FSU-SLIS team qualifies in collegiate cyber defense competition

A team of undergraduate students taking an information technology (IT) security class at the FSU School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) has successfully qualified for the 2013 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The students placed as one of the top southeastern university teams in an eight-hour virtual qualification event on Feb. 2, during which …

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COMM Professor Adams and Researcher Ngampornchai assist Thai University in ICT program development

School of Communication associate professor, Dr. Jonathan Adams, and research associate, Dr. Anchalee Ngampornchai, travelled to the Ubon Ratchathani University’s (URU) campus, in Mukdahan, Thailand, on January 18 through February 3.  Adams and Ngampornchai, who is originally from Thailand, are helping the Thai university’s efforts to plan a new Information Communication and Technology (ICT) major. …

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SLIS doc student Plato Smith II selected by NSF as early career scholar

FSU School of Library & Information Studies doctoral student Plato L. Smith II was chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a leading American early career scholar to be invited to its “Early Career Strategic Visioning Workshop” for EarthCube last October at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. “We were very happy …

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Newly recruited football player Bryant says FSU has a top comm. program

Davarez Bryant, a defensive end football player senior from New Smyrna Beach, called his February weekend visiting Florida State University (FSU) “great” in an article published by the Daytona Beach News-Journal.  Bryant was deciding where to play football, and it seems like our university made a favorable impression — especially as far as academics are …

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COMM professors and grad student co-write article published in academic journal

A research article, co-written by School of Communication professors, Dr. Jonathan Adams and Dr. Juliann Cortes, and graduate student, Sue Lee, was published by the academic journal, Contemporary Issues in Teacher Education (CITE).  Titled, “The Acceptability of Online Degrees: Principals and Hiring Practices in Secondary Schools”, their work discusses how principals perceive teaching certifications earned …

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