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US Fish & Wildlife Service
Of the 4,000 native or naturalized plant and animal species in Georgia, approximately 10 percent are in danger of becoming extinct. Without the help of Georgia’s residents, this number is only going to rise.Unfortunately, most people are either not aware of this problem, don’t know what they can do to help, or simply don’t have…
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Vintage Athens
The city of Athens, GA is well-known for several things: The University of Georgia, the football played in Sanford Stadium, the music scene, even just the college town feel of so many local businesses. In Athens, there is an intrinsic feeling of pride when one can take part in supporting a local business, seeing local…
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Slingshot
Slingshot is a one-of-a-kind a music, electronic art, and technology festival that takes place in Downtown Athens. This festival pushes boundaries and exposes festival goers to ideas and experiences that are truly unique. The few short days of the event are full of international, national, and local acts on stage, artworks throughout the urban environment,…
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Hover
Have you ever been in search of information and ventured to the web to find some answers only to discover that once on a particular website you have no clue how to use it? Perhaps a teacher directs you to a complex library database to do research for a paper or your boss tells you…
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JRF Scholarship
The Jeanette Rankin Scholarship Fund provides $2,000 scholarships to women over age 35 with low-incomes to return to school. JRF has distributed more than 750 scholarship since its’ founding in 1976. Now, they have made the scholarship application available online and have experienced a surge in responses, but lack the number of volunteers needed to…
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Proximize
Wouldn’t it be cool if you had an app that could maximize your time and prioritize your day efficiently and effectively? If you want to make the most out of your studying in college, you gotta have some fuel. But sometimes, it’s hard to put the books down even when your stomachs growling. You don’t…
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Fall 2014 Mixers
NMixers are new to the New Media Institute this year. The events allow students to learn about the NMI: the certificate, the classes, and the crazy people who run the place. We eat, we laugh, we learn, and we welcome fabulous new students to the program every month. Here is what we have been up…
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Thank You Verizon!
The New Media Institute would like to thank the Verizon Foundation and Julie Smith, Vice President of External Affairs, once again for their overly generous donation of $15,000 for elder new media development! Each semester NMIX students join together to work on projects that promote positive change through new media technology, and we wouldn’t have the opportunity…
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Congrats Emuel
Help us congratulate the NMI’s very own Emuel Aldridge for being selected to work with the Distance Learning Committee as part of Grady College’s inaugural Online Learning Development Cohort! Emuel was selected to serve on the cohort after justifying why NMIX4110, New Media Production, should be developed as an online course. As Grady continues to grow, so…
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Welcome John
John Weatherford joined the NMI in August and has had a busy start to the year teaching New Media Production and Rich Media classes. In his courses, John covers topics from mobile and web application development to user experience design to documentary filmmaking. Before joining the NMI, John taught in UGA’s English Department and beyond…