WVFS wins national award in NYC

  WVFS Tallahassee 89.7FM, also known as V89, was honored at the CMJ Music Marathon earlier this year in New York City. The college radio station is a ran by devoted volunteers and is an affiliated project of the FSU Student Government Association and the College of Communication and Information. Operating a non-commercial, educational, public …

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FITC Alliance holds Jacksonville area Press Conference

Since it’s inception in May 2014, the Florida IT Career (FITC) Alliance has worked to recruit, retain and employ Florida’s upcoming technology workforce. The group has been busy hosting a career fair for 500 high school students, a college career fair, building partnerships with 30 schools and 6 community colleges, etc.  In addition, the group …

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Fall 2014 Newsletters are LIVE!

Both the Connection and Communicator newsletters are in mailboxes and inboxes this week. The Connection, CCI’s bi-annual alumni newsletter can be found on here, along with past issues dating back to 2009. The Communicator, the 22-page student and alumni newsletter, contains over 60 success stories of current and past students. Both current issues, as well as past issues, are …

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THT establishes itself in the College

Transfers Helping Transfers (THT) is a student organization launched in 2014 as a project in the IT Leadership class, the student led organization has a goal to help transfer students adjust and feel more acquainted on FSU’s Campus.  Besides providing a “home” to learn about what FSU has to offer transfer students, the group assigns mentors to …

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Hacker for Good – Meet iSchool Alumnus: Chris Truncer

Alumnus Chris Truncer graduated from Florida State as an Information Technology major with a passion for doing good; but not in the most traditional sense. Chris is a White-Hat Hacker. He belongs to a community of professionals that turn the malicious connotation of hacking on its head. The title is used to describe a hacker that …

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Lansford featured in Tallahassee Democrat & FSUNews

Kaitlin Lansford, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, has gained more attention for her 2014 New Century Scholars Research Grant. The story was picked up by Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee Democrat featured Lansford’s research news in their Campus Notes section, ‘Grant funds crowdsourcing research at FSU. Read the full article here: Tallahassee …

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Meet COMM Alumnus: Andrew Barnett

It’s not every day that an alumni will have a project like a ‘facial recognition vending machine’ on their resume. But – sometimes it happens. One of the brilliant minds behind it is alumnus Andrew Barnett. He’s has been all over the country since graduating in 2004 and is currently serving as SVP, Executive Creative …

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