Recently, FSU College of Communication and Information professor and Associate Dean for Research Marcia Mardis gave the closing keynote speech at the Michigan Association for Media in Education’s (MAME) annual conference in Ann Arbor. The conference–MAME 49– offered school library professionals the opportunity to connect with and learn from others working in the school library …
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CCI Professor and Associate Dean for Research Marcia Mardis Gives Closing Keynote Speech at MAME Conference
STARS Students Travel to Atlanta to Network with Corporate Companies
In early November students in the FSU STARS program traveled to Atlanta, GA to meet with six companies over the span of two days to learn about what it is like to work for a large company, as well as what it takes to land a position at a corporate company. Students were also able to see what it would be like to be your own boss working at a start-up.
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Participates in Florida Public Library Directors Meeting
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.
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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