On Thursday, October 19, Kelly Kahl was one of four recipients to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The award, first established in 1936, is the highest honor bestowed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, which only presents the award to the “most prestigious graduates of UW-Madison for their professional achievements, contributions …

The weekend of October 13-15, students and Madison community members have the opportunity to see three brand new films at Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight.  This annual event, now in its third year as a standalone festival, offers the rare opportunity to screen and discuss films that are made by Asian Americans and focus on …

On Friday, the filmmaker Charles Burnett met with about two dozen undergraduate and graduate students from Communication Arts media production courses. In town for UW-Madison’s Distinguished Lecture Series, as well as a Cinematheque screening of his 1990 film To Sleep with Anger, Burnett was gracious enough to hold an intimate Q&A with the students. In …

Communication Arts students Ali Walton and Ryan Holtz both worked at the 69th Emmy Awards on Sunday. The opportunity arose from their internships at CBS in Los Angeles, which are sponsored each summer by Comm Arts alumnus and president of CBS Entertainment Kelly Kahl. We are immensely proud of Ali and Ryan, and honestly a little starstruck! …

Meet Steffie Halverson, the new undergraduate advisor in Communication Arts. She joins Mary Rossa in advising hundreds of Communication Arts students who travel the halls of Vilas each semester. Halverson became interested in education after graduating from college. First working in public libraries, she later earned her Master of Science degree in Educational Leadership and …

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 …