In The Denver Post: In the age of Trump, lying gets another look
In less contentious times, arguments over the word “lie” generally involve its grammatical partner “lay.” But the election of Donald Trump, criticized during his campaign and in the early days of his presidency for statements often at odds with verifiable fact, has recast the discussion. Director of the Center for Journalism Ethics Kathleen Bartzen Culver contributes her expertise in The Denver Post.
From Chancellor Blank: Career center prepares students for jobs
UW-Madison is serious about its mission of preparing students for the workforce. In January, a new Career Exploration Center opened that will help students make decisions about their majors and career paths.
In The New York Times: Richard Schickel, movie critic, author and filmmaker, dies at 84
Richard Schickel, noted film critic, Hollywood historian and prolific author and documentarian died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 84.
L&S teaching assistants shine in campus awards
In order to recognize excellence on the part of TAs across campus, each year the College of Letters & Science, with support from the Graduate School, administers awards for exceptional teaching by graduate students.
In BroadwayWorld.com: Laura Schwendinger's Artemesia to make New York premier in St. Paul's Chapel
UW-Madison professor of composition Laura Schwendinger's new opera, Artemisia, was given its New York Premiere on Saturday, January 7 at 1:00 PM at St Paul's Chapel in Manhattan. Artemisia is an opera of passion, betrayal and art in 17th century Italy, and is based on the life of Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
In Politico Magazine: ‘What Do You Do if a Red State Moves to You?’
Katherine J. Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, recently wrote a book about this. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker came out just last March.
In The New York Times: The Women of ‘Star Wars’
L&S alumna Rachel Rose has spent the last decade as an engineer at Industrial Light and Magic, the special-effects studio founded by George Lucas. She holds a doctorate in Computer Sciences from UW-Madison.
From Madison.com: One person, one algorithm, one vote: Campaigns are doing more with data, for better or worse
Young Mie Kim has a theory about voters. Each one is basically a collection of data points that determine how that person will vote. “In the data age, voters are defined based on an algorithm, based on a construction and reconstruction of data,” she said.
Two months after an election where political campaigns were blamed or credited for relying on voter data to an unprecedented degree, Kim, a professor and researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is studying how campaigns used that data in Wisconsin and across the country.
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