Gerald (Jerry) Baldasty has been a part of the UW Communication family for a long time – he earned a B.A. in 1972 and his Ph.D. in 1978 from the Department before joining the UW faculty later that year. He…
Fifty years ago in March 1965, the nation watched as Alabama state troopers brutally beat civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” Two weeks later the same marchers walked 54…
Fifty years ago in March 1965, the nation watched as Alabama state troopers brutally beat civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” Two weeks later the same marchers walked 54…
On Thursday, March 12, Assistant Professor Jessica Vitak of University of Maryland’s iSchool will be talking about how communication technologies have affected the way we conceptualize friendship and consider privacy. I like it….whatever that means: The evolving relationship between disclosure,…
Two-thousand fifteen marks the 50th Anniversary of when Fendall Yerxa joined the faculty at the UW School of Communications, after many years working as a professional journalist. Also an ex-marine, Yerxa anchored at ABC News in the early 1960s, was…
Associate Professor Gina Neff was honored with a 2015 Innovation Award from the University of Washington worth $200,000 over two years for a collaborative team to foster new levels of student engagement and understanding, especially through active learning. She won…
Police use of deadly force against unarmed African Americans across U.S. cities garnered national and international attention in the closing months of 2014, putting antiblack racism and state-sanctioned violence at the forefront of social justice agendas, and sparking the most…
