This Wednesday, March 20, Florida State University’s first-ever scholarly communication librarian, Micah Vandegrift, presents “Scholarly Communications and Open Access at FSU—Balancing Research and Practice,” 3-4 p.m., Room 206, Louis Shores Building, FSU campus, followed by a reception from 4-5 p.m. Remote viewers will be able to attend by joining an online Blackboard Collaborate session that …
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News about the FSU College of Communication & Information
“Scholarly Communications and Open Access at FSU—Balancing Research and Practice,” Wednesday, March 20: In person or online!
U.S. News & World Report ranks SLIS grad programs among best in the nation
U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 edition of “Best Graduate Schools” was released on Mar. 12. FSU’s School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) placed 13th in the nation! Its school library media program ranked No. 1 in the nation; its services for children and youth ranked 5th; and its digital librarianship ranked 11th. Read …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM students and professor selected to present at conference in S. Korea
Two current students from the FSU School of Communication, a recently graduated alum from the Integrated Marketing Communication program, and a professor were chosen to present at the 2013 Biennial World Communication Association conference in Seoul, South Korea, from Aug. 8-12, 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is “Intercultural Communication in the Global World.” …
CONTINUE READINGLansford’s Speech Science Research Grant to support dysarthria research at SCSD
The $5,000 Speech Science Research Grant that new SCSD Assistant Professor Kaitlin Lansford received last November at the 2012 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Atlanta will fund a project to improve diagnostic practices of dysarthria, a class of speech disorders that arises from neurological damage to the speech-motor control system. Lansford, who joined …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM alumnus is managing March Madness
School of Communication alumnus Mark E. Neifeld is the senior event coordinator of The Georgia Dome, home stadium of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia State Panthers. The venue hosts annual events like the Southeastern Conference Football Championship, Chick-fil-A Bowl and Monster Energy Supercross. Neifeld is serving as event manager for the 2013 75th …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doc student Choi research selected by ACM Computer-Human Interaction SIG for Paris conference
A paper by SLIS doctoral student Wonchan Choi has been selected by the juried Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) 2013 Student Research Competition for their annual conference, Paris, April 27-May 2. “What Makes Online Health Information Credible for Older Adults?: A Exploratory Study” examines cues to increases and …
CONTINUE READINGCastillo wins Gold Pixie Award for animated short
Dr. Jeanette Castillo, assistant professor at the School of Communication, has won a 2013 Gold Pixie Award for her short video, “The Performance of Drowning,” from the American Pixel Academy. Only 151 of 1,150 submissions from film, video, television and the Internet took the gold. The American Pixel Academy is a coalition of professionals and …
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