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Each semester, Grady College selects four students to be Yarbrough Fellows. Madden Callahan, Shannon Lorusso, Lila Maiolo and NaYoung Song have been named as the 2024 Yarbrough Fellows. The Yarbrough Fellows program offers Grady College students the opportunity to gain communications experience while serving the College. Callahan and Lorusso are Yarbrough-Grady Communications Fellows, working with […]

Vicki Freimuth, a pioneer in health communications and founding director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at UGA, died Oct. 20, 2024, at her home outside Cincinnati. She was 80 years old. Freimuth served as director of communication for the Centers for Disease Control for nearly eight years, after which she joined the […]

Cole Doherty is a senior advertising major with a business minor and music business certificate from St. Louis, MO. Cole is deeply involved in campus life, serving as Co-President of the UGA Pickleball Club, a member of UGA Spirit, a Digital Dawg, and a Grady Ambassador. Why did you choose your major? Choosing advertising was […]

University of Georgia students interacted with expanded and new Google tools for finding disinformation and won prizes, including Cox Institute medals, at the fall 2024 What the Hackathon.  The event was sponsored by the What the Hack podcast, hosted by Adam Levin, and offered students guidance from a Google News Initiative trainer on leveraging these […]

Sihao “Max” Zhou (MA ’23) is a Ph.D. student concentrating in public relations. His research interests are health and science communication, social media data analytics and the framework of U.S. and international countries’ news coverage. Zhou recently received the 2024 Spring Cision Insights Fellowship for his research on how personalization algorithms shape consumer perceptions of […]

Transferring to a new college comes with its own set of challenges. Grady students offer advice to incoming transfers. Featured in this piece are Alexia Rule, a fourth-year public relations student, Madeline Parker, a fourth-year public relations student, and Olivia Wilson, a fifth-year Journalism student. Grady College: What advice would you give other transfer students? […]

Gabrielle Held is a fourth-year Entertainment and Media Studies major from San Diego, CA. She is the lead editor and cinematographer for The Art & Music Project (Documentary Series), an HBO/Max Post Production intern, an assistant editor for Backlight Student Film Festival, a photographer for The Agency, and involved in The Industry. She has also […]

Participating in the UGA Mentor Program has been an amazing connection for Hayden Galbraith, an advertising student, and her mentor, Mindy Farr (ABJ ’86), a strategic account manager at Wheel. “[Farr’s] insights have given me confidence and a solid foundation to navigate my career path with more clarity and purpose,” said Galbraith, who aspires to […]

As the 2024 Election draws near, the influx of news reports, social media posts and rhetoric about the political candidates intensifies. The biggest question is, ‘what information is accurate, and what is not?’ An in-depth collection of studies of disinformation, or inaccurate information that is deliberately shared in the election cycle, is the subject of […]

De’Ondre Harris is a fourth-year journalism major in the public relations Double Dawgs program. He is a Grady College ambassador, studio intern for The Bert Show and a student bus driver for UGA Transit. He encourages all students, especially transfer students, to take advantage of resources and opportunities presented throughout their college experience. Why did […]