The 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Politics and the Life Sciencestakes place at UW-Madison on the 23rd and 24th of October. The keynote will be delivered by Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who is …
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Actor/Writer Jacqueline Kim talks about Advantageous
Communication Arts Professor Lori Kido Lopez created an event called Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight in partnership with Cinematheque and WUD Film. Five Asian American films will make their Wisconsin premiere over the weekend of …
Professor Lopez, Outstanding Woman of Color for 2015-16
Dr. Lori Kido Lopez, Assistant Professor in Communication Arts, has been selected as an Outstanding Woman of Color for 2015-16! The Outstanding Women of Color Awards Selection Committee selected seven women in total from the …
Matt Baldocchi and “The Unmiracle”
Matt Baldocchi is a Communication Arts Radio-TV-Film major at UW-Madison who worked on the new film The Unmiracle. Shot on location in Crystal Lake, Illinois, the film is about how the community comes together after …
Hannah Akbik Wins Essay Contest
Near the end of the 2015 spring semester, Communication Arts major Hannah Akbik won the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Thematic Undergraduate Essay Contest! Akbik’s essay, entitled Technology and the Evolution of Human Health, was …
Professor Michele Hilmes’ Retirement and Accolades
In her many years as a scholar, Professor Michele Hilmes has been no stranger to awards and praise for her work. It should come as no surprise then that she has been selected as the 2015 …
Professor Jonathan Gray Receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!
Communication Arts Professor Jonathan Gray is one of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award recipients in 2015! Jonathan Gray has been a Media & Cultural Studies professor at UW-Madison for the past six years. He has …
WCFTR Partners with UW-SLIS TLAM Group and Oneida Nation on Film Project
Our Department’s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is justifiably famous for maintaining, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Historical Society, one of the world’s great film archives. WCFTR is also committed to the …
Professor Derek Johnson Is Co-Winner of Outstanding Young Scholar Award
Communication Arts Professor Derek Johnson is the recent co-recipient of the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Popular Communication Division. ICA’s website states that “the award honors a scholar no more …
School Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Wisconsin
In collaboration with Madison-based nonprofit GSAFE, UW Professors Sara McKinnon and Maurice Gattis recently released a report entitled “School Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Wisconsin.” To gain some insight into their study, I asked Professor …