Hey Hawkeye Graduate Students! With early registration fast approaching, the Communication Studies Department would like to introduce a new graduate seminar for Spring 2024 taught by Professor Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart: Family Communication (COMM:6376).

Congrats to Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz and University of Kentucky Associate Professor Shui-yin Sharon Yam for winning this year's Feminist Scholar of the Year Award from the Organization for Feminist Research in Gender and Communication!

The pair have been selected for their article, "Against Gender Essentialism: Reproductive Justice Doulas and Gender Inclusivity in Pregnancy and Birth Discourse." We are proud to celebrate such amazing work!

Attention Cinema students! You can meet film industry professionals, Elizabeth Newton and Britton Rizzio, at the Careers in Cinema event on April 12th. See you there! 🎥

Listen to the latest episodes of Sounding Cinema, a podcast run by faculty member Nathan Platte, where Nathan and Cinematic Arts students discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Jacques Demy's 1967 French new wave musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. open.spotify.com/show/3Obyei9SS…

On Nov. 12, a Visual Storytellers Workshop event and presentation was held with special guest Phillip Von During! Von During is an audio engineer at Pixar, who has worked on Turning Red, Inside Out 2, and more! The presentation showed the importance of how sound supports story!

Mark your calendar! One Day for Iowa, the University of Iowa's 24-hour online giving day is Wednesday March 26th! 📆 Check out 1day.uiowa.edu to learn more! #1DayForIowa

Congratulations to film production faculty member Patrick Wimp, whose new documentary Mister Abbott, has been streaming on AMC+ as part of the "Chicago XL Rising Stars" series! Learn more about the film and project here: fertile.ai/pr2025.

Several graduate students and faculty members from the University of Iowa's Communication Studies Department are gearing up to present at the annual Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference!

Meet the spring 2025 CLAS commencement speakers, both of whom are involved in Cinematic Arts! Reed Niebauer, the morning speaker, majored in cinema and communication studies. The afternoon speaker Angela Boateng majored in political science with a minor in cinema. Congrats! 🎓