Chapa’s research quoted by Latina Mom Bloggers

Food is the cornerstone of many cultures and traditions. Sindy Chapa, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, recently conducted a study that found the majority of Latina mothers (over 80%) value passing down family history to their children through cooking. Authentic ingredients like Mazola Corn Oil help generations follow the recipes passed down by their …

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20 Questions with Jennifer Proffitt

20 Questions with Jennifer Proffitt What was your first job? Chuck E. Cheese. And yes, I did dress as the mouse a few times. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? Is This Real Life? Where did you grow up? Pittsburgh, PA, and proud of it. Those who know …

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FSU’s Author Day honors CCI Faculty

Each year, the Office of Faculty Recognition holds an Authors Day to recognize faculty members who have published books in the past year. From the College of Communication and Information, Davis Houck, Andy Opel, Art Raney, Melissa Gross, Shuyuan Mary Ho, Christie Koontz, Don Latham, Marcia Mardis and Lorri Mon will be honored at the …

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Houck talks Project South on NPR

Davis Houck, professor in the School of Communication, was featured on NPR’s history department blog on March 13. The article is a plea for “historical crowdsourcing” using an archive at Stanford University called Project South. Initiated in summer 1965, eight students spread throughout the South under Stanford’s Institute of American History and KZSU, a campus radio …

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Bruker and Opel work on Co-Parenting Grant

Faculty and students from the Digital Media Production Program have a new project on their plate – developing a toolkit for Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce. Fueled by a $250,000 grant from the Vandermark Foundation, Florida State University is working to create a new online toolkit designed to help create healthy co-parentings in families going through a …

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Florida Book Awards honor FSU Professors

The results are in and two Florida State professors have been recognized by the Florida Book Awards. The Florida Book Awards (FBA) have been around since 2006, when Dr. Wayne Weigand, Professor Emeritus and F. Williams Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies, co-organized the awards. The Florida Book Awards were created to recognize and celebrate Florida’s best books and …

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COMM Professors named Top 10 by College Magazine

College Magazine has spoken, ranking 10 Florida State Professors Worth Your Money. On the list of 10 exceptional professors are two from the College of Communication and Information. Mark Zeigler and Davis Houck have made the list, for various reasons from “he teaches students how to speak without throwing up” and “he never shies away …

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