UW-Madison has received the #1 ranking from QS World University Rankings for Communication & Media Studies. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a company that focuses on education and study abroad, releases annual rankings for universities around the …
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Professor Lyn Van Swol’s Blended Course
A year from now, Professor Lyn Van Swol’s CA 368: Theory and Practice of Persuasion will be in full-swing as a blended course. Blended courses have a substantial online component while retaining face-to-face time in …
UW-Madison Alumnus Receives Oscar Nomination
The Academy Awards are just over two weeks away, and the university has good reason to be excited. The film Facing Fear is among the nominees in the Documentary Short Subject category, which was directed …
Online Courses: Summer 2014
Last March, we published a story on two Communication Arts courses, CA 100 and CA 260, that will be offered online during Summer 2014. Now that the summer session is only a few months away, …
Rob Asen Receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
Communication Arts Professor Rob Asen has received a Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Researcher Award from the Graduate School Research Committee at UW-Madison. The Kellett Award is one which fosters research with a flexible research fund provided …
Job Listing: Visiting Assistant Professor of Animation
The Department of Communications Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor to teach two courses per semester: a course in 2D character animation, as well as a second course in Visual …
Lantern and Arclight Projects Win Big
Professor Eric Hoyt has been busy. In the span of a week, two projects he spearheaded, Lantern and Project Arclight, have received an award and a grant, respectively. The award comes from the Society for …
CA 155 Celebrates Outstanding Student Work with the Hoyty Awards
On the last day of lecture this semester, students in Eric Hoyt’s CA 155: Intro to Digital Media Production course walked out of the freezing cold and into an awards show. The first-ever Hoyty Awards …
Thank you, Maxine Ducey
After a brilliant 34 year career as the Head Film Archivist at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Maxine Ducey is retiring effective January 2, 2014. With consummate skill and unwavering professionalism, Maxine …
Filmmaker Jill Soloway Visits Her Alma Mater
On Thursday, November 14th, Communications Arts alumni Jill Soloway and Jim Frohna visited campus for the screening of the feature film Afternoon Delight. The film was the debut feature for both writer/director Soloway and cinematographer …