Two College of Communication & Information students have been selected to be on Homecoming Court this year. Laurence Thompson and Qaree Dreher are both Public Relations students with a passion for communicating. Laurence Thompson Laurence Thompson is a senior at FSU with a passion for intellectual challenges. He was attracted to the Public Relations major …
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News about the FSU College of Communication & Information
Two PR Students Named on Homecoming Court
20 Questions with Mia Lustria
20 Questions with Mia Liza A. Lustria What was your first job? Instructor at the University of the Philippines Los Banos. I was hired right after graduating from college. The opportunity essentially fell into my lap – later I learned I got the job because someone had started a rumor that another department was trying …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Introduces IDEA Full-Ride Scholarship Program for MSIT, MLIS Students
Florida State University’s iSchool has unveiled a brand new opportunity awarding six Master’s students with full-ride scholarships. The IDEA Learning Community emphasizes Innovation, Digital-fluency, Entrepreneurship, and Advocacy as foundational values of the information professions. The students attend full-time and graduate within a year. In addition to having tuition and fees paid for, Project IDEA students entering …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Students Engage the next generation in Computer Science
FSU Digital Media Production Students Bring “A is for Armed” to YOFI Film Festival
Digital Media Production students Samantha Hunter and Cristina Fernandez recently attended the Yonkers Film Festival (more commonly dubbed YOFI Fest) in New York for their film, A is for Armed. Addressing the recent Concealed Carry on Campus bill in Florida in terms of last November’s shooting at Strozier library, A is for Armed engages viewers in a conversation about …
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The School of Information (Florida’s iSchool) faculty and doctoral students will be in force at the 2015 ASIS&T (Association for Information Science & Technology) annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri. If you are attending the conference on November 9, bring your lunch to a “Birds of a Feather” brown bag with FSU faculty at City Garden …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Students Attend Hackathons at Universities Across the Country
From our very own Florida State University to Georgia Tech to the University of Michigan, universities all over the country are hosting hackathons. At these weekend-long events, teams of computer programers, system developers, interface designers and the like come together to work on a variety of computer-related programs. Despite what the name of the event …
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