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SJMC Weekly Announcements

Week of May 27–31, 2024

Kudos

Director Katy Culver featured in AP News article

Katy was featured in AP News article titled "The Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish" about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flying an upside-down American flag at his home and The Washington Post's decision not to publish the story three years ago. "It is long past time for journalists to set aside deference to the court," Katy said. Read the full article.

Department administrator Jenni Hart elected as 2024-25 CASI co-chair

Jenni was unanimously elected as the 2024-25 Committee on Academic Staff Issues (CASI) co-chair in the College of Letters & Science. CASI advises the Dean on issues pertaining to, or affecting, academic staff members. Congratulations, Jenni!

Professor Mike Wagner featured on WKOW and WISC to discuss former President Trump's felony convictions

Mike weighed in on the results of former President Trump's trial on both WKOW and WISC. "The conviction makes voters who weren't big fans of President Trump even more uneasy. Now, they'd be voting for a candidate who might not even be able to vote himself with a felony conviction, and that gives some voters pause," said Wagner. "It might not affect many people, but in a really close race like Wisconsin's, it could be really important." See the full interview on WKOW.

Professor Mike Wagner will deliver the Malkavian Lecture to the annual League of Women Voters of Wisconsin meeting

Mike will deliver the keynote speech on tonight, Friday, May 31 at the annual League of Women Voters of Wisconsin meeting. Mike will talk about politics, communication and political attitudes and behavior in his talk, "Battlegrounds for Democracy: Voting, Elections and the Information Ecology in Wisconsin." Congratulations, Mike!

Publications

Hyungjin Gill (PhD'22), PhD student Carlos Dávalos and professor Hernando Rojas publish new article in Communication Studies

Alum Hyungjin Gill (PhD'22), PhD student Carlos Dávalos, and professor Hernando Rojas published a manuscript that examines how the racial empathy emerging from hostile perceptions of the coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, became a pathway to peaceful and confrontational forms of political action. Read the full manuscript.
 

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