Tag: Emerging Media
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Georgia on Your Mind
Last September, we announced the launch of Spark: an initiative established in partnership with Mike and Nancy Scarbrough. With a generous endowment from the Scarbrough family, Spark students have the opportunity to travel the state, strengthen awareness, increase visibility, build relationships, and capture innovative content all centered around UGA’s commitment to generating economic prosperity in the state…
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Double the Dawgs, Double the celebration
As one chapter closes, another one begins. While end-of-semester ceremonies are always tinged with sadness and celebration, this semester is especially bittersweet as we bid adieu to the very first graduating class of Emerging Media Double Dawgs. These students have successfully earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in five years or less — truly invoking…
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Doubling Up On Double Dogs
Three years ago UGA launched Double Dawgs, enabling ambitious students to earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years or less. Since then, Emerging Media Double Dawgs has grown tremendously — and the NMI is just getting started! Based on demand from New Media Certificate students, we’re delighted to announce new Double Dawg offerings…
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Emerging Media Milestones
This summer, the Emerging Media Masters celebrated two monumental milestones: 1️⃣ We welcomed the fifth residential cohort into the EM family. 2️⃣ We officially launched the highly-anticipated online pathway and welcomed the first-ever cohort of Emerging Media Online students! While it feels like EM has always been in the family, the reality is that this much-loved program…
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Emerging Media Online
At the NMI, we’re always striving to make our courses, events, and programs work better and better, and the Emerging Media Masters is no exception. From Double Dawgs integration to Innovation District collaboration, our faculty have made some impressive changes since the Emerging Media Masters launched in 2016, and we’re not done yet! Grady College recently featured the Emerging Media Masters…
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New Additions to the EM Family
This summer, the Emerging Media Masters program ushered its fourth cohort into the fold. Ten new innovators started the journey—or, some might say, the sprint—to a master’s degree. We’ll happily sing the praises of EM any day, but we wanted some of our new students to speak for themselves about why they decided EM was…
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Fantastic New Faculty
While the NMI’s crazy initiatives and bold undertakings increase each and every year, the faculty team, bursting at the seams, has not. Until now [drumroll please]… Ladies and gentlemen, we’re beyond excited to officially welcome the NMI’s latest and greatest addition to the squad, Leah Moss! No stranger to the NMI, Leah pioneered the EM…
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One Awesome Advertiser
Join us in congratulating recent Emerging Media graduate, Ian Webb! During his EM journey, Ian joined forces with faculty and graduate students from Grady’s Advertising department to compete in the renowned Collegiate ECHO Marketing Challenge, a competition that challenges student teams to propose a marketing campaign targeting specific markets across an array of industries. Up…
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Another SLAM Success!
A few weeks ago, the NMI hit the road to Atlanta for yet another successful Spring SLAM. Students, families, friends, and alumni gathered at Roam Galleria for a celebration of all the innovative uses of emerging technologies from this semester. Although every SLAM is special, Spring 2018 was particularly unique because it marked our largest…
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Ready Freddy
Mornings are hard, but mornings with kids are harder. Parents have enough to deal with on their own when they start the day, but with a little help from Ready Freddy, they will have time to address their own needs (like sleep) and be able to teach their kids independence. Ready Freddy is an Amazon…