The Department of Communication Arts congratulates Ben Reiser for receiving the 2021 Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts. Reiser has been a key part of the Wisconsin Film Festival since 2012, advancing …
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Professor Eric Hoyt wins Vilas Associates award
The Department of Communication Arts is delighted to announce that Professor Eric Hoyt was awarded a prestigious Vilas Associates Award. The award recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance, and offers …
Comm Arts graduate student Lance St. Laurent appears on Jeopardy!
As a child growing up in northwest Arkansas, Comm Arts film graduate student Lance St. Laurent was enamored of trivia, considering himself “a person full of random factoids and knowledge.” In 7th grade, a classmate …
Eric Hoyt to Broadcast AV Data as part of collaborative NEH grant
Professor Eric Hoyt is thrilled and honored to be among the most recent winners of a prestigious grant from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Hoyt and his frequent collaborator, Stephanie Sapienza (University of Maryland), …
Catalina Toma appointed Associate Editor at Human Communication Research
Congratulations to Catalina Toma on her appointment as Associate Editor of Human Communication Research. The flagship journal of the International Communication Association concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication. The journal has …
Erin Lee Carr wins TV Academy Award
Congratulations to Erin Lee Carr (BA’10) for winning a TV Academy Award for her documentary At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal. While at UW-Madison, Carr majored in Communication Arts and studied screenwriting and independent …
Olivia Babler part of team which discovers lost silent film
Communication Arts alum Olivia Babler (BA‘13) was recently part of a team that uncovered a silent film from 1923 that was presumed to be ‘lost’, The First Degree (dir. Edward Sedgwick, Universal Pictures). The discovery …
New faculty member Aaron Greer has podcast selected for Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) Forum
Aaron Greer, new Associate Professor in Communication Arts, met author Marsha Walker at Temple University while earning his MFA. Greer was drawn to Walker’s semi-autobiographical short stories about a girl growing up in Appalachia, Eastern …
Graduate student Paul Ahn wins best paper award in Communication Science and Biology division at #ICA20
Paul’s study explores how requiring different types of reasoning (abduction, deduction, or induction) during creative problem-solving and brainstorming affects creative performance and brain activity. It has long been assumed that abductive reasoning best serves creative …
Kahl Family announces sponsorship of Media Production Professorship
Thanks to the generosity of Kim and Kelly Kahl (BA ’89), we are celebrating the creation of the Kahl Family Media Production Professorship. Kim Kahl, a publicist, and Kelly Kahl, president of CBS entertainment, have …