Final Two Feed Your Brain events schedule for this week!

Feed Your Brain is a series of talks and panels on various emerging topics and student interests.  The sessions create a learning environment that is relaxed and interactive, giving you the opportunity to meet experienced individuals in an intimate setting and pick their brain to feed yours.  Topics this semester have ranged from social media, …

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Faculty and alumni elected to ALISE board of directors

Two members of the FSU-SLIS family were recently elected to the board of directors of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). FSU-SLIS associate professor Don Latham, who earned his doctorate at FSU-SLIS, will serve as director for special interest groups and FSU-SLIS doctoral program alumna Laurie Bonnici, now an assistant professor at …

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MLIS student wins ALA Spectrum Scholarship

Master’s in Library & Information Studies student Jonathan DaSo, a Senior Library Assistant at Emory University’s Oxford College Library, was awarded an American Library Association 2012 Spectrum Scholarship. The Spectrum Scholarship Program provides scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students pursuing graduate degrees in library and information …

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MLIS student wins FAME scholarship

Graduate student Lindsey Whittington was a winner of the $1,000 spring Sandy Ulm Scholarship, awarded by the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME) twice a year to Florida students pursuing an education in the field of library media services. Lindsey is currently an English teacher at Dixie Country High School in Cross City, Florida, …

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FSU SLIS Student Suzanne Marshall to be Published in Journal

Congratulations to FSU SLIS student Suzanne Marshall, who will have an article published in the Winter 2012 issue of the American Library Association Government Documents Roundtable journal, DttP: Documents to the People!  Suzanne’s article “A Hidden Story: American Indian Code Talkers” is based on a paper that she originally wrote in the Spring 2012 Government …

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Joy Koo Receives Elfreda Chatman Research Award at ASIS&T

FSU SLIS doctoral student Joung Hwa “Joy” Koo received the Elfreda Chatman Research Award at the SIG USE Symposium at the  75th ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 27, 2012, which includes a $1000 check to support the research.  Together with Yong Wan Cho and FSU SLIS Professor Melissa Gross, Joy’s award-winning research investigates the …

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2012 Convocation & Homecoming Ceremonies

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Communication & Information Cordially invites you to the 2012 Convocation & Homecoming Ceremonies October, 27, 2012 Louis Shores Building, Florida State University campus 8:00 a.m. – Buffet breakfast 9:30 a.m. – Cememony honoring alumni, faculty and staff from the Schools of Communication,   Communication Science and Disorders, and Library and Information Studies For more …

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