The College of Communication and Information (CCI) hosted a week-long tech camp from Jun. 17-21 for middle school girls from the local community. The camp served as a way to urge the girls to take an interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Victoria Rice, one of the tech camp instructors, who also …
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SLIS Alumna awarded Leadership Grant
Florida State University SLIS Alumna, Professor Melissa Johnston, was recently awarded the Ken Haycock Leadership Development Grant from the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL). The $1,000 grant is awarded to first time attendees of the IASL annual conference, which will be held in Bali in August 2013. The purpose of this grant is to …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS donates home library to Habitat for Humanity family
The FSU School of Library Information Studies (SLIS) and Dr. Nancy Everhart, Associate Professor and Director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media), hosted a ceremony on Jun. 10 in the Goldstein Library to commemorate the donation of a 106-book library to a local single-parent family, the Josephs. The library contribution plans were announced on Feb. 12 at a celebration …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doctoral student Shuheng Wu accepted to 2013 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute
SLIS doctoral student Shuheng Wu was accepted as one of 25 participants from 113 applicants to participate in the 2013 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute. The DSST Summer Institute is an NSF-funded annual event, bringing researchers from academia and industry who have developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS Information Technology Master's Student is CEO of Cutting-Edge Multimedia Marketing Company
School of Library and Information Studies’ Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) student, Stephany C. Jones, is CEO of WBS Multimedia. Her story is inspiring for women who want to get into IT and helps to demonstrate the value of SLIS graduate IT education. Her company is cutting edge, spearheading multimedia marketing campaigns which …
CONTINUE READINGFSU ITS Lead Database Administrator to share job-hunting advice on May 23
Jeremy Schleicher, Lead Database Administrator at FSU Information Technology Services (ITS), will share advice with students about how to land a job in an IT market. His presentation will take place on Thursday, May 23, from 2-3 p.m. in the William Johnston Building (WJB), Room 2004. Schleicher has worked in his current role at ITS …
CONTINUE READINGNSF makes award to FSU Information Institute to study IT education and rural broadband
For Immediate Release May 13, 2013 Contact: Charles R. McClure, PhD cmcclure@lis.fsu.edu The National Science Foundation – Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) program announced that Florida State University, College of Communication & Information, School of Library and Information Studies, Information Institute will receive an $847,000 award to support the four year project Assessing Information Technology …
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