Blog Archive

Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College, has received a $150,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create an international, invitation-only conference focused on social interaction in virtual reality spaces, popularly known as the metaverse. The grant was awarded to Ahn and Dr. […]

Fourth-year public relations student Claire Hensley found her home at Grady after entering college unsure of what she wanted to study. She views tenacity as an ongoing determination to make the most out of situations, pave a new path for oneself and never give up when faced with challenges. Read on as she describes her […]

We are proud to recognize Kaitlin Miller Febles (ABJ ’13) as an honoree of this year’s UGA Alumni Association 40 under 40 class. Febles is a principal category lead at the Chick-fil-A Corporate Support Center and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She joined Chick-fil-A shortly after graduating from UGA, and has served in a number of […]

Twelve students have been named 2023 McGill Fellows by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. The class, selected by a faculty committee for their strengths in academics, practical experience and leadership, includes 10 undergraduate journalism majors and two graduate students.  The 2023 McGill Fellows are:  Victoria Adkins, journalism, […]

Julianna Russ, a third-year journalism major at the University of Georgia, is one of 100 college students from across the nation to be selected for the second cohort of the Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service. Established in 2021 by the Obama Foundation and Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the Voyager Scholarship […]

This summer, 17 University of Georgia sports media and visual journalism students traveled to Australia to cover the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup for The Associated Press. “It’s one thing to sit in a class and look at great works, breaking them down into component parts to understand how they were made,” said Mark Johnson, […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience.   Xinge is a fourth-year public relations student interning with Sahiyo as a social media and communications intern. Read on as she provides insight into what this internship looks like. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. I’m currently […]

For fourth-year student Xander Chiaramonte, the opportunity to help film interviews with World War II historians on location in France created some incredible summer memories. “I think the benefit of seeing other areas of the world is something that you just can’t even put into any metric…it’s just the most important thing for perspective,” Chiaramonte […]

We are proud to recognize Stacy Willingham (ABJ ’13) as an honoree of the UGA Alumni Association’s 40 under 40 class. Willingham became a New York Times bestselling author with her debut novel, “A Flicker in the Dark.” Her novel was chosen as a finalist in multiple awards: Book of the Year finalist by Book […]

Dr. Keith Herndon, the William S. Morris Chair in News Strategy and Management, was named to the University of Georgia’s inaugural Fellows for Transformative Teaching program. The program, operated by the University’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), was created to bring together experienced faculty from across non-tenure track lines to explore and engage in […]