern University. The first tournament was in the British Parliamentary style. Mai Rubin and Josh Schulster competed as a team, and Kaitlyn Applegate and …

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iSchool Professor to Present at Interactive Technology Conference in Scotland

Yubo Kou Headshot

Florida State University School of Information Assistant Professor Yubo Kou has published two research papers that will be presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Glasgow, Scotland on May 4-9, 2019. The conference is designed to facilitate discussion about the latest in interactive technology, allowing people from different disciplines, cultures, …

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Tremaine Grant: iSchool Alumnus and Co-Founder of BULK Fitness App

Tremaine Grant (’13, B.S. Information Technology) is the co-founder of BULK, a fitness app designed for gaining healthy weight and building muscle through customized workout and meal plans. The app boasts 31,000+ users across 140 countries and accesses a unique niche in the health community. “This is the total opposite of what the majority of …

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Melissa Carlton: iSchool Alumna and Computer Science Professor

Melissa Carlton graduated from the School of Information in 2008 with a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies and has recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Houston Baptist University College of Engineering in Houston, Texas. After graduating from FSU, Carlton went on to receive her PhD in Information Systems …

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iSchool Professor Named Principal Investigator on National Institute on Aging Grant

Dr. Zhe He, Assistant Professor in the School of Information, has been named a Principal Investigator for a research project with a grant total of $422,382. The research involves studying the generalizability of clinical studies and is titled “Systematic Analysis of Clinical Study Generalizability Assessment Methods with Informatics”. Florida State University will be the main …

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CCI Career Fair set for February 5th 2019

The Spring 2019 College of Communication & Information Career Fair will be held on Tuesday, February 5th, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the Miller Hall.  This event provides valuable networking opportunities for students and alumni to meet employers who are providing internships, full-, and part- job opportunities in the communications or information fields! Our last two …

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iSchool Alumna Returns from Peace Corps Assignment in Namibia

School of Information alumna Lauren Del Brocco has recently returned from a Peace Corps volunteer assignment in Namibia located in Southern Africa. Her work with Namibian youth included primary education in STEM fields, discussing sexual health topics, HIV/AIDS prevention, and empowerment of boys and girls to be agents of change in their community to end …

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