Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information (CCI) would like to recognize the eight Ph.D. students who have successfully completed and defended their dissertations during the fall semester of 2013. There are four graduating doctoral students from the School of Communication (COMM) — Dr. Ahmad Alkhalaf, Dr. Wanda Fenimore, Dr. Sophie Janicke and Dr. …
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CCI recognizes eight new Ph.D.s
COMM professor quoted in USAToday.com article about journalism trends
Dr. Patrick Merle, an assistant professor at Florida State University’s School of Communication, was recently quoted in the article, “23 Corgis want you to click this headline,” published on USAToday.com. The article talks about the catchy headline style of media outlets such as Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and Upworthy, and if it is changing the way …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM alumna pens memoir of Camelot Era
Florida State University School of Communication alumna Layte Bowden recently published a revealing memoir, “Under the Radar during Camelot: My Front Row Seat to History,” in which she shares recollections of her life as a young woman working behind the scenes on Capitol Hill during the tumultuous 1960s. Bowden, who was voted FSU Homecoming Queen …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM alumnus launches social change radio show in Tanzania
Florida State University School of Communication alumnus Charles Fleeman recently joined a team of wildlife conservationists and dignitaries to launch the radio drama “Temboni” at a grand event on the campus of the College of African Wildlife Management in Mweka, Tanzania. Fleeman, who received a Master’s degree in Integrated Marketing Communication in 2007 at Florida …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM graduate students serve as conference paper reviewers for National Communication Association convention
Several Florida State University School of Communication graduate students served as conference paper reviewers for the Human Communication and Technology Division (HCTD), a part of the National Communication Association (NCA), in helping the organization evaluate submissions to be presented at the annual convention on Nov. 21-24 in Washington, D.C. Nine graduate students from the School …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS professor awarded Faculty Research Library Materials Grant
Dr. Marcia Mardis, Assistant Professor at Florida State University’s School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS), recently received a Faculty Research Library Materials Grant for her proposal “Building Up STEAM: Enriching FSU’s Youth Arts Collection with STEM Materials to Support Research.” The grant will provide funding for updated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials …
CONTINUE READINGMardis shares expertise as visiting professor in Australia
Marcia Mardis, an associate professor at Florida State University’s School of Library Studies & Information Studies (SLIS), recently spent three weeks as a Visiting Professor at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga, Australia, where she was able to share her expertise and gain new perspectives in the field library and information studies. Last January, Mardis …
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