Category: News
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Bright Ideas with BrightHouse
We wrapped the year with our sixth and final site visit to a place that shines bright like a diamond: BCG BrightHouse! On a bright note (pun intended), NMI students had a great time visiting the Atlanta-based global creative consultancy that has worked with some of the world’s largest brands to help them discover their purpose.…
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Be Still My (Inter)active Heart!
Later in the month, Leah and Kyla joined NMI Instructor Tyler Mazurek and Senior Lecturer John Weatherford at UGA’s inaugural Active Learning Summit! If you’re not familiar with active learning, in a nutshell, it’s the adoption of instructional practices that engage students in the learning process. It’s essentially taking the traditional lecture format and flipping it upside down. Active learning…
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Talk Nerdy to Me
Best Practices in UX As part of the Honors College Lunchbox Lecture Series, NMI Instructors Leah Moss and Kyla Sterling delivered a lesson on user interface design and user experience research to Honors students from across campus. We won’t burrito-around the bush: the interactive lecture had maxed out attendance and was a wild success! Armed with guac, sour cream, and…
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Site Visit?
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, the Microsoft Site Visit was a Dream Come True! As part of the NMI’s Professional Friday initiative, a group of students repping the New Media Certificate and Emerging Media Masters took a trip to Microsoft’s Atlanta campus. Students toured the tech-driven facilities, attended a series of workshops with teams from different departments, and…
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A Little NMIXp(arty)o Never Killed Nobody!
The Celebration Continues In the Fall, we launched the renamed and revamped NMIXpo, our reoccurring end-of-semester celebration! The new-and-improved event included Mini Merge, an alumni reunion, a Certificate Capstone Challenge Brunch, and SLAM. Setting something new into motion is always tricky, but thanks to our dedicated NMI friends, family, and alumni, the weekend was a SLAM…
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Hip, Hip, Hooray!
The NMI is always changing and evolving, but our motto stays the same: make something work, then make it work better! We’re beyond proud of the Emerging Media Masters and New Media Certificate Capstone projects that have done just that. We wish we could show you all the technowledgeable projects students have debuted over the years, but…
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TEDxUGA 2023: Roots
TEDxUGA 2023: Roots | Centuries of students and scholars have grown a vast and intertwined network of research and scholarship. The passions and actions that inspire this network are sometimes unseen, unheard, and untamed. But the results are powerful and ever-reaching. At the University of Georgia, we plant seeds of research and scholarship every day. And now…
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Announcing TEDxUGA 2023: ROOTS!
This spring, TEDxUGA will celebrate its 10th year of delivering extraordinary events that bring UGA’s leading thinkers and doers to the stage to share their passions, stories, inspiration, and ideas worth spreading with the Athens community and beyond. Months of ideating, interviewing, and planning are already underway and we’re excited to officially announce the 2023…
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Holiday Shopping, VR Style
We love any opportunity to show off our technowledgeable students and their accomplishments, especially when their achievements showcase their extensive skillset and expertise! Ryan Fernandez, Emerging Media Masters student and owner of Alpha Design Studio, collaborated with Dr. Jewon Lyu, Dr. Hyunjoo Lee, and Ph.D. Candidate Ziyou Jiang, from the College of Family and Consumer…
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Leaves are Falling, Hunger Bowl is Calling
Welcome to the tenth annual Hunger Bowl, the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia’s competitive food drive that aims to address hunger and combat food insecurity. This year, the New Media Institute and Ted Lasso are helping lead the charge in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Faculty, staff, and students are coming together to…