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Research News
Culver Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Kathleen Bartzen Culver, associate professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics, has won the William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award. She is one of 10 faculty members across campus to have been chosen.
SJMC Alumni Give Back in Big Way
April 9, 2019 was the first-ever Day of the Badger campaign, a campus-wide, multi-program fundraising event that raised $1,863,080 through 5,061 gifts from generous alumni and friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The …
Professor Young Mie Kim Featured in Washington Post
SJMC Political Communication Project Wins Additional Grant Support
After securing a prestigious UW2020 grant of $411,000 from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Discovery Initiative in May, SJMC professors Lew Freidland, Dhavan Shah and Mike Wagner have secured additional funding for their major research …
2018 SJMC Ph.D. Grad Megan Duncan Publishes Article on Journalist Credibility Scores
https://www.poynter.org/news/how-do-news-audiences-actually-feel-about-elon-musk-style-credibility-scores
By Lindsay Palmer
War reporters in the 21stcentury deal with intensifying industrial, technological and political challenges that makes their work more and more precarious. That is the main takeaway of Lindsay Palmer’s new book Becoming the Story: War …
Kathryn McGarr wins Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize
Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kathryn McGarr, was recently selected for the Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Gentlemen of the Press: Post World War II Foreign …
Dr. Joseph N. Cappella Discusses Recommended Systems to Reaching Mass Audiences at Ivan L. Preston Research Colloquium
Dr. Joseph N. Cappella, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed a route to reaching mass audiences with a tailored persuasive appeal at the Ivan L. Preston Research …
Sue Robinson Wins Morgridge Center Award
SJMC Professor Sue Robinson was awarded the Morgridge Center’s Community-based Research Award. The focus of the award is on the collaborative enterprise between academic researchers (faculty, academic staff, graduate students and professional students) and community …