Newsletter

The Vilas Voice is the alumni newsletter of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. It is designed by University Communications and printed through gift funds administered by the University of Wisconsin Foundation.

All current and previous issues of Comm Arts newsletters may be downloaded in PDF format.

Current Issue

Vilas Voice - Fall 2008

• A Journey of Passionate Possibilities:
  Media Pioneer Kay Koplovitz
• UW-Madison Hosts 2008 SCSMI Conference
• Faculty Profile: Professor Bill Brown
• Communication Pioneer, State Leader:
  Lee Sherman Dreyfus
• International Dialogues: Stephanie Dorman
• In the Classroom: The Presidential Campaign
• Posthumous Degree for Rebecca Swender
• Bravo for Bitzer: Event marks 40th anniversary of "The Rhetorical Situation"
• Cinematheque Turns Ten
• Student Profile: Movies in the Mountains

 

 

Past Issues

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Fall 2007

• Remembering Professor Edwin Black
• Alumni News: Greenbergs Offer Internship Award
• Alumni Survey Results
• Group-Wise: Professor Lyn Van Swol
• Hamel Family Professor: Professor Sabine Gruffat
• Comm Arts Classes Hit the Road
• Hamel Family Digital Media Lab

 

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Fall 2006

• Alumni Profile: George & Pamela Hamel
• Debbie Hanson Retires
• Student Profile: Meredith Weinberg
• Professor Jeff Smith Joins Faculty
• Kevin M. Anderson Memorial Film Mentorship
• "Film in Paris" Study Abroad Program
• Editing, Persuasion, & Screenplays: Visiting Instructors
• Get Connected: Hollywood Badgers

 

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Spring 2005

• Remembering Professor Nietzchka Keene
• Student Profile: Hope Wallace
• Comm Arts Department Welcomes Mares & Xenos
• Encore, Encore: Professor Tino Balio
• Alumni Profile: Mary Rohlich

 

 

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Summer 2004

• Alumni Profile: Stuart N. Brotman
• Student Profile: Michelle LaVigne
• Professors Dillard and Solomon Bid Farewell
• Closing Credits: Professor David Bordwell
• Understanding Misunderstanding:
  Professor C. David Mortensen
• The Madison Connection

 

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Summer 2003

• Alumni Profile: Jerry Zucker
• Student Profile: Christy Carson
• Now & Then: Comm Arts in the Last Four Decades
• Computer Lab Remodeled with L&S Grant
• Taiwanese Film Gift: Professor David Bordwell
• UW-Madison Faculty, Students, & Alumni at SCMS
• The Radio Conference, A Transnational Forum:
  Professor Michele Hilmes

 

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Winter 2003

• Alumni Profile: Scott Broetzmann
• Student Profile: Katherine Spring
• Feature Filmmaking Workshop
• Changing Face of Media and Cultural Studies
• Translating Theory
• Rhetoric and Democracy: About an African Athens:
  Professor Erik Doxtader

 

Alumni & Friends Newsletter - Fall 2002

• Alumni Profile: Ben Karlin
• Student Profile: Gina Walejko
• Now & Then: Comm Arts in 1972 and 2002
• Rhetoric in Retrospect: Professor Stephen Lucas
• New Laptops
• The Gleaner Visits: Agnès Varda
• High Tech Communication Science