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Making A Mark On Grady
The second floor of Grady College has been undergoing a makeover, and one eye-catching renovation features a beautiful floor-to-ceiling mural. This cool aerial shot of the Journalism Building was taken by our very own Chris Gerlach, drone photographer extraordinaire. If you need a break from the end-of-semester stress or happen to be visiting your NMI…
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Creative Communication With Carnegie Dartlet
At the NMI, we’re always looking for modern and exciting ways to engage with our students and ensure we’re putting the “new” in New Media Institute. Recently, we’ve been getting some inspiration from Carnegie Dartlet, a firm dedicated to innovative communications in higher education. Earlier this semester, Megan Ward and Chris Gerlach road-tripped south to…
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UGA Police Department
1 out of 5 college women will experience sexual assault during their college career, but less than 10% will report. Sexual assault is vastly underreported on campus, and police play a vital role in increasing the report. Their initial response to a sexual assault investigation is crucial to the victim’s decision to continue in the…
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Fetch Backstage
Fetch Backstage is an internal resource website for Fetch, the research division of the student-run advertising agency based out of the University of Georgia. The resource aims to solve issues Fetch is currently facing: the division is not well known, the research from previous years was not passed down to current leadership, and the future…
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ARnatomy
Anatomy can be a hard concept for students to master, whether at the high school or college level. It often involves long hours spent with a textbook or in a cadaver lab — both of which can be helpful at certain times but boring and time-consuming at others. Studying anatomy in a hands-on way is…
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Kriqit
Kriqit is an on-demand landscaping service in the Athens and Watkinsville area started by Dan Butler of Butler Landscaping. The aim of Kriqit is to provide an alternative to traditional, contract binding landscaping companies. Previously, the needs of homeowners has not aligned with those of the landscaping owners. Dan set out to bridge the gap…
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Grady Newsource
This news-streaming iOS app was created for Grady Newsource. Newsource is an on-air and digital publication created by Grady journalism capstone students. This program is meant to teach them about journalism’s role in society and to promote transparency and reflection. The Newsource app has three main features: social integration, customizable push notifications, and a link…
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Eco Experience
The Eco Experience is here to save the world! The Eco Experience is an interactive website designed for third through sixth-grade students to teach them about the environment. Containing informative videos, games, fun facts, activities, and quizzes, this tool can be used both in and out of the classroom. Teachers could easily incorporate this tool…
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AthensGaWeather- iOS
AthensGAWeather delivers daily weather forecasts to an audience of nearly 17,000 through the group’s Facebook page. In an effort to expand its audience AthensGAWeather partnered with the New Media Institute to create a mobile app offered on IOS. Users of the app will be provided with a 5-day forecast catered towards the Athens area provided…
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AthensGaWeather- Android
For the last few years, Atmospheric Sciences students at the University of Georgia under Dr. John Knox have informed their loyal followers in Athens and the surrounding areas of daily local weather. Other weather service providers use data and often inform about weather here from cities far away. AthensGaWeather, however, cherishes accurate hyper-localized weather reporting…