Welcome to the September e-newsletter Come home again
We missed celebrating Homecoming with our alumni and friends last year and can't wait to welcome you home on Saturday, Oct. 16.
Gather with alumni, faculty, students and friends as we share memories and make new ones. Enjoy a meal, games and entertainment on the Grady Lawn, starting two and a half hours before kickoff.
Meal tickets are $25. Kids 5 and under eat free. Cash bar available. Registration information coming soon. Welcome new faculty
We started the new school year by welcoming two new faculty to our Entertainment and Media Studies Department.
Sanghoon Lee is an assistant professor for the MFA Film, Television and Digital Media program and will be spending most of his teaching time at the program’s location at Trilith in Fayetteville, Georgia. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a professor of film production and studies for ten years at the MFA program at Governors State University, as well as teaching at DePaul University and Northwestern University.
Keith Wilson is a lecturer of production and cinematography classes. He is a 2021 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow as the producer for the feature-length documentary “I Didn’t See You There.” He received his MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas-Austin, where he was a University and Jesse Jones Fellow.
Cox Institute adds new directors, initiatives to benefit students and industry
A new organizational and leadership structure will expand the training mission of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership.
The Cox Institute’s Journalism Innovation Lab will assume operation of the Digital Natives program, which brings UGA journalism students into Georgia newsrooms to help news organizations accomplish specific digital goals. Amanda Bright, a journalism faculty member, will continue to manage the program as Director of the Journalism Innovation Lab, developing the products, practices and people of journalism’s future.
The Cox Institute’s Journalism Writing Lab will expand its scope by operating the Covering Poverty project, which was relaunched earlier this year by students funded through a Scripps Howard Foundation grant. This fall, the project will recruit a new group of students and alumni to work in partnership with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Athens Banner-Herald. Lori Johnston (ABJ ’95, MFA ’17), a lecturer in the Journalism Department who oversaw the relaunch of Covering Poverty, will become Director of the Journalism Writing Lab. She will continue to manage the Covering Poverty project along with other content initiatives. Friday, Sept. 10 Monday, Sept. 20 Saturday, Oct. 16 |