Stage Direction
Professor Sandra Adell has built her entry level class on African-American dramatic literature around the principles of acting and theater, using drama as a key to unlock her students’ imaginations and get them to discuss difficult issues surrounding race and ethnicity.
Understanding systems of oppression and our place within them
Associate professor Sami Schalk challenges her students to question long-held personal beliefs and evaluate their assumptions about people different from them and where they fit within systems of oppression.
UW-Madison faculty, students help create COVID-19 app for Wisconsinites
A team from the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication helped with this app for Wisconsinites, which includes ways to connect, calm, cope and stay informed about COVID-19 in our state.
Learning how to help media help children
Communication Science Professor Louise Mares and her graduate students are conducting research to understand the roles media can play in teaching, helping and supporting kids.
More than protest
Political scientist Erica Simmons reveals that threats to people’s sense of identity are often what drive protest movements that change the course of politics—around the world and here in Wisconsin.
Psychology's John Curtin wins $3.42 million NIH Grant for app to prevent opioid relapse
Project pairs psychology and journalism, building on work done with drug and alcohol use.
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