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Q&A with LSC Master’s Student Veronica Mingle
Veronica Mingle is a first-year master’s student in the Department of Life Sciences Communication. Originally from Madison, Veronica attended Madison College before transferring to University of Wisconsin–Madison to complete her undergraduate degree, where she…
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A Message from our Chair: 2025-2026 Year in Review with LSC
As the academic year has come to an end, I am thrilled to share some of the many accomplishments of our students, faculty, and friends during the 2025-2026 school year. I invite…
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UW–Madison NAMA Team Earns First Place in National Agri-Marketing Association Student Marketing Competition
UW–Madison’s National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) team recently won top prize in the National Agri-Marketing Association Student Marketing Competition. The championship-winning project centered on a soybean variety that produces a natural red dye…
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Perceived risks, benefits, and support for siting energy infrastructure: Comparing perceptions of carbon capture, nuclear fuel, and large-scale energy facilities
Ostad Rahimi, S., Molder, A. L., Ter-Mkrtchyan, A., Livingston, W., León-Corwin, M., Bitterman, A., … & Brossard, D. (2026). Journal of Risk Research, 1-22. doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2026.2689344
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Visual realism and character identification in science comics: An empirical study testing McCloud’s “masking effect” theory
Yang, S., Barolo Gargiulo, L., Li, N., & Brossard, D. (2026). Visual Communication, 25(2), 575-602. doi.org/10.1177/14703572241258896
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Refusal as silence: Gendered disparities in Vision-Language Model responses
Luo, S., Kim, S., Chen, K. (2026) New Media & Society. doi:10.1177/14614448261441886
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The relationship between brand awareness and action for two national aquatic invasive species prevention brands
Newman T., Campbell T., Shaw B., Beppler T., and Duda M.D. (2026). Management of Biological Invasions. 17. 185-200. doi: 10.3391/mbi.2026.17.1.11.
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Bridging digital divides in Wisconsin: an examination of policy efforts and effectiveness over the past five years
Cate, A., Moen, S., & Chen, K. (2025). Information, Communication & Society, 28(12), 2191–2210. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2420038