Communication Arts is excited to celebrate Sophie Hougland as a 2024-2025 recipient of a University Staff Excellence Award from the College of Letters and Science. Each year, the Dean of L&S awards five University Staff members within the college with this honor. The whole Communication Arts community is ecstatic to congratulate Sophie on this well-deserved …
It’s been another vibrant year of new music! We checked in with students, faculty members and a record-spinning alumnus to make sure we didn’t miss the best releases of this year.
Few things are more essential to communication scientists in Communication Arts than a physical lab space to conduct live experiments, collect data, and advance their research. To meet that essential need, Vilas’s fourth-floor lab spaces used by faculty and students in Communication Arts have recently undergone significant upgrades thanks to funds from an Instructional Laboratory …
Traveling to collect research is often an essential part of graduate students’ dissertations. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Communication Arts awards many students with funding that makes research travel more accessible and allows them to choose a topic that would otherwise be limited by the archival resources in Madison alone. The Vance and …
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), students, educators, and researchers are eager to learn, assist, and understand the societal implications of quickly developing technologies. Communication Arts has been taking an interdisciplinary approach to AI to include perspectives from both the social sciences and humanities. In recent semesters, some faculty have started involving AI in …
Early in 2024, the film community lost one of its most influential figures. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on February 29, 2024, at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness. In the months since, Communication Arts faculty and alumni have shared their …
Accessing knowledge has become increasingly easy in recent decades. Scientific facts about climate change and global warming can be found with the flick of a finger — yet this has not been enough to persuade emerging climate change deniers to acknowledge its reality and urgency.
For years, UW students had been clamoring for a course on horror movies. This summer, Sarah Mae Fleming (MS’23) finally gave them one.
Student voters say their top issues are reproductive rights and democracy, wish politicians would take Gen Z more seriously.
Graduates of UW-Madison who earn a degree in Communication Arts go on to do amazing things—so the Department of Communication Arts is excited to announce its inaugural Distinguished Alumni Awards to recognize these many accomplishments. As communication professionals, our graduates shape the ways that we can interact and connect with one another. They pursue research …