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Ayasacha
Ayasacha is a conservation-driven digital experience designed to raise awareness about the biocultural significance of Ecuador’s Sangay National Park and the Zúñac Parish. Dr. Fausto O. Sarmiento needed a platform that could bring the region’s story to life. Through bold and immersive design and branding, Ayasacha is a storytelling platform that uniquely approaches its narrative…
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Vroom! The NMI Rides in Style with Porsche
Last week, the NMI traveled to Atlanta to visit the Porsche Cars North America headquarters. We started our day with a tour of the Porsche Experience Center, Porsche’s on-site museum, office space, and race track. The facility was filled with the rich history of the company and, of course, iconic cars everywhere you looked. (And you may even…
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Bites & Insights: A Lookback on Networking Lunches
This semester, we continued to expand our Professional Networking Luncheons, giving NMI students the opportunity to connect with professionals in highly sought-after industries over shared meals and meaningful conversation. This semester’s guests included Sarah Giarratana, Creative Lead with Airbnb, Aniyah Norman, Associate Software Engineer with the Walt Disney Company, and Jennifer Strickland, Social Media Strategist with the USDA. Guests participated in an informal…
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Spring Demo Day Takes Off
For the second semester, the NMI hosted Demo Day: a drop-in event welcoming the entire UGA community to see what the NMI is all about. Certificate students and tech-curious friends from around campus gathered at the Delta Innovation Hub where our Spring 2026 Capstone teams were ready to demo and discuss their projects. Teams set…
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Personality and Overconfidence
Awardee: Livi HoganAward Year: 2026 In this ongoing project, I have conducted an extensive literature review on personality psychology, overconfidence and cognitive ability assessment. During my evaluation and selection of measurements, I created the Overconfidence in Cognitive Ability Scale (OCAS), a 15-item instrument adapted from the Overconfidence in Investment Decisions Scale (OIDS), assessing overplacement, overestimation,…
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Yoga Practices in Latine College Students
Awardee: Danna CerveraAward Year: 2026 My project is to understand the barriers and facilitators to yoga participation among Latine college students. Yoga is often promoted as a tool for improving physical health, mental well-being, and stress management. This research aims to contribute to broader efforts towards health equity and inclusive wellness of yoga practices in…
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English and German Verb Constructions
Awardee: Amelia ButschAward Year: 2026 While English uses a particle-verb construction in both a continuous and discontinuous order, German has a separable prefix construction. At base configuration, the German prefix is attached to the verb. However, based on factors, such as stress, modifications, or category of the prefix, it may keep its continuous order or…
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ENCOUNTERS – A Series of Linocut
Awardee: Olive RobertsAward Year: 2026 The goal of the project was to participate in the animal encounters at the Georgia Aquarium, meet and interview their animal trainers, and create large linocut portraits of the 7 different animals Georgia Aquarium offers encounters with: California Sea Lion, Sea Otter, Common Bottlenose Dolphin, Harbor Seal, Beluga Whale, African…
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The Emotional Foundation of Bedtime
Awardee: Vivian AustinAward Year: 2026 Sleep during infancy is an incredibly important process that supports brain maturation, memory consolidation, and early learning, and research on environmental influences is critical to supporting these processes. This project aims to assess whether caregivers’ emotion regulation difficulties predict poorer infant sleep quality and if nighttime routines are a mechanism…
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Agentic Coding Spectacular: AI, Live and Unscripted
On February 25, Studio 225, home to UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program, turned into a real-time showcase for what creating with the latest AI tools actually looks like. At the Agentic Coding Spectacular, NMI faculty Chris Gerlach and John Weatherford went head-to-head before a live audience in a one-hour sprint to build a working student assignment tracker app. Using tools like…