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Faculty members Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele co-author science communication article in The New York Times

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LSC Professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele have an opinion piece in today’s New York Times, “This Story Stinks,” about their recent research in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication examining the effects of incivility in reader comments on perceptions of nanotechnology. Brossard and Scheufele write: “The Web, it should be said, is still a marvelous place for public debate. But when it comes …

lsc students learn through visual storytelling

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LSC students are learning to use photography to tell a visual story in Professor Shiela Reaves‘ Photography for the Sciences class, LSC 450, this semester. “Students learn how to photograph and the art of picture editing,” explained Reaves, who is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies. “They learn what a trained visual eye looks for in …

New SCIMEP research on effects of negative online comments published

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New research from the Science, Media and the Public (SCIMEP) lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, affiliated with LSC, on the adverse effects of negative comments online is out this week in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The full text of the article is available here. The study is lead by LSC alumna Ashley A. Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and co-authored by …

two lsc ph.d.’s accept tenure-track faculty positions at colorado state university and the university of georgia

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Two LSC Ph.D.’s, Ashley A. Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and doctoral candidate Michael Cacciatore, have accepted tenure-track faculty positions. Ashley A. Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Communication in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at Colorado State University. Anderson finished her Ph.D. in 2012 and is currently a Postdoctoral …

lsc students use social media to market themselves professionally

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LSC students are learning best practices in social media marketing from industry leader and LSC Faculty Associate Don Stanley. “Students are learning how to use digital marketing and social media tools in a strategic way,” says Stanley. Students learn how to prepare for their futures in the professional world through marketing themselves. “The goal is to …

Doctoral student Sara K. Yeo leads paper published in PLoS One

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LSC doctoral student Sara K. Yeo leads a paper recently published in PLOS One, “Coastal Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics in Response to a Natural Disturbance.” The paper is based on her masters research at the University of Hawai’i. Yeo and her co-authors characterized the moicrobial community in a subtropical embayment using SSU rRNA gene analyses over an 8-month period, which …

lsc alumnus dennis dimick to receive nppa’s joseph a. sprague memorial award

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LSC alumnus Dennis Dimick (MS ’74) will be honored by the National Press Photographers Association(NPPA) with a Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award this March. Dimick is Executive Editor at National Geographic Magazine, where he leads environmental coverage. He joined the magazine in 1980 after working in the Pacific Northwest as a photojournalist, picture editor and reporter. He is joined …

Don Stanley named one of Social Media Marketing Magazine’s top 100 marketing professors worldwide

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LSC Faculty Associate Don Stanley has been named to the Social Media Marketing Magazine’s list of 100 “Top Marketing Professors on Twitter.” Stanley is new to the list this year and comes in at number 38. View the full list here. Stanley teaches popular courses on website design and social media engagement that are perpetual favorites with LSC majors and …

recent lsc alumna michele dalton to join umf selfoss professional soccer team in iceland

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LSC alumna Michele Dalton (B.S., ’12) will be playing for the UMF Selfoss soccer team in Iceland this year. The team competes in the top Icelandic Women’s Professional Soccer League.  Dalton, a native of Mt. Prospect, Illinois, served as goalkeeper for the Badgers’ women’s soccer team for three years while a student. In 2011 the Big Ten …

LSC researchers publish on the development of nanotechnology discourses in social media environments

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LSC doctoral student Kristin K. Runge and a team of Life Sciences Communication researchers have research on nanotechnology Twitter traffic in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. The study, “Tweeting nano: how public discourses about nanotechnology develop in social media environments,” mapped social media traffic about nanotechnology, finding that Twitter traffic expressing opinion about nanotechnology is …