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Where Media And Politics Meet

Where Media And Politics Meet

November 8, 2023January 29, 2024 | Faculty, General

Where do you seek information about politics and elections? Have your sources changed over time? In this roundtable, three faculty in the UW Department of Communication — Adrienne Russell, Matthew Powers, and Patricia Moy — talk with Perspectives editor Nancy Joseph about…

UW Communication at NCA

UW Communication at NCA

November 5, 2023January 29, 2024 | Events and Lectures, Faculty, General

The National Communication Association, one of our discipline’s largest scholarly organizations, will be convening this month in Maryland and UW Communication will be there in force. If you plan to be at NCA this year, be sure to connect with…

Public Speaking goes virtual on Coursera

Public Speaking goes virtual on Coursera

July 5, 2023January 29, 2024 | Faculty, Kickstart

UW Communication professor Matt McGarrity developed a new virtual reality public speaking experience for his popular Introduction to Public Speaking course on Coursera, the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform. The result of over a year of intense development with…

Ph.D. student receives Humanities Scholarship for research on Asian women content creators

Ph.D. student receives Humanities Scholarship for research on Asian women content creators

July 5, 2023January 29, 2024 | Research, Student Stories

UW Communication Ph.D. candidate Jenny Lee was recently awarded UW’s prestigious Elizabeth Kerr Macfarlane Humanities Scholarship, a merit-based scholarship that acknowledges her contribution to the field of humanities. Lee’s research examines how Korean female content creators make sense of, negotiate…

UW Communication student gains valuable experience abroad in ¡SpainWorks! program

UW Communication student gains valuable experience abroad in ¡SpainWorks! program

July 5, 2023January 29, 2024 | General, Student Stories, StudyAbroad

The term “study abroad” can sometimes evoke vacation mode, a fun opportunity to earn credits while exploring a different culture. However, for rising senior Skylar Strotz (Communication, Sociology) it also meant completing a challenging yet rewarding communications internship, all in…

Scheidel lecturer Dr. Dawna Ballard on how effective organizations communicate slow to go fast

Scheidel lecturer Dr. Dawna Ballard on how effective organizations communicate slow to go fast

July 5, 2023January 29, 2024 | Events and Lectures, General

This spring, the Department of Communication welcomed organizational communication scholar Dr. Dawna I. Ballard of the University of Texas, Austin, who delivered the Department’s annual Scheidel Lecture. A departmental tradition for 25 years, the Scheidel Lecture invites scholars conducting cutting…

CCDE launches Health Equity Action Lab

CCDE launches Health Equity Action Lab

July 5, 2023January 29, 2024 | Faculty, Research

The Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE) this spring launched its Health Equity Action Lab (HEAL), a new initiative that aims to support and showcase community-based research in the arena of health equity and to provide a platform for…

Students investigate online communities by contributing to Wikipedia in innovative course

Students investigate online communities by contributing to Wikipedia in innovative course

March 16, 2023January 29, 2024 | Kickstart, Research, Student Stories

COM 481: Online Communities, taught by PhD candidate Kaylea Champion, offers students a hands-on experience contributing to online communities such as Wikipedia by incorporating research conducted by the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC), a research team that employs empirical research…

Alumni of Distinction and Hall of Fame 2022

Alumni of Distinction and Hall of Fame 2022

December 8, 2022January 29, 2024 | Alumni, Alumni Newsletter, Kickstart

Every year, the UW Department of Communication honors outstanding alumni who are making a difference in their careers and communities by inducting them into the Department’s Alumni Hall of Fame. We also recognize the exceptional work of recent graduates through…

Kirsten Foot’s Team Produced a Toolkit for Journalism on Human Trafficking

Kirsten Foot’s Team Produced a Toolkit for Journalism on Human Trafficking

October 11, 2022January 29, 2024 | Faculty, General, News

Dr. Kirsten Foot, the Dart Endowed Professor of Trauma, Journalism, and Communication, has released an open-access Toolkit for Hope-Based and Solutions-Oriented Journalism on Human Trafficking. Dr. Foot co-produced the Toolkit with Deborah Pembrook, Sharan Dhanoa, and Dr. Nicole Dahmen, with…

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