The STARS Catalyst project, led by researchers from Temple, UNC Charlotte, NC State, Kent State, Morgan State, and FSU, was recently funded by the National Science Foundation to continue work started in 2005. The project, titled, “STARS: Catalyzing Action-Oriented Communities for Broadening Participation in Computing,” will be led by CCI Faculty members Ebrahim Randeree and …
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STARS Catalyst Project Receives Grant from the National Science Foundation
Lawrence C. Dennis Endowment for Student Success to Honor Dr. Dennis
On October 1st, the Lawrence C. Dennis Endowment for Student Success was announced at the CCI Leadership Board meeting.
CONTINUE READINGMaternal Healthcare Application for Haitian Women Receives Best Paper Award
iSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Yolanda Rankin and her team received the Best Paper Award in the Analytics track for the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2021). The paper titled, “Implementing community-based participatory design and mixed methods to capture and analyze mental models of no/low literate users” is a joint research effort with …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Professor and Graduate Student Publish Paper on Synthetic Data in AI
College of Communication and Information Professor Dr. Johnathan Adams alongside graduate student Ava Dodd had their paper titled “The Role of Synthetic Data in Aerial Object Detection” accepted to the International Conference on Marine, Aviation, Transport, Logistics and Trade to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The paper is a culmination of the past two years …
CONTINUE READINGChristy Chatmon Selected for National Science Foundation for Graduate Education Virtual Research Bootcamp
Christy Chatmon, Instructor and Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University, was recently selected for the National Science Foundation Florida Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate virtual research bootcamp running from July 11th to the 16th. “The National Science Foundation’s Florida Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP) research bootcamp, hosted by Florida A&M …
CONTINUE READINGResearchers Explore Second-Language Acquisition Through Video Games
Four researchers of different disciplines have come together to study the impact of video gaming on second-language learning. This project was headed by FSU researchers Dr. Yolanda Rankin (School of Information) and Dr. Sana Tibi (School of Communication Sciences and Disorders). Titled “Designing a Socially Interactive Video Game,” this study was part of an internal …
CONTINUE READINGDr. Lynette Gerido Receives First-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship Through ELSI
Lynette Hammond Gerido, Ph.D., MPH, a recent doctoral graduate at FSU’s School of Information, was awarded a prestigious postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. This award is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) program. “The …
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