Congratulations, Class of 2024!
Undergraduate Slideshow (PDF)
View memories and takeaways from the SJMC Class of 2024 undergraduates.
Graduate Slideshow (PDF)
View memories and takeaways from the SJMC Class of 2024 Professional MA, Research MA and Ph.D. students.
Graduation Program (PDF)
View the program from the 2024 SJMC Graduation Celebration.
Featured Speaker: Deborah Blum (MA’82)
Deborah Blum (MA’82) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and best-selling author as well as a former faculty member and alumna of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. A science writer with a long-standing interest in poison, Blum has published six books, including the New York Times bestseller The Poisoner’s Handbook and The Poison Squad, both of which eventually became PBS documentaries. She has also written about toxicology for a variety of outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Time, Discover, Scientific American and The Guardian.
Blum graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism before coming to UW-Madison to complete her master’s in science journalism in 1982. She went on to work as a science writer for The Fresno Bee and later The Sacramento Bee. In 1992, while in Sacramento, Blum won a Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting for her series on the ethical issues surrounding primate research.
In 1997, Blum returned to the J-School as a professor of journalism and created a creative non-fiction class among others. Currently, Blum is the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT, where she launched the award-winning science magazine, Undark, which aims to illuminate science and its complex, human story.