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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 UW–Madison campus:  UW–Madison’s Outstanding Women of Color 2015-16 will be celebrated at a reception scheduled on Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 …

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 a popular high school student overdoses. The film features an ensemble cast including Stephen Baldwin, Amy Lyndon, Kevin Sorbo, and …

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 written for Professor Jenell Johnson’s course Comm Arts 472: Rhetoric and Technology. The essay explores Akbik’s experience with her Fitbit …

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 recipient of the Wayne Danielson award for distinguished contributions to communications scholarship. The award is bestowed by the Moody College of …

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 taught CA 451 – Television Criticism, several seminars, and will soon be teaching CA 458 – Global Media Cultures, among …

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 Wisconsin Idea of outreach, and a splendid incarnation of that mission is WCFTR’s participation in the Oneida Nation Film Preservation …

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 than seven years past receipt of the Ph.D. for a body of work that has contributed to knowledge of the …

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 McKinnon about the research that was done. Tell me a bit about the research you did with transgender and gender …

In the last few years, crowdfunding has exploded in popularity. Sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com provide easy-to-use platforms for people to create campaigns to fund creative projects. Such projects range from new inventions, to video games, to films, and more. Each campaign sets a fundraising goal that must be met in order for the campaign to receive the money …

Liminal Creatures  Senior Communication Arts major Jill Fukumoto sat down with me this week to talk about her art show entitled Liminal Creatures that we have been working on together this year. The multi-media show uses poetry, sketches, and video work to explore themes of home, family, migration, and foreignness. Moving between Hawaii and Madison, …