Formed in May 2014 through a $3 million grant from Florida’s Board of Governors, the FITC Alliance is a collaboration between Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information (CCI) and Department of Computer Science, the Florida A&M-FSU College of Engineering and Florida A&M University’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences. Technology students at Florida …
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FITC Student Perspectives
The College Welcomes New Faculty
The College of Communication and Information welcomes four new Faculty to our staff. Summer Harlow (Assistant Professor) comes to CCI with a Ph.D. in journalism and a M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a former newspaper journalist and blogger with 10 years of experience reporting from the …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Doc student returns to Florida
Aisha Johnson is a career Seminole with two degrees under her belt and another in the works. She earned her B.S. in Political Science, M.S. in Library & Information Studies from Florida State University and is working towards her Doctorate in Information Studies. The faithful Seminole took to Nashville, Tennessee in 2013 to begin work …
CONTINUE READINGCCI alumnus Dr. Plato Smith awarded fellowship
Dr. Plato L. Smith II, recent graduate of Florida State University, has accepted a fellowship at University of New Mexico’s (UNM) College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences. Dr. Plato Smith has been chosen for a fellowship at University of New Mexico. After defending his dissertation “Exploring the Data Management and Curation Practices of Scientists …
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Some students spend their summer break soaking up the sun. Nick Lively wasn’t one of them. Lively recently graduated from Florida State University in with a degree in Digital Media Production. Through the LATE program, he went to Los Angeles to intern for the summer. Before he left the Sunshine State, he clocked over 250 …
CONTINUE READINGAlumnus Ahli Moore brings Program IGNITE to CCI
Florida State University College of Communication & Information alumnus Ahli Moore conducted a half-day leadership development workshop – Program IGNITE – for a select group of the College’s undergraduate and graduate students on Feb. 8. Program IGNITE is a modular-based Student Leadership workshop that uses a combination of experiential activities, self-reflection, role-plays, assessments and mini-lectures …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS Research Spotlight: Dr. Gary Burnett
Dr. Gary Burnett is a Princeton graduate who arrived to the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) with an interest in how different spheres of social communities interact and react, stemming from his PhD in poetry: “The experience of spending so many years with poetry allows me to focus on other kinds of cultural productions …
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