Dontrail Brinson graduated from Florida State in 2007 with an Information Technology degree in hand. Seven years later, he works in Burbank, California for the Walt Disney Company as a Technology Analyst. The Path to Success His first internship out of college was for the Walt Disney Company, working for Disney Cruise Line as a …
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Meet iSchool alumnus: Dontrail Brinson
2014 CCI Scholarship & Awards Reception
On October 2nd, 2014 the College of Communication and Information recognized it’s outstanding faculty and students. During the annual event, scholarships were awarded to students in Communications, Information, and Communication Science and Disorders. Outstanding Faculty awards were presented at the event, honoring: Mark Zeigler – School of Communication Kelley Smith – School of Communication Kaitlin …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool presents at TPRC42
Florida State University’s Information Institute presented the preliminary findings of the National Science Foundation-funded Assessing Information Technology Educational Pathways that Promote Deployment and Use of Rural Broadband project at the nationwide Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, TPRC42. The conference was held at the George Mason University in Arlington, VA from September 12-14, 2014. Doctoral candidate Jisue Lee presented …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Doc Students receive Sol Hirsch Scholarship
Sol Hirsch graduated with his Master’s in Library Sciences from Florida State University and has been an integral part of the FSU community ever since. One of his contributions to Florida State is the Sol and Beverly Hirsch Endowment, established in memory of his parents who were both Nazi concentration camp survivors. The endowment provides …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool on the Road – Elaine & Christie
Hey Alums! Stop by these conferences and meet up with Elaine Howard and Dr. Christie Koontz, both from Florida State University’s iSchool. They will be at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations/Southeastern Library Association (COMO SELA) annual conference in Augusta, Georgia this week. The COMO SELA Conference is at the Augusta Marriott Convention Center in Augusta, …
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Faculty at Florida State’s School of Information have recently had their research published: Shuyuan Mary Ho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Florida State University who specializes in Information Systems Security Research was published in JASIST. Her article “Dyadic attribution model: A mechanism to assess trustworthiness in virtual organizations“ was published in the current issue of JASIST (pages 1555–1576) with Izak Benbasat. “I am honored …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool doc student Dong Joon Lee earns highly coveted NSF internship
Dong Joon Lee, doctoral candidate in the School of Information interned this summer at Research Data Alliance. Lee was one of eight selected for the highly coveted internship, which is provided by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and funded by a National Science Foundation grant. He was mentored by Michael Witt from the Distributed Data …
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