Florida IT Career Alliance to Host Students for Career & Educational Event

More than 500 Big Bend high school students expected to attend Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information, in partnership with the Florida IT Career Alliance, will host a career fair and educational event for area high school and college students. List of employers available here. Employer List. The goal of the FITC Alliance is …

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2014 CCI Scholarship & Awards Reception

On October 2nd, 2014 the College of Communication and Information recognized it’s outstanding faculty and students. During the annual event, scholarships were awarded to students in Communications, Information, and Communication Science and Disorders. Outstanding Faculty awards were presented at the event, honoring: Mark Zeigler – School of Communication Kelley Smith – School of Communication Kaitlin …

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iSchool presents at TPRC42

Florida State University’s Information Institute presented the preliminary findings of the National Science Foundation-funded Assessing Information Technology Educational Pathways that Promote Deployment and Use of Rural Broadband project at the nationwide Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, TPRC42. The conference was held at the George Mason University in Arlington, VA from September 12-14, 2014. Doctoral candidate Jisue Lee presented …

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iSchool Doc Students receive Sol Hirsch Scholarship

Sol Hirsch graduated with his Master’s in Library Sciences from Florida State University and has been an integral part of the FSU community ever since. One of his contributions to Florida State is the Sol and Beverly Hirsch Endowment, established in memory of his parents who were both Nazi concentration camp survivors. The endowment provides …

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iSchool’s Mardis & Spears Published

Two faculty members in Florida State’s School of Information have recently had their research published: A Failure to Connect: The Elusive Relationship between Broadband Access and Children’s Information Seeking in American Academic Research.  Associate Professor Marcia Mardis and doctoral candidate Laura Spears conducted a study concerning children’s information seeking and broadband access. In the United States, the …

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iSchool on the Road – Elaine & Christie

Hey Alums! Stop by these conferences and meet up with Elaine Howard and Dr. Christie Koontz, both from Florida State University’s iSchool. They will be at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations/Southeastern Library Association (COMO SELA) annual conference in Augusta, Georgia this week. The COMO SELA Conference is at the Augusta Marriott Convention Center in Augusta, …

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Beta Phi Mu inducts Fall 2014 Members

This Fall, the Spring 2014 School of Information graduates who were nominated by iSchool faculty to join Beta Phi Mu, the international library and information honor society. The new honorees include: David Lee Atkins Crystal Dawn Betts-Green James Howard Bittle Terri Chasteen Jennifer Close Janice Marie Dees Ebony Kristina Filer Rebecca Johnson Timothy Kanke Anastasia Myer Sarah …

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