Three SJMC Ph.D. students were selected to receive funding through the UW-Madison Global Health Institute (GIH). Eunji Cho’s Student Research Award proposal, “Protecting Children from Junk Food Online Game: Introducing Stop-and-Take-a-Break Intervention Strategy,” was selected …
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SJMC Student Ornella Hills Selected as 2018 NCHD Student Research Forum Participant
Ornella Hills, Ph.D. student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been selected as a 2018 Eleventh Annual National Conference on Health Disparities (NCHD) Student Research Forum participant. The NCHD will take place …
SJMC Students Recognized by the Milwaukee Press Club for Outstanding Work
On Monday, March 19, the Milwaukee Press Club announced the finalists for their 88th Annual Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Contest, honoring an abundance of SJMC students. Each year, hundreds of collegiate and …
2018 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant Awarded to SJMC’s Ornella Hills, Robyn Baragwanath, Dhavan Shah
Two graduate students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Ornella Hills and Robyn Baragwanath, and professor Dhavan Shah have been awarded a seed project grant through the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment for their …
SJMC Research Team Releases Study on the Influence of Russian Tweets in U.S. News Media
A research team led by SJMC Ph.D. student, Josephine Lukito, and associate professor in the SJMC, Chris Wells, released their study Thursday, on how popular mainstream and partisan news outlets used Russian-backed tweets in their …
SJMC Graduate Students Megan Duncan, Meredith Metzler Selected for PhDigital Bootcamp
Two graduate students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Megan Duncan and Meredith Metzler, have been selected to attend the PhDigital Bootcamp at the Media Innovation Lab at Texas State University in May. They …
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Recognizes SJMC Students and Faculty for Outstanding Work
SJMC students and staff were honored by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association at their Student Seminar on Saturday, Feb. 24, for their exemplar work produced both in the J-School and in various student organizations on campus. …
New Curb Magazine Explores Movement, Change in Wisconsin
The 16th edition of Curb that launched Dec. 5 tells the narrative of movement, motion and change — of individuals and communities — as stories of forward progress, steps backward and static pause. Curb: Kinetic, …
Ph.D. Candidate Yangsun Hong Wins Top Student Paper Award at MAPOR
Ph.D. candidate Yangsun Hong won an award for top student paper in the public opinion category at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research for her paper, “Social Media Use and Expressive Participation.” Read Hong’s …
SJMC Doctoral Student Receives Fulbright Award to Conduct Research in India
Doctoral student Alicia Wright has received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research award for $45,000 to conduct fieldwork in New Delhi, India for her project, “On the [Translated] Record: Journalists Writing in India’s Multilingual Politics.” The …