Tag: Team
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Startup For Success
The Innovation District (ID), UGA’s ecosystem of places, programs, and people dedicated to entrepreneurship, is taking shape. As ID gains momentum, the NMI continues to support its efforts to bring innovation to campus and beyond. Recently, Chris Gerlach presented at Startup 101, a four-part series that addresses the varying skills and information entrepreneurs need on their journey to create a…
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Fall Into Achievements
Turning a New Leaf John Weatherford is celebrating a new season in his academic career as he joins the ranks of Senior Lecturer! Since becoming a member of the NMI team in Fall 2014, John has embodied the technowledgeable spirit, making classes, capstone projects, and big-picture initiatives work better. Join us in congratulating John on…
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Zooming Back to School
As a summer like no other comes to a close and fall settles in, the NMI and everyone’s favorite (off-brand) bulldog, Tech Dawg, are embracing our return to campus. The NMI has powered up the labs, programmed the Hue Lights, and introduced changes to keep our faculty and students safe as we continue to make…
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Putting the “New” in New Media
Over the last several years, residential development guru, Emuel Aldridge, has spent many hours mastering the art of iOS app development for NMIX 4310/6310: Rich Media Production. While “rich media” has evolved quite a bit over the years, Apple’s most recent Swift iteration drastically changed the game for iOS app development. Last year at WWDC, Apple…
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New Year, New Faculty
Just when you thought the halls of the NMI couldn’t contain any more tech wizardry, we added another code champion to our ranks. Our newest faculty addition, Kyla Sterling, will help the NMI tackle new initiatives and certificate operations in 2020 and beyond. Kyla began her NMI journey in 2018 as an Emerging Media Masters…
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Cultivating Student Resilience
The TEDxUGA team recently presented at this year’s Engage Conference hosted by UGA’s Division of Student Affairs. The event brought together academic and student affairs professionals from across the southeast for a day dedicated to professional development, innovative thinking, and networking. In keeping with the conference’s theme of resilience, TEDxUGA Licensee Megan Ward and five members…
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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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Taking On TEDxUGA
TEDxUGA’s incredible success is two fold: idea-driven presenters delivering empowering talks and a hard working set of amazing humans behind the scenes. One key role ties these two worlds together — the Curator. After gracefully managing curation through her participation in NMIX 4200: New Media & TED, we are thrilled to welcome to the team…
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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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John Weatherford Strikes Again
Summer might have sizzled, but John Weatherford kept it cool as one of 12 faculty participants in the 2019 UGA Active Learning Summer Institute. The three-week intensive program helped John reimagine NMIX 2020: Introduction to New Media, creating new ways to involve the class with active learning techniques. As the summer came to a close,…