Grant team receives 1.25 million dollars to conduct language and literacy research

A research team led by Dr. Carla Wood Jackson, associate professor in the FSU School of Communication Science & Disorders, has been funded by a 1.25 million dollar grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to study language and literacy interventions for bilingual elementary grade children. The grant project is known as Bridging for …

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Three CCI faculty members awarded 2013 First Year Assistant Professor Grants

School of Communication & Science Disorders faculty member, Dr. Kaitlin Lansford, and two School of Library & Information Studies faculty members, Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho and Dr. Richard Urban, have each been awarded First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Grants for 2013. Here are some of their research project topics and links to abstract summaries: Dr. …

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Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho (2013 FYAP Grant Winner)- Research Project Information

Title: “Identity Deception and Detection in Computer-Mediated Communications” Abstract: Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho’s proposed research is a continuation of her previous research on trustworthiness attribution in virtual organizations.  Her current work, based on the social psychology theory of attribution, has uncovered the important finding that information behavior can be used to identify scenarios where members …

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Dr. Richard Urban (2013 FYAP Grant Winner)- Research Project Information

Title: “Representation Patterns for Cultural Heritage” Abstract: The World Wide Web has been an extremely successful way to share documents on a global scale, yet it contains an important flaw.  Documents on the Web can only be associated through hyperlinks that hide the relationships among them.  Although documents may contain a great deal of information, …

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