Stories indexed under: Television

Total: 8

  • Hilmes receives Fulbright award for broadcast research in U.K. June 5, 2013 Michele Hilmes, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Arts, has received a Fulbright Award to enable her to conduct research into "transnational" British and American broadcasting at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom for six months in 2013-14.
  • Five Questions: Lecturer, critic McNutt connects TV viewing and social media June 4, 2013 Watching and discussing television — its production, social impact and sense of place — has given Myles McNutt a unique perspective on the American experience. Through social media, McNutt, now a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral candidate, has found the perfect intersection between research and real life.
  • UW-Madison student competes in 'Jeopardy!' College Championship May 6, 2013 When the "Jeopardy!" College Championship was filmed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2008, Julia Sprangers sat in the Kohl Center audience to watch then-senior Suchita Shah compete.
  • Five Questions with Marie-Louise Mares April 18, 2013 Growing up in Australia, Marie-Louise Mares didn’t have a television. Even then, she still got the occasional glimpse of “Sesame Street.”
  • UW analysis shows learning impact of ‘Sesame Street’ around the world April 18, 2013 According to a soon-to-be published meta-analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, watching international co-productions of “Sesame Street” has a positive effect on children’s learning and is an “enduring example of a scalable and effective early childhood educational intervention.”
  • Students choose Anders Holm to speak at commencement April 16, 2013 Comic actor and writer Anders Holm, a 2003 University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate, will be the speaker for spring commencement ceremonies on May 18 and 19.
  • English Professor Levine talks Mad Men April 11, 2013 Caroline Levine is a scholar of Victorian literature — one who’s spent plenty of hours poring over the words of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters. Yet one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison English professor’s newest publications is an essay on the popular television series Mad Men, an edgy drama centered on a Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s.
  • HBO’s “The Wire” plays leading role in ILS course Nov. 10, 2011 Drug war series described as “Charles Dickens on the small screen” is the focus of Integrated Liberal Studies 275: Narratives of Justice and Equality in Multicultural America.