Prepare to party! Day of the Badger is back this April 8–9 for 1,848 minutes of Badger pride and supporting continuing educational excellence and opportunities for current and future generations of SJMC students.
Ray Kirsch, Joey Bonadonna and Oliver Gerharz received WBAF Student Scholarships for their excellence in broadcasting in both their courses and their work at WSUM and elsewhere in the community.
PhD student Yanshu Sybil Wang was recently awarded the Fall Mini Fellowship from the UW-Madison Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies to support her research on AI literacy and its impacts on teens.
This January, after completing his PhD at Stanford University, SJMC alum Dr. Ross Dahlke (BA'18) returned to Vilas Hall as an assistant professor. Using software development as well as social and data science, Dahlke's research dives into political information exposure and the effects on the open the web and private communication channels.
This spring, we welcomed several alumni, Ph.D. students and emeritus faculty members to our team. These lecturers and adjunct instructors offer students unique perspectives in their courses since they have real-world experience in a variety of communications settings.
Many of our SJMC faculty members have had the pleasure of meeting and working alongside their significant others at UW-Madison. This past Valentine's Day, we celebrated the wide variety of "SJMC love stories" that have flourished across campus and within Vilas Hall.
A survey on American voters from the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal found surprising insights on what drove votes during the closest national vote for president since 2020. Their research found big gaps in partisan attitudes toward equity and prejudice in American society, consistent with past research by the CCCR team and other scholars.
As one of the inaugural Sports Communication Certificate graduates, SJMC alum Jonathan Mills (BA’20) is putting the skills he honed in his sports communication and journalism courses to good use as a reporter for the Detroit Red Wings. He credits his passion and work ethic as well as his time at the SJMC for laying the groundwork for a successful career in sports media.
Call for Alumni Spotlights
We are so proud of what our alumni go on to accomplish once they leave Vilas, and we want to brag about it to current students and visitors. Please submit this form to be highlighted on one of the screens in our 5th-floor lobby.
