University of Wisconsin-Madison
Welcome, students! And for many of you, welcome back! The fall semester is underway and it’s bound to be a great one. We look forward to seeing you in Communication Arts courses and around campus, and wish you the best of luck with your coursework. Our site has a lot of resources for undergraduates. Look …
It was announced today that the PodcastRE project will receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Specifically, PodcastRE Analytics: Investigating the Golden Age of Podcasting through Metadata and Sound will receive a $74,972 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. Combined with the UW2020 grant awarded earlier this year, principal investigators Jeremy Morris and Eric Hoyt now have a …
One can accomplish a lot in thirty-six years. In thirty-six years, Professor Vance Kepley wrote two books and about two dozen articles, all the while becoming a leading scholar on Russian and Soviet cinema. In that same timespan, he was chair of the Department of Communication Arts for several years, as well as director of …
You’ve worked hard, played hard, and studied harder. You’ve completed a degree designed to give you critical thinking skills, as well as an understanding and appreciation of many different forms of human communication. It’s time to say goodbye to friends, faculty, and beautiful Vilas Hall, and go out into the world and make a difference. Your …
It was July 2016. The days were sunny and warm, and some people were out and about playing Pokémon Go. A lot of them, in fact. For graduate students James Alex Bonus, Alanna Peebles, and Irene Sarmiento, this provided a perfect research opportunity. Pokémon Go, the mobile game in which players traverse their real-world surroundings …
Communication Arts Professor Emerita Michele Hilmes has received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society For Cinema and Media Studies! The Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) is a prominent scholarly organization with nearly three thousand members from thirty-eight countries. The organization holds a conference each year for scholars to share their work, …
Registration is officially open for Summer Term 2017 courses! Taking summer courses is a great way to: Communication Arts is offering thirteen courses to choose from this summer: To learn more about each class, visit commarts.wisc.edu/courses or meet with our Comm Arts advisors to find the best summer course for you! Additional information can be found here: https://summer.wisc.edu/uw-madison-students/
It was recently announced that Assistant Professor Lori Kido Lopez will be the 2017 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies! The Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), founded in 1979, is committed to research, teaching, and service in the field of Asian American Studies, and regularly holds …
It’s the year 2017 and crowdfunding films has become commonplace. Making a good film almost always requires at least a small financial investment, and sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com make it easy for both filmmakers and donors to fund projects. Given the utility and real-world application of crowdfunding, the capstone film production course at UW-Madison, …
Last summer marked the beginning of a new construction project in Vilas Hall’s Instructional Media Center (IMC). Over the course of several months, the brand new room known as the Living Room Lab took shape and was completed in November 2016. The Living Room Lab occupies a space that used to be comprised of several …