Communication Arts congratulates Allison Prasch for receiving a named professorship award: the Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professorship. According to Eric Wilcots, Dean of the College of Letters & Science, “the holder of this award …
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Sophie Hougland of Communication Arts Wins a 2024-25 University Staff Excellence Award
Communication Arts is excited to celebrate Sophie Hougland as a 2024-2025 recipient of a University Staff Excellence Award from the College of Letters and Science. Each year, the Dean of L&S awards five University Staff …
The Best Music of 2024
It’s been another vibrant year of new music! We checked in with students, faculty members and a record-spinning alumnus to make sure we didn’t miss the best releases of this year.
Lab Modernizations Expand Opportunities for Faculty and Student Researchers
Few things are more essential to communication scientists in Communication Arts than a physical lab space to conduct live experiments, collect data, and advance their research. To meet that essential need, Vilas’s fourth-floor lab spaces …
The Ticket to Graduate Research Success
Traveling to collect research is often an essential part of graduate students’ dissertations. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Communication Arts awards many students with funding that makes research travel more accessible and allows …
Communication in the Age of AI
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), students, educators, and researchers are eager to learn, assist, and understand the societal implications of quickly developing technologies. Communication Arts has been taking an interdisciplinary approach to AI …
Saving a Seat in the Front Row for David Bordwell
Early in 2024, the film community lost one of its most influential figures. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on February 29, 2024, at …
Emotion, rather than information, influences climate denial, Lyn Van Swol’s research finds
Accessing knowledge has become increasingly easy in recent decades. Scientific facts about climate change and global warming can be found with the flick of a finger — yet this has not been enough to persuade emerging climate change deniers to acknowledge its reality and urgency.
The College of Letters & Science is fascinated with the ghastly and spooky.
For years, UW students had been clamoring for a course on horror movies. This summer, Sarah Mae Fleming (MS’23) finally gave them one.
As political rhetoric heats up, these UW-Madison students are paying close attention
Student voters say their top issues are reproductive rights and democracy, wish politicians would take Gen Z more seriously.