Facilities
Facilities
Grady College provides its students with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
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Grady College’s top-of-the-line facilities and equipment cater to the academic and professional needs of students, preparing them for success both in and after college.
Grady College Newsroom and Studios
Grady College Newsroom and Studios
On the first floor of the building, Grady College houses a full-scale broadcast news production space, equipped with a newsroom, production control room and news studio. The space is the home of Grady Newsource, an on-air and digital publication staffed by journalism students at the College.
Schnitzer Family Media Lawn
Schnitzer Family Media Lawn
The redesigned, state-of-the-art Schnitzer Family Media Lawn, in front of Grady College, features a landscaped outdoor amphitheater, a new ADA accessible pathway, increased wireless internet access, outlets for electronic devices and more. It serves as a space for College events, classes, studying, socializing, gathering and relaxing.
Peyton Anderson Forum
Peyton Anderson Forum
The beautiful Peyton Anderson Forum (room 238) provides students with a comfortable space to study, socialize, gather and relax. It also serves as a space for student club meetings and major college events. If you’d like to reserve the Peyton Anderson Forum, you must fill out a request form.
Studio 100
Studio 100
On the first floor of Grady College, Studio 100 serves as a learning and meeting space for college events, programs, club meetings and more. The room features a large projector, a balcony and plenty of seating area.
Athena Studios
Athena Studios
Grady College Entertainment and Media Studies and MFA Film students have access to a 14,600-square-foot studio space at the new Athena Studios, which includes a large video production space, offices, room to build multiple sets and a learning center to conduct classes.
First-Floor Podcast Room
First-Floor Podcast Room
This state-of-the-art podcast studio, located in room 128, is designed to let up to four students record a live-to-tape podcast together, each with their own microphones and audio monitoring. There is also a sound isolation booth for doing voiceover or single-track narration recording. Students can bring in a laptop, plug in to a high-quality microphone, close the door behind them and have a quiet, clean space to record in.
Studio Not Found
Studio Not Found
Located in room 404 on the fourth floor of Grady College, Studio Not Found is a podcasting room equipped with the most current sound equipment and acoustic design expressly for use by students and faculty producing podcasts. Reservations for Studio Not Found can be made through the New Media Institute.
Video Production Suite & Soundstage
Video Production Suite & Soundstage
Located on the first floor of Grady College, in the 140s through room 144, the Video Production Suite and Soundstage is used as a collaboration space for student video production teams, for teaching screenwriting and producing, for instruction in on-set photography, and for the final stages of postproduction.
Field Equipment Supply Room
Field Equipment Supply Room
The Field Equipment Supply Room (FESR), is located in room 145 on the first floor of Grady College between the EMST Studio and the exit door facing Memorial Hall. Home to more than 50 video cameras, plus support, audio and lighting, the FESR is responsible for maintaining and distributing video equipment for students currently enrolled in qualified production classes. Gear usage must be approved by each class’s instructor and is intended only for use on class projects. FESR is managed by Jim Black (ABJ ‘86), who has more than 30 years of production experience.
SEE Suite
SEE Suite
The Social Media Engagement and Evaluation (SEE) Suite, located in room 108 on the first floor of Grady College, is a computer laboratory designed for training students on examining cross platform social data, analyzing engagement and identifying actionable insights, preparing them for jobs in a wide range of industries. It also provides graduate students and faculty with the data, software and hardware to conduct cutting-edge research at the University of Georgia.
Brain, Body and Media (BBAM) Lab
Brain, Body and Media (BBAM) Lab
Founded in 2020 and located on the fifth floor of Grady College in Suite 503-C, the Brain, Body and Media (BBAM) Lab supports research that examines psychophysiological responses to media and messages. Many of the studies conducted in the lab monitor participants by using electrodes that measure activity in the heart, movement of facial muscles on the forehead or around the eyes, and electrodermal activity, or sweat glands, on the hands. The lab also uses electroencephalography (EEG) that measures brain wave activity.
Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) Lab
Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) Lab
The Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) Lab, located in Suite 506-507, serves as University of Georgia’s premier facility for conducting interdisciplinary research on the experience and effects of immersion in virtual- and mixed-reality environments.
Digital Media Attention and Cognition (DMAC) Lab
Digital Media Attention and Cognition (DMAC) Lab
The Digital Media Attention and Cognition (DMAC) Lab, located in Suite 503, is dedicated to the study of human behavior during media processing. Its researchers utilize state-of-the-art technology to study how message design affects consumers’ visual attention and emotional responses to media.
Qualitative Research Lab
Qualitative Research Lab
Located in room 252, the Qualitative Research Lab is for both graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in qualitative research, which involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data. It houses computers with powerful qualitative data analysis software.
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