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Study Shows the Positive Sides of Pokémon Go
It was July 2016. The days were sunny and warm, and some people were out and about playing Pokémon Go. A lot of them, in fact. For graduate students James Alex Bonus, Alanna Peebles, and …
Michele Hilmes Receives Distinguished Career Achievement Award
Communication Arts Professor Emerita Michele Hilmes has received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society For Cinema and Media Studies! The Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) is a prominent scholarly organization with …
Summer Term 2017 – Register Now!
Registration is officially open for Summer Term 2017 courses! Taking summer courses is a great way to: lighten your credit load graduate faster get a particular class out of the way fulfill requirements like Comm …
Professor Lori Kido Lopez to Receive Early Career Achievement Award
It was recently announced that Assistant Professor Lori Kido Lopez will be the 2017 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies! The Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), …
Crowdfunding Student Films
It’s the year 2017 and crowdfunding films has become commonplace. Making a good film almost always requires at least a small financial investment, and sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com make it easy for both filmmakers …
Welcome to the Living Room Lab
Last summer marked the beginning of a new construction project in Vilas Hall’s Instructional Media Center (IMC). Over the course of several months, the brand new room known as the Living Room Lab took shape …
Taylor Miller Receives Campus-Wide Capstone PhD Teaching Award
The teaching assistants of the Department of Communication Arts have always prided themselves on expansive knowledge and dedicated instruction. Yet few, if any, have ever been officially recognized for their efforts on the campus level …
Professor Lori Kido Lopez on the Limits of Racebending
On December 8th, Communication Arts Assistant Professor Lori Kido Lopez gave her talk Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation in Helen C. White Hall. The talk was part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series Asian …
The Media Center at Peabody
Most people are familiar with the Peabody Awards, the distinguished awards given for a variety of media since 1940. What they might not know is that on November 15th Peabody announced it is launching The …