Category: News
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Hello World, Meet Baby
The NMI family has welcomed a new member! Baby Everett arrived in late February to New Media Certificate Advisor Kyla Sterling and her husband Nick. Our tiniest technomaniac can be found wiggling his toes, taking long naps, and learning HTML/CSS in preparation for taking NMIX 4110: New Media Production next semester. Join us as we congratulate Kyla and Nick…
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Searching Far and NMIde
We need your techpertise! #NMIRecommends launched in Fall 2020 to spread the scoop on the best tips, tricks, and tech-related trends from around the web. With a goal of connecting our students to resources beyond the classroom, NMI Recommends has proven itself an instant success amongst students. And now we need to trade you a bit…
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Introducing Professional Fridays
Everyone’s favorite day of the week just got better! The NMI made a big move this year consolidating almost all New Media and Emerging Media courses to a Monday through Thursday schedule and officially dedicating Fridays to fostering student and industry collaboration. From networking lunches and internship interviews to industry conferences and site tours, Fridays are now set aside for…
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Welcoming New Faces
New year, new NMI! We’re so excited to welcome the newest addition to the NMI team, Phoebe Finch. Phoebe is taking over as the NMI Social Media and Communications Assistant. Though Phoebe didn’t join the team until December, she originally started her New Media journey in Spring 2020 as a New Media Certificate student. Along with keeping everyone up-to-date on…
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Meet the NMIXperts
You know our motto — “Make something work. Then make it work better.” While we’re learning how to make it work on our journey to becoming technowledgable, there are a select few specially equipped to make it work even better. These incredible individuals are NMIXperts. From development to design, NMIXperts are New Media Certificate or Emerging Media…
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Teaching in New Spaces
UGA’s Innovation Hub is now open, and we’re excited that our students can enjoy everything this creative, co-working space has to offer! The Innovation Hub is home to UGA’s startup venture efforts and experiential learning activities, and NMI faculty and students get to be some of the first to enjoy this innovative expansion. Within this renovated space, we’re teaching…
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Volunteering for Voters
Expecting a record-breaking turnout during the 2020 election season, the Technology Association of Georgia reached out to allies across the state looking for Field Service Technicians. FSTs assist poll workers with all things technology: printers, tablets, voting equipment, and the like. Megan Ward and John Weatherford answered the call, volunteering their techspertise for the November 3rd general…
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Feasting on Hunger Bowl Success
Every year, the NMI teams up with the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication to compete in the Northeast Georgia Food Bank’s Hunger Bowl. Students, faculty, and staff come together to collect non-perishable, in-demand food items to help combat food insecurity in the Athens-Clarke County area. During this unprecedented year, the food bank saw demand…
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Go Dawgs, Pitch ‘Em!
John Weatherford joined forces with the UGA Entrepreneurship Program, housed in the Terry College of Business, to produce the 2020 SEC Student Pitch Competition. Teams of young entrepreneurs representing each of the 14 SEC universities were pitted against one another in an idea pitch competition that required gently juggling multiple YouTube livestreams and Zoom meetings simultaneously. John…
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Serving Students Near and Far
If you’ve been with us since the beginning, you know that the NMI was founded with a mission to serve as an academic resource for the entire UGA community. Today, the NMI is dedicated to this critical mission more than ever. We accomplish this largely through the New Media Certificate, but did you know that…