FSU Students Take First Place at BEA Documentary Competition

Students from FSU’s Digital Media Production program (DMPP) won first place at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Student Documentary Competition for 641 Muriel Court. Kyle Jones, Deanna Kidd, Michael Walsh and Elijah Howard are the students behind 641 Muriel Court, a documentary uncovering the 1966 triple-murder of the Sims family in Tallahassee, Fla. The case grew …

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Lustria Named Associate Editor of JASIST Journal

School of Information professor Mia Lustria has been named associate editor for the Advanced Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) section of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), effective January 2017. JASIST is one of the leading journals in the information field. Lustria, an interdisciplinary researcher with focus on …

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This Week at CCI: February 13 – 17

Monday, February 13 Campus Girl Scouts: General Body Meeting Goldstein Library @ 5 PM Tuesday, February 14 WISE: Company Tour with Diverse Computing Diverse Computing @ 1 PM Wednesday, February 15 MWU & Project RAWW: Valentine’s Day Cards Union Green @ 2 PM Social Spear: InDesign Crash Course UCC 4120B @ 6 PM Thursday, February …

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IMC Alumna Joins PR Research Team at Ketchum

  “I left Germany not knowing how my journey in the US would go but I never, not even once, regretted taking the risk of trying something new. I knew it wouldn’t be the easiest way, but it was the way I wanted to go – and so I made it happen.” Integrated Marketing Communications …

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Three iSchool Professors Promoted

    The School of Information at Florida State University has announced three faculty promotions this year. Dr. Mia Liza Lustria was promoted to full professor. Lustria researches in the areas of consumer health informatics, health literacy, information seeking and information literacy. She was recently named associate editor of the JASIST Advances in Information Science …

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Patrick Merle named IMC Division Head

Graduate students in the Integrated Marketing Communication program will have a new division head starting Fall 2017. Dr. Patrick Merle, assistant professor in the School of Communication has been named division head of the program, effective Fall 2017. Merle succeeds Dr. Jay Rayburn, who served as division head since the program’s inception in 2002. “It …

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Weissenberger awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship

Dr. Lynnsey Weissenberger, alumna of the School of Information master’s and doctoral programs in Library and Information Studies, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship for two years of postdoctoral research in the European Union. The highly-competitive fellowship scheme attracts researchers who are mobile, meaning they are able to live and work within …

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