Alums return to recruit next generation of CCI employees

Ah, career fair season. You can see it from a mile away, the steady stream of black pencil skirts and shiny black shoes. Follow them and you’ll end up at Seminole Futures and the CCI Career Fair. Side step the ladies switching from flats to heels and you’re in, winding up and down aisles of companies eager …

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COMM student Pete McClellan performs improv, free show Friday night

Pete McClellan came to Florida State in 2012, double majoring in Media Production & Communications and Marketing. In his three years at Florida State, he’s dipped his fingers into the FSU Flying High Circus, improv and recently debuted his first album, Pure Fiction. An employee of the Oglesby Union, you can find Pete working and performing there with No …

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From Kenya to Washington: Meet iSchool Alumna Leah Hannaford

Can one sentence change a life? Spark a career? Leah Hannaford, the resident Open Education Librarian at Centralia College in Washington, is proof that it can. Now an alumna of the School of Information, Hannaford’s journey towards librarianship started in Africa. In the Army for eight years, the staff sergeant was deployed to the Horn …

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Meet COMM Alumnus – Julio Valeriano

Since graduating with an Integrated Marketing Communication degree from Florida State University in 2010, Julio Valeriano has made his mark in the Public Relations industry in Washington, D.C. With more than five years of experience, Valeriano provides effective strategic communication, media relations and integrated marketing support for brand marketing, corporate, healthcare, public affairs and technology industries like DuPont …

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SparkFSU campaign to benefit Diem Brown Scholarship Fund

You’ve probably seen Diem Brown on television. Her bubbly personality was a part of many seasons of The Challenge on MTV and  where she also worked as an entertainment reporter. Brown was a two-time cancer survivor and after a courageous journey to fight ovarian cancer, she passed away in November 2014 at the age of …

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Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication celebrates 10th anniversary, honors founder

Florida State University’s Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication will celebrate its 10th anniversary and will honor the pioneering leadership of founder Felipe Korzenny during the fifth annual International Conference on Hispanic/Latino Media and Marketing Feb. 19-21. The conference, which Florida State will host for the first time, brings together marketing professionals and scholars from across the United States, Spain …

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Meet Digital Media Production Student — Evelyn Bradfield

Florida State University Digital Media Production senior, Evelyn Bradfield, is embracing the fast-paced and dream-chasing lifestyle in New York, New York this Spring semester. The Jane Street Entertainment intern is working hard for the owners, who are also executive producers of Chopped, a popular American television series that features timed culinary competitions between four chefs. Bradfield is also savoring the …

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