CCI Students participate in FSUltimate and attend USA Ultimate College Championship

What’s cooler than being a CCI student? Being a CCI student who plays Ultimate Frisbee for FSU. On May 22 -25, CCI students Christopher LaRocque, Bobby Paterson, Lisa Fitton and Carolina Gonzalez-Llanos muscled through the grounds of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in pursuit of the USA Ultimate D-I College Championships title with FSUltimate’s A Teams. FSUltimate was founded to bring the …

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Advertising student Andrew Greenberg interns at Bravo TV

Embracing the heat and bustle of summertime in Manhattan, Andrew Greenberg starts his morning in Rockefeller Plaza, dodging tourists, taxis and other locals trying to get to their destination. He maneuvers his way around with a tenacious spirit, and arrives at Bravo TV to take on the diverse responsibilities of a Marketing Intern for the day. This …

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Steve Ellis Memorial Scholarship Fund now on Spark

Congratulating the winners!   It is hard to believe that Steve has been gone for almost six years.  His untimely death certainly left a void in our hearts and in the sports community. Steve was a beloved sports reporter with the Tallahassee Democrat who covered the Florida State Seminoles for almost 30 years. He may …

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CCI Celebrates Social Media Day

In 2010, Mashable named June 30 as Social Media Day as a way to recognize and celebrate social media’s impact on global communication. Now in it’s sixth year, Social Media Day has become a global celebration. Social media is become an essential part of business strategy for companies in almost every sector. At the College …

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Malia Bruker Films Klasse, Featured in Art Exhibit

School of Communication professor Malia Bruker participated in a site-specific art exhibition spread across various locations in Tuscany. Bruker was an artist-in-residence at M’Arte 2015, a contemporary art project. While overseas, Bruker traveled to Germany and worked on dance film Klasse with School of Dance’s Hannah Schwadron. Klasse Schwadron’s grandmother Ursula Lievendag was a Holocaust survivor who lived in …

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Merle pens editoral for the Orlando Sentinel

  In May, School of Communication professor Patrick Merle penned a guest editorial for the Orlando Sentinel. Merle, who served as an international journalist years, wrote about a healthy democracy’s need for uncensored media. Healthy, tolerant society needs satire touched on recent Charlie Hebdo attacks and controversial representations of the Prophet Muhammad. Merle argues that censorship is …

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Jonathan Adams Finishes Fulbright Scholar Work

In August, CCI reported on Dr. Jonathan Adams’ selection to participate in the Fulbright Scholar program and again in November when Adams left for six months in Thailand. The School of Communication associate professor set up shop at Ubon Ratchathani University – Mukdahan campus, known to locals as Ubon, a university Adams has taught at multiple …

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