The Holtz Center offers fellowships for graduate students with research interests in the field of science and technology studies. The 2020-2022 cohort includes four fellows, three of whom are SJMC graduate students.
Research
Q&A with Sijia Yang
Q&A with Sijia Yang, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hometown: Tongxiang, China Educational background: Ph.D. in communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania How did you get into your …
Professor Sue Robinson Wins Award for 2018 Book
This summer, Professor Sue Robinson, the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, received the 2019 Tankard Book Award for outstanding research in journalism. Her book, Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Public …
Dhavan Shah Wins Grant to Fight Opioid Addiction
New app in development aims to stop opioid relapses before they happen Researchers at the University of Wisconsin—Madison have received a $3.42 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a mobile …
SJMC Graduate Student Josephine Lukito Discusses Research Project on CNN
Lukito’s article “Most Major News Outlets Have Used Russian Tweets as Sources for Partisan Opinion: Study” in Columbia Journalism Review was cited in the Mueller Report.
Professor Sue Robinson Wins the 2019 Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Professor Sue Robinson will receive the 2019 Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at its August meeting in Toronto. The award is given to work that breaks new …
SJMC Team Receives Funding to Study Civic Renewal
Researchers in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have received $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish the Center for Communication and Civic …
Professor Young Mie Kim and SJMC Graduate Student Co-Authors Win Kaid-Sanders Award for Best Political Communication Article of the Year
Young Mie Kim and her co-authors, which included SJMC graduate students, won the Kaid-Sanders Award for the best article of the year on political communication from the Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association. The article is titled, “The …
SJMC Team Wins Top Paper Award
SJMC Team Wins Top Paper Award Studying “The Temporal Turn in Communication Research” School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) faculty and students won a top paper award from the Computational Methods Interest Group of …
Civic Culture and Contentious Politics Research Group to be Featured at International Conference
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Civic Culture and Contentious Politics research group’s studies of how the contemporary communication ecology affects contentious politics is being featured at the 69th International Communication Association Conference in Washington, D.C. from May …