On Friday, February 6th, Gary Kreps, renowned health communications scholar spoke to a packed room in the Shores Building. His hour long talk touched on health communication needs and Krep’s research on the topic. The event was well attended by both student and faculty members in the College of Communication and other schools across campus. Photos …
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Dr. Gary Kreps visits School of Information, talks Health Communciation
CCI welcomes two new advisors
Two new advisors have joined the CCI Advising Team for the Spring 2015 semester! A warm welcome to Arlin Robinson and Melanie Presnell. Arlin joins the CCI Advising Team with a degree in Psychology from Emory Unviersity and a Master’s in Public Health from University of Texas. …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho awarded FC² Collaborative Seed Grant
Earlier this year Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho was awarded the NSF I-CORPS grant to investigate the feasibility of communication analysis software and human language analysis in various market segments, and now she has received yet another grant. Dr. Ho has been awarded the Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FC²) Collaborative Seed Grant. FC² is poised to …
CONTINUE READINGAlums return to recruit next generation of CCI employees
Ah, career fair season. You can see it from a mile away, the steady stream of black pencil skirts and shiny black shoes. Follow them and you’ll end up at Seminole Futures and the CCI Career Fair. Side step the ladies switching from flats to heels and you’re in, winding up and down aisles of companies eager …
CONTINUE READINGFrom Kenya to Washington: Meet iSchool Alumna Leah Hannaford
Can one sentence change a life? Spark a career? Leah Hannaford, the resident Open Education Librarian at Centralia College in Washington, is proof that it can. Now an alumna of the School of Information, Hannaford’s journey towards librarianship started in Africa. In the Army for eight years, the staff sergeant was deployed to the Horn …
CONTINUE READINGFSU Alumna shines at General Motors, inspires WISE members
Alumna Nicole Liang spoke to a group of aspiring IT & ICT women last week. Born and raised in Tallahassee, she had returned to her former stomping grounds to talk to students – both for advice and recruiting purposes. When she isn’t inspiring the next generation of Noles, she works for General Motors out of Austin, …
CONTINUE READING20 Questions with Paul Marty
20 Questions with Paul Marty What was your first job? My first “job” was pet-sitting for neighbors going on vacation, which helped me learn how to handle strange requests from clients (e.g., “here’s how you need to cook steaks for my cat.”). My first “actual” job was working as a computer programmer for the U.S. …
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