Blog Archive
NMI students create study app for Apple Vision Pro
The app, Tranquil Study, was one of the first 600 applications available on Apple Vision Pro’s app store on the day the product was released. It was last summer, June 2023, when Jack Forthman first heard that Apple, his favorite tech company, was going to release Apple Vision Pro. He immediately sent a Slack message […]
PR student Lila Maiolo recounts UGA at Oxford semester
The following recount was written by Lila Maiolo, a third-year public relations major and fashion merchandising minor with a certificate in new media. She is a Yarbrough Crisis Communication Fellow and is involved with Talking Dog Agency and the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). Over the course of the past 3 months, […]
Profiles of Tenacity: Amanda Whylie
Amanda Whylie is a third-year Entertainment & Media Studies student and serves as the vice president of The Industry. Read on as she shares her story in Grady. Why did you choose your major? I chose to study Entertainment & Media Studies because I believe that media is an influential tool that gives us the […]
Inside Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru’s award-winning research and teaching methods
Listen to the full episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (MA ’96, PhD ’99) is a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College and the recent recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award. In this episode of Grady Research Radio, Acosta-Alzuru takes us through her research path, which focuses on the […]
Annual Woodall Weekend Workshop spotlights Wilkes County
Capturing the essence and personality of a community is the assignment of the Woodall Weekend Workshop each spring. This year, students participating in the 17th annual workshop traveled to Washington, Georgia, in Wilkes County, to document the community. The workshop included 19 students from the Documentary Photojournalism course taught by Mark Johnson, principal lecturer, and […]
AdPR students explore Washington D.C.’s communications industry
The following recount was written by third-year public relations student Margot Murphy. She is involved in Grady College’s Public Affairs Professional Certificate as well as Terry College’s Institute for Leadership Advancement. The week of February 26, a group representing the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College traveled to Washington, D.C., for a […]
Herndon and Varnum Win Taste Awards
A podcast produced and co-hosted by two Grady College faculty members captured top honors in this year’s Taste Awards. “Wines We Drink,” a podcast created by Keith Herndon, professor of practice, and Charlotte Varnum, a podcasting instructor, was named the “Best Food or Drink Podcast” and the “Best Lifestyle Podcast” in the 15th annual Taste […]
Profiles of Tenacity: Owen Warden
Fourth-year journalism student Owen Warden is passionate about sports. He shares inspiring sports and athlete stories through The Red & Black, The Paul Finebaum Show and other news outlets. Why did you choose your major? I chose journalism and, in turn, the sports media certificate simply due to my love for sports and how to […]
Nicholas Eng studies human emotions in environmental and health message design
Nicholas Eng has long been interested in emotion science and prosocial environmental and health messaging. How people respond emotionally to different sequences of positive and negative environmental messages is the focus of his most recent research, “Awesome, Awful: Emotional Flow in Environmental Messaging,” which was published in the December 2023 issue of Media Psychology. “I […]
2024 Fellowship Profile: Mark Schlabach (ABJ ’96)
Mark Schlabach is a senior writer and reporter for ESPN, covering college football and golf. He has worked at the Worldwide Leader in Sports for nearly 18 years, after having previously written for The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Athens Banner-Herald. Schlabach is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books, including six New York Times bestsellers. […]