University of Wisconsin-Madison
One of the Communication Arts courses Assistant Professor Sara McKinnon teaches is CA 671 – Communication and Social Conflict. Throughout the semester, her students put on mock conflicts in class and take turns mediating the conflicting parties. To find out more about mediation, I visited one such session and asked Professor McKinnon a few questions. …
On the evening of December 10, the top 21 persuasive speakers enrolled in the fall semester of Communication Arts 100 competed in the CA 100 Speech Contest. The speech contest is a long-standing tradition at the end of each semester. Teaching assistants from all sections of the course submitted the speeches of their top two …
Communication Arts student Meredith Smith has received a Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant. After the application process, the grant was awarded to Smith for her excellent senior thesis, which explores Hollywood costume designer Dorothy Jeakins’ career in the 1960s. While her thesis is still in progress, the grant will provide Smith with $1,500 to cover …
Professor Karma Chávez is one of three scholars to be selected as an NCA-Forum Centennial Awards recipient. Alongside Della Pollock of UNC, Chapel Hill and Leslie Baxter of University of Iowa, she will be honored by the National Communication Association Forum for her commitment to “practical engagement in the field of Communication and beyond” at …
On Friday, Bob Mankoff visited with the students of Professor Catalina Toma’s course, CA 970: Seminar in Computer-Mediated Communication. Mankoff is the cartoon editor for The New Yorker and stopped by the class to discuss humor and humor’s role in communication. Within moments of arriving, Mankoff was demoing his Google Glass to the classroom. He …
For one week this summer, Professor Lori Kido Lopez and graduate assistant Taylor Cole Miller hosted the Vilas Video Camp with Freedom Inc. This local non-profit serves the needs of low- to no-income communities and youth of color in Dane County through leadership development and community organizing. They strive to end violence against youth of …
On Monday, October 27, Communication Arts hosted an informal discussion with Bill Siemering, NPR’s founding program director. Bill Siemering is a Madison native who started his career right here at WHA. He went on to WBFO Buffalo, where he started a cultural and public affairs program, “This is Radio!”. Some WBFO producers went to Philadelphia where …
Professor Jonathan Gray has been selected as a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board. He is one of three new members, including Martha Nelson of New York and Naibe Reynoso of Los Angeles. As a member of the Peabody Awards Board, Professor Gray will work with the board to select winners of the …
Jill Soloway’s new show Transparent premiered this past Friday on Amazon Prime. Soloway, who is a Comm Arts alumna, previously produced and wrote for HBO’s Six Feet Under and recently won the Sundance 2013 Directing Award: U.S. Drama for her first feature film, Afternoon Delight. The show follows a family who finds out their father …
The film archive of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research was recognized and praised last week by the Wisconsin State Journal as one of the “100 defining objects of Madison.” In daily columns running since July, the State Journal has described the special quality of life that Madison offers by identifying 100 key …