PR student wins research stipend awards and presents at Undergraduate Showcase

Matthew A. Prince, a junior at Florida State University (FSU) pursuing a dual degree in Public Relations and English Studies, with minors in Social Work and Business, presented Oct. 1 in the annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence. This event took place in the FSU Turnbull Conference Center, where all students, staff, and faculty were …

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SCSD Students Participate in Florida Laryngectomee Association Conference

Ten graduate students from Florida State University’s School of Communication Science & Disorders were awarded scholarships from the Dr. Avery Vaughn Fund for Excellence in Communication Science and Disorders, which funded their attendance at the Florida Laryngectomee Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla., in September. The scholarships honoring Dr. Vaughn were thanks to the generous …

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SCSD Hosts Southeastern University Clinical Educators Annual Conference

Florida State University’s School of Communication Science & Disorders (SCSD) served as the host program for the annual Southeastern University Clinical Educators (SEUCE) conference at the Wyndham Bay Point in Panama City Beach, Fla., on Sept. 26-27. SEUCE is an organization of clinic directors and clinical educators in speech pathology and audiology from programs in the …

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COMM Interim Director Sypher and doctoral student Clark interviewed about social media regarding student incident

Florida State University (FSU) student, Amanda Thurston, has been accused of posting racial slurs on the social media site, Vine, on Wednesday Sept. 4.  The Vine showed a clip of black students performing in the middle of FSU Oglesby Union during the weekly Market Wednesday.  The caption for the Vine read, “Welcome to FAMU…I mean …

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Comm Alumni Attorney Ryan B. Cappy Named to Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums

  Ryan B. Cappy, an alum of Florida State University’s School of Communication, recently earned certification as a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum as one of America’s top trial lawyers. Cappy, an attorney based in Tampa, Fla., earned his undergraduate degree from the School of Communication …

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Florida State SLIS Doctoral Students Well Represented at ASIS&T Annual Conference

A record number of doctoral students from the School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS), Florida’s iSchool, will be presenting their work at the 76th Annual Conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Montreal, Canada, on Nov. 1-6. SLIS students have been very successful showcasing their research at ASIS&T’s Annual Conference, …

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FSU STARS Students Win 1st and 2nd Place at National Conference

Florida State University undergraduate students successfully earned first- and second-place at the “STARS Celebration 2013” Conference in Atlanta on Aug. 15-17. The students were attending the three-day conference as members of the Florida State University chapter of the STARS (Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service) Alliance, a national community of regional partnerships with …

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