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2009 Research Week

The College of Communication & Information Research Week 2009 Presentations, featuring Francis Eppes Professors Charles McClure and Leonard "Chick" LaPoint:

Presentation by Dr. Charles McClure


Charles McClure, Ph.D.

Topic: Pulling together and submitting Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) proposals: Worse than herding cats!



Presentation by Dr. Leonard LaPointe



Professor LaPointe

Topic: Competition, Interference and Distraction in Neurological Diseases: Contributions to Injurious Falls.

College of Communication & Information Francis Eppes Professors

Dr. Charles R. McClure is the Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies at the College of Communication & Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. He was selected as the first recipient of an Eppes endowed chair at FSU in 1999. From 1986-1999 he was at Syracuse University School of Information Studies - the last five as Distinguished Professor. He teaches courses in planning/evaluation of information services, U.S. government information policies, evaluation of networked services, library/information center management, and research methods. He completed his Ph.D. in Library and Information Services from Rutgers University.

Leonard L. "Chick" LaPointe, Ph.D. received his Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado. He currently occupies an endowed distinguished professor chair, the Francis Eppes Professor of Communication Science & Disorders in the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is on the faculty in the College of Medicine and in the Program in Neuroscience at Florida State University. He served as Annual Visiting Professor in the School of Health Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia for 10 years and has served as a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Hong Kong and as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research focus is in the area of neurological disorders of communication and cognition. He is the founding and current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology.

Dr. LaPointe has authored or co-authored 8 books, 40 book chapters, over 90 journal articles, and presented more than 400 papers, lectures, or invited workshops in the United States, the former Soviet Union, several countries in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, and the South American countries of Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. He was recently named as a Distinguished Alumnus from both Michigan State University and the University of Colorado.

He enjoys salt water, music, wine and the culinary arts, reading, writing, humor, the cultivation of optimism and the absurd, and is the author of Blood Ice, a novel published by AuthorHouse.com

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