Two Florida State University advertising majors were among 50 honored in New York on Feb. 2 at the annual American Advertising Federation Mosaic luncheon celebrating diversity in advertising. Nicole Narvaez and Melissa Young, both advertising majors from Hillsborough County, were selected as two of the 50 top minority advertising students in the country to participate …
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2 Ad majors honored as Promising Minority Students
FSUComm alum Kelly Lafferman joins WebSolvers
Kelly Lafferman (BS, Communication, 1992), a marketing, branding and communications executive in Central Florida, recently joined WebSolvers, a digital design and development firm as Principal of Strategy and Development. In this role, Lafferman will build a marketing, branding and communications practice area that enables WebSolvers to provide more strategic services toclients. Lafferman brings nearly two …
CONTINUE READINGExtended deadline looms for UDC conference submissions
Feb. 1 is the final deadline for abstract submissions to the Union for Democratic Communications 2012 international conference. Hosted by The Florida State University’s School of Communication, the conference will be held May 10-12, 2012, at the Turnbull Conference Center and will address the intersection of new technology, economic inequality and global environmental instability. THE …
CONTINUE READINGVeteran political journalist John Harwood to speak Feb. 7
John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for the New York Times, will give a public lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. titled “Fragmented Politics, Fragmented Media: Challenges to American Journalism.” The lecture, sponsored by the Laird B. Anderson and Florence H. Ashby Lectureship on Public Policy …
CONTINUE READINGGubernatorial Fellows accepting applications until March 2
Applications are being accepted until March 2 for the Florida Gubernatorial Fellows Program, a prestigious fellowship that provides nine months of professional experience in high levels of state government. Applicants may be from any field and should be have a strong interest in public service. Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students (juniors or seniors) are …
CONTINUE READINGCCI's Raulston wins Florida Campus Compact's Community Engagement Educator Award
By Andrea Wolf Project SPARTA. Sounds like an obscure movie reference, doesn’t it? Short for “Supervised Practical Application of Research, Theory and Academics,” it’s actually a unique service learning program created by Florida State University’s Melissa Raulston. Raulston, a webmaster and service learning coordinator with the College of Communication & Information, was recently awarded the …
CONTINUE READINGRaney gives keynote at sports media conference in China
Arthur A. Raney, professor and director of doctoral studies in FSU’s School of Communication, delivered a keynote address at an international conference on sports media and communication hosted by Chengdu Sport University in Chengdu, China — the first of its kind ever convened in mainland China. Raney was one of three U.S. sports media scholars invited to headline …
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