“I never would have guessed five years ago that I would be living on a Portuguese island, and that I’d be getting ready to move to the other side of the world a year later,” says recent iSchool alumna April Bradley. She currently works as the Communications Flight Commander at Lajes Field for the United …
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iSchool Alumna Commanding Flight Communications for the US Air Force
Tally Job Hop Connects Students to Local IT Internships
An idea created and brought to life in the Spring of 2016 by Lester Hutt (Diverse Computing) and Ebe Randeree (FSU College of Communication & Information), the Tally Job Hop has become an initiative of The Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce and its young professional program, Access Tallahassee. The one-day tour for students to visit …
CONTINUE READINGResearchers receive NSF Award to Backtrack IT Alumni Pathways
CCI researchers, Faye Jones and Marcia Mardis, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their project backtracking IT alumni pathways.
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Professor Studies Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Jonathan Adams and his team of Computer Science students are working hard on developing applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI). “We were awarded a grant by the Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee, which allowed us to buy a computer designed for machine learning.” Dr. Adams explains. He then recruited two students from the Undergraduate Research …
CONTINUE READINGVisiting Speaker Bridges the Gap Between Arts and Sciences
What does an interdisciplinary scholar look like? Look no further than Dr. Youngmoo Kim from Drexel University. Dr. Kim has devoted his entire career to transdisciplinary education, and currently serves as Director of Drexel’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With an impressive background in electrical engineering, …
CONTINUE READINGThree iSchool Alumni Elected for FLA Board of Directors
FSU’s iSchool is committed to providing service and leadership within the information field, and every year the iSchool’s alumni carry on that commitment in their careers. Three iSchool alumni were chosen for the 2020 Florida Library Association (FLA) Board of Directors. Renaine Julian (’14, M.S. Library and Information Studies) served on the nomination committee for …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Alumna Discovering Civil War History in Virginia
Before moving to Winchester, Virginia, Trish Ridgeway was a reference librarian and bibliographic instruction specialist in academic libraries. Upon moving to Winchester, Trish was named the Director of the Handley Library where she worked tirelessly until her retirement in 2013. Some of her accomplishments include tripling the library’s endowment, building two new branches, and updating …
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