Ad Team finishes 7th at national competition

Arrowhead Advertising, the Florida State University student advertising team, placed in the top 10 in national competition for the fourth consecutive year. The team placed seventh of 16 teams in the finals of the National Student Advertising Competition of the American Advertising Federation, held at the AAF conference in Orlando on June 10 and 11, …

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Comm alumnus wins silver at Houston Film Festival

Communication alumnus Donato “Danny” Pietrodangelo and his company, Pietrodangelo Production Group of Tallahassee, won a Silver Remi Award at the 43rd WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in April 2010. The award-winning digital film is an educational documentary titled War in the Falklands/Malvinas, which Pietrodangelo produced and directed. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Communication from …

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Emerson again funds Hispanic marketing scholars

Emerson Climate Technologies has committed an additional $10,000 to The Florida State University College of Communication & Information through the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication (HMC) at the School of Communication. That brings the total pledged by Emerson Climate Technologies to students at the College to $25,000 since 2007. The money funds scholarships awarded to …

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Mardis to receive national recognition with AASL Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Marcia Mardis of The Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information (CCI) will receive the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of School Librarians next month in Washington, D.C. The award, which recognizes “an outstanding national contribution to school librarianship and school library development,” will be presented at the American Library …

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CCI to host health information technology event, June 4

The College of Communication & Information at The Florida State University is hosting the Florida Health Information Exchange Kickoff Meeting on Friday, June 4, at the Turnbull Conference Center in partnership with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. The free event will bring together Florida health care providers, associations, regional extension centers, government agencies …

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CCI team research to aid renewable energy researchers

A team of CCI information experts recently built a new Web portal that could modernize how sustainable energy researchers share their work. The new Renewable Energy Research Portal will also, its creators hope, serve as a model for a state-of-the-art cyber infrastructure offering a more sophisticated way to use the Internet to efficiently seek out …

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Everhart, Mardis & PALM research: SLJ cover story

The cover story of the May 1, 2010 issue of School Library Journal (SLJ) highlights the research of three institutes that are “poised to make the biggest difference” in school libraries, among them the PALM Center at Florida State University. Drs. Nancy Everhart and Marcia Mardis of the School of Library & Information Studies at …

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