Drs. Don Latham and Marcia Mardis attended this year’s Florida Public Library Directors Meeting, which brings together public library leaders from across the State of Florida to learn and share new trends, ideas, and best practices from the library community.
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iSchool Participates in Florida Public Library Directors Meeting
CCI’s Black Men in Tech Program Reaches the End of its Pilot Year – The Best is Yet to Come!
Recently, the College of Communication and Information’s Black Men in Tech (BMIT) program reached the end of its pilot year. The program, led by PI and Faculty Researcher Dr. Faye Jones, Co-PI and Associate Dean of Finance & Administration Ebe Randeree, and lead instructor and award-winning faculty member Dr. Christy Chatmon, served to connect young Black men …
CONTINUE READINGStrengthening IT Skills in the Panhandle
The St. Joe Foundation awarded FSU ASCENT’s program with a $135,490 grant.
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Professor Elected as AMIA KDDM Vice Chair
Associate Professor in the School of Information Dr. Zhe He was recently elected as the Vice Chair for the American Medical Informatics Association’s Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (AMIA KDDM) Working Group.
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Professor Elected as Member-at-Large for the ACM SIGCSE Executive Board
This summer, Dr. Yolanda Rankin was elected as a Member-at-Large for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Executive Board.
CONTINUE READINGFSU Project to Provide Opioid Epidemic Assistance in Rural Communities Receives $1.3 Million Grant
School of Information Assistant Professor Margaret Sullivan is Co-Pi for the College of Social Work’s project “Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Regional Centers (ROTA-R)” which recently earned a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The project will work to provide technical assistance and training on opioid harm reduction and prevention …
CONTINUE READINGProject Led by Dr. Marcia Mardis on Rural Disaster Resiliency Hubs Presents at CIVIC Project Showcase in Washington DC
On September 22, Dr. Marcia A. Mardis and Ms. Jana Whitehead, a Calhoun County resident who has been working with FSU researchers, traveled to Washington DC to present the National Science Foundation (NSF) research project “Rural Resiliency Hubs: An Integrated, Community-Centered Approach to Addressing the Resiliency Divide through Rural Public Libraries.” The project, focused on …
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