Grady College professors, Ivanka Pjesivac and Grace Ahn, received grants as 2017 Emerging Scholars for their project on the topic of “Virtual Reality Journalism: Emotions and News Credibility.” The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s awards the $3,500 grant and travel support to winners of its Emerging Scholars Program. This program is one…
Month: February 2017
Karen Russell named one of five 2017 Meigs Professors
Karen Russell, Jim Kennedy New Media Professor and associate professor of public relations at Grady College, is one of five University of Georgia professors named to the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the university’s highest recognition for excellence in instruction. “This continues an amazing three-year streak of Grady representation in the university’s highest teaching honor, and…
AdPR Alumni Spotlight: Carter Barnett
Meet another one of our recent alumni, Carter Barnett. Barnett is an Advertising major who graduated in the Grady College class of 2015. She is currently working as a Junior Planner in the strategy department at Mythic, a midsize agency in Charlotte, NC. AdPR Department: How did your experience in Grady help you find your position after…
UGA PRSSA members tour Washington, D.C.
From Tuesday, January 31 through Friday, February 3, a group of 12 UGA PRSSA members and two AdPR faculty attended the annual Washington, D.C. Agency Tour. This tour is exclusive to UGA PRSSA members to tour top agencies. The group arrived on Tuesday night and started the tour with the American Red Cross, Finn Partners/Widmeyer…
Welcome Joe Watson: Tieger Professor in Public Affairs Communications
Please join us in welcoming Joe Watson, the inaugural Carolyn Caudell Tieger Professor in Public Affairs Communications. Joe will supervise our new certificate program in Public Affairs Communications, and we could not have placed this important program in better hands. Joe joins us from Exelon Corporation in Chicago, where for many years he served in a variety of…