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  • NSF Makes Award to Florida State University (FSU) Information Institute To Study Information Technology (IT) Education and Rural Broadband - May 13, 2013
    For Immediate Release May 13, 2013 Contact: Charles R. McClure, PhD cmcclure@lis.fsu.edu   The National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) program announced that Florida State University, College of Communication Information, School of Library and Information Studies, Information Institute will receive an $847,000 award to support the four year project Assessing [...]
  • FSU collaboration to help librarians serve those with autism spectrum disorder - April 22, 2013
    The Florida State University has received a $573,554 grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a collaborative project between the PALM Center at the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) and the Autism Institute at the College of Medicine. Project PALS (Panhandle Autism Library Services) is a two-year program [...]
  • Three CCI faculty members awarded 2013 First Year Assistant Professor Grants - April 11, 2013
    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. [...]
  • Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho (2013 FYAP Grant Winner)- Research Project Information - April 9, 2013
    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 [...]
  • Dr. Richard Urban (2013 FYAP Grant Winner)- Research Project Information - April 9, 2013
    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, [...]