AIDS activist Mary Fisher is featured in this New York Times article recalling her ground-breaking speech to the Republican National Convention in 1992. According to Comm Arts Professor Stephen Lucas, her address, titled “A Whisper of AIDs,” …
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2011-12: A Year in Accomplishments for Comm Arts Faculty and Grad Students
2011-12 was a highly successful school year for the Comm Arts department with numerous faculty members and graduate students receiving prestigious awards, fellowships, and distinctions. Indeed, the number of accolades is too great to list …
Comm Arts Honors Outstanding Undergrad Students with Achievement Awards
Every year, the department has the pleasure of giving out a handful of awards and scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Communication Arts. We are proud to announce the recipients for 2011-12: Rachel Bozich …
Tino Balio Named a 2012 Wisconsin Academy Fellow
Comm Arts Professor Emeritus Tino Balio has been named a 2012 Wisconsin Academy Fellow, the highest level of recognition conferred by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. He is being inducted as a 2012 …
Hollywood Badgers Connects Students to the Entertainment Industries
What do film director, screenwriter, and producer Michael Mann, movie producer Walter Mirisch, television producer, writer, and director Steven Levitan, screenwriters and directors Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, media executive Stephen Jarchow, author and popular …
Students Demonstrate Persuasive Skills in CA 100 Speech Contest
Each semester, hundreds of undergraduates from across UW-Madison take Comm Arts 100, Introduction to Speech Composition. Part of the university’s Communication-A requirement, the course is designed to help students write and deliver effective speeches, as …
Comm Arts Welcomes New Undergraduate Advisor
The Comm Arts department is pleased to announce the addition of Amy Schultz as an Undergraduate Advisor. Comm Arts continues to grow as one of the most popular majors on campus, and Amy arrives as …
Stephen Jarchow, Here Media & Regent Entertainment Chair, To Talk on Tuesday
What is the current state of the entertainment industry? How have new technologies and changes in business models affected film and television as we have come to know them? These are some of the issues …
Wisconsin Film Festival Kicks Off Today
The 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival kicks off today, Wednesday, April 18th. The festival will run for five days (April 18-22), showing more than 150 films on nine screens spread throughout the city of Madison. Now …
Comm Arts Student’s It Gets Better Video Confronts Anti-Gay Bullying
This past January, UW-Madison senior and Comm Arts major Colton James Boettcher made public a music video promoting the pro-gay, anti-discrimination message of the It Gets Better Project. An elaborate dance production set to the …