The College of Communication and Information (CCI) hosted a week-long tech camp from Jun. 17-21 for middle school girls from the local community. The camp served as a way to urge the girls to take an interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Victoria Rice, one of the tech camp instructors, who also …
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WCTV news features story on CCI girls’ technology camp
SLIS donates home library to Habitat for Humanity family
The FSU School of Library Information Studies (SLIS) and Dr. Nancy Everhart, Associate Professor and Director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media), hosted a ceremony on Jun. 10 in the Goldstein Library to commemorate the donation of a 106-book library to a local single-parent family, the Josephs. The library contribution plans were announced on Feb. 12 at a celebration …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS Professor Everhart quoted in article on technology in K-12 education
Dr. Nancy Everhart, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies and director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media), was quoted in a Tampa Bay Times article. She discusses some reasons advising against the removal of media specialists from primary education in Pasco County, FL. Everhart, who has expertise in media and digital curriculum, brought up that trying to …
CONTINUE READINGApril dates and topics announced for five Feed Your Brain presentations with opportunities to learn and network
Feed Your Brain is a series of presentations and panels on various emerging topics and student interests. The sessions create a learning environment that is relaxed and interactive, giving you the opportunity to meet experienced individuals in an intimate setting and pick their brain to feed yours! Topics this semester have ranged from social media, …
CONTINUE READINGFSU SLIS Student Suzanne Marshall to be Published in Journal
Congratulations to FSU SLIS student Suzanne Marshall, who will have an article published in the Winter 2012 issue of the American Library Association Government Documents Roundtable journal, DttP: Documents to the People! Suzanne’s article “A Hidden Story: American Indian Code Talkers” is based on a paper that she originally wrote in the Spring 2012 Government …
CONTINUE READINGJoy Koo Receives Elfreda Chatman Research Award at ASIS&T
FSU SLIS doctoral student Joung Hwa “Joy” Koo received the Elfreda Chatman Research Award at the SIG USE Symposium at the 75th ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 27, 2012, which includes a $1000 check to support the research. Together with Yong Wan Cho and FSU SLIS Professor Melissa Gross, Joy’s award-winning research investigates the …
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