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 …
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Professor Michele Hilmes’ Retirement and Accolades
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 …
Professor Jonathan Gray Receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award!
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 …
WCFTR Partners with UW-SLIS TLAM Group and Oneida Nation on Film Project
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 …
Professor Derek Johnson Is Co-Winner of Outstanding Young Scholar Award
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 …
School Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Wisconsin
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 …
Crowdfunding and Micro Budget Student Films
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, …
Liminal Creatures, an Art Show by Jill Fukumoto
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 …
Attend the Career and Internship Fair!
On Wednesday, February 18, the Advertising and Communications Career Fair 2015 will be held in Varsity Hall, Union South, from 4:00-7:00pm. All students interested in careers in the fields of media, information, communications, public relations, …
Comm Arts Graduate Students Research Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle
Last year, Milwaukee freelance journalist Martin Hintz contacted the Department of Communication Arts for research assistance. A prolific author, Hintz plans to write a biography on the pioneering war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle. The nearby Wisconsin Historical Society hosts the …