FSU undergraduate student, Jessica Primiani, has discovered documents from an African-American newspaper (the St. Louis Argus) which were long missing and shed new insights about the Emmett Till murder case. In 1955, Till, a 14-year-old black boy, was brutally killed after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Money, Mississippi. This incident and his trial …
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COMM student working with Prof. Houck discovers old newspapers with insights on Emmett Till murder case
COMM students and professor selected to present at conference in S. Korea
Two current students from the FSU School of Communication, a recently graduated alum from the Integrated Marketing Communication program, and a professor were chosen to present at the 2013 Biennial World Communication Association conference in Seoul, South Korea, from Aug. 8-12, 2013. The theme of this year’s conference is “Intercultural Communication in the Global World.” …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM alumnus is managing March Madness
School of Communication alumnus Mark E. Neifeld is the senior event coordinator of The Georgia Dome, home stadium of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia State Panthers. The venue hosts annual events like the Southeastern Conference Football Championship, Chick-fil-A Bowl and Monster Energy Supercross. Neifeld is serving as event manager for the 2013 75th …
CONTINUE READINGCastillo wins Gold Pixie Award for animated short
Dr. Jeanette Castillo, assistant professor at the School of Communication, has won a 2013 Gold Pixie Award for her short video, “The Performance of Drowning,” from the American Pixel Academy. Only 151 of 1,150 submissions from film, video, television and the Internet took the gold. The American Pixel Academy is a coalition of professionals and …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM Professor Adams and Researcher Ngampornchai assist Thai University in ICT program development
School of Communication associate professor, Dr. Jonathan Adams, and research associate, Dr. Anchalee Ngampornchai, travelled to the Ubon Ratchathani University’s (URU) campus, in Mukdahan, Thailand, on January 18 through February 3. Adams and Ngampornchai, who is originally from Thailand, are helping the Thai university’s efforts to plan a new Information Communication and Technology (ICT) major. …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM professors and grad student co-write article published in academic journal
A research article, co-written by School of Communication professors, Dr. Jonathan Adams and Dr. Juliann Cortes, and graduate student, Sue Lee, was published by the academic journal, Contemporary Issues in Teacher Education (CITE). Titled, “The Acceptability of Online Degrees: Principals and Hiring Practices in Secondary Schools”, their work discusses how principals perceive teaching certifications earned …
CONTINUE READINGSoftware developer engages CCI with day of social media research presentations
Dr. Jeanette Castillo, FSU School of Communication assistant professor of digital media, coordinated a day of social media education featuring a series of presentations by Dr. Stuart Shulman on Jan. 18. Shulman is the current Director of the Quantitative Data Analysis Program for the University of Massachusetts. His start-up company, Texifter, LLC, of which he …
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